Chapter 75. The Battlefield

Nathan’s POV

I didn’t know where I was. I had no idea what had happened or even how much time had passed. All I knew was pain.

My head felt heavy, impossibly so, like it weighed more than I could carry.

My body… I couldn’t feel it. It was as if I were suspended in a void, caught between consciousness and something I couldn’t explain.

The last clear moment I remembered was standing on the front line, at full speed and confidence.

We were ready—or at least, we thought we were.

But everything happened so fast. No warnings. No signals. One minute, we were prepared for the enemy, waiting for them to strike so we could respond.

The next, chaos.

Unlike the battles we’d fought before, this time we had no weapons. None. It was a fact I had tried to push aside, because I believed we could win without any weapons.

But now… now it was almost like the enemies knew that we didn’t come prepared and we had no weapons.

The way they j