My Battle starts when my Mother said her last word to me in her deathbed.
"There's so many evil in this world. My Daughter, they might hurt you, I am afraid they might but don't be afraid for I shall be by your side. Always"
"Mother...." I called her, stuttering.
"M-my b-baby, I-i can't be with you anymore, I c-can't p-protect y-you any....more and I-i can't s-stop this anymore. In t-the Karagaya c-continent, t-there is a big m-mountain w-with a Legend...ary s-sakura f-flower that blooms g-gem petals. It is L-located of the h-heart of the conti...nent. T-there is a m-man who is e-evil, t-the only o-one who can stop h-him is me. B-but you are my f-flesh and b-blood, the b-blood of the M-maiden A-angel. My D-daughter, I w-will give y-you a m-mission, y-you have to do i-it for the s-sake of yourself a-and the p-people a-around here. F-find him,The one w-who is c-called "The f-fallen w-warrior" and d-defeat him." after that, she exhale her last breath.
"This is the Katana your father left behind before his death. He treasured it, uses it to fight against evil. It is now your time to use it, in a good way." The head maid said and placed the katana wrapped in a mint green cloth in front of me. I unwrapped the cloth and I saw a katana with red string on its handle, A red zigzag in its blade and a lucky charm. "That is the charm your mother once gives to your father. Treasure this sword, Lady Fuhai."
I picked up the sword that once belonged to my deceased father who I haven't meet. He died before mom knew she's pregnant with me.
"I'm sure you will be invincible lady Fuhai, and will defeat the evils, for your name that means 'Undefeatable' I'm sure you'll come home with victory." The head maid. "I will take of your mom, don't worry, and sorry that we can't accompany you to your adventure."
I didn't replied.
"Master, you've finally arrived." Our young butler said. The other people calls for me too
I wore a kimono dress that the headmaid prepares for me. I looked at them with curious eyes. I am suppose to be alone to venture.
"We are here to accompany you to your destinations, My Lady." He bowed as well as the others. I nodded my head and stayed quite. I mounted my horse and waited for my companions to mount on their horses.
In front of us, We can see the Mountain of kayagaya far from here across the South. I stared at the mountain for a moment. I turned my head to my companions and they nodded signaling me that they are ready.
The world is suffering because of that so-called "The Fallen Warrior", my mother is one of the people that suffered.
I turned my horse to them. "We may face a little hurdle on the way outside, but fear not, for shall I ypur master will guarantee your safety, because we are not alone, we are family, a group, a team, brothers and sisters. Our greatest weapon is working together. Now, my question is are you ready to fight alongside with me with all the possible dangers out there?"
They all shouted in agreement. I turned my horse and lead my team.
As I am riding my horse away from my mother, I felt my heart shattered into pieces and my tears filled up my eyes. She'll have her burial without me.
She said before she died that I have to go and to don't worry about her, the most important thing is to stop the source who makes the world suffer, the reason why she dies. I also feel responsible for my people so when she closed her eyes for eternity, I immediately prepared for my departure after she pass away. Even if it means my heart died at that moment.
My head is a mess and I can't think straight. My responsibilities to my people and my mourning to my mom is pulling me apart.
But I also promised my mom that I will defeat that devil man.
I might not make it and be with her and won't succeed.
I've been practicing martial art and swordsmanship when I was a small child so I am confident I can slice a small wound in his body, or even I can defeat him.
I may fail and will die. I looked at the gray sky that was about to cry. I smiled sadly and tears starting to fall from my eyes. I'm not afraid to die, right now I am even wishing that a monster would appear and kill me, but with my people safe of course.
I am also wondering, What will really happen to me in my adventure, will I be able to meet new people, be friends with some, have new companions, and can I also even defeat the "Fallen Warrior?"
I don't know because my adventure has only started here, right now.
After 4 hours riding the horse, they reached their first destination, The Dark Forest.
"Wow, so this is the one they called 'Dark Forest'" A red haired guy said.
"It really looks creepy" The terrified grey haired said.
They entered the forest as everyone chatting. Then the commander of their army said:
"I heard rumors that a bunch of groups of monsters came here and wandered and waiting for lost wanderers to victimized." Commander Yostrong Mushel said with his two fingers in his chin.
Others flinched because of his words. The others laugh because of their reaction while Fuhai remained quite and calm.
They were in the deep of the forest when they heard a big footsteps.
*STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!*
Fuhai raises her hand and clasp her fist to signal them to stop and stay quite. The heavy footsteps are nearing at their direction and the
others trembled in fear and others flinches every single stomp.
Then, A glowing red eyes, a big mouth with big sharp teeth and green skin appeared in the darkness. Everyone flinch except the commander, the butler and the calm Fuhai. They thought it was only one when, one by one, other trolls came out the darkness. Their appearance is looming the area. That's not all that scared them, it is because they're holding something gruesome.
One hold a Hand, One hold the legs and others hold a foot and a half body. The first one that came out held a head with messy long black hair. The horror and suffering of its face is still visible and that's what makes them to puke.
The commander became mad and the butler is holding himself not to puke.
While Fuhai remained calm and was unbothered by the scene.
The first troll's red eyes glowed and growled. It's growl was loud, chilling and unpleasant. The other trolls began punching their chest in excitement, swinging their old wooden club in the air. The first troll raised it's wooden club to attack them, the people shouted and was frozen and just trembled. They glanced at their Lady but they can't see her reaction. They were thinking of moving and protecting their lady but their body seems not to move. They feel like they're being dominated by some sort of aura that the trolls unleashes that makes them unable to move. The attack is towards their lady, some closed their eyes and groaned. Some shouted.
"Lady!!! Watch out!!!" The commander, butler, red hair and grey hair shouted.
*Flick*
Everyone was surprise and became silent. Before the wooden club hits her, Fuhai raises her hands and flick her finger, In one flick, the wooden club bounces back upon hitting the invincible shield creating a wave of air. The force made the troll flying in the air. The other trolls watches the troll flying and landed the ground behind them.
Fuhai's companion was dropped jaw upon seeing it. They didn't witness their Lady's ability, but they knew she's great and when they saw it, their eyeballs waa about to get out of their eyes. Except the commander and the butler who knew it already. When they saw thw trolls, they thought 'The lady is still 18, and inexperience of real fighting. Whatever her ability is, She's still a teen and that is a troll. She still didn't even see any trolls. We must protect her!" but they're bewildered because after she flicks her finger, her expression showed and it says "Do not fear because I am your master and I promised your safety in my hands. I will protect you because I have the power to do so."
Fuhai glanced at them and their nerves calmed down. She gets off from her horse and give its leashed to her butler. She motioned them to step back 1 meter away and casting a visible shield around them. She's a great mage, she was being teached by her butler's father who was the former butler. She pulled out her father's sword and hold it with her two hands, the edge of the sword shined and pointing at the trolls. The trolls became aggressive and advancing at her at once. Some tries to attack the others but their wooden club gets push back and flowed out in the air after a few tries because of the force. The force get stronger and stronger after a few hits and no one can withstand it.
Some trolls jump to make a heavy blow towards her and some dash towards her. She points her sword sideway and bend before dashing towards the Giant Trolls. The first one was in the air so she swing her sword upward then she turned sideway to slash it again in the right, beheading it. The second one was dashing to her to crash her but she dash too to stab it with her powerful stab, her dash was so fast that the trolls didn't see the sword stab him. The force made the sword go through his bones. Three trolls was in the air above her, without flinching she swing her sword three times, seconds later the place was quite and everyone was waiting what would happen next, then a strong wind sliced the trolls through its body.
She swing her sword to erase the blood from her sword and place it back to her side. The other Giant trolls became stunned, dominated by her own ominous aura, Fuhai raises her hand and without casting, she throws a fireball towards the trolls, some manage to run but without luck, the fireball chases them, evaporating them alive. Fuhai's companion drop their jaw to the ground. Unbelievable!
Her ominous aura makes the other monster creature around to back out and coward in fear. Even with her ominous aura, her companion was clueless to her aura, all they can see was a shining light coming out from her body.
They shouted in joy and praises their Lady. Their Lady nodded.
"Let's continue our adventure." She said and she mounted her horse and they continue to depart.
"You are so Awesome My Lady!" Agham said. The red haired guy. Fuhai nodded in response and smiled a little.
"Thanks." Even with her small reply the people was overjoyed. They keep silent but they know the pain that their Lady is carrying.
"I heard all the time that you're a very good mage but when I saw it with my own two eyes, I was in awe!" Nino, the grey haired said.
"Hahahaha! What did I tell you? She can beat the "Fallen warrior" in a matter of second!" Yostrong said. "So don't ever threaten our lady!" He threatens the air as if he was talking to someone.
All look at him like he's gone crazy.
"We don't know his powers or what he can do. So I don't think so I can win against him." Fuhai spoke making her companion became silent. "But I assure you all." She face them with a smile. "That I'm gonna give my best to defeat him with my life in the Line." She said smiling.
When night come, they camped out outside the 'Dark Forest' and sleep for the night. Each member take places on watching the night. Everyone is sleeping soundly except Fuhai who seems restless and keep on scouting in the dark forest as she's sitting in a tree branch. She sharpens her arrow to entertain herself. She uses bow and arrow if it needed. She glanced at the dark forest who are only five meters away from them. She can feel many glowing eyes staring at them from the dark, because of her aura, they're unable to come out and attack because they're afraid of her ominous dark aura. If she did not have such a strong aura, they wouldn't survive and been ambush earlier, thanks to her everyone is safe. She's clueless though, monsters can see her strong and terrifying dark aura but humans can only see a opposite aura, they can only see her pure aura. Because monster are more stronger than human and exposed to power, they can see her true aura.
Fuhai didn't know that the monsters are scared because of her aura, she thought they're scared because they're smart and they did see her power and she thought that they're scared only just because of her power (and not because of her trur terrifying aura that she didn't know about).
She's also restless because it's her first time seeing that bloody body parts of a human. Her stomach turns up because of the memory but she composed herself. She didn't expect that and she's not ready to see that. But she knows she can overcome and moved on from that scene. She looked at the men sleeping soundly, she thought 'I hope we'll go home alive, all of us and perfectly safe' . The world is dangerous but she will fulfill her responsibility, to defeat the Evil Lord and to take everyone home, safely.
Morning comes and they prepare for their departure. They eat breakfast before setting off. The second forest is the forest of dwarf. But the forest is infested with goblins. There's many caves that the goblins uses as home. The caves was once a mining area but because of the Evil Lord, the monsters became more stronger and confident. The dwarf have no choice but to stay away from the caves. Dwarves have many weapons that they can rely , strong armors and weapons but the dwarves only have a small number of fighters. They're definitely strong, but compared to them. The goblins has more numbers than the dwarves. Dwarves are an inch higher than a normal goblins but because of the Evil Lord, many goblins have evolve and became a hobgoblins, even more taller than a human and as taller as the troll and orc. The normal size of the hobgoblin is smaller than the orc and trolls but because of the help of the Evil Lord's power, they became more taller, bulkier and stronger. Although goblins are either mischievous or have malevolent demeanor, they are also intelligent, but not as much as the humans. While a goblin is often a grotesque, evil, and malicious creature, a hobgoblin tends to traffic more in mischief than malice. Their traits are savages. They will ravage all the victims they can victimized.
Dwarfs are outnumbered so they build a fortress underground. If someone needs help for shelter or for receiving medical care, they can seek help or go to the fortress but it is impossible by now because the goblins keeps growing and growing by numbers.
As we entered the second forest, silence welcomed us to the point you cannot just lower your guard down. Goblins are mischievous creature but also smart. But their style of fighting or ambush is not shocking at all.
She raised her hand and make a fist indicating that She want them to Halt. They halt all at once. She used her 'Unique Vision' to see if there is any traps or a goblins. She smirked. Ah, she can see it all. Those mischievous child! One more step of the horse and there will be arrows flying towards them. Goblins surround the area waiting for them to move and waiting for ambush. But because of her dark aura, they can't move an inch or even try to attack. The very chance they can have to attack is when their targets are now not moving and didn't move an inch. For some reason, the goblins can't move. And that reason is because of her aura.
One goblin stared at Lady Fuhai and gritting its teeth because it can't move. He wanted to shoot but his arms get numb for some reason he can't understand. They know and aware of her aura but that not mean they can't move. They don't know because it's from the fear.
For decades, goblins didn't really know fear, because they ravage their victims, although they won't cause chaos in a small village, they're also very dangerous creature. They know how to survive and that survival is to stay low, hide and wait for a prey.
Their ancestors once cause harm in a village causing for them to kill almost every people in that village. But the Nagaiki empire almost annihilate them. The village was part of the Nagaiki Empire. The goblins didn't feel any fear. By that time, it was anger!
Because it was a war they can surely survive. They escaped from death and that memory is passed through generations. Now, they feel the fear unknowingly.
Using her telekinesis, the traps that was all over the forest floated, by clenching her hands the traps became dust.
The goblin that was staring at Lady Fuhai trembled when Lady Fuhai suddenly glanced at him at make eye contact. After that, he felt hot and by a second he screamed in pain as fire eats him alive.
And that was a warning....
The goblins, scared and smart enough back down.
She raised her hand again and move it forward indicating for them to continue. Then they started to move. Once they're out of sight, the goblins catch their breathes, but before they can move an inch, they were on fire. A screeching scream was heard. The red-orange flames cooked them alive until they became ash, except for the trees that is unaffected with the flame. The goblins ash became their fertilizer as it fall to the ground and scattered.
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Fuhai and the group encountered a Cave with a hobgoblins inside. The hobgoblins sensing their presence runs out of the cave with their thorny wooden club. The hobgoblin senses her black aura but they were blinded by anger. They felt the goblins vanished presence and they know why. Right now, they want to kill and challenge the group who they thought that killed their kins.
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