The astra chronicles book 1 mercenary *Paused*

prologue

The fire burned crimson as a small town burned against the dark sky and a young boy ran through the burning mess being pursued by several men carrying hefty looking Spears and axes. "Get back here kid" one of the men growled as he used his axe to cut a piece of burning wood in half as the young boy tripped and fell looking through the fire at the man with piercing red eyes. "Holy hell what is wrong with his eyes" said another man as he ran up "I don't know but we need to leave or we going to get surrounded and trapped in this fire" said the man with the axe waving to the rest before running off back down the way they came. "Yeah let's get out of here this kids not worth the trouble he will just die anyways" said the man with the spear following them. As the men ran away the young boy stood up and ran again down the road towards the center of the town. Down the opposite way the men ran out of the burning village "we escaped and we got a good haul let's get out of here" said the man with the axe as one of the men suddenly yelled in pain causing all the men to turn and look to see a sword sprouting from his chest and blood slowly trickling down the blade. The sword was pulled out of the man's back and he dropped to the ground his eyes glazed over "it's only one guy let's get him and take his stuff to" said another one of the men as he ran forward only for the blade to flash several times in the fire light and the guy with the axe fell to the ground in pieces. "What the hell is this guy" said the supposed leader who stared into the man's cold blue eyes as he backed away. "Let's get out of here qui-" one of the men started to say only to be cut of as his head fell from his shoulders and rolled across the ground. "Don't think you all run" the leader yelled as they all turn to run only for several to die instantly as the man cut them down one by one then he cut the leaders legs off. "No I won't die here" said the leader swinging his axe only for it to be taken from his hands and slammed back into his skull with a sickening crunch as the leaders skull was crushed and pinned to the ground. The man wiped his sword of on the ground then put it back in its sheath starring at the red flames as they danced across the houses and emitted a crimson light.
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Authors note: this is the first actual story I've ever done so please don't be to harsh