"Hah hah hah..." (Jack)
The four adventures and 5 champions (and a lizard) were panting heavily. They ran through the forest at neckbreaking speed, literally. The path they took were full of corpses of monster. Some were freezed like ice statues. Some were scorched to death with their body blacken beyond regconition. Well, a large patch of forest was burned along with them, but it wasn't important. Some were stabbed or hung by trees's braches or roots. Some worse cases had their bodies smashed to bloody pulps by something really heavy. However, much much more corpses had their heads separated from their body so cleanly that not even a drop of blood flowed out. A sences cut straight out of hell was the common opinion of everyone. The culprits of this hell were no where insight, only a reallllly angry Sandra sat on a rock with little Nami on her laps shrinking pitifully like a frighten small animal. The reason was Sandra who was emmiting the 'talk to me and you'll die' aura. Not that a certain champion can read her facial expression anyway.
"So where's the other?" (Lee Sin)
"They lost" (Sandra)
"What?" (Lee Sin)
"I said they got lost" (Sandra)
*BOOOM*
An impressive power bust out from her body, not the deadly kind but pure mana. Even though she can't use it efficiently yet as controlling wasn't her field of expertise, her overwhelming amout of mana surely can make some knees bend.
"Those idiots don't even know the way and they just run like mad" (Sandra)
'Didn't you also follow them?' Was everyone common thought but no one dared to utter a peep.
"Soooo, where did they go?" (Jinx)
"That way" (Sandra)
She pointed to the North West direction. It was obvious as the carnage of destruction and burning forest can be seen miles away.
"What do we do now?" (Karma)
"Just call them back then. I have a spell that can amplified your voice but I'm not sure my mana is enough to reach that far" (Tilea)
"Use mine" (Sandra)
"Ok. ■●■○■■ [Lound Voice]" (Tilea)
Tilea touched Sandra shoulder and chanted in some unknow language. Sandra can feel a small almost unnoticeable foreign power touch her mana pool but she didn't resist.
"Ok. You can speak now" (Tilea)
Sandra took in a deep breath and then
"YOU BETTER GET BACK HERE RIGHT THIS INSTANCE OR ELSE YOU ARE ALL DEAD YOU HEAR MEEEEEE" (Sandra)
A voice was like thousand of thunders roaring at the same time that shockwave was generated from that alone. The 4km far away father and children stopped right on their track shudder in fear. That voice contained pressure and rage so immense that even the monsters ran for their life through out the forest. The poor adventures and champions all fainted on the spot. It was a miracle that theirs ear-drum were still intact.
The first one to come back was as expected Shen. He cover over 4km distance in less than a second.
*Bong*
You know what happend.
Then next was Luxus, he changed his body into lightning and flashed back as much fast. However, no matter how fast, he can't avoid Sandra's fist descended on his head. Next was Dante 40 seconds later, of course the same fate. One by one they came back and earned a fist to the head. Little Nami had already been caught long ago on her way. She was much faster than normal people due to her bloodline but compared to the rest of her family, she was truly just an adorable toddle.
"Alright then. Would you please lead the way" (Sandra)
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Sandra turned around only to see the unconscious adventures.
"Sigh" (Sandra)
-After a small eternity-
"Are we there yet?" (Jinx)
"Almost. Behind that hill over there is the Piggen city" (Jack)
"Funny name" (Dante)
"The city is named after its rulling house for generations. The Baron Pigge family, dear young master" (Trean)
"Piggy?" (Nami)
"It's Pigge, little one. If ya call them Piggy they will put ya to jail no matter you are a child or adult" (Jack)
"Piggy. Papa Piggy back" (Nami)
"Ok. Come to papa" (Shen)
"Hah, don't say I didn't warn you" (Jack)
"Let's hurry up. It's almost dark" (Shen)
The group quickly crossed the hill and appeared before them was a huge medival fortress. It had two thick layers of walls more than 20m talls. The walls were littered with hundreds cannons and balistars enough to turn a cyclop into meat paste in seconds. It was necessary though cause it was so close to one of the most dangerous monster habitat in the world. From top of the hill, everyone can barely take a glimpes at the city scape beyond the wall.
"That's one big wall they got there. It might take more than a week for the old me to take it down" (Shen)
"What are you talking about? Those walls are reinforced with magic. They can even stand a dragon breath without even a scratch. It used to endure a 3 months siege from a force of a hundred thousand soldiers and still stand tall " (Hilda)
"Two weeks then" (Shen)
"????"
They didn't know that he used to command more than a milion men to take down 5 similiar fortresses in less than a month. 2 weeks was in considerate for the use of magic. Well, that was the 'old him', now he can probably bring it down all by himself with some careful planning and strategy. Or he can just let Sandra wipe it out with a flick. Not that he had any reason to do so, not yet.
"Hurry up folks. We are closing the gate" (Guard)
The guard were performing some final check before shutting down then a group of 19 people approached. He shouted for them to go in without bodered to check when he saw children in the group. On a closer look, he found some really suspicous individuals among them, for example a blue skin tatoo ridden guy, somekind of animal on top of a big lizard, a girl hoding some dangerous-looking firearm. He also saw some familiar faces there, the Loki pranksters.
"Halt. Who are you?" (Guard)
"Hey, how ya going, Deon? They are with us. No one suspicous really" (Jack)
"Hey Jack. Sorry dude but have you gone blind. Look at that. I can overlook a heavy armed teenager but no matter how I see it, a blue guys, and a weasel on a lizard is clearly not normal" (Deon)
"Hey, who are yer calling a weasel. I'm gonna reap those eyes of ya 'cause yer ain't using 'em" (Kled)
"Wow, calm down. Leme do the talkin'" (Jack)
"Let go of me. I'm gonna murder you to death. Skaarl, prepare for a charge" (Kled)
"Gelrfffff?" (Skaarl)
"No you dumb lizard. It's that way. THAT WAY" (Kled)
"..... Anyway, the blue skin one is a mage. He got that skin colour from an accident and that crazy little one over there is a race called yordle. Don't ask me where they come from" (Jack)
"HEY, I HEARD THAT" (Kled)
"And these folks?" (Deon)
"Ah, I think that guy over there is a noble. That's his sister and those kids are his children. The other five maybe are their body guards" (Jack)
"And why are they in a place like this" (Deon)
"Dunno. A picnic?" (Jack)
"In that forest. Are they insane?" (Deon)
"Don't be fool by their appearance. The guards are probably as strong as A rank adventures. But the true monsters are the family. Even that little girl there can kill a cyclop with ease. And the sister, you better not make her angry or this city is done for" (Jack)
Jack shudder when he remembered that terrifying preasure.
"You're joking right? I won't believe you, you know? You're way too famous for fooling people" (Deon)
"Believe it or not is up to ya. Just tell me 'fore you touch her nerve. Make that two days ahead. That should be enough to flee from her" (Jack)
"Ok ok. 15 silvers and they can go in. Just make sure they won't make a mess in there" (Deon)
"Got it bro" (Jack)
"Oi, you guys. We are in. Gimme 15 silvers for the fee" (Jack)
"Ah yeah, about that....." (Shen)
"Hm?" (Jack)
"We don't have any coin on us at the moment" (Shen)
"Hey, you sure he's a noble?" (Deon)
Whispered Deon, though he had some doubt, he didn't want to accidently mess with a noble, not after what Jack had told him.
"It's alright milord. I will pay for you" (Trean)
"No no, I can't trouble you like this. Hey guard, do you take gold?" (Shen)
"Yes, we do take gold coin" (Deon)
"Then how about pure gold" (Shen)
"Huh?" (Deon)
"Here, keep the change" (Shen)
Shen tossed a gold lump the size of a fist like it was just pebble on the road side.
"Is this real? Yep, it's real. Wait milord, we can't take this much gold. I will loose my job if my boss found out. How about this. I will lend you 15 silvers this time. You can sell this then you can repay me anytime. Alright?" (Deon)
"Well, fine by me. I will pay it back later, don't worry" (Shen)
In fact, the guard wasn's lying when he said he will loose his job as Baron Pigge was a man full of greed and envy. If he found out some random guard got such a fortune, he would cut his head off. He can't run away with it either as pure gold sure were valueable but not enough to support a new life. He still had his family to feed.
When the family got in, a nostalgia scenery filled their eyes, a medival city scape. The era Shen live in was not exactly medival but more like roman era but that beside the point. The buzzing evening market, house make out of stone and brick, plain clothes normal folks, it was so familiar. It was only just 3 years since they last saw this sence. Memories flashed back to the older member of the family. Suddenly, immense bloodlust flooded the surrounding. The nearby folks turned stiff, some fainted right away, even the veterean found it hard to breath.
"Shen....." (Sandra)
"Ah sorry" (Shen)
Yes, the bloodlust came from Shen, the imagine of his wife death played over and over again in his mind. The pain, the suffering surged up like tidal wave. 3 years was not enough for him to forget, even eternity will not be enough.
"Old man....." (Luxus)
"Sob" (Anna)
"Anny, don't cry. There there, it alright" (Nami)
"C'mon. She won't be happy if she see you guys like this. Straight it up" (Sandra)
Although her words were tough, her red eyes exposed her pain like the rest of the family.
"Ok. Sobbing time's over. Let's find an inn" (Shen)
The group then moved to jewelry shop to exchange the lump of gold to money. They didn't want to attract unecessery attention so they only exchange two lumps or else they can make a whole house with gold if they want to. One lump net to more than 500 gold coins as pure gold were way more precious than normal gold. Pure gold were main ingredients in both magical enhancement and alchemy. However, under the bargain talent of Sandra, they got a whooping amount of 1500g. The shop owner cried tear of blood that day.
Then they found an inn called Boar and Cousin. This was a highclass inn which only rich merchant and noble dared to stay. If not so it would be destroyed long ago because of its name. A boar's cousin was clearly a pig. Pig and piggy were taboo words in this city. The folks had to call their pig as bacon.
Anyway, they rent 5 rooms, 3 people each, Skaarl slept in the barn, and the adventures went back to their own inn. They had dinner at the inn's restaurant then everyone went back to their room.
So a long day had passed and everyone was too mentally tired that they sleep like a log until the morning