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A few moments later, I and with my two roommates have managed to gather a few baskets with apples and pears. And when we did that, Ulfred was putting all the baskets into one single place, and he leaves this area because he is going after a carriage. This too much quantity to carry an in a single wheelbarrow to the secret house.

While Ulfred was gone from this area, I and with Garnet are sitting on the shadow of a tree and wait for Ulfred to come with the carriage. While we were waiting for the carriage, we talked about the family of Garnet.

"You have ever wondered why your family kept this much alive?" I asked her.

"Honestly, at first I thought it is about my brain, but as it turns out, they used me as an experiment to test some weird potions on me." says Garnet feeling uneasy.

"I'm sorry to ask this question."

"D-Don't apologize." says Garnet toward me. "You know, I was always wondered about your family. What is it like?"

"Who you wanted to talk about?"

"Your uncle and aunt."

"Oh them. well, they are nice people. They gifted me the staff on my first meeting with them, which was in the middle of warfare."

"Cool." says Garnet. "But, have you ever tried to attack them?"

"No. Why I would do that?"

"What if they aren't from your family bloodline?"

"... Um..." then, a spike was flaying towards my direction, and luckily I managed to doge that spike at the last second. "What the hell?"

"I missed." says a guy in a blue hoodie coming with a hand spike from the trees.

Garnet and I are quickly getting up on our feet and prepare to defend. I look a moment at Garnet, and I saw her running behind the tree, while I take out my dagger and prepare for a disadvantageous battle. The man is probably having sharp things who might be able to kill me in this instant, or worse, poisonous blades who can be cured by only Vewolf saliva, and the only person I knew who is Vewolf it is Fiona, and she is at a very far distance from me and is fighting against the bad guys who are trying to take the crown of this kingdom and put the king down.

While I was looking careful at the man in a blue hoodie, I was also preparing in a defensive mode from every attack that can be launched against me. The blade I am holding it is the one I preferably used when I wanted to turn on my battle skill in order to defend a few comrades from the knighthood or in case I run out of mana. But this skill, will became much more powerful since I haven't used any of my mana capacity earlier or on this entire morning.

The man in a blue hoodie is taking out the hood who's covering his face. I can see the man face and I have seen has made me feel uneasy cause this person I am about to fight has a lot of small pikes on his face, green eyes and red pupils. He is aiming his left hand and I look at it how it is transforming into a spike.

That spike man shoots the spike toward me, but I managed to dodge it by jumping into the left direction. And when I did that, I start to run toward the man with my dagger. That man tried to shoot a few small spikes toward me, but I managed to dodge a few, but took only two of them, who hits left hand, and luckily, on this hand I am not holding my dagger. But it still hurts, and the worst part about this, is that I cannot use the healing spell on myself. Sometimes, this magic system doesn't have any sense at all.

After I run a few feet close to that man in blue hood, I tried to stab the man a few times, but he dodged the hits like it was nothing. Then, I managed to do a hit to him, but when my dagger touched his skin, it didn't do anything to him, in fact the dagger wasn't able to penetrate his rock and solid skin, or the armour is wearing. Why this assassin who is having a hard skin made out of literally rock, has to wear an armour from knights? It almost makes no sense.

I jumped a few feet back, and I asked the man before I try to another attack.

"What do you what from us?"

"I want to take the girl you are holding as a hostage." says the man wearing a blue hoodie.

"I will not give it to you."

"Now this is a bad news, because I wanted to go easy on you, newbie."

The man in a blue hoodie, takes out his oversized hoodie, only to reveal his upper body and a pair of pants to cover his men's jewellery, if this type of human has the man's genitals who are used for... you know... taking out the dumps. Then, the assassin is creating a huge blade out of his right hand, and he aims it at me. Then, he charges toward me, not leaving me a single way to dodge the blade, not even able to try and defend myself from this attack.

While the assassin was approaching faster with his enormous blade, my thoughts about the life I had for now at this village came into my mind. I had some good memories for the following days with my group of friends. Then, the memories of Fiona and the other squires from the capital invaded my head and this made feeling sad cause now I will not be able to feel again, and this gave me the motivation to prepare for an attack. But, as soon as the assassin approached me, everything has stopped for a brief of moment, then, on the next second something bizarre has happened to the place. The assassin was thrown away a few meters, with his arm sword shattered. I looked everywhere to see what is happening, and I saw Garnet on the left side of me, who is having her hands glowing a blue and green light.

"You do not know I have a battle skill?" asks Garnet going to the left side of me.

"You didn't even mention, but such as a good time because I will need every help I can get to defend this man." I informed her while we are looking at the assassin who's getting up, and he transforms his arm into a normal one for this man's kind.

"His name is Cirpianus." says Garnet. "Be careful, this man it is truly tough, but not as tough as the others."

"Got it." I say to Garnet before we were about to charge to that assassin and attack this man by suing our powers we have at this moment.