Weapon Cultivation History (7)

"Ok guys get ready seems we have a lot of work to do. We need to hurry, or teachers will leave without us" said the one that looked like the leader of them.

"Ahh I don´t want to exhaust myself with them"

"Shut up!! Do you know it has been difficult to find enemies that are at our level?"

"Yeah… it has been ages since someone caused my battle spirit to awake"

"…." We were speechless, it seemed that we didn´t pose much threat to them.

Suddenly, our Patriarch rushed forward and attacked their leader. However, his attack was stopped with no much effort.

"Seems that you are strong. Let's see if you can withstand my attack"

In that moment, a white light rushed from his sword and hit our Patriarch causing a wall of smoke to appear after the impact.

"Patriarch!!" we roared.

"I´m fine" he said while shaking the dust from his clothes.

"Mmmm… you are really powerful as you withstood my attack" their leader said.

"Viren, seems you have met an adversary this time"

"Yeah, he withstood your attack and is uninjured"

"Hahaha, good I also wish to fight him"

"Guys, be careful I can feel that some of them are near his level"

"Really? That makes things interesting"

"…."

"Ok, I can sensa that those wearing black robes are at our level. However, there are only 16 of them including their leader so you will have to fight against two at the same time"

"No problem, it wouldn´t be interesting without a challenge"

"….."

They talk among them as their leader pointed at us elders. From the remaining 22 elders, we are only now 14 and if we added the Patriarch and Matriarch, we are 16.

"Be careful. They are at our level" "Grand Elders and elders you will fight these nine newcomers" the Patriarch said with a hint of wariness.

"Yes"

Soon we started to fight again. I and the 4th elder went against the man that used an arch. The Grand Elder and his wife against a guy with a dark sword, and so on. However, as the 3rd and 6th elder were going to fight a woman with white robes, a bulky man appeared in front and said "Sorry my friend but you will have to fight with me"

As the battle was resume our race members started to struggle with the remains of the 120 fighters. Now that we were busy with this new people, it was hard to stop the stronger members of those fighters. Still we had the hand against the rest but the situation didn´t seem good enough to be at ease.

We have been fighting for around an hour and as I release an arrow that was powered by my energy towards my enemy, the 4th elder said to me:

"Cloren, we have known for thousands of years and that I saw a vision about our race getting exterminated, right?

"Yes, but why do you bring this up now?"

"Listen to me, in that vision I saw our whole race getting killed by these nine people. We have to prevent that"

"How?"

"You will know in your heart when the time comes. Just remember, you have to save the remaining's of our race no matter what" he said as pushing me aside.

"Hey…." I was about to roar him when I saw a couple of daggers piercing his body. He had took an sneak attack directed at me.

"Ho. Seems you was able to sense my attack. Not bad for your abilities old man" a woman in dark clothes said while appearing out of nowhere.

"Yoren!!!" I roared.

"It´s fine Cloren, just remember my words. Nila I´m coming home" he said before dying.

"Seems you killed your opponents really quick" the archer said to the woman.

"Yes, they struggle some time as I disappeared, but at the end I was able to kill them. You, on the other hand, are having some difficult against this old man"

"This old man is really difficult. I have almost been hurt by his abilities"

"Oh…The great Reztan is having a hard time, hahaha I´ll have to help you"

"Laugh all you want, soon you will realize he is strong"

As they were chatting, a roar was heard. I returned to look at the source and I saw the Grand Elder and his wife been pierced by the black sword and a dark hand.

"Droken seems to have also killed his targets"

"Yeah"

"Guys, if you have already killed your targets, start to clean the battlefield" their leader said while fighting the Patriarch and Matriarch at the same time.

"Oky"

Immediately, those who were free started to slaughter our race members. None of us were capable to stop them.

As I was seeing this, my heart ached with hate and despair again.

[K..th… Kill..the…]

[Kill them!!! Kill them all!!!] a voice said in my head

Suddenly, my arch transformed again and instead of a dark aura a gray one was emitted from my body.

"What?!?!?! What is the meaning of this?!?!?"

"How can it can appear here?!"

"Calm down, it surely is just a different technique"

"Yeah…. Remember that all those that were related to him were killed in the past. There is no way there are survivors as almost a million years have passed since his death"

"You are right…"

Not paying attention to them, I pulled the arch and thousands of arrows appeared. As I let them go, pressure descended across the path of the arrows. When they hit the ground, dark gray flames appeared and devoured everything.

"Ahhhh!!!"

"Damn it. Seems that Cloren has fallen into that state again. Now there is no turning back. Dear we have to release that power to" the Patriarch said to his wife.

In that moment, both released a dark aura and their strength increased.

"Impossible, there shouldn´t be any survivors or descendants of that man"

"New orders!!! Kill all of them, we can´t let anyone survive"

Hearing the new orders, they started to speed up. However, as they were about to kill all of us, I attacked again by releasing another volley of arrows killing the survivors of their first and second army.

Soon there were only a 500 of us against the nine powerful warriors and a few dozens of the 200 fighters.

All the elders have died and even the Matriarch. Of the nine warriors, I was been attacked by 6 of them, one was healing the enemies and the other one was killing the rest of our race.

"Ahhh"

"Damn he is really powerful"

"Yeah, even with the 6 of us attacking at full power, we can´t land the final strike"

They said in surprise.

"Stop, we surrender" said the Patriarch while forcing me to awake from the trance of that gray aura.

"You know that we have to kill you all" said their leader.

"I know, but please, hear my final wish"

"Oh...And what would that be?"

"Let that man go. The rest of us will kill ourselves"

"And why should I do that?"

"You know that there are still members of our race. Let him go so those members can survive in peace"

"Patriarch!!! No!! I can´t do that!!!"

"Shut up!!! You will understand soon why I´m doing this!!"

"I have to kill all of you and the reason for it you know, right?"

"I know, but please fulfil my last wish, give our race a gate to survive"

"Viren, let him go. He isn´t that bad" the woman in white robe said.

"And how you know? You also know that those related to that man need to die"

"I know, but he saved my sister´s son"

"…."

"Look, I know what you fear, let me pass a seal to him so he can seal the cultivation technique of our race members. This seal will not allow them to surpass the Second level and it will also seal all things related to that man. Please, give us this opportunity as a way to thank us for not killing everybody. You know what would have happened if we had done it and refined their blood"

"..."

"Viren, please…"

"Fine…"

"Thank you"

As they talk, the Patriarch send a black wisp to the heads of all the survivors and suddenly a great amount of information appeared on our minds. After comprehending all of it I woke up and looked with tears at the Patriarch.

"Why… Why didn´t you told us Patriarch?!?! Why did you have to carry such burden by yourself?!?!"

"Its fine Cloren. You said yourself, I was chosen to lead our race towards a better future and besides, my wife and the Grand Elders knew about it, so I haven´t been carrying such burden alone. Now its your turn to guide the village"

"Sorry to disappoint you but, after he seals the rest of your race members, he has to return here in order to be killed. We can´t let anyone that knows about your relationship with him"

"Thank you… I´ll return after sealing them, but at least let me stay with my race for ten years as I need to set some rules, impart some education and stabilize their lives and survival" I said.

"…Fine, but if you haven´t returned in ten years I´ll personally kill all the survivors of your race"

"Cloren, please look after the children. We can´t let a similar situation happen again"

"Yes Patriarch"

"Good, now that my role has been fulfilled, I can be free from this burden. Guys, sorry but we must die. Sorry for not telling you about this before"

"No Patriarch!! We are the ones for not helping you before"

"Yeah!! Thanks for leading us!!"

"Cloren, thanks for helping our small kids to return before. Please, look after them"

These were the last words of my race members.

Before leaving, I had to see their deaths as it was a memory that I needed to preserve for the rest of my live.