As the sun rose, it showered its radiance upon the surface. The clear blue skies looked orange and there was not a cloud in sight. It was quite cold, freezing nearly as if it was winter. There was not a noise, it was quite quiet as it was just turning morning. Alex pointed his blade at the men.
" If you don't believe me, you'll all be the cause of the mayor's death for not doing your jobs." Alex clarified.
All the knights and guards in the tavern looked at him," Even if you weren't lying where's your proof?" They asked.
Alex who was pointing his sword at one of them pointed it towards the other," Tell them your plans otherwise I'll kill him."
" Bastard, I'll kill..."
Alex drew the sword so close that blood trickled from the masked figure's neck.
" Fine! I admit it, everything he said was right.
" You mean to tell us that the Mayor is under attack?" Everyone in the tavern immediately got up and drew their blades for battle.
" Correct. We bought you drinks the whole night to avoid you going there. Moreover, I'm still surprised that those nobles told no one that the mayor was being attacked." The man told them everything while averting his eyes from his partner.
Alex then took off their masks.
" You're both teenagers huh? Must be depressing getting a beat down from a kid." Alex mocked them." Since you both look alike, this Jacob guy must also be your sibling?"
" Right. I'm sorry that we failed you and everyone else, Jacob." They said before getting carried away by guards.
All the knights left the tavern in a hurry. As they worked the streets more knights joined their ranks. A messenger was spreading the emergency on the attack on the mayor's mansion. Alex who was a child and not a knight still joined in with them. They all matched towards the mansion in great numbers holding their weapons.
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As Feran who appeared to be on a roof with the short mayor on his back jumped off. Before his body could hit the ground he cast an ice pillar to safely land on with his feet. He then jumped off the ice pillar to the floor now that he was safe from any damage from the fall.
As his body hit the ground he said," You're here already, that's surprising."
Feran immediately mustered an ice wall that plummeted from the ground to the surface with great speed. Arrows then hit the wall, however, these won't normal arrows as it was poisoned.
Coming from the shadows were men, completely unmasked. One of them wore an extremely cropped vest with a fur coat on his back, it was most likely a bear's. He had messy blonde hair and he looked quite dirty. The other had brown hair, azure rounded eyes, and a pale complexion. Unlike the other, he wore a simple black jacket. One held a bow and the other a polearm along with a shield attached to his arm.
" Let's beat this guy and finish the mayor once and for all!" The blonde hair one energetically said as he hit his clenched fists on his palms.
" One of you want from this old man, can't you see how scared he is?" Feran asked.
" That ring on his finger, the one with a weird gemstone that draws magic. It's passed down to all that Rill guy's descendants. That thing can give even someone who can't do magic almost absurd amounts of mana, could fetch for nearly millions of gold coins." The blonde one said." Now, let's resume shall we?"
The one with the polearm charged at Feran while the other shoot out arrows. As the arrows ventured into the air, they duplicated twice the number of before. Feran jumped back continuously dodging the arrows while his focus was on the one with the polearm and shield. As Feran looked at the polearm user, he immediately spun around and gripped something. It was the hand of the blonde hair one holding a dagger trying to finish the mayor while Feran's attention was shifted.
" Still trying to kill this old man, huh?" The mayor sighed.
Feran then stabbed the blonde guy in the stomach with his sword before kicking him down. As he did this the other who was calm, collected, and light-headed became triggered. His eyebrows furrowed as he let all his bloodlust loose. He then charged at Feran thrusting his polearm forward. And as he was in arms reach he pushed the tip of his blade at Feran. Feran jumped back avoiding the attack making the man hit nothing but the ground. As his polearm hit the ground, there was a small and short tremor; earth spikes then rose from the ground in the place where his polearm was plunged. If he had hit Feran somewhere like the abdomen after the polearm would have hit the earth spikes would finish him after.
" Tough guy, huh?" Feran tried getting him angrier than he already was shielding the mayor behind his back.
Feran then approached the man leaving the mayor back from where he was. As Feran made direct eye contact with the man, they thrust their polearm at him continuously but Feran dodged all the incoming attacks. As the man took a break from fatigue, Feran swiped his hand at him, freezing the man into a block of ice from shoulder to toe.
" But how?"
Feran then slashed off the man's arm which held the polearm. Of course, being halfway frozen, the man didn't feel the pain. Feran did not need to finish him off as he had already won the moment they decided to attack him and the victimized mayor.
" I swear I'll kill you!" The brown-haired man with the polearm shouted as he kept averting his eyes to another direction.
Feran having noticed this immediately slammed his foot across the floor soon after ice spikes shot out of the ground one by one. It seems the blonde-haired man who appeared to be unconscious was launching a sneak attack on the mayor while Feran was busy finishing off his partner but he was soon interrupted. The man then jumped back from dodging Feran's attack. As Feran was about to dash off towards the man, he was pulled back. The man frozen in ice held shot his hand through the ice with an earth spell and was now gripping Feran's neck pulling him back. The grip was so strong Feran could barely breathe, the man had earth rocks attached to his hand almost as if his hand was made of an earth spell.
" I won't let you go." It seems that the man was pretending to be angry so he could distract Feran.
The man then threw Feran's sword to his partner. The blonde hair man then attacked the mayor once more with Feran's sword as the mayor just stood there smiling. As he thrust the sword at the Mayor, the Mayor then dodged and touched the sword. As he did this the sword changed shape into a handcuff on the blonde man's hand. The mayor then kicked him back on the floor.
" This old man's got tricks up his sleeves too."
Feran was shocked," No way, Alchemy?"
" Feran!" Someone shouted as they knocked out the one who was strangling him. It was Vivian.
As Feran looked behind, he saw Alex, Xavier, and all the knights. It seems that Alex after informing the knights of the situation met up with the others while the knights arrested the enemies.
" These are the last ones." The knights said as they arrested the men.
" Finally, what took you all so long? Never mind, at least now I can rest."
" We were looking for a way to surprise attack the enemy." The knights lied as they were in drowning themselves in alcohol the whole time.
As the Mayor left, Alex and Xavier then approached Feran to see if he was alright.
" Mom, heal him," Xavier said.
" There's no need for that, it's only a few scratches," Feran said with a hoarse voice he got after being strangled.
" Oh come on, you're definitely not okay. I don't recall the strongest holy knight of the town looking so beat down." Alex pointed out while teasing Feran a bit.
" Fine, do what you want."
Feran then took a deep breath being casting her healing magic. As she healed him, a blinding shiny green light escaped her palms as it blew her beautiful golden blonde hair in the air; her long hair was set loose as she healed him. A gust of calm wind passed by and as she was done, Feran felt no fatigue or anything, it was almost as if he did nothing all day even when he fought for hours upon hours still protecting the mayor.
" Thank you, Vivian." Feran smiled," Thanks all of you."
" Sorry for interrupting but we should get home, leaving Xandyr to a random neighbor isn't quite reasonable to me." Alex declared.
" Ahh, you're right! We should really leave!" Vivian was in a panic.
As they all rushed home, Xavier said," After such a long hard day don't you think we should get some amazing food for lunch mom?"
" He's right," Feran said.
" Fine and don't forget that you won't the only ones fighting," Vivian said.