"Takao. Maybe it's the barbarians."
"Then? What should I do?"
"I, I will look for it. Then if I think we couldn't drove them away this time. Please help us."
"I see. Very well. I will help you."
"Like you said. We need to give you something in exchange for helping us right? Then I think we couldn't give anything for now. But I will try my best to pay you. So please help us! I still had dreams for the future. And also... I had a woman I loved."
"I told you right? Maybe I could help you without you giving anything to me. But once I know that you are unworthy of my help. I will leave you behind."
"Yes! I promise! We are worthy of your help!"
"Yeah. But I still don't know if my magic is potent enough."
"You could try it to them."
"But wait. Why now? Why are they attacking now?"
"We just completed the harvest a few days ago. Next week. A merchant will come by here and will buy all of it since we couldn't go to the city to sell it ourselves."
"I see. Then let's go. I will go outside undetected first."
"Martin. Please hurry!"
He then opened the door.
"I'm coming."
They rushed towards the city gate.
There. They saw twenty-seven barbarians. And in front of them. A hulking figure who wore more armor than them and holds a gigantic axe. Which seems to imply that it is their leader.
"Hey! Cowards! Give us your harvest and resources! Or if you don't want to. We will all slaughter you inside there once and for all! You might not want a piece of me. The MIghty Gallenhorn! Whahahaha!"
"What should we do? Everyone? Village chief maybe we should just give them it. We could still survive since they are not taking all." A rather young looking man spoke to an old man. Which is the village chief
"But some of us died from hunger. Even if we gave them the harvest and managed to survive. How about the others that died from hunger? They are just benefiting as long as we are living. I myself don't know what we could do. I don't want us to die from hunger... But as long as we live. They are just benefitting."
"We will fight."
"Martin?" Martin holds a spear.
"We will fight. The village chief is right. If we are still living. They are just benefiting. But we must fight now. Either they decimate us all or we win. It doesn't matter. Those people are fools. If they kill us. They won't get anything at all. They will leave this place if we all died. But if we managed to win. It is much better. So we will fight."
"Then what do you want? The kids will be robbed of their future! We adults could go on. We must focus on the kids. For their future!" Said by a woman that seems to be nearly in her 30's.
"Then that gives us more reason to fight! Not just for the children but for everyone! I myself is just seventeen. That means I still have a future to go on. I don't want myself to die here. We will fight. But I'm pretty sure that we won't die."
"How could you say we wouldn't die? Their leader that we never saw before is here. How could you say that? Aren't you scared of that person? His figure is enough to make us tremble."
"There's only one person that I feared. And he's always here."
"Who?"
"Hey!!! Stop talking and give us what we want!" Said by Gallenhorn.
"Hey you! Three of you! Go there and get it."
"Yes!" All of the barbarians have big bodies. But Gallenhorn's body is the only one that is biggest.
The three barbarians started walking towards the gate.
"Now. Tell me. If we will fight or not! All you! All the guards. Stand with me and let's drive them away."
"Yeah. I had faith in Martin. Since he's the strongest in this village. I will fight with you!"
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
Until all the village guards agreed on fighting after grabbing from their sheath their designated weapons.
"Hey, give it to us. The harvest."
"We won't." Martin said and stabbed the barbarian with his spear.
"Hey! You want a fight!?"
Another barbarian said. But the other 2 are annihilated due to being outnumbered.
"Those idiot villagers wanted a fight huh? Teach them a lesson and kill some of them!"
He sends ten of them and the other fourteen remained on his side.
The two sides met. And Martin took the first kill.
Martin is the most skilled warrior. They just couldn't fight before because they don't want more corpses to be rolling. But now. The guards wanted vengeance and so they took a final stance against them.
Martin is able to kill three of them easily. But some of them are injured now due to the difference in body strength.
"Shit. I had to help them."
Martin quickly came to help the others. After a while. They won without any of the guards dying —Which is totally twenty in number— But almost half of them are severely wounded and couldn't fight anymore.
The remaining fourteen charged towards them.
I believe in you. Takao. Please help us.
Martin and the remaining village guards charged too.
Though they are outnumbered this time. They still go and fought them.
"Whaaaa!!!!"
Martin charged and take on 4 enemies at once. They circled him. Martin stabbed the first one which went through the body. That then instantly dies. He kicked the face of an enemy on his back. That then made it stepped back. He proceeds to intercept the attack from the left and kicked that person's crotch. Which dealt an excruciating pain. Disabling that person from moving a few seconds which gives Martin the window to cut him down. He then used the handle to hit the last person on his belly and cut him down too.
And just like before. He proceeds to help others and succeded to win. And luckily and none of them died. As Martin is able to help them all.
Gallenhorn then proceeds to charge at him.
"You're good! Kid!"
He launched an attack at Marting. But then somebody intercepts it.
Seemingly out of nowhere. Takao appeared and blocked it.
"What!? With bare hands?" Gallenhorn exclaimed.
"That should be enough."
He placed his palm flat on Gallenhorn's stomach. Then Gallenhorn suddenly launched fifty meters away.
"Can't believe I could do things like Fa Jin like that here in such an exaggerated way."
"Takao?"