ALL NOVEL Chapter 9: Stay or Return.
Chapter 9: Stay or Return.
"Enough, Nolan Gideon, kill them!" Ember, after seeing that Austin doesn’t relent, gives the order. Since she is the granddaughter of the Gryphon merchant founder. Her rank is higher than Austin's.
Nolan sprinted toward the crowds of black-clad men and shouted. "Guards protect Austin and Kevin; if anything happens to them, I will personally kill you guys!" He swings his sword, shrouded in mana. What happened next was that the attacker's body near him got bisected by him into two.
"Dispersed!" The leader of black-clad man shouted. However, it was too late; several more people died from the sword attack. This is what is scary about adept rank warriors they can sharpen their swords using mana, and last longer in battle compared to apprentice rank. "Group A delays him, team B captures Austin and kills anyone that tries to stop you!" Even when their comrade dies, the black-clad man doesn’t run away but instead tries to kill Nolan. Their gaze is like that of a crazed fanatic.
After receiving the order, the black-clad man separates into two groups. However, when they dash in Austin's direction, an elderly man blocks their path. "Old man, if you don’t want to die, move aside!" One of the attackers shouted.
"Rude." Gideon raises both hands, and two magic circles appear. And a stream of flame comes out of it. The black-clad man who can’t stop or evade gets burned by the flame. Because of the flame, the attacker can’t come closer.
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"Do you have any more kebab?" Clara asked while licking the kebab stick.
"That is the last one, the rest is inside Ben's stomach." Levi pointed his finger at the horn bear beside him.
"How can you understand horn bear language?" From what Clara heard, the monster tamer can only control the monster not learn the language.
"I don’t know." Even Levi can’t explain it, because it’s something that the voice gives him. Fortunately, the Free Language Pact doesn’t give him all creature languages, like fish and deer. He doesn’t want to hear them begging for their lives to be spared, it will be annoying.
"It looks like another group is appearing behind your employer."
"How strong are you?"
"Strong enough to fight with your horn bear."
"We wait until they are in a dire situation before helping them." Since Clara doesn’t want to leave. It’s better to use her. And if she dies, Levi will turn her copse to death point. He already has enough to use the ability. But there is nothing wrong with having more death points.
"Okay." Clara agreed. Since she is also bored watching people fight.
As Levi predicted, although the two adept ranks are strong, they can’t be in two places at one time. There are many black-clad men there. If they are not careful, they will die, and their mana has a limit.
"Clara, you kill the black-clad man that's coming from the back." After that, Levi growls, and Ben snarls and dashes toward Austin and Kevin's location. Inside Ben's mind is how dare they try to hurt someone who gives him honey.
Clara, or the Blood Witch, suddenly stops walking and looks at Levi. "Why are you not moving?"
"I am a monster tamer, why do I need to fight," Levi answered the obvious question. He knew that Clara had seen him cast the spell. Nonetheless, he doesn’t have enough mana to fight many people.
Clara nodded her head and ran toward the black-clad man.
After seeing both of them gone, Levi takes out a piece of meat wrapped with a leaf from inside his fur clothes. "Those two gluttons, if I don’t hide this, will eat all the meat."
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A large black creature charged toward the black-clad man. Several of them are sent flying.
"What is that!"
"Ahhhh!"
"Behind!"
Ben mauled the black-clad man who tried to stop him. With the horn bear's large size, it is easy for him to arrive near Austin and Kevin.
"Ben, you have returned." The blonde-haired woman disguised as a man, Ember said excitedly.
The guards see the horned bear sigh in relief. They can’t defend against this large number of attackers.
While the attacker focuses on the new enemy. A ball of blood floated in the air and exploded. Multiple small blood needles attack the group of black-clad men.
"Ahhh, my eyes!"
Clara appeared in front of the attacker, who couldn’t open his eyes, and decapitated the man's head using a blood sword. After that, that man's head and body blood flowed into the blood sword. She continues killing the black-clad man.
The black-clad leader, seeing that the situation was out of his control, shouted and retreated into the dark woods. "Retreat!"
Inside the woods. "I thought they only had two adept ranks, they don’t say anything about horn bear and scarred face women!" The black-clad leader is mad, not only because he loses a lot of men. He will also receive a punishment later.
"According to the report at the gate, only two adept ranks appear to protect Austin." What the man said is not wrong. At that time, Levi and Ben are not in front of the caravan, and Clara is someone that Levi just encounters.
"We need to abandon the mission and report this to the higher up."
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Next day.
"Levi, when we arrive in town, I will reward you handsomely," Kevin said.
"Thank you." Levi smile. He is happy because his death point has increased again, thanks to the attacker's corpses. Now he needs to find a secluded or safe place to use his ability traveler of the world. Since he doesn’t know what will happen to his body if he uses it.
The ability to convert a corpse or carcass to a death point is useful to hide evidence after killing someone. But the only problem is that they will leave clothes and stuff behind.
He has another problem. Clara's gaze changed when she found out we were saving a slave trader. She looks calm outside, but inside Levi can understand. The pain of being a slave, especially a woman, although she has not said anything about her past. That’s why, when they first meet, Clara said he is the same as her. Levi in several reincarnations is born or made into a slave. Only people that have that experience understand.
This time when they arrive in town, there is no problem. The soldier guarding the gate welcomed us warmly. Clara has already disappeared, according to her; she is wanted in the Cirean Kingdom. And will see each other later.
Dalelry town is bustling with people. The street stall is everywhere. However, people stay far away from the Austin caravan because of Ben. Most people have never seen a living large-horned bear before. Some brave kids come closer to take a look. The town guard initially doesn’t allow Ben to enter the town. Only after Austin guarantees that the horned bear is tamed and some bribe. They let the horned bear enter.
"Does this town have a library?"
"Yes, after we put our stuff in the warehouse, I asked someone to show you the way," Austin said.
After arranging everything, Levi comes to the town library alone. Ben stays in the warehouse for a while since he can’t bring the monster inside the library.
At the counter is a middle-aged man with glasses.
"Yes, how can I help you?"
"I want to read a book here."
"1 silver or 10 bronze coins per day, and if you destroy any book, you need to pay."
"Okay, here." The price to read a book is expensive. compared to street stall goods. Levi already gets paid 100 silver coins along with the continent map from Austin.
"Thank you." The middle-aged man has seen many weird people.appearance,f that, he is not surprised by Levi's appearance and this town is near Pondover forest. The weather is getting colder which means the monster tide will be coming again this winter. The middle-aged man looks outside the window. "If my granddaughter is alive, she should be 6 years old this year."
Levi begins exploring the library, gathering books about history and other miscellaneous titles.
When the sun begins to set, Levi yawns. When was the last time he was focused on reading? This world is interesting, and there is also uncarted continent that still has not been explored. The Idiot's Guide to Acheron World information, that the voice gives him is missing many details. But the danger of monster tides is true. The winter is coming closer. Should he stay here or return to Pondover Forest?
"Even if I stay here, the monster tide will attack the kingdom border, or should I go far away from the Pondover Forest border?"
After returning the book to its shelf, Levi leaves the library. At night, the town still has a lot of people. "Mr. Levi, I finally found you!" A man is running toward him, he is the guard from the Austin caravan.
"Why are you here?"
"Sir Austin has prepared a banquet for us and asked me to find you; let’s go."