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After a commotion and Karl's explanation, I finally realized that the taste was not poison but the original taste of that thing. Jusina's eyes became colder, and Sanson is laughing to a extent that he can't breathe. What a shame, shame! But why would people want to drink this thing?
Anyway, after the breakfast, we went outside. Sanson is going to buy a horse with Iruril. Karl and I are going to the market. But Iruril felt that we better go together. She also wants to buy something, so she suggested to come with us. I borrowed a wheelbarrow from Jusina, Jusina seems to think that I will break the wheelbarrow, took it out unwillingly.
"Going to the market?"
"Yup."
Jusina's face grew worse, she repressed her anger and said:
"Hum, how unfortunate that I'm going to market too? Follow me!"
"Oh, are you? Great! But are you going alone? This large hostel should need a lot of supply right?"
"Humph! Hick. You can simply make an order. Then they do the shipping."
"Oh? Really?"
Under the guidance of Jusina, we easily found the market. Jusina separated with us once we arrived.
We bought flour, dried meat, bacon, vegetables we can eat tonight, salt and some others. The price level here is really low. Those are cheap prices that can't be imagined in our village. Especially paper is incredibly cheap here. Karl dragged me to buy a lot of paper. Paper should be useful wherever! At least it can be used to record something. I also bought pen and ink. I put them into the barrow and asked happily:
"Why are things so cheap here?"
Karl replied with a smile.
"You should have said things are so expensive in our village. Because merchants don't often enter our village. But Renus City is close to the Hudyne river waterway, it's also a gateway of the Central Avenue, so goods are rich here. Hence of course, the price level will be very low."
"If we eliminated Amurtaat, our village would become a gateway of the Central Avenue too, then there would be much more goods in our villages, prices would become cheaper too, right?"
Karl just smiled quietly. Iruril then said:
"Huchi, the reason you want to eliminate Amurtaat is to get richer and happier? "
"The reason we want to eliminate it is not to be so pathetic."
Iruril seems not to understand what I meant. But I don't want to discuss Amurtaat during this pleasant shopping. How is my dad doing now? He might be locked up in a goblins cave, eating disgusting food. Damn it! While I am here happily shopping for cheap stuffs. Dad, how come your son is like this?
Just when I was thinking of that.
"Ughhhh!"
Screams! Are we in Fief Haltant? The atmosphere of the market suddenly changed. People are escaping crazily.
People are running around here and there. Sanson immediately found the source of the screams.
"There. What's going on?"
"Let's go and see."
Karl ran in front. We continued to hear more screams, and the sound of things falling apart. And the direction we are running to, there are a lot of people fleeing The faces of the people are eclipsed because they are terrified. What happened? Then we saw the things chasing after the people. Damn! I feel like I have experienced the same thing somewhere before.
Three trolls are running over.
"What? Trolls! Why would they appear in a city?"
Sanson hurriedly draw out his sword. People are running around in a panic, but I saw a burly man actually bumped down an old lady in front of him. That old lady fell to the ground and is unable to get up. She seems to have an ankle injury. She is trying her best to stand up, nonetheless she can't because of fear and pain.
"Did you see that happen?"
No, how could that be! In our village, burly guys will come forward to help even if they'll die. In fact, not long ago I experienced the same thing in our village. My body is faster than the my thought.
I stood in front of that guy. He wanted to push me away rudely, but I clutched him and said:
"Hey! Help that old lady!"
"Kid, are you nuts? Are you her grandson?"
"No, I am not her grandson, but you can not do that!"
The man didn't answer and is trying to punch me. This asshole! I grabbed the man's wrist. The man's arm suddenly got blocked, he now looks like his shoulder is falling down. He fell to his knees after screaming stridently.
Although I wanted to punish that man properly, but more urgently I need to punish the trolls. I threw the man away, and then ran to the old lady.
"He - Help!"
That old lady crying for help with tears. The trolls are ferociously running over. I found the troll holding a stone axe making a strike, I grabbed the old lady's feet before her head gets chopped in half, pulled her away. I managed to save the old lady and put her behind me.
"Can you run by yourself?"
That old lady struggled to run. Then I pulled out my bastard sword and blocked the middle of the road. Well, bring it on! Men of Haltant do this! How much time can my life buy? Oh! Who can I tell my last words to now?
"Hey, you monsters, how long you think you need to take to kill me?"
Becuase I have OPG, so I dare to be so fearless. Meanwhile, the old lady has already long gone away.
Fortunately, I still have my reinforcements. Another man of Haltant came and stood by me. Sanson did not say anything, he pulled out his sword and brandished it. The arm of the troll holding a stone ax immediately got stabbed, a wound which bone can be seen is made. Sanson shouted with a low voice:
"I only got one life! So it's very precious! It's unique!"
Good, well done! Nice stab.
"Ah, ha, my unique move 'Unaware Slash'!"
My best and only trick! The troll is subconsciously swinging its stone axes, it got blocked by my first strike, and I chopped its arm off with the second strike.
"Pop!"
That monster hurriedly backed off. But in addition to the one Sanson is dealing with, there is another one trying to attack me from the side. Suddenly a dazzling light flashed in the middle of us.
She's Iruril. Iruril is performing a very rare swordsmanship with her left hand dagger. She's like peeling an apple, raised the dagger and aimed at the troll's arm, effortlessly cut down its arm muscles like dried meat, . How calm do you have to be to perform this move?
"Gahhhh ahhhh!"
That troll staggered backwards. Its wound is regenerating fast. Damn, after all, it's a troll. I have to pass this monster to Iruril, then focus on the one without arm in front of me. That troll's arm hasn't been respawned, but another arm without the stone axe is punching towards me.
"Wow!"
My belly got punched hard. My body is flying backwards. The reason I didn't die is only because of OPG's blessing. Thank you, Tyburn. I almost fainted, but that would then make me die. I stood up after tumbling.
I noticed someone were looking at me. I shouted at them:
"Please help!"
However, when they heard my voice, they were like hearing some kind of signal, wildly turned and ran away, some entered into the next building, and even shut the door. This is really ridiculous! The noise of banging door came one after another.
"Nedval! "
Hearing the voice of Karl, I finally got my mind back. That troll is now charging towards me. It has somehow regenerated its arm, looks like it's going to give me a hug.
"Go to hell!"
I hold the sword body with one hand, clutch the hilt with another hand, then rolled forward. The troll missed its punch, and I got to the trolls' feet. Then I didn't even get a chance to get up, didn't look behind, I waved my arm. I don't know what I just hit.
"Gahhhh!"
Seems like I chopped that guy's inner thigh. I rolled forward, then again stood up. The troll struggled to turn around, we are now face-to-face. I can't give it the opportunity to regenerate!
"Unaware Slash - Sideways!"
I am spinning my bastard sword horizontally, and spinning my body. But this time I knelt down after I finished a lap. The second slash I chopped very low to tilt my waist backward, this time I hit the troll's feet. Don't you run fast! I immediately straighten my knees and waist and spin again. I can feel that my ankles are broken, but I still managed to jump forward, successfully made my third strike.
The troll's head flew away. Then I directly bumped into the troll's body with no head on it. The troll finally fell down, its blood sprayed into my mouth. Wow! Damn. And I don't know the condition my ankles. I held the pain of my ankles, stamped on the troll's corpse. I then looked at the situation around.
Sanson is dueling with one troll, he made thousands of wounds on its body with his ogre-like strength. If it is a human, one of those wounds could be fatal. But the troll is stilling swinging its stone ax to force Sanson to step backward, in order to allow itself to regenerate its body. On the other end, Iruril is dodging around easily, moving between the back and side of the troll, but definitely not battling with it face-to-face. Whenever the troll tried to attack sideways, Iruril would cut its arm with her dagger, or stab it exposed waist or back with her estoc. But for trolls, wounds can be regenerated even they were made by Sanson's long sword, not to mention those by estoc. Those are just tiny wounds. Who should I help first?
I was thinking and stood up unconsciously. I feel serious pain on my ankles, almost felt to the ground.
"Hmm...."
Karl thought we were coming to the market for shopping, so he doesn't have his longbow, he hurriedly came to hold me. I grabbed Karl's shoulder, looked around angrily. Such a big city, with majestic buildings and wide roads that our village wouldn't ever have, why I can't even find one person? I really don't see anyone.
However, when I looked upward, I found on the second floor and the third floor there are people watching. Looking closely, every windows there are people looking at us.
Disgusting.
"Uh ahhhhhhh!"
I waved my sword, jumped a step forward. There's a troll with its back in front of me, it is chasing after Iruril. I lifted my foot, then jumped up with another foot without any hesitation. I turned the blade downward, stabbed the bastard sword into the troll's back.
"Galalalallaa!"
"Ahhhhh!"
I used all my strength to pull the sword down, I feel like something keep hitting my sword, and then suddenly, the feeling on my hands was gone, the sword is now outside the troll's body. The sword actually went through the troll's waist. It immediately fell forward. I stood on the troll's back, began to stab on it.
"Uh ah! Uh ah! Uh ahhhhhhhhhh!"
I don't know how many strikes I did. The back and neck of the troll have completely turned into minced meat, its blood is all sprayed on my body. Finally, I grabbed the head of the trolls. Because there is no hair, my fingers penetrated into the capsule. Because it's waist was completely destroyed by me, I pulled up only its upper body, and then cut its neck with my bastard sword . I then threw it to the side.
Iruril wasn't looking at me, she is still calm. She has begun to help Sanson. Iruril from behind barbed the troll's knee from behind, forcing the troll to knee down. Sanson then split troll's head into two halves. Bone and blood are all around. But Sanson and Iruril still have their bodies clean, I am the only one who is completely covered with blood, there is even flesh on my face and hands. I am still sitting on that troll.
Sanson approached and held out his hand. I grabbed his hand and stood up. My foot is still hurt and I almost fell, but Sanson held me.
"Feet injured?"
"Sprained. It doesn't matter."
"Luckily, we don't have any serious injuries."
"But aren't there any guards in this damn city?"
"Maybe it takes a while for them to mobilize."
I blankly looked around. The windows of surrounding buildings started opening. Then people started coming out. Now you come out! Ha! Are you going to help now? Those people are frowning and trying to block the blood with their feet to prevent it from flowing to their doors, they are even wiping those blood and flesh off the walls and doors angrily. I looked at the scene.
"Sanson, let's get back. Hurry."
"Hurry?"
"If we stay here any longer, I may kill some persons."
Sanson nodded silently. I began to walk forward under the arm of Sanson. Karl pushed the cart over. And Iruril came over, started to wipe the blood off my face with her handkerchief
"It doesn't matter, Iruril. It's not easy to clean anyway."
"You can walk only when your eyes can see, isn't it? Okay... Now your face look better."
"Thank you. I'll definitely buy you a new handkerchief."
Iruril didn't answer, just smiled. The road to the hostel is really damn long. When I think of walking there with this foot, my eyes goes yellow. Legs injury is not a trivial thing. Only one injured leg makes it so troublesome and inconvenient, not to mention Tyburn who is blind, he must be more frustrated. Tyburn! If you were here, you must be able to cleanly and simply get rid of those trolls. And we wouldn't have to see such a disgusting scene.
"Mr Nedval?"
Who is that? Who is calling me so brusquely? I parted away the bloody hair attached to my face, in order to find out who is in front.
"Oh, the Mighty Noble Lady!"
Jusina in a corner of the market is looking at me with a frightened face. I don't care what she wanted to say and said.
"I won't dirty the hostel with this blood. If that happens, I will be clean that up by myself."
"Ah, no, Huchi, ah.... I understand. "
I don't understand what she is talking about. Jusina swiftly ran away. Hmmf! She looks that she doesn't want to get stained by the blood so she ran back to the hostel. I looked back a bit and saw my footprints on the road. Bright red footprints. Footprints linked up. With such obvious red footprints, even not well-trained soldiers can easily track me down!
My footprints, really? That's my footprint.
So dizzy.
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