-Thirty minutes later
Alusec stared at his face in the mirror, wondering when last he looked this good. All his facial hairs were gone.
Lam cut his dreads low, so it was only reaching his shoulders now. He styled it in a weird way that Alusec was not familiar with, but had to give him thumbs up because it looked really good. The dreads were tied in a bun while two long strands fell in front of his face on both sides reaching his chin.
Lam and Chad had to admit that Alusec was very handsome and if they wanted to go out to pick chicks, he would be able to get females easily. It was not just his looks there was just something about him that made them feel inferior to him.
"This looks really good Lam.... had you destroyed my hair I would have flattened this whole city," Alusec spoke after he finished admiring his hair.
"It's all thanks to this..." Lam said while rubbing his blade hand.
Alusec remembered something and smiled sheepishly.
"Since I don't have any money to pay you, how about I leave you with this upgrade..." Alusec asked.
"Really?" Lam asked excitedly
"Of course, you've earned it," Alusec replied immediately, feeling glad that he took the bait.
"Thank you, sir Alusec," Lam said as he rubbed his blade with joy.
'That was close, I forgot that in the mortal realm you have to pay to get something done. Aww, those times when I visited planets like this, people offered their services to me for free. I never needed money then but now I do. I'm going to have to be careful, I cannot yet return to the Celestial plane until I recover at least a tenth of my power. I've only recovered about a three millionth now so I'm going to have to be low key, I cannot sully my reputation as the greatest of all gods by owing a debt.....' Alusec was lost in thought when he heard a scream.
Kiiaaarrrhhhhh!
"The Asura bandits are here!" A loud voice sounded and the whole street erupted into chaos.
-Run!
-I can't pack all my goods on time!
-Those maniacs are here to plunder again!
Alusec, Lam, and Chad came out of the shop and saw everyone running helter-skelter.
Alusec looked around in confusion and saw silhouettes in the distance riding on giant animals and moving speedily towards them.
"Bandits?" He asked
Lam and Chad nodded at the same time.
'All discerning eyes'
Alusec activated one of his powers and his eyes zoomed in on them from the distance of over nine hundred meters.
He could see a group of forty riding on the back of huge wolves that were about sixteen feet tall, coming from the angle of the forest since the were at the edge of the city, they were very close to the Vorilan forest.
"This is rather interesting, they're thorkans and climeras riding the netherwolfs.." Alusec spoke.
The thorkans were like humans, the only way to differentiate between them and humans was with the tattoo of a butterfly on their face and they were known to have the ability to manipulate fire, while the climeras had the heads of wolfs and the body of a human, the climeras were known for their brute strength.
Both Lam and Chad were surprised that Alusec was able to see that far.
The netherwolfs were so fast that in thirty seconds they were already in the streets. Since there was so much chaos not many people were able to get in their houses and lock the doors.
"Where are the authorities? they should have arrived here by now..." Alusec asked.
Alusec noticed the weird look on their face when he mentioned the authorities.
"They're not coming... They don't care about the edge of the city, everyone living in this area is a low life so they don't even bother sending out guards to protect us. They will only interfere if the bandits infiltrate deeper into the city where the big shots stay..." Chad answered Alusec.
"We can only take care of this ourselves...." Lam said while running towards the bandits.
"Lam! what are you doing?" Chad shouted with fear when he saw Lam running towards them with his big body.
"I've been wanting to test these new babies that I got from sir Alusec.... now that they're life targets in front of me how can I resist..." Lam replied back after reaching a distance.
"La.." before Chad could call out to him again Alusec held his shoulder and nodded.
'I forgot that Sir Alusec here is actually powerful..... I'm worrying myself for nothing.' Chad relaxed after feeling Alusec's grip on his left shoulder.
Lam ran towards the bandits while transforming his hand into the same blade he used for styling hair.
"Oh, who is this fool? Railey, take care of him." The thorkan who was the leader commanded one of the climeras to go and handle Lam who was running towards them.
"Yes Chief" Railey answered while leading his wolf to the front of the group and moving towards Lam.
Lam stood in front of the street while the people who sold goods on that street were behind him.
His left hand slowly turned into a blade too.
Slash!
Railey came riding towards him while slashing with a weapon that looked like a machete.
Lam saw the blade coming towards his head but he didn't dodge. He jumped in the air, raised his left hand, and slashed towards the oncoming blade.
Shiiiinnnngg!
Even before the two blades collided, the bandit's blade was already cleaved into two halves. Lam's blade was still headed towards the arm of the bandit.
Sweeeevvv!
Thud!
Right before his very eyes the bandit's arm was cleanly severed from his shoulders and fell to the ground with blood spraying out from the empty shoulder like a fountain.
"Kiiiaaaarrrrhhhhh!" Railey screamed as he fell off the wolf who rammed head-on into Lam.
Gbam!
Lam was sent flying like a sack of beans.
The bandits were shocked when they saw how Railey's hand was severed from his shoulders. They weren't expecting this to happen.
They surrounded Lam and kept riding around him, who was struggling to get back up because of his size.
"Stay down..." one of the bandits said and gave him a kick as he jumped down from his mount.
About ten of them got down from their mount and started raining kicks on him.
Anytime he was close to getting up another kick will send him tumbling down. He kept waving his blades around but the bandits avoided it after seeing what it did to their comrade.
"Stop!" A loud voice made everyone halt in their tracks. The voice was so compelling, that everyone had the urge to bow down.
Everyone turned to look at who spoke and saw a man in dark robes and dreadlocks tied in a bun walking towards them.
The people on the street gave way for him.
Alusec walked in their midst and arrived in front of the bandits. He walked over to where Lam was and picked him up. Lam's face was already full of bruises and cuts, his lips were swollen.
He closed his eyes and stretched his palm out in front of Lam.
'Regeneration'
In front of everyone, Lam's wounds closed up and his swollen lips returned back to normal.
Lam was shocked, 'He has more than one source.'
"I will give you ten seconds to get out of my sight or none of you will be leaving here in one piece..." Alusec decided to give them a chance to leave.
"Who is this capable poser?" The Chief asked
"Nine" Alusec replied
"Get rid of this idiot." The Chief commanded
"five" Alusec spoke again
"Hey, it was nine just now how did it get to five?" The Chief asked feeling like the man was just trying to make the time of his death come quicker.
"one..." Alusec replied him again.
"Kill him" The Chief had a bad feeling in his mind so he ordered everyone to get rid of Alusec.
They started riding towards him with their mounts while those around him prepared to attack.
Just when the wolves were few meters away and the bandits on the ground unleashed their abilities.
"Zero," Alusec said and everyone paused.
The bandits that were preparing to attack with their abilities paused, the ones on the mounts paused too, some of them already ignited a fire on their arms and we're ready to attack but everyone and everything came to a standstill.
Alusec walked around the area staring at the people who just stood there, some with their mouths wide open, and their arms raised out.
"I can only manipulate time on a small scale now..... but I can still easily win this fight," Alusec said while walking around, he stepped in front of the mount that the chief was on and stopped.
The Chief was holding a sword of fire while sitting on the wolf, his mouth was wide open.
"But where is the fun in that.... I want to see the despair in their faces as I take them down one at a time." Alusec said while smirking.
snap!
Time went back to normal when Alusec snapped his fingers, and now he was standing right in front of the chief's mount.
The bandits were surprised when they saw that he wasn't surrounded anymore.
'How did he appear there?' they all thought at the same time.
"However you got here doesn't matter because you will be crushed..." The chief made the wolf increase its speed.
Just when the wolf was right in front of Alusec, he smirked and stretched out his hand.
Gbam!
The wolf slammed into his palm but could not move an inch forward.
The bandits paused in their tracks with their eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.
Alusec grabbed the head of the wolf.
Awooo!
The wolf howled but could not remove itself from his grasp.
He lifted the wolf up while the Chief bandit fell off and flung it.
Everyone watched the wolf flying away in mid-air with mouths wide open.
Gbam!
The wolf slammed into two other wolves at the back.
The Chief nearly lost it. He ran forward screaming as he lifted his fiery sword up.
Slash!
He slashed at Alusec with his sword, expecting it to cleave him in two. Contrary to his expectations Alusec grabbed the fiery sword and put out the fire with his hands.
Crraaaccck!
He clenched the sword tight and it broke to pieces and immediately followed up with a backhand slapped to the chief's left cheek.
The slap sent the chief flying into one of the shops as his body broke through the wall and flew out the back.
The bandits were scared silly and started running away.
Of course, Alusec didn't give them the chance to escape and decided that he was going to capture all of them alive.
'Reverse gravity'
Alusec said softly in his mind and all the bandits started floating towards him.