Savage Forest - Chapter 59
The familiar expression of the woman hugging the man was similar to something Avisak knew.
An irresistible affection for the man appeared on that fragile face for an instant. The size of her blind faith and devotion to the man who held her in his arms, not hidden by her weak appearance, broke Avisak in an instant.
Her pride was hurt.
She wondered what kind of time it took to create that expression. At the thought, she was about to reconsider her evaluation of the woman who seemed like no match for her…
‘But that too ends today.’
Avisak drew in a tense breath and looked up at the man, who looked down at her like an inanimate object. No matter how much effort that woman may have put into maintaining her relationship with this man, it would end today.
She would bring this man to his knees before her completely.
In slow motion, she began to unravel the front of her clothes.
“…As we’re approaching the desert, the clothes also become lighter.”
Her enticing voice whispered more obscenely than ever. In Perugia, there was no man who did not want to sleep with her. She was like a goddess of abundance there.
Aquilea’s god of war and Perugia’s goddess of abundance. She could have predicted how good the combination of the two would be without even imagining it. Avisak, who had never experienced her failure before, could not show composure.
Receiving the frosty stare of the man right in front of her eyes, she slowly threw off her clothes.
It didn’t take long for her to strip, layer by layer, exposing her voluptuous body in front of him. Then, with just a piece of cloth between her bursting chest and curved legs, Avisak looked up at the man with a defiant expression.
“Hold me.”
As expected, the man didn’t even raise an eyebrow when he saw her naked. Rather, he pressed her in a voice filled with contempt she had never encountered before.
“…Perugia. Are you crazy? What are you doing?”
Avisak walked naked in front of the man slowly, feeling goosebumps running down her spine.
A look of disgust came to the man’s face as he quickly moved away from her and lifted one arm to cover his nose. Avisak’s nose burned as red as her hair at his attitude, as though he had smelled something disgusting.
He hated the smell of incense… she never thought of it. However, if she gave up and went away now, it would be a disgrace.
As she covered herself with the clothes that she had stripped with quick movements, Avisak came to her knees in front of him. She felt him step back, like avoiding a rat in the gutter, but she held on to the crotch of his trousers without hesitation.
“What is this…”
In spite of the absurd reaction, she stood firm.
It was the last resort.
Avisak raised her ferocious eyes and parted her red lips.
“I didn’t know it would end up like this! But I couldn’t help it.”
Avisak made up lies with all her might and pleaded with tears.
“A plague broke out among the rest of the people… All remaining forces are in chaos. I thought that the way to calm the estranged forces in the current situation was to have a close relationship with you…!”
“…A plague?”
Avisak noticed a change in the man’s cold expression In an instant. Seeing the light added to his insensitive eyes, she gave a satisfied smile.
She took this opportunity and threw the prepared trick.
“Yes, plague. Your girl… I didn’t want to believe it when she disappeared, leading not only the people of Nervana Forest but also some of the remaining forces of the Allied Forces though the disease that gnaws at the soldiers’ skin had already spread within the group. Probably, Enya, that cunning woman, knew it beforehand…”
At that time, the man’s eyes that shone red like blood, who seemed to believe that nothing was important except the situation of the war, shook in an instant.
Avisak realized that it was because of the name she had uttered, and she eagerly spoke again.
“In the end, you can’t deceive your blood! When the selfish tribe fled among themselves, taking Enya, the daughter of the forest, I didn’t want to believe it either… but Enya betrayed you.”
As she uttered those words, she felt jubilant, almost joy.
“The woman ran away. She’s completely gone! Lead only her tribe to Nervana Forest.”
Avisak witnessed the merciless contortion of the man’s face and exclaimed inside.
I had finally broken this man’s shell!
All that remained now was to sneak in between them without him noticing. Avisak smiled secretly and prepared to bring out the sweet, mouth-watering words she had been picking and choosing.
However, the next moment, she screamed at the terrible pain in her neck.
“Kuhhuhp, kuoh…!”
The man’s big hand gripped tightly around her neck. Under the overwhelming power, she felt a surge of pain, and she couldn’t even breathe.
Before long, the man’s cruel voice came into her ears.
“…Enya left?”
A terrible, bloody voice that did not seem to belong to a human, it was almost like the groaning of a beast.
In an instant, Avisak felt the strength in her whole body leaving her, and she hurriedly grabbed his farm and clawed at him.
“Kuohp—! Kuhp! Heuk, let, let me… me…breath, kugh…!”
Still, the hand holding her neck was immovable. No, on the contrary, it tightened brutally on her. Her fears increased because she had already ordered the soldier guarding the outside not to come in even if they heard any noise.
“Did you really think I would believe that, Perugia?”
Veins sprang up in the hand that held her neck. Avisak’s mouth was frothing, her eyes now nearly turning over.
Tarhan’s monstrous pupils radiated wild light.
‘That power, that voice… Oh, I’m dead.’
That thought dominated Avisak’s mind. She let out a muffled voice with the breath she drew from her inner abdomen.
“What have you done to my woman?”
Even though he didn’t even raise his voice, Avisak nearly fainted from the monster’s bloody roar.
Never has she ever dreamed of such a reaction.
As Tarhan gave her a chance to answer, he released her. She took deep breaths like a drowned person.
At that moment, a loud roar came from outside the tent.
Avisak crawled on the floor, unable to believe what her ears had heard as she gasped. She stared at the entrance to the closed barracks. That surely must have been the sound of soldiers clashing with each other.
A battle was going on outside.
She swallowed her curse even as her eyes seemed to turn over.
‘D*mn it, Gernan, you crazy b*stard…!’
Even without looking, she could tell what was going on.
Gernan could not stand it and started acting on his own. The Anti-Allied Forces, a combination of the remaining forces of Aquilea, who had promised to follow, and several forces within the sixteen tribes that had been in close contact with Servia’s clan for a long time.
Gernan’s army had begun its act.
‘Did you make a false promise with me, Gernan…!’
Avisak clutched at her dark, bruised neck, panting, but hurriedly began to put on her clothes, hearing the sound of the gruesome battle noises coming from outside the barracks. If she stayed here longer, she would either be killed by the man in front of her or caught up in the battle outside.
“Anyone! Come in and protect me quickly!”
She screamed desperately at the soldiers who might be stationed outside, stepping back from the man who stood still like a pillar, still judging the situation. However, the soldiers who should have jumped in immediately gave no movement. They had already been killed by Gernan’s army, but Avisak did not know that.
‘What the hell happened…?!’
Her face contorted with contempt and dismay.
At that time, the arm of the man standing like a pillar moved slowly. Avisak jumped up in surprise at his movement as an indelible fear settled on her face as she moved her legs and stepped back from him.
“Hu, huhp! I, I didn’t do anything to her! It’s Servia… Yes, Servia, The mother of that son of a b*tch who tried to r*pe your woman! That woman pushed Enya into the hidden leper’s den—!”
In the end, even warm liquid came out of her legs.
The messy weeping woman was no longer the proud and virtuous Princess of Perugia. Avisak frantically pushed himself to the end of the barracks, swaying her limbs in front of him and saying just everything.
However, she was no longer in Tarhan’s gaze, who stared at one place and started to move forward. In the monstrous man’s eyes, not even a handful of sane mind was left. Seeing him pull the long sword out of the scabbard at his waist, she wept again.
Approaching the almost-insane woman, Tarhan neither stabbed nor cut her.
With one swing of his arm, the cloth that covered the entrance to the barracks, which had been lowered like a curtain, was torn in an instant. At the same time, the noise from outside, which had become a total mess, came in all at once.
The sight of the allied soldiers with swords and spears being helplessly attacked by the suddenly rushing anti-allied forces was unfolding outside.
Avisak’s eyes which couldn’t close trembled.
She silently watched the man’s back as he took a step outside the blood-splattered barracks while all he had was a sword. Soon, the group that discovered the head of the allied forces rushed at him with mad eyes. Even so, the soldiers blocking his path were mercilessly cut down like a blade of grass.
She thought while resting her cheek on the dirt floor…
‘…Is there anything that can stop that man at this moment?’
She could tell where that broad back was going, cutting through everything that got in his way.
…What on earth made him so obsessed with that poor, weak woman?
In a daze of remorse and shame, Avisak closed her eyes, foreboding that she would never find out about it.