Chapter 476 Heroic Deeds (Part 3)



After making a few questions to the big sword guy, who turned out to be called Aguil a middle stage Knight Lord of this place, Daimon honestly felt... disgusted.

"I expected that this wild environment would make a lot of scum to bloom, but to think practically the whole upper echelon, besides the chief who is only a leader in name nowadays, is involved", he mumbled.The most uptodate novels are published on n0velbj)n((.))co/m

"Well, we can just kill them all", casually said the crazy girl making Daimon raise an eyebrow at her.

"If you do that, who will hunt food for...", Daimon, stopped midway, originally, he was simply going to kill all the scum, but turned out that a lot of those scum was needed for the town to survive.

Only sheltered idiots would divide things in "good" or "evil", the real world is full of grey tones, this is something Elaine who was in charge of educating Daimon in the duties of a leader made sure to put a lot of emphasis into.

Let's say that you find a small settlement inside a dangerous area, they have a harsh life, and have to pay tribute to the strong group who rules with iron hand, then one day you just appear and in a heroic moment get rid of the group who is always pressuring the small settlement.

Now they are free and they all celebrate, to then find out the next day that those who ruled over them, hunted the strong magic beasts that lingered all over the place, the people of the small settlement are then attacked by the magic beasts and they all die.

Sometimes both parts are mutually dependent, remove one and the other will follow soon, that is in part the origin of the saying that "There are no eternal enemies, just eternal benefits".

Of course, that doesn't apply to all the situations, because once again the world isn't as simple.

"The chief's store, the town's granary and storehouse, Tom and Ric merchant stores as well as Wild Night brothel, we'll pay a visit to those, but first the HQ's of the Sand Wolf army and the Desert Vulture", said Daimon.

Sarah nodded, according to the information that Aguil proportioned, those places were where the worst scum was gathering as of current, if Daimon were to be strict the list would be thrice larger, but the others had committed "minor" things compared to those, at the very least they still preserved some decency.

Alguir could tell what was about to happen, and he rushed to beg for mercy.

"W-Wait, esteemed Lord, I-I was tricked into coming here by that bastard, if you spare my life, I will give you all my possessions, it seems that the young lady likes to collect mana crystals, I have a million of them in store, I will be the most loyal dog I swear!".

Unfortunately, his fate was sealed the moment he agreed to come here, there are four hunting teams in this town, the idiot from the store clearly didn't have good intentions for Sarah, nor Daimon.

While he would have been killed and probably turned into food for others, Sarah's destiny would have been even more miserable, and this guy was "selected" to take such a task, instead of either Ender or the other big hunting team.

The Sand Wolf army didn't count, since sparing them wasn't an option to begin with, anyway the previous demonstrated that Aguil's group has done similar things in the past, which is why they will all be disappearing tonight.

"Sorry, I don't need trash and with your death all your possessions will be mine anyway", casually said Daimon as he grabbed Disaster.

"I-If you kill me, you will never be able to open the magic array in my treasure room, it will self-destroy thirty minutes after my death, unless you use a secret password...", before Alguil could finish the tip of Disaster pierced his head killing him on the spot, his mana and vitality was then drained and he turned into a mummy before his body crumbled into ashes.

'Sorry Narasha, it seems it's going to be hard to find some weapons worth breaking', inwardly said Daimon.

"Tila, I believe I told you that whenever my brother left you had to look out for him, as something happening to him will mean your death, both of you were out hunting, I don't believe you have the balls to kill him, but maybe you saw him and didn't bother in bringing him back, so if he is gone, you'll pay with your lives, it is as simple as that, but in your case I might have some use for you".

Ender gave the woman an apologetic gaze, they were old friends who have cooperated many times before, and today it was their turn to go out hunting, Tila's team left to a far area from the town, while Ender was patrolling the nearby area, when the pack of magic beasts appeared, he went out to distract and hunt and Omar tagged along, even when it wasn't the turn for the Sand Wolf army.

"Sorry Til, it seems I ended up dragging you into this mess", said Ender as he sighed, he knew that Omar wont' be returning, so that meant they will die here.

"Nah, don't say that, that bastard has been eyeing us from the very beginning, that coward of Aguil doesn't have the balls to stand up for himself, unlike us, so he just wants to eliminate us, and that idiot's disappearance is his excuse, he might have even told Omar to follow you just for this", said Tila, which made Ismael sinisterly laughed before saying.

"As expected of the only woman who has survived enough to become a middle stage Lord rank, in this town, in a really long time, you have some wit, what a shame you didn't accept my offer, but I'll still have some fun with you later".

Tila spat on the ground, certainly it was harder for the women in this town to become stronger, not because they were weaker in any sense, but because simple numbers, there was more than three times the number of men than women here, so more men survived till the age of five which was when it became possible for them to become mages or knights.

Add to that the fact that there were always more men than women here, those without any backing were only pray for the strong, the vast majority ended in the brothels, or worse, not like it didn't happen to men too, but with bigger numbers the possibility of a lucky bastard reaching the Lord rank increases, and so does the chance for a middle stage too.

As for Tila, her mother was lucky enough to become an early-stage Lord rank, and she survived enough to allow her daughter to grow to replace her, and left her a hunting team with some decently strong people, out of her five vice-captains, three were girls and two were men.

You might ask why aren't Ender and Tila joining hands to fight their way out, the answer is simple, even if they do, Ismael as a peak Lord stage Knight, can take them at the same time without any problems, and their ten subordinates will just be outnumbered in a 3v1 situation.

The only consolation they had, is that they already ordered their remaining five Lord rank subordinates, to take their families and the other members of their hunting groups and escape the town if they don't return in a couple of hours.

So, they weren't trying anything, to give them time to escape as well, unfortunately Ismael might look like a musclehead and he is, but he has a brain on his side too.

"Ah right, in case you rats try to run, let me tell you that Tom and Ric's guards as well Jeremy's ones were hired to surround your headquarters and houses, they will kill anyone who tries to leave", casually said Ismael as he nodded at a man with short brown hair and glasses, that was standing behind of him.

Ender gritted his teeth, as he regretted not having asked for a way to contact Daimon.

'With those two's help we could have had a chance against Ismael, damn it', he thought.

But then he came out of his daze when the atmosphere suddenly became heavy, the air started trembling in the while area of the front yard, and all the early-stage Lord ranks on both sides felt as if they were lacking oxygen as they collapsed on the ground.

Ismael's pupils contracted like needles, as he felt a chill coursing through his body, he was sitting and he had to use his battle aura to move and look at the origin of this horrifying pressure.

"Sorry, this is the slightest amount of aura I can use now", Ender recognized the voice, for a change he actually felt glad to hear and see the silver haired masked man he met only today.

But the happiness didn't last at all, when the green haired woman that was accompanying him, casually said.

"Hey look, that guy looks like the idiot you killed in the wasteland, so that should be their captain, lucky we don't have to look for him somewhere else".

"...".

A sepulchral silence fell on the whole area, before Ismael literally exploded in red flames, which were more accurately his battle aura.

"So, it was you huh, well, well, well, I can't believe two high quality women had decided to come to me in a single day, must be Omar helping me overcome his death from the afterlife", said Ismael as he summoned his weapon a large Warhammer and a tower shield.

Which were surprisingly Arch ranked equipment, and not only that, but they were different than the ones Daimon is used to see, because these ones had spherical spaces on them, where there was a core similar to the ones Daimon saw Ender selling, with the difference that those looked bigger.