Chapter 2: The Clock Tower Incident
"Kill him... Kill him... Kill him"
Lista looked at the thousands of spectators in the arena who remembered the shouting of the audience, to be an audience here, even the most ordinary people were dignitaries, but the words that came out of their mouths were more disgusting than the dead rats in the gutter, but in the eyes of the group above, the four people in the gladiatorial arena at this time were the rats that were about to die in the gutter, and their pleasure was to see two of the rats tear the other two mice in the most cruel way and then donate blood and splash it on their faces.
"They're coming," remembered Uncle Charles's loud voice, and the two began to distance themselves.
"Take it easy, as I usually teach you, and keep your body down," Uncle Charles's instructions reminded Lista again.
"Uncle, don't worry about me"
"Hmm"
Lista and Charles distanced themselves, gradually forming a diagonal to encircle the two enemies on the opposite side, and when the enemy saw that they were surrounded, they confronted Lista and Charles back-to-back.
Both Lista and Charles use dual swords, the enemy of the other party facing Charles is a strong man with a giant sword, and the enemy facing Lista is a thin man with a round shield and a spear, the round shield covers most of the thin man's body, and even the size of the round shield is almost larger than Lista's thin body. The two diagonal duo met their eyes, and they immediately ran towards the enemy in the middle.
The thin man saw Lista rushing up, he smiled from the bottom of his heart, a child, what can he do to himself, so he squatted down and made a preparation for a charge, he wanted to kill Lista with one blow when he approached.
And the strong man saw that Chaxx rushed over when he had dragged the giant sword to Chucks, the distance between the four gradually narrowed, Charles took the lead in the enemy's confrontation, the strong man ran over with the giant sword, and when he met, it was an upward pick, Charles crossed his double sword to meet him, jumped slightly, and jumped to the back of the strong man only along the top of the giant sword, Charles seized the opportunity, and stabbed a sword into the waist of the strong man with a pop, and just wanted to pierce the second sword when he was shocked by the strong man's elbow with a sword.
Just when Lista and the thin man clashed, Lista's thinner body was extremely flexible, and the thin man saw that the distance was close enough, and a charge stabbed the spear, but the thin man never expected that this kid not only dodged his own attack with a sliding shovel, but also cut his ankle with a double sword while passing under his crotch.
But Lista, who passed through the thin man, did not stop, stood up and continued to run, running towards the strong man, and Charles, who was shaken away by the strong man, rushed towards the thin man without looking back.
The strong man with the giant sword was stabbed in the waist and was unable to use the giant sword with all his strength, in the face of the conversion of the target, he was happy at first, after all, the opponent was a child, but immediately he changed from a smiling face to a dead face, Lista lowered his body, his calf exerted force, a sprint with a slash easily drilled through the strong man's crotch, and smashed the strong man's knee by slashing, plopped, the strong man who lost his knee lost his strength and knelt on the ground, all this happened too fast, Lista was very calm, saw the strong man kneeling, jumped on the shoulders of the strong man, and the two swords stabbed into the neck of the strong man with a pop, and with a slight rotation, the strong man's head fell off his shoulder, and the strong man died with an expression that he did not expect.
"Oh!!!!!!"
There were continuous cheers from the stage, and the blood of the strong man's major arteries spurted in the air, staining Lista's face red, and when Lista finally pulled out the sword stuck in the strong man's neck and looked at Uncle Charles, he saw that Uncle Charles's double swords had broken into several sections at some point.
Lista's pupils shrank sharply, he understood, why did the uncle exchange the double swords that had followed him for many years with his own double swords before the war, and his own double swords were dropped........
Uncle Charles, who lost his weapon, was impaled in the chest by a thin man's spear......
"Boy, remember the agreement between the two of us"
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The outdoor sunlight, through the fence of the window, shone into the simple, but very neat hotel, when the sun shone on Lista's face, you could see the dust in the air slowly floating, and the sunlight continued to stimulate Lista's vision, so that the dream of Lista uncomfortable left and right struggle, suddenly:
"Uncle!!!!!!!!"
Lysta, who woke up, sat on the bed and was stunned, this dream .....
After taking a deep breath, Lista touched his forehead, "Probably this is childhood."
"Youβ" Tyr's soft voice came from outside the door.
"Are you alright..."
"Huh? Sacrifice to adults. Lista looked at the twin swords leaning against the wall, the twin swords that Uncle Charles had inherited from him, picked them up and stroked them, and whispered back "I... It's okay. β
Dressed in gear, Lista walked out of the room and saw Tyr tidying up his desk.
"Uh, Lord Sacrifice, I'm here..."
"Huh? Hello, you don't need to call me Lord Priest, just call me Tyr. Tyr smiled when he saw Lista.
"You fainted yesterday, so I thought, you need to have a good rest at the hotel after you have been treated, because this inn is run by me, so ....., you slept all night, and it happens to be morning"
"Then, sacrificeβ" Lista, who was about to ask a question, was immediately interrupted by Tyr again
"Mr. Lista! Thank you for sacrificing your life to save me yesterday, obviously I was too willful, so... Please don't call me a priest again."
Lista was helpless, and could only smile, "Miss Natyr, thank you for taking care of me, eh, how is the mercenary group going, I've been delaying for a long time"
"Huh? Oh, and the hostel is right in the middle of this village, it's not a big village, you can see it when you go out and look on the right front"
Lista who left the hotel stretched a big waist, this village is indeed not big, when he stretched his waist, Lista had already seen the mercenary group, until Lista approached and saw Fiona leaning on the guardrail of the mercenary group.
"Yo! Awake? β
Fiona, who took off her armor, revealed her long blonde hair and her three-dimensional pretty face.
"Good morning, big sister"
"I wanted to ask you yesterday, can you not call me eldest sister!" Fiona's head gestured to the mercenary group's office.
"You'd better wait to get in now, it's going to be lively inside."
"What's wrong? By the way, Sister Na, you were okay yesterday. β
"What can I do, huh," Fiona thought to herself, "Why don't you go in and have a look", and patted Lista on the shoulder and walked leisurely.
"What were you doing while we were fighting with the monster at the Clock Tower? Sitting in the city of Rochester doesn't care about it! Now the right to investigate has suddenly appeared, it's too much! As soon as Lista entered the door, he heard Marley's irritable scolding, Marley is the deputy head of the mercenary group, and Marley is the biggest in the mercenary group except for Aidan.
As soon as he entered the door, Lista was pulled out of the office by a red-haired woman.
Woman "It's here, it's here, it's not scared, the atmosphere is too tense, I haven't introduced it yet, I'm Kaiyala, the mercenary group guards the office"
Lista: "No. No, I'm in...."
Kaiyala: "Originally, the relationship between the mercenary group and the knights was not very good. What's more, because of yesterday's incident, Captain Edan was injured, and they suddenly appeared to search for ....... β
"But we have our own positions," said a soft male voice
"Hello, I'm a midshipman of the Knights, Ellis"
Kaiyala: "Ah, Ellie is here too?" Excuse me. β
Ellis: "It's okay. And I'm not Avery either, my name is Aellis. β
Kaiyala: "I also know that Ellie is just a nickname. Don't you think it's cuter? β
Ellis: "Yes, it's rude to say cute to a man!" Ellis replied shyly, and looked at Lista nervously, fearing that Lista would follow Kaiara to play tricks on him, and then quickly left the scene.
Kaiyala: "I definitely can't get into the office now, or else, we have a training ground in the ruins of the north, and although I know you're strong, where is every recruit going?"
Lista "Northern Ruins?" β
"And it's been a long time since there have been no recruits, they're all about to be abandoned, you go, go and go, even if it's to maintain it." It's just to the north, and it's a straight walk to the training ground."
Lista: "But..."
"Go, go, go"
At Kaiyala's urging, Lista walked out of the village, and had no choice but to go to the abandoned training ground.
After walking briskly for two hours from Kuhan to the training ground, Lista finally came across a pile of ruins with dummies of various sizes and various spears.
"Forget it, it's coming"
Lista suddenly understood that this might be to let himself tidy up, and the extremely helpless Lista had to pack up all kinds of props on the training ground, and put things where they should be, and Lista began to throw spears in boredom until he finally hit a dummy.
Playing until it was almost dark, Lista got up and prepared to meet Kuhan, at this time, some footsteps alerted Lista, turned over and jumped into the dead corner of the ruins, saw a group of werewolves came to the training ground to set up a bonfire, communicating with words they didn't understand, just as Lista was thinking about what to do, another group of werewolves entered the training ground, led by the gray werewolves instructed dozens of werewolves to build fortifications.
There were too many of them, so Lista had to retreat and report back to the mercenary group first, jumping into the grass and escaping into the darkness.