Quintus stopped, and the man who was leading him kept walking, not noticing Quintus.
- Hey, stop. - shouted Quintus.
The man stopped and turned around:
- Why did you stop? - The man asked.
- Don't lead me on. - Quintus replied.
The man stood there not realizing what was going on.
Quintus walked away, pondering:
- That boy is strange. My behavior has changed drastically. Does he have some power of either hypnosis, suggestion, or something else!
Quint returned to the place where he met the kid, he was still standing there. Hearing Quint's footsteps, he turned around and walked towards him:
- You're so fast? Well, will you give me some money? - said the boy and smiled radiantly.
- No." replied Quintus briefly and clearly.
Hearing Quintus' answer, the boy hesitated and looked at Quintus once again with his cute doggy eyes:
- Are you sure? Maybe you have money after all? - the boy asked pitifully.
- No." replied Quint.
The boy started blinking a lot, his eyes glistening. This effect seemed to suggest to Quintus, "Well, we should give money to this pretty boy."
- Again, no! - Quint shouted.
Even though he said so, he was tearing up inside himself:
- 'Well shit! How could I say no to this cutie who needs money so badly!
The boy's face contorted. He started rubbing his eyes.
After a minute, his eyes were already red, as if he had recently cried:
- If you don't give me the money, I will scream, people will gather and I will tell them that you want to kidnap me and sell me into slavery to a rich pedophile!
Hearing the threat from the boy, Quintus stood stunned. This little boy was extorting money from him!
- Do you even know who I am!!! - Quintus asked.
- Yes! You're just a common son of a pathetic nobleman! - shouted back the boy. - I repeat, give me the money or I'll scream and accuse you of all the deadly sins!
- Pfft... And you think I'm going to be offended by that?
- If you don't get it, I'll say it again. I will scream and accuse you, and people will beat you to death, because they will believe me and think you tried to kidnap me and sell me into slavery!
Quintus did not change his face.
- Aah! Help! They're trying to kidnap me! - shouted the boy at the top of his voice.
Within a minute, a whole bunch of people had gathered around them.
The boy was on his knees and sobbing. Quintus' face showed no emotion.
- Hey! Get away from the boy! - A woman's voice came from the direction of the market, followed immediately by a rotten tomato in Quint's back.
Quint looked in the direction the tomato came from.
- Who did this?! - Quint shouted. Before he could say anything, a full bucket of horse manure flew at him from the other side.
This finally enraged the Emperor. At that moment, the boy who started it all disappeared. He simply ran off in an unknown direction.
Already Quintus was filthy from head to toe. Liquid horse manure was dripping from his hair, dripping onto his clothes and down his scruff. And the rotten tomato made it even worse.
It was the last straw of his patience.
Suddenly, a boy from the front rows threw a rotten egg, hitting him right in the left eye.
Quintus sighed, trying to calm down. He walked over to the boy and swung his arm, hitting him right in the chin. The boy fell to the ground and started trying to catch his breath. Quint walked up to him and kicked him.
The boy's mom runs up to him and starts pulling him away. Quintus again came up to the boy, who had tears on his cheeks, and swung his foot very hard and kicked him in the head.
A sinister smile appeared on Quintus' face and he began beating the little boy more and more intensely. Of course, the mother tried to protect her child, but he pushed her away and she collapsed, giving no sign but breathing.
The crowd finally realized what was happening and scattered.
Quintus looked down at the mother and son and walked away.
He walked toward the market. From there, a "stupid" rotten tomato was thrown at him.
On the way, he smashed all the stalls. In just a couple minutes the entire market was destroyed.
Quintus finally calmed down. He wanted to go to Tamarid, but suddenly he heard the sound of hooves near the city gates.
- Could it be the knights? They must have learned the city was mine and come to pledge their allegiance. Yes, most likely. - Quintus thought.
Before he could get there, he was surrounded by knights.
- Calm down, just get down off your horses and swear allegiance to me.
The knights said nothing. Suddenly Tamarid emerges from the shadows.
- Now, Tamarid, what's going on? What are they circling around me? - Quintus asked.
- Knights, there he is! He's the one who destroyed the stalls and tried to take over Kaplan and interfere with trade! - Shouted Tamarid to the knights.
At that moment, Quintus began to realize what this Tamarid was up to.
Quintus assumed he was just circling him and wasn't going to be part of his empire.
- А... So... Alright, I'll play by your rules anyway! - Quintus shouted for all the knights to hear.
He continued to stand still, watching the knights.
Suddenly he noticed a change in the physique of one of the 25 knights. That one just leaned to the left, as if preparing to jump off his horse directly at Quintus.
Slowly, that knight began to approach Quintus. And in an instant...
The knight jumps off his horse, drawing his sword.
Soon enough, the other knights followed him.
10 knights surrounded him.
Quintus smirked and pulled out his katana from Sai preparing to defend himself.
When most of the knights came within range, Quintus swung and hit 4 knights at once.
But Quintus' lack of deliberation caused the knights behind him to almost hit him. If not for his universal luck, they would have been able to tear his suit.
Quintus decided to settle things quickly. So, he jumped back, away from the knights and began to accumulate power through his body, thus strengthening it.
When the preparations were all done, he opened his eyes and saw a sword already flying in front of his nose.
After strengthening his body, his strength, his punching power, and his reaction increased. But with this, even he, won't be able to stay for long.
So he needed to finish everything as soon as possible.