My Fate System - Chapter 170

Cecily felt her blood slow down, and she could hear her breathing. It was slow, in resonance to the world. The dark being in front of them was a giant monster, almost five times as big as her carriage.

‘I will die,’ she realized as her eyes met those of the hound. This creature destroyed everything it touched, including her. ‘Where would I go after I die?’ she couldn’t help but wonder.

“Attack!” the shout of her old retainer, Tanari, brought her back to reality. Skills rained from the sky on the hound, and it howled. The darkness it oozed worked to render their attacks helpless, making them despair.

“An immortal creature?” muttered Cecily with confusion. “There must be a way to kill it. That is right,” she ran toward the window and flung it open. “Use the blessings!” she shouted to the knights, who all turned toward the young priest in the front.

“Young priest, please,” Tanari rushed toward him, and the man nervously nodded. The hound howled again as the man began to recite his mantras.

“Great Light, please give us strength in these times of darkness,” the priest began, and the holy light radiating from him. “Give strength to your knight to defeat the darkness,” he gave a few gestures and touched the back of Tanari.

The old retainer aimed his sword toward the hound, who sensed the holy energy and grew wrathful. It ran toward their direction with saliva splashing on the ground, corroding it like acid.

“Tanari!” shouted Cecily from her carriage, and the old retainer gritted his teeth and raised his sword. Holy light began to gather on his sword before the man slashed toward the giant dark being.

Light dyed the world white as the retainer brought down his sword. The light traveled in an arc toward the monster, but it suddenly disappeared. Cecily could not pinpoint the hound, and her sight darted everywhere.

“Where is it?” she muttered while looking around. A splash of saliva fell from in front of her, making her confused. Cecily slowly raised her head upward and watched the hound towering over the carriage.

“Young miss!”

Tanari shouted with horror, but Cecily had no idea what was happening. A whistling sound was followed by the carriage crashing behind her, and Cecily could feel the vehicle flying in the air. As a result, she was slammed to her chair and ended up coughing blood.

The flying carriage struck the young priest, and she heard his screams. Then, as the carriage started rolling over the dark soil, Cecily grabbed tight into her chair to avoid flying away.

Her pathetic stats helped her hang tight to the chair until the carriage stopped moving. Cecily finally let go, and nausea from spinning so much made her vomit her stomach.

The acids from her bowel burned her throat, and she felt the world spin. However, she knew that she had to crawl out. Her mask smelled like vomit, but she could not take it off.

Cecily crawled out as her head bled, making her vision blurry. Noises came from outside as the knights fought against the hound. The young miss pulled herself out of the carriage and fell on the hard graveled soil.

“Ha, ha, ha,” she was breathing rapidly, and the blood dyed her vision red. She finally managed to see the battle by using the carriage to stand.

“Use your swords! Blessings, priest!”

“Do not run! It will hunt you down!”

The knights shouted as they surrounded the hound, but nothing worked against it. Then, finally, Cecily realized that she was too foolish to think she could survive The Great Unseen and its mysteries.

“The Great Unseen,” she coughed. “A land of immoral monsters,” she wiped away the blood on her mouth. “Humanity has received the cruelest of punishments.”

A body flew toward her carriage and crashed into it as she finished her words. Cecily closed her eyes and slowly opened them, watching the man bleeding on the ground.

“Young miss…” it was none other than Tanari. “I am glad… that you are alive,” he turned toward her with a smile. “Please, run.”

Her eyes were filled with tears before she realized it. Cecily walked by using the carriage as support until she was next to the knight. His chest was bleeding, and one of his arms was gone.

“I am sorry, Tanari,” she cried. “I thought that we could do it. I was wrong. I never thought that not even the holy priests could do anything against these monsters. I am,” she sobbed, “so sorry.”

“A small sacrifice for the sake of advancement,” Tanari quoted her words with a smile. “However, the scholar must survive. You are the only person that can save the world from these monsters. You will find a way.”

“You will be there,” she smiled, but the old knight shook his head. His rough hands pushed her away, and she fell on her lower back. Tanari stood up from the carriage, and his blood gushed out like running water.

“Please, run away!” he shouted while raising his sword. “The rest have died! Run from this place and never look back! Try to find a way out of the darkness!”

“Tanari, I need you, please,” she was crying, but the hound was walking toward them. His paws were as big as Tanari’s body, and there was no way that he could survive.

“This is my duty,” the retainer raised his sword. “I am proud to give my life for your sake, Miss Cecily. But, please, don’t forget me.”

The hound raised his claws and attacked the retainer, who shouted and blocked his attack. Cecily knew he was sacrificing his life for her sake, but she was too scared to stand. As her body shook, Cecily felt her mentality break down.

“That was embarrassing to hear,” a voice pulled her out of her spiraling, and it came from behind her. Cecily looked back and saw a figure emerge from the darkness. “Knights are the most idiotic humans, I swear.”

A cloaked man strolled toward the carriage, and Cecily realized that she had seen him before. Her perfect memory pulled out his figure and confirmed that he was the same man she had seen earlier.

“Please, help us,” she muttered, unknowingly trusting this man. Maybe she had no other choice but to seek his help, but he did not answer her words. Cecily tried to see his face, but it was covered with darkness. “Are you… a dark being?”

“You do not need to say it with such disgust,” grinned the man as he passed by her. “That is not how you ask for help.”

Cecily slowly turned back toward the hound, and she could see the young man standing next to it. The knight was still blocking the monster’s attack as the man stood beside him.

“Who… are you…?” asked Tanari as he coughed blood. The man did not answer and simply stared at the giant hound.

The hound suddenly vanished and reappeared several meters away from them. The retainer fell to his knees, and his remaining arm could no longer move.

“Grrrrrr…”

The hound was growling at the slim figure of the man, and Cecily realized that it was afraid. The man did nothing in response and simply stared at it.

“Are you trying to fight me, dog?” grinned the man as his darkness exploded. “You are an ant in front of me, and you know that. Attack and I will eat you,” his long fangs glittered in the light of the lanterns.

Cecily watched as the hound suddenly whimpered and turned around to flee. The cloaked man did not chase it and watched as the giant monster cut a sorry figure, running away.

“Your friend is going to die, missy,” the man turned toward her and pointed at the bleeding Tanari. “Hurry up and take care of him.”

“Tanari!” her body could move again, and she rushed forward. But, unfortunately, her savior did not stay by their side and instead walked toward the corpses on the ground.

Cecily took out potions from her ring and poured one after the other, but the wounds were too severe, and the darkness hindered the magic. Tanari was dying, and she had no idea how to save him.

“Please, tell me how I can save him,” she begged the man who was examining the holy masks one of the dead knights wore. He paused and turned around.

“You cannot treat him without holy power,” he said before turning back toward the mask. Cecily looked around and saw one of the lanterns on the ground.

The young woman rushed toward the lantern and then broke it, took out the holy water within it, and poured it on Tanari. The man began to spasm as the darkness left his body, then the potions started healing his wounds.

Cecily sighed in relief and turned toward the man, who had now stood up and was looking at her. She could feel her heart almost leaping out of her chest as he stared at her.

“I have no expectations since you look like an idiot noble. However, what is the date? Where are we, and what is this darkness?”