Chapter 126 - Cleaning Up after Attack (1/2)

Ch. 126: Cleaning Up after Attack

Just because weapons were drawn didn’t mean a fight was going to break out right away.

It was since just because some bad looking men were in wait for them, didn’t mean they were bandits.

To Loren, it seemed fine to just attack them, but Klaus, weapon drawn, shouted to the men who appeared.

“Who are you people?”

There was no answer.

The men, who were probably bandits, readied their weapons and all charged at Loren and the company, as if not wanting to give them a chance to run away.

Loren scanned the area and saw that there were around twenty bandits, and with the only ones defending being Klaus and Layla, he didn’t think just the two would be able to intercept all of them.

“Are we going to have to step in to help?”

“I’m not sure.”

As Loren and Lapis were having a stale conversation, Klaus started running.

Loren had seen Klaus fight before and remembered his fighting style.

Of course, he remembered his speed and strength as well, but the speed that Klaus moved in was nothing like the speed he remembered.

“He’s faster than before.”

It was impossible to stop around twenty people with just two.

It was impossible even for Loren, and if he tried to fight near the villagers or the goods, there would be some sort of harm that could be done.

If he wanted to prevent that, he had to fight at a distance.

Which meant he had to fight up front.

“A few would still get past.”

After he muttered, Layla ran in a moment after Klaus ran off, her blonde hair rippling in the wind.

“Kill the men! Immobilize the women! It’s time to make bank! Let’s get them!”

Listening to the leader of the men, Loren was about to draw his great sword, but stopped.

Lapis cocked her head, confused, but Loren had his reasons.

“If I were running in, yeah, but if I start swinging this here the blood and flesh would splatter the goods.”

With the amount of force behind Loren’s blows, any human would easily be cut in half.

Loren didn’t think that was a bad thing, but with the goods containing ingredients and clothes, he knew it would be quite the problem if blood and body parts would be splattered on them.

“Hopefully Klaus and his party take care of all of them.”

Lapis nodded as she said so, which was what Loren wished as well, but as he thought that it would be impossible, Klaus reached the first enemy.

The bandit swung his thick axe with all his strength.

Against the blow that would’ve broken his sword if he blocked it, Klaus met it straight on with his sword.

The axe and sword met slammed into each other with a loud clang of steel meeting steel.

Usually the axe would come out on top, but Klaus’ blade deflected the axe.

Although it wasn’t enough to rip the axe from the bandit’s hand, it threw him off balance, and although he mustered his strength again for another blow, Klaus was a few times faster than he was.

A swift blow to the neck.

Instead of a slash, it was a straight pierce, and as soon as the blade went through the bandit’s neck, Klaus immediately pulled it out and dashed towards his next target.

Slipping through the swords swung at him, Klaus’ blade flashed left and right.

Almost immediately, blood spurted from the deep cuts that the sword made in the bandits’ necks.

The bandits stopped in their tracks as they saw Klaus take down their comrades with a single swing, so fast that the flying blood didn’t even hit him.

“They got scared. Idiots.”

The bandits’ response was so bad, the words slipped from Loren’s mouth.

It was because the only options they had was ignore their comrades facing Klaus and attack Rose and the villagers directly.

If they did so, they could’ve done some damage while Klaus dealt with one or two of them, and possibly distract him by attacking the people he was trying to protect and try to find an opening to defeat him.

But they flinched at the sight of their comrades dying and froze, so they couldn’t do that anymore either.

“Well, that makes it easier for us.”

Loren was supposed to do something about the bandits that got through Klaus, but with them freezing, the chances of that were reduced significantly.

If none of them got close to the supplies, Loren didn’t have to attack them and just leave it to Klaus and Layla, which made it easier for him.

Even while he was thinking, Klaus killed two more, and Layla, who had just met her first opponent, and killed him.

Although she wasn’t as fast as Klaus, Layla was quite skilled with the sword.