"Charge!!" At that moment, Soren, Lavenza, Diana and the guards charged out of the toppled down carriage and two of the guards tool down a couple of bandits that happened to be very close to the carriage.
"Alright small fries, who is ready to get their head torn off their bodies?" Diana spoke agressively.
"Get your head out of clouds, you dumb b*tch. Tonight we are feasting the loot we will be obtaining today. Now, fellow friends, let's send them 20 feet under the ground." One of the few heavy armored said with a deep and angry voice. Around him there were around twenty to thirty other bandits who were wearing either old clothes or some leather armor at most and were holding all kinds of random weapons, from swords to bows and even rolling pins for a couple of them. But there were a couple that caught Soren's eye, mainly two figures with black cloaks who were staying close to a couple of trees and at that moment, Soren decided to keep an eye on those two figures.
"You will regret the fact that you dared to cross me, you filthy worm." Diana spoke with a furious voice.
"The time for talking is already over. Men, charge!!" The bandit leader yelled as loudly as he could and then the bandints started charging towards Soren and the others. Also, after that charge the two hooded men hid behind the trees and disappeared, but Soren hadn't noticed at the time.
"Get them!" Diana also yelled at the same as the bandit leader did and the entire team, minus a couple of guards that stayed behind to protect the carriage, cahrged towards the brigands.
*swing* *clank* *swoosh* *clink*
Weapons were being brandished and each impact between weapons made a loud noise and the first team that started to have casualties, was the bandit team, whose weakest fighters were falling down like flies. Even Soren who was still injured, still managed to knock out a couple of bandits who were coming at him, by disarming them with Lavenza's help and then using the hilt of the sword to smack them down with all of his force. Soren was itching for a battle so he could test himself out, but he didn't go all out for two reasons. Firstly, he was weakened so he would have to avoid using his skills, except his magic and secondly, he didn't want to cover his hands with blood, since he had no intention to become a murderer, even if they were criminals.
"Say, I wonder how strong is Diana, where is..." Soren spoke while trying to look for her and once he found her, he saw her use the two axes to literally disarm one of the enemies before proceeding to behead him with a swift motion and in the next moment, she threw her two axes which suddenly started glowing with a reddish light before they pierced through the torsos of two more bandits and then returned to her. As he was watching her, he felt slightly sick from the bloody display, but decided to not focus on the bloodshed for now and distract himself with the battle.
Within a few minutes, the bandits were half their original numbers, while the guards had only minor injiries at most. The bandit leader was getting kind of nervous, since he was waiting for something to happen, so he decided to buy more time and wait for his plan to come to fruition.
"Let's go b*tch. Today, you have the only chance to fight the mighty Braun." The bandit leader yelled while taking out his battleaxe that was strapped on his back.
"Then I'll I give you the honors of knowing your murderer's name. I am Diana Longinus and the current duchess of the Longinus Household. Now, go meet your maker." The moment Diana said that, her axes started to glow red and threw them with a swift motion towards Braun. Braun himself was rather suprised by the speed of the axes, but he successfully blocked them and sent them back.
As their fight continued by exchanging blows and magic spells, Soren kept watching that battle with excitement, since this was his fight battle where he could be the spectator, instead of the fighter, although that didn't mean that he could put hus guard down, since another couple of bandits were aiming for him this time.
"Lavenza, let's go." Soren said while nodding once and then proceeded to charge towards them. While he was charging, he suddenly felt a nasty chill down his spine and stopped his charge just a few meters after his starting position.
'What? What the hell was that? Wait, could it be...?' Soren though to himself before a nasty thought surged on the top of his head. At that moment, he decided to use his Third Eye ability and what he saw nearly caused him to scream in shock. He could barely make the sillhouettes of those hooded guys being right behind the bandits and those two were aiming at him as well. In that instant, he decided to cast a couple of Water Balls towards the bandits so he could take them out and fast and then he could focus on his actual opponents. After those Water Balls took out the bandits that were charging at him, the hooded figures split to the left and right side before they took out a couple of knifes out of their cloaks, which started to glow and then charged towards Soren. Soren was using his Third Eye while he was seeing the splitting moment and once they started charging, Soren then deployed the Silent Dome spell so he could cut their area between him, Lavenza and the two figures. Lavenza also felt that Soren was using the Third Eye and the moment she saw them as well, she decided to prepare a couple of spells of her own as well.
Once the four of them were separated in the dome, all the noises from the battle stopped and the only noise that could be heard was a faint noise of someone using their tail to move. The moment that the hooded figures got close to Soren, they brandished their knifes, while Soren casted a couple of Mana Walls which were actually thicker then the usual walls he would conjure and would stop their charge. The figures saw the walls apearing just a couple of meters in front of them and decided to destroy them with their attacks before using a second attack to kill Soren. The two of them were expecting that their first attack should be able to cut through the mana wall with ease, on the contrary, their knives actually had a lot of trouble cutting through it and not only had they lost their Stealth state, but they also wasted their opportunity of their charged attack.
Once the hooded figures appeared in front of Soren's eyes, Lavenza then umthrew a couple of Light Ball spells that instantly knocked the knifes out of their hands and without the worry of being attacked, Soren proceeded to grab them by their heads and the smacked both heads with all of the power he could muster in his hands. The impact and power of that attack was strong enough to actually knock out the hooded figures with only one attack and after they lost their conciousness, Soren then threw them down on the ground and used a mana wall that was shaped kind of like a pot and used that to trap the hooded figures.
Once the figures were trapped, Soren then fell on the ground, while holding his body from the immense pain he suddenly felt.
"Reny~!" Lavenza then went close to Soren to check on him, but after a couple of moments, Soren then said with a happy expression while struggling to get up:
"Guess I pushed myself a bit too hard there. Not bad as well Lavenza, that was a good save. Let's see if Diana has finished her bettle as well."
The moment Soren finished his sentence, he and Lavenza decided to check on Diana's battle and they saw that Braun was actually pretty injured and even his weapon was half-broken, while Diana looked like she hadn't broken a sweat.
"Tsk. Just what... are you supposed... to be you b*tch?" Braun could barely even speak.
"I'm a Master Combatant, you peasant and you had the misfortune to cross me as well. With no men or other tricks left, you can now go to the other world peacefully." Diana spoke with a calm and dark stare on the injured Braun.
"GO TO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-" Just as Braun was throwing one final charge attack, Diana's eyes started to glow with a bright yellow light before she threw her axes that were also glowing with a bright yellow light, which then proceeded to cut Braun in half, then in four, then in eight and then proceed to cut him into dozens of pieces. After that gruesome display of completely decimating Braun, her axes then returned to her hands and then she said with a cold voice:
"You were a thousand years too early to mess with this Master Combatant."