章 22: Merchants

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[[ Sorcerers Dynasty of Sarion ]]

[] Western boarder of the North Forest []

[ Liam's POV ]

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I looked in shock at the screen that played before my eyes all the spars I have been having with Shiro and won yet there she was carrying out a massacre like a breeze I personally knew the level of her strength fully as she used it on me during the spars Nike did tell me maybe once or twice that a normal individual would not survive her punches but I ignored her words most of the time but now seeing it with my own two eyes it's . . . shocking to say the least and according to my observation she's using less than 5% of her full strength , ' I can't believe I survived attacks like those '. I know you might think that I'm op and stuff but since I haven't been in any serious fights so even though I know I have stupidly overpowered skills I still don't know their full capabilities but seeing Shiro pop heads like balloons I might have a slight idea now.

Even less than a minute since the massacre began the last of the bandits' head was blown into bits and pieces , mouth wide open I looked at Shiro who turned my direction and gave me a big smile while waving her small bloodied hands , gulping down on my saliva I waved back at her , the few surviving merchants who had either wet themselves or passed out in fear slowly regained their senses and some tried running away while an idiot fired off a spell trying to atleast injure Shiro but only made her angry , the next instant the idiot was held up in air by his throat.

" P-please . spare . him . he . just . panicked ". A manly voice belonging to a blonde man who struggled to get up from the ground , he had some wounds all over his body.

Seeing that Shiro wasn't planning on letting the idiot go anytime soon I jumped down from the tree , my sudden appearance caused the guards or atleast those who were left , many had died due to the bandit attack and the rest just ran away .

" Shiro you can drop him ". not even bothering about them I told Shiro who reluctantly dropped the idiot after which she ran towards me.

" They were too weak master ". she said with an angry expression on her face , I just put my hand on her head.

" No , you where too strong for them ". I said to her , she just lowered her head upon hearing my remark.

The remaining merchants and guards watched from the sidelines as I brushed Shiro's brown hair with my hand is pure shock which is somewhat understandable , seeing the monster that killed all the bandits in cold blood acting like a little girl was beyond any understanding and many wondered ' what the hell is going on '.

" You alright ". I decided to break the silence as it was starting to get in comfortable.

The merchants looked around trying to confirm it was them I was asking , the blonde man pointed at himself and I nodded.

" Sorry , we are fine thank you for the help ". because of Ultimate skill Emperor all creatures are naturally respectful towards me although if I want I can lower that effect but still I can not deactivate it.

" No problem , Shiro did all the work anyway ". I said.

[ ??? POV ]

" Don't worry I will protect you ". those are the words I said to my wife as I left her in the safety of our carriage .

My name is Bolard a merchant from the Falmuth kingdom , I am married to a beautiful woman Stephanie who is also the love of my life and we have two children Anna and Teyson , overall I have a pretty good life.

We were on a trip to Sarion capital transporting jewelry and other goods which we hoped to exchange for some homunculus which are highly demanded in the kingdom especially by nobles who want to extend their life spans , I know it might not be a good business but it's the highest paying job available , Falmuth might not be the best but it surely the best for making money.

Anyway the journey is a dangerous one and even used to take years if not for the teleportation circles all over the continent I don't think anyone would be taking on this journey anymore , the old route used to be through Brumund and the Western States but many merchants who did not want to pay taxes passed through the Great Jura Forest but they rarely survived then again after entering Sarion we still need to pass through the North Forest I myself can only be considered lucky to have taken on this journey more than thrice and survived , though I would not like bringing my family on such a dangerous journey its way safer than living them in a country filled with greedy lustful nobles.

The trip was going well until we reached the edge of the North Forest with only minor casualties but then we were attacked , I have ran into many bandits over the years but this group was over .y expectations and they seemed to have been waiting for us we seriously had no chance of survival they beat us in numbers 1 to 3 and they were all atleast as strong as D rank adventurers , men died one by one and there was almost nothing I could do , I fought as hard as I could but they overpowered me by their numbers , when all hope was lost and I fought with all my strength to get up and protect my family the voice of the world answered my prayers.

{ Extra skill regeneration acquired }

The voice brought me hope atleast I had a chance , but before I could get up the sound of something blowing up invaded my ears and blood splashed on my clothes , I looked up and I saw it , a girl or more precisely a bear girl that looked no older than my daughter was going from bandit to bandit killing them with a single strike of her fist I could only look at her in horror ' this- this is just unreal '. is the only thing I could think at the moment , but as I watched I realized one thing , she was only attacking the bandits which made me think , ' is she helping us , no '. but soon she was finished and every one of the bandits was dead the bear girl just stood there smiled and waved her hand we couldn't tell who she waved at but that moment most men regained their senses and ran away , I personally couldn't blame them the scene that we just witnessed was just to scary but then an idiot dared to attack , seriously the girl killed an entire group that had brought us to this miserable state in less than a minute and he thought such a simple spell could injure her much less kill her , when she held him up by the throat I wanted to just stay quiet and let the fool meet his punishment but I had already lost too many men to let him die.

So I begged for the idiots life but the little girl ignored my words and clearly didn't have an intention of letting him go and I also has no intention of fighting the monster for a fool so I just gave up then from the trees a dark elf jumped down which put us on alert but he just ignored us and spoke to the bear girl telling her to let the idiot go and to our surprise the monster listened to him the only thing I could think at the moment was , " how strong must he be to control such a monster ".

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