Bound and Broken: An Isekai Adventure Dark Fantasy (Melas Book 1) V.A. Lewis (feel good books to read .TXT) 📖

different side of her too. I saw her kill so easily. I watched her take lives like it did not matter; she just brutally murdered a man in front of me. Wasn’t I right to be afraid of her?

Shang too. They were Hunters. They dealt with Monsters, thinned out large hordes, and cleared out infestations. But did that include people?

Did their jobs have them hunting people like me down? Like some sort of a Witch hunter?

I wasn’t a Witch. I was a heretic. But in this world without Witches, they could practically be synonymous; the concept was the same. Heretics were killed for doing magic like a Witch was from my world.

And Theodore.

The kind older man was nowhere to be found when I looked at him. It just was not the same. Nothing was the same.

I just bolted out of there. It was not real. None of this could be real; it had to be fake. I did not hear the shouts coming from Rin as she ran for me, nor did I hear the fighting that broke out behind me.

I was reviled. Hated by the world and by gods. Everything spun around me, and those sounds simply disappeared in the background. I ignored it.

Screams and shouts came from somewhere. The sounds of fighting blared in the distance. But—

I just ran.

Hot flashes came over me, my legs were sore, my right ankle ached, and tears blurred my vision. But I continued running Down the street, around the corner, into the alleyway, out to a large courtyard. I ran, and ran, and—

I found myself in a crowd of people.

I looked up and saw many men and women gathered together with city guards around them. I felt my heart relax a little. An odd calm washed over me, as I reduced my pace to a walk.

I wandered through the crowd of faces, my head in a daze as voices spoke around me in a chatter.

"Will we be safe here?"

"The guards will protect us!"

"We have to run—"

"But the slaves are..."

"—the Oligopolis! If we make it there we’ll be much better protected than here!"

"Are you mad?! That’s where—"

"Goddess grace us."

What’s going on? the thought stupidly crossed my mind. Everyone was so tense; the atmosphere reeked of fear and dread. I could almost feel the tension in the air.

All kinds of insane, impossible, possibilities appeared in my head, but none of them were right. I had forgotten what just happened an hour before— that the city was being invaded.

A scream came from a nearby alleyway. Every face snapped in that direction. Except for me.

I bumped into a leg and fell to the ground.

I expected the man to turn to me, and I panicked. My heart rate picked up, as I reached out to cover the mark on my face; the mark of my slavery. But the man did not turn. His face was fixed where he looked.

Slowly, I turned to face the dark alleyway. The empty space that beheld something beyond it. But it did not wait for me.

I was half facing the alley when something bounded out of the shadows. My heart leapt in its chest as though I experienced a jump scare, and a creature that was a mockery of a Human being charged out.

This was not a movie, it did not come out alone; all at once, dozens of Abominations rushed out of the darkness— out of the small alleyways and the side streets— and into the large open space. A hail of bullets rained down on the drove of deformed people and monsters.

I stared aghast as I saw the creatures up close for the first time; from afar, they looked like people with blotted and blue skin in parts of their body, but up close they were much more terrifying. The blue bulbs looked like a mass infestation of mold growing out of a person, and the yellow pulsing cores looked like rotten gelatin— and I’m pretty sure gelatin can’t rot!

Pandemonium broke out, and the crowd began to disperse. Sounds of gunfire deafened my ears, as I waded my way through the crowd.

Fear was building up in my chest again. My heart pounded in my chest, and there was a ringing in my head. I could feel my whole body trembling.

I don’t want to die! I thought to myself.

The perimeter of guards had been holding off the Abominations for about a minute, but then came a different Abomination. It was not just the twisted form of a single individual that approached the plaza, but a perversion of multiple people melded into one monstrosity.

Two Humans and a Chimera were joined together by a large blue mass. The Humans formed the feet of the Abomination, and the Chimera was hanging off the side and being dragged on the ground like some sort of oversized arm.

Half a dozen guards turned their attention to the over ten foot tall creature, and began opening fire at it. Bullets bounced off of the Abomination like it was nothing, as it ran forwards and swung the Chimera at the line of guards.

The Chimera’s tail lashed out like a whip, and the blue bulbous body of the Abomination thinned as a blue layer spread from its head to the tail. The large Abomination broke through the guard’s formation, allowing the regular Abominations into the courtyard.

It was chaos! People were running everywhere, and guards were screaming as they were killed by the swarm of Abominations. I did not know what to do, so I just ran with the crowd.

I picked a random group running in front of me, and just followed them; we ran down an alleyway, out into an open street, turning right down the sidewalk—

And an Abomination leapt out of a side street, tearing into the poor woman it