"You mean to say..ugh. I'm sorry, I don't really get your idea."
Bador pointed around him and then said, "How did we even appear here? This green, verdant land—even Garut is here—has a clear view of the houses made of mud and stones. That clear water creek is not far here."
He turned to the side and continued, "We're back." The white skeleton wearing tattered clothes was stunned still in silence. right at this moment. It then hit him that indeed, they were back. They're back in the vast grassland!
A place full of colors, unlike the place they had been for so many years. But the question remains here. "That's right, we're back, but...can we stay?" Who knew why he blurted such a sentence but the moment he heard it, he was silent.
Bador and the man looked at each other in silence. This is yet another question that can be solved with time. "This doesn't look like it was connected to the place we came from at all."
The other one then replied, "Could it be because of the fog? I remember before we appeared here back then, the fog was churning and rolling around before we suddenly found ourselves stepping on such verdant grass. Not to mention, the whole land was vast and flat, except for that place.
Bador nodded in agreement. "Indeed, it's mostly because of the dark fog. The only thing is, can we still stay here after the dark fog receded? Although the kinds do appear during this dark foggy time, they would also disappear along with it."
"Although we haven't yet encountered any of these kinds now called slimes by Garut, we can still infer that they came from the place we were from. That means we will encounter them sooner or later. But the problem remains that it's been a long time."
The other one then followed, "Maybe the region we were in back then wasn't their lair? The thing that we encountered the most were those grasshair monsters after all. That place might be a region where only grasshair monsters do live."
Such a possibility was indeed high, and Bador nodded in agreement. At the same time, Garut and Argar were already at each other's throats. "Come at me, then, you filthy bones!"
Garut throws away his spear, as he was somewhat afraid to kill this little skeleton in a puff of smoke. Since he throws his weapon away, how could Argar be shameless about using stones too? "You old thing! Come and taste my acceptor strength! I was very angry a long time ago with you!"
With a dash, both stomp hard on the ground. Argar was surprisingly agile as he dashed to Garut's side before throwing a punch with his bony hands. Bang! Two fists collided, and at the same time, another whistling noise came behind the latter's back.
Garut sneered, "Too naive!" With a flip of his body in midair, he narrowly avoided the sharp, bony kick behind. As for the fist he had collided with, Argar stepped aside because he lacked the support to hold down the fort.
Knowing that he was at a disadvantage in a head-on collision. Argar didn't mind; instead, he became more excited amidst his cold-feeling bones. "Hahahaha, feel that old man. I can even take your fist head on. What can you do now? Hahaha, show me what you got!"
What greeted Argar's inhuman laughter was another fist coming his way. Bang! Garut's stomp caused some shaking on the ground. He swiftly pushed his momentum into his peak, sending Argar, who had only one hand to support his upper body and one hand to defend himself, flying.
Although he was sent flying and a little bit surprised by the attack, his lower half also reacted and dashed forward with a lean, clean sweep of his feet. Garut, who had just punched out, felt the wind move, and he also adjusted his body towards the incoming attack behind him. "You really love to attack from behind, naive kid, as expected from you, who looked sinister even in his death!"
Sweep.
With a forceful dash towards the lower half of the skeleton of Argar, he jumped a bit and leaned sideways. Bam! He dodged the sweep, but the skeleton couldn't dodge Garut's shoulder body dash and was directly sent to the ground ten meters away from the body impact.
Crash!
There are no flashy effects around their fights, but the sounds of every fist that hits cause an impact on the air around them, producing thunderclaps like blows.
Argar dashed once and began to learn how to dodge Garut's attacks with his upper body while his lower body would sneak an attack behind him. It's a pincer attack with nothing but fists and kicks meeting each other in the air.
Bang!
As the fight went on, it did not take long for their mouths to shut up as they focused more on who hit their opponents more. Bang! Bang! Bang! With the help of his experience and reflexes.
It was naturally Garut's advantage that had him send the two parts of Argar's body flying in any direction. However, Argar wasn't that easy to surrender. And thus, Garut had to take this seriously a little bit.
Just as Argar was sending a left hook towards Argar's right ear, his lower half sneaked a faint attack behind him. He suddenly saw Garut smile, making his heart shudder as a dangerous premonition engulfed him.
"Not good!"
However, it was already too late to register everything that had happened. With a sweep of his old legs, Garut made a stomp with his left foot that made him fly a bit, a few inches in midair, as his right foot made a sweeping movement.
Bam!
"Ughh!" If Argar still hadn't understood what happened just now, then he was really showing what a skeleton without a brain can do. Like a streak of light, Argar crashed to the ground like he had been hit by a car crash.
Then he felt his vision blur a bit as he felt a little bit of pain in his shoulder. without waiting for him to regain his senses any further. Another thing hit him in the front, which pushed him further to the ground.
Damn.
I've been seen through. That's what was on his mind right now as he lay on the ground. At the same time, he finally understood what had hit him just now. It was his lower part. So while he was being swept with Garut's legs,
The latter had used the sweep to make a turn and took hold of his lower body before throwing it back to him, which further lagged his senses because of the impact.
"Ugh, I underestimated you, old man."
Garut, however, just laughed as he thought he was merely teaching a spoiled kid during training. "Do you want to continue?" Argar was about to say yes when he was pulled away by a few skeletons around him.
"Accepter Garut, how about we continue this the other time? I believe we have more important things to discuss," Bador, who was sitting not far away, calmly said as he gestured for Argar with his hollowed eyes to stop.
Garut nodded; he also had the same thought. This fight can be said to be just a probing of what these skeletons and corpses can have. Now that he had some preliminary ideas about their strength, Garut thought that even if they hadn't shown him what they could truly do, It won't be too far off.
Not to mention, he also had something he hid only to use in unexpected situations. It would be a waste to show it here; after all, there are too many things one can't expect during a fight.
"Alright, I'll let you go for now, old man." Argar nodded and arrogantly said as though he was letting him go. Garut rolled his eyes and said, "Continue acting." Then they both looked at each other with distaste before sitting down with the others to discuss an important agenda.
"Let me get this straight," he said, seeing that everyone was ready to listen to him. Bador then said, "I don't know how long we can stay here, so I'll make this quick. I want to know the current situation on your side, Accepter Garut. Of course, I will also tell you ours."
Garut was silent for a while before he nodded. Although he can't trust them fully, the thing that made him want to exchange information with them was the information they had. As for the situation around Garut that Bador wants,
It can't be said to be important, but at the same time, it can also be used in battle, which made him hesitate a little bit before he agreed. A while later, Garut finished explaining everything. After all, what secrets can there be that are important to the village?
"I see, so the rest of the Agah Village has gone to migrate somewhere, huh?" Argar somewhat understood what those old men were thinking. They didn't want to abolish their control over the village, which is why they left.
But still, he was surprised. Bador then chimed in as he said to Garut what everyone was thinking. "I say, that Nai young man who calls himself a ruler. I'm surprised he let those people go away."
What surprised them more was that they were too shocked amidst their disbelief upon hearing Nai can solo kill an entire group of slimes— slimes that have easily massacred them in the past. "He's that fierce?!!"