‘’Help’’

The faint voice of a girl was heard by Drake while he was walking away he turned around and found that the source of the sound was the tent in which the old man had been he went in and found a pretty young girl with azure hair and deep azure eyes was shackled with cuffs and a piece of cloth lying on the ground .She was wearing a blue coloured top with a matching white pleated skirt which just reached the knees and was wearing a pair of matching boots. The girl had an exquisite face and a nice body causing drake’s heart to pound. He looked at her in a daze. The girl then asked in a - what are you doing they are coming closer ‘’ her voice broke drake out of his daze. He quickly used his sword and broke the shackles. Before holding his hurt shoulder and hissing he had lost quite a bit of blood. The girl got up and hurriedly supported him. She said ‘’thank you let’s get away quickly they will be here any moment now.’’

Drake then asked her ‘’how did you get captured’’

‘’Well my name is Astrea Kolster and I ran away from home due to them forcing me to study I hid on a carriage came to Arcuz. On the way the carriage on which I was there was attacked and was capture by them to be sold as a slave. I had only wanted to have some fun before going back to Lekmont good thing you rescued me from now on I will never try to run away from home it is very scary escort me back home and my family will reward you lets run quickly’’

Drake looked at her speechlessly as he was about to say some thing his gaze sharpened as he slashed his sword behind him and deflected a throwing knife. He immediately turned around while standing in front of astrea. A burly man with a scar in standard leather gear with a sword was standing there

‘’You are going nowhere you killed boss and plenty of our brothers we have to take revenge as for that pretty lady there I bet quite a few of my brothers had their eyes on her’’

Drake took a deep breath and said ‘’scram if you don’t want get killed’’

‘’Well kid you are quite strong but you are still injured can you fight all of us’’ behind him dozens of men came from the forest.

Drake had a frosty expression on his face while Astrea had started clinging onto drake’s coat with an anxious expression drake turned back and said ‘’run I will buy some time and then escape we will meet back at the mercenary guild’’ .

Girl looked at his back and said ‘’how will you buy time with that body you will get yourself killed I got you into this trouble I will not run away’’. Drake felt some warmth in his heart after hearing those words but still shouted at her in a loud and resolute voice ‘’ run away you will just get in the way’’ startled by the voice she grit her teeth before turning around and running into the forest towards the town. Drake heaved a sigh before using his sword to draw a line in front of him before saying you cross this line and you die. The bandits started running towards him drake did not stay still he ran ahead with both his swords as his left eye started glowing. Everything slowed down as he ran in front of the crowd and jumped and stepped on the leading man’s face and somersaulting and landing in the middle of the crowd and killing one. His swords flashed as he fought each strike of his swords killed one. He dodged agilely but still got him in many places his upper clothes already become drenched in blood. His vision was also getting hazy due to the mace hit he suffered to his forehead. The bandits were also feeling scared as Drake had already killed 23 and injured many more. They were even more shocked due to his age he looked barely 16 or 17. But was much more experienced and ruthless in combat. Even drake was reaching his limit he was surrounded and covered in injuries. He was already taking heavy breaths. If not for his tenacity and determination he would have already collapsed. He was kneeling on one foot with the support of the sword. Even though they were seeing this the bandits dared not move and looked at drake as if they were looking at some monster. Drake got up but coughed some blood before wiping his face before taking a stance. The bandits overcame their fear and charged once more.

‘’My body feels heavy each and every movement causes enormous pain and my consciousness is becoming blurry as a sword was just about to hit his neck he felt his body start heating up as his body started heating up and a strange strength started filling his body a strange hazy golden image in the form of a dragonhead appeared on his forehead before disappearing quickly. Drake’s eyes went red as he lifted his sword and slashing at the bandit in front of him the sword easily broke take the sword in the bandits hand and spilt the bandit in half from to bottom. And the force pushed the other bandits back. They looked at him with wary eyes but drake had already gone berserk as before the bandits could do anything he had already appeared in front of them in an instant and started slaughtering, limbs and heads flew and blood stained the ground red. The bandits had already lost the courage to fight and started running in every direction. Drake just kept slaughtering only one person with a missing arm escaped as he ran without turning back drake just fell down in that place. Before losing his consciousness the last thing he saw was a group of orderly men on horses and Astrea with tears in her eyes rushing toward him and catching him before everything went black.