WARNING: MY FAVORITE CHAPTER SINCE THE GREAT BUNNY INCIDENT.

Enjoy! ^_^

The next day, the boy still had nothing to do so after grabbing a quick snack he headed back into QV.

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Ludius awoke on top of the carriage. After looking around and seeing that everything seemed alright he lay back down onto the roof of the carriage.

Having nothing to do, Ludius decided to inspect his adventurers card to see if he could find out how it worked.

After bringing it out of his pocket he had one thought.

'Shit.'

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Adventurers Card

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Name: Ludius

Rank : SSS

Stats : ???

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"I might have overdone it on the stat-points.",

"Did you say something Ludius?", came Rowans voice from below him.

"Nothing. Nothing, just talking to myself!", Ludius quickly said.

'I'll just not show it to anyone unless I really have to.', Ludius promised to himself.

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Around 2 hours later.

"Bo~boring.", Ludius had just been sat there for two hours so it was not like this reaction was unexpected.

Suddenly Ludius heard a pleasant noise on the edge of his enhanced hearing range, and a dark grin came to his face before lay back down.

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So far it had been quiet. Too quiet. Not many times throughout his mercenary career of escorting caravans has there been so little action. Yet every time there was that was the time where they suffered the most losses.

It was John's responsibility to maintain the protection of the caravan as well as that S rank guy... Ludius? Anyway John himself had never seen Ludius fight so he instinctively didn't trust his fighting capabilities therefore John spent more effort on observing his surroundings.

It paid off.. Only a full twenty-two minutes after Ludius had heard the noise did a band of people block off the road in front of the caravan.

"Hand over all the merchandise and you can go!", commanded a man who seemed to be the leader of the group.

John was obviously angered at this so he responded with a well timed string of insults that may or may not have been anything to do with the guy and a pig in a somewhat 'intimate' relationship.

"Fuck you! Men, ATTACK!", and with that thieves, bandits and murderers not only from the front but all-round the caravan emerged with their weapons drawn.

"Defend the caravan!", shouted John.

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It was a tough battle.

Although the caravan guards and hired mercenaries were all at least rank B the enemy just overwhelmed them with numbers. At any one time Ludius would see one guard fighting off four others.

Ludius wanted the battle to have been drawn out a bit first so that when he stepped in he would make a better entrance, even though he only needed to test out his new power, however it seemed he would have to step in earlier than expected as the guards were having trouble.

John was fighting against 6 men all on his own near one of the carts at the back. Jumping across the rooves of the carts, Ludius reached the one nearest John's fight.

"You look like you're in trouble.", Ludius called out.

"Don't. Worry. I. Can. Handle it!", John replied whilst breathing heavily but just as he said it John missed a parry.

As the sword was coming down John could have sworn his life flashed before his eyes and just as the blade was about to cut into his neck a ringing noise sounded. John wasn't dead.

"Need any help?", Ludius asked cheekily.

"Yes it looks like we will.",

"Okay I'll be done in a bit, try to help the rest of your men.",

"Roger."

'Ok. It's time to see what an agility of over 10,000 can do.' , thought Ludius.

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There's not much the guards or John saw of Ludius' actions after that.

To everyone other than Ludius, Ludius just stood still for a moment whilst the head of every attacker suddenly looked like it was going on a holiday from its body.

'They weren't fast enough. Maybe I'll just run laps when we get to Alcasia', pondered Ludius.

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After the battle, all of the attackers were dead - either killed by a guard or more likely Ludius - and all the guards and mercenaries (except John) thought that vicious ghosts may actually be real from the decapitating event from earlier.

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"We'll camp here for now! We'll set off tomorrow! I want a guard at all times!", shouted John.

After giving out commands John went over to Ludius.

"You killed all those attackers didn't you.", John inquired.

"Really I though it was just ghosts?!", Ludius put his most innocent face on.

"I hope the ghosts help us out in the next four days then!", replied John.

"I'm sure they will.", and with that Ludius returned to his perch on top of the carriage.