The Balta family (Part 1)

[You killed magical beast Spark squirrel, you gained experience]

It was just another ordinary day, alternating between experiments in the laboratory and hunting magical beasts in the forest. Nico now had the four-star mercenary badge after completing several missions, the goal was to get as much qualification as possible to be able to buy the things he needed and did not have authorization before.

When he was bending down to pick up the animal's corpse, a noise of struggle piqued his curiosity. He was coming from far south, further into the forest, so he approached to observe, it is not as if he had never met other people hunting in the forest, but he liked to observe the way they fight to try to copy skills and attacks.

As I approached, I identified two human groups fighting each other, on one side I could see a magician and two warriors with expensive equipment attacking a group of five weaker people. "Hand over the magic core and submit to my family and I will let you alive" said the magician as he conjured arrows of fire to attack while the warriors attacked from the other side in a pincer movement.

The young man who looked like the leader of the other team countered, "It was our hunt, Augusto, your family has nothing to do with us. Even if we handed over this core, we have no intention of accepting being a slave to your Balta family".

"Do you dare not to submit to me? It seems that I have to teach a lesson to the hick young people in this backward city" Augusto said while making an ugly face and running his hand through his blond hair. Then he removed a magic focus from his ring and attacked the other team with even more greed, he really intended to kill opponents to get what he wanted.