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Chapter 3 The Rise Of The Dark Swordsmans

  • Date: Æ1289 6, 3
  • It's late at night. The moon is twinkling with the stars in the sky. An elderly man enters a hidden ancient cave in an unknown place in a dense jungle. The elderly man comes to a halt. He slowly takes something from his pocket with his left hand. A dark scroll is gradually illuminating. He walks inside and a sudden darkness occured.
  • "The Darkness shall rise, swordsmen of the unknowns," a Dark-voiced elderly man warned. Four swordsmen come from the four corners, each with glowing Dark eyes with particles and one with a white glowing one eye with a dark one standing clutching their Dark blades. They rise in separate corners, dust to stone to a statue, one by one, from the circling pattern block, stones climbing up forming the four swordsmen of unknowns. Bright lights appeared. The lights were coming from the four statues.
  • The four swordsmen were summoned to a secret Dark cave in the ages, leaving history and memories behind, only legends and myths can find the spot, which can help to destroy or defend. The wind is blowing east and shifting directions. Lucas is one of the royal soldiers in the far south defending the final resting place of the all-powerful Myth.
  • Gakushin Gakure, with his sword on his right side, stands outside the gate. He felt stunned, as if something weird was happening. He had an inkling of what was going on but refused to think about it. He began walking straight. The wind is blowing briskly from the north. On the left and right sides of Gakushin Gakure, two samurai have just appeared.
  • "Gakushin Gakure the Heads had requested a mission for you, you're going to the north alone, we're gonna be guarding outside this gate," the left samurai replied modestly.
  • "I'm going with you, but not to the north. I'm going to the south. I'm just going with you because we need to talk while we're going, and after we finish talking, we'll be going to our destination," the samurai stated as he stood up.
  • Gakushin Gakure turns around and looks at the samurai who told him everything, after a few moments, Gakushin Gakure agrees. He turns back again, but a strange-looking forest has grown Dark and foggy. Gakushin Gakure walks and draws his sword, slashes with full force towards the forest, and the fog vanishes, but the forest remains Dark.
  • He began marching toward the Dark Forest in front of him, the samurai on the right followed accordingly, and the samurai on the left began doing something.
  • In the evening. "Chief Makurin, I'm done with the barrier. We should leave as soon as possible, we need to go back to the village," Shikari Gakure teleported a message to her in an abrupt voice. He stands up and runs as fast as he can to the place where Chief Makurin and the fifth army are.
  • "Roger!" Chief Makurin replied.
  • "Fifth Army! Get moving, we're retreating!! The place in here is already clear and sealed. Shikari Gakure will report this to the heads of this village, so we're done!" Chief Makurin shouted to the entire army she was with.
  • Shikari Gakure is running when he notices the wind abruptly changing direction. He comes to a complete stop and stands firm. When Shikari Gakure, like the wind, comes to a halt. He walked again, and the air moved as his shadow.
  • "Tsk, this is an illusion dimension... I need to look around and find its core," Shikari Gakure stated. He looked around and everything was the same. He looked down and saw the void. He began to slip.
  • "This is an illusion, this must be a technique of a powerful Shira trap," he said as he brought out his blade, and then something unexpected happened. His world went black, and he had no choice but to use his strong technique or perish.
  • He swiftly alters the path of his blade and closes his eyes. He performs a magic sword. The sword turns black and instantly breaks the illusion. Shikari Gakure escapes and rapidly charges to the location of Chief Makurin and the Fifth Army.
  • Five swordsmen, each wearing a cloak, walk to the Supreme Forest. The wind is quiet, but the trees are gloomy, and the walking path is dim.
  • "Well, well, well, look who's here!, the five swordsmans of the Greats, Ha!Ha!" An unknown girl's voice can be heard from afar in the woods. The five swordsmen gaze around, trying not to let their guard down in search of the girl's voice.
  • One of them began to walk in a straight line. The swordsman in his back began to move forward. The swordsman in front trod on what was at his feet and sank, coming to a halt. A scythe rotated in the distance and flew towards him, drawing his katana and swinging his blade up front as soon as the scythe reached him. The scythe's blade collided with the blade of his sword. With the force of the impact, the hood on his head was ripped off. When he looked at the tree where the scythe came from, he noticed a chain attached to the scythe's handle.
  • "Who are you? Show up!" yelled the swordsman whose sword had clashed with the scythe, grunting furiously.
  • "Looks like you guys are well trained after all. Well, I'm done here, see you guys later," the voice said from where the scythe was tossed at the start, on top of a massive branch in the distance. They couldn't see the unknown very well.
  • The swordsman in front notices the unknown girl's hands, she grabs the chain and pulls back the scythe with great force in the distance. The scythe dissappeared and same as the girl, as the five mysterious swordsmen began to walk. The swordsman in front has re-sheathed his katana and wears his hood again that was blown by the force.
  • In the middle of the night. Shikari Gakure turns around to see a man wearing a jacket and a rucksack on his back, as well as a large sword on his right side.
  • Shikari Gakure is being observed by the man. He looked at him and strolled by him as if nothing had occurred. Shikari had no idea who or where that man was, nor did he sense his presence. He simply let go of the man and sprinted as fast as he could to his destination. Shikari wanted to ask the man, but he had another issue.
  • On the other hand were the unknown girl is heading, she was in a forest walking while holding her scythe in her right hand as she sense someone behind her following her.
  • "You should not follow me," a girl's voice remarked. "Kuro, what was that? It's the middle of the night twilight, who are those swordsmans you fought?! That scythe you're carrying it's supposed to be defending!" a boy remarked in the back of a girl in the middle of the forest at night.
  • Kuro, the unknown girl, swings her scythe towards the boy behind her, this time with no chain attached. As soon as she sees him crouching and dodge it in the distance, the scythe twists around and returns to Kuro. She hastily grabbed her scythe and vanished, leaving no trace behind. The boy she left behind is a twenty-three-year-old swordsman who sprints towards her but he was slow. He walks back slowly, his head bowed in sorrow.
  • Gakushin Gakure continues to run towards the location that has been allocated to him. He was on the grassy path, accompanied by an unknown samurai.
  • "Gakushin Gakure, we should stop in that big tree branch," the samurai stated as they both fell and came to a halt on the massive branch. "We're going to split up, you might be gone for a week or two, you're fighting three thousand Dark mobs in your destination, they don't know about Shikari Gakure but it's said that you're the only one who can do it... I-It's an entire army," the samurai muttered nervously.
  • "I can handle them, I can ask for backup if I want to, and even if I die... The world still has Shikari Gakure on your side, so... You all will be fine, I'll be back," Gakushin Gakure said with a smile.
  • Gakushin Gakure leaps down and dashes across the woods. He is aware that he could die during this mission, but he is prepared for it.
  • Early in the morning. The third army is heading to the east to their old position. Fudo Toka dozed off while teleporting to Soldier SE the previous time. He is riding a horse, and Fudo Toka is snoring while leaning on his back.
  • After a few minutes, she began to awaken. Fudo Toka opened her eyes and what she saw made her eyes widen. She notices that they are near the North Wind and are currently near the big crater. The third army takes a closer look at the crater and notices that an entire army of Dark mobs has been slain. They believe Fudo Toka is the one who slays the mobs at the bottom of the crater.
  • Inside the village main office emergency meeting. They were in an underground facility. Unknowns sat in a chair in front of the round table.
  • "Gather the fourth army! We're making moves!" exclaimed one of the heads. They're holding a meeting at a round table in the center of the room. They gather the main leaders and generals for a conference inside the capital's underground facility.
  • "I'm the General! And I'm the one who gives orders to my army! I'm gathering every finest soldier and swordsman we have in this village and swordsmen, even retired ones, under my command in the past and in the present!" an unknown general declared.
  • "We need to take action to stop the impending doom in the north and other unknown and unexplored regions, and the main heads of this village will decide what must be done! Gather every army we have, and... Make Shikari Gakure mad!" one of the head of the village stated in a furious voice.
  • "We can't just make Shikari Gakure angry! He'll kill us if he finds out," the sergeant cautioned them. They fell silent for a few seconds as a result.
  • "We deploy Gakushin Gakure in the north. We deploy him as a one-man army to defeat the dark army, that's the decision of every head in this village. Generals, if we don't defeat that army as soon as possible that came out of nowhere we might found ourselves in a predicament." one of the village heads explained.
  • After a couple of hours of discussion, the chiefs and other members such as sergeants and generals left the room. They will assemble the entire village's army. The war in the far north ended about a decade ago, and a team of Certified Professional Services from the east was called in to deploy their best soldiers, but they never returned.
  • They sent another of their best soldiers to the far north battlefield, but the same thing never returned. The only thing that returned was an emergency teleportation message. According to reports, an entire army is rising in the far north once more.
  • "Gakushin Gakure I'm going to Chief Makurin's place, we destroyed one of the undeads rising place in the west, can you deploy a clone to the south?" Shikari Gakure said to the teleported message to Gakushin Gakure.
  • "I'm deploying one right now!" Gakushin Gakure answered also teleporting a message to him.
  • Shikari Gakure can now see where Chief Makurin and the Fifth Army are, the entire Fifth Army was ready to go, his arrival was just in time, they were at the top of the mountain and the one at the bottom was the village, and the downhill route was to the west village. Shikari Gakure hurried and told the fifth army to depart. He had only one horse remaining. He rode the horse and went, accelerating the horse to get ahead and lead the fifth army's route.
  • The Five Greats are still making their way towards the Supreme Forest. They're still about halfway there. The wind is so calm, the left swordsman looks to the left, and they all come to a halt. "What are you looking at?" inquired the swordsman in the back. "The tree changed, there used to be a big tree there, but it's now gone," the swordsman explained. They draw their swords and create a pentagon formation.
  • The first swordsman in the front is Agatsuma Hit, the left and right swordsmen are Hashibira Kosuke and Hashibira Komoto, and the last two in the back are Tsuyuri Shi and Katrina. They are renowned as the Five Greats and Shikari Gakure masters.
  • They guard each other as they go to the Supreme Forest, after a while, they remove their hoods and begin racing in a straight line. They still don't know where the monster is in the supreme forest. They suspected that they were still not halfway there.
  • The army was divided in half, with Chief Makurin travelling east and Gakushin Gakure headed northeast, in case something horrible happened. Gakushin Gakure dispatches a clone heading south, where he will meet Shikari Gakure and the army in the midst of a big forest.
  • In the South in the middle of the day
  • "This will be our first trip to another continent," an elderly man commented. "Yeah... I wonder what we'll see on another continent, maybe another home," asked a small youngster. They are both on a boat with a crew and personnel. There are a few individuals on board, and the boat is quite large. The captain and the village leaders stated that they will be traveling in this ocean, which is a pier with many boats chained and tied.
  • They'll be using a good boat, and there will be plenty of food on board. They're departing shortly, all they need now are the village's best swordsmen, at least five of them.
  • The third army is preparing to exit the crater. Soldier SE raised his right hand, signaling to the soldiers that they were departing. They all begin to accelerate their horses. Their duty is done, all they need to do now is get home as safely as possible.
  • When the Five Greats arrive at the Supreme Forest's main hall, they notice that the fog is becoming increasingly thin. They see a large castle in front of them, but it is very old, with numerous vines and plants growing on its walls, and they see a destroyed wall to their left. They've come to the supreme forest to retrieve the emperor's sword, which has been hidden for a long time.
  • The castle in the supreme forest ahead of them is older than their grandfather's. They sense a lot of presence inside the castle, but it's all unusual. They must be cautious and leave promptly if anything happens.
  • "It smells here, this place is supposed to be a good part of the forest but... It's all smell blood," Katrina complained as she sighs and made an expressionless face.
  • "Just don't let down your guard, everything inside should die, Dark mobs or zombies, we might be countering a lot of them," Agatsuma Hit remarked modestly.
  • They keep walking. They walked into the front castle entrance, and they noticed left and right the dead warriors and knights of the castle from a long time ago, some of them left with only body armor, and they saw the split gate of the castle, where they might confront a monster or a demon.
  • In the west.
  • "Himura Kiri, one of the greatest swordsmen of the west, what an honor to meet you," a modest swordsman said.
  • Himura Kiri was walking when he heard a man's voice speaking behind him and came to a halt. When he turned around, he saw a man wearing a hood, and he couldn't see his face.
  • "The honor is mine, who are you? I see you're not from the village, are you?" Himura Kiri joked.
  • Himura Kiri looked left and right as the man he was facing pulled out a blade, and the people around him began to flee. He notices that the person is alone.
  • "I challenge you to a duel," the hood person said. The man in the hood thrust his sword blade at Himura Kiri. He draws his blade menacingly. The attacker charged Himura Kiri, and the two swords collided, causing a large impact on the ground.
  • They both flew everywhere, and the swordsman with the hood vanished in a split second as he was going to corner him, as he vanished, a lettered note appeared where he vanished. Himura Kiri resheathed his sword and approached the letter, grabbing it.
  • The western bodyguards are in his back; they didn't make it in time. Himura Kiri examined the letter, which stated, "Himura Kiri go to the middle of the Demon's hideout and make sure you hide and don't get seen and died you'll get some important information about these things that may help your village, by Kishu." Himura Kiri raised his head and looked up to the sky, Kishu was his old past friend.
  • The third army is returning to the outpost, still heading east, but it's already nighttime and the fog is beginning to thicken. Fudo Toka awoke on a horse, embracing Soldier SE to keep her from falling off. She looked around and noticed that it was already night, that they were still on a horse, and that they were halfway to the village.
  • Shikari Gakure sensed the presence of Gakushin Gakure's clone and signaled to the Fifth army to stop. He glanced up and saw Gakushin Gakure standing in a gigantic tree branch of a tree. They were in the middle of an unfamiliar woodland. The massive trees were spread out.
  • "Gakushin Gakure, go south and go to the boat that's gonna be traveling soon to the other continent, make sure they're safe, and make sure you got in the boat, and if you don't make it, use a technique to walk on water," Shikari Gakure said.
  • Gakushin Gakure grinned and nodded. The army is startled because a boat hasn't traveled that far in a long time. Gakushin Gakure suddenly dashed to the ground and flew by him and the soldiers in seconds, heading south. The fifth army and Shikari Gakure began to advance out of the forest.
  • The real Gakushin Gakure eventually makes it to the north, but as he travels there, he senses the presence of the third army and Fudo Toka, he sees a large crater in the north, and the village is huge, but it's devastated, and the walls have some holes in them.
  • As he descends, he notices a plethora of massive trees laying in the ground. He also notices Fudo Toka's sword shield mark on the ground when the tremendous shock wave arrives.
  • "This could be the north, I'm not sure how she survived. I put something inside my clone so that if I get hurt, it won't disappear unless I die," Gakushin Gakure thought as he raised his head and looked up at the sky. He then lowered his head and draw his sword with his right hand and approached the front gate of the village without a presence.