Chapter 9 A Wolf in sheep's clothing killed the three wicked pigs

At a certain place, two people were conversing, one standing in midair, the second was riding on one of the known evil dragons, the Crimson Dragon. The former was Levgard, while the latter was another agent of Immortal Skull, Dranhir.

"Dranhir, have you thought through my offer of cooperation? I know you want the National Treasure Grade Item, and I only want the Mystic Grade Skill Crystal. If we worked together, we can win this competition!" Levgard started as he observed no change of expression on the former's face.

Dranhir was the same expressionless bastard he knew. His Crimson Dragon snorted towards Levgard as hot red flame shoot out from its nostrils.

Levgard countenance turned dark as he shielded himself with white barrier. He glared coldly at the grinning Crimson Dragon and turned to Dranhir. "You should teach your pet lizard to be polite, Dranhir. If not, it will definitely die early!"

He turned around and snorted before he left. "Looks like you have no intention to team up with me. Then, I'll just ask others. Don't let that pet lizard of yours run anywhere. If I spotted it alone, I'll definitely kill it and eat it!"

Dranhir patted the Crimson Dragon gently and muttered with a smile of a greedy dragon. "Nicely done, Ruby. With you here, I don't need to team up with anyone. Those two rewards will be mine! And mine alone!"

He looked at west and his pupils shrunk like that of a snake. "Luqane Forest, eh? Let's play there for awhile, like ten years ago."

Ruby, the Crimson Dragon, growled and flew towards Luqane Forest, leaving trails of red flame behind.

Unaware of the coming disaster, the people in Ferlan Village continued on their daily lives. Three days had passed, after Amellia locked herself in her Alchemy Shop. Many people went to the Alchemy Shop to buy some potions, but they left in disappointment as they saw that the Alchemy Shop wasn't in business.

Lifiarda patiently awaited Amellia outside her shop and also guarding her in case something happened. She couldn't let her guard down as their opponent was the Immortal Skull and they might strike anytime when they least expected it.

Standing at the doorstep, Lifiarda felt that the door opened from the inside and saw Amellia wearing a dark blue hooded cloak. "Lia! At last you came out! Had you not came out any longer, I might have had destroyed your door!"

Amellia smirked and said. "If you did that, you'll definitely pay for it." She beckoned Lifiarda to come inside. "Anyway, come and help me with my things. I won't be able to come back for a long time, so I might as well take everything with me."

Lifiarda nodded and asked. "Alright. Have you decided when we will leave?"

"Yes, tonight. I'm going to talk to Uncle Leon before we leave. I have to leave a message for someone." Amellia said, slightly down. She pointed at the corner. "I'll entrust you with all of that. All of it would be helpful for us. Call your lackeys so they could help you."

"Wait! You'll just leave me here?!" Lifiarda asked as she stared at the huge piles of assorted things in disbelief. When she looked at Amellia, she already disappeared behind the door. "Ah that woman really left! How am I going to sort all these things? I don't even know some of them!"

Taking a deep breath, Amellia walked towards the next shop, five blocks away from her Alchemy Shop. At the top of the entrance, a sign could be seen, Black Steel Forge. The only place in the whole village where kitchen utensils, weapons and other necessities for daily life, all made of metals were created.

As it was the only smithy in the village, the place enjoyed a good reputation and endless flow of customers, from ordinary villagers to adventurers and the likes.

When the blacksmiths saw Amellia, all their eyes lit up and the sounds of metals colliding grew louder. She looked around and spotted the bulky old man with an average height for a human and long white beard resembling a dwarf. A Half Human-Half Dwarf.

Amellia smile to him and greeted. "Uncle Leon! Seems your business is flourishing!"

Leon was spouting some nonsense to an apprentice before him when he heard someone called his name. "Hmm?" A smile broke into his face and laughed. "Ahahaha! Little Girl! Why are you here? This place is quite smelly! Let's talk outside!"

But Amellia shook her head and rejected. "No need. I'm only here ask you to help me give this to Victor once he returns."

"Hmm... Alright. I'll make sure that he'll recieve this." Leon took the box from Amellia and asked. "Anything else? You're leaving right? Don't you have a farewell gift to me as well?"

"Of course, I won't forget about you Uncle Leon. You're like a true father to me after all." Amellia took out a bigger box from her Magic Storage Bag and put it on the ground. "It's quite heavy for me. I hope you like it."

"What's this?" Leon asked examining the huge box.

Amellia only smile mysteriously. "Open it!"

Leon ripped the box and the object inside revealed itself. He gasped at the sight before him and burst into laughter. "Hahaha! I like this! An Epic Grade Forging Hammer! Little Girl, this is the best farewell gift! I will definitely remember you whenever I'm looking at it!"

He grabbed the several thousands pound hammer with considerable size for forging and swung it in the air. All the apprentice watched in envy.

"I won't forget about you as well, Uncle Leon." Amellia smile and hugged Leon.

Leon ruffled her hair in return and sighed emotionally. "This Little Girl... I can still remember when you first came here. You're listless and distrustful. I wonder what you went through. But that's not important anymore. You're now different from that Little Girl. You're now a Big Girl! I hope you can visit me someday."

Amellia nodded before she left. "I will, for sure! Don't forget to give Victor the box, Uncle!"

"I won't! Take care, Little Girl!" Leon shouted at the entrance of his smithy, looking at Amellia's back.

When she disappeared in his sight, he entered his shop and saw the box for Victor. He sighed once again. "This Little Girl..."

Meanwhile, Victor and the elven girls were only two days away from Ferlan Village. They didn't hurry and even hunted monsters on the way. Amber would fight the monster as her training, while Victor would lured monsters and supervised the fight.

Currently, Amber was fighting with a goblin. Victor captured it at the nearby cave of goblins. He didn't killed them, and only captured one of them. Though, hundred of goblins would be a great sum of EXP, their level gap was quite huge, and thus, he lost interest in them.

Victor could somewhat understand goblin language and told to the goblin that if it could win, he'd let it choose any girl it fancied amongst the elven girls.

The goblin was quite unbelieving though, but it still complied as it knew that if it didn't, it would be killed. Victor gave it a short sword and long sword for Amber.

Seeing the valiant girl in front of it, the goblin turned to the other elven girls which made them cowered and hid behind Victor. When it saw Victor smile, it turned away hurriedly in fear and rushed to Amber.

Amber frowned as she saw the goblin charged at her. She confronted it with fastest sword slash she could muster and ended the fight instantly.

The goblin's head flew on the ground as its body fell with a thud. Amber sighed and smiled at Victor, waiting to be praised.

The girls came out behind Victor and cheered for Amber's win.

"Wow! Sister Amber is strong!"

"I want to be as strong as Sister Amber!"

"Then, you train as well!"

"But it's too tiresome. I better not..."

Awkwardness couldn't be felt between them anymore. Going through many dangers made them closer to each other as Victor kept protecting them again and again. They slowly opened up to Victor and wasn't shy anymore, but it sometimes gave him headache.

He took a deep breath and shook his head. "Okay, stop arguing. You'll end up scratching each other again." He turned to Amber and smile. "You did great, Amber. You can now become an Adventurer. You'll definitely pass the Strength Assessment Test that all aspiring Adventurers must go through and become an Iron Rank Adventurer."

"Iron Rank?" Amber asked. "What's that? Does Adventurers have ranks?"

Victor nodded as he walked and beckoned others to follow. "Come on. Let's continue onwards. I'll tell you on the way."

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The girls followed behind him and listened. "Adventurers are people that take missions, they do everything from Escorting, Subjugating and Collecting. In order to become a full-fledged Adventurer, one must underwent a Strength Assessment Test first. If you can't pass it, then you're not qualified as Adventurer. You'll be only throwing your life and the Adventurer's Guild won't let you tarnish their good reputation.

Once you passed the the Strength Assessment Test, you'll start as an Iron rank. Doing missions and completing them will give you points and it will increase your rank to Bronze Rank, following that are, Copper Rank, Silver rank, Gold Rank, Mithril rank and Adamantine Rank. The highest is the Dragon Rank. Someone that can take down a Dragon on his own."

"Wow! there are really many ranks!" Daisy exclaimed.

"T-Then, what rank are you, Victor?" Shyli asked bashfully.

"Me? I'm not an Adventurer. I'm a Hunter. I only hunt monsters and sell them to people for money and I like this way of life. But if you're asking how strong I am, I might be as strong as an Silver Rank." Victor said casually.

"You can't defeat Dragons? B-But you can kill that big and fat monster from before, and those bad wolves! You're super strong!" Lola firmly believe.

Victor smile at her and shook his head. "Well. I'm still not that strong, but I can become stronger. In the future, I can surely defeat a Dragon as well!"

"Right! I definitely believe, Victor!" Daisy shouted.

"I, too believe Victor as well!"

"Me too!"

"Victor is the strongest!"

Suddenly, a several shadows descended before them. Victor stopped the girls took out his Cirulas Long Bow.

"Hehehe! What beautiful ladies you have there, young man!" Said, a fat man with a lecherous smile, a scar over his face and holding a war axe. He licked his lips and said. "Why don't you give me one- no! All of them! Give me all of them and you can leave with your life!"

Another fat man stepped forward, holding two daggers on his both hands and said. "Young man, this is no robbery. No hard feelings. We're only doing our job."

A fat man in lavish robe came from behind the two men and eyed the girls. He smiled wickedly and laughed. "Kukuku! Those stupid goblins did a very good deed! Luckily, I've found you before you manage to contact someone. Kid, since I'm in a good mood today, I'll give you two choices; either return those slaves them back to me on your own and spend your life serving, at least you'll live or die here!"

Victor was no idiot. By the words he heard from these people, they seemed have had a hand in capturing the girls from the elven village they lived in. The goblins he killed were just unlucky to have met a hunting group of Orcs. With Orc's high libido, they were attracted by the female elves and thus attacked the group of goblins.

He coincidently happened to passed by at that very time of the day and saved the girls out of pure good will. These people might have had gotten the trails they left behind and tracked them. It could be said partly due to Victor's fault for not thinking that a group of goblins couldn't have had kidnapped the elven girls for the use of breeding, but instead ordered by someone.

Goblins were stupid monsters after all. Although, Hobgoblins were pretty smart, they weren't that smart and brave to kidnap a group of female elves from a guarded elven village with only a small number. They must've accomplices within the elven village.

"What do you mean? I saved these girls from a group of goblins and orcs. Furthermore, slavery is forbidden in Illunar Kingdom. Once the authorities know this, you'll spend your remaining life in prison!" Victor said, acting afraid and without knowledge.

The fat man held his bulging belly and laughed. Complacency brimming on his face. For him, Victor was already a rabbit caught in trap, he had no places to escape. "So you've chosen the latter... Kukuku! Since you'll die anyway, I'll enlighten you. Those slaves behind you have already been bought by me with a very high price which made them automatically my properties! Those goblins are my slaves as well, only disposables! For them to fail to bring the goods to me, I must thank you for doing the for killing them."

Victor frowned and whispered. "Amber, once I attack, go and escape to the forest. I'll take care of them."

Amber's face was pale. "But..."

"Wuwuwu! Victor don't leave us!"

"Victor, w-we won't escape alone!"

"Right! We won't leave you alone!"

"Don't worry about me, I'll be okay. Just escape and hide yourselves far away here. I'll come and find you after I'm done with them." Victor reassured them solemnly.

"How touching!" The fat man frowned and sneered. "Going to escape? Caras, Toru, no need to talk, just kill him! leave the slaves to me!"

Caras, the dagger wielding man and Toru, the one with war axe, both rushed towards him with intention to kill. A Thief and a Warrior that had gone through their new job selection at Level 50. Caras was Level 52, while Toru was Level 50

There were only 25 arrows left in the quiver after Victor pulled out two arrows and mounted them on his [Cirulas Long Bow]. Using Analysis, he found out that the fat man was actually a Level 45 Mage, specialized in Water Magic.

Releasing the the string, Victor shouted. "Run!"

Though, two arrows whistled through the air, another two pairs shoot out without consuming another arrow. It was due to the Triple Shot, a skill the triples any projectiles that were shot or thrown and followed the same trajectory wirh the same amount of force and power.

The axe man roared and shielded himself with his war axe, while his skin shone with white light as he charged forward.

Clang! Clang! Clang! "

"Argh!" Toru grunted as he was pushed back. He never expected that a thin man like Victor could unleashed powerful arrows.

The same arrows flew at Caras, but unlike the all brawn brain Toru, he knew how strong the arrows as his eyes narrowed and he vanished in sight. Victor was not surprised at that as he was a Thief, with Assassin as his Second Job. They were people that were good at concealment and killing in one hit.

However, Caras have had just acquired his Second Job and still wasn't proficient in using his concealment skill. Thus, Victor found him easily through his scent.

[Power Up]! [Physique Up]! [Dexterity Up]!

Victor shoot another two arrows, targeting the running fat man intending to stop him from pursuing the fleeing girls.

[Power Shot]! Two powerful arrows flew to the air as though a pair of beam of light.

Swoosh! The fat man saw the arrows and felt a dangerous vibe. He shouted in panic. "[Water Shield]! [Water Shield]! [Water Shield]!"

Three layers of [Water Shield] enveloped the fat man from the two arrows. Two layers was destroyed, while the last layer was punctured through and superficially wounded the fat man. His shoulder bled as he squealed. "Ahh! It hurts! You two! What are you doing?! Kill him! Kill him! I want him dead!"

Victor sensed something behind as crouched down and swept his leg. Caras suddenly appeared behind him with a dagger and got tripped forcefully. He jumped back and shoot three consecutive arrows at Caras that fell on the ground.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Caras rolled back and evaded the arrows as she vanished once again.

Victor, then turned to the incoming war axe and side stepped, swiftly dodged being hacked. The war axe hit the ground and....

Booom!

Propelled by the force, Victor jumped away and shoot an arrow at Toru that was completely defenseless after his failed attack.

[Power Shot]!

An arrow flew at lightning speed and struck Toru at the back of his spine, directly through his heart and chest. He coughed up blood and groaned. "Ughh!"

When Victor landed on the ground he looked around and his face darkened as he hadn't found thefat man. He tapped his boots on the ground as his speed increased and his body was covered by orange light. The moment Caras appeared behind Victor again, he disappeared in his sight like a ghost.

Caras was alarmed anf thought that Victor was also an Assassin like him and not an Archer or an Hunter and more proficient in using the concealment skill, [Assasinate].

Immediately, Caras used [Assassinate] and vanished in thin air, but before he could move, an arrow penetrated his heart and another through his skull. Caras died instantly, while his partner Toru was still hanging by hairsbreath.

Victor ended Toru's suffering by shooting an arrow through his skull and left to track the girls before the fat man.

Not far away, the girls were being cornered by the fat man. The wound on his shoulder have healed already after he had drank vial of [Recovery Potion]. "Hehehe... I admit. That hunter is good. For the likes of him to inflict wound on me, he is truly good, but that's all! He is definitely dead by now! It means, no one will be able to help you!"

The girls were crying and cowering in fear.

"No! Victor is not dead!"

"He'll come and save us! He'll beat you to death! You stinky ugly fatty!"

The fat man flinched as he saw Amber determinedly pointed her long sword at him. His face darkened as the fat on his face trembled. "How dare a slave like you point your weapon at me! I'll show you how I punish bitches like you!"

"[Water Rope]!" A long rope made of water congealed on his hand and whipped Amber.

Amber was no longer an ordinary elven girl. Though, she only train with Victor for a few days, it was enough for her to fight. At the very least, she could evade attacks the fat man could unleashed and bought time, for she believed that Victor would come to save them yet again.

"Arghh! Stay still, you bitch!" The fat man disgruntled in anger as he saw Amber clumsily continuously dodged his Water Rope. "I had enough! [Water Ball!]"

"Kuhk! Ugh!" Amber cried as the Water Ball hit her on the shoulder. Her long sword fell from her hands as she was blasted to a tree due to the impact.

Badly hurt from the attacks, Amber crawled up. The fat man didn't stopped as he smile wickedly and conjured a Water Rope again. He whipped Amber on behind that pushed her back on the ground.

"Elder Sister Amber!"

The girls ran at the fat man and punched him, but they were only hurt and whipped away. "Kekeke! That's what you got from going against me! You slave bitches!"

"Wuwuwu! Victor, Brother Victor where are you?!"

"Victor, wuwuwu! Help us!"

"Kuahaha! A dead man won't hear your plea!" The fat man kicked Amber on the stomach and pulled her hair up. "Hmm... You're quite pretty. But I don't like your attitude. Disobedient slaves like you only have one end. Death!"

Amber felt her her neck being gripped tightly, and her air ways clogged as she choked and coughed. She grabbed the arms and clawed them to break free, but her strength wasn't enough. Unable to breathe, her face turned red as tears trickled down her cheeks.

She muttered and closed her eyes. "Vic... tor..."

Then suddenly, Amber could breathe again. Her force squeezing her throat disappeared as she coughed and gasped for air. She heard the fat man spoke, stuttering in fear and disbelief.

"I-impossible! Y-You! Why are you still alive?! You should have died! No! That's not possible!"

Then, a familiar voice answered. "Nothing is impossible. I admit, those two were quite strong, but I'm stronger."

"V-Victor..." Amber muttered as she smile, before fainting.

The other girls had long fainted from being whipped and Amber was the last person awake. Victor's voice echoed in the fat man's ears, devoid of emotions. "You hurt my friends and almost killed one of them. For that, I'll return everything you inflicted to them a hundred fold!"

"Hii! Wai-! Ugh!" The fat man flew as his face was smashed. His several hundred boy kilogram body was blown away by a single fist. His nose and several teeth broke.

"You! I'm a member of Three Eyes Congress! If you kill me, they'll definitely make your life miser-! Ughh!" Victor kicked him as he flew to another tree, leaves fell along with him.

"W-Wait! We can talk this out!" The fat man no longer have his haughty attitude.

Walking up to the fat man, Victor grabbed the long sword on ground and slashed the fat man. "Ahhhh! Haa!!! It hurts! It hurts!"

The fat man squealed like a pig as he flailed on the ground with his left hand missing and bleeding. Snots and tears rained down his face. "Please! Stop! Don't kill me! I'll do anything! I'll give you everything!"

Victor sneered coldly. "I don't need your everything, or I'm afraid of your so called congress. I'll make sure to torture you until you begged me to kill you! Don't blame me for killing you. Blame yourself. If you hadn't tracked and attack us, you might have had lived for more years. But to bad! You bump to a wrong person!!"

"Hii! No! No! Don't come over! Ahhh!" The fat man screamed in fear.

With the girls unconscious, Victor tortured the fat man thoroughly until he died of blood lost. Victor hated people like the fat man, not because they did someone to him in the past. Selfishness, greedy and wicked, people like them were no different to a monster- no, they were much worse than monsters.

But that's how the world worked. The strong prey on the weak. It was his reason for hunting monsters stronger than him.