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
Returning to Phize and Hazel's conversation, she decided what to tell him."It's a secret.""Aw, but why?" Phize asked her."Reasons."Sip."You really love that coffee, don't you?""Of course, I've never tasted anything quite like it.""Ah, just how many minutes went by?""I'm not sure, I don't think we took too long though.""Wanna go exploring more?""Hm. It's a bit early but let's go back. I kinda wanna explore the rest of this city with my party members.""That's odd, I thought you didn't like either of them?" he asked."That was before, yet, not too long ago, I felt like this party could actually be fixed so that it can feel like... an actual party. In order to do that, I want to put my trust in them, so that they put their trust in me.""I don't mind, since I refrain from chatting with them. Let's go."They got up from their seats. Hazel sipped the final contents of her beverage and threw it into the trash bin nearby. She followed him.......They went to the Adventurers' Gui
The group walked out into the distance, getting farther and farther from the city. Then from their line of sight, slimes appeared, hopping from here and there, the majority of the seemingly innocent monsters were colored sky blue, others were green, and a few were yellow."Following the primary colors, I see..." Phize thought."Are those... slimes?" Hazel asked."They look weak... LET'S KILL THEM!" Trif barked.Phize replied, "Bloodthirsty as ever," he turned to Lili, "What do you say Lili?"He was astonished, "Eh?"Her tail was wagging and she stared at the hopping slimes, in admiration, that is.He asked again, "Lili?"She snapped back to her senses, "OH!"She excused herself to cover up her display of affection for said monster, "What? I-I'm not thinking of keeping those slimes. T-Those are monsters.""Oh yeah? Your tail says otherwise.""M-MY TAIL?!"She became self-conscious of her wagging tail and she tried to stop it. She noticed that all of her party members were now staring a