"Ugh...Damn it.....who knew that there will be an arbiter from this village.....ugh.."
We had captured Anti-Libra members thanks to Elena. Elena told us that she was born in this village. Everyone got surprised by this fact. The remaining villagers who had not taken the drugs were standing around us and other villagers were tied by the magical chain, thanks to one of the villager who had this ability.
"But Elena, why didn't you told us about this before?" asked Reina.
"It's because...you know I don't usually talk with others...I was honestly going to tell you guys but I had not any opportunity to do so....."
She hide that fact even from me back then, but I had not taken that as offensive or something, rather it was her own choice. Besides she was going to tell us about it and maybe she was just not comfortable to tell us before.
"Anyway, we should thank her for what she did." I said.
"That's correct, without her, the Anti-Libra would have escaped." agreed Ray.
"Alright now." said Voila while she turned towards Anti-Libra members.
"Tell us, how can we disable these effects of drugs?" asked Voila.
"We won't-"
Ray cut down his arms.
"Arrrghhhh!!!....it HURTS IT HURS....arGh argh..." the member groaned in pain.
"What are you doing!?" I said with an angry tone.
"Don't worry Chloe, I am not killing them rather I am trying to make them say the necessary words from their mouth..." He replied.
"No! That's wrong!"
"Chloe, You do realise what interrogation team do, right? They are even cruel than me, just remember that. Do you have guts to stop them as well? They are allowed to torture in order to get their answers. Furthermore, I have some rights to torture with limitations so you don't have any rights to stop me...Just give up, I am doing this to save the villagers..." He said while putting up the valid points that cannot be rejected.
"But..." I went silent while watching this scene that was unpleasant.
"Now then."
He turned towards them.
"Wait...We will tell everything we know... We don't know what is our leader planning however, we will tell you how to disable the effects of drugs and also make the anti-Cursed potions, but we need some necessary ingredients that is found from few boss monsters that are deadly. We can't fight th-"
"You will get the ingredients, however, make sure to succeed or else your arms will also be cut down just like your fellow member." He said while he looked at the member who got his one hand cut down.
We had captured all the villagers along with Anti-Libra members, Elena can only use supportive skills, however, Orion taught her some self defence magic and physical attacks or techniques to defend herself. villagers had grown stronger, much stronger than D ranked members of guild. So it became possible to capture them.
The members of Anti-Libra told us about the necessary ingredients to make the Anti-Cursed Potion.
These drugs were originally in liquid forms but they made it in tablet forms to improve it's quality.
"Alright, it seems like there are like 5 boss monsters that we need to defeat to get necessary ingredients and some Cosmic Spice is necessary as well." said Ray.
"Elena? What happened?" I asked.
"I am unable to find my parents, I wonder where they might be? Are they alright?"
We had captured almost all villagers but Elena's parents were nowhere to be found.
"Chloe and Elena, please stay here and watch over villagers and Anti-Libra members while I am going to get the ingredients. Kurt, you are coming with me. Voila and Ryuji, Please try to find her parents if they are around here." said Ray.
We did just as what Ray told us to do, Ryuji and Voila started looking for Elena's parents around this village, Kurt and Ray were going to hunt for specific boss monsters and obtain necessary ingredients from them.
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Part 2(Pov will not be revealed in this part)- Somewhere in an unknown location-
"So, they were Anti-Libra members who tried to produce the drugs?"
"Yes sir. According to reports we got, it seems we failed in our mission as well because of their failure... But not completely. We are still progressing."
"Good, what about the information on those Ancient Martial artists?"
"Unfortunately, we are still trying to locate their exact locations.."
"Do it fast because we need more manpower and strength to destroy both Libra and Anti-Libra. Wasting time may lead us to our own grave."
"Understood!"
The person who reported everything left the room and I went completely silent...
"It's time to rise back, I will crush Libra and rule the Kingdom of Adicyle. I will also destroy Anti-Libra as well since they are also aiming for something. I can't let these fools come in my way.". I thought.
"I will be the next king....hehehahahahahah." I said while laughing because of the fact that it is my time to rise...
Part 3 (Ray)- Both Ray and Kurt were trying to get the ingredients and-
"That's good, so you have such skills to tame monsters, huh." I said.
"Ye-Yes." replied Kurt.
I had already heard about him from Sage Chrono, however, Sage Chrono never told me about Kurt's skills to tame monsters.
"Kurt, why did you became a Sage? If you never liked this career then it would be strange to do that job as the sage, isn't it?" I asked.
"W-.....well...you know...." It seemed like he was not prepared for this question or rather there was something strange.
"You don't want to tell?" I asked him honestly.
"N-No that's not it, but...er....I haven't decided that time but I thought that, becoming the sage would be my ideal life...but it was not satisfying....I was not comfortable with it so I left it..."
I didn't knew whether he was saying the truth or not but I had thought that it would not be good to pursue this matter anymore.
"Ah, okay. So, did you able to tame those two hellhound?"
"...!? How did you know I was trying to tame them?"
"I saw you trying to tame them as quickly as possible. I think you told us that you would want to go and see something to eat because you felt hungry. Then I thought I should help you but I saw that you were trying to tame those monsters."
"I see....well sorry for not telling you...but I had managed tame them... I heard that it is easy to tame some boss monsters and hellhounds are one of them who can be tamed easily within 10 minutes if you are expert tamer. So it took only few minutes to tame them...and why didn't you told everyone when you saw me..." He asked after explaination.
"So that you won't get scolded, hahaha."
"....."
"I am not joking but it is the truth however, I would suggest you to tell your teammates as it would be beneficial for you. Working with teammates is essential and don't hide anything from them unless it's extremely necessary."
"I see, I will keep that in mind. I apologise-"
"No need for apology, I already forgave you but don't try to do something dangerous even if you are an expert, alright?"
"Yes!" He replied.
"Anyway, I think these monsters you tamed, will come in handy."
"Yes that's right."
After this small talk, we hurriedly started looking for those specific monsters as we delve deeper in Dream Grassland. We had also entered Mystic Gorg Abyss as we already knew about some of the boss monsters their, which would give us the necessary ingredients.
We had defeated monsters in this cave after few minutes and we got all the necessary ingredients to save villagers.
"Let us hurry up to avoid getting late or else the lives of people in the village..."
"Yeah let's hurry up..." Kurt replied.
"...."
"What happened, Ray?"
"Do you think that those two people are Elena's parents?" I pointed towards the direction of Elena's parents.
"Uh, they are!?"
"They are being controlled as well, that means they also took the drugs." I remarked.
"What should we do now?"
"Of course, captur them before they kill us. I sense tremendous power from them and that's why, it's good they are outside the village..." I said.
Both of them had spears, Elena's mother (Atleas, should consider them as parents of Elena for better understanding) was wearing a red light-weight armour and her father was wearing the bascinet helm where the face was visible, he wore a heavy armour.
"They are going to work as a team, this is one of the most troublesome postion as it is focusing on duo style postion where you can't defend so quickly or dodge their attacks."
"What!?"
"Kurt, when I signal you, then call those two hellhounds you trained... And stay back from this fight as it would be risky."
"But..."
"Believe me, they are not the type of duo that looks weak and besides they are being enhanced by the drug and from what I heard, these drugs gives you insane strength beyond human limits... And what's more, these two might be trained fighters too." I smirked while feeling a slight pressure.
I cannot kill them as it was not my intention of course.
"Man, what a pain.... Come on you two and just show what you got..." I encouraged them.
The duo attacked me by closing in, I was deflecting their weapons with my own to avoid getting damage. I tried to attack them, however, their speed and reflexes didn't looked like it belonged to human.
"Tch....damn, what an attack."
"Ray!"
I got some scratches from the duo team. I maintained my distance and tried to use my Flame cutting beam horizontally while not putting much strength so as to avoid killing them or cutting them in half however-
"Wow-"
I had suddenly felt the pain in my stomach, Elena's father quickly dodged my attack while rushing towards me and gave me sudden powerful kick on my abdomen.
I fall down at a distance, I tried to stand up but the duo quickly rushed again and attacked me relentlessly with precision and I was struggling to get back up on my feet while trying deflect their attacks.
"What a duo man!" I said.
Elena's mother use her spear as hammer and put the magical pressure on the top of her weapon and tried to slam it towards me with quick and powerful strength put into it.
"Oh well-"
She slammed and there was a little earthquake with so much dust produced from the attack and everything surrounding the area got covered by nothing but dust smoke.
"Ray!!"
"....!?"
I was waiting for the opening and quickly slashed the duo as they fell backwards, I finally stood up as the dust smoke cleared away.
"Ray!" Kurt looked happy when he saw me from appearing from the dust safe and fine.
I had used my sword as defence and put so much energy into it to make it's defence rise up, therefore the last attack didn't scratched me.
"Huff huff... What a duo, I used so much energy just to defend from that attack. I would have been dead you know..."
"That's not funny you know...Look out! Ray!" replied Kurt.
Elena's father thrust his spear forward multiple times towards me with insane speed along with so much energy put into it. I had used my barrier to avoid getting hit by this technique as it could give you fatal injuries. My barrier was not strong enough because I had no time to use more magic energy because of their relentless attacks.
However, I quickly counted as soon as I saw an opening between those insane thrusting speed and thrust my own sword towards the stomach area and pierced it a little. I had made sure to avoid killing them while doing this.
"Look above! Ray!"
"....!?"
From the above, Elena's mother used the left round house kick while in the air and hit on my right side area of head and I was sent flying at the speed of bullet towards the stone wall and crashed into it. Huge smoke appeared as I felt the pain.
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To be continued...