Carson trembled even more when he heard Jake, still stuck in the wall, he begged even more.
"Please, my family are sleeping in this house, for their sakes please let me live, I have a young son," Carson begged.
"Please spare me, I have a daughter as well, she is only eight," Cain said from the ground.
Jake frowned when he heard the both of them. He walked to one of his skeletons and took its sword.
"I have seen many things, and many things have caused me pain, but do you know what the greatest pain was? The loss of my family. That pain is one that I can never get over.
Yet you, you two have that family, and yet you use them to bargain for your life, like they are nothing more than a way out of death for you."
His words made no sense to both men, but it did to Jake, and that was all that mattered right now. Jake walked to Cain and stabbed into his second hand.
Cain screamed loudly. Jake kicked his head. "Shut the hell up, you didn't talk that much before, are you trying to wake everyone up on purpose?" Jake asked. He pulled his sword out.
"To think that even after you messed up, you would still try to make my life harder." He said and stabbed Cain in the leg. "I dare you, scream." Jake said. Cain immediately bit his lip, suppressing the pain with all his strength.
He pulled the sword out and walked to Carson. "I would respect you as an elder, but the moment you tried to kill me, you stopped being human." He pulled out the spear and allowed Carson to fall to the ground before stabbing him in the leg with the spear.
He pulled the spear back and tossed it to Crypt. He caught the spear, spun it, and stabbed the tip into the ground.
Jake heard footsteps headed for the sitting room. He was certain that shout had woken the wife up. She was walking slowly, trying to make sure she walked quietly.
'I should leave,' Jake thought. He turned to the skeletons. "Grab those two, drag them out, let's finish it," he said. The skeletons immediately grabbed them and pulled both of them behind him.
Jake walked out of the house, and right there he saw all the men waiting for him. Immediately they saw him, shock filled their faces.
"Where is the chief and Sir Cain?" one asked.
"Oh, those two, right here," he said, and the skeletons came out, tossing both men at them. The shock on their faces turned to horror when they saw the two of them.
"System, how many skeleton undeads can I get with my remaining slots?" Jake asked.
[Eight, you want to summon?]
"Yeah, summon them," Jake said.
The summoning circles appeared and the skeletons came out, holding their swords and shields.
The men seemed frightened when they saw the skeletons. They already knew what he did with Crypt and just two—what would he do with ten skeletons now?
Jake saw the fear in their eyes. He decided not to kill all of them, but for the two that had poisoned him, that was a different case.
"Crypt, kill the both of them."
"Yes, Master," Crypt replied. He walked up to them. The men watched in horror, but there was nothing they could do to save their chief. None of them were willing to risk their life for him.
They knew how easily Jake could kill them, and he had every reason to. Crypt used one swing of his spear to kill both men.
[You have gained 200 EXP, 200 soul shards]
'At least they had some use at the end.'
"What's the direction to the next town or city?" Jake asked, and the men immediately pointed the way for him.
Without saying anything more, he walked away, his entourage following behind him. The wife of the chief, who had tiptoed down, came outside and saw her husband laid on the ground without a head.
[...]
Jake walked down a small road path followed by his small army. The sun had slowly begun to rise, and the place got brighter.
He decided to unsummon his skeletons and leave only Crypt out.
"Master, everyone in that village should have died for what they did to you. Why did you allow them live?" Crypt asked.
[I'm with the armor head on this one. They poisoned you. If I wasn't there, you would have died in seconds.]
"I understand where you are coming from, but right there when I looked at all their faces, I didn't see people that had their own will. They are simply being controlled, but even they didn't know it.
The chief must have made himself look like an untouchable figure to them since he was born, and that subconsciously made them his puppet.
When he died, the strings snapped, and their ability to think was back to them. That's why, it felt wrong killing people who were subconsciously pressured into something like that," Jake explained.
"I see. I don't really understand what you are saying, Master, but as long as there is a reason, then it's fine," Crypt said.
'I've already killed three people after barely two days of being in this world, but at least I made the choice this time, and my luck had nothing to do with it.'
They kept walking for over an hour, finally making it to a major intersection of roads, with wooden signboards pointing in all directions.
There was one pointing back to where he had come from—Grimhold Village.
"So that's the name, Grimhold," Jake said. He walked past the signboard and looked at the one that pointed forward. Written boldly on it was: The Town of Lumerg.
'I'm guessing that's the location I should be heading to.' He looked up ahead and began walking toward the town. After a while of being in this world, he was finally headed toward his first real settlement, because Grimhold didn't count.