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Part 4

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When the first building and its surrounding area caught fire, it did not get much the attention I needed. I was hoping for panic from these paranoid guards. But I could only see about a dozen of guards went to check it out. Though I could not make out what they were talking about, this was not good enough.

“Looks like I needed some more firepower then.” I lighted up the building that Rose and I hid and once it caught fire, we immediately ran to the next one.

“Look!! There’s someone’s there!!” What the guard saw was moving bushes. With Rose new ability called Plant Control and Animate, she could now use any of the plants provided that they were lower level than her. Though the numbers that she could animate was limited to just one, it was more than enough to actually to create the scene that I wanted her to.

“And another one is over there, behind the tree!”

“And over there!!”

Looked like it worked. With the two adjacent building now caught on fire and the silhouette of the ‘arsonist’ was spotted, it was no longer just a prank, a natural occurrence, a simple mishap or something to be ignored. The enemy had come as they feared. The guards were starting to mobilize as I predicted.

And then something interesting happened. The two buildings caught fire so well that it exploded and took out a few guards that tried to disperse the fire. The loud noise had an immediate effect. It took every one of the guards that stationed here by surprise and now they were in a panic. Their paranoid had finally kicked in.

Just when I wanted to move on to the next one, I ordered Rose to go and create more diversion as for how I had planned with her earlier. She would control or animate simple movement on bushes or small trees. With her current skills, that was all she could do. Hoping her to create a Treant or a Mandragora was an idle thought at best. Not impossible but for now, this was more than good enough. And Rose could just hide if needed by easily becoming a plant herself. Nifty skills indeed.

“The enemy is over there!”

“We are surrounded!! Call the Captain!!”

I disposed a couple of guards that unknowingly reached near my hiding place where I planned to burn the third building. It was farther than the other two, situated in the middle between the next two buildings in order of my plan. I left the two bodies there purposely as I burned the third building. When it caught on fire, I moved on to my next plan; to actually expose myself and fight my enemies head on while Rose would burn the last three houses and distract them further. If these guards did not see any enemies, they might reconsider to separate their forces. Or worse still, to actually strengthened the place they were guarding.

“Oi, bloody feckers! I have come for your King’s head!” Well, I couldn’t tell them the real reason why I came, right? Besides, mentioning that I wanted to kill the King during the Siege event would definitely make me their number one target.

“T-The enemy! I-I saw him!! He is…” Unfortunately, he could not finish his words as I stabbed him with a dagger from the back, killing him with one hit.

“Over there!!” As the lifeless body felled, two more guards came my way. Surrounded by the flaming building, I let out a loud laugh that penetrated the whole place.

“Is this the best of this pathetic King’s guards can offer?!!” I purposely gave out an uber loud laugh.

“WAHAHAHA!!! Where are your Champions?! Your leaders?!! All of you are dog’s shit for all I care!”

I dodged the first blow that came at me and struck the dagger into his side. He fell down and I kicked the hilt of the dagger deeper into his body. His HP dropped to less than 50% when the second guard came. I took out my sword and before he could do anything, I sidestepped him and slashed his back. The critical counter hit reduced his HP to zero immediately. The first guard tried to stand up but I ended him right at that movement in the most cold-blooded fashion I could muster. As his head rolled on the ground, all the guards that ran towards me froze on their tracks. They were shaking uncontrollably and the look of shock on their face was priceless.

In word one, they were horrified.

“A-A demon!!”

“M-Murderer!! Kill him, guys!!”

“Kill that bloody murderer!!”

Looked like I finally did it. All the guards were NPCs that could now be killed during this event. If they never lay their fingers on Elly, Popo and Mimi, I would never even have thought of touching them like this. What was more to kill them in such a manner. But…

I pulled my hood from the robe that I wore over the top of my armour and then took out my sword and shield. I was not planning to play the support character this time. I had come here to be these bloody people’s worst nightmare. As five of the guards, each level between 60-80 came charging at me, I licked my lips.

Finally, I would have some fun.