The butler (1)

The bandits were greeted in this room by what appeared to be a butler. This man at first glance should be about fifty, with black and white hair and beard, due to his advanced age. He was near an iron lever, which was probably used to open the passage.

"Welcome dear collaborators, sorry for my insecurity, but it is my duty to ask you if you have brought our important package with you?" he spoke in a calm voice that at the same time gave off a sense of coldness.

"Sure, he's here with us." the head of the brigands moved to the side to give the green light to the butler's sight, to show the girl with her hood. "But I must say that I am a little disappointed by your doubts, after all we have been collaborators for some years." she said with a false nod of sadness.

"Forgive me, but you will understand that this is only my job. It is not our intention to show rudeness with you, we are just cautious." he responds with a smirk on his lips.

"I was just kidding, I can understand your security measures." he replied with a smirk.

"Then, please, follow me the master is waiting for you in the usual room." the butler began to lead the way for the bandits.

But before I could take any steps, a glowing sphere came from behind them with remarkable speed. The sphere, mixed with fire and lightning, struck the bandits off guard. causing them to explode against the wall of the room. The only ones unharmed were the leader of the bandits, the girl is the butler. The latter protected the girl with her body.

All the other bandits were on the ground, burned and with some electric shock. The unusual event was that the room, despite being made of wood, had not caught fire, but was only saved with some burns on the walls.

"We seem to have unwelcome guests." the butler looks with contempt at the leader of the brigands.

"How is that possible? Nobody should have followed us, is it because today? Did they know about the exchange?" the bandit chief was furious at this incident.

"It doesn't matter. Take the girl with you, I'll take care of it here." the butler handed the girl over to the leader of the bandits. The latter took the girl and advanced to leave the room.

The butler was standing in front of the exit of the passage, by now it was too late to close the wall, the individuals had arrived right in front of him. Three hooded figures.

"You know it's rude to hide your face when you enter someone else's house? Especially when the aforementioned guests have not been invited." the butler seemed to be teaching Asteri's group.

"You know it's rude to kidnap a girl without her permission? But I honestly don't give a shit about your words." Asteri smiled at the butler, from under the hood of course, but his lips were still visible.

"I can say the same thing." there was a hint of irritation in his tone at Asteri's abrupt reply.

'Boy, he is in the fifth degree of the blue core ...' from within Asteri he heard Aurelion's voice.

'I understand ... I think it won't be easy.' Asteri was at attention but at the same time excited.

"Allatu, Betty. Stop the bandit leader, I'll take care of him." Asteri drew his sword.

The two women nodded silently. Allatu with a movement of his hand brought out a haze of pink color, after which this haze took the shape of his whip. At the same time, Betty cut off her arm and with it formed a sword made of her blood.

"Do you really think I'll let them go on?" said the butler, taking a strange combat formation,

Asteri was baffled by this fact, the man neither took any weapon nor formulated phrases for spells. And even more troubling, the butler was unharmed despite the explosive power of his sphere.

"What is it ..." an idea flashed through the boy's mind. Which for now he kept to himself.

"Of course they will, after all, they're there to stop you." Asteri says, assuming a battle pose with the sword.

Eventually all three moved, sprinting forward at the same time, but with different goals. The two women wanted to overtake the butler, while Asteri aimed to face him.

"Useless." he only said this, as he intended to stop the group at the same time, as for him these three figures were ants. After all, Asteri's group wore the items Belstegia had given them, which at the time appeared to be ten degrees below the original level.

The butler moved quickly, looking like he was throwing a normal punch at Allatu, considering her the weakest of the group. But to his great surprise, he was stopped by the sword of Asteri. But the butler wasn't the only one surprised, Asteri was also in the same emotional state. He believed his sword had cut off the butler's hand, as it appeared to be a normal punch, but he was completely unharmed.

'Now I'm sure.' Asteri had recently confirmed his hypothesis.

In all this, the girls managed to overtake the butler. The latter broke away from Asteri to follow them, but was again stopped by Asteri who began to make cuts with the sword. The butler answered with his fists.

'How is he able to keep up with me? Even if he's doing his best ... but that doesn't change he's a white core.' the butler couldn't imagine Asteri's potential.

"His punches ... they look normal, but they're so heavy." Asteri could barely keep up with the butler's movements, but still he didn't give up.

After a series of exchanges, the two separated. Asteri's hands were shaking slightly at how powerful this man's fists were.

Instead the butler was completely calm, but at one point he felt a familiar sensation coming from his hands. The man looked at him and noticed that his white gloves were cut, and not just the gloves, his hands too. They were insignificant cuts, but they were still abnormal. Frivolous blood came out of these little cuts.

"I know what your fighting technique is ... if I'm not mistaken you are a monk, right?" Asteri had concluded that the butler was a monk, that is, a fighter with bare hands.

"You guessed it, boy. It's rare to see people who know monks, we're pretty rare on the continent of Kalos." the butler was amazed that Asteri knew his class.