Chapter 352 - 346 : Rage

"Who am I? I don't think you're worthy of knowing that."

"You...you dar-" The black-haired young man.

*Bang*

Sato punched the young man in the face without waiting for him to finish his words. He was already tired of all these charades and decided to end it with a fist.

"Ugh...You dare?" The young man roared. Surprisingly, the young man wasn't knocked down with that punch and recovered with just a groan.

"Get him!"

Unlike the lanky youth that hot knocked out earlier, the young man had arrived with a few of his guildmates. Having been humiliated like this, the young man would be aggrieved if he didn't settle this matter instantly.

Losing himself in rage, he ordered his teammates to attack Sato. If he were in a calm state, he wouldn't make such a silly move since the NPC guards were still here, but being blinded by rage, he forgot all about that. As for his teammates, they had socks for brains[1]. They thought that since the NPCs didn't attack Sato, they also wouldn't attack them as long as they dealt with Sato without causing any damage. In their heads, they thought that since Sato could pull off the act of taking on a player without dealing damage, they too could do it.

He did it with just a simple kick, so why can't we?

The three men behind the black-haired young man dashed towards Sato in a pincer formation. They knew that Sato was strong and shouldn't be underestimated so they tacitly decided to attack from 3 different angles.

One of them attacked from the centre while the remaining two attacked from the two sides. They intended to subjugate Sato as quickly as possible, before knocking him out and handling him outside town. As long as they managed to bring Sato outside of the town, they would be free of the regulation that prevented them from injuring a player and Sato would simply be at their mercy.

Sadly for these folks, Sato wasn't such an easy target.

The player by the right sent a punch at Sato but Sato easily deflected it with a palm before delivering a blow of his own.

*Pa*

Not expecting such quick reactions from him, the player got punched right in the nose by Sato and fell backward.

Sato didn't follow up against him as he had to face the remaining two others.

For the player on the left, Sato sent a kick at his guts with his left leg, sending the player down before he could even make a move. The last player, who attacked from straight up, managed to launch an attack at Sato which was something his other companion couldn't. The punch came at the right time just as Sato had dealt with the player on the left. Because of the timing, it looked as if the punch would be difficult for Sato to dodge and the attacker had already begun rejoicing in his head.

However, such a seemingly timed punch looked nothing more than an attack filled with flaws in Sato's eyes.

Taking a step backward, Sato moved his body to the side and dodged the punch with ease. Just before the player could even react to this, he was greeted by an uppercut from Sato that perfectly connected with his jaws.

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Unlike the other attacks of Sato, this one had caused damage as the point of contact was a delicate part of the human body.

*Thud*

Similar to the player who attacked from the right, this guy was also knocked out. With an audible sound, his body collapsed on the floor as silence spread through the entire trade-house. The source of this was the battle, but unlike before, it wasn't in awe of Sato's skills but the fact that he had injured a player right in front of the NPC guards.

'Is he crazy?' Koko widened his eyes in surprise.

Unlike the others, as a martial artist and a battle-hardened gamer, Koko knew that there were multiple options for Sato to take. He could have punched the player in the guts, directly at his face, or subdued him as he did with the lanky youth from before. But instead of doing any of that, Sato had purposefully attacked a fragile point of the player. Yes, purposefully. Koko knew that Sato didn't feel any threat from the attack of that player, and could easily toy with him if he wished. This meant that Sato had clear control over the situation therefore, all the other options were indeed accessible to Sato but he still took such a risky one. Even if one had immaculate control, the chances of not dealing any injury to a target by attacking them at that spot were extremely low. Considering that Sato had better options but still took it, it meant that he was either stupid or unafraid and stupid; either way, Sato was stupid.

"Haha. You're finished now! Haha! Guards, did you see that?! Arrest this mad man." Haha." The black-haired young man laughed audaciously.

Previously, Sato was left off as he hadn't injured anyone. However, it was as clear as the sun in a cloudless sky that Sato had injured the last player. Every player saw it and the NPCs too. The way the young man saw it, there was nothing Sato could do about it again; he was doomed to jail.

Sato didn't talk to the young man but faced the guards and asked.

"I was assaulted and insulted by a bunch of lowlifes so I retaliated in kind. Do you find anything wrong with my actions?"

"No, lord Saviour." The guard leader shook his head.

"Then you should help me and settle the rest. I have a busy schedule and it has been affected by these morons. Deal with them as you see fit." Sato said before he walked towards the counter.

"*Cough* *cough*...huh?" The young man almost choked in his saliva.

The guards had not made a move on Sato despite him injuring a player out in the open in a safe zone. Instead, they had begun rounding up his men and even the guard captain had approached him with a ferocious expression.

"Don't make any move if you want things to be easy." The NPC guard captain said with a menacing look.

"The heck? I'm not the one you should be after; he is. I'm just a victim here." The black-haired young man screamed in outrage.

"Shut up." The guard captain moved and punched the young man in the guts.

The guard captain was much stronger than the Kobold King that had been terrorizing the entire Black Grill's Cave. Without a doubt, a punch from him was not something a level 7 player could handle.

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Stttthhhh.

Everyone took in a deep breath of cold air at the sight of the damage values. This was just a punch yet it caused so much damage. One can only imagine the final value if the attack was done with a weapon. While the result would be the same even if the damage values were much higher, the penalty one would receive for dying would be higher.

This was why players weren't so suicidal as to face a stronger monster since it wasn't worth the risk. If a player was killed in one hit, they would lose a lot more Experience points and the chances of dropping a piece of equipment upon death would increase.. If the damage they received was higher than their overall HP, their losses would also increase in correspondence to the damage value.