THE BANDITS IN THE MARKET
"Orion something happened in the markets you must come", Minna asked me suddenly when she ran to the smith to look for us just as we finished making my crescent blade.
"What, did something happen to Raven again?" I asked Minna.
"No, it's not them, it's Grammer, some burly men came looking for him", Minna told me.
"We'll go find out about it", I replied to her.
"I'm coming", Bommurs said to us.
While Ronnie was still figuring out what we were talking about, "Ronnie you are coming too", I told him.
We quickly went to the markets with Minna and saw the baron's men in a standoff with a few dozen burly men brandishing powerful weapons.
Raven was here and he quickly came to us.
"What is happening here?" I asked Raven.
"They are looking for Grammer, something about the bandit camp", he told us.
"Damnit, the bandits are back", I said to them.
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"So, you are the one who sent our Boss to jail, it's time for you to pay back for our losses", a man came forward to accuse Grammer.
The man was strong and wasn't the ordinary bandits that we met last time. He should be at least a Mercury mid leveled Templar, so there weren't many in the village who were a match for him. In fact, there probably was none.
Even Baron Wilmonn, who was the strongest templar in town, might not be able to take him on a one-to-one duel and he wouldn't risk his life for the shopkeeper.
"No, it's not me who caught your Boss, I was just asked to collect the bounty", Grammer pleaded with the bandit.
"Then who did you act for?" the bandit asked Grammer.
"It's Orion, he was the one who caught all the bandits", Grammer told the bandit.
"Who is this Orion?" the bandit asked.
"It's me I was the one who caught your running Boss", I told the bandit.
"Hahaha", all the bandits laughed when they saw me.
"What, a little kid captured my Boss and my entire camp? What kind of excuse is that?" the bandit asked Grammer.
"It's the truth", Grammer spoke softly avoiding contact with my eyes and embarrassed to be a snitch.
"Well big men, give me your names before I kill all of you", I told the bandits to the shock and horror of everyone in the village including the baron and his soldiers.
"My name..", the bandit said but was stopped by me.
"Nah, actually I'm not interested in your names", I told the bandits before I told Ronnie, "Ronnie, kill that slob".
"Zzziinggg"
Suddenly, a bright light showered the little town of Slowan, covering the street in a blinding light. The light was brighter than the fireworks during celebrations and it was brief. As soon as we noticed it, the light was gone.
But what remained after the light was gone, was the charred remains of someone, burned into ash laid on the ground that was equally charred.
"What happened here? Did a powerful Conjurer do that?" someone asked loudly, echoing the gossip in the market.
It wasn't a conjurer who killed the bandit and disintegrated him. A laser was fired from Ronnie's hand phasers that consumed the bandit leader entirely.
I was quite surprised that Ronnie would help me right away when called upon, like good friends usually do, except I've just met him not too long ago.
"You are my friend from now on", I told Ronnie and pointed at him with crossed fingers, making a korean love sign, before placing the fingers back on my chest.
"Gladly, good to make friends with an E.T.", he replied to me as he blew air on his phasers before imitating my korean love sign.
"What is that sign for?" Minna asked me.
"It means I love you", I told her when her face suddenly blushed.
Bommurs quickly made the korean love sign to us and we all joined in the exercise.
"For the love of friends", I said to my friends.
"Hey, the bandits are running away", Grammer shouted to us suddenly.
The rest of the bandits who came to harass Grammer quickly ran from the village at the sight of their leader being decimated in an instant by such a powerful weapon.
"Magical Missiles"
However, I didn't give the bandit a chance to run as magical metal balls quickly pierced through their foreheads and killed them all in a blink. Although the guy that Ronnie killed was a powerful templar, the rest of the goons were just ordinary bandits.
The villagers were shocked by the power of Ronnie's weapons, and the swift but mysterious killing of the bandits. They quickly gossiped among themselves before the baron rushed out to greet Ronnie.
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"I'm the baron of this village, may I know who your excellency is? Are you a Conjurer from the Conjurer's Court?" Baron Wilmonn talked nicely to Ronnie and asked, but he didn't understand a word that he said and looked at me.
"What is he saying?" Ronnie asked me about Baron Wilmonn's uttering that was meaningless to him.
"He asked us to clean the corpses", I told Ronnie before I talked to the baron.
"This is someone from the Magic Courts and he is here on a secret mission, nobody must talk about him otherwise you would incur the wrath of the Court", I told Baron Wilmonn and the people there as we quickly left the market.
"What is the Magic Court?"
"Is it the Conjurer's Court again?"
"Did you hear he cleared an entire bandit camp just like that with magic?"
"No wonder Orion was so ferocious during Raven's trial, he had powerful supporters"
"It was fortunate we didn't act against him that time", the elder judge who presided over Raven's trial said to the others.
The baron's men gossiped among themselves over the identity of Ronnie and the power of my backing.
Even Darronn and Michonn hid somewhere at the back in some alley, not daring to face me. I wasn't someone that they could mess with anymore, they realized now.
"Damn Hell, even father wouldn't dare to touch that beggar now", Michonn whispered to his brother with a frown and his brother sadly acknowledged with a nod of his head.
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