"Shit, watch out and don't get entangled by the threads. It will cut you to pieces once you get tied!" Pang Hu pressed the joint of his fan and suddenly the whole thing became a whip made from the parts of the fan.
He gracefully danced as to push back the daggers and avoid being trapped.
"GRAGHHH!!" Axe Face did not dodge at all but just waved his axe to fan out the daggers then charge towards the old man.
"Hoohoo, getting berserk now are we? But I don't need to wound you much, just a little nick in the skin." The old man suddenly vanished and appeared behind Axe Face slashing down giving the back of the large bald man a small cut.
But before he could slash some more he jumped back to dodge the joint attacks of Lydia and the Baroness.
"Annoying as always Baroness." The old man suddenly radiated his aura making the four in front of him sluggish but they instantly pushed out their own.
"Urgghh, so this guy is totally an S-Class huh… you were only able to reach S-Class with your age? How untalented are you?" Lydia said and this time it struck nerve to the old man.
"Hoohoohoo, that is right I am untalented. But I am old, and no other people in my generation still lives, even the heaven gifted ones. You want to know why? Because they died early like you will be, talented but always arrogant and reckless. Hoohoohoo." The old man then dashed forward to send a barrage of daggers towards the four.
"Jeez, how old are you then?" Lydia did not waste a moment to make the old man angry and it worked so he somehow is focusing on her more.
The battle raged between the four A-ranked against an old S-ranked assassin. Meanwhile the others were now huddled together in the Shield wall made by the soldiers.
Thought they were all barely B-ranked, the Baroness' soldiers has very great teamwork that they protected the adventurers of the three teams.
Henry led the defense as he also gave some buffs and minor heals to keep the group safe. But the enemies are still hundreds of Assassins even when half of the lieutenants are dead from the sudden attack of the A-ranked adventurers.
"Clarisse, let's go help our leaders." Henry looked at the fight on the edge and said to the two besides him.
"Gladly." Said the bald monk running first ahead.
"Hey, let me borrow some arrows." Clarisse looked at her injured teammate and took her quiver with her.
This fight went on as the now seven A-ranks held their position keeping the old assassin at bay.
The old man was getting annoyed at how seamless the cooperation of the seven was. The Baroness, Axe Face and Lydia as main attackers, Pang Hu and Clarisse annoying him to the sides, the fast agile monk that kept closing in on him and the fast defensive paladin Henry.
"You useless puppet why don't you come out and help here!!" the old man screamed making the others alert but suddenly a sword slash went to Lydia making her put a hasty guard.
*Clang!*
"Urgh!!" Lydia felt a heavy blow push her back and this time the fight paused as they looked at the fully clad in black female with a rapier on her hand appearing. They could see there was a collar in her neck glowing red and pulsed every second.
"A Slave Collar! How dare you use such a forbidden item in the East Continent so blatantly!!!" Henry looked angry as he looked at the collar of the woman that attacked them.
"Heh, so what? You think someone would spend a lot of money to catch me and an S-ranked swordswoman? Hoohoohoo, go kill the girl with the Holy Sword. I could get a lot of rewards from the Grand Elder once I give it to him." The old man did not wait anymore as he attacked the others.
Meanwhile Lydia was left to face the new foe alone, but her face did not show any fear. It was excitement as she looked at her enemy, this was one thing that led her and her team in many troubles is that her tendency to get easily dragged away when facing a tough opponent.
"Now Show me a fight!" Lydia pulled a small buckler behind her and got ready to fight. It was quite weird to look at a woman about 5'8" fight using a short sword and a small buckler.
But this was the weapons of the Paladin Hero Hyde the Everwatchful. Only those that the sword and buckler approve off could use the hidden function of the weapon.
Eye of prediction, the small gem in front of the buckler is a very rare enchanted Cateye Gemstone that would give the holder the ability to predict where the enemy would strike.
It could only be used for a short time by Lydia since she is not that strong yet but it would last about thirty minutes at most every day.
But this made her more careless as she had confidence in fighting stronger foes due to the Holy Items recognizing her as their master.
"Hah!!" Lydia charged forward and clashed with the swordswoman, but even with the help of the skill she is barely able to keep up at the superior speed and skills.
Her speed cannot be compared to the S-ranked swordswoman but the holy item enabled her to see where she would strike next. So she moved before her foe could making their fight look like a blur.
This made the fight of the soldiers and assassins slow down a bit as they saw a great fight going on between two dangerous women. Yet they recovered soon and fought more ferociously as their strong fighters are doing their best.
The other battle raged on as the old man tried to take down the other fighters and it was then Axe Face suddenly stopped. He was suddenly pale and retreated a bit from the battle.
"What? Feeling a bit dizzy? Hoohooohoo…" the old man smiled as he saw Axe face weakening, he had nicked him earlier with a poisoned dagger but he had been thinking when will the large guy fall.
He had thought already that his cut was too shallow thus did not administer enough poison to affect the guy but now it seems that he was just a bit resistant, yet it was not enough.
"Shit, *cough* this is some powerful poison." Axe face coughed black blood and was visibly weakened but it made him angrier thus his complexion was again back to red.
"Axe Face stop! You are just making the poison spread faster!" Pang Hu shouted as he somersaulted to dodge tens of daggers going towards him.
"Then I'll kill him before then!! Gragh!!" Axe Face charged again without hesitation. But soon the big guy slowed down and was kicked away by the old man as he was slower and weaker.
"Urghh, bunch of thick headed people you are!" Henry was about to charge forward with the bald monk but suddenly hundreds of threads sprouted out from the ground and tied him with the monk.
"Shit!" Henry luckily was able to pull his shield back to his chest making the threads not able to wound him but he looked back to the monk if he is okay.
"What the…" he saw the guy suddenly was in a standing prayer position blocking the threads with the large prayer beads he has so he too would not get cut by it.
"Hoohoo… now only three of you are facing me!" the old man charged towards the Baroness and wanted to capture her too, he looked hungrily towards the fierce beauty that has an ever existing scowl on her face.
"I'll have a great time with you hoohoohoo." The old man licked his lips as he sent daggers towards Pang Hu and Clarisse to prevent them from assisting.
"Disgusting… Mountain Saber arts, earth cleaver!!" the Baroness suddenly exploded with a huge amount of force as she swung down her Saber.
"Huh!! Massacre Webs of the Spider Queen!!" the old man was surprised at the sudden outburst but he was able to react by taking out a metal net then swung them towards the Baroness with great power.
*Boom!!*
The fog suddenly parted a hundred meters in radius from the clash making those fighting from afar pause a bit.
Soon the dust cloud settle and the fog started pouring back in making those close able to see the Baroness kneeling with her Saber broken.
Meanwhile the old man only has a sleeve torn but his face still showed a serious expression.
"Commendable, if you were an S-rank like me then I would have a hard time surviving that. Too bad, now surrender to your Fate." The old man patted his torn sleeve and walked forward to the Baroness.
The other were also feeling a bit over whelmed as the enemy has two S-ranks while one of their leaders were now incapacitated. Another was going to face the old man while the last one is being toyed with by the S-rank swordswoman.
"Any last wishes Baroness?" the atmosphere was tense as the old man was looming over the weakened woman but it was all broken by a single sound.
*Oink!*