The person armed with a gun is coming down the stairs of the garden, his gun still aimed right at us the barrel of the gun shining in the moonlight smoke coming out of the end
"Liam, Lune don't move i am pretty sure that he could put a bullet between our eyes before we are able to touch him" i say in pain while i still hold my leg in immense pain
' i need to think of a way to get them out of here i am hurt so i would slow them down i hope Liam thinks the same' i think to myself while i look at Liam
he just gives me a simple nod and then starts to move his eyes to look around
"wow you are a smart one you figured that I could have killed you but didn't want to right, no that is the wrong word i would really like to put a bullet in your skull, but my boss said i should recruit strong people so why don't you show me you stat windows" the man in front of us says with an disgusting smile on his face that reminds me of Kaelen
i slowly try to stand up my legs shaking under my own weight i still feel the warm blood flowing down my leg into my shoes
"lets do what he says we don't have another choice" i say to Liam and Lune
they look at me in shock as if i just had dig the grave for us three there faces filled with horror of what is to come next but they know i am right
Liam and Lune put both of there hands in the air while i am hunched over trying to stay on my feet and not to fall down to the ground in agony
"so are you going to show me your windows or am i going to need to shoot your other leg because we both know thats not going to end pretty" he says, his smile from before is gone his face now shows a cold expressions of professionality
i think about my stat window and how this situation is going to go on further "okay were going to comply" i say in defeat with my eyes fixed on the ground
i open my stat window the usual cold blue system appears my stats standing there unchanged
a smug grin on the soldiers face shows through the light of the night the expression that people show when they already have won the expression people make when they relax when they let there guard down
he comes closer to me to see my window more clearly his boots crunching trough the mud and wet grass
i look at Liam his eyes lock onto mine i move my mouth while the soldier is not looking at my face its a gamble that he hopefully wont see it but if i dont gamble Lune and Liam are destined to die here to i make my mouth move as if i would say the word run but without a sound coming out of if it
Liam looks at me and he understands he gives me a simple nod that is so subtle that if you didnt expect it you would have missed it
"So what do we have here your stats are nothing out of the extraordinary but your skills are worth a second thought oh and your level your a level 2 so that means you killed something or someone what was it a person or a beast?" the soldier says while his eyes are focused on my window
"it was a beast a hound to be specific i killed it with a stick and a safety hammer i found inside a bus" i say with a fierce expression on my face
"okay so you are no complete do over but what about that skill of yours explain that to me i have seen a lot of people with the skill fighting experience but not one person i met had the skill hollow braveheart and the description is also not very explaining tell me what does it do" he says curious with his eyes now looking back up from the window
but the moment he used to look at the window was a moment to long "how about i show you" i say with my fist already pulled back and now coming right at his old face
and it connects clean my fist comes down hard on him i feel my knuckles clashing against his cheekbones
[skill fighting experience :activated]
i feel how my muscles tighten how they only felt when i fought kaelen, my own weight feels now lighter as if i had lost 10 kilos in an instant , my leg that was just a moment aching in agony now feels not that bad ofcourse the pain is still there but i am no longer in agony
"RUN NOW" i scream at Liam and Lune
Lune looks confused she had no idea of the plan but Liam he thinks fast he grabs lune's hand and pulls her towards the fence his hands already folded together to function as a stepstone for her
"but we cant leave him he die"she says in panic her voice stuttering in fear
" i get him once your out here so GO now " Liam says and i know its a lie, in the short time i got to know Liam i know he is not the person to tell just blatant lies he only lies if it is for the greater good
Lune steps on his hands and jumps over the fence with grace that could rival an dancer
Liam gives me one last nod and says " i take care of her your i thank you with all my heart i will think of you in the highest regards your a brave savior" after that he climbs over the fence and a moment later he is gone
the soldier now recovered from the knockback of the punch i just landed drops his gun " its been a long time i had to use my hands to fight an opponent but i always thought of it as the most fun way to kill a person"
he pulls his fists coil together as he pulls them up in front of his face his legs shift into an should broad stance that indicates that he has way more plan on what he is doing than me
a moment of silence covers the garden this is no longer just an arena but furthermore an arena for me and him
[skill activated :hollowbraveheart]
[your body undergoes a strange sensation that cant be explained in normal ways]
the feeling of power that surges through my body comes back my muscles tighten my senses get sharper i can see him clearly i see every smudge of dirt on his uniform can smell the sweat on him i can hear his breath and his heart pounding and the scariest part of this is its not beating fast i assume its around 80bpm thats what people have when they are calm
but somehow i feel different from before when i used it its not only the highted senses and the feeling of power in my body but a feeling that i cant be explained by using words the only word that would fit that feeling is determination
the soldier moves fast a small dash like step followed up by an straight left punch and an strong right hook aimed at my body
i react fast enough to block is left fist with my elbow i can feel his fingers giving and breaking under as he hits me hard
but for the right hook i react a second to late it lands and that hard my already broken ribs get hit another time the feeling of absolute agony runs through my complete body i get knocked back a few steps
i let a low moan out in pure agony
then i hear something from behind the fence
"you piece of shit why would you do this your lying he would never sacrifice himself he isnt the type of guy to do that " Lune screams at Liam while crying "you let him to die alone your just the worst i hope you would be behind the fence"
"GO both of you this is what i wanted just get to safety " i scream back at them behind the fence
with my functional leg i throw a upward kick to his head i feel the pain shooting through my leg while i am putting all my weight on my shoot leg
but even though i kick with all my might his hands are to fast, he grabs my ankle with his hand right before i was able to land my kick
realization kicks in my whole body is filled with fear because i know what is coming now i put my hands up one before my head and the other before my body to block another body shot
and then his fist comes down he went for a shot to my head but my arm blocked his fist the knockback is still immense and i hit my own head with my arm a blunt hard pain shivers through my arm and my head
blood is flowing down my nose he let go of my ankle so i am back standing on both off my feet
" what is that all you can do i am sad to confess i am not impressed you landed one clean hit that tickled my face" the soldier said arrogance dripping from his voice
"this was the warm up my plan was never to beat you i just wanted to make some time for them to get away i am just the distraction" i say with a smile on my face
i go back in a punch headed right to his face but he is faster than me his hands are already up again blocking his face
but somehow call it luck call it fate but my punch slides trough his block and hits his face not as hard as i had hoped to because the block took the most of its force but still i hit him square in the face
a little bit of blood flows from his nose not as much as from mine but a scratch has been done
i throw another punch at him but this time i aim it at his body and it connects i hear him gasp for air for a second but right after that a punch to my face comes straight at me and it hits clean
but i wont back down now i wont give up i throw another punch at him but he missdirects it from his arm which leaves me wide open now
and his counter is coming at me before i can think its another body hit aimed for my broken ribs
but somehow a electric feeling rushes trough my body it feels like its been hit by a lightning my body moves on its own my leg comes up just a bit to late
he hits me the agony growing sharper with each second but his arm is trapped between my leg and my body
i grab his arm with both my hands and all my might and drop to the ground with him together me still clenching onto his arm while we both lay on the ground
then i remember something i once saw in a video online a move i never thought i could use in a real fight i move myself fast i push one of my legs under his arms with his arm now between my legs i start to try to break his arm with all my might i put all my weight into it
and then suddenly a loud crack shrills trough the garden his arm between my legs feels different it feel like dead meat
a deafening scream follows the crack his eyes lock onto me but then he moves his teeth biting down on his lip so hard that more blood flows down his face he turns
then i see it his fist coming right at my face so fast that in no world i could move my hands up to my face to block the impact
it connects clean his hard knuckles gushing in my face my nose feels like its about to explode then nothing my world turns to black with the last but of consciousness i hear him
"Damm you bastard i havent thought that hard in a long time maybe your worth keeping"
then nothing i dont feel nothing my ribs stoped hurting my nose and my face feel like nothing i cant feel my body anymore it feels good
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