Chapter 33: Attacked (2)
| Author's note: Sorry for not posting these past 2 days, I got some important events came up |
"Fuck, more thugs" Elliot cursed
On their way running back, they encountered a roadblock, a group of people from the red sword was in their way. They were burning food stalls and attacking random people on the streets.
The enforcers and soldiers were fighting them off but they were completely outnumbered.
"Should we stay and help?" Dabria asked
"I'm sure the soldiers and enforcers are going to do their job" John
"That's my shop, please don't burn it" An old man begged the thugs "It was given to me by my father"
The old man refused to leave his stall behind despite the soldiers and enforcers were risking their lives to keep the civilians safe.
"Hahaha, guys look at this" one thug laughed "Should we leave it alone?"
"Sure, it's precious to him right?" another one laughed
"Thank you, thank you" the old man groveled before the thugs poured gasoline over it and used their arcana to burn it right in front of him
"I can't take it anymore" Elliot said as he create a lightning arrow on his bow "This road is a shortcut to our home anyway, we can kill the thugs while we clear the road back, 2 birds in one stone"
"Yeah, and we'll also help the evacuation process proceed a lot smoother" Nova nodded
"Well you kids are already preparing to fight, we'll join in" Mary said as she also got out a bow "Been a long time since I had to use it outside of practice"
"I'll just watch your back then" Olivia said "I can't fight anyway, best I could do is start a small fire with arcana or warn you guys when they're close"
"I can't believe that I have to help out enforcers, I might have to drink those bottles that John and Dad hides in the secret compartment below the couch to forget all about this" Perseus got out his guns
"Wait what?" Mary turned to him
"Yeah, how'd you kn- I mean you can't be irresponsibly drinking alcohol" Axel scolded him
"Yeah, we'll talk about this later" Mary glared at him
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"He's personally coming himself?!" Leona shouted
"Yes, maam. It was confirmed by several of our spies, guild master Aenon is personally coming to deal with us" the scout reported "I suggest we retreat, if he's coming himself, unless we bring our whole organization to back us, we will be fighting a meaningless fight"
"Shit!" she cursed "Order for retreat, but don't make it obvious, give the order to only a few of our groups, if we all retreat at the same time, it'll be too obvious. We'll also need them to buy us time."
"Yes maam" the scout replied before running off
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Albert was rushing with a small group of adventurers towards a group of thugs. He jumped right in, and got out his golden claymore.
"Shit! It's the golden knight!" one of the thugs shouted
"Retreat!" they all screamed
"That won't be necessary" Albert then summoned a golden barrier to block their escape, his sword then started to have a golden glow "You'll just be making my job harder, I don't like killing, but it seems like unless I do something about it, you won't be regretting any of your actions"
"Hah" an adventurer laughed "They're all so dead"
"Yeah" another adventurer agreed "Give him a couple more years and he'll even surpass the current guild master, we probably don't even have to help, newbies, take a great look, because his fights are always entertaining"
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"Thanks for your help" an enforcers saluted to the Silver family "Most of us here won't have made it if it weren't for your help"
"Yeah, but we'll be heading for safety now" John replied "The adventurer's guild is sending out reinforcements, they should be coming here soon"
"If any of these kids want to be an enforcer, they should contact me, we could use people like them" the enforcer responded "They really are as talented as the rumors say"
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"Are you going somewhere?" Aenon asked the retreating group of criminals "And from the way everyone here follows your orders, you must be someone of high status within the organization, am I right, young miss?"
"How'd you find our hideout?" Leona asked
"Call it intuition" Aenon chuckled "But it seems that I would need to bring you in for questioning"