"I should have known the demon would try something," said Cedric as he tightened his grip on his sword.However, he didn't dare draw it as he didn't want to risk the demon acting on its threat. All he could do was watch as the demon held Grace in a chokehold with its filthy hand pointed at her head. Its nails scraped dangerously close to her eyes, threatening to pluck out her eyes for any wrong moves. Everyone else was doing the same as they observed the situation."What do you think you're doing?" demanded Luke.The demon countered with its own question. "Do you really think I'll let myself be killed without a fight? There's no way I'll let myself be killed by a bunch of humans.""Let her go!" demanded Theodore."You must be deaf. I just said that I'm not going to let myself be killed. Do you really think I would let go of my hostage?" the demon said as she slowly backed away out of the tent.Luke glanced away from the demon to study Jon and Rose. Their faces were blank, making it di
"See, it's your fault that the troll found us. If you had kept a better eye on your prisoner, this wouldn't be happening," Rose said as she pointed at Luke.Bobby got in between them as he said, "Hey. Knock it off. We should be focusing on the demon and not each other."Rose scowled, but she retracted her finger. While Luke had a serious expression on his face, he was actually smug on the inside. Things were going exactly as planned. None of them had caught on that all of this was a plan to smuggle the demon out alive. It had been easy to act angry about what happened because he didn't like how the demon treated Grace so roughly.Obviously, he wouldn't have involved Grace unless she agreed to it, and he was certain she would be fine. If he had thought for even a second that she might be seriously hurt, she wouldn't have even known about his plan. However, for this plan, it was inevitable that Grace would get hurt. The demon couldn't treat her nicely, or else people would suspect somet
This seemed to have set off Theodore, who said, "Says the one who had been fine with shooting her out of the sky just to catch one measly demon."The two of them glared at each other before Chris interfered, saying, "This is so not the time for this. We have a literal troll coming our way, and the two of you want to fight.""He's got a point," Rose said. "We can argue about whose fault it is after we deal with the troll.""How are we supposed to deal with a troll?" someone asked. "Last time, it wiped out three parties.""It's impossible," another said.Those words caused everyone else to cower at the thought of dealing with the troll. A lot of people had died fighting the last troll, so it was natural for people to feel discouraged. The thought of fighting the troll seemed impossible. This would make it difficult to get everyone to work together to fight when many were probably thinking about running away."Calm down, everyone. We need to work together if we are going to take the trol
Luke, Cedric, and Theodore rushed down the path as they called out for Grace. None of them were worried about the troll hearing them. Given its low intelligence, it would at most think they were noisy bugs and ignore them. Even if it did decide to pay attention to them, it would lose interest in them as long as things went as planned back at the camp."There," said Luke, as the other two also saw Grace on the ground hovering over the demon's body.Theodore rushed past everyone else to grab Grace by the collar and pull her away from the demon as he demanded, "You idiot, what are you doing?""Wait," Grace said, but he wasn't listening to her.He was looking at the demon, ready to attack it, when he saw the demon's condition. The other two soon caught up and also froze at the sight. Limbs were bent at awkward angles, and blank eyes stared up at nothing. It was very clear to them that the demon was dead. While Luke was grimacing on the outside, on the inside he was impressed with how real
"Our attack just now wasn't enough to knock the troll off its feet. How about we focus on one foot first?" Luke suggested.Cedric nodded his head. "If we work together, we should be able to force the troll to its knees."With that settled, they both charged at the troll's left foot. They slashed at the previous cut, making it deeper. The troll roared in pain as blood poured out of its foot. It looked down and swatted at them again. The duo dodged its hands as the troll became distracted by the arrows again. Once the troll looked away, they launched another attack and nearly cut its foot off.This time the troll fell onto one knee as it clutched its left foot. Unfortunately, this wasn't the time for it to be distracted by its injury. More arrows were launched its way, and a lucky one managed to hit it in the eye. The troll roared in pain as it raised a bloody hand to touch its injured eye and fell on its back. Then, like a child, it threw a tantrum, hitting everything within range.Luk
When Cedric and Luke returned back to the camp, they saw that everything was chaotic. A bit confused and worried, they tried to grab someone's attention for answers, but they were ignored. Searching for their companions, they found Grace hovering over Bobby and Chris as she was using healing magic. At the sight, they rushed over to see what was wrong.The first one to notice them was Theodore, who said, "Finally. It took you long enough."Luke would have rolled his eyes if he wasn't so worried about Bobby and Chris, as Cedric asked, "What happened to them?"Jon was the one to answer. "They launched a special attack against the troll before suddenly passing out with blood pouring out of every part of their faces. Since you're here, I assume that the troll has been dealt with.""That's right," Luke said as he studied Bobby and Chris.Their condition was worse than he expected. When they first used it in their previous life, they only fell unconscious. This time they actually coughed up
"Is it a really good idea for us to go?" Grace asked as she glanced at the patients. "Not everyone can move."She neglected to mention that it might make the people uncomfortable to see the patients join in on the celebration. Fortunately, they all could tell what she was getting at without her saying it out loud. The sight of missing limbs and horrific scars would make it difficult for anyone to stomach any food or drink. It would also be difficult to get the patients to the celebration.They would probably be left behind. The problem was that they couldn't be left unsupervised. Grace needed to stay back and monitor them in case any of them had a relapse, despite how much her healing magic had improved by leaps and bounds. However, Jon and the others were probably expecting her to show up with the others as it was an invitation to the party and knights.Cedric nodded as he said, "Bobby and Chris are unconscious. My fellow knights are also in no condition to be moved. They should rema
Luke glanced at their surroundings once more. The area they were in was void of people. From what he could tell, the closest person was a couple meters away. This would have normally deterred him from continuing the conversation, as the distance wasn't long enough to prevent people from listening in. However, the celebration was loud enough that he determined that it was fine to go along with Rose's request.He sat down in front of her as Tracy took a seat next to her grandmother. "What is it that you want to talk about?""It is regarding the deal we made before," Rose said."Oh, are you thinking about going back on your word? I was wondering if you would actually say anything before you stabbed us in the back," said Luke.Tracy glared as she said, "Don't talk to my grandmother like that.""It's alright," Rose said, holding up her hand to keep Tracy from standing up and confronting him. "He has every right to be upset given your father's intention to end things here.""Based on the wa