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The people of the Fisher Tribe helped him recover and stay in this small village, while eating the delicious fish given to him as offerings, he hunted down strong beasts for them in return, and taught the young how to butcher large monsters and use their fur for clothes, their bones for weapons, and even their innards for medicine and special types of concoctions. Alongside even teaching them his self-taught alchemy using mana cores, which he had perfected over the years of trial and error.
Without realizing it, he spent half a year in this village and grew as a person, his feelings for the girl that could see the future grew stronger as she shared such feelings combined with her admiration… After such a long stay here, Larzak couldn't forget his true journey, and departed, promising the girl and everybody that he would come back. He had even taught them how to fight the cannibals and how to hide beneath the ground as well, so he hoped that if in the worst-case scenario something were to happen to them, that they would be able to pull through somehow.
Hoping the best for these people Larzak continued on his journey ahead in those times, his will to avenge his family and his tribe had not died yet, even though his heart now belonged to that woman that had captivated him, he was even more filled with the motivation of ending this journey so he could settle down with her and build a family. He moved forward, relentless, and powerful, chasing down the trails from the Cannibals, until finally, he found something, it was a group of Cannibals resting around a bonfire, roasting the small body of a lizardman child. Larzak for a moment thought about jumping into battle to save the poor child, that somehow reminded him of his little sister that he could never see alive, but quickly realized it was long dead.
He stopped his fury, he had to prepare and fight accordingly, surprising them was the best option, these were savages that were dumber than him, but had stronger reflexes and instincts, their senses were enhanced as they grew more savage. Their faces grew deformed and large, and they had a difficult time walking completely straight, often having big humps. Their hands were larger and less dexterous, made to tear flesh with their sharp blade-like claws, their tails were twice as longer as normal lizardmen as well, used for fighting, to capture prey and to put them out of balance. He knew this as he had fought four of them at the same time in the past, and knew of their tactics and animalistic behaviors. If it wasn't because he had many traps prepared on his own territory, he might had ultimately been captured and eaten like the child in front of him.
He slowly and stealthily walked around, making sure they couldn't detect him, and then, wielding his spear and enhancing it with magic, he jumped towards his target, the biggest of the group of five, piercing its head with his spear made with the bones of the Young Beast King, capable of easily tearing down through the hard scales of the lizardmen and crushing his neck, he swung he blade of the spear while moving it down, completely decapitating the lizardman before he could even realize what hit him.
His head rolled into the ground, as the other Cannibals looked dumfounded at Larzak's body, which was shrouded in the blood spraying out of their former group leader. The monstrous lizardman grew angered and furious, leaving anything they were doing and jumping towards him all together. Larzak jumped back, using his fire magic to burn their faces with small embers and then using his dark magic to shroud himself in shadows, hiding in the darkness of the night to only attack the incapacitated lizardmen from their backs, piercing their heads with his spear as he enhanced the weapon with his flames, piercing their bodies. He continued this tactic until every lizardman was down, their bodies burned down and filled with wounds while half of them ended being decapitated.
Larzak sighed in relief as he gasped for air, quickly taking away the small corpse of the little and innocent child they had ruthlessly killed, and putting him out of the flames that were roasting his little body. Larzak looked at the small child, with such a bright future ahead… It was all taken away by the brutality of these people, but also for the terrible conditions they all lived, the desperation that drove his kin to become monstrous cannibals… It was all due to how they lived, to how they separated, and how the beast kings continued expanding. Amidst this brutality, the bigger picture also showed him that as a species, they would soon go extinct if somebody didn't step in and challenged these beast kings eventually, to defeat them and push forward their own territory…
All of this ended with victims such as this little child… Larzak sighed, as he closed the eyes of the child and quickly buried him. He didn't knew his name, nor from where he came from, but he prayed for his soul and asked the spirits to bring him to the afterlife, perhaps in such a place he would be able to find his family and live happily there…
"Please, please… Bring this child's soul the happiness he never had…" He cried, as Larzak for the first time since finding his tribe teared down, he kneeled in the ground in front of the child's burial as tears continued to come out of his eyes, he gritted his teeth resentfully as he realized the harshness of the world, of all the suffering that innocents had to go through, he hit the ground in anger, asking why…
"Why?! Why must this world not even pity the little children?! Why…! Why?!"
After minutes of crying in despair, he calmed down, letting out all his pent-up emotions, he sighed. He looked back into the corpses of the cannibals and buried them all as well, despite their atrocities, despite being unforgivable, he even pitied these people.
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