Chapter 9: "I'm gonna show you something beautiful"
We have been running for a few hours now. Our village was attacked by human slavers. They were lead by a Rank 4 Inferior Warrior and a Rank 3 Disciple Magician with the rest of 200 humans being Rank 2 Disciple Warriors. They attacked our village out of nowhere. We weren't prepared and didn't see it coming. We didn't have the strength to go against them since we only had a Rank 3 Warrior and me, a Rank 3 Magician with only 50 Rank 2 Disciple Warriors. I was Vice-Captain Elva of our village's Militia Squad.
They mostly likely came to capture us, since a lot of human Nobles and Royalty like to have elves as slaves since we Elves are known for our great beauty. We tried to fight back but we were unable to resist the human slavers. The Captain of the Militia Squad who was my brother ordered me to take as many elves with me and escape from the village. I didn't want to leave him but he told me that we need to protect our fellow elves, so I did what he told me. He even told me to escape to the old abandoned Dwarf Fort to our west and try to barricade ourselves inside and find weapons to defend ourselves.
I soon ran to gather as many villagers that haven't been killed or captured by the slavers. As I run through our village that is on fire, I see a lot of blood on the ground. There were corpses everywhere, I even saw the decapitated corpse of Mira with her head stuck on a stick, she was just a 10 year old girl whose dream was to become a Healer Magician and heal the sick and poor of the world and bring happiness to people. Another corpse was the flower shop owner who was a woman who loved growing flowers, her corpse was mutilated and her dress was ripped apart. It looked like some human slavers raped her and killed her. So many people I knew are dead. I see the corpses of adults and little kids everywhere. These humans are monsters, they find joy in violence and cruelty. I started crying while running past the corpses. As I ran through the village to the West Gate, I was only able to find 19 survivors out of the 500 people who called this place home. There were 9 adults, 5 females and 4 males. The other 10 were just little kids, 5 boys and 5 girls.
I was about to look for more survivors when the humans slavers found us and started running after us. We had to escape now so the adult grabbed and carried the children and we exited the West Gate and headed towards the abandon Dwarf fort.
-1 hour later-
We are almost to the abandoned fort but the human slavers were still behind us. There was the Rank 4 Inferior Warrior and I think 100 Rank 2 Disciple Warriors with him chasing us but it looks like they are stalling capturing us. I think they are enjoying playing cat and mouse with us. I tried to stall them a little by casting my Earth Wall spell but the Rank 4 Warrior keeps destroying them after a couple of seconds. Our group was starting to get tired when I spotted the abandoned fort in the distance. I noticed that the fort walls look brand new like the fort wall hasn't been abandoned for hundreds of years but before I wonder why that was I heard a scream and crying behind me.
"AHHHH" cried an elf woman
"Mommy!" cried a little elf girl
"Keep running" cried an elf man
I turned my head and saw that one of the female elves got shot with an arrow in her shoulder still running while shielding her daughter in her arms.
"It's alright, we are almost at the fort, once we get inside we will find a place to hide in and barricade it. " I cried out
As I said that, we arrived at the fort and we started running faster to the fort's gate which was in the middle of the long walls of the fort. As soon we entered the fort grounds, we saw a castle that was built into the mountain, and ran towards it but the human slavers were right behind us. As we got closer, I saw a strange site, there was a humanoid metal thing sitting on a throne on the stairs leading to the castle's doors but before I could think of anything, the human slavers caught up to us and we had to stop right near the castle stairs. The humans started surrounding around us, they were laughing at our sorry state. Then the Rank 4 Inferior Warrior started talking.
"You think you could escape from us and save some of your fellow elves, don't make me laugh." Said the Rank 4 Warrior.
"You humans are utter scum of this world. How can you be so cruel to people. We were just a village of elves who wanted to live in peace. Why can't you just leave us alone. You humans bring violence and madness where ever you go, killing little kids, raping women and killing innocent people just for what money" I yelled at the Warrior
"We aren't cruel to people, we are just cruel to slaves, and that what you are going to be. HAHAHA. Don't worry, we didn't kill all of the kids since I still can fetch a good price for the children since I know some Nobles that are into that short of thing." said the Warrior with a evil grin
After he said that, I got pissed off and started chanting my Golem spell to summon a golem but before I could finish my spell chant, the Warrior rushed at me and grabbed my head and slammed me into the ground.
"You have been causing us some trouble, little magician. Just for that, maybe I should decapitated the children here and have my men kill the men and **** the women to death right in front of you too before we have our fun with you." Said the Warrior
I started crying while the human slavers started slowly closing in on us but suddenly a strange voice sounded out behind us.
"I don't think that will be happening since all of you will be dying soon" said a strange voice
After the strange voice said that, the Warrior let go of my head and backed up. As he did that, I lift myself up and turned around to see the humanoid metal thing standing up from the throne on the castle stairs.
It then looked at me and said "I'm gonna show you something beautiful... evil people, screaming for mercy!"