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[Flashback to Kiserre]

[Khamishah point of view]

"The orphanage is under attack!" [Lisa]

"Are you serious!" [Crow]

"I am, though we manage to ward them off" [Estel adventure]

"You didn't tell him yet?" [Alaric]

"No" [Estel adventure]

"I see now. Mrs Saga, if you mind" [Crow]

"Sure, what is it?" [Khamishah]

"He might get furious after hearing the news, so can you calm him down?" [Crow]

"I will" [Khamishah]

"Thank you, and I'll gather the other so that they could help calm him down should he run amok" [Crow]

"Please do so" [Lisa]

And after getting everyone involves to the guild, Queen Rinz gave me her stamp, just in case Ash manages to slip into Estel. That way, I can pursuit him legally under the order of the queen. Plus, this should ease me in protecting Ash in any legal way possible

(There he is!) [Khamishah]

"You're late" [Khamishah]

"Sorry, these two are hungry" [Ash]

Now for Crow to tell him the truth

"What's wrong with all of you!" [Ash]

He becomes restless, and he get himself ready, even taking back the twin into his arm

"Ash, listen here, the orphanage, is attacked by..." [Crow]

"ASH STOP!" [Naoto]

"Quickly follow him!" [Saint Louis]

"Your highness!" [Khamishah]

"Go after him!" [Queen Rinz]

"I shall go as well!" [Alaric]

And thus, the two of us chase after him. He's fast! He must have combined multiple spell to increase his speed.

"Alaric! Catch up to us!" [Khamishah]

"Right!" [Alaric]

There's no time to waste, I have to sprint as fast as I can as well

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He's not even resting! What's with his vigor! Even Alaric and I have shown sign of fatigue as we cross the second half of the open field dungeon. At least you should think of the twin with you.

(No doubt, not only magic to boost his speed, but also to restore his vigor and stamina as well. As expected of someone that can use all kind of magic) [Khamishah]

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(There's the entrance to Estel) [Khamishah]

"Huh, behemoth slayer!" [Guard A]

"Wait, don't rush!" [Guard B]

he simply passed through them, and as for me

"Sorry, but I promise I'll come later!" [Khamishah]

Alaric simply used his shadow dive to sneak inside of my shadow. He should have done that from the start

I don't know where the orphanage is, so with Alaric guidance through telepathy as well as my scan magic to detect Ash's mana signature, we arrive at a small mansion, there

"Claude, please take care of Lara and Nara, I'll go to the castle!" [Ash]

"Wait minute, Ash!" [Ghost butler]

"Ash stop!" [Khamishah]

I try to stop him, but he simply use short range teleportation to pass through me easily. I should have expected that coming! Alaric tries to bind his shadow but it's prove pointless as Ash is simply too fast for Alaric to catch up.

"Let's go to the castle!" [Alaric]

"Right!" [Khamishah]

As we dash through the sea of people, I can see that Ash being held by the castle guard, before he decided to use his ice missile shark to breakthrough the gate

(That damned fool!) [Khamishah]

He's so finish!

Look, isn't that the knight captain of Estel, but he simply ignored him and called him a rude captain

And then

Inside the castle, a blue hair girl shouted his name, but he just ignored her, leaving the little girl dejected. He keeps on slamming and pounding the preparators into the ground while curing them with his cure magic. My words fall into his deaf ear before I decided

"You brought this for yourself then!" [Khamishah]

To think that he decided to fight with me simply because he can't think straight. Damned fool he is! I don't know how to back him up any longer now, so the best I can do is to punch some common sense back into him and hope for the best

~Window shattering~

"By my title as the saga, I swear to stop him, so please, give me some time" [Khamishah]

As I leap into the castle field, I prepare myself for battle

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[Khamishah point of view]

"Tchh!" [Ash]

He's pissed off. Well, we are the same then. I never see a traveler with such attitude to a royal and noble before. Guess life really is full of surprise

"Take this!" [Ash]

He throws his scythe towards me, before disappearing

"Same trick won't work twice on me!" [Khamishah]

He must have decided to use the scythe as a distraction before using teleportation back into the chamber, but

(I'm naive!) [Khamishah]

I thought it was a distraction, but he simply teleported right into my back, preparing a thunder spell and

"Ugghh!" [Khamishah]

A direct him. Damned that hurts, and not to mention

"Earth trap! Flora trap!" [Ash]

He's trying to trap me! Like I would let that happen!

~Smash~

A simple earth structure and few trees won't hold me down, and

"Take this!" [Khamishah]

"Attack down! Defense up! Deceleration!" [Ash]

Two debuff toward me, and a buff for himself to dampen my punches' blow. Impressive

"Mana rope!" [Khamishah]

"Tchh!" [Ash]

"Got you!" [Khamishah]

Now that I have restricted his movement, time to give a hard blow to finish him off.

"Thunder! Fire! Poison!" [Ash]

"Damn it!" [Khamishah]

He uses my mana rope to send various spell back into me. I have no choice but to release the mana rope

He's strong. Not as strong as I am, but he's strong, up there with few of the strongest people alive. As the saga, I am not only certified as the strongest by the adventure guild, but also by various countries, and there's only a few other that could done that, maybe around two to three people. If he were to join the adventure guild, I have no doubt that he could achieve the same in few years time, but right now, I'll put him around the 5th to 7th place, alongside Saint Louis and The Female Paladin Aries

"Ice missiles shark! Thunder spear!" [Ash]

"Mana shield!" [Khamishah]

"I'm not done yet!" [Ash]

Ash then uses his mana to make multiple small bubble of various elements, there's earth, water, fire, air, thunder, dark, light, poison, mirage, everything is here!

"Missile guide, bubbles attack!" [Ash]

"I don't think so!" [Khamishah]

I can see that this attack will be deadly. It isn't meant to deal a massive damage toward me, but instead, is used to debuff me, and slowly wearing me down, but

"You have to do better than that to defeat me!" [Khamishah]

Gathering all my mana into the fist, a single powerful blow is unleash, blowing all the bubbles away with the strong gush of air created by my punch before bursting all the bubbles and dispersing back the mana into the air

"You look surprise. That's a fine attack bit I have seen a monster using it before, and I counteract the same way as I did here back then" [Khamishah]

I have no doubt he will surpass me later on. But right now, I'm stronger than he is! He has an opposite battle style as compared to mine. He can use all kind of attack while I mainly focus on my neutral mana as I can't use any other elemental attack. He can use a strange weapon called a scythe, and here I am, can only use my fist, but

(All those years of hardship and training won't be done in a single moment! I'll show you the power that have been recognized by other!) [Khamishah]

"I'll show you the power of The Saga!" [Khamishah]

"!" [Ash]

Focus, use all your neutral mana and channel it equally throughout your body and

"!" [Ash]

"Take this!" [Khamishah]

As my first punch missed the target, he fire off a darkness spear into me, but I simply punch it and

"Got you!" [Khamishah]

I managed to grab his right foot

"Electrocution!" Paralyze!" [Ash]

"Ughh!" [Khamishah]

Such powerful thunder spell, and not to mention the paralyzing spell but

"I'm not done yet!" [Khamishah]

~Slam~

"Tchh! Electrocution!" [Ash]

~Slam~

"Cure!" [Ash]

And thus, I keep on slamming him into the ground while he keeps on sending attack after attack of magic into me while curing himself until

"HAAAA!" [Khamishah]

~SLAM~

The final one. Looks like I overdid it a little. He looked unconscious, I should ask someone to heal him

"!" [Khamishah]

"Out... of the way!" [Ash]

Such power. So he's ready for round two. If it weren't for the situation, I am more than happy to comply, but, right now aren't the best time for it

"Bring it o..." [Khamishah]

"STOP IT!" [Princess]

""!!"" [Ash, Khamishah]

A blonde princess with ten children behind her approaching us, could they be the orphans

"Brother Ash, please stop it!" [Black hair boy]

"Rean..." [Ash]

"Please stop. We can understand your pain, but we also don't want you to get into any troubles because of us" [Brown hair fox girl]

"We are fine now Brother Ash" [Twin A]

"You should really think before doing something! Isn't that what you always told me!" [Twin B]

"Mara..." [Ash]

He's sway by them. Please keep it going!

"We are sorry if we make you worried" [Demon boy]

"Going all out without right from the start, isn't that something that you forbid Farhah and I from doing" [Dwarf boy]

"And yet you do it yourself! Stupid big brother!" [Green hair elf]

"Haha..." [Ash]

Just a little more

"You are strong Brother Ash, but we are also strong!" [Lion boy]

"Yeah! Trust us a little will you!" [Dragonewt boy]

"Pfftt..." [Ash]

""Hey!!"" [Lion boy, Dragonewt boy]

"Sorry sorry" [Ash]

and the last one. She approached Ash without any hesitation before hugging him

"Welcome home, Brother Ash" [Blue hair girl]

"I'm home, Charlotte" [Ash]

"You guys should join in as well" [Princess]

"CHARGE!" [Green hair elf]

"Hey wait up! That monster adventure just hurt me!" [Ash]

and they're piling up on top of each other...

"Thank you Mrs Saga for stopping him" [Princess]

"I just did what's ordered by me from Queen Rinz herself" [Khamishah]

Now, how should I back him up? On one hand, I want him to be punished so that he could learn his lesson, and on the other hand, I don't want to see any sort of capital punishment serve to him

"Ooh Ash... welcome home... How I miss talking to you" [Princess]

"Umm... bye?" [Ash]

"DON'T YOU DARE RUNNING AWAY NOW!" [Princess]

~Slap~

He deserves that one