"Kill them all!"

"Kill them all!"

"Kill them all!"

Lucian did not move from his spot, but the aura he was giving off was enough to knock out the air out of the lungs of everyone present, including Luna.

There were abou 20 bandits at first. When Lucian released his bloodlust mixed with his aura, 3 of them died, 6 killed themselves instinctively, the rest were paralyzed, except 1.

The leader of the bandits was no ordinary man. He was stronger than the rest, Lucian could feel it. Lucian felt the bandits soul spin like a tornado, and a couple of seconds later the bandit took out his Soul Weapon. It was a dagger, around 10 centimeteres long and it had wind twirling around it for bonus damage. Lucian was aware of this and as the man flew by Lucian dodged to the left trying to counter attack, but the man was no longer there.

He was 3 meteres ahead from his spot, and in his hands was Luna.

"This piece would sell for alot of money, and I see you have taken a liking to her" He said with a grin on his face.

"Money? Money is what is driving you to do this?"

"Ofcourse without mone-" He stopped realizing his head was no longer on his shoulder.

For the next 6 seconds the man started at Lucian, who was standing above him, the Sun shining atop of Lucian so his face all in shadow. The bandit at the last second heard the words

"You deserve the same death you gave to the elfs" As Lucian was saying that, in the last second of his life he saw behind Lucian something that he would remember even in death. The darkness that not even the Sun could conquer. It was like a humanoid creature, it was Evil Incarnate.

The bandit died in his own puddle of blood, in the middle of nowhere on the hot Sun that made him rot in a matter of days.

During that time Luna was still unconcious, Lucian was carrying her in his arms taking short stops every couple of hours. At night Lucian would set up a small campfire put Luna next to it, and before going to sleep he would meditate and surpress the feeling that now felt more evil.

"Tsk!" He clicked his tounge.

"Each day the weapon is growing more hungry for blood" Lucian said frustrated as the image of him killing people came to his mind.

Trying to forget it, he went to sleep. The next day he woke up to Luna watching him closely, observing everything he did.

"Oh good you are awake!" Lucian said with a bright smile.

"What happened and how long was I out?" Luna asked.

"I am not sure how many days it has been, but I killed the bandits and made progress on our trip" Lucian said as Luna was drinking water, and then gave it to Lucian who took a small amount trying to preserve as much as he could.

"We are almost there" Lucian said.

"Come on we have to go, we have a whole day to travel and we should be there."

As they travelled they saw a wall in the distance that with each hour looked bigger and bigger. At noon it looked almost twice as big as it did the first time they saw the wall.

"What are they defending from? Titans? Why is the wall so uneccessarily big?" Lucian thought to himself.

Lost in thought and not paying attention to his surroundings he stumbled on a small branch and fell face first into the ground. Luna let out a soft chuckle before helping him up. Lucian looked at Luna with his silver eyes and then smiled himself realising that was the first time he saw Luna laugh. He stood up and they continued their march towards the wall. After 2 hours of walking they could finally see the gate, which had decorations over the sides, ingraved in the metal that the gates were made off. It was trully a magnificent sight.

"Breathtaking" Luna said gazing in the gates.

They approached the gate, when Lucian noticed 2 guards standing infront of the gate.

Lucian came closer to the guard and said

"Hi I am Lucian, and this is Luna" He expected a response, but it never came.

"Anyways we want to go through the gate, we have to hurry to the tryouts."

The guard moved her eyes to Lucian, not bothering to turn her head. She let out a sigh and said

"Welcome to the Kingdom of Nairda"  

"Once this gate opens go as far south as you can and then turn left, there you should be at the entrance for the tryouts" 

"I thought they were statues at first" Lucian thought to himself.

"Thank you for the assistance" Lucian sarcastically bowed, and made his way through the open gate.

Little less than 10 minutes of walking got them to the entrance of the tryouts,

"You ready?" He asked Luna.

"Yeah"

"Let us go then, ladies first" Lucian smiled.

Luna went in and Lucian followed.