Weapon Cultivation History (3)

The day we left, the sky was clear and the land trembled. Almost one hundred thousand race members marched out of the valley. It was a magnificent view seeing all this people marching. Yes, we were marching. Despite we have live in peace for thousands of years, our warrior blood still flew through us and, even I could feel a bit excited.

It took us three entire days to cross the marsh with all the people. However, as we left the marsh our eyes almost popped out.

In front of us was a giant green plain. We couldn´t see the end of it. Looking back, I saw the marsh between two giant mountain ranges. I guessed they were the ones that surrounded our valley.

The first thing we did was to settle up a camp to finish the organization for our assaults. According to the exploration team, we are currently on the lands of the Trisren Kingdom which is ruled by a human society. It has a population around 5 million people and is in alliance with the Kingdom´s of Cerden and Zarl. Both are ruled by humans, have around the same size in land and population of Trisren. They are located at the west and north of the kingdom we are right now.

However, they are at war with Troll Kingdom and Goblin Kingdom. It seemed it started because a group of soldiers from Trisren attacked and envoy from the Troll Kingdom. These three kingdoms have an anti-monster politic. All the races that doesn´t belong to humanity are discriminated. And the Goblin Kingdom, have always wanted to attack the Zarl Kingdom due to its fertile lands.

In the end, we decided to take the Trisren Kingdom first, as it stands near our valley. At the beginning we attacked only the patrol teams but soon we spread our formations and attacked not only the military fortresses but also the cities.

They didn´t what was happening and before been able to respond to the situation, we were already besieging the capital. Our way there was paved with the blood of soldiers and innocents. Some elders were able to convince our race that we should rule with fear as we wanted to conquer the whole continent. This ambitious idea required all the race-power. We couldn´t leave a big group each time we conquered or attacked a village, city or region.

We needed to move fast in order to cause the biggest damage possible to our enemies. It took only 4 days to conquer the entire kingdom. Immediately, we separated in four armies. Each one was tasked with the attack to the neighbor kingdoms.

Like a ghost, our armies attacked their positions and moved to the next one before letting them regroup or counterattack. In the next week all four kingdoms fall: Cerden, Zarl, Troll and Goblin. We didn´t let any messengers slid through our ranks. The surrounded soldiers were executed and the cites were looted. At least we didn´t need to rape the women as our own women were fighting too.

There were four important factors that let us start with no casualties: first, we had all the information possible about our enemies, their numbers, internal situation, food, etc. Second, they didn´t know anything about us. Third, we attacked swiftly and with determination as there was no place for doubt. Lastly, our cultivation technique.

This last point played a great role in the whole conquering campaign. It gave us the advantage of possessing an incredible amount of strength, we had abilities according to our weapons. For example, I was specialized with the arch and some of my abilities were: far-seeing, a shoot that could pierce throw a rock and others.

And lastly, the souls of some weapons. The Patriarch for instance, specialized on a long blade. He could power it up not only by giving his energy to the blade but also by absorbing the blood of the enemies. Once it reached a specific amount, the blade will increase its size and control the blood of the enemies on its surroundings. One can imagine how powerful the Patriarch was during fighting multiple enemies.

On the other hand, our enemies only had their numbers and their "magic". It was true that they could hurt us, but thanks to our strength we avoided serious wounds. I remember a day that while I was shooting arrows, an archer from the enemy shoot an arrow. It seemed a simple one but when it hit the ground a sea of fire emerged. Hundreds of my companions were hurt with burns around their bodies. But thanks to their cultivation, they avoided death.

For the first time in this war I felt fear. Our opponents seemed weak, but they had a wide range of inflicting damage to us. We only had our cultivation and abilities. As for the number of people that had their weapons awakened, they could only be around 30-37 people.

As the war prolonged and we advance to the next objectives, we started to lose companions. Some died to poisoned food that we looted, others from in-fights that were starting to occur as we continue fighting. It was as we transformed into savages. And others in the battle.

One day, a team of 3 members that were patrolling were ambushed and all of them were captured. We didn´t know about them until the war was over.

In the fourth year, we suffered a serious blow despite been the final victors.

The army led by the 3rd, 9th, 11th elders fell into a trap. According to the reports, they were chasing the remnants of a human army when they were surrounded by an army that was six times theirs.

By this point, the races of the Wrofen continent allied themselves in different groups however, there were two that were a challenge for us. One composed by humans, dwarfs, elves, demi-humans and the other by devils, trolls, goblins, moncens. There were other races but these ones where among the strongest. The trolls and goblins, despite having been defeated previously, run away and seek refuge with the devils. The same happened with the humans who were sheltered by the elves.

Anyway, our third army was the first one to suffer a great number of casualties. From the approximately 25000 original members, only 5000 remained. Not everyone was killed in this trap but around 15000 were.

Of the 210000 enemies, none remained alive. An advantage that the enemy used against us was that in that day, the whole battlefield was covered by a fog. So once our army entered it, they were attacked from all sides and were thrown into chaos. However, thanks to our blood and the quick stabilization provided by the elders, our army was able to fight back.

Before night fall, there were still cries of pain across the battlefield. By next day, once the fog disappeared, our survivors were able to see the carnage that just took place.

The whole battlefield was filled with corpses. There were mutilated bodies, craters from the spells, smoke piles, the river that flew near the area turned red from the blood. It was an awful sight and the smell unbearable.

The survivors buried not only the members of our army, but also the enemies one. It took them three days to buried everyone as the number of deaths was unbelievable.

According to the reports that reached the rest of us, despite our casualties, we were able to cripple one of alliances and conquer three quarters of the continent.

The next weeks, news about our wining spread through the enemy and they started to step back. Thanks to their retreat, we were able to move forward and conquer more territories. By this point, a total of 8 years has passed since we left the valley. There were only left some enemies and our quest will be completed.

However, there will be three events that changes everything.