Meeting An Old Acquaintance?

"So where is this place that you wanted to eat?" Leon absentmindedly asked with his hands in his pockets.

They have gone around the entire market area for so long but still couldn't find the food stall. They even went on to search the entire village and found nothing.

"Brother, I am sure it was at that place, but I don't know why I cannot find him now." Enayet was more confused than anyone.

Leon tapped the back of a person that was passing by him."Hey, can I ask you something?"

The guy didn't recognize them, so he didn't show abnormal emotions toward them. He said. "You can if you like it."

"Umm, I heard there was this shop that sells roasted rabbits around this place. Why isn't he here today?" Leon asked.

"Oh, that guy doesn't live here anymore. He left after an incident happened early in this village," the guy said, seeming to remember something. "I am not from here, but I liked his roasted rabbits. I heard that something happened to his daughter and wife. He became mad at the village and left this place."

"Thanks for the info." Leon thanked him.

"No problem; I have to leave now. My party is waiting." The guy left by waving his hands.

Leon and Enayet also waved back to say goodbye.

Leon stopped waving and started thinking about something. 'That stall owner was probably the victim of that incident.' He looked around and saw there were many stalls, but somehow it felt a little empty. 'Maybe others also left in anger.'

Leon said to Enayet. "Let's go back, have to take a rest. We will be leaving early tomorrow."

Enayet nodded. They started walking toward the tavern where they were staying.

When they were close to the tavern, they heard an ear shrieking scream.

"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Everyone in Leon's surroundings looked in the direction the scream came from. Leon started dashing toward that direction while taking Enayet on his back.

Leon saw many people going in the same direction and also many running in opposite directions.

'I hope nothing bad happens.' Leon thought while running.

The closer he got, the more screaming he seemed to hear. The people who were also rushing stopped going because of fear.

After a while, Leon came to the place, and what he saw made him horrified.

It was a bloodbath here.

Corpses were lying as if no one cared. The dead had despair, regret, and fear written on their faces.

Around the corpses stood men with evil smiles on their faces. Blood was dripping from their weapons.

Ting

Leon looked at the sound with a horrified look. He saw a girl retreating and shooting arrows at the people who looked like they were responsible for this mess.

Leon recognized who this was, it was the archer of the team that came to his village.

On the archer's side.

The girl glared at the men who were deflecting her arrows. "You guys are. You people shouldn't have done it. Wait for my team to arrive."

Among the men, one said."We don't fear anyone. Our boss Joppa, can defeat any enemy with his mighty power. You should hurry yourself to escape or we may not hold ourselves."

"HAahahahahah.." They all started laughing crazily.

The girl gritted her teeth. She was only good at long-range attacks and sneak attacks. She couldn't fight at close range.

She saw that they were starting to surround her. 'What should I do? They are at the other corner of the village. I sent a signal for help; maybe they are delayed by that stupid merchant. Yes, I am sure of it now.'

'I am no choice.' She looked around and saw that there were not many people nearby.

She pulled her bowstring and pointed her bow up in the sky. She said it with a smile. "You devils should be lucky; I just learned this move recently. [ Blessed Arrow - Wind Fall ] "

Wind gathered in her bow in the shape of an arrow. Then she shot it upwards. The wind arrow shot in the sky. After coming to a certain point in the sky, the arrow exploded. In the black night sky, it felt like stars were falling down.

From the explosion, sharp-pointed arrows rained down.

The bandits started panicking after watching her move.

"She is an Outer Soul Shine user! Why is someone here?"

"We are done; run, run, we can't escape it."

"Fast fast .."

They tried their hardest to escape from the move's range, but they couldn't. They got drowned in seconds.

Some got hit in the head, some in the arms, some in the body, some in the legs, or some in the leg. Basically, no one could evade it. Someone tried to deflect it, but his weapon was destroyed upon contact. He got injured by the broken pieces of his own weapon.

The girl who did this slumped down on the bloody ground. It looked like this move cost her a lot.

The bandits who got hit in the head or in the heart were dead. Others somehow managed to stay alive despite the injury.

They immediately rushed toward the woman, seeing her become vulnerable.

"Get this fucking bitch."

"We're going to destroy her today, brothers."

The girl still had the energy to open her eyes. She thought seeing all the bandits approaching her 'Ahh..I will die now. I hope they can kill these guys. Please come fast or they may escape."

A bandit was close to her. He was about to touch her.

StepStepStep..

A running sound came with the splash of blood. Everyone was about to look who was coming but was greeted by a sharp blade.

SlashSlashSlash.

Trisshhhh.

Cutting off three bandits' heads who were on the outer side, the figure slid through to the man who was about to touch the woman.

The man who was going to touch the woman was questioned. "Who Are -"

Slash

He couldn't finish his sentence, his head fell off.

Thud.

The girl looked up with difficulty to see who it was that could be that came to rescue.

She was surprised by who it was. It was a twelve- ish year old human boy as same as her kind, holding a sword, who had a serious face with some twitching going on, his white shirt was now marked with blood.

She uttered."Who are you?"

"I am Leon, a guy who now wants to see his brother smile." The boy introduced himself with the same seriousness.

It was Leon himself who came to the rescue.