Chained Hearts: From Slavery to Sovereignty
Chapter 53: A Nightmare

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: A Nightmare

There is only one thing he could do now, and that is to run, run far away from them; he could not let them catch him.

The desperation clawed at his mind with every step he took; the pain was shearing through every inch of his body; he could not withhold it anymore. But he doesn’t have any other option either.

The dense branches of the forest were cutting his skins almost every minute, and the serene of night was mocking him because he could not tell if the silence of night was something good or if he should worry at the tiniest noise behind him. Because they were still behind him and following him.

but the silence was also suffocating him. The fear in his heart is increasing every minute; he feared that it was the calm before the storm. and any minute they will attack him from the shadows.

He looks at the already severed condition of his body; there are several deep gashes on his body with numerous cuts; the pain from them was never ending. It was all there doing, his pursuers. They were hell bent on making sure that he could not see tomorrow’s sunlight.

But a small rustle behind him made his body shiver uncontrollably; the fear was clear in his eyes. Did they already find him? Is he going to die? in an unknown forest far away from his place? and an unknown death?

He clenched his teeth and bore the pain as his eyes became bloodshot, and the wound on his head is doing no good at all; it was blurring his sight from all the blood on his eyes. All he could see was red, and his heart burned with hatred.

But his every prayer goes in wain when he finds several footsteps approaching him, his heart clenched at the mere thought of what his outcome will be if he is caught by them. No, he would never allow them to even have his body. They are simply too cruel...

He clenched the dragger in his hand and made a dash in front of him; he would have to find a place that they could never find, not him and not even his dead body. He would make sure of it.

Ahh! A painful gasp left his mouth as an arrow shot down on him, piercing his torso. He looked down on his body to find an arrow picking just below his chest, where his heart lies. It was a bloody scene to find your body like this, but still his foot did not stop. or he could not effort to stop.

He almost stumbled when he felt another arrow piercing his back; his eyes blurred with pain and anguish. His legs threatened to betray him any time; every step was too painful for him; his tears flowed freely, mingling with the blood on his forehead.

Life was too cruel for him; he never wanted this in his life. He never wanted to be born like this. His destiny was written the day he was born—that he would just die as his kins.

He was sorry that he was not able to change his destiny; sorry to all the promises he made them; his mind started slipping in between conscious and unconscious states; he was losing control over his feet just like his body; they no longer seemed to listen to him. They had given, and his mind wants to give in too.

Maybe it would be better to just lie and close his eyes; the pain, he would forget everything; it was too tempting to close his eyes and leave everything behind.

And just like that, his body felt limp on the dense soil of the forest, with a thud. the ground beneath him dyed with his blood, and the sand stuck to his bloody face. His eyes lost their luster, waiting for their death, but just as he was about to close his eyes, a blurry figure appeared in front of him, and just like that, he lost himself in the darkness.

There was only one thought in his mind: who was this man, a friend or a foe? But if he were conscious, he would have surely found out who this man is.

Just after he lost his consciousness, instant shrill screams were heard in the dead of night. The screams were blood chilling, but it had no effect on the man who was the cause of this.

One by one, all the pursuers lay dead on the same ground; they dared to hunt him, his...

The same man walked back where the injured boy was lying and carefully lifted him in his embrace like he was handling the most precious thing of his life. His expression was shrouded in the darkness.

No one knew what his thoughts were. Where did he come from? Just like he appeared from nowhere, he disappeared from the forest in the same way, but not alone; he disappeared with the unconscious life in his arms.

The night in the forest shrouded with the same darkness and the stillness of night. It looks almost peaceful if one ignores the lifeless bodies of many men dressed in dark robes. Their dead bodies lying motionless on the ground, their eyes still wide open in fear, telling the tale of their gruesome death.

But it looks like the heavens were not in their favor even after their death, because just after the man left. Numerous strange animals appear there, with bloody eyes; their forms make a strange silhouette in the darkness; it was dead set; they were not normal animals; they are far more sinister.

The group arrived, and they tore the dead body limbs by limbs and ate them with relish, not leaving a single body left intact. It was too gruesome for anyone with a weak heart. No one would be able to look at their conditions, but it was not our right to pity them.

Maybe they deserve it, or it was the punishment from heaven.

But who knows it was the punishment from heaven from someone certain?

Not far from the gruesome scene a golden snake was watching, his eyes were almost twinkling with amusement, but at the same time it contains the predatory glint, too chilling for an ordinary snake.

The expression on the snake looked like he was enjoying a good show. The strange animals were almost done with the dead bodies of cloaked men. The golden snake started slithering from there, and in nowtime it also disappeared from the scene just like the man from before.

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