48 Trying a Shortcu (2/2)

Not feeling bothered at all by that, the succubus slowly walked toward the shouting human, without the latter even noticing it. The woman was still talking to the crowd and only when the metallic hand flew toward her cheek did she realized her mistake. She had supposed that those two won't dare to move in front of them, but Meridiana only wanted to be done with it.

SLAP

The supposedly female thief was projected on the ground violently and it took her a few seconds before she held her head in her hands and dared to look at the succubus. Feeling the vicious gaze of the humans, the demon commandant extended her arms like she wanted to give a hug and taunted them.

”If you think that you are so much better than us, come and prove it!” If it was said ten seconds earlier, a wave of adventurers would have swarmed them. But the woman that was hit was one of the highest ranked adventurers in that city and the fact that even she didn't manage to dodge a slap proved something. But some fools still had their pride getting in the way.

”You hit our friend, so be it. We can duel you 1 by 1 if you want or maybe you will be stupid enough to allow us to work as a team. Since apparently, you don't even put us in your eyes, why should we be polite?” A man in a sturdy armor extended his hand and helped the woman on the ground getting up. Behind him, four humans and an elf were seen looking hatefully at Meridiana. None of them expected that by this beautiful and warm morning, they would be insulted by strangers like that.

”Depend, are you scared of losing or not? But don't worry, whatever you choose won't make a single difference in the end.” She couldn't help but taunt them more after she remembered that this elf was here yesterday and was part of the mocking crew. That long ears will eat grass before she left the building, she promised that to herself. But her words enraged, even more, everyone and the leader of that group even lost a bit of his temper.

”Fine, just so you know before you beg our forgiveness, you are facing the …”

”Don't care.” Without even continuing that masquerade, the moment she cut the knight, the elf aimed at her and fired an arrow. For the onlookers, it was extremely hard to see that fast shot, but it was a joke for the two aliens in that room. She only raised her hand on the way of the arrow and the deadly projectile only destroyed itself on her armor. Not even a dent was made on the metal fused with C'Thalium, provoking an enormous clamor. They realized that this flexible iron was comparable to the scales of many monsters and maybe even as resistant as the ones from a dragon.

Not backing off, the elf took some of his best quality arrows. Without even letting his leader stop him, three arrows surrounded by a blue light were shot in less than a second. While it was not the best quality available, each of those arrows still cost 10 gold. The old man looked with horror at the scene in front of him, not knowing how the situation ended up like that. In his mind, the woman was already dead.

What happened was expected only by the orodil that didn't move since the beginning. The three arrows were grabbed by Meridiana that threw them to her companion, for future researches. With those and the monster's corpse, Malakov and Agnil will have some work to do. Profiting from the stunned state of everyone, she bypassed the warriors in front of her and grabbed the neck of the elf.

It happened too fast for anyone else to react and the group of adventurers had no choice but to look helplessly at their companion. With the fact that she caught those arrows, it was now clear that she could probably kill him before they even began their assault. And to die for such a foolish reason, no one from that side wanted that. But to their horror, instead of pressuring them with her hostage, she only looked at the old man and asked a question.

”Hey old man, what are the rules for someone attempting to the life of someone else around here?” Everyone realized that it won't end well this time but even the previously menacing elder had to say the rules loudly. Even if he tried to excuse the actions of the elf, he still attempted at the life of the stranger and if she wasn't that strong, she would have died. So it was logical for her to have a grudge about it.

”In that case, one could be locked by the local militia and judged by the lord.” He didn't say that the victim could make justice by herself since he had no intention of losing anyone today. And because of the helmet, he couldn't see if that irrational woman trusted his words. After a few second where no one talked, she finally released the archer. Using her hand, she cleaned his shoulders of any dust and began to walk toward the exit. She turned around one last time, before staring at the elf that suddenly got his entire back drenched with cold sweats.

”Fine, but we'll be back. As for you, long ears, don't die before I get my hand you. See you soon.”