7 Ritual (1/2)

Zatiel was gathering all of the bandits in the center of the camp, he even went for the lookouts that were thrown outside.

All the bandits were unconscious but although most of the bandits were severy hurts and some of them were missing limbs every single one of them was alive.

When all of them were put together Zatiel picks up a jar from the captain tent and with his sword cut his arm and fulled it with his blood, when there was about 10 litter of blood Zatiel stoped and sit down to rest.

A normal person has just about 6 to 7 litter of blood in their system and losing a fifth of that can kill you, but with his physique of almost 3 points, it only makes Zatiel very tired and week.

Zatiel was sitting and focusing on getting in his optimal condition when he felt someone closing in.

”So you are strong enough to walk already, good”.

The person that was closing in was a little boy with a hand and eye missing, of course, he was Ezequiel whose body has already healed enough to move, after all the potion that Zatiel gave him was potent enough to heal a Warrior, and since the stronger you are the more energy is needed to heal you, vice versa also applies.

While Ezequiel was looking at Zatiel and the huge amount of blood by his side he was a little startled but after a moment he calms down.

´I should not try to understand a monster like him, at least not yet´.

Ezequiel stop looking at Zatiel and focus at the bandit, but as he did he started to get confused, even though as an assassin he has excellent control over his body language and he seems perfectly fine how could that he hope so trick Zatiel.

”You are wondering why I didn't kill them,” Zatiel says as if he could read the boys through.

Ezequiel could just nod, already accepting that he could not hide anything from his new master.

”They have a purpose and you will soon find out which one it is,” As Zatiel says those words, for a moment coldness shows up in his eyes as he looks at the bandits.

” Anyway you are my subordinate now, so I need to ask you a few questions, first of all, let's introduce ourselves, I am Zatiel, what is your name?”

”Ezequiel”

”Second question, since we are leaving this place very soon, do you have a loved one that you need to find or someone you need to make sure they are safe, before that”

”No”

Ezequiel was a little surprised about that question but he answers without much through, after all with his previous identity as a slave he knows that caring for someone, just put them in danger.

”Ok, that is all,” Zatiel says casually.

Ezequiel was a little startle after all, who would have a subordinate with a past that you know nothing about.

”Master I..” Equeliel was about to speak when he saw how Zatiel just raises his hand to stop him.

”I don't care about your past, since the moment you decided to become my subordinate your life started over, the only thing I need from you is your loyalty, as long as I have it I will always be there to help you, but you need to remember something.” Zatiel made a pause as he looked at the boy's eye while a coldness and savagery radiate from him.

The feeling was so suffocating that Ezequiel could sware that he was drowning in mercury, he felt like in front of him there was not a man but a nightmarish lifeform that could swallow him at any moment, if it wasn't for his incredible will he wold have blackout already, but even so he could not stop himself from kneeling.

” Never betray me, If you even think of doing that I will know, and when that happens you will never know the release of death”

After Zatiel stops speaking the pressure vanished like it never existed.

Ezequiel state was understandable, after all, if you put a normal man in front of a tiger, even if the animal does not attack the pressure that it generates can put him in a terrified state, and even though Zatiel was no longer a powerful being his years of slaughter were still with him.

Ezequiel star to stand up slowly as he looked at Zatiel, when his breath was normal again he kneeled in one knee.

”I have chosen to follow you, and I will never regret the decisions I made in my life.” Determination radiated from his eye as he spoke.

Although words of eternal loyalty were easy to say, they were rarely true, but with his knowledge, Zatiel could see that the boy spoke with absolute resolution in his soul.