Chapter 4 The Elves

Tap, tap,tap..

HEY, I SAID WHO ARE YOU shouted the bandit again

Huh? Who is this sebas asked the girl

I don’t know lady Alifa but I think he is her to help us said the butler.

What is this felling? Did I ask myself, for the first time in my life I had this feeling. My breathing got harder and slower and my head felt like it was about to explode, so this is anger what a weird feeling did I say to myself.

One of the bandits startet to aproche me

HEY DIND’T YOU HEAR WHAT HE SAID GO PLAY SOMEWHERE ESLE OR WE WILL KILL YOU

Hey you pls closer her eyes did I say to the Butler who was standing next to that girl.

He didn’t hesitate and held his hand Infront of her eyes.

YOU LITTLE and the bandit swung his sword from above, I kept walking to him while leaning to the side to dodge his attack and before he could attack me again I raised my arm and touched his chest with my hand.

Huh? HAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DO-

Death touch

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BOOM

1 down 14 left did I say after killing that bandit and saw his blood and organs fly thorugh the air. I looked at the other bandits and at the maids but nonen of them moved or said anything. It was like as if the time just stopped before one of the bandits started to scream loud.

MO-MONSTER WHAT DID YOU DO did he shout before dropping his weapon and falling down backwards. I looked at the maids and saw how one of them had to throw up after seeing me kill that bandit.

TCH, DON’T JUST STAND AROUND LIKE THAT GUYS LETS KILL THAT PICE OF SHIT shouted what seemed to be the leader of them looking at his lvl.

The bandit let out a loud scream before charging at me with his sword, he swung from the side and like always the time around me slowed down before I pulled out my sword blocked his attack and used my skill absolute counter.

SLASH

IAHHHHHHHHH MY ARM MY ARM did the bandit shout after seeing his right arm being cut of and he fell to the ground. I Went to him before he took his sword with his left arm and swung again at me.

DIE did he shout

I saw that he swung his sword from the side and just leaned back to dodge his attack, he missed, and I cut of his left arm.

AHHHHHHHHHH and agin he leat out a loud and painful scream while looking at his arms which were laying one the ground.

UHHHHHH did he say

Seeing him there one the ground Infront of me I pulled him up by his air looked him for the last time in his Eys before cutting of his head form his shoulder and kicking his lifeless body with my foot still having his head in my left hand.

2 down 13 left did I say again after looking up and seeing the face of the other bandits with had only one thing written on it FEAR. I looked at the head that I held in my left hand and threw it at one of the bandits. He had his hands open so it landed right in his hands, he looked at it for a few seconds still not knowing what is happening before he screamed, dropped the head, his weapon and ran away. Soon after him the rest of them also realized that is happening and also dropped their swords and ran away screaming.

,, What? Were the fuck do you thing your going. ‘’ did I say before using my skill inhuman speed

I will kill all of you did I say while charing at them cutting them in half, beheading them, mutilated them, before all of them expet one were dead or passed away duo to blood lost or the pain. I looked at he last one of them who was still alive before he startet to cry.

PLS, PLS I AM SORRY PLS SPARE ME I DON’T WANNA DIE PLS PLS PLS

He’s sorry? He wants me to spare him? He dosen’t want to die her? Is he fucking with me right now? Did I ask myself looking down at him before I swung my sword for the last time and beheaded him.

PL-

SLASH

… and his head and body both dropped on the ground only leaving a pool of blood behind in which his head was laying in. 15 this was the last one did then say after I was done, I looked around only to see blood, body parts and organs everywhere on the ground, this was different this whole time I didn’t felt anything not like then I killed the goblins I felt sad and disgusted over them and myself.

We-we-we

,, mh? ‘’ While still looking at the aftermath I heard a female voice try to say something, so I turned around and finally was able to take a closer look at them.

What is happening sebas? Are we save? Is it over? Did that girl ask the butler who was still covering her eyes

Yes Lady Alifa its over did the butler say with a cracking voice

,, Hey are you guys, ok? ‘’ did I ask them but got no answer

,, hey is something wrong? ‘’ did I ask them but again got no answer

We-we-I pls spare us said one of the maids who seemingly was still scared over what just happened you can do whatever you want with us just spare that girl pls said the maid again but this time to me. They probably thing I am also a bandit well I can’t blame them after that just happened, but something was strange, after I finally calmed down and was able to breath normally again I noticed a dark aura surrounding me. What is th- wait could it be I remembered that I unlocked myself the skill dark aura, this would explain this thing around me and why they are still so afraid of me so I deactivated that skill.

,, I am sorry if I scared you, I was not far from her walking before I heard loud screams and rushed her thinking someone needed help, I am not a bandit or anything like that haha. ‘’ did I say trying to calm them down.

Lady Maria what shout we do? Should we try to attack him and buy you and Lady alifa some time to escape Said one of the maids quietly thinking I wouldn’t hear it

Don't be dump Lucia didn’t you just see what he did to those bandits he would kill you in seconds our best chance is to just believe him for now said that appeared to me the head maid.

Ok we believe you thank you for saving us we appreciate it. Did she say

,, no problem is one of you hurt. How many people did you lose? ‘’ did I ask her

We lost 2 of our guards and I only have a cut on my arm

,, I am sorry to hear what do you mind if you let me see this cut? ‘’ did I ask her

Thanks, but why do you want to see it did she ask

I can maybe heal it did I say, she looked at her cut at the others and nod with her head telling me ok. So, I approached her and used one of my new skills heal, with that I can heal small wounds. I can however only heal small wounds and can’t make a new arm or foot if my got cut of this is also my first time using this skill, so I hope it works. Did I say while holding my left hand over her cut and say heal.

On her cut there was suddenly a small green circle and you could see how are cut got less and less until it was gone.

Wha-wha- how did you do that did the maid ask me

,, ah that's.. Äh a secret. ‘’ did I say to hear

She got up and moved her arm stilling being surprise on how I did that before she thanked me again before i started to ask her some questions.

,, do you know who these people were? ‘’ did I ask her

Filthy bandits that ambushed us and tried to kill the princess did she say

,, wait the who? ‘’ did I ask her

Me, nice to meet you and thanks for saving us did the girl say bowing down.

This is Lady Alifa the Princess of the Elf kingdom did the maid say to me

So this is Alifa she had long blue hair with white eyes, she was not very high but was very beautiful.

And i am Maria the leading maid again thanks for saving us.

Maria huh she had short snow white hair with blue eyes and was also looking beautiu- wait did she just say Elf? Taking a closer look at hem I noticed that they real did look just like your typical Elfs that yau in movies and animes, all of them had long pointed ears which scream elf.

,, so you are all Elfs? ‘’ did I ask her

Yes We life in the naoi forest her in that big tree you probably already saw, we were on our way home before we got attacked by those bandits.

To the big tree? That’s exactly where I was heading to did I say in my head before that maid talked to me again

Excuse me put could you maybe tell us your name? Did she ask

,, oh sure I am Roku nice to meet you. ‘’

Sir Roku I have a request.

,, sure go on and please stop calling me Sir just call me roku haha. ‘’ did I say

Ok SI- Roku because or guards were killed and those pathetic mercenaries ran away I would want to ask you if you could escort us until we reached the big tree, you would of course also be rewarded for that.

YES JACKPOT did I say to myself

,, but wouldn’t that be a problem? I am a normal human I thought that humans are not allowed to enter the elf kingdom. ‘’ did I ask her

Oh don’t worry about this dumb rule you would of course get an expectation for helping us.

,, dumb rule, what do you mean with that? ‘’ did I ask her

Sigh, you see this rule was made a long, long time ago back when we and the humans were still at war. Back these day no human no matter the reason was allowed to enter our kingdom, but because we no life in peace we can make expiation. Although there are people who want the old rule back like the elders.

,, the elders? Who are they. ‘’ did I ask Maria

They are the oldest living Elfs and still thing they rule over the elf kingdom, the only person who stands over them is the kind and queen. The king tried once to abolish this rule completely but even he could not do anything against the elders and there ignorance. The whole elf kingdom would be better without those old geezers. So, do you agree to help us? Did she ask

No matter what world or race there will always be people who should have died a long time ago but keep them self-alive like a cockroach.

,, sure, I was heading anyways to that big tree, so this is perfect. ‘’ did I say

So we have a deal you will escort us tp the big tree and we will reward you afterwards, now come one we shouldn’t waste anymore time. Sebas take the princess and get her into the carriage the rest of us will walk beside it. GOT IT? Did she shout at the other maids and the butler

YES LADY MARIA said the others

Now I should go and loot the bandits to see if I could find anything useful did I say before I saw that girl, the princess staring at me. I turned around smiled at her and saw how her face turned ret and she ran inside that carriage.

Mhh ? Lady alifa Sayed one of the maids surprised

,, did I say something wrong? ‘’did I ask the maids

No don’t worry she is just a little shy but this was the first time I saw her act like that, I just heard that she sometimes acted like that from lady Maria, so don’t mind it hahaha. Said one of the maids who was passing by.

I didn’t bother with it any longer and went to the corpses to look that I could find while the maids were preparing the carriage.

Some looting later...

+ 100 goild coins

+ 1 bow and arrows

That was everything I took with me the rest was just useless stuff, I turned around and went to the other who finished preparing the carriage.

Are your ready Roku asked my maria

,, yes we can go now. ‘’ did I say and we headed to that big tree

We walked a few meters then I decided to ask sara something, but I couldn't just talk to myself while walking with them, so I tried to talk to her in my head

,, hey sara are you there? Can you hear me? ‘’ did I ask her

Yes I can hear you did she say

,, good can you do my favor, what do you know about elfs? ‘’ did I ask her

Elfs are the longest living creature on his planet, they can life up to 1000 years and are also all beautiful naturally. The elfs and humans had a war with each other which lasted 20 years , it was a long and brutal wa millions of elfs and humans left their life. Said sara

,, do you know the reason for that war? What happen? ‘’

Back in the day the Elfs and humans lift together in peace but one day the son of a royal family member died and was apparently killed my a elf. The elf denied it saying that they didn’t kill him but the humans didn’t believed them and a war between them with lasted for 20 years broke out

,, 20 years... and who won? ‘’

No one

,, what? What do you mean with that? Did I ask sara

The war between the elfs and humans got interrupted by the appearance of demons, no one knows there they came form or why the just appeared out of nowhere. First neither side cared about them and kept attacking each other. But after the demons started to spread more and more into both territories both sides saw how big of a threat they wear.

,, were they so strong? ‘’

Yes, even while some demons could be killed with problem there were higher ranked demons that even with 100 of soldiers were no match for the demons. They just killed everyone no matter if it was a human or elf it was there when the adventurers were called to deal with that problem.

,, wait so real adventurers? Who do quest and stuff like that? ‘’

Yes however even they were not able to do anything, to kill a higher demon It took the combined force of 5 S ranks and even then, the chance was high that none of them would make it out alive. Said sara

,, I see so the only thing that stopped both side form killing each other was the appearance of a bigger threat. And what happened then? Did I ask sara

The humans and elfs saw that fighting each other while the demons were out there would mean that the demons would soon or later kill every Singel creature in this world, so they decided to combine their force in order to stop the demons. But because the whole world was in danger every Singel nation that was out there also joined the alliance and build a bad army to defeated the demons once and for all.

,, seeing those elfs her means that they won right ? ‘’

Well not directly the humans and Elfs knew that they couldn’t just kill every Singel demon that was out there so they decided in a last attempt to put a barrier over the demon land and seal all of them away.

,, so that’s how it is, I don’t even wanna imaged how many people lost their life there, war will be war no matter in that world you are... ‘’

While me and sara kept talking to each other I noticed that girl staring at me again and as soon as I looked at her she immediately looked away.

,, ok seriously do I have something on my face or am I just so hard to look at. ‘’ did I ask the maids

Hahahah no its not like that said maria while she and the rest of the maids laught she is really just a little bit shy although I can’t remember the last time, I saw hare this shy. Back in the days she was no one who could speak for herself or give her opinion to conversation, so she often got mocked for that.

But after she got older, she also got braver and was even able to talk to a group of people without stuttering or looking shy with is why she now has the right to claim the throne as the next queen of the elf kingdom.

,, but isn't she still too young for that? How old is she even? ‘’ did I ask maria

She may look young, but she is already 15 years old she just is... well lets say still developing that’s why some still see her has child.

,, mhh I see. ‘’

Hey ähm master Roku said one of the maids

,, I told you, you don’t have to call me master.’’ I turned around and saw one of the maids looking at me

Why do you want to help us your human aren’t you.

SILFIA shouted maria in an angry tone

,, well yes, I am a human what's wrong with that? ‘’ did I ask

…. You see humans and Elfs don’t really like each other much and... she told me the same story as sara just now...

And in order to keep that peace we often send gifts to each other did she say

,, huh? Gifts why that. ‘’ did I ask her

Well, I don’t really know why this is simply a rule that was set a long time ago when we and the humans declared peace. I believe to just show that we Rember that we are in peace and to show that we care about it

,, ok but if it's just gifts why send someone so important like the princess?.’ ’’ did I ask her

Too show that we mean it with the gift we could of course just send a messenger to deliver that gift but when it wouldn’t have a big impact. So, it was decided that a member of the royal family must deliver that gift personally.

,, And why the princess isn't she still too young for that? ‘’

We told her that to, but she wanted to explore the world outside the Forrest and because nothing ever happened for the past years it was thought that that it would be ok t....

,, stop ‘’ did I say after hearing some movement around us

What's wrong Roku? Asked maria

,, 5 or 7 mhhh no 8 ‘’

What do you mean with that what is going on Roku asked maria again

,, get into defensive position everyone there coming. ‘’ did I say

Again? Damm it OK YOU HEARD HIM POSTION AROUND THE CARRIAGE, DON’T LET ANYONE INTO IT DEFEND IT WITH YOUR LIFE shouted maria at the other

I closed my eyes and focused on where they would attack first

,, left? No right? No ‘’ did I say

,, then it hast to be ABOVE ‘’ I looked up and saw 3 bandits carrying daggers all aiming for the coach. I looked at the tree that was Infront of me and used inhuman speed to jump on it and inhuman strength to launch myself up to those bandits in the air. Because I was so fast they didn’t even noticed me yet so i took my katana and beheaded the first one cut the second one in half and cut the last ones stomach open.

,, 3 down 5 remaining. ‘’ did I say

I was falling down when I saw 2 bandits both aiming for the carriage attack from left and right, so I had to decide who to take out first before I heard maria shout TAKE THE LEFT TONE I TAKE THIS ONE .She took what looked like Doppel daggers with were hold together by a wire and blocked that attack form the bandit before using his body as a jump pad kicking him in the face with her knee, jumping back, throwing one of her daggers at him and pulling him to her and stabbing him in his throat with the other one.

I turned around and saw how the bandit on me tried to throw what appeared to be a bomb on the coach. I rushed to him and cut of his arm where he held the bomb then I kicked him against a tree and threw the bomb that was now Infront of me on the ground back to him and it exploded on him

LOOK OUT shouted on of the maids and pointed at another 2 that there running at us

Seeing them getting closer I used my new skill which I unlocked called instant teleportation. Wherever I look at in a radius of 50 meters I can instantly teleport. So, I used it and teleported right In between both, I pierced one of them with my sword and kicked the other one with my food away. I Pulled my sword out and saw how the other one started the say something for me it looked like he wanted to summon something, so I asked sara.

,, hey sara what is he doing?’’

It seems like he is about to cast a magic spell at and a pretty powerful one

Knowing that I tried to get closer to him but realized that I would not make it in time, and I was right. Out of his hand came a big fire ball and I got myself ready to use absolute counter, but I didn't know if it would work against magic or not, so I had to test my luck. The fire ball hit my katana and I shouted ABSOLUTE COUNTER when I saw the attack fly back at the bandit exploding and killing him instantly.

I got exhausted but knew that there was 1 still left when suddenly my Perceive threat activated itself and I saw a bandit sitting on a tree about to shoot an arrow at the carriage. I thought he would aim for the carriage but saw that he instead aimed for maria with my remaining energy that I had left I rushed to maria picked her up with my inhuman strength skill and dodge the arrow.

She was of course surprised by the fact that I just picked her up so casually and she blushed. I then but her down and saw how the last one tried to run away, so I decided that this would be a good chance to test my bow skills.

HES GETTING AWAY shouted one of the maids

,, no he is not. ‘’ did I say getting ready to shoot a bow for the first time

I got my arrow drew my bow and shoot, for a few seconds nothing could be heard but then suddenly...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY FOOT MY FOOT you could hear the bandit scream in pain after my arrow hit him

Ho-ho-how did he do that said one of the maids in shock

No way he hit that shoot said another on

Ha, your full of surprised aren’t you Roku said Maria with a smirk

,, well then let's see what he has to say, you stay her there could be another attack I will make it quick. ‘’

Got it said maria

So, I made my way to the guy I hit with my arrow when I found him trying to crawl away, I got to him pulled the arrow that was in this foot forcefully out and stomped on his wound, with resulted in him screaming in pain

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH LETG GO OF MY YOU PICE OF SHIT AHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK YOU

I turned him around and looked him in the eyes

,, listen to me you will answer all my questions, or I will make you feel pain worse than that you understand me? ‘’ did I say

OK OK I WILL said the bandit while being in pain and about to cry

,, why did you attack us and who hired you. ‘’

We-we-we I don’t know who hired us i never saw his face but it now that It was a man I could tell it by his voice, he told us to kill princess Alifa and don’t leave any eyewitnesses left that’s everything NOW PLS LET ME GO

,, see wasn't so hard, was it? ‘’ did I say to him

SO-SO-SO-SO CAN I GO PLS HAVE PLS HAVE MERCY

Mercy? And again, hearing him say that made me angry, he would be the last person to show mercy to anyone but now he wants me to show him mercy? I hated people who would forgive anyone easily and show mercy to everyone even to his enemy even tho he would try to kill you if he got the chance too. They say that mercy made you stronger, wiser or better but that’s not always true.

Showing mercy towards your enemy doesn't make you stronger, better or wiser - with this you only show him your weakness, which he will later use against you

So I got my katana looked the bandit in his teary eyes and pierced him with my sword.

After I was done, I headed back to maria and rest.

And what did he say asked maria

,, just that some man hired them to kill the princess, but he didn’t know who.’’

Thats too bad it would have been good to know who is responsible for this

,, by the way its getting dark we should rest her for the night. ‘’

What?! but that’s too dangerous what if we get attacked again tonight what if...

,, I now but we have no other choice that was to much stress for the horses they need to rest. And not only the horses you and the other maids to you all lock exhausted if we get attacked again, I need you with full energy not half tired and exhausted.

But...

,,and don’t worry I will stay up the night if anything or anyone tries to attack us, he will be dead long before.

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Fine

So maria tole the rest that they will rest her for the night, and while they rest sat the camp up, I went to the bandits and looted them, but only took some gold coins and when I decided took a closer look at one of them, I saw something strange. They all had good armor and good weapons one of him was even able to cast magic spells.

,, hey sara can every person her in this world use magic? ‘’

No being able to use magic is rare so I was surprised to see one out here said sara

I knew it they are not normal bandits whoever hired them really wants to see that girl dead...