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Chapter 10 : Evacuation
Part 1
With a single thought I replaced
This was my first time using this bow, so I wanted to try shooting it on a lone Trask that was far from anyone to make sure I could handle this bow.
It wasn’t that hard to find such a Trask, it was in the middle of vandalizing a merchant carriage. Thankfully the horse that pulled the carriage and the merchant who owned it, seemed to have escape before the Trask attacked the carriage.
I put my spirit energy into
With a lightning speed the light blue arrow flew straight to its target, if someone from my previous world saw this scene, they would probably think what I shot just now wasn’t an arrow, but a blue plasma beam from a plasma gun.
The result was beyond my expectation, the arrow went through the Trask’s head, it also created a hole on the side of the merchant carriage that was also in the path of the arrow, a few seconds later a smoke started coming out of the carriage and then turned into fire, burning the carriage into ash.
Woah!
I am glad trying the bow first before firing it near anyone.
I only put the minimum amount of spirit energy require to create the arrow into the bow.
But its destructive power is really dangerous.
I can’t imagine what will happen if I put my spirit energy to the maximum output…
Dangerous
Really dangerous
When I saw the result of my attack, I changed my mind and replaced
I also took a quiver full of arrows from my ring, a good thing I still had them stored from my mountain training with the old hag, hanging the quiver on my back, I took an arrow and shot it straight to the head of a Trask that was about to attack a city guard from behind.
This time the arrow didn’t passed through the thick skull of the Trask but its tip only went halfway, after that the Trask jerked and roar in pain as a pale blue light of electric current spread through all over its body, cooking it into a well done steak.
“Wow! Nice effect!” I spontaneously exclaimed with a grin as I saw the Trask slowly collapsed to the ground.
After that I used 10 more arrows in the quiver, about 50 arrows in total, killing every Trasks near Armored Turtle before Juan led everyone on the ship to evacuate.
Because the passengers also seemed to have brought along their luggage with them, which most of them were children and as you knew children’s body were small, their luggage obstructed their movement causing the evacuation to proceed very slowly.
Moreover most of them were in panic and tried to push each other to the side making the situation more chaotic. Shouting out loud at them, the Armored Turtle crews and the adventurers tried to calm them down and told them not to push each other because it was dangerous.
But as if the children couldn’t hear or just ignoring their shout, the children kept pushing each other until one of them almost fell into the river. But thankfully Juan, the nearest adult from where the kid was, dashed towards him and managed to caught him before it was too late.
After pulling the kid back to the ship, Juan seemed to have reached his limit and blew his top, his face turned into a demon like face, roared at the children and threatened to throw them into the river if they didn’t listen to his orders.
The children seemed to have shrink in fear, no one dare to complaint nevertheless to disobey his orders after that. though it was still slow but the evacuation was proceeding smoothly without any further incident.
As for myself, I kept shooting down any Trasks which tried to approach the group.
The commander in shining red and gold armor quickly noticed the group as they rushed towards the city. Pointed his finger to the group he shouted an order to his men, I didn’t know what it was, but after that about twenty of his men dashed towards the group. Maybe he ordered his men to help us evacuate.
I exhaled in relieve as I saw the group entered the city, thanks to my one shot kill no Trasks were able to approach them. I didn’t really count how many arrows I had used, but when I took glance at the quiver on my back, I found only 6 arrows were left
44 arrows
It means I have killed 44 Trasks with them.
Plus the one that I killed on the ship… about 23
So in total I have killed 67 Trasks
That’s quite a lot.
If I were in a dungeon, I must have cleared all the monsters in the first floor.
But even so….
I turned my attention to the river, many more Trasks than I had killed, were heading towards the port
A hundred… two…. Three… four…
Oi oi are you kidding me!?
I can’t even count them anymore!
There can be thousands of them!
This is insane.
This is no longer a normal monster attack
A raid?
No, this is a war!
While I was gazing at the Trasks, from far quite a distance I felt a familiar presence fast approaching, turning towards where the presence came from I saw Cecil was about to jump to Armored Turtle, from the way she jumped I could tell she was aiming to land next to me.
“Princess! Do you know where Harris and Debby? I can’t find them among the people who evacuate earlier.”
Before I could say anything, she had voiced a question to me as soon as she landed nect to me.
Now that she mention it…
Hmm… I can’t remember seeing them anywhere too
Wait… I feel that I have forgotten about something….
What was it?
……… Ah! That’s right!
When I turned Harris room into a workshop, to prevent any disturbance for other passengers caused by the sounds when we were working, for example clanking sound of hammer hitting metal, humming sound of metal processor, etc. I also casted silence magic on the room to make it sound proof, no sound from inside could get out nor the sound from outside could get inside the room.
If Harris and Debby couldn’t be found anywhere, than that meant they were in Harris room when the attack happened, and because his room was sound proof, they didn’t realize the commotion outside.
So in conclusion they were still in Harris room and kept working without knowing the ship was being attack by Trasks.
I slapped my forehead as I realized this fact.
“They must be still in Harris room. Let’s go get them.”
Part 2
My name was Ramdal Halan, the current head of Halan family, a low class noble family that lived in Tuan City. Just recently I was promoted into a commander, I was considered one of the youngest commander who got promoted at the age 26.
Today, about 15 minutes ago, a city guard came to my office with an emergency report. It seemed the port was being attacked by Trasks.
I was a bit surprised when hearing the report. I never heard Trasks attacking a city before, and everyone knew that Trask was known as a peace loving monster, you even could walk next to them without worry they would attack you.
Well, it was a different story if you attacked them first, but even so they never attacked human settlement.
Moreover I also heard their numbers were numerous and kept increasing by the minute.
So without any delay, I relayed an order to my second in command to get my men ready for battle, I also sent a few messengers to inform the other commanders about the situation and just in case I also asked for reinforcements.
In only 15 minutes my second in command along with 500 soldiers in heavy armor had gathered in the training ground.
Wearing my prided red and gold heavy armor which bestowed by the lord of Tuan City for my new appointment as a commander, I went to the front and started telling them the general idea of the situation.
“Just now, I got an emergency report from the city guard informing me that the port was under attack by Trasks. I know what you are thinking right now, but I am afraid we don’t have much time. Their numbers are still increasing and you know what that means.”
After confirming my men were ready, I nodded at my second in command and shouted “Move out!”
The distance between my barrack and the port could be reached in 10 minutes by jogging or in five minutes if we run at full speed, but I opted to jog to preserve our stamina for battle ahead of us.
On our way to the port we passed many panicked civilians, I also overheard a party of adventurers questioning a sailor and immediately rushed to the port after hearing the cause of the commotion.
We were greeted by chaos as soon as we entered the port, just a few hours ago a place where many activities and festivities going on had turned into a war zone, battles were happening everywhere, destruction, blood, dead bodies whether human or Trasks were lying around all over the place.
Even though I describe the situation like that, after hearing the numbers of the Trasks were numerous, and after considering the ability and number of city guards stationed in the port, and lastly the time of our arrival. I thought the damage caused by the Trasks would be devastating, but seeing there were more Trasks dead bodies compared to humans, about 3:1, caught me by surprise.
But the next moment I found the reason why there were so many Trasks dead compared to humans
Not too far from where we were standing, a maid, no, it would be more appropriate to call her battle maid, wielding what looked like an enchanted sword, was slaughtering every Trasks she found.
From the techniques she used and battle style which focused on speed, I knew she was the user of Seven Stars sword style, moreover I could tell she wasn’t just your average martial arts. At least her skills should be on the saint rank level.
Wait a minute. If she wore a maid outfit then she must be a personal attendant of a noble. But why was she here fighting the Trasks? Shouldn’t she protect her master instead?
Whatever, I didn’t really have much time, there were still a lot of Trasks coming from the river
So after evaluating the situation, I quickly divided my men and dispersed them into various locations in the port. While I was halfway directing my men, from the edge of my vision, a strange blue light flashed something flash flew towards a lone Trask which attacking a carriage, hitting it on its head.
My eyes widened in disbelieve seeing the scene in front of me. At the Trask’s head where the blue light hit, a big hole as big as my fist had formed killing it instantly.
After a few seconds, the carriage which was attacked by the trask earlier, was also on fire after getting hit by the blue light that was piercing through the Trask’s head.
I quickly turned my head towards where the blue light came from, in a distant on one of the ship that were docked, a shadow of small human was standing at the edge of the ship. I strained my eyes to get a better look at the shadow.
It was a shadow of a little girl, her age was about the same as my daughter about 8 to 9 years old, she was wearing a white armor which had strange design but it was beautiful and elegant, perfectly fitted with the little girl, I wasn’t a pedophilia and had a wife and kids okay, who was also very beautiful and had elegant and noble aura around her.
In her hand I saw a white long bow, the first thing that crossed my mind after seeing the white bow was an Artifact. Only Artifact had that kind of destructive power, if so than it explain everything, that blue light earlier must be an arrow from that bow.
But where did this girl get that Artifact?
The law stated that everyone who have found or posses Artifact should hand it over to the kingdom.
No matter if they are nobility or commoner
Or else a heavy punishment will be waiting for them If they were find out hiding it
Of course the kingdom won’t take it without giving any compensation
Just say it that the kingdom will buy it with a large sum of money from you
If I’m not wrong, the lowest of the three ranks Artifact should be about 100 Platinum
That amount of money should be enough to live your whole life in luxury without the need to work
As for people who find an Artifact and become its Arolder
They are three choices given to them
The first is to join the military
The second is to hand over their Artifact and receive the compensation
And the third is to pay absurdly large amount of money to register their Artifact for personal use
Most of the Arolders choose the first option
Joining a special unit for Arolders called
It’s the fastest way for Arolder to gather a lot of money to pay their Artifact registration fee
Their monthly pay is pretty high and bonuses from completing missions
At the very least they only need to work for 4 years in the military before they are able to gather enough money
And after that they will be
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But of course there are Arolders who didn’t want to choose the three options and choose the fourth one, which is to run and become
These Black Arolders are usually very dangerous criminals
By registering their Artifact, not only that means the Arolders reveal their Artifact abilities to the kingdom
But the kingdom also can know where the Arolders are
They can be tracked down which prevent them from doing criminal activity using their Artifact
And for Black Arolders this is a very bad idea
And one of the Arciel job is to hunt down, capture, or if necessary to kill these Black Arolders
Is this girl a member of Arciel?
No, let’s stop this
I should concentrate on the Trasks first. I can question the girl after all of this over.
While I was thinking all of that, I realized that the white bow on the girl hand had changed into a normal looking wooden bow, on her back I also saw a quiver filled with arrows which I didn’t see before.
And with the new bow and arrows, she started killing the Trasks near the ship. It seemed that new bow was an enchanted weapon, because whenever she hit a Trask right on its head, sparks of blue light like lightning started spreading all over the Trask’s body.
I exhaled in relieve after knowing she had changed the Artifact bow with a normal enchanted one
After seeing the destructive power of her Artifact, I was worried the girl would keep firing with it. it would be disastrous if she randomly shot that thing and incidentally killed someone.
But it seemed the girl had some common sense not to use her Artifact bow in a place like this, not like some snooty little brats who wanted to show off a new toy.
My second in command suddenly called out to me and pointed at the side of the ship where that little girl was on. I turned my gaze to where my second in command had pointed to and saw a large group of people, more than a hundred of them which mostly were children, were coming down from the ship and heading towards the city while escorted by sailors and adventurers.
At first I was actually wanted to send 50 of my men to help them evacuate, but seeing the girl from before killing any Trasks which tried to get close to them, which really impressed me. The girl mastery in using bow was really superb, she only needed one shoot aimed at their head, which was always 100% hit rate, to kill them in an instant.
That was why I thought it would be useless to send that many soldiers, so I only called 20 of my men and quickly sent them away.
The number of the Trasks on the port right now had been significantly decreased thanks to everyone effort. Though mostly the battle maid doing, right now she was heading to the far side of the port and still kept slaughtering Trasks as she run, as if they were nothing but insects that could be killed easily by just a stomp.
Even so when I turned my gaze towards the river I hardened my expression. On quite the distant away from the port hundreds or even thousands of Trasks were heading towards Tuan City.
I hoped that the reinforcements from other barracks could arrive before them.
Part 3
We were in a small corridor inside Armored Turtle and was about to go downstairs where Harris room was located, but I halted my steps and turned around and face Cecil who followed me from behind.
“You go upstairs and checked every room, find if anyone haven’t evacuate yet. I will go downstairs and do the same while getting Harris and Debby.”
“Okay.”
With a single nod Cecil started climbing the stairs meanwhile I continued my way downstairs
In 5 minutes I finished checking all the rooms on the lower floors. Fast? Well, yes it was. I doubted Cecil would need more time than I did.
With our ability to sense presence that allowed us to feel presence of any living being around us, such a task was as easy as walking in the park. We really only needed to walk in the corridor to sense any presence in those rooms.
Afterwards I went to Harris’s room and explained the situation to them.
After I finished explaining everything, Debby muttering to herself saying “Eh? Trasks attacking human settlement?...” she tilted her head as thought trying to remember about something.
But after a few moments she gave up as she shook her head. She then shot a questioning glance at Harris “Isn’t there a book with something like that written on it? I remember reading about it in our shop before, but I can’t seem to remember the detail.”
Harris frowned and put a thinking pose with his right hand index finger and thumb rubbing his chin. “Is that so? Hmm, no, nothing comes up.”
Haa….
There’s no way Harris know about it
Even if he did, then there’s no way I don’t know about it.
After all I have Harris entire life memories and experience
Every books that Harris have read, are the same as I have read them too.
And among all of the books he have read, 9 books are related with Trasks.
But none of them contain any information related to this incident
Hmm…
But wait
If she read whatever book she mentioned in their shop
Then maybe I have stored it along with all the books from William’s bookstore inside my spatial ring.
Of course there’s a possibility that someone had bought it
So the possibility is 50:50
“Hey Debby, do you remember what title that book is?”
It’s not an impossible thing to look for whatever book she mentioned without knowing its title.
What I need to do is to concentrate my mind to scan trough all the books, of course along with all of its contents, inside the spatial ring one by one
It also has the same meaning as for me to read trough all of them
But it’s too time consuming, which I don’t have right now, and a pain in the neck, to do such a thing.
Well yeah I love reading
But not when I have to be rushed
I can’t feel any joy in doing it like that
That’s why knowing its title will be a big help
“Sorry… I’m trying to remember it but…”
Haaaa…
That’s too bad
“That’s fine. But please immediately tell me if you remember anything. We need to stop all those Trasks or else this city will be done for, and to do so we need to know the cause or any information we can get.”
“Alright, still can’t you use your magic to deal with them? I mean, you know how to use teleport right? So you must be at least an Emperor rank in wind magic. You should be able to wipe them out easily, for example maybe using
Thousand Reaper huh….
An emperor rank magic that create thousands of sharp wind blades and control it to make a small tornado. It will suck everything near the tornado and turn it into minced meat.
A really dangerous and powerful magic that even a dragon, a creature with super hard and durable scales, will avoid facing it head on.
Yeah, without a doubt I can use that magic to kill all the Trasks that are heading towards the port
Moreover because they are quite far from the port, I don’t have to worry about damaging any property or involving any bystanders.
That must be what she has thought
But no
That maybe the case for normal magic arts user
Not for someone like me who have too much power
The higher magic rank is the more difficult to control it
That’s why I never use any offense magic beyond advance rank
Because that’s my limit for controlling my power right now
It’s fine if it was support type magic like healing and buff
I can use them to god rank if I want to
After all I don’t have to worry about anything when using them
They won’t cause any harm nor destruction no matter how much power I put onto them
It will only increase their effects
Not like offense magic
If I unknowingly put too much power
A city might disappear from the map
Actually when I was training in Gabalas Mountain with the old hag, I tried to test a water saint rank magic on an empty grass land
Maybe it was about ten times the size of a football stadium
I was curious
Even though I could use any kind of magic but I never used any magic beyond the advance rank
Whether it was in my previous world or in this world
Instinctively I knew what would happen if I used magic beyond the advance rank
Destruction beyond my imagination
I understood that, but still my curiosity got the better of me.
I casted
on the grassland
And as a result it turned into beautiful frozen grassland
No living being was left alive
Grass, insects, small animals, flowers
Everything turned into natural ice sculptures
It was a beautiful frozen hell
I thought I had hold quite a lot of my power to minimize the output of that magic
But it was wrong
It would take me a lot of training to perfectly gained control over my power
But unfortunately up until now I didn’t really have the time to do so
I was always busy with my martial arts training with the old hag
Plus I also didn’t have a safe location for training
I couldn’t just go off training wherever I wanted to using such a powerful magic
“Also don’t forget that this Cyber Armor” I gestured to the white Valkyrie Armor I wore “Will amplified the effects of whatever magic or skill I use as long as it related to spirit energy by 200%. Just imagine what will happen to this city If I were to use
Debby flinched after hearing my explanation and nodded in understanding “I see… “
“We should get out of here now.”
“What about the workshop? Should we let it here or do you want to store it back to your ring.”
She’s right
Now then what should I do with them
I glanced around at the workshop
There are a lot of equipments and tolls with various sizes in here
Should I leave it here?
No, just in case, let’s make it safe here
For example, if something happened to the ship and it sink
It will be troublesome to retrieve all these things out of the water
So It’s better for me to store them back into my ring and put them back later after all of this over
After making my decision, I pointed the spatial ring on my right hand index finger towards the equipments and tools inside the workshop and absorbed them into the ring, leaving noting but empty air.
“That will take care all of it. Let’s go, Cecil should be waiting for us on the deck.”