Chapter 22. battle

Chris POV

We appeared at the rocky area where the first group fighting the kobolds and ogre and they were surprised as they saw us appearing beside the leader of the ogre.

the ogre notice me but they stop and retreated because of their fear and went back to their settlement around the area while the 8 adventurers astonished as they saw this but their face became sour as they notice zeberu.

I heard one of them saying that a scary monster appeared.

But they recovered from the shock and ready their stances because they are confident in their power to defeat us.

" who are you and why are you here?" The man who supposed to be their leader speaks and asks us while still holding a double edge sword imbued with magic.

" we happen to be the resident in this area and also its caretaker and you happen to destroy the balance of the forest, that's why we are here to punish you," I answered the leader while keeping my eye at them.

" hahahaa! Residents? In this area? You gotta be kidding me?" The man exclaimed while laughing heartily as if he heard a funny joke.

" hmmmmmmmmm, I don't have time for this,! Guys finish them! I give a command to zeberu, frozty, and tahuro.

" yes your majesty, I will let them taste what true power is" zeberu who is grinning side to side answered me.

As they heard it, one of the magic casters sneakily cast her magic to us [ thunder bolts]. as she feels danger when saw us.

Huge black clouds appear on top of us while charging to create multiple claps of thunder to hit us.

[Tornado blast] zeberu cast also his magic which counters attack the spell thunder.

A tornado appeared and scattered the black clouds and the girl who cast his magic was left in gasped as he saw this she also vomited blood because of the backlash of the broken spell.

The other members come forward but tahuro on the other side throw his lance at them.

It stops in the middle and it spins so fast that the adventurer caught by it shattered into pieces.

The adventurer is now down to 6 as the two get caught by it while the other barely escapes the lance.

The cleric on the side cast a healing spell at the wounded while their leader becomes angry and used its sword to strike us using thousand blade strikes.

But to his surprise a death knight appears, with its stench odor and massive body while holding a large sword is coming from a black fog formed at the ground.

Zeberu summons 1 of them since the death knight can kill them in an instant easily.

As the adventurer saw this, their faces turned pale as they saw a terror before their eyes.

They could not believe that just a simple quest could lead them to their death especially the magician who just entered the group to earn a living to feed his siblings who are waiting for her.

She could not fathom that, all her hard work will be in vain as we appeared in front of them.

When zeberu command the death knight to eliminate them, the adventurers quickly form into a formation and then some of them at the back support them with buff and cast healing spells continuously.

But the death knight just walks towards them and slash its huge swords. The leader of the group blocks it, but he was sent backward as he doesn't know that the strength of a death knight is beyond his imagination.

As they continue fighting, the death knight killed half of them by cutting them into two while other was squeeze until they just become a lump of flesh.

The 3 adventurer who remains are their leader, the magician and the assassins, they are wounded but not lethal thanks to the magician who never cease to cast her healing spell.

The leader became angry and used sprint and run towards us, but I already know what's coming, I used my shadow grasp and lift him up as high as I could reach, then drop him at the ground.

After his body hit the ground, broken bones could be heard and the man lying at the ground without breathing and bathed in his own blood died by the fall.

The only man tried to run as he saw what happens to their leader, and feel danger if he continue fighting us. The assassin used stealth and its ability to run faster.

He disappeared in that instant and run for his life, as he knows that he run far away from us, he already slowed its pace but as he did that, an image of a man who wore word class armor appeared beside him effortlessly.

As he panicked from the appearance of this man, he used its skill stealth to disappear in front of tahuro.

But he felt an indescribable pain at his chest and as he looks down to see what it is, he saw the lance pierced through his heart. as the realization hit him, everything went to black and the last thing he saw is the guy who had the lance leaving and disappeared in an instant.

tahuro came back after chasing the man who went running. and now the only one left is the girl who tears is flowing down at his checks and just give up everything, as she sits on the ground weeping.

zeberu lift his hand to kill the girl using a [ ray of darkness], but I stopped him from doing so and instead I walk towards the woman.

As I approach her, she moves back, while a fear and sadness can be seen in her beautiful face.

"I have a question for you?" I asked her." tell me why would I want to spare you?" then she stopped moving back while she thinking on how to answer me.

"pl--ea--se..... spare m--e,, I have 2 sisters waiting for me, we don't have any parents to depend on and I’m the only one left as their family" she was crying profusely while begging to me to spare her.

" how would I believe you? I don't even know if you're telling the truth.'' I folded my arms as if I’m trying to understand what she is talking.

" please believe me! I beg of you, if I will die they will send them directly to the slave market and the only reason why I’m in that group is because I’m the cheapest magic caster they can afford to be in their group," she even kneeled while clasping her hands.

" let me think!" i wonder how much did they pay her. Then I turned back at her then asked. " How much did they pay you?"." and why are you the cheapest magic caster in feloria?".

" 10 gold, enough for me to survive for 6 months”.

as I heard her story, I felt something warm touches my heart, Im still a human after all so I turned back to wipe the tear that formed at the side of my eyes then faced her again while the 3 men who are waiting for my judgment had anxious looks on their faces as to why I still ask her and why not kill her immediately.

but instead I extend my small hand and let her stand up.

" since your words moved me, I will spare your life but you will be living in my own kingdom. I will let you and your sister live in the village I created and will help you to improve your magic, because as of now, the most magic you can only cast is of 3 tier.

that's why you were defeated easily by zeberu who used a 5 tier spell to counter attack your magic," she open her mouth as she astounded by my words.

" but your majest-----" zeberu interrupted me.

" stop what will you say zeberu, I don't want any suggestions right now!" I look at him and then he lowered his head to accept my words even though, he doesn't like it.

the two remained silent as they see my angry face. Then I walk ahead and told zeberu to eliminate the rest while the woman named Ari and frozty went with me and I let zeberu transported us back to the castle.

"be quick in eliminating the insects that tried to explore the forest!" I told zeberu before we vanished into thin air.