Chapter 9 - 10 : sA Man That Keeps His Words (2/2)

Truthfully, he wanted to check how much this barrier could hold as he didn't get the chance to test it yet.The soldiers were fast as they closed the distance fast but once they arrived near the barrier they couldn't pass through as if there is some kind of wall so they started attacking it with their swords, spears, and maces but none of them did work as the barrier didn't as much shake from their bombarding attacks.

They realized that their attacks were not doing any damage so they backed off and waited for their mages to launch their attacks as normally, a single mage attack power was many times more powerful than a normal attack from a sword, so there's no need to mention an attack from a dozen or so mages.

Arthur didn't do anything and just watched the scene as he waited for these mages to attack.

After 20 seconds of chanting, the attack was finally launched and a large blinding wave of Holy Magic struck the barrier, a loud sound echoed and the Holy Church mages were looking at their powerful attacks proudly with smug faces but that didn't last long as their faces turned from proud to surprised and fearful and that's because the spherical black barrier didn't even crack and seemed impenetrable even when it was struck by such an overwhelming attack. Even the crowd of people watching this scene were dumbfounded and couldn't react in time, which left them even more speechless.

The old man was also surprised and furrowed his brows as he didn't expect the barrier to hold to such a powerful attack, nevertheless, he still maintained his calmness for he was confident of his triumph over this small battle.

Arthur was joyful to see his that his Dark Barrier can hold this much and not break. He noticed that the girl beside him was anxious and even shaking a bit so he gave up on the idea of testing other things and decided to end this. Slowly, Arthur started walking towards the old man whilst speaking with a chilling tone

”You should stop attacking, this is indeed a demon but 'it' is also my 'slave' so there is no need to be so aggressive towards it.”

He intentionally called her his slave so they could understand that hurting his 'belonging' is like offending him.

The soldiers didn't seem affected by what he said and acted as if they would attack at any given moment. The old man stared at Arthur then replied with a calm voice

”Hohoh, so it is like this... how about you give the demon to us? We will compensate you for it with generous things, we have gold, skill books, treasures, everything you like, you just have to let us kill this filthy being.”

When Arthur heard the answer of the white-robed priest, he was angered, this Holy Church seemed to be persistent about killing the girl in broad daylight and didn't even consider her as an equal but treated like an animal, if not worse!

They didn't seem to care about their actions as they were all 'justified' which made him feel more disgusted with their way of doing things, and this added to the many reasons he had to help the demon girl, Lucy.

Arthur could always kill slaughter his way out of here but he didn't want to as killing a priest of the church would bring nothing but troubles so he searched for another way to get out of this mess.

As he was thinking of a solution, he noticed the girl next become even more anxious so he guessed that she must've thought as he would accept the offer of the old man and give her away as he had known her for only a day and there was no need to go through such trouble for her, which was a logical thinking from her part, howver, he didn't know why, but a strange feeling surged in his heart as he looked at her being scared of the Holy Church which made unconsciously pat her head, even though she was short in height, her head still reached his neck so he awkwardly patted her head and said

”I am a person who keeps his word, you do not have to worry about them.”

Just as he said, he used [Faster Than Death] and instantaneously appeared in front of the old man, the distance between them was less than 50 meters so Arthur just teleported next to the priest and, without even letting him have the time to react to his sudden movement, he quickly created a long sword with his dark magic and just chopped off the arm which was holding the golden-cane. He quickly grabbed it with the cane and teleported back using [faster than death] to where he was previously.

It took this long to explain but it all happened too fast as not even 4 seconds passed since Arthur used his first teleportation.

The old man had shocked eyes as all he could see was Arthur disappearing then just reappearing in the same position holding his chopped arm.

Blood poured non-stop from his shoulder as he felt an immense pain but he didn't dare scream. He felt fear from the black-robed man, he knew that this man was by no means someone to provoke but nevertheless he ended up provoking him by attacking his slave.

The old man felt relief as he knew the man didn't kill him on purpose, nonetheless, he cut his arm off to warn him about what will happen if he dared to attack his slave again. There were no words in such situation, a person of his age immediately understood the intention of the other party.

Theodor could be considered a strong priest, but he knew that there were people stronger than him as he saw that his superiors in headquarters where much stronger than him and in their eyes he was just an ant, be once he came to this town he was considered a god and all people worshipped him, he liked this feeling and stayed here to supervise this town.

There was an absolute rule in the holy church and that is 'kill every demons you come by' and whoever didn't follow this rule would be punished or in worst cases executed, so when he heard there is a demon outside of the church, of course, he had to kill it, but after the turn of events and seeing the power of the opponent he decided to stop being so reckless and warn his superiors about this black-robed man.

He couldn't just ignore his existence as he may become an enemy of the church. The old man grimaced because of the pain but soon many mages who were good at healing magic rushed at him and cast their magic to heal him.

He soon stabilized himself then looked toward Arthur who was still standing in the same place and holding his arm and said

”Thank you for showing mercy to this old man, we will immediately stop the attack, I'm sorry if we had offended you.”

After having finished talking, Theodor stared at Arthur waiting for his reply, and after a couple of seconds, he saw the black-robed men Turn around and leave without saying another word.

The old man hesitated as for whether to ask for his arm and cane back or not but he soon gave up on this idea as he saw Arthur use some kind of magic to just devour his whole arm until nothing but emptiness remained. He also waved his hand and the white-cane seemed to have disappeared but Theodor knew he had put it in a storage ring.

After having erased the torn off arm with [Void Magic], Arthur turned around to leave, the girl which saw what happened was amazed as she looked at Arthur, she was so close to him so he could see her face from within the Grey cloth.

Her eyes were stunned and she gave him a complex look but nevertheless, she still followed him when he turned around to leave. Unsurprisingly, no one blocked their way as all the people were amazed and fearful of Arthur because of what he just did, not even a single person dared to follow him as they were afraid he would discover them and the consequences would be tragic.

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After seeing the black-robed man and the demon going away, Theodor hurried over to his private office in the church, he soon retrieved a blue crystal and used holy magic on it to activate it, after a couple of seconds, the crystal lit up and a voice came out of it.

”Theodor, what do you want? hurry up and say it we are busier than someone like you who sits on their ass all day long ”

Theodor didn't seem bothered by the rude way the person from the crystal spoke as he seemed used to it so he hurriedly said

”Lord Erik, today we encountered a demon...”

”Did you just call me to tell me this? if you encountered a demon then just kill it, don't you dare waste my time brat”

”N-nononono, we indeed encountered a demon but as we tried to kill it, it's proclaimed 'Master' defended it, and the master was very powerful”

”And? If he is powerful just kill him, last time I checked with the appraisal stone your LVL was 40, so someone with your strength should be able to deal with him, right?”

”I'm sorry Lord Erik, but this man was not weak, in fact, he chopped my arm off without me realizing it, so I couldn't do anything about it, and I just let him go with the demon, I request some reinforcement to deal with this man”

”Hooooo, this is interesting, we just sent 'Rein' to your town to investigate about 'her' as she seemed to have appeared in your town but I will send someone else, just in case. However, I'm sure 'Rein' could handle it for he is a tamed monster hehe..... in the meantime, keep an eye on this man.”

”Yes Lord Erik, thank you thank you...”

When the conversation ended, the blue crystal seemed to return to normal, Theodor breathed a sigh of relief but he was still somewhat scared of the power of the black-robed man as he just couldn't react in time, if he wanted to the enemy could have beheaded him easily and he would have died without even knowing how thinking about this he couldn't stop his body from shaking , he provoked someone he shouldn't have .