Chapter 22

With the first attack out, We descended into a fight

I used my weapon to cut part the projectiles and ran fast towards the enemy, deploying the footwork I had come up with after my daily spars with Yoru and Seni to counter their every attack.

I appeared right beside the first guard,swinging my Scythe as I cut apart those that I couldn't dodge.

I was battling with an Earth magic user, a Fire magic user and another guy that had bronze magic.

Everytime I am close to killing one of them, The bronze guy gets in the way and stops my attack.

"It's alright I just need to hold them back for a while for the whatever knights they are to come and solve this," I mumbled to myself as I rolled to the side dodging a fireball that came my way.

I realized how difficult it becomes for me if I don't have an ambush opportunity for my enemies and that would make me train hard in the future for sure.

"Grrr! is running all you can do" one of them yelled at me as he used his bronze magic to summon a giant spiky bronze ball and threw it towards me.

"Why don't you come close and find out exactly what I can do" I taunted him as I let go of the scythe once again and summoned a giant Shield, I took the attack head on a cause that was the only way to do it.

It's a homing attack, one of the nastiest things I have experienced, My feet dug into the ground as I tanked the giant ball for the third time in this battle

As the giant ball hit my shield, I tilted to the side, letting it roll away, a trick I learned after defending the second time against this thing is that it can only go after me once.

As I did so, the shield disappears from my hands and is replaced by a sword that slices apart an incoming Earth creation magic that looks like a tiger.

Another familiar pinging in my head and I summon a giant madaea style fan to blow away the flame mages attack.

This has been going on for a while, and I am honestly become a bit tired, you would think five minutes is too little of a time but that is not what happens once you are doing something that said at you stamina at every turn.

Two more minutes, and I can cool off.

I knew that if I needed to survive for two more minutes, one of the mages needed to die.which meant I needed distraction

Although being able to switch weapons gives me a chance at being an unexpected opponent, it doesn't mean I am invincible.

I looked around me for anything that could act as a distraction without switching these guys attention back to Yoru.

If I run into the forest, they might come back and kill Yoru, my main goal was to make sure that he lived, for be was the only proof of my innocent soul

I then looked at the carriages that were now broken and looted,

'That's it' I couldn't help but pat myself in my head as I ran towards the carriage, reaching it, I picks it up, rather easy for me considering how much I have suffered.

Putting the mumbling thoughts aside, I picked up the carriage just in time for a fireball to come my way, though it made this plan a lot more interesting.

I threw the carriage at the Fireball user, the carriage got struck with his magic and caught on fire

"Oh shit, look out!" and there you have it.

Seeing his comrade about to be killed or seriously injured, the bronze magic user got distracted and summoned a defensive magic spell,

The flaming carriage struck the shield made of bronze and broke into splinters, and so did the ribcage of the bronze magic user

"Aries! Damn you, you peasant" The other two saw the battle axe embedded in their comrade as he was bleeding on the ground and started cursing at me.

"Hmph! the only chance you had against winning me is dead, let's see if you guys can keep getting away from me" I couldn't help but snort coldly as I stomped on the mage, making sure that he stayed dead.

A Wall of fire rose and came towards me, making me unable to look at the two mages

I sensed danger coming and watched as several Fire creations started swarming in from different directions,I took out the fan again and used my body to build momentum, driving them all away in a single strike.

Though I didn't relax as a giant piece of Earth came at me, I dodged the attack, the two mages were also starting to show signs of exhaustion, that attack must have taken a lot out of them.

They are just prey waiting to be taken out,

I took out a spear and moved my hand back as I took a quick guess and threw it at the Fire mage who was too surprised by my attack, A giant earth wall rose to protect the guy but my Spear passed right through it courtesy of my physical strength and the Weapons skill I upgraded.

"Y-You, you won't get away with this" The Earth mage pointed at me as he tried running away, key word tried but I had a whip.

As he sat on his broom and was about to fly away, I summoned my whip and caught onto him, I yanked him back, causing him to fall off and fall to the ground

I leisurely made my way to him, as he was the last one I needed to deal with.

"You should run away from the start, maybe I would have left you alone," I told him as he looked at the dead wide-eyed body of his comrade beside him.

"W-wait, forgive me, I ca"

A clean swing and his head rolled down his body, and a comical shower of blood leaked.

I heaved a sigh as I slowly went back to Yoru and sat beside him.

"Gah! you did good kid!" he complimented me

"How much time left!?" I asked him, I didn't like the feeling of being in danger, those Rank 7 bastards were still at large

I don't want to get in their sight

"Hmm! kid, I think it's time you go," he told me, surprising me a bit

"No matter what, don't come back, I don't think the captain will be reasonable enough to let you live, Heck! I might die or get punished." he continued as he coughed a bit of blood

He looked at me and continued

"He has a very sadistic tendency and you are gonna suffer if you stay any longer"

he told me

I was a little confused by all this, I should have just run away from the start

As I was contemplating this, he gave me his pouch and told me to run away

"Go now! the bandit leader is dead, although he is strong, He is fighting against 7 or so rank 7 alone, no one will know of your involvement"

I finally decided it was better to run for now, what will I say once the Captain asks me why I can supposedly use magic when I don't have it,I nodded at him before I took some of the weapons that I had left on the ground, I still had a long way to go.

I check the other bodies before I ran to the opposite direction as fast as my legs could carry me.

If there was some time in the future where I could have a drink with Yoru,I won't refuse

[Host has successfully trained himself +3 to all stats, +3 stat points, +2 Skillpoints]

[Danger sense has leveled up by 2 level]