41 Mercenaries part 2 (2/2)

”I have to win! I can't just lose here and abandon the boy...”

He used all the strength he could and even evoked his Water Qi around the sword. The attack looked a strong and precise wave going horizontally towards the captain with the intention of splitting his body.

But the captain still showed no fear while putting away the clubs and taking a huge mace from his magic backpack. He wasted no time and attacked the wave with his big mace, causing a huge explosion of water.

Xiong Zhelan was confident that this attack would break any weapon other than magic. But to his shock, the captain's mace did not move when it came in contact with his sword. His hands vibrated more than before, and he understood that the mace is also a magic weapon.

When the water fell on them, the captain was holding his mace still looking serious while Xiong Zhelan was having trouble breathing after using so much effort in a single attack.

”It seems that it is your limit.”

”Don't hold on.”

Even being at a great disadvantage now, Xiong Zhelan would not give up so easily. He tried to attack the captain again as he could not be defensive against the big mace.

As it was a weaker attack than the previous one, the captain had no problems blocking, but this time, he did not stop and kicked Xiong Zhelan, throwing him against the trees.

When Xiong Zhelan got up, he realized that they were inside the forest and far away from the road where Nero was fighting Han Bo. He had been fighting for about fifteen minutes, but he didn't notice anything around him and was completely focused on the captain.

Before he could organize his thoughts, the great mace comes not giving him time to dodge. He tried to block with his sword, but the strike was too strong, and he was thrown again.

”If nothing changes, I won't be able to take much more...”

Xiong Zhelan stood up again. He was severely wounded, bleeding from various parts of his ripped tunic. Still, he couldn't give up. Then he raised his sword and prepared for the great mace that was coming destroying everything in its path.

The captain had no mercy and hit again harder and harder, throwing Xiong Zhelan again and again, who looked like a kite loose in the wind while painting the ground with blood. So he stopped in front of Xiong Zhelan, who couldn't get up this time.

”Even being pretty weak for a Black Sword Sect's elder, you fight well.”

Xiong Zhelan, still on the ground, gave the captain a smile.

”You have a good mace there... It was a good gift from those pigs.”

Almost everyone at Xu Dynasty hated the Guan Family, and the Black Sword Sect is one of their biggest enemies. But since no one would go against the second prince, he saw nothing at insults like that.

”It wasn't the Guan Family that gave it to me. It is an inheritance from my father.”

The captain was not like most people who worked for the Guan Family, and Xiong Zhelan was beginning to realize that. Since the start, he had fought seriously, not an idiot like the others that Xiong Zhelan meets.

”Why work for people like them?”

”Work is work no matter what. If they pay me well, so I don't mind killing anyone.”

Damn mercenaries. Xiong Zhelan could only think like that because there was no way to negotiate with the captain even if he was not like others in the Guan Family.

The captain had already given Xiong Zhelan time to say a few last words, so he raised the great mace to kill him.

”You seem to care a lot for the boy, so I can only promise that I will give him a quick death if he is still alive.”

Many thoughts came to Xiong Zhelan's mind while he watched in slow motion the great mace falling to take his life.

He remembered his father. He was like a high mountain that would defend everyone from any evil. But then he died, leaving his family alone.

So his mother took care of his family with all the love and protection he could ask for. She was the most amazing woman in the world, but then she abandoned him and his sister.

So his sister... She always took care of him. But he would leave her now...

Not only her... But he would also abandon a boy who needs his help in a land where everyone would hate him.

If only he could be as strong as his sister...

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”I can not give up!”

Xiong Zhelan started thinking about the people he cared about, and then he realized that he would miss them a lot. He couldn't give up and abandon them. So he focused all the Qi he still had for one last move.

The captain saw Xiong Zhelan raise his sword, and he thought it was a defensive move that would be useless. But then Xiong Zhelan threw his sword that ignored the mace and went towards his back.

Xiong Zhelan threw the sword, and when it had passed through the captain, he had already prepared the teleportation technique. Before the mace arrived, he teleported to the sword still in the air and caught it with his hand, already starting an attack aiming at the captain's head.

The captain cannot help but find that movement incredible. It would be fatal for any cultivator on the same level as Xiong Zhelan and even stronger ones, but he did not fear this attack.

He didn't have enough speed to dodge, but he managed to turn his head at least so that the sword hit his shoulder, and it wasn't a fatal blow.

The pain of having a deep cut on his shoulder made the captain angry. He reacted quickly by hitting Xiong Zhelan with his big mace this time with all the strength he could.

Xiong Zhelan no longer had the strength to resist. He used all the remaining Qi for this movement, and he couldn't help but be sad when it failed. He was already frail when he received the attack from the captain, but he still put the sword in front of his belly.

He had no strength to make the sword absorb part of the impact, so he was thrown as far as possible. He passed out while he was still flying through the forest, breaking the trees with his body.