Chapter 11 (1/2)

Chapter 11: Skills Show up 2

Shortly after walking through the moonlit streets at dawn, they came across another ‘guide’.

And again this time with a gold coin, the guide faithfully took them to another location.

However, the place where he guided them to wasn’t a gambling house.

“Brothers, shouldn’t you be paying taxes?”

Men with a grim expression on their faces began to appear in front of Luke and Philip and spoke with a sulky voice.

And at the back, three to four men stood at the end of the alley, blocking the street from being used.

And the weapons they had were not the small ones that petty thieves used.

“Are you by any chance sent by those kids we met earlier?”

Asked Luke to the middle-aged man, who had a scar on his face, while grinning.

“Huhu, you completely played our kids. You need to take responsibility if you want to play and cheat.”

The middle-aged man, Hector, was the ‘Blue Diamond’ of Lamer’s Thieves Guild.

He was shocked to hear about some cheeky guy who dared to let out the truth about the gambling house.

And after confirming their identities, he decided to confront them.

“Cheating, you say? Rather, it was them who tried to cheat.”

“That isn’t so important, my dear. If you give us all the money that you have, we’ll let you live.”

Though it was obvious, Luke had no intention of giving away the money to save his body.

The guild’s gambling house had been badly beaten, and they understand that.

And if the opponent was a noble, then they should be afraid of the repercussions.

That too, especially for the Thieves Guild?

Since they were the ones who lived their lives off of doing crimes, to go against a noble was like spilling their own blood.

‘It would be nice to bury him in the place we found a while back.’

As if realizing that what the other person was thinking was about cruelly burying them, Philip took a step ahead.

“Young Lord, I’ll take care of them, so please stay back.”

“Can you take care of them all by yourself?”

“Huh, if I can’t handle such things, then I should just leave my post as your designated knight.”

While smiling, Philip pulled out the bastard sword that was on his back.

“Oh ho! You are a knight, huh? I guess that sword wouldn’t even pierce the stomach… ahh!”

A sudden scream burst from the mouth of Hector, which made Philip laugh.

The sword of Philip began to radiate a vivid red aura.

“This, Expert!”

Knights practice the use of mana in a different way from the wizards.

They accumulate mana as a means of strengthening their body, and some were even been able to manifest the accumulated mana into a physical form.

And that was the Aura, and the knights, who could release an aura, were called Experts.

Experts were far more powerful than the ordinary knights, and their movements too were numerous times faster.

In particular, the aura of a sword was powerful enough to cut through a thick brick of iron.

And thus, the Experts were considered as high-level resources, whom no one wanted to deal with

And such an Expert had made an appearance in the back of an alley!

‘Dammit, you still are a designated knight…’

The thieves thought that they were a lesser noble, who had recently fallen, and a lesser ranked knight.

As the thieves moved back with a nervous look, Philip raised his voice a little.

“Why? Don’t you want to mess with me? This is a blade that can go through an Expert’s stomach too, so come on.”

“Shhh! This is an Expert everyone! All of you, attack!”

Hector rushed over to Philip, while the other thieves hesitated.

If they went back to the guild with their tails between their legs, they would be crushed.

And if one took a look at the size of Philip’s aura, it was like the lowest level of the Experts.

In addition, he seemed like a young kid who had just stepped into the Expert stages.

The thieves, who seemed to have realized that, began to wield their swords and axes while also swearing a lot.

“Uah!”

“You bastard!”

“Ahh, fuck off!”

Philip was moving around, trying to avoid the incoming attacks.

In addition, he was able to stab or slash the rogues one after the other.

‘Shit, he isn’t just some kid!’

There were no wasted movements in Philip’s technique, and he could maintain his aura continuously, which meant that they couldn’t consider him as some low-level Expert.

Hector, who was determined to not be his opponent, changed the direction of his attack.

He tried to attack Luke, who had taken a step back into the corner of the alley.

He was going to take Luke as a hostage and threaten Philip.