As Kenneth and Kailen neared the group, they quickly spread out and surrounded the duo. The one that caught Kailen's attention was a large man in front of himself around six foot five inches tall with a large build standing directly opposite himself. The man looked like a rabid dog with visible scar tissue around his eyes and a shaved head, he was staring ferociously into Kailen's eyes.
Kenneth beside him had clearly lost his composure in front of the fierce-looking men especially the large man, he quickly looked towards the gate of his home where the guards were stationed but was left disappointed to see them unconscious on the floor.
"What do you want Macky?"
Kenneth asked in a pitiful tone, clearly knowing their intentions. A hooded man walked from behind the corner revealing a handsome face with blonde hair, he smiled as he saw them surrounded.
"Well, look what we have here..."
"Nilen, you can be sure my father will hear of this. It's only a matter of time before someone at the mansion notices something wrong."
"That's ok, you two will be long dealt with before then."
Nilen smiled maliciously before nodding at the large man Macky, who grinned in response before throwing a powerful punch towards Kailen's face. Kailen alert the whole time managed to slip his head off center to barely dodge the blow, which slightly grazed his ear. The rest of the group hastily joined the action, two men were left to fight Kenneth which seemed more than enough while the rest focused on Kailen.
Kailen took a step back but was greeted by a strong punch to his jaw that sent him reeling towards on oncoming thug, he managed to recover delivering a swift short elbow directly to the thug's chin that sent him tumbling to the ground.
Macky arrived and delivered a strong body kick which Kailen hastily blocked, the blow still knocking the air from his lungs and send him rolling on the ground. Judging from his power this man Macky was no weak cultivator, his grin only seemed to widen as he saw the grimace on Kailen's face.
"FUCK YOU, FUCKER!"
Kenneth's screams entered his ears as Kailen turned to see him swinging with comically reckless swings, he had blood pouring from his nose and a cut above the eye. Despite the situation, Kailen cracked an amused smile at the situation of his friend who had yet to quit despite his nonexistent combat techniques.
Kailen, left no rest bite as he rose he was once again met with a flurry of blows from two of the other thugs. As a sloppy and wide right hook approached, Kailen slipped down before turning and planting a kick to the other oncoming thug. The man was knocked back onto his back and left gasping for breath on the floor as he clutched his stomach.
The man on the roof watched Kailen fight with interest but otherwise showed no signs of intervening. Nilen, on the other hand, was watching the fight unfold with an expression of crazed excitement.
Macky approached with a combination of punches a few which landed clean on Kailen's face, it was clear to Kailen that this Macky was well versed in hand to hand combat. He was incorporating a variety of feints and combinations that made him hard to predict, while Kailen was skilled in hand-to-hand combat due to experience he'd never trained in any martial art to perfect the craft and was hence left at a big disadvantage.
Most of his techniques had been self-taught and hence were sloppy and unrefined, to a skilled opponent his movements allowed him to be read. Kailen blocked the blows he could while trying to find an opportunity to end the fight in a swift counter, Macky threw a three punch combination to Kailen's face which brought up his guard and then followed it with a round-house kick to the open midsection.
From the intense pain assaulting him from his ribs, Kailen was sure some were broken. Nilen's mood gradually grew worse as the fight drew on he yelled at Macky.
"MACKY! Just kill him already, you two just knock Kenneth around a bit more so we can go."
Macky drew a knife from his boot and stood ready clutching it tightly, Kailen quickly thought up a plan to disarm the knife as he saw the big man charge at him head-on. Macky swung wide with the knife to which Kailen hopped just out of reach, the knife slicing through his shirt.
Kailen quickly judged that Macky was fairly unskilled with the knife which left him wide open as he landed and kicked him straight in his manhood. A man's weak point was always his groin, Kailen felt only slightly bad as he saw Macky tremble on his knees with his face turning white.
On his knees and head a perfect height, Kailen provided a swift kick which easily fractured his jaw and a swift end to his consciousness. He quickly grabbed the knife before turning to face the rest of the thugs which had stayed out of the fight after Macky used the knife.
Kailen twirled the knife in his hands, before running close and slashing the thug across the throat he was rewarded with a shower of blood some of which happened to enter his mouth. His eyes slowly turning red was seen by both Nilen and the man in the mask, their reactions contrasting one another.
Nilen trembled in fright as he saw the dark red eyes illuminating in the darkness whereas the man on the roof smiled with uncontrollable excitement. Nilen snapped out of his shock quickly turned and ran which was seen by all, the thugs having lost their employer snarled and chased after him.
Kailen was about to follow when he caught Kenneth's pitiful figure in the corner of his eyes, lying on the floor in a puddle of his blood.
"You okay there pal?"
"I would... have had them... in a few more minutes..."
"Oh, I'm sure."