The two hooded figure beside that girl is releasing a dangerous aura or maybe I can say they unleashing all of their tremendous magic from their body. It was very clear that they're hostile toward us, and it looks like the two of them are that girl's friend. I look at the two of them and stopping my step 10 meter from them, it's not too far and not too close. Rudy, Rudy creation is following my lead he stops beside me too he didn't get closer to any of them, it looks like Rudy is understood too that these people are that girl acquaintance. Then I asked them
"Who are you, people!?"
Even though I ask them with a high-pitched voice they ignore me. One of them is helping the girl in healing her and the other one looked in our direction.
So that's it… the three of them are acquaintance, this is the worst… not only there's a beast will attack this town and now there are two dangerous people who have a big pool of magic like this. I and Rudy can't make any mistake it will be fatal for us and for this town, after all. Fighting again Calamity/Mythical beast surely will exhaust our subjugated force and not only that, there's two of them heading here if the two high ranked beast and these two in front us attack the town, this town surely will fall. Jade and Agata maybe can stop one of the high-ranked beasts, but what is for the other one? The one who can control other monsters. It will be impossible for them to handle two high-ranked beasts, they surely will fall.
These two people, no, three people in front of me and Rudy it can be handled by Rudy and Arsya, if only Arsya finished her job in time… and for me, I alone can stop the beast that can control other monsters, talk sure is easy… but I'm really confident in my power and besides there are three high ranked beasts inside me, I believe I can handle it. The problem is now I must buy a time for Arsya to come and as long as I can I don't want to reveal the three inside me I will use it only if push came to shove, that's what I thought.
Suddenly there's a blue light glowing beside me, the light comes from Rudy's creation, the bird. I thought that it was an enemy attack, but I didn't feel any hostility from the light, instead of when the blue light dims slowly, I saw a figure in there. It was a man and he is the figure that I know, it was Rudy. Rudy appears beside me, he is replacing his creation in that position. When he appears he has already in his battle stance and his battle suit.
Rudy wears a white robe with a symbol behind his robe the symbol is really familiar, that symbol is the Vega village symbol. His clothes are all white with a fusion of light blue in his shirt, if I said his clothes are reminded me of a mage from a game online that I have been played, long sleeve, a robe with a hood, black boots and his staff is long enough until it can surpass Rudy height and in the top of his staff, there is a dragon carving and a crystal on the middle. And I said to him.
"So you came, huh? I thought you will fight from a long-distance"
"No, this time is special this guy is dangerous"
So Rudy realized, huh? Even though this place is far from the east gate, he can feel that the enemy in front of us is dangerous. Then Rudy asked me.
"Where is Arsya?"
"Ah… she is taking a command inside the…."
Right before I finished talked, then Arsya comes from the sky and landed on my left side.
"Sorry I'm late"
Said her. So Arsya already finished her job, huh? The three of us already gather, this should be enough to fight them. Arsya then asked us.
"What's the situation?"
"Two of them are acquaintance and they're enemy"
Even though my explanation is a little, she should've got a grasp of the situation after she saw that girl is being saved and healed by the two of them.
"Ah… I see"
Arsya then prepares her battle position.
The girl who fainted from before finally awake even though her wound is not fully healed, stands up between the two of them. It became three Vs three, from my perspective I believe the three of us can win again them, but in a fight, there is no definite result. The one who has more experience, power and the one who can improve in the middle of the fight is only the one who can win. Rudy and Arsya released their magic, their magic and aura are really dense.
How can I say it… if the three in front of us are releasing their full aura and magic, then for Rudy and Arsya they didn't unleash all of their power instead the two of them are compressing all of his magic and aura so that they can use their magic efficiently and easily. No matter how much you have magic in your body if you can't control it, it will be useless and wasting your power. The more you release the magic the more your body takes burden, Magic is just like stamina inside your body. If you run out of stamina your body will be burdened by the exhausted feeling, Magic is too same as that stamina. The more you release the faster you feel exhausted.
The aura and magic that you released can be used to intimidate the enemy. In Rudy and Arsya case, the reason two of them compressed their power is that they must save their stamina for the upcoming battle again the beast after this, it will be fatal if they're exhausted when subjugated the beast. It only a matter of time before we fight, their side looks already ready to fight anytime same as us. When I think that they're want to attack then suddenly one of them lowered their magic and said to us.
"I surrender, we don't want to fight three of you, surely if we fight we will be the ones who lose"
He said it with a quiet relaxing voice, though his aura is full of hostility.
Rudy is quite surprised to hear his answer. I and Arsya didn't believe what he said, I just think that maybe their plan to fooled us like that girl. Rudy then replied
"If you really surr"
Before Rudy finished his talk, he was interrupted by him.
"Eyy, please don't misunderstand that we will come with you okay? What I mean surrender is we will leave from this town, you know. You can finish your job over there okay"
While pointing to the east gate where the monster is coming, he happily said it. Most of his face is covered by his hood but I can sense that he is smiling it can be heard too from his tone.
Oh, so that what he means… that means he will retreat from here, huh? Though it was reassuring, still we can't let these three dangerous people roam around, we must catch him, and surely Rudy knows too that three of them have some backing up from some organization. It was proved since they can infiltrate Arugos kingdom and even manipulate their research team, this kind of organization is really dangerous and maybe there's a connection in the "shadow" of that nation. But it was strange… why did they say it casually that they will retreat? Are they really confident in their way to escape? Or are they have something to threaten us?
"…."
Rudy can only silent when he heard their proposal, he was in the deep of thinking and I doubt he will accept it. But I was wrong…
"Alright, we will retreat too…"
He accepts it. Meanwhile, I and Arsya confused why Rudy accepts their request.
Wha… how can Rudy accept their request? Rudy isn't someone who… unless… is there something that Rudy knows and we (me and Arsya) didn't know to make Rudy accept their Request?
I keep thinking about why Rudy accepts it, Arsya too. We know that Rudy isn't someone who will back down easily, but to think this time he will back down like this… there must be something in here.
I and Arsya can't say any word, we can only zip our mouth because we didn't understand what Rudy thinking. The guy in black hooded then says.
"Ahaha good choice it looks like you know your situation! Then we must quickly retreat from here, let's go guys go go go, just go away from here"
That guy then ordered the two of them to go away while making a weird gesture, like someone who shooing a cat. We can just see them go away in front of us, it was really frustrating, but maybe Rudy thinking about subjugated force or the condition of our force that's why he accepts their retreat. We didn't complain we just believe in Rudy's decision. And we still didn't lowered our guard.
The three-figure in front of us one by one retreat, I can't feel any presence when they retreat it's like they're teleported or maybe they vanish without any trace it was really something.
Before the one who spoke to us leave he the open his mouth.
"Oh… yeah by the way"
He looked in our direction. The three of us become more wary.
"This is my parting gift since you bullied one of us, bye-bye!"
He smiled and then...
'PPPRRAAANNNNGGGGGG'
A sound of glass shatter from behind us, that sound is very loud it was like a bomb though it was a sound of glass shatter, we're surprised the guy in front of us vanished immediately when we hear something like a glass shatter. We then turn around we saw the first barrier that protected the first wall shattered, the barrier is destroyed easily, I don't know why that guy can destroy these strong barriers easily like that, Rudy said it needed high-ranked beast power to destroy the barrier that easily.
But that guy just destroys it without showing any magic or any attack on the barrier, it's just like magic. The three of us panicked when we saw this, not only us but the soldier in the west gate is panicked too they're surprised because the barrier is destroyed suddenly. In a panicked moment like this then we hear another sound of an explosion behind me. It was Rudy releasing her magic to the ground while shouting.
"SHIT!!"