One Strike One Kill

I wait for Sham to come close to me while the kids start taking steps back while they get closer to each other. Looking at me still standing casually, Sham looks confused as he is unable to fathom a Mid-E grade person standing ready to fight a group consisting ten High-E grade showing no signs of fear or taking a defense stance.

"I don't have all day you know. I have be somewhere else this afternoon, so please hurry up." I say looking at the hunter called Sham as he doesn't look like he will make a move anytime sooner to which he looks at me with shock all over his face.

He would have never thought he would be mocked by a lower level person to fight when getting ready for today's hunt. I control myself from laughing as his face looks as if he has eaten a sack of chilies because of his anger and mocking he just received.

He tighten his grip on his sword and start coming towards me with clear killing intent on his face. I continue to stand as if I do not care about him coming to attack me even when he swings his sword at me.

I look at Sham swinging his sword at me and moved to my right dodging his attack easily. He again swings, even more furious than the previous attack which I take a step back to dodge.

Not just the wild animals or monsters, even humans will lose their rationality when they are raging in anger. Sham, forgetting all the experience he has along with the skills he has learned till now, fights like a child swinging his sword at me influenced with pure rage.

I continue to dodge his attacks without blocking or trying to attack as I want the people around me to know how they have underestimated me and is not going to be for them to take me down.

I keep dodging him for a few minutes and suddenly I sense three more people start attacking me along with Sham. I am still able to dodge all their attacks with a little more effort without using my weapon or any of my skills or elemental energy.

They do not know this and think I am using a skill to increase my speed hoping my energy will drain soon for them to subdue me. They think of it as a battle of attrition which I will lose shortly.

Their overconfidence is going to be the path of their death. I keep dodging their attacks casually like dancing without care on a stage which is making them even more angry and they start swinging their swords without any thoughts or coordination which is interrupting each other's attack.

Loosing my interest in the fight after dodging their attacks for about ten minutes, I casually say "My turn" and swing my longsword horizontally at the hunter who is at my right side leaving a deep wound. The raw power on the attack throws him a few meters away were he falls never to rise again.

He is dead.

I give them some time to react for this, but they did not get distracted as I expected and continue to attack me which I keep dodging. I swing again at the hunter in front of me vertically cutting him from face to abdomen who slides down with no time to scream before dying.

I swing again to my right killing Sham who raised his sword to slash at my back diagonally. I can see a surprised and shock on his face when he sees my longsword cleaving almost half of his abdomen. I look at his eyes which turned to look at my fully covered face when the lights in is eyes dimmed while he falls down.

I turn around to stab the heart of the last of the four hunters who came to attack me killing him in an instant.

I look around to see the grim expressions on the rest of the six hunters and on my targets who initially thought I could be handled easily by their hunters. When they were trying to hit me for ten minutes without any success, I was able to kill all four of them in just a few seconds each with a single strike.

I see the kids behind me who are equally surprised and some even opening their mouth in awe, except for the one who was determined to fight till the end to protect them. I could see a mix of relief and fear on his face.

"Hmph.. Is that all you have got?" I scoff looking at Kavin and Mike with clear mock in my voice which they can't ignore.

"What are you looking at? KILL HIM!!" I hear Kavin shouting at the rest of the hunters who are dazed looking at me even forgetting to blink.

Coming out of their daze, the come forward with clear fear on their eyes as they do not want to attack me, but they have no other option as they didn't want to be on the bad side of those two people who are in a good position and has considerable power in the town.

I just shake my head looking at them. By now, they would have realized it is an unwinnable fight, but still they are coming towards me because they are scared of them more than they are scared of death.

I dash towards them and kill them all in a single slash from my longsword even before they can gather around me. I look around to see Kavin and Mike has already slipped away from the location as they also know they can't fight and win against me.

They have made the right decision to flee, but that is what I wanted them to do and why I was toying with the hunters.

I already noticed them starting to move away from the fight when I started to attack the six hunters and that is why I finished them within a minute so I can chase them and get my revenge on them.