The wave (2)

Behind the wooden barricade, we waited for the wave to arrive.

My look determined, I had lined up next to the master, he had noticed me and smiled at me.

- "You know, Rakahn?" he said his gaze seemed to sink into deep thought "I know you might be feeling bad, you would have wished that if one day the Dhakat clan should have perished, it should have been at your hands n 'is this not " "

I just nodded.

My master was right, his bastards shouldn't have died like that, they deserved more, more for having persecuted my clan for so long, more for taking my little brother.

But fate had decided otherwise.

"There's nothing we can do about it…"

"Since you no longer have targets for your revenge, why not help me accomplish my goal?" He asked, his cinnamon brown eyes staring as if reading the depths of my soul.

"Your master goal?" I asked a little confused.

"Didn't I tell you?, maybe I explained it to Dahlia..., she's always the clingy type, it's easier to have a discussion with her" he had explained while scratching the back of his head.

"That bitch!" » Had I thought "always sticking to the master"

"Anyway… let's get back to business…" he added, clapping his hands.

"Sheep?" I asked "what is it? Can you eat it?"

He looked at me and bit his lower lips as if he was holding back laughter.

"Well… huh we can interpret it that way" he said looking at me from the side his wide smile was making me more and more confused.

A few seconds passed, his face becoming serious, he put his hand on my shoulder.

"Let's become stronger, Rakahn!" he declared, "and make this forest ours."

I looked at him, surprised by what he had just said, I looked around to check if no one else had heard, I saw Akumu looking at me then he lowered his head.

"he was probably ashamed of hiding from me the fact that he was hiding an enemy we had fought with not so long ago" I thought.

I looked away, returning to the discussion with my master.

"but my lord the forest is impregnable, many have defied it and many have failed" I said

Without waiting for him to answer me I added;

"To subjugate the forest is to attack the other clans themselves my lord, although we have become stronger, we cannot yet oppose the other clans, that would be suicide"

"Haha! Rakahn, I know you're smart, so think about it" he sneered "you think I haven't thought of that?"

"But, sire…" I wanted to respond, but I was too stunned that my words had difficulty coming out.

"You're scared, aren't you?" He asked me, with a mocking tone.

"Am I scared?" I thought, of course I was, how could I not be frightened by these demonic creatures that the forest housed? And would the clans who have struggled to keep up for hundreds of years just watch him do it without flinching?

"How do you plan to go about it, my lord?" I asked

He smiled at me, hugging me with his hand that was on my shoulder.

"It's a pretty simple plan," he replied.

"Simple !!?" I responded with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, the way I'm going to do it is pretty simple," he continued, "we're just going to enjoy this chaos."

"Did he want to attack them while they are weakened...?, no!! , it's much more complicated than that. »

Even though the master had only been with us for half a month, he opened up to us, he told us about his old world and their way of life and how he found himself in this world. , they always burned with anger when he started this subject, since his invocation failed, he found himself without a master and therefore no one on whom to vent his anger.

"But my lord, and are the remnants of my clan holding tight enough to be able to keep up with you?" I asked, giving him a perplexed look.

"At the beginning, I planned to create several hunting groups, to subjugate nearby monster hamlets, while expanding the territory of your clan and thus increasing their abilities in the process but…"

His lips deformed revealing a smile, then he continued;

"The arrival of the horde only accelerated things faster than expected, but it was also an opportunity presented to us."

He didn't need to tell me more because I already understood his intention, he probably wanted to take advantage of the moment when the creatures from the underground world were heading in our direction to massacre them so we wouldn't have to go towards them.

"One stone, two birds"

His smile widened when a loud roar echoed behind the tide of trees, footsteps and screams imitating human voices approaching in our direction.

"THEY'RE COMING" I heard Akumu shout as he drew his Odashi.

I looked away at the master, with his katana already drawn, he jumped over the barricade, a few moments after me, Akumu, and Dahlia did the same.

"My lord, what should we do?" I asked.

"Slaughter them and steal their essences"

"What a stupid question!!? »

I asked myself, obviously This is what he was going to answer, I chuckled and took my khopesh which was crossed behind my back and I replied;

"Your wishes are orders".