ARCHDEUS

THE PLAGUE(2)

Meanwhile the Falcon team did not realize what was wrong. Their horse-drawn carriage was not in front of the caravan. In addition, the number of his caravan fleet was also too much so that it was troublesome for them to keep an eye on all the horse carriages.

Nevertheless they began to realize the oddity especially when the caravan stopped long enough.

As Camellia was about to get out to see what was happening, an employee from Gale came to their horse carriage quietly.

"Gentlemen, please! There's an ambush up ahead by the bandits."

"!!"

The Falcon Team train was quite far away from the caravan leader train. So when an ambush occurs, they don't notice it until one of Gale's employees tells them. This seems like a mistake in setting the caravan's position.

Hearing of the situation going on the entire Falcon team started picking up their combat equipment. Led by Richard, they rushed towards the herd of bandits.

***

In front of Brave are six strangers who suddenly appear in the middle of the road. Now between Brave and the foreigners it was separated by a distance of 10 meters. But the voice of one of them who was a man sounded very clear, like he was whispering in Brave's ear.

"Hey, who are you? Are you the bodyguards of this man?" ask one of Brave's subordinates who then pointed at Gale.

Not knowing the identity of the foreign group, Brave and his subordinates kept their distance and therefore they first questioned their names or identities which might be able to provide the information needed when fighting occurred.

"Right, I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself. My name is Richard and we're the bodyguards of this caravan. What you do to our clients is unforgivable."

Richard drew his sword towards all those bandits.

"I've introduced myself, so may I know who's in charge here?" continued Richard.

Brave approached several steps to ensure that his interlocutor could hear his words.

"I'm in charge here, my name is Brave. Before that, I want to confirm something. We can avoid unnecessary conflict, since you are the paid ones this person paid, what if we work together to take this person's treasure. Isn't that not so bad?"

Although Brave caught a glimpse but he realized the equipment these people were carrying was a high-class item. He thought it was likely that they were platinum plate adventurers upwards.

"Haha ... I really can't believe I have to hear this stupid offer from a rude man like you."

"What did you say?!"

One of Brave's subordinates spoke angrily and began to draw out his sword. Seeing that, Brave ordered his men to calm down. It would be foolish for someone to directly give an attitude of hostility to an unknown opponent

"Haha ... Mr. Brave it looks like your men can't control themselves, well .. how about, let's go for it again."

Suddenly the atmosphere turned gripping. The wind suddenly appeared like it was made from Magic. Then ....

"What the fuck!"

Brave felt something strange. His body suddenly trembled, his legs were limp, and his body became heavy. Unmistakably, this was Magic that caused the debuff effect.

"Mr ...."

"What's this?"

"Stop, please."

Not only Brave, his subordinates also experienced a similar effect.

This magic is the work of Iona. Previously, he had captured some tacit instructions from Richard. Iona is currently using the level 3 magic [Inability Charm]] the only magic caster on the Falcon team, the,

"Damn it like this, Locko!"

"Good, Boss."

Locko was a magic caster who had extremely pale skin and looked extremely thin. He also activated his magic item named Necklace of Wish Heart.

Brave summoned the only bandits who could use magic on their group. Locko can use magic up to level 3 and become an ace of this group. Besides, he also has many high-quality magic items, one of which is the Necklace of Wish Heart. That item can provide protection against debuff spell attacks twice a day with a radius of up to 10 meters.

Brave and the other bandits have escaped from Iona's debuff magic. Without stalling for much time, they counterattacked.

"Then everyone attack!"

Hearing the orders from their leader, the bandits made their simultaneous attacks attacking with swords of various sizes.

This time Camellia and Rionard faced the bandits. As a warrior, Camellia easily fended off the attacks of the bandits. While Rionard who is an assassin is able to move very agile and give a deadly attack to his opponent.

Brave saw one by one his men fall on the ground.

"Grwah .. Don't underestimate me!"

Brave finally intervened. He used all of his martial art techniques.

"[Martial art: Pace of the Wind], [Martial art: Iron Punch]."

In an instant, he instantly stood before Richard and removed the fist from his Iron Gauntlet V

"Death!"

The sound of a very loud explosion was heard, a puff of smoke was flying. If Brave had only been considered as someone who was on par with gold-ranked adventurers, but this time he proved that he was now at the peak of power that can be mastered by humans, namely platinum.

Feel the power equivalent to the class of a hero. There was no way that any living being in this world could survive without being injured in the slightest. Hahaha .., Only Gods can do it and a stupid Magic caster like you who challenges melee combat is better to bear your own stupidity, Brave thought.

"W-What?!"

In the face of an attack that was at the peak of humans, that should not be held back by anyone, but was it true? Right in front of Brave, a human managed to withstand the attack with just one hand and even he relaxed that hand.

"W-Who are you really?"

"You won't know about me. It wasn't your fault but it was my fault. Therefore, I will apologize to you first because if you know who I am, you will beg to stay alive, even if you have to lick my shoes."

"W-What?"

Brave did not understand what this man who exceeded human limits said.

But before Brave knew it, a sword had separated his head from his neck.

"K-head!"

Locko, who was the only magic caster in the bandit group, panicked but before he could escape, a dagger pierced through his chest. It was an attack from Rionard

"Hmm?"

"What's Rionard?"

Camellia who saw something strange from Rionard immediately came to him and asked.

"Don't you know, but a witch does have black blood?"

Rionard asked while showing his dagger that was covered in Locko's blood. But the blood was pitch black instead of red.

"You're right, this is so weird."

Camellia rushed to inform all her team members of what Rionard had found.

Yet no one knew why one's blood could be that black.

Iona who is the only magic caster doesn't even know.

In the end they kept all of those things and did not think too much about them until they arrived in Hadalon City.