Chapter 428: From the guards, to the knights, to the hero

The man felt his very bones were being turned into powder by this unknown pressure. He could actually hear them creaking. As he was fearing for his life, he heard Valdel's voice whispering in his ear.

"Usually I would want to save every single person, to keep the smiles on their faces... But you're not a person, are you? You're thrash wearing human flesh. Still, don't worry I won't kill you, instead I will hurt you so much that you would wish that you could die." Valdel pierced his finger into the man's thigh. The man screamed as the sudden pain assaulted him. The man was now regretting the actions he took. If this was simply the start of his pain, what more would happen to him? He wanted to say something, but he could not make a sound. It was as if something was stuck in his throat.

"Since you didn't like to apologize, and I didn't want to hear your thrashy words anymore, I used a minor silence spell on you. Magic isn't really my forte, but I do know a thing or two. This wouldn't have worked on a mage, but on someone that doesn't know how to use his mana properly this is enough." While Valdel was teaching the man a lesson, Ren looked up at the sky and smiled that vicious smile of his.

"Val, don't bother about the people who are coming, Lara and I will deal with them." Valdel stopped what he was doing and looked at Ren.

"Ren, can you please not kill them... They're just doing their jobs."

"Hmph, no one can tell me who I can kill and cannot kill. You know you've been pretty bossy since a while ago, Val."

"Ren, please." Seeing Valdel's look made Ren click his tongue.

"Tsk, don't look at me like that... Fine, I will not kill any of them. It's not like they're strong enough for me to bother with wanting to kill them."

"Lara, can you promise me as well."

"... Very well, I will not kill anyone."

"Thanks, you two." After hearing the reply of his two childhood friends Valdel went back to teaching the man a lesson. While the three childhood friends were conversing, John was confused as to what they were talking about, but he got a bad feeling about it.

It was then a gigantic shadow came over them, John looked up and saw one of the flying ships was overhead. Two wyvern knights came down from the airship. When John saw the two wyvern knights he felt like everything was over.

The Holy Kingdom's wyvern knights were one of a kind. Unlike all the other kingdoms in the continent, the Holy Kingdom can proudly say that they are the only kingdom that has aerial units. Even though the Serbek Kingdom has mages that could float, it was still different from the maneuverability that wyverns can produce.

One of the wyvern knights came close and shouted at Valdel, Ren, Lara, and John.

"The man over there, the one who's torturing a citizen of the Holy Kingdom, give yourself up and come with us. The same goes for your companions as well. If you do not comply then we will use force, by then we cannot guarantee your life. We have already evacuated the entire area, so we will use extreme force if we have to."

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"You heard that Lara, no need to worry about the people. Just shoot them down, of course, no killing, not even the wyverns." Hearing Ren's command Lara took out her bow and created five arrows made out of mana. She then pulled on her bowstring and released her five arrows at the same time.

Seeing the incoming flashes of lights, the wyvern knights tried to evade but when they couldn't do so, they tried to create a mana shield but that proved useless. The arrow penetrated through the mana shield and through the wings of the wyverns.

The two wyverns came falling from the sky hitting a nearby building. To Ren's surprise, the building didn't collapse from the wyverns falling speed.

'These buildings are sturdier than I thought.'

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The leader of the group of guards was trying to wake up his men to escape when he saw what happened to the two wyvern knights. He was surprised and was rather frightened by the power that was displayed. The girl did it so casually like she was shooting a small bird.

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John who saw the entire process of Lara taking out her bow and to the moment the two wyvern knights fell, was dumbfounded. He couldn't believe the sight he saw, those were wyvern knights the pride of the Holy Kingdom, to take out two of them so easily.

'So it's not just the two guys that were dangerous. Even this silent girl that looked so delicate was a f*cking frightening existence. What the heck is with this day?! I just wanted to gain a little coin!'

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The two wyvern knights that fell from the sky were mostly unharmed and their wyverns just have broken wings. It was obvious to them that the enemy showed mercy, which was a great humiliation for them. They weren't even treated as proper opponents. One of the wyvern knights then took out a black box-like object and spoke.

"Commander, the enemy resisted, and the two of us are down. There are four enemies, based on that attack they hit us with, I guess that the enemies could be considered Titan Class."

"Are you sure?"

"I can't tell for sure Commander, but even if they're not Titan Class, they should be close to that level of power." The wyvern knight responded in a somber tone.

"I see... I will contact the temple and ask for assistance. For now, we will need to keep them here, until back up arrives."

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Ren looked above and was happy to see three more airships had appeared. Now a whole platoon of wyvern knights came to join in the fun. Lara continued firing arrows at the incoming wyverns. Now in a bigger group, the wyvern knights dove to the ground. Seeing the incoming arrows instead of evading or blocking as the first two did, the platoon faced it head-on. The wyverns unleashed a smaller version of a dragon's breath at the arrows.

The wyvern's breath was just basically an extremely large version of the fireball spell. The breath was able to destroy some of the incoming arrows, but others got past and were able to hit a couple of wyverns.

Still, now that the wyvern knights were able to get close they had their exaggeratedly long lances forward. Yet the moment they were about to get close to mow down Ren, Lara, and John, the fearsome wyverns suddenly started to panic. They could instinctively feel that Ren was someone dangerous to them. They could smell the blood of a mighty being all over Ren. It was the stench of the King Drake, Ren fought long ago. Even though it had been so long and Ren had already bathed multiple times since then, some of the blood was still there.

The knights couldn't understand why their mighty steeds were cowering back. Seeing that they could not force their partners into charging, the knights went down and faced Ren and the others on foot.

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"Can you take them on your own, or do you need my help?"

"There's no need for Ren to dirty his hands on these weaklings." Lara tossed aside her bow and wore her gauntlets. Lara then dashed towards the charging knights who were now using normal-sized spears and round shields.

Seeing the charging Lara, the leader of the platoon shouted his command. "Everyone get into formation!" The knights then stood side by side shields at front and spears at the gap in between. This formation was meant to stop the charging enemy and puncture them with their spears.

Yet the moment Lara got close she initiated her attack with a flying kick. The kick broke through the round shields and once she got behind she started to wreak havoc in their formation. Yet these knights were well trained and didn't panic as their formation was broken, instead, they immediately shifted into a different formation.

They were now fighting in pairs and were slowly dictating where Lara was moving towards. Since she wasn't allowed to kill, it made it harder for her. Lara wasn't even able to notice that she was being directed into an open area were she would be surrounded.

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'Oh, aside from the people being discriminatory, this place is actually quite good. Their civilization is so much higher than the others, their technology is way better, and their military might seem to be the best I've seen so far, well in this current era. Their soldiers are well trained and know how to use proper formations. Also those flying ships above us, I'm pretty sure those things aren't just some form of transportation. Those ships must have some weapons on board, but they're unable to use them inside the city, also seeing as they might hit one of their own they're being held back. I would have really liked to see the full power of those flying ships.'

While Ren was analyzing the power of the Holy kingdom,he suddenly saw someone approaching them. The person who arrived had casually walked into the battle zone, and upon appearing the wyvern knights backed away from Lara The knights then stood behind the newcomer and waited. Lara also backed away and stood beside Ren.

The presence that this newcomer had was very familiar. Not only the presence, the overall look of the person, the way he moved everything seems so familiar.

"I heard you people are causing a lot of problems." When Ren heard the way the newcomer talked, he couldn't hold it in and the vicious smile on his face grew wider.

"It has been a long time since I have faced one of these guys." Ren happily whispered to himself before speaking to the newcomer.

"To what do we owe the pleasure, hero!"