Chapter 63 :Survival for 24 hour part 8
The Blazing Sun was in the cabin ,watching the duskwild planet hologram.
He was the biggest fan of Arthur,and his dream to meet him now going to complete.
He had the opportunity that every fan wanted, to save and help their hero.
And he was going to accomplish the same.
On central continent,
The meeting was ongoing and every king was talking to each other after the Diamondheart emperor gave him details.
The meeting with the emperor ended and the emperor gave him 2 hours to decide, he gave them two options , first join my army so we can stop the invasion and second solely fight with the army when they came to their door.
The kings were discussing ,to send their army or not.
So can you send your army to the battlefield, we cannot know if the army will survive or not.one king asked ,he was king of one of most powerful kingdom in central continent,his name was peter darkwhite
We cannot lose your army anymore ,I knew many will start attacking each other if our army left .
After one hour of serious decision they now came to a single point and all decided that they will only send 30 percent of their armies and sign a non aggression treaty that no one can attack each other for 2 years, if any of them break the treaty they will be attacked by the leftover kingdoms.
They all agree and start preparing to send their armies .
They didn't know this treaty was going to change their life,and this day they will curse why they made this and themselves for breaking the treaty.
Now on battlefield.,
Hour 24
Ank POV
The battlefield was quiet.
Too quiet for almost one hour.
After twenty three hours and the start of twenty four hours I couldn't hear the sound of stone feet crashing against the ground. No more roars. No more weapons striking against mine. Only silence.
I should've felt relief. I should've collapsed and let this peace take me. But all I felt was nothing.
My body was a ruin. My skin torn open, muscles screaming, blood dripping from wounds I couldn't count anymore. Every breath was like fire crawling through broken ribs. My hands were raw meat, fingers frozen around the sword hilt even though I had no strength left to swing it again.
And my mind my mind was worse.
It was empty. Hollow. Numb.
I couldn't remember how many I killed. I couldn't even picture the faces anymore. The monster soldiers had become a blur, an endless tide. I moved, I swung, I screamed and somehow, I was still here. Still breathing after using the forbidden spell.
Why?
Why hadn't I fallen like the others?
I don't know. Maybe it wasn't strength. Maybe it wasn't courage. Maybe it was just stubbornness that single thread of thought that wouldn't break no matter how deep into the abyss I fell.
Arthur opened his eyes slowly, every muscle aching. His left arm and right leg were gone, but he was alive, his body somehow refused to die.
And as his blurry vision cleared, he saw Ank.
The boy knelt in the ruins, covered in blood and dust.
Arthur was in guilt for losing his consciousness .
Arthur POV
This boy had carried the weight of him on his shoulders. He had fought armies when I couldn't. He had bled, suffered, and nearly lost his mind all to protect someone who was supposed to protect him.
"Ank " I whispered.
The boy didn't answer.
I wanted to speak, to say I was sorry, to say I was proud but how he faced them . What could I possibly say to erase the sight before him? What apology could make up for watching Ank slaughter millions while I lay broken?
I had trained the boy.
And yet, tonight it was Ank who had saved me.
I clenched my fist against the dirt, pain shooting through my body, but I forced,my self to move towards him.
Because the boy in front of him was no longer just a student.
He was a survivor.
Ank POV
I could feel Arthur's eyes on me.
I wanted to turn, to tell him I was fine. To tell him it wasn't his fault. But I couldn't move. I couldn't speak. Even breathing felt like too much effort.
But in my heart, I didn't blame him.
I wasn't fighting because I had to. I wasn't fighting because he asked me to.
I was fighting because I chose to.
Because even if I died, I couldn't leave him alone.
If he had seen me just now, he'd probably think I was a monster. The way I fought, the way I laughed, the way I tore through stone with bare hands and teeth that wasn't human. That wasn't the Ank he knew.
But I don't regret it.
Not if it meant we were both still alive right now.
Still my heart was heavy.
And my focus after using the forbidden spell was that the quest was one step behind before its completion.
If there were more stone plant monsters like stone plant boss even the King himself truly comes that does not matter i shall win.
I lowered my head, blood dripping onto the corpses beneath me. My arms shook, my breath hitched. For the first time in twenty four hours, I wasn't moving. I wasn't swinging.
I was just waiting.
But for what? Salvation? Or the end?
Ank vision blurred as exhaustion on his body took him again. He wanted to call out to the old man, tell him that he was alive .
The ground trembled.
A deep, rumbling vibration rolled through the ruins, making the piles of corpses shift and crumble.
Ank slowly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes staring toward the horizon.
The silence broke.
The sky split open.
And from the rift came a presence so overwhelming that the air itself seemed to freeze.
The King was coming.
And Ank collapsed on the ground.
And its heart beat stopped.