Chapter 19 - Show Elegance

The numerous guards stationed inside the King's mansion immediately protected the two most important people in this village, Lady Arisu and King Luke.

Boom!

Even though they were inside, they could feel the force of another explosion transpired. Riku was concerned because the villagers had a tendency to accuse him. After all, this had happened to their village.

Tsk!

He clicked his tongue, narrowly looking at the middle-aged man that had sharp ears. Cuifer was the one who ordered to protect the king and checked what was that explosion origin.

"You... Outsider! How dare you deceive us!" Cuifer glared at him and pointed his index finger at him before adding. "Now I know what your exact plant is: you want Lady Arisu and King Luke to be together so you can easily kill them and invade the Arzotoc village! But today is your bad luck because you didn't expect our village to be protected by a magical barrier!"

Riku frowned his brows, wondering where this man took that false concrete story. And all of a sudden, two guards held his arms and pushed him to the ground.

"What are you doing? Let me go! I didn't do anything wrong!" he exclaimed, recalling how the guards tortured him in the first step. So he gritted his teeth and he pushed his body slowly forward, using his arms and legs to break the two guards' footing.

Thud! Thud!

Riku confronted Cuifer after the guards' buttocks fell to the ground. "Why do you keep making up stories?! I'm not the cause of the explosion here."

Even though there was a commotion inside the King's mansion, Arisu wondered how the Worn level managed to take down the two guards who had Warrior levels.

Capture him!

Outsiders, he's arrogant! He assaulted our guards!

Riku was prepared to fight them and use his [Fly] ability to flee to this village until... The message was delivered by a guard, who returned with a worried expression.

"There's a monster attacking this village, and our first commander Albert has requested summoned all of the guards here."

The other guards stopped chasing Riku after the guard gave the report, and they immediately left the area.

He could breathe freely as it was the monster's creation, so there was no reason to accuse him. He knelt and apologized for attacking the king's guards.

"Sorry for my action, King Luke and lady Arisu, I'm still not recovered from how the guards tortured me, so I just tried to protect myself," he apologized politely.

"How dare you say your unreasonable reason to King Luke, you should punish!" Cuifer yelled angrily, then ordered the twenty guards to lock him up. To teach him a lesson.

Yes!

This village has no room for that kind of outsider!

The guards and Cuifer came to a halt when King Luke raised his hand. "Enough, Cuifer, you already know that man wasn't involved in that explosion."

"B-but he attacked your guards, King Luke; we can't tolerate this man!" Cuifer was adamant about returning this outsider to the call for no apparent reason.

"I already said stop, Cuifer!" King exclaimed, irritated by how this middle-aged man treated the outsider. "Also, if I'm in this position, I'll do the same thing, or rather, kill you."

Cuifer took a step back, realizing King Luke wasn't joking with him. Instead of fighting for what he was fighting for, he lowered himself and apologized to him by kneeling on the ground. "I'm sorry for my behavior; all I want is for our village to be peaceful."

"That's right, Cuifer, but this is my decision, and I also know who the right people are in whom I can invest," King Luke said as he looked at Cuifer with a malicious smile on his face.

Cuifer raised his brows when he heard these. Why? Because the king believed that an outsider would undoubtedly assist the Arzotoc village. 'Do I need to do something about this?' 'I should make a concrete plan of how I can force this man to leave this village,' he thought to himself before standing up as the king ordered.

"Cuifer, you're the first tactician to arrive in this village, so you have to be there and help them figure out how they're going to defeat that monster," Luke said solemnly.

Arisu took a step forward and said. "I'll come, father; I know we can easily annihilate that monster if I'm there."

King stroked his beard once more before turning to face his daughter with a somber expression. "All right, Arisu, come with them."

King Luke appeared to be confident in his daughter's fighting abilities. Since who was the father who put his child in danger?

"But don't go too far, Arisu, if you see the monster is far from our walls, don't chase it, as we don't know whether there's someone manipulating it and preparing to attack us," he advised.

Arisu nodded her head at him, "Yes, father, I would not forget your advice," and then attempted to flee the mansion with Cuifer. At the same time, Riku expressed an interest in accompanying them. "How about you, Riku? Would you like to stay?"

He shook his head slowly, eventually looking at the king's throne. "King, if you will allow me, I want to come with them," he said, requesting permission.

"Hmm... You're just a worn, but if you're there to watch, there's no problem," King replied.

"Let's go, Riku, don't linger!"

Arisu and Cuifer began to move after the King granted them permission. Furthermore, Cuifer did not oppose the king's decision, so he would not annoy him in the meantime.

Swoosh!

Riku blinked in surprise, as he hadn't expected that woman and the middle-aged to be so quick. 'Oh, it's no joke that these people are tough.'

Riku, on the other hand, will not let them get more than a few meters away from him. In his mind, the ten kilometers run every day would be a waste if he couldn't keep up with them.

Arisu's interest was piqued by this occurrence. Why? Because he's only a Worn level, she's supposed to be able to cover 200 meters with him. It made her believe that he was concealing her true strength from them.

Yes. Riku was concealing some abilities that could alter his outward appearance. Despite the fact that non-human creatures such as a half-dog, half-cat, half-hippo, and so on may be seen in this village. He could assure them that he would not frighten them. But the truth was that Riku had the crow's gene, which meant he was light enough body to fly and was the main reason he was so fast.

The villagers, on the other hand, were all hiding inside their homes after the explosion. They knew they couldn't do anything about it, so they just made life difficult for the guards because they needed to protect them.

Well, it was quite a strategy for this village to avoid any potential casualties.

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Arisu, Cuifer, and Riku arrived at the northern part of this village after five minutes. Eight hundred warriors guarded the area just to take down one monster.

"Hmm... Too many guards here? What if more monsters appear on the other side? They probably lost manpower," Riku murmured, and Arisu heard him.

However, she had no intention of speaking about this as this man was correct. So she simply pointed her finger at the monster who caused the explosion.

"That's the Garaga monster, Riku," she explained, "it had the speed and strength to kill warrior guard in an instant."

Garaga monster? How can they make an awkward name to this mythical monster? Yes, it was a mythical monster that could be found in Earth's low and mid-level dungeons.

To put it simply, the monster resembled a lion, but its body was much larger and more aggressive. It possessed one horn on its forehead and a violet crystal on its chest.

Based on his current strength, he could easily tell that he would never be able to defeat this type of monster on his own.

Cuifer went to the front lines and inquired of the first commander, Albert. "Albert, how's the situation here?" Cuifer saw the monster made a large hole on their wall and already killed 10 guards with a warrior level before hearing the answers. "Why isn't anyone attacking it?" he exclaimed.

"I apologize, majesty Cuifer, but that monster was much stronger than we expected; arrows and swords did not penetrate its body, so we are waiting for the cannon to arrive," Albert explained politely, but Cuifer was one to take this achievement, so he ordered the guards to continue attacking.

"Attack that Garaga monster! If that monster makes it to the main village, we're done!"

Guards fire arrows and wield spears and swords at it after hearing the tactician's command. But the outcome was the same: they couldn't land a single hit, and twelve more guards were killed.

Tsk!

Riku clicked his tongue since he didn't like how Cuifer let those guards die so easily, despite the fact that he held a grudge against those guards who tortured him.

"What is that man doing? Those guards would wipe them out in no time..." he said nonchalantly, as it appeared that he was the only one who knew how to easily annihilate this monster.

"We can't do anything, Riku; if we let the monster into the village, more people will die," Arisu said, clenching her swords as she attempted to charge at the monster and assist the guards.

"Wait a minute, lady Arisu, I have an idea how we're going to defeat the monster, and I know you can kill that monster in one strike," he said confidently.