"You insulted my lord, so I have to duel with you. Do you want to come one by one, or once together?"
The soldiers looked at each other. Anyway, if they so many people are going to fight against a person, it would hurt their dignity. One of them, that soldier who got his halberd broken by me, took over another soldier's halberd, then took a step forward. This man seems to be their leader. He looked at me standing on the stairs above, said:
"Hey, do you want to come down?"
"Why should I go down? Ah, are you begging me to fight with you?"
Thay guy grunted, and then suddenly stabbed with his halberd towards Sanson who hasn't drawn his sword. But Sanson has been monitoring his footsteps, so before he could move his arms, Sanson had already read his intentions. Sanson gently stepped back, and then kicked the ground with the same foot, then charged towards the soldier who lost his balance. Sanson sent a heavy punch. Bang!
"Ah!"
That guy was hit right in his face, he looks like that he is going to faint, and began to retreat. Sanson said:
"Did you really close your eyes? This guy's foundation is too bad."
Sanson then drew out his sword. That is the sword our thane spent almost all his money to purchase, in order to deal with Lycanthropes, it's coated with a layer of silver, so it's a very beautiful sword. The soldier also waved his halberd nervously, Sanson held his sword horizontally, and then parried the halberd. The halberd hit the sword, emitting scrubbing noise, and then bounced away. It takes time to lift the heavy Halberd again, Sanson took a step forward and gently stabbed. The soldier's hand immediately stopped moving. Sanson pointed his sword at the guy's throat. Simply, the duel ended.
"Ah, ah -"
That guy emerged bloodshot in his eyes, watching the sword pointing at his throat. Sanson shaked his sword around a few times and said:
"I will not kill you if you apologize. But if you want to die, you should know what to do."
"Damn you!"
Another soldier waved his halberd suddenly, and Sanson took a step back swiftly. Then, the soldier who lost raised his halberd again.
"You son of a bitch! Do you know who we are!"
All the rest of the soldiers swarmed over. I have never seen such despicable persons. I raised my bastard sword and the then jumped forward. Because I was standing on the stairs, so I can jump quite high. I pulled out my sword in the air, and then held the blade and scabbard with my hands.
"Ah ah!"
Using the power of jumping off, I destroyed two halberds with this strike. I cut one with my sword, and broke another one with the scabbard. Then, after I was standing on the ground again, I immediately performed 'Unaware Slash', because both of my hands are raised, so it's easy to follow the center force, I again destroyed two other halberds. Although they don't act like human, I wouldn't have a single thought of stabbing their bodies with my sword. This is not for these guys, but for myself. So I swing my scabbard.
"Uh ah!"
The soldier who got hit in the cheek by me, even had his teeth popped out, and he fell to the ground. I put my sword back into the scabbard, and then started waving. I hit two other soldier's arms, they are scared and retreated. I hit their arms like chopping with an ax, they should be very painful right? Are their arms broken? They should be able to live in this lesson in a month.
Sanson looked at me and seemed to understand my intention. Similarly, he withdrew his sword back into the scabbard, and then waved it. Before that, I hadn't felt that Sanson even tried, but once the sword was back into the scabbard, Sanson's moves became very cruel. Because there is no further consideration, he started hitting neck or chest or other important parts. So even it's a scabbard, among the soldiers who got hit, no one didn't faint after screaming. Sanson thinks those fallen soldiers are clumsy, so he kicks them away, or simply steps on them, and then continues to attack the others.
So the two of us are crazily beating them with our scabbards. After a while, on the road in front of the hostel, there is no healthy soldier left. The eight soldiers are all lying on the ground together and groaning.
I kicked the guy who tried to ambush Sanson and said:
"You bastard, I'm an ogre killer. How dare you!"
Come on, I've dueled with Ogre, Gargoyle and Gorgon, those monsters illusion, and even fought with real Orcs, Urcs and Trolls. Although my foundation is poor, in fact these soldiers are in similar level as me. But compared to them, I have those horrible experience. So probably because of those experiences, I am able to defeat them so easily. I aggressively scared them, Sanson stopped me.
"Stop, Huchi. If they are as capable as us, then it doesn't matter. But their foundation is really poor, I start to feel sorry doing this."
Cherine standing on the stairs is looking at us blankly. Soon Jusina called some servants to help the soldiers. But Jusina seems to don't know what to do, Sanson as well. Sanson frowned at the achievement me and hims have just done, he said:
"If we leave, it creates no problem to us. But Cherine and Jusina have to do business here, things must end satisfactorily. Let's move them to the lobby."
Jusina gratefully looked at Sanson. The following servants helped to move the soldiers into the hall.
Once we entered the hall, Sanson asked the guy who looks like the leader to sit down, together with Karl and Cherine at the same table, while the other soldiers are taken to other few tables, sat by me and Iruril. Jusina brought mugs of beer to us and the soldiers. She seems to want to treat this as a simple matter like a fight between energetic teenagers in a village, and now it should end with a smile. In fact, no one suffered from serious fatal injuries, so Jusina's action received very good results. What a calm girl, she can catch the essentials! Soldiers don't seem very happy, but they didn't refuse the beer.
Karl and Sanson are talking with the leader(his name seems to be Hanster?). Hanster although looks miserable, I can still feel his anger. Sanson also looks angry but is suppressing himself. Karl and Cherine are trying to coordinate between the two of them.
I took the beer mug and stand against the wall, monitoring the soldiers sitting there and drinking the beer. Iruril is standing beside me, against the same wall. The soldiers have been staring at me, whether they are enemies or not, I really don't want that kind of expressions while enjoying beer.
"As long as you keep your hands on the table, plus, do not stand up, I will not interfere you." The soldiers heard me and smiled a little. Some soldiers are touching their abdomen, some stroking their cheeks, and sipping beer.
One of them said to me:
"Hey, lad."
"Why, please call me Huchi."
"So your name is Huchi? What a funny name, I am called Kelly. Why do you have such a big strength? Also, you mentioned that you are an ogre killer? You mean you've killed an ogre?"
"I have fought against ogres, gargoyles , gorgons, hobgoblins, minotaurs, also nine Urcs at once, and trolls this morning. Trolls are the most annoying, they just keep regenerating. "
The soldiers are all surprised. Kelly said:
"Kid ....Are you bragging?"
"You should have seen the trolls we killed. The others are also true. Why would I lie to you?"
Kelly didn't reply. I stated a long list of monsters, looks like they haven't even seen them. I am surprised to say:
"Aren't you mercenaries? You got to be useful so that you were selected, right? Why are you so surprised?"
Kelly unhappily smiled, and then replied:
"Lad, if it's not redneck like you, no one dares to touch us. We have never thought that someone would really mess with us, so we just relaxed our guard."
"Really? Sanson and I had sufficiently warned you, and you were still relaxed?"
"...... Although I don't know whether you can keep this arrogant attitude, if our troops are all deployed, you'll be finished in a minute. So stay happy when you still can."
I am not very happy about those words. But this time Iruril spoke first.
"Then I would like to ask a question, why weren't you deployed when the trolls were breaking out?"
"We were sleeping! It's early in the morning!"
The soldier replied unhappily. But I am very angry. That was already long after dawn. I recalled our hometown guards, who wake up for training before the sun rises in order to protect us. I said:
"What? Don't you have sentry? And before we started stopping the trolls, they had already come out for a while. And then we fought for a long while. In such a long period, you should have had some men here! "
Kelly hesitated to answer:
"Where we live is far away from the market place."
Heard these words, Jusina laughed. The soldiers looked at Jusina ferociously, but Jusina came closer to me without looking at them and said to me.
"Silikan's mansion is just next to the market. Oh! It's so far away! About one minute away."
I'm really speechless. I finished my beer.
"Well, thank you, Miss Jusina, please give me one more."
Jusina smiled and picked up the mug. However, Iruril said:
"Please don't drink anymore. You have been drinking since you sat down, totally six pints."
I didn't have time to reply before Jusina's words, she said:
"Ah, he can drink whenever he wants to. That's none of your business right?"
Huh? Wow, really powerful businessman spirit. Do you want to make money so much?
"No, it does not matter, Jusina. I shouldn't drink anymore indeed. And well, do you have to be so blatant of your business mind?"
Jusina looked shocked and looked at me. Why are you so surprised? Then Jusina suddenly changed her face and shouted at me:
"You Retard! Do you think that I want money from you?"
Jusina ran away. I am tongue-tied. Huh? When your mind is exposed you should escape quietly, why the hell she shouted retarded at me so loud? Really sinister girl. The soldiers are tittering. What are you laughing at?
I leaned against the wall, and then pulled out my sword and checked the blade carefully. This sword has slayed trolls, crashing with halberds. After the few battles, I want to see if there are damaged areas. Fortunately, the blade is still intact. Ah, thinking carefully, this sword hadn't crashed with metal before. However, when the soldiers saw me looking at the sword, all of them became tensed. So I put my sword back into the scabbard. Kelly again said to me with an unhappy voice:
"You lad, you may be able to gloat around with your strange strength, but if you meet magic, can you still be so easy?"
"Do you know magic?"
"Ha! Mr Baron employed Aphnaidel the Archmage! Aphnaidel will be dealing with you people, and maybe he will suck your soul out before killing you. If we let Aphnaidel know what you've done on us, he will! "
"Ah, an Archmage...... Not a good news."
Really bothering. I think of Tyburn, he can make the trolls flying to heaven, summon Balrog to kill Taurens, and also make a lot of horrible monster illusions. But now this is not even an ordinary wizard, but an Archmage!
Sanson shouted to me:
"Oi, Huchi! Let's go."
"Where are we going?"
"We should go to visit the Baron. Talking to his men is not enough."
"Ah? We are walking into the enemy's camp?"
Sanson heard what I said, and immediately smiled.
"Come on man. Of course we have go to make this clear. We helped to handle the trolls, but he sent the soldiers to seek compensation, sure, we don't feel good. Although we won't ask for rewards, we should make our reasons clear, and we should send these soldiers back nicely, so that they won't say anything. "
"Wait a minute, wait a minute! I just heard that there is a wizard! No, a nArchmage!"
Sanson although looked lost, he turned calm shortly.
"So?"
He asked me, I have nothing to say.
"Then let's go. The Archmage is waiting for us!"
Cherine nervously held Sanson's shoulder, said.
"Are you really going there? Do you think if you go there, he would apologize and repent their faults? Don't you think you are silly doing that? Just leave this town. You don't have to do it for us... And the Archmage, Aphnaidel is a very cruel man. It's because of this Aphnaidel, the Baron gained such a power in this city."
"We certainly know it could be dangerous, but if we go with his soldiers, try to talk with him, he shouldn't be severe on us."
Cherine shook his head.
"Is it that simple?"
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