Alex’s Perspective

As Alex and Wendy were silently making their way downstairs, there were 2 people with their backs behind them, making it the perfect opportunity to grab them from behind and knock them out.

Putting them in a chokehold and knocking them out, they quickly tie them up and gag them. Alex saw a staircase down to a basement.

Quietly, Alex said to Wendy.

“Not what we plan, but I’m going to go down; you do the rest for this floor.”

Nodding yes, they split up. Wendy moves to clear the rest of the first floor, and Alex goes down to the basement.

The stairs were creaking despite Alex’s best attempt not to make too much noise.

When Alex was down, he saw a decent amount of weapons and armor stored in racks downstairs. Going further into the basement, Alex was really shocked when he discovered there were injured people tied up.

“Hey, are you all right?”

The people who noticed Alex was trying to speak to him, but due to the gag they had, they weren’t able to speak; they just gargled some noise desperately trying to tell him something.

As Alex tried to approach them to take the gag out, he felt that somebody was behind him. At the very last second, he blocked a sword strike from someone attacking him.

So that was what they were telling him. Alex thought to himself as he desperately tried to get the upper hand.

They exchange several sword swings, with Alex pushed back several times, causing boxes and barrels to fall over. Then the kidnapper shouts out loud that there are intruders in the building.

Nyx perspective

Hearing the noise, I wonder what is happening downstairs; either way, I’m kicking open the door.

Kicking the door open, and to my surprise, the young master, the Eudo guy was talking to, was somebody I recognized.

It was that noble douchebag who was berating Kinwall in his shop, Yulis Palning.

Seeing that douchebag made me surprised for the minuscules of moments, giving Eudo time to draw his sword from its sheath and swing at me with a quick draw.

I arched my back so I could get out of the way of his quick draw. Then I counter by swinging my sword at him. However, to my surprise, he blocks my sword with his metal arm guard and kicks me in the stomach, knocking me away.

He’s good; I was caught off guard, expecting him to be a pushover like the others, but he is surprisingly more skilled than the others. I smirk, thinking he would be a challenge; however, I also click my tongue when he tells his master to run.

Yulis began running like a scared coward, and I tried to stop him but was stopped by Eude, who got in the way.

I’m going to have to do something drastic to end this fast if I want to catch him.

Swinging my sword at him, we exchange swings where I dodge and deflect his swings and thrusts while he does the same.

I jumped on the desk to dodge one thrust of his sword; the room made it cramp to move around, which made it hard to end this fight quickly.

Swinging his sword again, it was a feint to draw me in, but I didn’t fall for it, so I jumped down from the desk to reposition myself behind the desk so I could get some room.

Suddenly a bright light was coming from the window that had a view of the backyard, which I’m guessing Lucia was stopping that noble douchebag from escaping by casting a firewall. Either way, I still got to catch him.

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Seeing what was going on out the window, he took his eyes off me for the slightest of moments, so taking out some spikes, I threw them all at him. However, he knocks all of them away with a single swing of his sword. My grin grew bigger seeing he could do something like that, but I reminded myself not to get too happy and to finish it as quickly as possible.

I moved to the right side of the room as he took another swing at me, and then I took out some more spikes to throw at him.

Again, he knocked them away with a single swing, which was what I wanted because it was time to do something drastic.

I ran up to him to get close to him, and I swung my sword. He swung down his sword in response, but I didn’t intend to swing at him; instead, I threw my sword at him with my right hand.

I took the hit with his sword as he swung it down at me; fortunately, my cloak, which was made out of the dire wolf fur, stopped his sword from cutting me, but I did feel the impact of it on my right shoulder.

That was going to leave a painful mark after this; however, it did make the perfect opening because I took my sheath with my left hand and a throwing knife on my right hand. I hit his head with the sheath and stabbed his right thigh with my knife, which was laced with the same paralyze and sleeping potion as my spikes, just after he swung his sword down.

I was knocked to the ground while he fell to the ground on his side. We both try to get up; it hurts a lot to get up, but I force myself to get up first. I swung at him again, and with the fast-acting paralyzing and sleeping potions starting to kick in, I knocked him out for good.

Not having the time to tie him up, I decided to stab him in the other leg to make sure he didn’t run away. I’m going through all this trouble because I didn’t want to kill anyone and gather them as evidence for the guards.

Running out the door and going downstairs, I saw that Wendy was fighting two of the Palning family's black knights. I threw my spikes at them with just my left arm because my right arm just took the blunt force of a sword swing, so I couldn’t use my right arm that much.

It gave an opening to knock those two out with her sheath sword. After they were knocked out, I asked her.

“Did you see their master running past by?”

“Yes, he ran out the back door with 2 other people.”

“We better go; where is Alex?”

As I said that, Alex ran up from a staircase; I’m guessing the basement. He looked like he fought someone, but there was no time to worry about that.

“We better start catching up.”

Alice perspective

As Alice, Chelsie, and Maria were looking over the building. She hoped Nyx’s plan was successful; however, she was getting the feeling that something was wrong.

Her fears are realized when she sees a person in aristocratic clothing and two people wearing all black running out the back door, and then a big fiery wall appears from the backyard in the alleyway.

Alice immediately recognized that it was Yulis Palning, and she realized it was him who sent those people after and killed her guards.

The reason she immediately recognized him was that she had encountered him in the past, and it did not go well because she had found him to be a filthy, perverted person, from whom she could get the feeling that she was being looked down upon due to Alice not having any magical powers.

In Alice's mind, it was he who killed all her guards who had given up their lives to protect her, so anger was nowhere near enough to describe her feelings right now.

Alice hoped that the wall of fire would burn him to a crisp. However, Yulis’s blonde hair, which is closer to yellow, started to glow green as he cut the wall of fire in half with a sloppily made wind spell, which was a blade of wind infused with his green mana.

Looking at what was going on, Alice told Chelsie and Maria.

“We got to go down there; they will escape.”

“Fine, I’m coming.”

Chelsie, saying yes to Alice's request, they jumped down as fast as they could and chased after Yulis.

As they were going down, Lucia’s spell, which had been cut in half, caused her to be surprised.

Lucia prided herself on her magic, but this was the first time she had fought another mage, especially a noble, who, in general, has much more mana than a commoner mage.

Lucia looked irritated by how her spell was cut in half, even more so when she saw how sloppy the spell he cast, so she prepared another spell, this time making it more powerful than before and with the intent to harm him.

Casting a fireball spell, she made a ball of fire, roughly one meter in size.

Seeing the big ball of fire, Yulis cast several wind blades and fired them at Lucia, stopping her from casting her spell.

Yulis and the two of the Palning family’s black knights began running. However, behind them on their tail was Chelsie, who shot off an arrow in an attempt to stop them.

It hit one of the men in black in the shoulder, who acted as a shield for Yulis, causing him to slow down and fall to the ground due to it being dipped in the same paralysis and sleeping potion Nyx was using.

They were about to turn a corner, but Alice came running from that corner and tackled Yulis to the ground, surprising him.

Seeing Alice tackle Yulis with deep rage shown on her face, Chelsie decided to shoot the other person in black and take care of him for Alice, so they tried to capture that bastard Yulis.