The thundershower was still at its peak, but even its flowing droplets were unable to cleanse away the gloomy scene below it. A battle that was only moments from transpiring between famed bandit and merchant, destined to end in a tragedy, until an abrupt occurrence.
With a buzzing sound, a bright ray of light lit one section of the nearby woods at the corners of the rough pathway. As if drawn by this new light source, Vawn and Denver looked towards that direction in surprise.
Denver who was surprised gave one of his lackeys at this side a look, the lackey then nodded before he jumped, his figure dancing through the woods like an agile cheetah as he hurried to inspect the source of the unknown.
"Tsk, I want to see just who would have to gall to disrupt our affairs," Denver said with a ruthless look in his eyes as he kept his eyes in the direction his lackey went.
'Shit, just what could it be this time? Our luck couldn't get any worse, these guys were definitely commissioned by those bastards.'
Vawn's thoughts rang out as he could recall the face a few enemies he had since young. He hesitated a bit as he noticed that the strange light took up Denver's attention, a look of firmness appeared when he glanced at the two Centuarian guards with a knowing look.
As if they understood, the two Centuarian guards quickly brandished their pikes and released their bindings, their fierce gallop sounding as they instantly arrived within range of the distracted Denver and attacked.
"Vawn, you think that your foolish One Star E Class Warriors can sneak up on me? Hmph! Let me send them to their deaths!"
Denver said with a vile look in his eyes that had turned to glance at the assaulting Centuarians. He keenly watched as the two pikes that glowed with their mystical power cut through the dense rain droplets at high speeds towards his sides.
Not wasting a moment, he firmed up his grip on his chipped claymore before he kicked the ground, pushing himself backward by a meter's distance.
As a result of this action, the pikes stabbed thin air, but as if the Centuarians expected this, their faces had cruel sneers as the energy that coated their pikes flowed towards its tip and fired towards Denver at alarming speeds that few could ever avoid.
"Great, well-done men!" Vawn said with a laugh as he was gambling on this attack, he knew it was risky, but it seemed that the sneak assault was about to succeed.
Vawn looked on with eager eyes awaiting this famed bandit's death, but sadly, the result would prove otherwise.
Denver smirked as he saw the ray attacks; he didn't even try to dodge as his body soon became shrouded by a dense mystical power. He then crossed the sword in front of him as his mystical power formed a barrier before it.
The energies then collided soon after, creating an explosion that leveled the area before the carriage, leaving behind a deep ditch.
Denver stood at the center of this ditch with his sword held before him as if unphased by the previous all or nothing attack, but before Vawn and the Centuarians could even express their shock. Two cloaked shadows blurred and appeared by the Centuarians sides, their arms swung their daggers across the guards' necks, leaving behind a graceful arc of light before they stood behind them in silence.
The two Centuarians had widened their eyes as they held their throats with both of their arms. They tried to close the wound that was bleeding, but in the end, they fell to the ground in silence.
"Nooo!" Vawn cursed out loud as he saw the scene before him, he wanted to run away, but the two cloaked figures rapidly placed their daggers at his sides, causing him to halt.
Denver chuckled at this as he slowly walked forward and stopped a little distance from Vawn, his eyes staring at the carriage behind Vawn, causing him to feel a bit anxious.
Denver's mouth curved into a smile as he made a look as if he just recalled something when he spoke.
"Now that wasn't good behavior, Vawn, you've certainly let me down, as well as your family name. Hmm, come to think of it, wasn't there a famous prodigy amongst your clan? I've heard rumors that this thing of yours was supposed to be an entrance gift for his sake, how touching... bring him out!"
Following Denver's words, a few men walked into the carriage, causing Vawn's face to sink even further as he begged.
"No! Please, Mr. Denver, I am truly sorry about my conduct earlier, my mind was a bit muddled by the rain and lightning, please don't harm him, if you wish to punish anyone, do it with me instead?"
"Shut up!" Denver shouted as punched Vawn's flat belly with his fist, causing it to sink in deeply as he coughed out blood due to the severity of the hit.
The two other lackeys then grabbed Vawn's hands and forced him to kneel, showing an extremely pitiful appearance.
Denver then stared at him and spoke, "You listen here, Vawn, when I do things I don't like when others try to interrupt me, understood. Both you and your son are going to die here today; you can make no certain of it, I am only keeping you alive to see the death's of those who came to disrupt our affairs."
As Denver said this, his eyes no longer stared at Vawn as he only focused his attention to the scene with the lights in the nearby woods.
Vawn, who was a bit dizzy and weakened due to the harsh hit, coughed a bit more before he weakly gazed to the side, there he saw that a bandit had already brought out the trembling Jae, who was too scared to do anything.
'F*ck, if... if I ever get another chance... I will kill those bastards no matter what cost I have to pay,' Vawn thought with rage-filled eyes, but sadly, he knew that the likelihood of surviving today was far from what he could ever imagine.
Unlike this scene, a distance away from that scene, the bandit that traveled towards the light source soon arrived at an area where he could observe the situation.
There, within an open area with a few large stones, a gate had formed from nothingness. It swirled for a while before four figures appeared from it, not long after it contracted and vanished into thin air.
Looking at the group that appeared, one would notice that they seemed no different from a regular family, a handsome man and a boy with black hair, with a woman and a child with colorful green hair.
'This... this is teleportation! Such a high-level spell, who the hell are these people?' The bandit thought in shock, but it also didn't hinder him from sending back news through a unique information technique.
'Boss, I've found the disturbance, but it appears that it's only a family of four.'
Denver, who heard this message in his mind, frowned before asking inwardly, 'A family? Where did they come from? How strong are they?'
The lackey's eyes flashed as he focused on only the man and woman, ignoring the children. However, moments after, his eyes then became a bit more at ease as he spoke, "Boss, both adults are at least a One Star D Class combatant. As for they came from, I'm uncertain as they had emerged from a teleportation spell. Should I keep observing them?"
Denver paused for a moment to think before he sent him back a message with cold eyes.
"Don't; they aren't as important as I'd thought, One Star D Class isn't no different from the empire's cannon fodder soldier. Anyways, let's not waste any more time as that other party is still waiting on our results from today's affairs; just hurry and kill them, we don't need any witnesses."
On the other side, the bandit's eyes soon after revealed a dense murderous desire as he answered, "As you wish, boss."
Unlike the planning bandits, Marius, who had just finished inspecting his surroundings, looked at Ria and spoke.
"Honey, it's raining quite hard, but it looks like we've gotten ourselves into quite some trouble already."
Ria looked at Marius before turning her eyes towards the area with murderous intent, she grinned as she spoke, "Dear, should I go?"
Marius shook his head as he cracked his knuckles and spoke, "No, for some reason, I'm feeling a bit off, so let me handle it."
Ria nodded, saying nothing more as she only held onto the sleeping Little Rose and used her powers to conjure an umbrella out of the surroundings.
Marius looked at Grevlin and spoke, "Son, come, it's time father show you the ways of the world."
Little Grevlin looked at his father with an innocent look as he spoke, "Okay father."
The bandit that was gearing up to attack looked at this in rage. Never had he been so disrespected, he had thought that upon revealing his menacing presence, he would see the looks of panic on their faces. Typically, only it would cause him delight before he killed such weaklings. However, today he was drastically mistaken.
Suddenly, the bandit's eyes widened in shock as he no longer saw Marius nor Grevlin. Before he could even understand what was going on, he heard a cold and indifferent voice behind him.
"Son, this will be your first lesson, the lesson of what you should do when another man comes to threaten your life, watch closely..." The voice said.
As the bandit heard this, he felt an astonishing amount of danger the likes of which he had never before, he knew without turning around that in this very moment, his life had met its end...
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