Bound and Broken: An Isekai Adventure Dark Fantasy (Melas Book 1) by V.A. Lewis (autobiographies to read .TXT) 📕

for David. First, he woke up in the morning to an earful from his wife over their finances. Apparently, she did not like how he kept spending nights gambling, even though he had such a stressful job as of late!

And in the afternoon, a small horde of monsters attacked the walls trying to get into the city. Then, in the evening, he had to punish one of his guards for messing around while inspecting slaves brought in from the Mancis Company. That was inappropriate behavior, especially considering the influence Julian Mancis had in the city.And now, late at night, when he had been enjoying himself at a brothel—

This.

The old man paused and thought to himself, Perhaps it’s time to retire. He was grateful for his job, for sure. But it was not nearly as exciting as fighting in the frontlines of a battle. He could just remember the thrill he got whenever he—

The Guard Captain’s thoughts were interrupted by a scream. A piercing shriek of agony came from the wall of smoke.

David snapped his rifle to the direction of the sound as it slowly faded away. The guards around him were on alert now, too. He was just about to order one of them to check on what happened, when another scream came. And another.

And another.

And another.

A cacophony of screams came from inside the smog that covered David's vision. It mixed together in a symphony if the choir was a disorganized mess that shrieked over each other, while the violins played off tune to the pleasure of no one, and the pianist smashed all the keys at once to the tune of a nail on chalkboard.

So, it was not like a symphony at all. It was a terrible echo of death that sent a chill down the Guard Captain’s spine. It continued on for a minute, then silence.

"Captain—" someone started from behind him.

The Guard Captain raised a hand, shutting up the guard that spoke. He carefully aimed down his rifle, and whispered.

"Something’s coming."

And as if his words were some sort of trigger, something came.

Out of the dark clouds ahead, a figure emerged. It looked humanoid in shape at first. It walked on two legs, and had two arms, like any ordinary person. And that was why the Guard Captain did not shoot.

But as the figure got closer, David saw that it had a hunch. Not only that, but one of its arms was much larger than the other. It was as though it had disproportionately large biceps reaching all the way down to its hands.

The figure moved faster and faster as it got closer, and David realized the ‘bicep’ did not just go down its arm. Large bulbous protrusions came out from the thing’s chest and face. It also glowed.

The figure sprinted out of the smoke, no longer being just a shadow in the cloud, and David finally got a good look at it. It had the body of a Human. It had the arms and legs of a Human. It had the face of a Human. But it was not Human. Large lumps of some sort of dark blue bumps swelled throughout half of the Human’s body. It was growing out of the person like some sort of fungus. And at the center of these bulbs was a luminescent yellow core, which shone at an ever changing intensity.

The figure emerged from the ruins of the walls, and along with it came a horrific screech. Like a thousand tiny high pitched screams came out at once. It uttered its battle cry, and ran out at the small retinue of guards.

It was an abomination.

David had never seen such a thing before, but the former soldier did not hesitate. He pulled the trigger on his rifle, and fired two shots at the thing.

The blasts splashed across the Abomination’s chest, but it continued running. It did not even stagger! It absorbed the impact like it was nothing.

The Guard Captain loosed another shot. And another. Five. Six. Seven. He aimed for the chest. The head. The legs. Anything—

The fourth shot actually rocked the creature, and the fifth brought it down. However, the Abomination continued crawling towards them, and so the fifth finally killed it. The sixth and seventh was just fired as a precaution.

David wiped a sweat off his brow, and stared at the Abomination. What was that? He had fought all kinds of monsters before, but he had never seen anything like that.

The Guard Captain shook those thoughts off his head. First, he had to reprimand his men—

David froze half turn. Out of the corner of his eye, more shadows appeared in the smoke. He spun back around slowly, and looked in horror. He did not have to shout to get his men’s attention, because what they saw broke them all out of their stupor.

Hundreds— no, thousands of figures moving in the shadows. So many tiny little specks in the distance. But slowly getting larger.

"Goddess grace us." David did not remember uttering the words, but he did.

He lifted up his rifle, and along with his dozen other men, began firing blindly into the storm looming in on them.

Inhuman screams erupted from the darkness, and out came the Abominations. There were so many of them!

The Guard Captain kept firing at the oncoming targets. At all the Abominations. And they were not just Humans.

David saw monsters with the same blue-yellow bulbous cores sticking out of them, mixed in with the Humans. He was not sure if there were animals too. He could’ve sworn he saw a goat at one point.

But it did not matter.

He kept firing and firing into the oncoming mass of Abominations. People, monsters, animals, all disfigured into such horrific creatures.

And they did not fall easily too.

It took only four or five shots to down a single