After the shockwaves died down, I regained my senses.

"...!"

I still sense a strong Astral Body.

"... no way..."

Cold sweat runs down my right cheek.

As the smoke disperses, I can see Panthos still standing after taking that attack.

His upper armor got destroyed but there is no a single scratch on his body.

Dark elf and elf should have a weaker physical trait compared to other races. Even though they can train their body, this level of strength is just absurd...!

"Grr..."

After growling like a monster, he raises his spear and rushes towards me.

"!?"

*swish!*

I manage to dash to my right side to avoid my body getting pierced by his spear.

However, I can see Panthos' right leg swinged towards me in that instant.

*wham! Smack!*

"Aa..!?"

My body got hit by his roundhouse kick and got thrown away until my back hit the tree behind me.

*thud!*

My body falls to the ground. The breastplate protected my chest but it still hurts so much that I have trouble breathing.

"Gaa...!"

I am lying on the ground and can't even move a limb. I can tell that my face now is distorted out of pain.

Panthos is looking at me with a disgusting grin. I know that I need to get up now but I simply can't due to the pain.

*thump! Thump! Thump!*

I can feel my heart pulses rate rising out of fear.

*pant! pant!*

The pain is preventing from being able to concentrate on making new plans to survive. If he attacks me now, I'm done for.

*tap*

Right after I thought that, I see a person steps up in front of me. It's that slave boy.

"Master! Please stop it!"

You idiot! Get out of here!

I wanted to shout that but the pain also prevents me from talking.

"..."

Panthos looks silently at the slave boy for a few seconds and then points his spear at the slave boy. Then the green blade of that spear glows.

Magic!? Wait, I still can't...!

*Shluk! Chut!*

It was over in an instant.

The green blade of his spear was launched revealing itself as a blade with small hilt coming out from the spear's body.

It pierced the boy's chest and got stuck by the tree behind me.

*thud!*

The boy falls down with his back facing the ground. His body falls near to where I'm lying down.

"Heh... hehe.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Panthos starts laughing after he saw the slave boy lying motionlessly on ground.

At the same time, I finally can move my body and withstand the pain.

I approach the boy and see the blood coming out of his chest.

No.... not like this....

I resolved to fight because I did not want this to happen...

And yet....!

As I remember the death of my loved ones, I can't hold back my tears anymore.

"W..."

"!?"

I open my eyes out of surprise because I heard the boy's voice.

Then I see the boy looking at me with pink-coloured eyes.

"Why..?"

"!"

He's still alive!

I quickly grab 1 bottle of Graize Elixir inside the small bag that was attached to my belt. I always put 2 Graize Elixir bottles, 2 potions, 1 Rorean fruit extract bottle and 1 Antidote bottle in this bag nowadays because the maximum capacity of this mini bag is only 6 bottles.

"Drink this! Quick!"

The boy begins to drink the elixir slowly while I am watching Panthos just in case he tried to attack.

Fortunately, the boy managed to finish the elixir quickly because the liquid amount is pretty small.

Just like Kaina's case, the boy's chest started healing even before he finished drinking. However, he still cannot move his body due to a huge loss blood which is something that this elixir cannot fix.

I sigh out of relief. I would definitely regret it for life if I cannot save this kid despite the fact that both of us are just strangers to each other.

"Die..."

And hearing that sentence instantly dampened my relief. Panthos is looking at us with that disgusting grin again.

"All of you.... Die..."

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*Interlude*

"Mas... ter..."

The boy looks sadly at the mad dark elf. He instinctively knows that his voice is not reaching his master.

"*sigh* This is why men are just..."

"?"

The boy looks at the girl whom he doesn't know the name. Her bangs are covering her eyes so it's hard to read her expression.

The boy did not know that the sentence alone is what she spoke from the bottom of her heart. Her own belief in truest sense.

Shion puts down the boy and stands up.

She takes out a potion bottle from her small bag and open small wooden lid. She quickly drinks and finishes it quickly due to the how little of the amount of liquid inside. But it is enough to heal all Shion's pains and wounds. Shion throws the bottle away before walking to tree near her.

Shion reaches for the hilt of the green blade. It is stuck at the trunk but Shion uses Overtake to activate the magic that is engraved in that blade.

With green light enveloping the green blade, Shion easily pulls out the green blade from the trunk and walks towards Panthos.

"!? What are you... ugh!"

The boy wants to stop her from getting closer towards Panthos. But he is too powerless to stop her.

Shion ignores his failed attempt of warning and stops around 20 metres away from Panthos.

"... hehe..."

Panthos starts laughing again looking at Shion.

"... What is so funny."

While Panthos continues laughing softly, Shion continues talking.

"You see... that boy chose to obey your order despite on how unreasonable your demand is. And yet you just shoved his hard work away like some kind of trash."

"Hehehehehe..."

"I don't know what happened to you... but I don't give a care anymore at this point."

Panthos who has his reasoning lost rushes towards Shion with the intention to beat her head with his bladeless spear.

"!"

The boy who fears the expected outcome of Shion getting beaten to death can only wait for that moment to come.

Except that his expected moment will never come.

*woom!*

Even after Panthos brings down his right hand with great force to beat Shion. There is no sign of Shion getting beaten up by his spear.

*thud!*

"Ow!?"

An object suddenly hits the boy's head from above. When the boy looks at the ground to find what just hit his head, he was surprised to find a part of a spear that was just cut by something.

He then looks once more at Shion and finally see something different from what she is holding.

What Shion is holding is the green blade from Panthos' spear, but the light enveloping the metal becomes longer to the point that it looks more like a sword rather than a spearhead.

"Plasma Sabre", a stronger version of Light Sabre magic. This is what this magical blade capable of.

Shion uses overtake to make modify the magic's form so that she can create a weapon with longer reach.

The weapon on Shion's hand is a device with pre-established magic formulas engraved on it. While magic formula alone is not enough to activate a magic, that deviced is powered by a green gem that acts as a mana battery to activate the magic formula.

Panthos does not expect that his bladeless spear just got cut off like that. He most likely won't make this amateurish mistake had he still retain his reasoning. He is looking at his bladeless spear trying to comprehend what just happened.

"You know what?"

Before Shion finish her sentence, a wind blows softly revealing the purely enraged brown eyes that was hidden behind Shion's long bang.

"I really... HATE MALES!!!"

When Panthos is about to look at Shion again, she slashed Panthos' chest so easily like cutting a paper.

"THEY'RE SELFISH!" *slashes Panthos right hand*

"LOUD!!" *slashes his left cheek*

"IGNORANT FOOLS!!" *slashes Panthos' left shoulder*

"WITH PRACTICALLY!" *evades Panthos' right punch*

"NO WORTHY QUALITIES WHATSOEVER!!" *slashes Panthos' right arm 2 times*

Each slash has a chance to completely cut off Panthos' limb due to how sharp the blade is. But Shion does not have enough adequate skill to do that.

"SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT WHAT THEY ALL HAVE DONE!" *slashes Panthos' stomach. Evade Panthos' right kick and slashes his left leg.*

"VIOLENCE!!" *slashes Panthos' neck*

"HOMICIDE!!" *slashes Panthos' mouth horizontally*

"SEXUAL ASSAULT!!" *slashes Panthos' left thigh*

"AND MANY OTHER THINGS WORSE THAN THIS CARNIVAL OF SCREW-UPS AND DISORDERS!!" *cut the bladeless spear again that Panthos used to guard himself and slashes his eyes and his chest again*

"THEY ARE!" *evades Panthos' right punch again*

"WITHOUT A DOUBT!" *stabs Panthos' right fist*

"A COMPLETE FAILURE OF A GENDER!!" *cut off all fingers from Panthos' right hand with 1 swing*

*bam!*

"!?"

*swash!*

Panthos uses his left hand to punch Shion's face making her spinning few times before she quickly regain her balance by stepping the ground with both feet.

"AND HOW DARE YOU..." *focus her glare towards Panthos*

*instant flashbacks of Shion's interactions with the slave boy up until the time when she found out that the boy got more bruises this morning*

*dash!*

"GRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Panthos growls and rushes towards Shion.

"MAKE ME CARE ABOUT HIM!!!!!!" *rushes towards Panthos*

*whoooosh!!!*

The boy is completely dumbfounded when the two adventurers rushed towards each other and clashed.

Both bodies stops at the same time.

On the closer look, Shion's Plasma Sabre is piercing Panthos' chest.

".... HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

Shion shouts her loudest battle cry and raises her Plasma Blade just like what she did to the Sword Wolf using her Light Sabre before.

*swish!!*

Shion completely cut through Panthos' head from the bottom of his chest.

While Shion is still having both of her arms raised after her cutting Panthos' head, the colour of Panthos' eyes turns from pink to black.

*thud!*

Then the body falls to the ground and quickly forms a pool of blood around the corpse.

Shion's Plasma Blade disappears right after that, and Shion lets both of her arm down out of tiredness.

"*pant pant* serve.. you... right..."

*thud!*

"!?"

The boy was surprised when Shion suddenly falls to the ground with her back facing the ground. And she lost her consciousness right after that.

*End of interlude*

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