Chapter 8 - First Blood

The enemy giants managed to reach the front line. The sound of "swish" sounded like a voice of death reaper scythe to me. I quickly looked at the elf and saw his hands moving towards the arrows in his quiver. With another "swish," an arrow tore through the air, and thud followed it. The archers falling bodies are skewered with the arrow, fell from the castle wall like the trickling drops of water. The Demon rushed toward the Elf in hope to stop him from killing the archers. The ogre failed from achieving his goal of stopping him in his path by taunting through war cry which made him lose sense and he started attacking him furiously. The pressure on army is increasing. The shield users are being pushed back.

I am no longer able to use sword. My arm is feeling tired due to ponderous movements. I am sweating bullets. I said stat.

Fodder name:- Leo

HP: 30/30

MN: 40/40

Kill Count: 14

Extra Life: 0

STR: 6 (-)

INT: 8

END: 5

STA: 5 (-)

AGI: 6 (-)

VIT: 6

WIS: 4

Unallotted Points: 0

Gold Coins: 14

Seeing the minus sign at my stats, I start feeling anxiety as the minus sign is affecting my body maneuvers. I decided to use the STA potion but the enemies are attacking relentlessly which is leaving no time to take STA potion. The shield users are also feeling exhaustion due to constant battering from the enemies. I swapped my position from the guy standing behind me after a few moments. He already used the STA potion. My hand quickly reached toward the pocket and pull out the STA potion pill from pocket. The pill sensing my urge to use it, quickly transformed into potion. I quickly drink the potion by unclogging the potion cap, and potion quickly changed back into pill but only difference is that it is no longer blue anymore. It is transparent!!

The coolness start spreading in body. I feel my body relaxing. The aching feeling in muscles is fading away.

Suddenly defense line is breached and enemy waves start pouring into formation. The Swish sound of arrows which resonated with death reaper strikes are no longer audible. I look at castle wall and the archers are annihilated completely by Elf alone. I can see the dead bodies of archers tumbling down the castle walls which are telling that are no longer any arrows to support us. We have lost our main unit. The crashing of dead bodies on ground are the signs of impending doom we have to face.

The chaos is spreading in allies. The enemies no longer can be keep at bay. The formation is breached. The allies are in disorder. Everyone is only fighting for them self. There is no longer unity in allies which spell the death sentence for the allies. The screams of dying people are ringing in air. The dead bodies of allies are falling, their number are dwindling. The enemies keep pushing deeper towards the castle.

I AM AFRAID!!

Everyone near me is dead. They are opened eyes are full of despair and thirst to survive. I want to run away but my feet are not moving due to fear. I am rooted to the ground. Seeing the centipede swinging their arms towards me invoke my survival instincts. I forced my body to move sideways. The death brushed past me. I quickly thrust my sword. I managed to kill the centipede.

Hearing this, I start fighting fearlessly. I managed to kill five more disgusting centipedes.

Suddenly I found myself standing alone, covered in blood and battle scars. There are no longer any enemies present. All allies and enemies are dead. The ogre and demon are still fighting. The Elf is fighting against man with two automated arms. He is new. I quickly swapped sword with bow. I used the STR potion and AGI potion. The feeling of power is spreading in body. My body is heating up. I shouted "stat".

Fodder name: Leo

HP: 1/30

MN: 40/40

Kill Count: 25

Extra Life: 1

STR: 6 (-) (+)

INT: 8

STA: 5 (-)

AGI: 6 (-) (+)

VIT: 6

DET: 6 (-) (+)

WIS: 4

Unallotted Points: 0

Gold Coins: 25

Seeing the plus sign in front of my STR and AGI stat, I confirmed the feeling of increase in power. Having one Extra life made me feel euphoric. The low HP is alarming for me as I can die from one more hit but there are no longer any enemies. I quickly used the HP potion.

My HP start recovering. The wounds stopped bleeding. The anger is boiling inside me. All my allies are dead. I quickly swapped my weapon with bow and start moving towards Elf.

My arrow graze the Elf's neck and he dropped to the ground. The lady luck is smiling on me. I run towards him and start kicking him madly. After few moments, the loud voice is heard.

"Ding!!! First Blood!!! Fodder name Leo have achieve First blood.''

"Ding!!! First Blood!!! The reward of 10 attribute points and 200 gold coins."

When I regained my sanity I found that Elf is not reacting. The body start disappearing and item appeared instead of it. All bodies start disappearing, the only thing that accompanied me is the dead faces looking devastated and hungry for life which are burned in my memory. I still feel solicitude about what will come in future.