The group of bandits slowly walked up to the village, they also carried a cage with some kind of monster in it, Teras and his friends blocked the bandits' way to the village, they didn't seem too happy about that but they weren't necessarily angry "What's up with all you kids? Did the village hire you to fight us off?" A man asked, he seemed to be the leader of the group "Hello there, we are Orion and we are here to negotiate with you not to fight, so how about we have a civil discussion?" Teras suggested, the leader laughed and his crew followed "And what can YOU possibly offer us?" "The opportunity to run away!" Teras replied with a calm smile, the bandits' smiles slowly faded away from their faces, but after some time they started laughing again, this time harder than before "What's so funny?" Teras asked, the leader's response was a kick to the stomach that sent Teras flying, after what they saw Teras's group quickly went into a defensive position "Teras are you okay?" C
The monster was slowly walking out of its cage observing the world outside, Teras felt a very strange aura of mana coming out of this monster, it was something he had never seen before, it made him feel intimidated, Marco's laugh also made him even more anxious "Get him Beast!" Marco yelled, after he said that a collar that the monster was wearing started to glow, shortly after it shocked the monster, and after the shook the monster went berserk at Teras, Teras tried to dodge but the monster was way too quick, Teras was struck by the monster's powerful tail, the attack sent Teras flying even though he blocked it with his hands, before Teras could recover from the hit the monster attempted to hit him again but this time Teras barely managed to pull out his mana charged sword to defend himself, he swung the sword at the monster but the monster was too sharp, so sharp that it could predict Teras's attack, the attack simply slashed the air creating a wave of air pressure 'Shit if that h
It didn't take long for people to realize their situation, they began to think more rationally and logically, why leave when you can fight? They already stood a chance since Teras managed to hurt the "invincible" monster and even beat some of the strongest bandits, Teras and his friends were currently in the bar trying to recover after their fight, Cara was using water healing while the others were using their healing power to heal themselves, Zak entered the bar slowly after the bandits left "I'm sorry for everything I did! I now realize the situation we are" Zak said, he couldn't bring to keep his head up "Took you long enough!" Teras replied as he was wiping the blood off his face "Stay here I will bring you some alcohol so you can treat your wounds" Zak said as he quickly went into the bar "What are we going to do? This monster is very strong and that's not all, those bandits are large in number too, so beating them seems impossible" Cara asked while she continued to heal e
3 Days passed after Teras and his friends decided to help the villagers, all of them trained hard for another 3 days to increase their stamina, they ran, they swam, and they lifted up weights, they did everything they could do to surpass the strength of the bandits, but after some day of training they felt like they were spending their time wrongly, nobody can get stronger with only a limited time like theirs, what they needed to do now was not strengthen their bodies but sharpen their battle senses so in the 4th day Teras decided to start with a basic sword training, it was early in the morning when Teras gathered everyone in the open field the village had "Good morning everyone! You all did well in your strength training so I think is time to move on to sword training, most of you probably know how to fight with a sword so this session of training won't require someone to teach you how to fight, this session will mostly be a tournament like a sword fighting contest between us, we wi
As the day passed anxiety grew larger and larger between the citizens and the group, Teras woke up in his brand new bed, and the villagers noticed that the beds were not enough for everyone so they took their time creating one for Teras, Teras woke up before the sun raised so he decided to go for a walk around the village, it was cold outside and Teras's breath left a fog, autumn was coming faster than expected this year, Teras looked at all the poorly made house and thought to himself 'Why hasn't the kingdom helped yet? Shouldn't abusing a small village like considered a harsh crime?' He didn't have the answer but he knew only one thing, the kingdoms don't care, if they did then they wouldn't have let this happen for over a month, surprising Teras saw another person walking ahead of him, when he approached the person he saw that he was no other from Zak "What are you doing this early in the morning?" He asked him "The same thing as you! Trying to calm myself down" Zak replied wi
The days of mana training quickly ended with everyone being able to use mana on a below-average level excluding the people that already knew how to control it, these people became even stronger after pushing their selves to the absolute limit, they had to or else all this training will go to wasteIt was one day before the bandits were said to arrive, and all of the villagers were doing nothing but relaxing their bodies, after weeks of intense training their body was weakened and exhausted so the best thing they could do is rest, all of the women and children were packing their things and were ready to go and hide in the forest, being caught in the crossfire of the fight would probably cause them great damage, but before they left the men said one last goodbye to them, many were also crying, some of them seemed to accept the fact that they may die, it was a sad thing to see but that was their reality, and they couldn't do anything to change it besides fight"I'm going to miss you, Rex
For some weird reason Teras woke up early, his friends were still sleeping 'It's time to fight huh? The time sure flew by fast but right now I can't do anything about it, so at least I will make sure to use my training to its fullest, I bet that the bandits won't expect us to fight them' Teras thought as he got out of bed, Teras then took some time to fix his armor and then went for a walk outside, a small fog surrounded the forest, Teras noticed a figure standing beside a tree, he slowly got closer to the figure, it was Zak, he simply was standing and staring at the tree "Couldn't sleep either?" Teras asked as he stood near Zak "I'm just looking at Julian" He said as he continued looking at the tree, Teras was quite confused "Didn't Julian die? Did you drink too much or something?" Teras asked jokingly "This is where we buried Julian, this is his tree?" Zak answered with a serious expression, Teras felt a bit silly laughing at a man's grave "You never told me about Julian,
Har and Marco were standing up and were ready to fight each other with their life on the line, Har had trained his body for this fight long before, but when he lost to him in the way he did he felt even weaker, Har knew that he had to get stronger after fighting Tokkou, a person that was way out of his league but even after facing Marco a person that can be considered in his level he lost miserably so that's why Har couldn't back down now, it was a fight of honor and pride rather than a fight to protect and Har knew it that's why he drove Marco away from anyone, this way he could use everything to his advantage without worrying that something bad may happen to the people around him"I wonder why you decided to stay, I'm pretty sure you saw what happened to Teras when he fought our monster, do you think that someone can improve that much in a such short amount of time?"Marco asked Har as he slowly started walking around him, Har laughed"Haha, do you think you know Teras? this guy isn