With a sword pointing straight at his throat, the mercenary did not dare to try and put up a courageous face. Without hesitation, he took her to the headquarters of the Rage Mercenaries with a look of alarm.
Erza and the mercenary walked out of the restaurant, but within it, the previously silent building exploded with chatter as everyone looked on with disbelief at the three dead corpses of the Rage Mercenaries. In shock, each diner started to chat to one another about the event that just happened in front of them.
"Who is that girl? Her strength is unexpectedly high to be able to kill three Rage Mercenaries. I didn't even get to see her movements at all since they were so quick!"
"What a truly shocking event! I am already forty years old, but my strength hasn't even passed that of a Mid Knight. But that girl is clearly less than twenty years old and she killed a few men that are around my strength in a flash! How inconceivable."
"That young lady is far too strong, I estimate that she is at the early stage of King Realm. Could it be that the Rage Mercenaries have offended her and she has come to take her revenge today?"
"The Rage Mercenaries captain Edward has the strength of a Mid King. They also have multiple Peak Knight experts, this young lady has raised the banners of war so quickly for the Rage Mercenaries main army, I am not sure if she will even be an opponent for them."
"Considering her age and strength, this mysterious girl surely has a deep background. Even if things go south, I bet that she could safely flee... I really wish to see their fight."
"Right, there'll surely be a fight in a moment, let's hurry up and go see it!"
"Let's go! Everyone has to go see this once in a lifetime event!"
After that, every single person in the restaurant cried out their approval and stampeded out of the restaurant practically leaving the place empty.
Erza did not bother to hold her black sword at the Rage Mercenary. Instead, she slowly walked behind him with a calm look as the two flowed through the streets. Although she was not paying much attention to the mercenary in front of her, if the mercenary wanted to run away, Erza's sword would instantly pierce through his neck.
Behind Erza, the group of people from the restaurant followed at a distance of fifty meters.
The Rage mercenaries were based within Mirage City in a single central house. Right above the gates to the house, a single board written in fancy calligraphy had the words, "Rage Mercenaries" written on it with a group of four heavily armoured mercenaries standing right below it.
Seeing the giant board on top of the gates, Erza could not help but have a gloomy yet dark smile on her face as a flash of killing intent appeared within her eyes before following the mercenary to the headquarters.
"This is the territory of the Rage Mercenaries, speak your name!"
Just as Erza approached the giant gates, the guards at the gates blocked her path with a cold look and a loud shout.
"Hmph!" Erza snorted once more as the black sword appeared in her right hand. In a flash, the heavily armoured mercenary had his throat pierced as blood began to spill all over the ground.
The Rage Mercenary gripped at his neck with his hands as his face began to pale before ultimately, his body fell to the ground.
Seeing their dead comrade on the ground, the other three mercenaries were all shocked. They quickly regained their bearings and cried out in anger.
"How brazen! To kill one of our Rage Mercenaries, you are impatient for death!" Immediately two weapons flew at Erza as the last one retreated in between the gates to report the commotion.
Suddenly, just as the two mercenaries moved into action, Erza's Melforce flashed with black lightnings and stabbed into the throats of the two before they could even react fast enough to register the sword.
In a single moment, Erza had killed three of the four guards at the gate and the last one had escaped inside to warn the others.
Staring coldly at the three dead bodies on the ground, Erza looked at the board overhead. "Rage Mercenaries, today is the day you will be eradicated from Mirage City." With that, she leaped into the air with the faint glow of her sword and slashed apart the board symbolizing the Rage Mercenaries.
After destroying the Rage Mercenaries' board, Erza immediately kicked apart the gates with a crashing noise. The wooden gates had been instantly blasted off the door hinges before landing on the ground far away from her.
*Bang!*
Just as the large gates fell to the ground, a large sound reverberated through the air along with the doors breaking into pieces and flying everywhere in a storm of splinters.
"Hmph, who is so audacious to go and attack our Rage Mercenaries?" At the same time, a furious voice called out to Erza from inside.
Erza walked forward casually step by step. She walked with a gentle approach as if she was on an evening stroll. Even her face was calm as if she was not taking the Rage Mercenaries seriously.
As Erza walked into the courtyard, the figures inside the house suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. In the previously empty space in front of her, a single blue robed middle aged man stood there. The man looked to be around fifty years old with a few scars adorning his face. They made his appearance rather frightening.
Following the entrance of this man, another group of twenty people flew into the courtyard in quick succession; a few of them running while the others flew down from the ceiling.
In a short moment, there was a total of over a hundred men filling up the courtyard with Erza in the centre, surrounded.
The man with the scarred face stared coldly at Erza as he measured her up."Girl, who are you and why are you here to fight with us Rage Mercenaries?"
Erza returned the glare as she looked around herself. Instead of answering the man, she asked her own question, "Is this everyone from the Rage Mercenaries?"
Hearing this, the middle aged man furrowed his eyebrows, "What is the meaning of your question?"
Erza coldly smiled as her right hand clenched the Melforce. "From here on out, Mirage City will no longer have the Rage Mercenaries."
When Erza's words reached the ears of every Rage Mercenaries, their faces all changed abruptly. In an instant, every cold glare directed at Erza was replaced with a furious anger and killing desire.
The scarred man had a look of fury as well as his expression grew dark. A very intense amount of killing intent emanated from his eyes as he stared fiercely at Erza with a sneer, "Girl, with just you, you have no qualifications to speak of such a thing. Someone, go and seize her. Let this ignorant girl understand how high the heavens are compared to the earth, let her know our Rage Mercenaries are not people to fight with!"
As the man barked out an order, the surrounding mercenaries did not hesitate for a moment as each one of them took out their weapons and casted their spells. They charged and aimed their attacks at Erza from every possible angle.
Erza let out a sneer as her body flickered out of sight. Just as the last of her body flickered away, the attacks from her enemies all hit nothing but air.
Erza rapidly moved back and forth like a bolt of lightning as she lashed out with her Melforce. Easily stabbing mercenary after mercenary in the throat, her sword moved with a nimble grace, fast enough for most of the Knights to die without knowing it. Each one of them crumpled to the ground as they were killed.
Although it was Erza against over a hundred men, the difference between the two sides was far too vast. So it had become a massacre for the Rage Mercenaries. In fact, for Erza, it was almost as if the Rage Mercenaries were not even fighting back since they were utterly incapable of capturing Erza. Her speed was simply too fast for them.
Under the quick sword of Erza, another two men met a quick death. Then in the time it took for one small breath, eight people died to her sword.
The battle lasted for another five breaths before the group of a hundred men instantly fell down to half its original numbers.
The scarred man looked on at the massacre Erza had made with a dazed expression. In just a matter of a few dozen seconds, Erza had managed to kill fifty people inconceivably quick. What frightened the scarred man was how fast and efficiently Erza had killed those men.
Erza continued to flow through each opponent smoothly like water. With each movement she made, another man fell to her sword with blood flying through the air. The floor alone had begun to form a pool of mixed blood from each of Erza's victims.
The merciless slaughter continued for a little longer as each Rage Mercenary cried out a battle cry continuously. Unsurprisingly, not a single one of them who exchanged a blow with Erza had cried out in pain, since Erza had cut apart their throats and rendered them speechless. Some of them were not even able to feel the pain before losing their life.
After another ten breaths, Erza had finally come to a stop and ended the one sided massacre. At this moment, the entire courtyard was littered with the dead bodies of the Rage Mercenaries.
There had been a hundred of them, but after Erza was done with them, all hundred of them were scattered on top of each other. Each one of the bodies had a single wound to their neck that let blood flow freely onto the ground, dying it a crimson red. The stench of the blood began to waft up into the air and would definitely make anyone vomit if they smelled it.
By now, it was only the scarred man with a dozen other men right behind him that were left. All of them had sluggish looks on their faces as if they could not believe what had just happened.
There used to be a hundred people. However, in a short moment, all of them were killed thoroughly by a youth that was no older than twenty years old. Even though they had personally witnessed this shocking massacre, they still could not believe it. The eleven people were terribly frightened where they stood without a single voice escaping from them.
Erza stared at the remaining people with a calm expression before a merciless grin slowly replaced it. The first hundred people she had killed were only those of the early and mid level Knights. But these remaining people were the pillars of the Rage Mercenaries who were at least a Late Knight.