You guys are lucky... I was able to have a break from studying, and am willing to write 1 chapter before going on break.

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The journey of the merchants and travellers in the caravan has gone smooth. In just 2 days they will arrive at their destination.

Besides some hiccups in the journey, they were smooth sailing.

Today was a usual day too. Leo got a personal compartment for himself as he was acting subverviant towards Roch and didn't act out like he did at the time they met. He was glad that he was away from the smelly pigs and was even given a chance to be blessed with the Roch's party mage's life spell, CLeaning all the dirt on his body.

But as for the smell, it had integrated in the body of Leo making it tough to remove it in one go. He had been fed and alway was looked with pity by Roch and his son for some reason.

He ignored them and only thought of what he needs to do after he reaches the city. He had seen all the 130 books.

He still hadn't read anyone of them, but from the books outer cover, he can assume that all of them belong to one person.

"Keep your gaurd up men...!! don't slack off!!" shouted Roch at the young recruits in which his son belonged to.

THe recruits were slacking off. and the ones he thought inexperienced, the Silver eagles party was more active during the journey.

"Well!! they are B-rank party" Sighed Roch. He remembered what he mentioned at the beginning to them, but he didn't thought the girls will adapt to the atmosphere so fast.

The son was at it's highest, everyone in the caravan was sweating.

There was hot wind blowing. Making it unbearable for people on the horses to travel, as they didn't had anything to stop the heat to fall on their bodies.

It resulted in their concentration to be lost at times.

The little fox always played with Katherine from the Silver eagles, with Maisei rubbing it at rare times.

As they were travelling, someone in the party shouted.

"BANDITS!!"

Roch and his party put thier gaurd up and waited for the intruder.

After sometime from the forest walked out a small fat dwarf, he wielded an odd axe with a hammer in the other side, it was a weird weapon.

While taking out the wierd axe from his back.

"Well lookie here!! we have friends visiting us..... men attack!!" while pointing at the caravan the small man gave command and from the forest more than 100 people came to attack.

THe dwarf was slow, but his steps caused the ground to shake. Roch and his party came in formation and made everyone to keep on alert. Saving the women and children first.

"Men formation!!" The old mercenaries from Roch's party were adept in these kind of showdown, as for the young ones, they were at the back of the formation seeing off the merchant's families. Their blood was boiling but as they were already told, they followed their leaders order by the book.

From the commencing of the attack , not 5 sec have passed. THe girls also got in their usual formation adn get to the side to meet the attacking bandits.

As the forces collide, metal clanking sound came from the collision of swords and shields.The quantity of the bandits was 3times bigger than the mercenaries, but to the mercenaries relief, there were no mages in the bandit party.

There were cursing and shouting going on in the battlefield. The girls were razing down the bandits smoothly, The heroic swordswoman was breaking down all the weapons of her adversaries making them uncapable to fight.

"This girl is wierd?"

THe bandits were amazed by the girls stupidity. This was a real battle and seeing their weapons broke, the bandits took out poisoned daggers attacking Marilyn.

*Swick* *swish*.

Two arrows found their target on the 2 bandits neck who were going to sneak attack Marilyn.

"Don't be stupid Mari!! this is not training" Shouted Maisei from faraway from the battlefield, she was crouching on the tree and sniping targets from afar, and beside the tree there were various spells going out, their was someone standing beside the tree firing off ice arrows at the bandits.

Bandits had long ago noticed the mage and the ranger girl, but were scared to go close to them as there was someone blocking the way.

Tuzzag had taken her tank role seriously, but this instance she was safegaurding Ramona and Katherine, Ripping away all the intruders that came close to her.

SHe was totally opposite of Marilyn, she killed people in ectasy and created a deep fear in the eyes of the bandits. Maisei konws this side about her friend.

Marilyn after hearing Maisei's advice and seeing the carnage Tuzzag was making, became violent and started to slash at the bandit's hand skillfully, making them temporily incapable to fight. She was a warm hearted girl.

The party of Roch was doing good too. Their formation was topnotch, giving people time to rest and attack at times, which defended the caravan beautifully.

Through all this Leo kept watching from afar. He was horrified to see live people kill each other. This was not the first time he had seen scene like this, the time he was attacked when he was young, the gaurds died protecting him the same way, and he had already hunted all kinds of undead in the forest.

But seeing the stuff happen again in front of his eyes.

'I will also kill someone someday!!' He contemplated that. HE was surprised to see how easily Maisei was killing off the bandits and asked himself if he can do that.

As the fight was going to tilt in Roch's direction, the small dwarf reached the battlefield.

"You bastards can't do anything without me!!" He hurled his odd weapon making them to fly off from the ground. Most people had already forget about the person who gave out the command to attack. And seeing his slow figure, people didn't think of it much.

As for Roch, seeing what happened he ran towards the dwarf hacking his greatsword.

*Boom!!*

He was sent flying off the ground with his sword breaking in half. This scene made all the adventurers and the bandits to tense up.

While putting the weapon on his shoulder."Uncle!! you thought it was easy to beat me?? haha!!"

Everyone stopped fighting, it was easy to see that the dwarf was strong, too strong. They were all looking at the dwarf with fear, even the bandits.

They were scared as Roch was the strongest fighter, and he was thrown over half the battlefield and when his body reached the ground, he was not moving.

"Now listen you all idiots....!! I don't like fighting, but as you see I am low on funds, so to get out of here safely, give me all your money."

He was an odd man, the life of his men didn't mattered to him, what mattered most to him was the money.

This made Maisei and her party had a sour expression on her face, she was even more disgusted from the time she met Leo again.

Maisei straightened her bow and fired arrows in diferet direction making the dwarf unable to dodge it.

It was a good sneak attack, no one was looking at her and most of the eyes in the battlefield, even the commoners in the carriages were fixed on the dwarf.

'Die!!' as the arrows reached the place, something out of ordinary happened.

The dwarf used his odd weapon as a sheild and easily deflected all the arrows, They were all imbuded with magic, but he easily delfected the arrows.

'"You missy over there..... don't interrupt when I am talking!!" THe man was slow on feet but fast with hands.

Easily deflecting the attak of an B class adventurer made him even more imposing.

Marilyn didn't stop , seeing that the attack of Maisei has failed, she holding a sword in her hand ran towards the dwarf.

Tuzzag didn't join in the battle, she had the duty of gaurding the mage units of her team.

Ramona too was started to concentrate her mana and focusing it in the sky above her, She was chanting something incompressible.

The tides of battle have turned again, the bandits started attacking again with a new vigor.

Cries of alarm came from the commners, they were scared.

The B-rank adventurer swordswoman had already started to fight with the dwarf, and with her agile attacks she was able to keep up with the fast moving hands of the dwarf, as by her side Maisei was giving her coverfire.

The dwarf focused on defending himself from Maisei's magic imbuded arrows, Even though he was slow, he deflected all the attacks hurled at him.

But there was one mistake.

*BAM!!* THis time everyone saw, as the dwarf struck at the shilded woman in her stomach with the happer side of his axe, throwing her off.

It was not the mistake of Marilyn, but Masisei had accidently missed her target giving the chance to put in an axe in the mix.

Like always, even Marilyn stopped moving after getting attacked.

Maisei watched in horror as the dwarf started walking in her direction, the rain was started to fall down, creating an eirei atmosphere.

'Why did it happened in our first mission?' This was their first job as adventurer, and they were already in a cornor by one man.

The imposing figure of the dwarf came close to Tuzzag range of influence, but she didn't jump in to attack, instead she stood in front of the tree waiting for his arrival in defensive postion.

In the surrounding the fight was still going on.

After reaching the tuzzag.

"Hah!! you girl had made me walk a lot.... it's time to pay!!"

He swinged his hammers like axe on Tuzzag, but before the axe can land on her body.

"HAIL FIRE!!" the clouds in the sky started throwing white fire, all of them aiming at the dwarf.

The first time the fire reached his body, it made it freez a part of his weapon( Using weapon as shield)

He was caught off-guard, the ice fire hailed down on his body, he didn't had time for tuzzag anymore.

Tuzzag had already taken her distance from him, to be safe from the range of the spell.

The dwarf actively used his odd axe to defend from the ice, but his hands were started to freeze up, the axe was stuck to his hand, but he didn't flinched.

"BURST ARROW!!" Maisei also fired her arrow that after colliding with the dwarf, drained all her mana.

The arrow was imbuded with wind magic, it was a sniping skill, and very tough to execute. But forcing herself Maisei forcefully chanted the spell and released the arrow before the magic was completed, making a heavy toll on her body.

She saw as the dwarf ignored the fire ice and deflected the arrow creating a huge boom on the area.

Dust flew off in direction as the Dwarf was struck in succession with the ice spell.

One can see his weapon flying off in distance.

As the dust settled down, The frozen figure of the dwarf was shown.

He had a weak expression on his face, but his didn't move.

"It's over!!" sighed Ramona, she was all drained by the aoe spell she used, and focusing it at one point took her all concentration.

She too was low on mana.

With the fight of the Silver eagles, the fight in the battlefield came to a halt too.

The surviving bandits started to run back in the forest, with a happy expression on their faces.

They forget about their dead comrads and only thinking of a way to save their life.

The merchants and the mercenaries started to treat their wounded and mourne their dead.

Somehow everyone atacked by the dwarf survived with only heavy injuried which were treated by Katherine.

Leo didn't move in this whole ordeal. Even though they were treating him well now, but he didn't forget about the pigs yet.

"We need to move that dwarf in a cage!!"

Ramona suggested worried.

"Isn't he dead?" Maisei was scared, she was totally drained of mana and in their group only Tuzzag was capable of fighting, as Marilyn was injured.

"No!! That was a moblizing spell taught by my aunt, it only constrains the victim."

The girls looked toward the tired mercenaries and the worried Roch as he moves around the people and see his friends buried.

"Don't worry about that fatso.... he probably won't be in fighting condition after the ice melts.... I will take care of him" Tuzzag with her casual smile assured her teammates. She was sad as she was the only one who didn't got to do anything... but still made a happy face.

As the night descended, the adventurer were in constant alarm, and the girls had camped close to the frozen body of the dwarf to keep a watch on him, Katherine was tired by all the healing she had done, and while holding the little fox in her bossom, slept in her tent.

By turn, the grils kept watch on the ice statue and waited for their group to recuperate.

As for our hero.

"Somebody........ give me FOOOD!!!" It was a shameful pitiful cry, men have died and he didn't do anything to stop it. Instead of feeling ashamed, he was crying out for food. No one in the group gave him a thought, and ignoring him, mourned for the dead.

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GUys I tried telling my family about the train ghost I saw previously, and as usual they didn't believe me.

My sister said, why is it only me that sees the ghost. And falsified my claims, my father ignored me and my mother didn't even listened to my story.

Guys you do know that's harsh right!!.

I seriously saw something fucked up that night. I may be a ghost magnet, as I saw 2 different ghost in 2 different places.

Why is it so hard to believe this stuff