’Alaric’s POV’
I ran into the forest to escape my pursuers. They were relentless. I’d been running for five minutes, weaving through the forest with unnatural precision. The trees seed to teach how to move—each obstacle a lesson in survival. I saw everything clearly despite it being nightti. I could see the veins running through every leaf, the water droplets, and the tiny creatures in the damp soil.
The forest slls hit —rotting leaves, iron. Just like the day I died in my past life. ’But how? I rember everything... except that.’
I had always been special, even in my past life. I could learn things at an abnormal rate and see things other people could not. As a result, life beca boring. I knew people just by looking at them, I knew subjects I had no business knowing, and I beca quite rich by the ti I was 14.
I died at 15, I don’t rember the cause, which is weird, considering I have eidetic mory. I can recall precise details about people, events, images, sound, etc. That is why the villagers thought I was destined for sothing greater. The only downside is that it dampened my emotions severely. I always thought it was a fair price to pay for such gifts. But the boredom was overbearing.
As I ran and listened to my pursuers talking, I heard the screeching from Kong, my ever-loyal monkey friend, he pointed right, and I follow with little thought, he has high ground and knows the area best, he’s helping avoid incoming beasts that are attracted to the sll of blood coming from the village.
As ti passed, I had learned how to adjust my breathing optimally and how to efficiently dodge the obstacles ahead. If it wasn’t for the dire situation I was in, I would have found this exercise a good thing, but death was chasing .
I looked at Kong, who desperately made hand signs for him to stop imdiately. ’There is sothing ahead. ’
They were close to a beast’s territory. I stopped running
There was nowhere to run to. Forward, left or right, we were territories we shouldn’t trespass; if given an option, I would choose to go back where I ca from.
I would rather face my 5 pursuers than face a beast right now, even the lowest grade of beasts is more dangerous than these 5. They were not practitioners.
So, I scanned the area, taking in the details, and quickly dashed behind a tree, for I had seen a way out. By the ti my pursuers closed in, I was ready. with two branches in hand, one with a sizable girth, and another that was thin and could pierce a human skin with little resistance.
I signaled at Kong, who was hanging from a tree nearby, and he nodded with understanding.
"You should stop resisting right now," the leader of his pursuers said.
"Co with us, at least that way, you have a chance at life," he added.
I have no idea why they were so persistent in their chase; they had taken the children, killed the n and raped the won, I am sure death awaits them too. their main target seems to be the children. I am not giving up, as much as I don’t condone unnecessary violence, this is necessary, I will kill them if I have to.
"Da Wei, Shou Yi, go get him," the leader says.
"Yes, boss," the fat man, now identified as Da Wei, responded with his cutlass in hand as he approached the tree the boy had hidden behind.
"Hehehe, can I have him for an hour with the boy after this boss?" Shou Yi, a lanky man with a dagger in hand, asked.
"Hmm, no, you can have any of the other kids we captured, this kid will go for a good price, I don’t want his price to go down from being damaged by you. The leader said to Shou Yi sternly.
"Thanks, boss," said Shou Yi with a disgusting expression, as he and Da Wei got close to the tree. The two staying behind looked at him in disgust.
Kong signaled . and I nodded at him.
*Screeeeeech*
Kong let out a loud shriek, montarily distracting the two who had closed in on . I dashed out to the right and moved towards them with my fastest speed, branches in hand.
I moved toward the fat man nad Da Wei first, using the girthy branch to hit his left knee before he could recover from the monkey’s screech.
*Crack*
"ahhhhhhhhh" he shouted in pain; I had damaged his patella (knee cap).
I didn’t stop there as I saw him drop on his right knee while holding his left knee in pain, I moved in with the thin branch and plunged it into his neck, twisting it before pulling it out.
The piercing sound seed to bring the group of pursuers back to reality, as they stood and watched one of theirs choke on his blood.
After killing Da Wei, I noted the pursuers’ shock, but I felt nothing. Like I had expected. My hands were as steady as ever, and breathing steady and efficient, I felt detached and inhumane.
They never thought about the possibility of dying from a kid.
Shou Yi gaped at the scene before shouting, "You little bas..."
I picked a relatively sizable stone close to the dying fatty before charging towards him, he seed stunned before swinging his dagger towards .
I saw it coming before he even swung it. I saw the micro movents of his body and dodged to the left before it reached . I swung the stone at his unguarded rib cage at an angle where the shape would cause the most damage.
He bent over, wheezing in pain, then I plunged the branch into his ear. He dropped his knife, which I caught before it hit the ground.
I looked on with apathy and a blank expression as he collapsed on the moist ground, dying. The fatty had also stopped moving.
’Two down. Three to go’ I thought as I raised the dagger and held it forward, ready to take them on.
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