Grand Adventures of the Witch King

The Trial 1

"Nope."

It was like there was power in the word as well as the voice itself. For it had stunned both the crowd and the elders including the chief who all stared at the owner of the voice with wide eyes frozen expressions, but this was soon broken when the voice spoke once again.

"I don't know what you are talking about chief, all I do is hunt and train. I live my life in peace, nor do I quarrel or fight with anyone, with my level of skill and abilities I don’t even have to steal.” He said as he spread his arms wide, making some of the people behind him murmur and nod in confirmation as they knew about this. 

His light blue eyes pierced directly into the chief’s forest green ones as he continued, “So tell me, what is it that I am being accused of that I don’t know about?”

His tone dry, for this was bloody nonsense! He knew he did nothing to harm them or break their stupid traditions,  he had not even touched anyone’s daughter, especially the ones that looked at him like female beasts in heat and wanted to have him lay them like one.

However, deep within his heart, a hint of fear about the secrets that he had been so careful of hiding over the years surfaced for a moment, but he crushed it for such secretes were not enough to warrant this trial.

The crowd was also confused as to what was happening, so they looked towards their chief so he might bring light to this matter. For they had been quickly summoned here while minding their business and told that there was a trial being held for Ullo, as for what he was being accused off?

They didn’t know either, everything just happened so fast!

Just as the chief was about to open his mouth and speak another deep yet somewhat immature voice cut in.

"Lies! We clearly saw him perform evil magic on himself this afternoon. Those blood spots and that patch on his leg are from a grievous injury that could cripple a warrior-level man, yet look at him!” The voice said, making the crowd gaze at Ullo’s leg and notice the patch on his pants that had a few blood stains but nothing more, they ignored it before as he was out hunting and pants get torn at such excursions.

Yet, hearing from the voice, they took a closer look and saw the now dried blood, perhaps it might be true on what it the voice said, they all doubtfully wondered.

“See? There is no scar! Even our best healers leave a scar, what's more, is that when he was casting his evil spells there were demonic voices and faces coming out of him. The others can clearly vouch for this, Assini was with us too if you don't believe me ask her. Ullo has clearly been possessed by a Buburu!" The voice shouted indignantly, it came from the side of the platform. One could easily pick up the hate, poison, and anger in it, not to mention a hint of gloating as well.

Ullo has the urge to sigh when he first heard the voice, as he took a sideways glance in its direction, but his pupils contracted slightly at what was said, but quickly regained their former look of indifference without being seen by anyone.

 Looking at the owner whom he recognized, Ullo could basically feel the killing intent as well as the deep-seated hatred directed at him, and this time it was not even hidden like usual.

It was from a young man that went by the name of Yuje, he was the same age as Ullo, about 16 years old and like Ullo he too had tan skin but stood a good 6'3'', had black short hair and amber-like eyes that venomously stared at him with muscles like that of a powerful young beast for he was the youngest son of the chief so he had that excellent body of a warrior. 

But unlike his father who was a fair and honorable warrior, he had the black heart of his mother, a woman who was known for her deviousness and wickedness that there were rumors spread about her. From these rumors, there were some such as the fact that it was said that she killed her older twin sister on her wedding day and took her place after that just so she can become the chief’s 1st wife and have the power that comes with it.

She had three children with the chief and Yuje was her last born as well as the chief's current last born, for a very virile man like chief it was certain that there would be more on the way, even if he currently had 10 from his 4 wives. 

However, among all the children of the chief, he was the one with the best talent, even said to have the potential to surpass his father who was said to be the strongest in three generations. Yuje was much stronger than his peers since young and could perform incredible feats that many his age could not do, making him very arrogant and prideful since young as he had everything and anything he could ever want.

That was until Ullo showed him that there is always someone better one day. It happened 5 years ago when Yuje and his little lackeys were on their daily routine of mischief, they always believed they could steamroll over any kid, and Ullo who was always isolated seemed like a perfect target that day for some reason, even though they had been warned to never bother him by both the elders and his own father. 

He later learned his lesson the hard and painful way why it was so, for it was a very devastating day for both him and his lackeys as well as his pride, resulting in the current hateful resentment towards Ullo.

Everyone looked at Yuje with various looks of doubt, for they knew his character and so turned towards the female he was pointing at that he called Assini who stood gracefully next to him. 

She was known as the most beautiful girl in the entire village, with long black hair that was done into a single thick braid that reached and landed on her big bubbly butt and decorated with flowers and beads, a full figure that was both cute and seductive with an adorable doll-like face and large hazel brown eyes with a fair complexion, yet a large bust and wide child bearing hips and thick thighs that couldn’t be hidden beneath her light green dress, many of the married men couldn’t keep themselves from gulping at this girl that would soon be called a woman in a few months even with their wives beside them, but they held great respect for her teacher and her to so they did their best to not seem so obvious, even if they failed badly.

For she like Yuje was very talented but her specialty was in magic and it was known that she would soon be the next shaman of the village and a great one too, thus the villages had great respect for her due to the shaman.

She was kind as well as extremely hardworking which made people in the village find her more trustworthy than Yuje that and they also believed the two would make a great couple, or as Yuje promoted shamelessly that she was his though no one said otherwise.

Facing the entire village that was looking at her, she turned her gaze at the young man on the stage with conflicted thoughts in her heart. She like many of the girls in this village had a major crush on him, he was different from the other young men in their home, not to mention that he would go out all alone in that forest and return with a kill each time while the others had to group together and even return empty-handed on occasions. 

But seeing the indifferent look in his eyes, she clenched her teeth slightly at this attitude as a myriad of thoughts ran through her head and made a decision, turning her head towards the chief and the elders, she nodded and answered in a soft but clear voice.

"Yes, we saw Ullo performing a strange type of magic that I have never seen before as well as asked the shaman if she had as well, but she too has never seen or heard anything like that before. There were indeed black things that came out from him but one can say that it was poison being extracted but there has never been a poison extraction method like that either, these words are also from the shaman." She answered truthfully as she looked down once more, it was indeed mysterious and bizarre, but Ullo had always been mysterious to them all that is what added to his charm.

Though she didn’t say anything on the possibility of Ullo being possessed, that was enough for the people there to conclude on their own. 

"What?!"

"Oh, my ancestors! Is that true!?"

"I can't believe it, to think Ullo has been possessed by those creatures!"

"I always knew there was a problem with that boy!"

"It explains his looks too!"

Hearing her confirmation and concluding on their own, the villagers were scared, for the creature they were talking about was so frightening as well as mystical that they couldn’t help it.

Fear is a dangerous thing and once it spreads there barely is anything that could make people have rational thoughts during such moments.

Ullo at this moment he realized what was actually happening and he silently berated himself in his heart while his expression remained unchanged. 

Today like some of the days, he went out hunting, he went deep into the forest towards his old hunting grounds and managed to get himself his current game, but on his way back he took a slightly different route than normal only to get ambushed by a wild poisonous plant. 

This plant was tricky that even he as an experienced hunter couldn’t uncover it that easy as it would look like the surrounding vegetation. But once it attacked it would reveal itself. It attacked his leg swiftly out of the blue, of course, he responded just as quickly and killed it, but its poison was in his system and was known that a single sting from it could kill a warrior-level man in under 5 minutes.

Risking possible death in exchange for the safety against even more danger, he dragged himself quickly towards the territory range of the village and began cast two special abilities from his secret technique to remove the poison as well as heal him. And they were so great and powerful that they left nothing behind, yet they were so costly that they left him very exhausted.

That's why he to get closer to their territory as there would be almost no chance he would be attacked by beasts or plants while he rested, and his vigilance was lower as he had to focus on his treatment. 

But who knew that it was all witnessed by this fellow and his crew. Ullo was certain that had it had been Assini alone she would have kept his secret and come to him to find out on her own what he did. But now it was Yuje who burned with jealousy and anger was blinded by it and now accused him of being possessed by a Buburu.

‘This is not good.’ He concluded at this mess as he looked at the amber-eyed young man who gave him a sinister smirk while the crowd went wild, making Ullo get a bad premonition. 

‘This is absolutely not good.’