Many hours passed by and Phize's party finally reached the village. It was afternoon. Phize and his party were happily strolling along.Phize spoke, "Ah~ We finally arriv-"Trif rapidly stopped Phize from talking with his hand.Phize shoved his hand away.He complained, "WHAT ARE YOU DOI-"Trif interrupted him, "Shh. I hear something.""What?""Look closely," he said as he pointed in front of him.They all examined the village from up afar.Lili whispered, "Someone raided the village.""What do we do?" Hazel asked."What else do we have to do? We kill them," Trif declared."K-Kill them?! Can't we just tie them up?" Phize asked.He replied, "That depends on the situation. I don't mind if my hands are covered in blood. But you people can do whatever you want and go the safe route, but if the situation is dire, then you know what to do."He ran to the village.He yelled, "HEY!"Tara and her men stared at him charging at them."Who is that?" she asked her men."Looks like a child," the fi
Tara stared at Phize.She thought, "I don't exactly know what happened but 2 of them against a child is surely an advantage on our side, what were they thinking?"She peered at her lone subordinate ready to take Phize on. She approached him and stopped him from rushing mindlessly."Stop, I'll take him on with you, Thash," she told him."Thanks, leader."Phize thought to himself, "Hm, so these two are my opponents? Great. This'll be a perfect chance to practice my skills on."She darted to him and went for a pierce.Phize blocked this attack with the shield from his left hand.Thash went to his left and went for a pierce to his head.Phize ducked and retreated."I guess, I should try not to underestimate them," he perceived.......On the other hand, on Trif's battlefield, the two men he threw stood up in a hurry and rose their swords."Ragel, I need you to cooperate with me," the first man said to the other."Pio, I got you," the other answered.Trif grunted, "Ah, what a pain. It's
Ragel rose from the ground, his face was beaten up, his forehead was bleeding, and some of his teeth were broken.Pio was on the ground unconscious.Ragel dropped his sword."I won't stand up for this. If you'll fight me without a sword, then so would I," he proclaimed."Such poor choice of words," Trif stated.He bolted to Ragel. He released his fist, but Ragel blocked it with his elbows."ACK!!!"Ragel felt intense pain in his elbows. He continued punching him. Ragel was stuck in a defensive position and blocked all of them with his elbows.Crack.His ulna had been fractured.His defense fell apart, dropping both of his arms.Right when Trif was about to give another blow to the head, Ragel glanced beyond him, then his feet were stuck to the ground."What?""Shadow Bind," Pio chanted.A dark shadow came from Pio and it reached up until Trif.He struggled to break free from the spell.Pio nodded to Ragel, and so he grabbed his sword with his left arm.He slowly took hold of the sword
Back to Hazel's fight, Bolt was covered with rock, so she only needed to concentrate on Flitz, supposedly lying on the ground.She ran to him.She passed through the sector of rock, where Bolt was trapped.She was getting closer to Bolt and prepared her sword.However, when she was running to him, she felt vibrations coming from the sector of rock Bolt was encased."Where is that coming from?" she wondered.She turned around to see what was going on."There?" she pondered.The vibrations steadily grew by the second.She had her defense up and lifted her shield.Moments later, the rock started to crack, and there was Bolt, he went as fast as lightning, piercing the shield through which unfortunately for Hazel, happened to slice through her arm as well."ACK!"She got pushed with such intense force, that she had to use her feet to counter it. She ended up getting pushed around 5 meters from where she stood.Then from behind, she was stabbed in the right.She was bleeding and she dropped
Phize tied them up with some rope."That should do it. I bet the others are done too, I should go to them."He wasn't far off from the village, so it didn't take long to get back.He saw Trif waiting for him by the well."Took you long enough," Trif said."You're done too."He glanced to the left and then to the right."Where are the others?" he asked Trif."Beats me," Trif replied."How about the people of the village?""They're just inside there," he said as he pointed to the house on his right.""Well, why don't you untie them? I'll go find the other two."He grunted, "Fine."He went inside the house."Maybe I'll go find Lili first, she was nearer to me, if I recall, she's just over to the northeast," Phize said.He went to the northeast and walked for some time. After traveling a certain amount of meters, he saw Lili's stabbed body, she was losing a lot of blood. He rushed to her aid."LILI, WHAT HAPPENED HE-"He saw the tremendous amounts of blood, he saw the corpse of her oppone
Phize rose from a bed.He yawned as he was still half-asleep.He was in a small house and beside him, he saw Trif."GYAH!"He fell off the bed from shock and then he stood up and saw him sound asleep."Oh, it's just him."He explored the house."Where are we? What happened?" he wondered.......He remembered, "Ah right, we ate too much and fell asleep."He peered at Trif."This is the first time I've woken up before Trif," he figured.He smirked."Is this a chance to take revenge? He'd never even know that it was me. I definitely should," he schemed.He thought deeply, "But what spell should I use? Hold up, I have the perfect spell."He smiled maliciously."I'll use Hasha's spell."He chanted, "Illusion Point."His hand glowed blue."I'll draw a mustache on his face. This'll destroy this man's honor. I'm so evil, it makes me excited."He went to Trif, but just as he was about to draw on his face, Trif grabbed his arm and woke up.Trif asked, "What are you trying to do?""Uh, nothing
We prepared our stuff, got our reward, and prepared for departure.They were outside and the people of the village were saying their farewells."See you, young adventurers!" the village head said to them.Phize, Hazel, and Lili waved back at them.Trif just took the lead and left.They followed after him."Yeah, I'm not going to miss that village not one bit. I do appreciate their hospitality, though," Phize thought."Trif, maybe let me pick the place we're going to first," Hazel proposed.He grunted, "Tch.""Before we try to find an official village or city to stay in, we're buying the stuff we saw back at Yato.""We're going back to Yato?" Lili asked.She replied, "Yes! We'll also go back to Macol, since they have Brewing Stations, where we can get products like mana potions or even healing potions. Then from there on, we head to wherever we want."She folded the map and put it in her pocket.Hazel continued, "LET'S GO! NO HOLDING BACK! WE HAVE THE RICH LIFE NOW!"They took another
"Hiometry? Let me see. Hm, I think you make a good point. It's the capital of the continent, so it's bound to have an Adventurers' Guild as well as the shops we need to buy our stuff. What do you all say?" Hazel asked."I think it's a good place to go to," Phize answered.She asked, "Trif? Your thoughts?""I don't care, as long as we can raise our rank.""Alright! To Hiometry we go!""Why don't we take a carriage this time?" Lili proposed."Yeah, I'm tired of walking," Hazel proclaimed.They walked around Macol and saw a carriage passing by, it was painted white, and the 2 horses pulling it were bay horses.Hazel rose her hand and the coachman stopped by for them.He asked, "Destination?""Hiometry, please.""I see, will all four of you be riding?""Yes.""2000 Fers.""Yikes, that's costly," she exclaimed."We'll be traversing two large cities before we even get to the place, hence, the price.""I guess, all the cities we've traveled to, we're pretty small in comparison to the ones we