The two Myscreatian stood up, they staggered for a bit. A wave of dizziness strike through their mind. Reyhan held his head and activated a mind cleansing magic, a small unnoticeable magic circle appeared on his palm. He didn't forget for Nicholas share too. But, he still held his head as an act to deceive them.
Fortunately, they fed him with a poison that affects the neural system. And not some kind of health-damaging, the more direct and crude poison. It was their mistake for feeding a mind mage with such a poison.
Of course, if it was another poison, then Reyhan and Nicholas have other means to detoxify it. As long as it wasn't the [Tabiat Percuma(P)], the notoriously demonic poison, or other dangerous substances at the same level, they could neutralize it.
Reyhan smiled bitterly watching the little girl with a glowing bracelet. Right now, she was holding a small dagger and ready with her battle stance.
"Even you, huh?" he muttered in a resigned tone.
"Hihihi ..., big brother Lei, I am so sorry for doing this to you. But, you're just too conspicuous with all of that luxury, the carriage, that gonshu horse, and your robe is enough reason to do this. Even so, you have no guards and you dare to travel in the night with that puny cultivation?! It's as if you're screaming 'please, rob me'!" the little girl let out a soft chuckle and said with a hint of sarcasm. "Ahh, thanks for the string bracelet, though."
Reyhan shook his head with a thin smile on his face.
"Mr. Lu ..., are you really gonna do this to me?"
"So what of it, young man? This isn't the first time I am doing this. Don't worry, if you comply with my demand I'll let you live a little longer." said Lu Zheng, waving and pointing his war hammer.
"It's the truth, what an honest robber you are." Reyhan noticed that there was no mana fluctuation around him or in his heart, that could only mean that his words he said just now were the truth. "Why are you trying to rob me?"
"Haa? You still have the gut to ask that? Of course, it is because you are rich but this weak. What the hell is wrong with your head? Not only you travel in the night without any guards, but your cultivation is also just a peak Intermediate Warrior? The hell?! You've given up on your life?!" It was said by another person, a robust middle-aged man.
Lu Zheng convoy consisted of ten-able men roughly between the age of 20 tp 40 with nine women who were presumably their wives. There were also children. In total, there were 31 people in the caravan.
"Hehehe ..., no matter what, it's an easy catch this time 'eh? I never thought that there is exist this two idiot like them."
"To think they will eat and drink without minding if it's poisoned or not. This probably the first time we got the easy one."
"Hahaha ..., I told you, my wife's poison is too lethal! Huhu ..., it reminds me, she made me drunk one of those. It's scary ..." a middle-aged man laughed loudly boasted his wife, but in the end, his laughter subsided and muttered in low voice.
"Huh, Gaolong, did you say something?!" a neat-looking housewife who stood on the back asked the man who just laughed.
"N-no!! Wifey, you're the best and still will be the best. Don't worry about what I said, please don't feed me with your failed concoction or something!? I beg you!"
It seems that in that household, the wife had more authority than the husband.
"I want the old man's hat, it looks interesting!"
"I'll get the clothes then."
"I don't care about that black and white, but that blue robe it's mine! I must have it, no matter what!"
They discussed the share of the loot even before they succeed in the robbery. This was because they think that the two foolish from noble households didn't have any chance to retaliate.
"Fatty Lu, if you have finished. Bring me that person glove, alright?" a plump middle-aged woman said pointing at Nicholas.
"No worries honey, I'll even get you the moon if you ask me." Lu Zheng said with a smile.
Reyhan, still with a hand on his head asked with much difficulty. "Mr. Lu ..., don't you fear that by doing this, it might give you an unforeseen predicament later on? Do you aware of my identity?"
"Nahh ..., I don't know and I won't bother to dig out your identity. Even if you're some sort of royalty from the Nasett Continent, I won't care. What can you, a tiny and insignificant royalty from a third-rate continent do to me? A resident of the Lastarte Continent?"
Reyhan's face and complexion looked like a person who hailed from the Nasett continent. It was understandable that Lu Zheng thinks he was from that place. Even if the old man Nicholas has the face of a Whithornian, he was just a servant. Not worth a second glance.
The two Myscreatian didn't aware of the geopolitics between the five continents. It hadn't been a day since their summoning, and Dian Xianli immediately sent them away. Thus, they unable to understand the meaning of Lu Zheng's word.
But from Lu Zheng's perspective, he thought that perhaps their silence was because they were frightened. As a person who was born and raised in the Lastarte Continent, he believed that he was superior to those from the four other continents. It was because this continent was the center of the world. And the overall strength of cultivator from the Lastarte Continent is higher to a certain degree than the other continent.
Even if they are a King from the other continent, they were comparable to a puny little Baron of an outskirt territory in this Lastarte Continent. This disparity caused by the difference between the Heaven and Earth Qi they cultivated is fundamentally different. And thus, many of the Lastarte Continent Resident believed that they are superior to the people who reside on the other four continents.
Reyhan and Nicholas put an end on their act. The Mind Mage stood straight and coldly gazed at them. Nicholas also stroked his thin mustache and exhaled a steamy breath.
"Young Master ...," Nicholas called.
Reyhan activated a bluish magic circle with the help of his ring, a blue dome-shaped barrier materialized surrounding him. He then said. "Three minutes."
"Understood." Nicholas cracked his neck and fist. "Please forgive for this one rudeness, I also need to release some pre-accumulated steam. Thanks to the Almighty Red Dragon that you're here, Mister Lu and everyone."
After the small monologue, he leaped to the nearest robber and sent him a nice abdomen punch.
'Hmph, a puny Intermediate Warrior like you ..., what can you do to this great me?' what was the man thought of watching the old man punch.
The man didn't bother to dodge! He sent his Qi to protect his stomach and wait for the punch to connect.
It was not a normal punch that relies only on pure physical strength, but also different from the Battle Technique that cultivator used. A white steam gas shot out from this punch. The hot, massive steam force caused the stomach and intestines to contract and sent the gastric acid to flow upward. His internal organ was almost beautifully destroyed.
He spurted blood from his mouth before his body was sent flying to the nearest ruin stone pillar. The shockwave caused by the impact dissipated the cloudy white steam. The man in question fainted with just that. At the last moment before his consciousness fade, arose a single question, 'what the hell'?
"Da!" "Dear husband!!" A teenage boy and a middle-aged woman shouted seeing their father and husband fainted.
"Acha ..., I didn't hold back my power. It's been a long time since I use this skill. The power consumption ..., humu, it's inefficient like always." Nicholas sighed seeing his opponent already defeated just like that.
Just like how cultivators of this world comprehend a set of martial art moves called Battle Technique, the Myscreatian Warrior also has their battle Skill.
[Steam Merchant(R)], [Allescar - War Veteran(B)], [Khabid - Spineless Shadow(P)], [Rebecca - Tainted Arrow(G)], [Beast Tamer(G)], and all of the Warrior-class Card are able to use such skills. Some of the exceptional Magic-class Card also able to use battle skills, but most of the Mage-class don't.
By any means, Nicholas's opponent was not a weakling. Robber-disguised-as-a-merchant number 1 was a cultivator who has reached Head Warrior - 8 and already mastered an Earth-grade Third-rate Battle Technique. He also comprehends a decent Body Strengthening technique that made him could endure a punch with the force of a hundred bulls. He was one of the strongest people in this convoy.
To be blown back by an Intermediate Warrior like this Nicholas. Just what kind of demonic technique this old man practiced?
Other robbers suddenly alarmed, and their wives also starting put their attention on the battle. The first thing that makes them alarmed was that the Poison-that-Make-Genius-gone-Senile didn't work. The second was because the strength of the old man in a black suit exceeded their expectation. And the third was, they felt an unprecedented fear looking at the blue circular, mysterious, glowing ..., something that popped out around the blue robe Desert Man.
"Uncle Lu! You must kill that person!" the teenager boy shouted while pointing his finger at Nicholas
"Brother-in-law Lu, capture that person and let me deal with him! I'll make sure he will suffer and will choose death over life." the middle-aged woman she said something scary while grinding her kitchen knife.
"Xiao Dong's mother please calm down ..., brother-in-law is fine. He's still breathing and just fainted." another housewife admonished.
"No matter what, that person hurts my husband! How can I keep calm!" the wife of the fainted person shouted with red eyes.
"Second sister-in-law, please calm down ..., let us the men take care of them? Right, First Brother?" said one of the men, he turned his attention to Lu Zheng.
By now, Lu Zheng hand's which held the war hammer trembled with his back flooded in a cold sweat. He didn't expect that the old man has this much strength. It was his miscalculation this time.
But after thinking for a bit, he calmed down. Nicholas and Reyhan were only Intermediate Warrior from their qi. They couldn't be that strong, right? Is it because of some help of a heaven-defying artifact or something? Then, he must surely get that kind of artifact.
"Y-you ..., old man, you've hidden your strength so well. What a terrifying movement. To defeat Second Brother just like that ..., I admit that this is something beyond my expectation. But, do you think you can fight all of us? My brothers, that old man must possess some sort of artifact that could help raise his strength! I don't believe he could fight all of us altogether! Therefore, attack him with all your might! No holding back! Charge!" Lu Zheng shouted and leaped while brandishing his war hammer.
"Sheyaathhh!"
"Hyaaatthhh!!"
After the strange shout and war cries, they launched a series of attacks using their Battle Techniques.
Tyrannical Might Hammer: Blow!
The first one to attack was Lu Zheng, he sent a heavy blow by swinging his hammer downward from above his head. The war hammer was shinning in green light and it looked like a move in slow motion when it swung. Like there was a tyrannical resistance from the air around it.
Heaven Sealing Fist: Sealing the Dragon!
Another person punched his clenched fist on the empty air. Yet, there was an imaginary dragon shot out from that very punch. It was a qi-generated imaginary, and the strength behind it was domineering and tyrannical. The white-scaled hornless imaginary dragon let out a heaven-shaking earth-shattering shout and it flew to attack Nicholas.
Incendiary Hydrocarbon Palm: Methane Blast!
A person attacked Nicholas's back, he uses his palm filled with fire qi to generate a fire blast. It was not big enough to destroy a building or with blasting power like that of a TNT, but it still could make someone hurt. The blast from his fist sent him back a few steps.
Heavenly Ni'an Transformation: Poisonous Claw!
The last person to attack was using a transformation technique that makes his body change into a certain beast. His hand transformed into a lion-like claw with razor-sharp poisonous-looking nails. He slashed the claw to Nicholas as if trying to shred him apart.
All of it happened almost at the same time, and from all cardinal directions. They moved really fast! Without any chance to dodge, the only thing Nicholas could do was to receive all four attacks. Or maybe surrender his fate by only receiving one attack to avoid three others.
Neither of that was a good choice, the technique they launched has the roughly same attack power. So even if he received one, he would be knocked back and then received all three attacks. The result would still be the same.
With the four strongest cultivators on their group attacked, the rest of the men also prepared to attack in case Nicholas managed to dodge all of the attacks by a hairbreadth. They didn't want to underestimate their opponent after what happened with the man called Second Brother.
Lu Zheng and three other people who attacked smiled because of the lack of reaction from Nicholas.
They could see the ending, this old man already a dead man in their eyes. This was a good thing, with that they only need to mind about the Young Master.
'Drop dead already!!!'
Their attack landed on the old man's body. Lu Zheng's hammer hacked his head and the person himself felt that it went through something like a skull. The other attackers also felt slight resistance from their attack into a body.
But ...
The butler-attired old man dissipated just like foggy steam. It made the four attackers surprised, but then that surprise changed into a panic. They couldn't stop their technique!?!
The four Earth-grade Battle Technique clashed each other and thus ended up hurting the attackers.
"Guyaaakkk!"
"Ackkk!"
"Arghhh ....!!!"
"Slarakk!!"
Strange cries of pain. Thankfully, they have mastered a body strengthening technique that made one's skin thick and solid just like a sheet of metal. But, a full-force attack from a cultivator of the same realm was and still hurting.
Lu Zheng's fat face collided with the flame blast and he also received the residue of the dragon imaginary and the Ni'an's poison claw.
The dragon imaginary clashed with the person who his hand transformed into Ni'an's claw. The two of them didn't hold their power back at all and spurted blood because of the internal injuries caused by the clash of their own technique.
The most unfortunate was the person who sent a blasting palm because in front of him was Lu Zheng, the strongest person in the group, he received his mighty hammer technique head-on. Yes, head-on, the war hammer hacked his head and everyone could hear something cracked from him.
Turn out that their technique was used to hurt each other while the real target disappeared somewhere. The three-person was blown back, with the one who received Lu Zheng's hammer was sunk down to the earth.
"Fumu ..., the fist that used red mana just now looks interesting." Nicholas was already five meters away and two-meter above them.
On top of a ruin stone pillar, he stood looking down on all of them. The biggest moon out of three moons was just right behind Nicholas as if some sort of a background or something. This strange picturesque scene was giving dread to the robber-merchant-disguised group.
Just what was this old man made of? To disappear like a mist and reappeared just like that? Is his body made from steam or something? The red eyes and sharp expression of the butler were giving them an immense sense of dread. The weak-willed person already prostrated on the ground begging for their life.
They all forgot about a person that was more dangerous than the old man ..., the [Mind Mage(B)] magic was finally completed and ready to cast!
Around the blue-robed magician, there were already four bluish magic circles surrounding him like a shield. Reyhan opened his eyes, and rearranged the magic circle and connected it to be a pseudo-cube, or maybe an incomplete one. In the center of the said cube, there was a small amount of water mist created from the magic.
Reyhan undoes the barrier magic and shouted. "Nicholas, back off!"
"Certainly ..." Nicholas turned into foggy steam and dissipated from the night.
Even if Reyhan didn't say that, he was already prepared to back away as far as possible. Nicholas was afraid of him, the [Mind Mage(B)]. The Mind Mage was notorious for being the second or perhaps the first most troublesome opponent in the Myscreat, Nicholas didn't want to be affected by their dreadful mind magic.
Reyhan put the cube arranged-magic circle above his head and finally activated the spell.
"Mind Magic: Mist of Mayhem!"