Chapter 47 out of the forest 3 (1/2)
Mars decided to wait and soon his sharp ears picked up some movement
'5 people... but one of them walks kind of...weird'
Mars looked in the direction where the group was coming from and soon he could hear them talking
”how much longer?”
”not much longer now, my detection spell picked up a group of goblins over there”
”good, rest assured as long as I officially become a hunter all of you will receive your payment in full”
”we are very thankful for your generosity young master”
soon a group of 5 humans arrived, 3 of them carried swords and was clad in leather armor, while the last 2 had staffs and wore robes, only one of them a youth around 15 years old carried a staff that looked many times more expensive than the other, the robe he wore also looked like it was made of fine silk, when Mars saw the group he found out why one of them walked weirdly
'...i had almost forgot there was people like this'
Mars looked at the youths well... round figure before he gave a sigh, the reason he was walking weirdly was he was very out of shape and seemed to be out of breath, Mars could not only see but also smell the layer of sweat the covered the youth and frowned slightly
”to think guild test would be so easy, I actually found a group of dead goblins”
”yes young master luck truly is good”
while the one that carries the staff flatted the youth one of the ones that was armed with a sword walked over towards Mars and with a hand on his sword and a slightly arrogant look on his face he spoke to Mars while he waved his hand
”hey brat those goblin copses belong to us now, also hand over all your coins and cores then we might let you go”
Mars looked around and filed to discover this 'brat' the rough looking man was referring to before it finally clicked for him
'so he means me...?'
”oi brat are you deaf? hurry up!”
”oh sure...”
Mars took off his backpack and pulled out the small pouch were he kept all his magic beast cores and took out the class 9 core he got from the queen acid spider and asked with a innocent look on his face
”you mean cores like this one?”
the man's eyes turned round when he saw the core before he suddenly yelled while thick greed showed in his eyes while he quickly spoke in a hushed voice
”that's right brat, hand it over and i will let you live!”
when Mars saw the greed in the man's eyes as well as how he didn't seem to want his companions to know of the class 9 magic beast core he knew the value of the core was high enough for the man to betray his companions and gave a smile before he put the core back into the pouch
”then why don't you come and take it?”
the man turned red in the face from fury and drew his sword
”don't tell me i didn't warn you brat!”
the man stepped forwards and swung his sword down towards Mars
'are you for real?'
as Mars looked at the sword that was swing down towards his face he questioned if the man was really trying to kill him as compared to Rex's swordsmanship witch he was used to the man in front of him that was attacking him looked more like a child waving around a stick
'maybe he's joking? well he kind of looks like he's trying to kill me'
Mars effortlessly sidestepped the sword that was swung down at him before he stepped in and grabbed the man's chin and hair before he---
*SNAP*
---twisted his face about 180 degrees to the side before he let go as the man fell down on the ground, deader than dead alerting the rest of the remaining 4 in the group
”you! what the fuck did you do to John!?”
”well... i killed him?”
Mars looked a little confused, obviously he killed him in self defense so why were they so confused?
”you're going to pay for that! young master please back us op with your magic”
”you guys sure are useless, but oh well I have been wanting to test my new spell”
the group of 4 quickly got into a formation that protected the 2 that were wielding staffs while Mars stood and watched them without doing anything in particular until Victoria that was sitting of the side in a tree watching sent him a telepathic message
”why... don't you... kill them?”
”because i want to see what they can do”
”who's he talking to?”
”i don't know, this brat is obviously crazy let's kill him!”
”i got this...”
the mage with the shoddy robe started to focus his mana into his staff, drawing Mars's attention as the mana seemed flow though some rather complex paths before it ended in the gem that sat a the top off the staff were it seemed to be slightly amplified before it was finally releasedin the form of a bright flame
”...fireball!”
”...really?”
Mars watched the fireball fly over with a amazed look on his face for a second before he reached out and caught it with his hand and snuffed out the flame
”impossible!”
Mars watched to poor mage's flustered expression and decided he had seen enough of their ability to end this farce and waved his hand, instantly summoning 3 fire arrows before he pointed towards the group and shot the fire arrows
”this is real fire”
the fire arrows shot out and before any of the humans could react they had pieced their targets leaving behind a charred fist sized hole in each of the swordsmen and mage's throats only leaving the 'young master' alive that had turned pale a sheet of paper
”y-you...”