NTR: I became a noble?

His eyes widened in shock and his heart palpitated, as a feet long metal arrow stuck in the carriage suddenly. The man behind the blockade aimed another arrow at him.

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The man had long golden brown hair, unkempt and dirty, roughly made into a ponytail.

His face looked ferocious with a big nose, small eyeballs coupled with a nasty grin.

The man stood tall around at least six feet, his hands looked long and skillful at handing the bow from the way he wielded it.

Terias might have made a biased opinion because of the arrow that stuck near him, but the warrior seemed to have strong mastery with the weapon, to have penetrated the metal.

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Sadly, Terias did not carry a quality weapon with himself, embarrassingly enough he did not even have a normal weapon.

Now that he objectively thought about it, he had not expected an ambush but at the very least he should have made a conscious effort to safeguard his life and prepare for unforeseen circumstances, so much for being a transmigrator, he sighed.

When the arrow stuck close to him, in that moment, he felt like all the bad decisions of his new yet short life start to replay in his mind, probably the vision before death.

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The warrior against them was close to the peak of level 2 in strength, and the bow added to his already great strength.

The good news was that the ferocious guy was alone, or that was what Terias could assume for the meantime.

"Mylord, let me deal with the villain. I would be back in no time, believe me." His butler John said to him before starting to run forward with a shield in his hand.

'Why did that beleive me sound so suspicious? It must be my anxiety.

And where did he get that shield from? Is there another compartment for weapon?' he had various questions in his mind

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'Oh, he's running running really fast ' he had been keeping his mind busy trying to avoid his pessimistic imaginations.

But the butler John was indeed very quick on his feet. He caught the villain unprepared with his sprint and easily deflected the arrow fired by the villain.

'He is good in battles, with what I can recall from the notes. His presence of mind also excels mine. Of course it would, I have never fought.

If I were in his place, I would have run together with both the shield for defence and a sword for offence.

But now that I actually think about it, it would be difficult for me to do that. I also think deflecting the arrow would not be possible with one hand.

I could place my sword in a scabbard and then I could have ran off towards the ruffian.'

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Terias was actually trying to put himself in his Butler's place and tried to simulate how he would perform.

He was thinking of the possible strategies and some really random shit. It helped him take off his mind from the ongoing battle.

His butler John finally closed in, the villain unhesitatingly threw his bow off to the side and took out a knife from his side.

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The real battle began, the two warriors finally began the close combat. One had a unknown metal shield while the other hand a cruved knife twice the size of his palm.

The blockade was actually made up by a tree's trunk, which was most probably artificially fell by the ruffian.

Terias felt excited, his blood boiled, his mind urging him to use his skills Defence and Reinforce and jump into the battle.

It was just that his legs felt weak and were not letting him move a step. He only himself knew what he was feeling.

The idea of watching and joining in a battle where super humans fought was a dream, that too when he himself could barely compare with their strength.

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He did not need to suppress or think of a good distraction, John went close the blockade.

Before John himself could jump over and cross the blockade, the ruffian had already jumped and was a few meters high in the sky.

He probably wanted to make John dodge or defend. In both cases, the advantage lay on the side of the ruffian.

'It has been a few good years, almost a decade since the Viscount and his butler John stopped fighting.' the unnamed ruffian thought

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'The Viscount is already in no condition to fight for his life, if the old man really put his all efforts in running away, the chances of him escaping me is still close to zero.' he had heard the news about the Viscount's inability to fight.

He did not believe it at first but the rumour kept spreading and after years of no adventure by the Viscount and his trusted aide John, he believed the rumour to be true.

He was a killer hired by one of the nobles, the instructions were to hurt the Butler John while also killing the Viscount.

He did not instantly agree to the deal, he proposed that he would only do it if the Viscount was really incapable of fighting, otherwise he would retreat.

The promised rewards were significantly decreased but the condition was accepted by the client.

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If he could not complete the deal then he would not be held accountable. Normally, a killer had a reputation to maintain, making them fear their failure in completing the task.

In this case, if he failed the task, it would still provide him the details of Viscount's real strength, still earning him rewards.

Since the information provided by the client was wrong, he could still get the rewards according to the rules.

Although he still discussed and changed the terms of details with client as to not be pursued by the client for his failure of task.

After all the client was capable of making an assassination plan for a level three Ki warrior, being only at level two he did not want a unnecessary enemy.

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As for how would he judge the Viscount's real strength? and why did he actually shot an arrow without any words exchanged?

Well, he had a Ki sensing artifact which could judge the amount of ki inside a person. The accuracy was not very good but this much risk was needed to make fortune.

He had also heard some rumours of the Viscount and his aid John's achievements.

They had fought various available battles together, the Viscount used a sword and his aid , the butler John used a shield.

Most importantly, the Viscount was battle maniac. He always took the enemy from front while John was rumoured to be a master shield wielder who could save Viscount from most of the injury.

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The Viscount's inaction proved to him that he was actually incapable of fighting, coupled with his artifact which showed his Ki to be the same as of a level two warrior, he chose to believe the rumours barely.

The straw that finally broke the camel's back was the expression of primal fear on the Viscount's face when the arrow penetrated the spot of the horse carriage close to him.

With that many hints, and the generous reward offered by the client, his mind reached the conclusion that he had to fight.

It was an easy win for him and if the circumstances changed then it would not have been hard for him to escape.

He could already see his wealth increase and also his warrior level.

He jumped off the blockade, excited to fight off the butler John who held a shield.

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"You could deflect my arrow, not bad." He proudly declared

He jumped fairly high, even though the weapon in his hand was only a twice the size of his palm, it could pierce both the shield and the shielder in one hit.

He aimed his knife at the heart of John.

The butler John actually very easily side stepped and made a good use of his shield by deflecting the knife.

He was barely successful as his hand felt a dull pain deflecting a full strength stab.

"Do not flatter yourself, it was not that strong." John quickly replied positioning himself back, ready to defend again.

He ignored the pain emerging from his hands staring at the ruffian with vigilance.

"Though I am quite interested in the background of yours" John added

The ruffian did a feint slash, when his goal was actually to kick the butler with a surprisingly fast kick.

"Don't stress my golden goose, you would not be able to see them anyway." The ruffian said with a hint of schadenfreude

The kick landed fairly high, John was unable to use his shield and could only use his shoulders to resist. The attack landed and he staggered a few steps back.

"Sigh, you are unwilling to fulfill a dying man's wish" John sighed weakly, decreasing his strength he put in defending.

It felt as if the successful hit on his shoulder drained all his vigor.

"Do not be sad, but you already know who you have offended, just search them through your memory.

As for the exact details, you should be smart enough that no man would be idiotic enough to instigate an attack on noble with their faces visible." The ruffian indirectly hinted that he himself had not seen the client's face.

As for the who the client could actually be, simple answer, the other nobles who the Viscount had caused losses.

" Very well then, thank you" John replied smiling weakly

Terias on the other hand, was closely sticking to the window inside the carriage, watching the battle with his utmost concentration.

He was wondering 'why does it feel like a scene of a noble knight going to sacrifice his life for his master.'

'Huh bad imagination, go away, shoo shoo' Terias again started mumbling to himself