The Sage of Einar

Chapter 419: The macabre consequences

After a few hours and after releasing 250 liters of chlorine gas in the city and the castle, Einar ordered a group of soldiers with gas masks with activated carbon filter to advance towards the walls to enter the city.

Snipers who had seen the yellow haze and chaos in the city for hours pointed their rifles at the walls so they could kill anyone who tried to do something against the soldiers.

When the soldiers were at the wooden door, they watched as Ansgar walked towards it and placed in front of it four sticks of dynamite which he glued using pine resin.

After that, he used some matches and lit the large fuse they had. With a wave of his hand, everyone moved away at a distance of about 100 meters and waited for the dynamite wick to explode the explosives.

At that moment, a loud noise could be heard, so the wooden door was destroyed as well as part of the wall, leaving a huge hole that raised an overwhelming amount of dust.

While they waited for the dust to settle, they could see people coming out from the gap in the wall, who were walking slowly, all the soldiers prepared to attack.

But when people left that place they did it like a kind of zombies, which only made some strange noises with their mouths because they seemed unable to speak, not only that.

Their bodies were full of burns and sores that made them look like dead. They all had blood in their eye sockets because they were blind. They were trying to call for help.

But it was completely useless as their throats were completely torn, so they could only create small noises. Asgard who was looking at people simply felt fear.

Not only did he have that feeling because all the soldiers of the Nordic army felt the same, because although many had seen atrocities it was the first time for them that they could see a scene as grotesque as that.

Einar, who was looking at everything through his spyglass, had a feeling of guilt that made him feel uncomfortable, so he gave the order that the sniper’s open fire on those people to end their pain.

Well, there was no way to save their lives, so the best thing they could do was end their suffering.

At that time, the snipers who were afraid used their Nordic carbines to shoot the survivors.

The noise of the bullets began to be heard and the survivors simply fell to the ground as they were released from their pain.

Ansgar gulped and also ordered his soldiers with repeating crossbows to end the suffering of those people.

After a few minutes, there was no one alive and only corpses remained on the ground, which were scattered in that place.

All the soldiers simply waited a few minutes, and the dust dissipated so that the cruel reality was exposed. In front of where the door was there were thousands of corpses.

Some buildings were still burning, but there was no trace of any survivors. Before Ansgar ordered to advance, Einar joined the group of soldiers who would enter the city because he wanted to see the state of the city first hand.

“Move on ….”

After those words, everyone advanced while they saw the corpses on the ground. Einar, who believed he had seen atrocities and extreme situations when he was a soldier, had to clench his revolver.

For what was in front of him was not a massacre, it was a genuine act against humanity. For a moment he wondered if it was worth turning into the same demon just to avenge Kassia.

However, remembering the time with her and what she meant to him, he could only swallow the guilt and promise himself that he would only use chlorine gas against enemy soldiers and, under no circumstances would he use it against cities or castles.

Because if he continued in that way, he would lose his humanity and he could not look his family in the eye when he knew that he had been the cause of massacres of innocents, because it was not the same to attack a soldier than entire families who only wanted to survive.

As he advanced, he could see the corpses of women holding children only months old or even entire families who had died huddled together. The soldiers who were advancing also looked at the same thing.

It is just that they, having lived in a time full of war, did not have the same empathy as a man with a 21st century mentality, but even with that they were afraid because they knew that in their hands was a weapon that did not belong to mortals.

Einar advanced among the corpses until a hand held his boot. With some fear, he lowered his head and looked at a woman who was holding the corpse of a baby.

The woman then wanted to give Einar the corpse of her son, in a desperate attempt to save him.

Einar looked at the woman and for the first time realized that his actions had consequences, so he took a deep breath and pointed his revolver at the woman.

“Sorry.”

Squeezing the trigger ended the woman’s suffering. At that moment the woman’s hand continued to hold Einar’s boot, so he crouched down and using his hand released his boot, but not before looking at the woman’s face more watch out.

It was at that moment that he could not contain his tears because he realized that the woman had the face of his beloved wife, Margaret.

With some fear he raised his head and looked at the faces of the dead, which would be etched in his mind, with his hand he took off the gas mask and looked at the sky where he could hear the noise of thunder before a cold rain fell over the city.

When the water wet his face, he closed his eyes and lowered his head again to realize that the woman had a different face. At that moment, he realized that what he had seen was nothing more than an illusion created by his feeling of guilt.

Turning his head, he made a sign to Ansgar. When he approached, he looked at him seriously. “I want all the corpses to be buried with Christian customs. You can order the army to enter this place to finish quickly.

When they finish, I want them to burn down the city and send a messenger to my father-in-law Vilhelm, so that in this place a memorial is made to the victims who died in this attack, it must be a reminder that sometimes men are also wrong.

I will be sitting on that stone, so I don’t want anyone to bother me.”