CHAPTER 14: WATCHER

When Brald got out on the colonel's tent, a refreshing morning ray of sunlight landed on his face without reservation, and it gave another vigor to his skin that had a cold sweat due to the blood lust that the colonel emitted from before.

The sun's warmness melts the chilling vibes he experiences from the inside and gives another fuel to his resolve while looking at the vibrant sun on the horizon.

'I'm still too weak to confront them head-on... I need to get stronger... in this kind of state, I am right now... I'm still incompetent to even raise a single finger towards them.'

After a moment of silence and realization. He continuously walks with full of confidence towards his goal and stride with an even more clear-headedness than before.

Every step he takes gives him an impression of a mighty king walking towards his castle to dominate this whole land.

The presence of a person can be adjusted by the mental state it bears, even a peasant can act like a king, and a criminal can behave with good intention to his victims.

It is just a matter of skills, patience, and social skills to prove yourself to others and make them believe that you were a real king or a good Samaritan.

While Brald was walking confidently with a military posture and stride fastly on the way, mysterious eyes were following his every movement like a lion silently watching his own prey.

The owner of the eyes can't be seen even the looks itself because he was meticulously watching Brald under the veil of shadow's horse.

The watcher can't be seen in the physical world, but he can see what's, was happening in very detail, outside the veil of shadow.

Then Brald halted his steps halfway, and he warily moved his eyes left and right like assessing his surroundings. The only thing he could see at this place was buckets of water, plants, and scarecrow for practice range when the Colonel had time to practice his archery.

Although it's a bit unorganized, there was still no evident human watching him every moment, but he still continued to search where the origin of his discomfort was like there was something sharp poking his senses.

' what was that? it was a clear thing that there's nothing here '

Brald was a skilled young man, especially when it came to fighting, so this kind of watch cant escape his senses

because when you were on the battlefield, you needed to hone your senses to the utmost level. It was an essential need to preserve your lives in the clashes of sharp metal because it only takes one hit to be ripped apart in an instant.

Then he fiercely turned his head towards the single-eating horse of Colonel inside the stable without roof with a blood lust because this time, Brald was quite annoyed at the thing that was watching him like a ghost.

( A stable is a building where livestock, especially horses, are kept. It most commonly means a building divided into separate stalls for individual animals and livestock.)

' no... impossible, is it really my imagination? I don't have time for that... my squad was already there waiting for me the whole time... I need to hurry up'

brald calmed himself for a moment to not be bothered by other things.

then Brald ran like a Swift wind blow that quickly disappeared with his agile movement

after Brald took his leave, the horse that was chewing a mouthful of grass turned his head towards its own shadow by accident

to the animal's surprise, it spits the grass that he was chewing and raised his two feet in haste with a fearful response.

- neighhh!!! -

But to the horse's shock, he couldn't move even though it wanted to run with all the speed it could muster. The horse was stuck with his own shadow.

" What an observant lad... I need to get more careful next time."

A deep male voice escape into the shadow, an evident vocal of a human

then the horse gets a lot more panic, but it can't even move an inch and stays still in its position for the whole time.

" dont be so noisy horsey "

the shadow of the horse was a lot darker compared to the shade black of an ordinary shadow that all the things had on the vicinity of Colonel's tent

" what kind of tactics do I need to escape on the sharp senses of that young lad... hmmm. "

this time while a deep voice escapes from the shadow, a dark haze floats on it and slowly makes a human form

On the entire process of something emerging on the shadow, the horse started to uncontrollably convulse and get some seizures in an extreme fear like it had some epilepsy attack.

Even its mouth began to produce bubbles until it fainted entirely.

Afterward, the dark haze gradually takes the form of a human being with a black jacket and a mask with a waiter's uniform pants.

" Ohh, it fainted? "

The previous butler who set to investigate brald on his own accord was the one who emerged on the shadow of the horse

after the butler casually looks at the horse, he draws his attention in the direction where Brald's go.

" i need to get more serious than expected to that young lieutenant... let me find out if you are a real prospect for the kingdom or a parasite that makes some wrong decision going here to the Bifrost legion. "

While he was looking far away, a white bunny jumped on the fence in the stable when it found out that the horse was lying down completely on the ground without making any movement.

The bunny immediately jumps into the piled grass that was meant to be horse food, it gets a piece of grass, and the bunny gnaws it with its nimble mouth.

when the butler notice this cute little thing eating grass, the light bulb pops up to his head, and he gets some idea

" I see "

The butler turns into a dark smoke and enters into the tiny shadow of the bunny

the bunny gets surprised and halts its eating to lift its head,

then the brown eyeball of the bunny gets dark even its shadow receives a lot darker.

It was a different thing compared to the horse's situation from before.