The Loyal Spartan
He fell with a roar of pain and surprise, and I was on him in an instant, my sword a quick, merciful thrust to the heart.
I stood over his body, my chest heaving, my lungs burning, my body a symphony of aches and pains. I had killed four of them, wounded two more, but there were still more, a dozen or more, closing in from all sides. I was a one-armed man in his sixties, fighting for his life against a small army. And I was just getting started.
The press of bodies was relentless. I parried a vicious chop from a House Ares warrior, the impact shuddering up my arm, and drove my boot into his stomach, sending him staggering back.
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