CODE: Last Knight

Wrong Person

They were really heading towards this metal object that I currently was inside. I will really beat them up for sure if I had the chance and ask why the heck did they kill both of the men. They weren’t being bad to the anti-demon guys and yet these guys killed them. 

These guys were indeed going to this metal object as they’re peeking to see what’s inside of it. The part of the metal object finally opens from the outside. I didn’t let this chance go as I quickly got out of this weird metal object. 

The anti-demon guys were surprised as they might not expect there will be someone inside it. They immediately raise and aim the weirdly designed metal magic staff towards me. 

“Who's this guy, I thought our intel said that Runo would be in the law enforcement car.” 

“I guess we messed up and Runo might be in the other law enforcement car.” 

“How did we mess it up anyway, isn’t our intel said that it would be only one car passed down this road. Why is there suddenly another one here?” 

After hearing the three guys conversation for a while, I realized that they must have thought this metal object had one of their friends in it. I also know that this metal object was called a law enforcement car. 

I know what law enforcement means but I had no idea what a car was. It was a word that I never heard before in my life. 

“So what we’re going to do with this guy? Should we kill him as he probably witnessed everything that we have done so far?” 

“I agree with Aerich in this, this guy should be killed.” 

Realizing that I was going to be killed by them, I quickly placed my hand on the sheath of my sword. “If you guys think to cast magic with your staff on me, know that my sword will chop down your hand first.” 

“What's this guy talking about? Staff… Is this guy seeing things?” 

“Just shoot him! Why’re we wasting our time here, do you guys already forgot that we’re here to get Runo back from the law enforcement.” 

*BANG!*

I didn’t know what had happened but I feel like there’s something that hit me. There’s a pain in my body as I look and notice there’s a tiny hole on my steel armour. I was just about to touch it but…

*BANG!*

*BANG!*

I hear that sound again as I look at my stomach once again. There’s some blood coming out from the holes of my armour. After that, I began to lose my balance as I fell very hard to the ground. 

I still don't understand what happened at all. All I heard was that bang sound, was this a new kind of magic that I didn’t know of. It could be as that might explain they needed that weird metal staff. 

It was scary to think that people could cast magic without chanting in the future. I couldn’t think anything at all as I began to feel the pain from their magic. 

“Big talk for a guy that got hit by my bullets.”

“Let’s get out of here as the law enforcement might notice one of their vehicles has gone missing.” 

The three of them began to walk away from here as I heard their footsteps become much smaller every second. It then completely gone as it means they’re not in this place anymore. 

I wanted to cast a healing spell on myself but the pain was too unbearable for me to focus on my chant. I never felt this kind of pain before as it is slowly getting much more painful. 

I never heard a spell called a bullet before in my whole life. It was a really powerful spell and the one who created it must be a genius. For a spell that doesn’t need any chant at all and also delivers great damage to the enemy. I really like to know who created it. 

Knowing that there’s no way I could cast a healing spell on myself. I need to use my restoration potion or else I would be dead by this spell. But I realized that I left my pouch in the law enforcement car and forgot to take it out when I got out of the law enforcement car. 

This situation wasn’t in my favour at all and I knew that I would die soon. All of my life started to get a flashback in my mind as I felt death approach me. 

All my life I had suffered from the demon as both of my parents were killed by their kind. I only had my brother with me and to think my brother's life was also taken by a demon at the war. I then swore to defeat the demon and that’s how I became a Knight Paladins. To think that it will end like this…

But I suddenly remembered something and with that, I couldn't let myself be dead yet. I still needed to fulfil the oath that I had taken back then. 

I can’t give up yet! I still have my breath and if I believe that,  I-I will make it... I am Zanis the Captain of The Knight Paladins.

With all of the strength that I had left, I began to crawl back to the law enforcement car. I could feel the pain in my stomach was much more painful when I moved. I still refused to give up as I still had the chance. 

I have been through a lot more life-threatening situations than this and I still managed to survive. There’s no way that I couldn’t survive this as well. 

The law enforcement car was within my reach but my vision has darkened. I felt my strength had weakened and I couldn’t move an inch anymore. I do not know what happened next as all was pitch black.