19 The Power of a Knigh

'Swish!'

In a split second, the wolf was rendered headless, spraying black blood in all directions. In that split second, Hiro had turned around sensing the threat behind him and opened his right fist which had a symbol '§' tattoed on it. The symbol shone with bright blue light, summoning a long sword which appeared in his hand. The long sword had mystic symbols engraved on its hilt and with a wave of his sword, the wolf's head went flying to the other side spraying blood everywhere.

"You don't need to worry about anything, Master Leo, we got it under control." Hiro turned around again to reassure Leo of the situation.

Seeing their alpha dead, the wolf pack rushed out of the forest in a fury, to kill everyone present there. But in contrary, within a few seconds, every single wolf that exposed itself was headless just like their alpha. The other three knights moved at such a speed that not even the trained soldiers beside them could see properly. Raj summoned a lance while the other two summoned a katana and a short sword.

The Knights moved at a speed that normal human eyes couldn't keep up with and the Knights did not even use any of their elemental powers but only used their Qi to be fast in their movement and strong enough to slice the wolf into two pieces.

"This smell is awful. I can't sleep with such stink. Simon, Kart, can you please clear it up." Raj called out to the other Knights standing beside him, who shot glares at him as if they were saying 'You were the one who killed four of the seven wolves and now you are talking as if this scene has no connection to you.'

"Whatever, let's do it Kart, because even I don't want to sleep with corpses lying all around us and with thatawful smell in the air." Simon couldn't be more casual in his words as he turned around to face the dead wolves.

Simon and Kart raised their hands and pointed their palms at the dead bodies. The Aura around them started to change and then water gushed out of a small blue circle made of water in front of Simon's palms. The water jet flowed at such a speed that it forced all the corpses back into the forest.e a similar kind of circle made of thick fog, appeared before Kart's palms, releasing strong air currents. The air shook the forest and the grassy area before them, clearing most of the awful smell, while also sending the corpses more inside the forest.

"All done, phew." Kart turned around with a happy face, seeing that the stink had cleared out a lot.

"Everything is dealt with young master Leo. Now you can sleep in peace." Hiro turned around and headed back to the grassy area where he was sleeping before and so did the other knights and soldiers. Hiro did not maintain eye contact with Leo as he said those words, which was the only reason he didn't have any problem going back to sleep cause if he had seen Leo's eyes, then he would have surely asked 'If he was okay?'.

As soon as the knights and soldiers went back to sleep, Erina fell to her knees with a traumatized face and eyes that were wide with horror. The soldiers who were standing guard tried to approach Erina immediately but were stopped by Clint.

"We can take care of this, please do not worry." Leo said in a low voice from the spot where he stood frozen, the entire time which was actually less than ninety seconds within which a pack of demon wolves were killed and the area was cleared of any battle traces.

"Get in the cart guys. Aiko, Reeva, help Erina into the cart." Leo's voice was hoarse as he finally moved from that spot and got into the cart.

"..." It remained silent inside the cart for quite a while, until Leo finally snapped out of it and batted his eyelashes on his dry eyes that were open since the moment he saw the wolf jump on Hiro.

"Just calm down. That was too much, I agree." Leo tried to calm down the other six, out of which Clint wasn't that shaken, while Sai was a bit excited now.

"I think I understand why there are only 900 Knights or so in the kingdom. Not everyone can reach that level of speed and strength." Clint added with a face filled with complex emotions.

"I couldn't even see them." Ian said slowly as he just came back to his right senses.

"Neither could I." Clint said slowly as he looked down at the floor of the cart while the other six except Erina, signalled Ian that it was the same with them as well.

"Aiko, Reeva, can you just try and turn Erina back to normal?" Leo's voice started to sound better than the shaky voice he had earlier.

"So, that is the power of a Knight and I am pretty certain that we haven't even seen their true power. They seemed like they were playing around right now. Their face was so calm, as if this wasn't even something to worry or think about." Sai looked out of the window towards the murder scene, which was now only a clean grassy area.

"Are we going to ever reach their level? Do you think we need to reach that level to have enough power to teleport ourselves back?" Aiko blurted out a few questions out of the many that were going around in her head.

"I hope not." Reeva said slowly as she hugged Erina deeper into her chest, trying to calm her down.

"I don't think we need to worry that much. We are students, not soldiers who need to fight those things and as soon as we find a way to go back home, we will be gone." Leo declared with a confident tone which calmed down Erina, who raised her head to look at Leo.

"We really won't fight those things in the future, right? Right?" Erina asked twice, trying to convince herself that it was alright.

"Yeah. Most probably, we might not need to. We will find out a way to return as soon as possible, don't worry." Leo reassured Erina before getting lost in his thoughts.

'I do hope that what I said comes true. But why do I have a feeling that things aren't going to turn out so?' Leo's head was overheating with so many thoughts, that he ended up not being able to sleep all night.