MONOCHROME: Choice Of Destiny
Chapter 37 Chaos 2

We both ran as hard as we could towards the city but by the time we got there it was all messed up.

Buildings were destroyed where mana and bandits fought with warriors.

The numbers may be hundreds and all of them are very strong.

"Let's split up."

"All right."

we parted and started fighting.

This battle was not an orderly battle like the war but even several times it was seen the bandits attacking each other.

from the beginning it was strange to see bandits attacking simultaneously like this let alone working together.

But it's a good thing if they don't work together as a team.

I met with bandits many times and they always showed up with groups of 2-5 people with one person being the leader.

I could defeat them easily and out of fear they would explode I killed him instantly.

I killed quite a lot but they didn't decrease in the least and would see bandits wherever I looked.

I accelerated my pace and slashed at all the bandits that were in the way, I wasn't heading anywhere I just wanted to shorten this fight.

"Please!"

A voice echoed in my head, I immediately jumped on the roof to look for the source of the sound.

"Please!"

I ran towards the source of the sound but after walking far enough the sound was not heard anymore.

Am I late?

I strengthened my hearing to its limit but there was no sound.

Tch seems right

I wanted to jump down but again the voice was heard.

"Please save me!"

There!

I ran towards the source of the sound and not far there I saw the person who did it.

I went straight down and gave the bandit a kick.

That kick was powerful enough to instantly kill him at least that's what I was hoping for.

I stood in front of the woman to protect her because I could still feel that this bandit was still alive and strong enough when compared to the other bandits.

"Stay away from my line!"

The bandit attacked while babbling, I ignored him and deflected his attack with my sword and counterattacked.

It turned out that the bandits were able to dodge it and also counterattack at the right time.

This guy is highly trained.

I strengthened my body with magic.

The two of us advanced simultaneously and clashed swords several times, I continued to observe this bandit and analyze his strength.

His swordsmanship was extremely powerful and his strength was also comparable but he could not control it properly like he had not gotten used to this power.

Well he was the chosen one so it was no wonder that he became strong in an instant but that was the problem because he gained great strength overnight so his body had not adapted.

I had this experience when I first trained with Gizel.

We kept fighting the sword and I finally chose to dodge his attack and it was true that he lost his balance.

I didn't miss this opportunity and slashed it.

"No!"

"Damn!"

I was surprised because the woman immediately shouted that my attack was less deep.

it was indeed fatal enough but lacking in depth to directly kill him.

I turned around and saw the woman crying while hugging her daughter, I knew that she was not crying for her daughter but for the man in front of me.

"Hahh what do you want?"

"Yes."

"All right."

"I haven't even spoken yet."

Before the woman answered I sheathed my sword and then went away.

"Please take care of my daughter for a minute."

The woman picked up her daughter and handed her to me.

Why do I feel a little unappreciated here?

"I'll wait in the hallway there so do what you want."

I took her daughter away, it would be very bad if she realized this time so I went a little further.

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As Ryu was gone Lina approached Frank who was lying covered in blood.

"Lina I'm sorry I couldn't protect you."

Lina sat nearby.

"No problem, I'm so glad you saved me Thank you."

"But I can't save you."

"You saved me see? if you weren't around I'd be dead a long time ago, thank you."

"In the end I didn't do anything."

"Don't be like that, you're tired aren't you? isn't it time for you to rest? I promise to live on from now on while keeping this life you saved."

"Huh I'm so glad to hear that."

"Thank you for being a big brother to me, thank you for saving me so many times, and thank you for loving me, thank you."

"Your voice is so small I can't hear it."

Frank's eyes began to fog and his color slowly disappeared.

Lina stroked Frank's head gently and then took out a sword that Frank had previously worn.

"Good bye."

"Hehe I always dreamed I could die in your hands."

"At least this is what I can do."

Lina thrust the sword into Frank's chest and the light disappeared completely.

Frank's dead.

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I heard their conversation at the end of the hallway and ended with a loud cry from the woman.

"Good thing no one came."

I looked to the side and it turned out that the boy was conscious.

I forgot this kid got hurt and it turned out to be pretty bad.

I immediately cast a healing spell on him.

After he recovered he immediately woke up and looked at me.

"How is your body? is there anything still that hurts?"

I tried to ask her gently so she wouldn't be afraid.

"Umm I'm fine, mom! is mom okay!?"

After examining his body the boy immediately asked the condition of his mother.

A good boy

"Let's just calm she's fine."

Before I could finish speaking, the woman had already arrived.

"Cheryl!"

The woman came back and hugged Cheryl.

"Mother!"

I retreated for a moment while giving time to this mother and son and all of you I also walked around while looking at the bandits.

I didn't realize it turned out that the number of bandits had been decreasing and not as chaotic as before.

Maybe because the army is starting to arrive.

After making sure the area around me went back to the alley earlier and there they both sat together.

"I'm so grateful to have saved us and healed my daughter's wounds."

"Thank you very much!"

The mother and son bowed their heads simultaneously.

"No problem, more importantly we better go to a safe place first, follow me."

I went out of the alley and tried my best to avoid the bandits because it would be very bad if the little boy seemed to see something very brutal.

Well now this town is full of dead bodies so I'm forced to find a lonely road.

I'm looking for the location where the demons gather the most because it's likely a refuge.

I looked down at the main street and there were only the corpses of bandits, with my eyesight strengthened I saw in the distance there was a man with brown hair while wearing luxurious green armor.

He ran while slashing all the bandits before him with one powerful slash that made the bandits instantly cut into pieces.

When all the bandits perished I was very surprised because that person looked at me then smiled kindly.

I went back to the woman's place.

"Let's go, it looks like there's a refugee camp around here."

We all left and we arrived at the square.

There was already a wall of earth created with magic and surrounded by many guards.

We got out of the alley and went to one of the guards.

They saw us and one of the guards came.

"Where did you come from?"

Guards observed us and looked at the mother and daughter who looked very messy and hurt.

And the last time he looked at me.

"You are human?"

"Please let him in, he saved me from the bandits."

The woman came forward and stood up for me.

"Please, he's a good-natured brother."

After Cheryl spoke, the guard surrendered and let us enter the camp.

When we entered there were a lot of tents installed and I could see a lot of people running around.

rather than being used to be a residence this was more like being devoted to accommodating the injured.

When we entered, another guard picked us up.

"I'll take you to an empty tent."

We followed the guard away through a myriad of tents filled with wounded soldiers and citizens.

"Lake in."

We entered a tent that was already provided.

Although he said empty but this was very dense and on the floor lined up a lot of people who were injured and people who ran around carrying medical equipment.

Although in this world there is such a thing as healing magic but that does not mean it becomes very easy because the user should be able to know which parts are injured and heal it.

for example a broken bone, the person must still be given first aid and the bone must be connected first before being healed because if it is healed it will only make the person become disabled forever.

There was a better way that regeneration magic but it could only be done by high-level magicians and its mana use was very wasteful so it was not suitable for use in this kind of situation.

Regeneration magic is usually used to people who lose limbs in battle because wounds of that level are impossible to cure by ordinary healing magic.

We looked for an empty place and let the mother and child rest there and get checked out by a nurse.

I turned to leave but the woman held me back.

"Wait, at least tell us what's your name?"

"Ahhh sorry, I am Ryu only Ryu."

"I am Lina Liilay and this child."

"Cheryl!"

"Like that, can we meet again? I want to thank you properly."

"Hmm I still have business here so of course."

"You have to promise, we'll wait for you."

"All right, I promise, I'll see you later."

"See you, please come back safely.'

I feel like I'm tied to a strange destiny with this guy.

I went to the battlefield once again.

In the middle of the road I remembered something very strange.

They all move on their individual desires and do not look like working together.

If it was like that how could they attack simultaneously? there must be a leader who plans all this.

Now the battle had already reached the final stage but the figure did not appear.

Is he planning something bigger? I don't know.

I don't even know why they attacked this town.

What did they get? what is their purpose?

As I was busy thinking about all that another explosion occurred in the Leviathan palace.

It was not a bomb explosion like last time but this was an explosion of pure mana like figure who wanted to show off his strength.

"It looks like that guy showed up."

I felt that there was something I had forgotten but I brushed it aside and focused on running towards the source of the explosion where it was.