Previously You Were Fortunate
The middle aged man knew about this mugger, he won't spare whoever tried to argue with him and this young man might get in trouble.
The man hurdled through the broken groceries of the shop and came out, "Who is this foolhardy?" he was displeased to hear the voice asking the middle aged man.
Everyone in this market was aware about his presence and his threats then who was this to ask, does not he fear?
As soon as his eyes fell on Zhi Chang, he was little stunned, he hurriedly looked around thinking if this young man was here then his woman must be around too.
So true, Jen was standing there too, looking at the man but she was not afraid to confront him again? Jen was standing as it was a common occurrence to witness people fighting or threating.
"To see you both here why it feels the prey came seeking hunter?" he broadly chuckled.
Zhi Chang was not expecting this man to appear here but what can be done since he was already here other than to tell him, his place there was no choice.
Zhi Chang looked toward the middle aged man and spoke, "This senior, you may take care of your wounds and rest," now the matter was not about to get implicated, the man was already their enemy.
"You are in my den, you should at least show some worry," the man was pissed with the attitude of this young man, Zhi Chang was not budge and moved instead he was preparing for show down, sooner or later both needed to face some powerful personal of this place since it was under no proper ruling crown.
"If we start to get worry then we should forget to face our enemies," Jen spoke this time, she was also standing prepared.
"Who is your enemy, just handover your storage and we no longer bother each other but what is with this attitude, it is you stubborn wanted to make foes eagerly," he spoke as if talking a rational argument only the listeners could tell how ridiculous he was speaking.
"We don't fear making foes," Zhi Chang cannot be threatened this easily.
The man saw his friends coming to tackle both stubborn outsiders and chuckled, "Then let's see how much you can sustain enmity?" two of his friends were near Legend level while one was complete legend that means he has grasped this level and currently was preparing for breakthrough in the first level, the man himself was at the second level of the Legend Realm.
It can be said that this man was powerful among his friends still they work collaboratively for mugging others.
Zhi Chang and Jen both were Legends and currently they has stabilize their strength too, Jen was battle trained while Zhi Chang was also a genius, their levels cannot be compared with common cultivators especially it can never be compared with muggers.
Muggers can only beat some common and weak cultivators and brag their strength, while battle trained geniuses never resort to such mean acts.
The man suddenly broke through his dominion for surprise attack, he bat his eye at his friends for an attack when he would gesture them, he was no more under pressure since he was not alone to face both Legends.
Zhi Chang came in front to face the man, while Jen was keeping eyes at the others who perhaps wanted to ambush.
"I am quite impressed with your advancement," the man was amazed at how this young man was able to learn fast and stabilize his level, normally it was not that easy.
Zhi Chang did not answer instead he prudently started his first battle to learn how he should battle in future, it was his chance to start learning and Jen intentionally kept herself at the backline, if Zhi Chang asked her advice then she would render her help.
Lin'an was scared to see what was going on, she thought that this couple was very peaceful and easy going, they did not start a fight when she crashed through the wall, this was more than enough a proof for her to take it as they rarely get angry or indulge any battle.
But what was going on here, they were standing steel against a stronger enemy and more of that he was not alone, sensing that Jen was immensely calm Lin'an was afraid to speak anything and ask what would happen now.
She was not thinking to go back instead she wanted to see how this couple would tackle this problem, but it was clear like day that they might not be able to stand against so many enemies.
The man who initiated was not alone one should keep in mind.
After sometime when the man was ready to make his fatal move, he gestured his friends to sneak attack the man so that his move won't go useless, he forgot that the girl was standing silent and only Zhi Chang was standing against him.
Jen has faced situations similar to this one, she was ready with slash of Solar Star, she was using this attribute of nature after a long time, and it made her excited, why not after all she was aware about the strength of this attribute.
She learned to wield slashes from the Core expert and now it was time to practice this weird punishment method.
At least, she was using Solar Star, it was apparent that it would leave certain level of damage, or hopefully her enemy would get a surprise.
The friend of the man who was also legend threw a weapon for sneak attack and the meantime a slash hit his back, this sudden slash staggered him and his aimed weapon went useless, instead he fell on the ground convulsing with the impact of slash.
The man who gestured was still waiting for his friend to make a sneak move but he was flabbergasted to see that his friend was convulsing on the ground.
What made him crawl on ground, what he was looking for? He thought.
His others friends were equally stunned to see him and they were clueless despite standing closer to him.
Lin'an who was a diligent spectator of this brawl was keeping profound gaze at the development of the scenario, especially impressively calm Jen was her center of attention, there can be two reason for a person to be calm at such situations, first to be fearless and confident and second if one was not interested to become a part of such consequences one would act neutral but the subsequent reason was not the actual purpose behind this calm demeanor, right?
They were together and they won't act neutral no matter what.
Zhi Chang kept his pace and the dominion at the peak to not let the man find a chance for double attack, he also made his mind to use his first learned technique in this battle after all the enemy in front of him was not some innocent or needed his empathy.
"Senior Jen, should I go look for someone to help you?" Lin'an was worried that these outsiders were really surrounded by the enemies then it would be too late to act.
"Do you know someone?" Jen was not interested to get help but she wanted to know who would this girl bring for help?
"Not really but I can beg crown to help you," she spoke sincerely, one could see it was not easy for her to decide on this but she don't want these both outsiders get harmed by the muggers, she was willing to sacrifice her freedom just to save them because she remembered the advice of her father.
"You don't need to beg anyone for us," Jen was moved how sincerely this girl wanted to help, though they were strangers but the girl was willing to resort any help for them.
"Are you sure senior?" Lin'an blinked eyes, she can only hope that this senior girl could go through this battle without getting harmed.
"We will be troubling crown some other day, and will make sure that you don't need to beg ever once," Jen smiled though her mention of crown was little scaring for this girl but Jen was not aware about it.
"This senior is quite confident and it decreased my worry," Lin'an smiled bitterly, what else she can do, she should think about to hide as soon as someone came looking for her.
This was the only way to remain safe until this couple decide to leave Clandestine Manias.
This battle though scared her but she was sure now that this couple has seen the unreasonable people of this Manias they would not plan a longer stay most definitely.
A cultivator usually try his best to stay away from such useless battles and cultivate diligently no matter if the whole place fell in chaos, this was one of the usual concept about cultivators though Jen was here to prove it wrong.