A Berserker Reborn

Guts felt his neck burn, the brand on it started pulsing like a heartbeat before blood started leaking out of the mark.

Guts wiped his finger on the brand before he saw the blood on his finger. Puck looked at Guts in concern as he saw the brand bleeding.

"What kind of brand is that?"

Puck asked with curiosity, but Guts ignored him. His face morphed into a solemn look; he was, in the end, no fighter. The bleeding mark only indicated one thing.

Demons are near him.

Puck and Guts started hearing the sound of horses on the outside, Puck flew up to the window, and his face contorted in sadness and pity as he saw the scene.

Buildings and the whole town were burning, with soldiers on horses crushing everyone in the town, children, women and all were killed and trampled on.

"This is horrible..."

Guts stood up with slightly shaking legs, and Puck looked at Guts in surprise since he felt fear coming off from him.

Guts picked his clothes up, and then he put his prosthetics back on along with his clothes.

He then placed the Dragon Slayer on his back, the weight considerable since it was taller than an average human, and it was more like a slab of thick iron.

"I have to get out of this town or I am as good as dead meat..."

The large man outside the cell watched Guts as he dressed, ignoring him since escape was impossible; he held the keys.

The fat man stood up in panic as he noticed the keys were gone, and he looked towards the cell in fear, Guts looked back at him, and he raised his shaking hand with the crossbow.

Gripping the side of the bow where a turn was, he turned the lever and the arrow cocked inside the bow shot out, straight into the eyes of the fat man, killing him.

"Urghh!"

Guts instantly bent over and threw up, but at the same time, he suddenly felt his body warm and heat up for 5 seconds, and then he felt a force get added to his own power.

"What?..."

Guts wiped his mouth after vomiting and stood straight, feeling a new force in his body. He sensed that his strength was greater than before, even if just slightly.

Guts clenched his hand to feel the newfound force, and his eyes opened as he instantly knew what just happened, he was a shut-in in his last life, and he knew everything about anime.

"I get a small amount of power from everything I kill?..."

Puck looked at the dazed Guts in concern, and he flew to his ear as he sat down on his shoulder.

"Guts, what are you going to do?"

Puck asked, and Guts came out of his daze at the question. What is he going to do?

He could run away from this town without fighting the apostle, but then it would not change anything.

He has the brand, so no matter what he does, he will always fight demons and monsters unless he goes to the witch to get her to remove the power of the mark.

But it takes time to get to the witch, not to mention it was an island rather than part of a continent.

"I will go and... Fight that apostle!"

"Apostle?"

Puck asked in confusion, not knowing what an apostle was. Guts smiled and walked toward the cell.

"Apostles are just basically stronger demons, don't worry about it"

Guts opened the cell, and in 2 minutes, he was outside of the cell. The scene outside was almost like hell, children, mothers and fathers laid out on the ground in pieces.

Horses trampled on them without mercy, and the guards following the apostle did not show any hesitation in what they were doing, Guts felt noscious as the smell of iron invaded his nose like a demon.

"He is there..."

Guts looked out of an alley at the apostle on the back of a horse, he knew he was not ready to fight him yet since he did not know how to fight, so he set his eyes on the humans.

"They are not good people, so I shouldn't care what happens to them..."

Guts whispered more to himself than anything, those guards just killed children, women and the elderly without a second of hesitation, they are not good people.

"Puck, stay above me in the air, you might get hurt if someone catches you"

Guts warned Puck with a worried voice, this little fairy was capable of healing him after all, and he was also a good friend, he wouldn't want anything to happen to the little guy.

"Don't worry Guts. If I am good at something. Then that's the skill of running away!"

Puck had a proud smile on his face as he began to fly in circles above Guts' head. Nodding, Guts stepped out of the alley.

Guts pointed his bow at a bunch of Guards riding the back of horses, and he started firing bows at them, his aim was all over the place, but the guards were also close, making them an easy target.

"Argh!"

The apostle stopped as he saw Guts come out of the alley, he had a huge smirk on his face as his eyes turned into slits, and his teeth were sharp, like a demon.

Guts felt 3 forces enter his body as he managed to kill 3 of the guards, although it was not barely enough as there were way more than a measly 3 of them.

Even in death, Guts harboured so much hatred that his face unconsciously morphed into a wide grin.

"Crush him!"

The horse riders shouted as they ran towards Guts with their weapons ready to kill him, Guts pulled the Dragon Slayer from his back, and he felt the weight in his hand.

It was heavy, but not as heavy as before in his hands, the power in his body increased by a small amount, but it made enough difference to make the huge sword lighter.

"ARGHHH!!"

Shouting in rage and fear, Guts ran at the first horse and he chopped the head of the horse, along with the soldier's body in half with a single swing of his large sword.

Blood splashed everywhere, and Guts felt a greater force enter his body, horses are much stronger than normal humans after all.

A single horse can pull 2.5 tons on average, even 10% of that is 250 pounds in weight.

Guts felt the power entering his body, and he smirked as he screamed, he spun around in place and sliced 2 more horses in half.

The soldiers fell down from the horseback, and Guts sliced them in half easily with a swing of his blade.

"So Strong!"

Puck looked at Guts in amazement as he saw how easily he wielded the huge sword, the apostle watching this was quite surprised, but he just continued smirking in disdain.

A mere human could never hope to defeat an apostle!

Guts sliced another horse and the soldier seated atop it, and he panted slightly before resting the Dragon Slayer on his shoulder, just then the apostle came closer to him on horseback.

"So you are the so-called Black Swordsman, you are stronger than I thought"

Guts looked at the man in disdain and fear, he killed many people right now, and the only thing holding him together was the hatred in the body he inhabited and the addicting sensation of getting stronger.

"But a mere human trying to defeat me? I laugh at the mere mention of that!"

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