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Chapter 9 : Trasks Attack On The Port (UNEDITTED)
Part 1
“So, where are we heading now? We only have less than 50 minutes before the ship depart again.”
Well, though I believe captain Juan won’t dare to leave without us or any other noble brats, at most maybe will only made him pissed off, but still I don’t want everyone think I am a spoiled noble kid who does as I please.
“Hmm we didn’t really think anywhere else except for the tailor shop…”Cecil put a thoughtful expression on her face and continued “Let’s just wander around and see if we can find something interesting being sold.”
Wandering around in the crowd while assassin is lurking around waiting for a chance to attack…
Oh how bold of me.
Well I don’t really mind it though, I am kinda looking forward for whoever that assassin to attack me.
Huhuhu this is really exciting.
Hey wait, why exciting? Did I turne into an M!? Since when did my personality become twisted like this!?
Nononono I am not an M! I am just looking forward to fight the assassin! This must be because of that old hag, fighting with numerous monsters in the mountain must have turned me into a battle maniac!
That damn old hag!
I quickly shook my head, trying to brush off those thought out of my mind. “Sigh, Alright.”
We wandered aimlessly through the market place, stopping at a few food stalls that sell some traditional local foods I never saw before, though I didn’t buy any of them and just saw the girls ate them with envy in my eyes.
I really hate this curse…
A few accessory merchants called out to us and tried to sell their wares, I didn’t really have a fancy with accessories, so I couldn’t appraise whether they were good or bad, but in the eyes of an amateur like myself, most of their wares were made from good material and crafted beautifully.
And as expected of merchants, whether they were in my previous world or in this world, when they saw our nice clothes made of a good quality materials, in an instant they knew we were loaded with money and tried to give us a rip-off price on their wares.
I ushered the girls to visit some other stores when we met such a merchant.
Well, in the end this was kinda good way to relax and relieve some stress for the girls. No wonder though, one full month trapped on the ship without anything to do must have made them bored to death.
Should I teach them magic?
They can spend their time on training.
With that they won’t feel bored and won’t bother me when I work.
Hmm good idea, let’s just do that.
After spending the rest of our time wandering around in the market place, we went back to the port, when we were on our way there, we saw many people running from the port toward the city. All of them were in panic and fear was pictured on their face.
“Something must have happened in the port.” I muttered to myself and turned my gaze towards the other girls, it seemed Cecil and Melisa also felt something was wrong, their expression turned serious ready for battle. Meanwhile Restia looked clueless as she tilted her head.
“Bring any weapon?” I asked the two maids.
Both of them nodded as their answer and out of nowhere a short sword and a pair of daggers appeared on their hands, the short sword for Cecil and the daggers for Melisa.
“Melisa, just protect your mistress, I and Cecil will take care of the rest. Let’s go.”
After Melisa nodded in agreement, I took a sword from my ring, an enchanted sword which I obtained from the treasure room in one of the dungeons in Galabas Mountain.
This sword was a very rare weapon enchanted with fire, holy, sharpness, and fortification, each of them were quite powerful. If I were to sell it in the auction hall in Agatha City, probably I would get tens of thousands of gold.
We darted to the port slipping through the panicking people, as soon as we reached the port we were greeted by the scenery of a battlefield.
City guards helped by adventurers were fighting against dozens of monsters that looked like Turtle combined with Rhinoceros, height about 145 cm, turtle shell on their backs, standing with two bulky legs, head of a rhinoceros, four sharp claws like fingers on each limbs.
In an instant I recognized those monsters
“Trask!”
I am really confused now.
Despite their scary look that capable of making any children cry and wet their pants, Trask was a peace loving monsters that usually lived on the river side far away from any human settlement.
What the hell is going on here!?
Why all these Trasks suddenly attacking the port?
I turned my gaze toward the river and saw many Trasks were heading toward the port.
Damn it! They are still increasing!
At this rate the city will be overrun by these Trasks!
This is too abnormal.
Something or someone must have caused all of this.
“Cecil! Catch this!”
I threw my enchanted sword to Cecil and with incredible dexterity she caught the sword on its hilt while it was still in mid air. As soon as she caught it, in reflex she swung it a few times.
“Wow this sword is amazing…” commented Cecil in awe.
“Use that sword, a normal sword like yours won’t do much against them.”
These Trasks have a very high defense, magic resistance and unbelievable strength.
Normal metal like iron, steel or silver can’t really pass through their defense.
That’s why the city guards who used weapons made of these metals, and low rank adventurers who can’t afford weapons made of high grade metals, are having a hard time defeating even a single Trask.
No wonder the adventurer guild included the Trask on a rank B difficulty monster.
But it’s not they didn’t have any weakness.
They are weak against fire and lightning based attacks.
Moreover they are slow which make their attacks easy to be evaded.
That’s why the city guards and adventurers haven’t died yet, even though they are overwhelmed by the Trasks.
At most they get small injury here and there.
“You can admire that sword as much as you want later! Go help the city guards evacuate the civilian! I will check the ship!”
Without hearing her answer, I dashed toward where our ship, Armored Turtle was docked. With my full speed it only took me a few seconds to cover the distance between where we were to the dock area.
Our ship was overridden by the Trasks, the crew along with the adventurers that were hired to protect the ship, were trying to clean the path out of the ship,
it seemed they wanted to evacuate the passengers into the city, but they were outnumbered by the the Trasks that kept climbing onto the ship from the water.
I glanced at the other ships that were docked near Armored Turtle and found they were also in the same situation.
What a pain.
I can just use my magic to wipe out all of them in an instant.
But I am sure I will also kill everyone in the port along with the Trasks.
Meh can’t be helped.
I have to do this the hard way.
Cut them one by one.
But I have to be fast
Or else many people will die.
This is maybe a good time to use them.
Since I bought them from William or should I call him Harris now. I never really have a chance to use them.
Those equipments will boost my speed by 400%.
With that much speed I doubt even the old hag is able to match me.
With a single thought of wanting to equip the entire set of armor, in an instant a full set of white Valkyrie armor materialized itself on my body replacing my entire clothes. I also materialized the long sword from the sky knight series on my right hand.
Let’s start!
Part 2
On one of the rooftop of the buildings in the port, an invisible man was standing watching the battlefield that was occurring all over the port district.
He was particularly observing a girl with blond hair, with incredible speed which the man barely able to follow and could only saw a blur, the girl was charging straight towards the dock where many ships were being attacked by the Trasks.
“Fast… as expected of Seven Stars Sword Style, always concentrating on speed…” Commented the man.
The invisible man was Tenny.
As soon as he got the information that Armored Turtle had docked on the port by one of his informan, he immediately move to observe his target.
He found his target was on her way to the market place, he hide himself as he watched the girl every movements looking for any weakness, habit, or any kind of information that could help him to complete his mission.
Though he knew there was only a little chance of him getting any useful information considering the limited amount of time he had, but still he wouldn’t give up even if there was only one percent chance.
He also tried to quietly approach the girl to test her ability, and maybe assassinate her if there was an opening he could use, but as expected of an Emperor rank swordsman, when Tenny approached the girl as soon as she exited the tailor shop, she immediately notice his presence.
Thankfully he used one of that thing abilities to make himself invisible, so the girl couldn’t find his location.
But all of that had changed, he didn’t know why nor did he care, he intended to fully take advantage of the Trasks attacked on the port to gather as much information as possible.
“!!?”
Tenny exclaimed in surprise as he saw the girl suddenly disappeared.
When he watched the girl charging toward a large galleon ship,which he guessed Armored Turtle, the girl suddenly glowed for a moment and then she disappeared from his view.
He tried to look for the girl, but he couldn’t find her even her shadow, the only thing he found was a strange phenomenon that happened on the Armored Turtle.
All the Trasks which were attacking that ship along with the people onboard, one by one, almost at the same time were cut in half.
A moment later the girl that he was looking for, appeared out of nowhere standing next to a bulky man who almost jumped backward in surprise while pointing his sword at her.
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His eyes widened as he noticed that the girl clothes had changed into a white female armor.
“Cyber Armor!?… Commander, you never told me she is an Arolder.” Tenny grimaced as he shook his head in displeased.
Arolder was the name given to a very few people who were able to use Artifact from the ancient civilization.
These Artifacts were very powerful items, mostly weapon and armor, were very powerful and had their own egos who choso their own Arolder.
That was why for every kingdoms and empires, Arolders were highly sought because of their value as military assets. Just like an emperor or god rank of magic or martial arts, Arolder also had the power to change the result of a war.
The Vakyrie armor that Ariel wore right now was created by Harris based on Cyber Armor which was categorized as Artifact, so even though it wasn’t compete yet, the Valkyrie armor Ariel wore was also can be categorized as an Artifact..
As for how did Tenny know about Ariel’s armor was a cyber armor, it was because he was also an Arolder, and his Artifaact’s ego was the one who told him about Ariel’s armor.
The thing that Marco, the scar faced man, had permitted him to use was his Artifact, a cyber armor just like Ariel’s but with different special abilities, which one of them was he was using right now, the ability to make himself invisible.
His cyber armor was a bit special compared with the other, its abilities were mostly more suited for spy/assassin based job rather than straight combat. With its abilities he even could assassinate a king in hisown chamber without anyone noticing it if he wanted to, because of that Helios Empire valued him more than other Arolders.
Though he had to be very careful not to let anyone knew about its existence, after all Arolder was not an invincible being, if Helios empire enemies were to find out about it, he would regard him as a very dangerous person and would most likely hunted him down at all cost, that was why he was restricted not to use it without permission of his superior.
“This’s gonna be one hell of a mission…” Tenny muttered as he grimaced knowing the success rate of his mission had gone down to the extreme.
Part 3
With one strong kicked to the ground, I launched myself towards the Trasks that were attacking Armored Turtle.
This armor is really awesome!
I never move this fast before.
Everything in around me seems to have stopped moving.
It feels as if I have entered a different world.
It’s very hard to notice if someone is moving..
No one but I myself can move freely in this world.
My first target is any Trasks blocking the path out of the ship.
I should try fighting that old hag with this armor.
I find only there are only three Trasks who block the path.
They are fighting with a party of adventurers trying to get them out of the way.
Huhuhu I am sure I can beat her with ease.
No, I should stop this now.
I have to concentrate on dealing with the problem in front of me first.
I got my focus back and began to scanned the area around the Armored turtle.
On the stairs which connecting Armored Turtle deck and the dock, stood a party of 6 adventurers, a balanced party with 2 swordsman, 1 knight, 1archer, 1 mage, and 1 priest, fighting 3 Trasks that were blocking the path to the dock.
And it seemed they had managed to injured the Trasks quite badly, I could see black scorched marks from fire magic on their green skins, red blood oozing out of the cuts that were inflicted by the two swordsman, one of the Trasks even had an arrow stuck in the eye. All of those injuries had weakened the Trasks.
Now if I think about it, wasn’t Captain Juan said that the adventurers protecting the ship are high rank?
If that’s the case than, they should be able to handle these Trasks even without my help.
Oh well. That doesn’t matter right now.
My first priority is to evacuate the passengers which most of them are children into the city.
With a single slash from my long sword, the three Trasks were cut in half, not a single drop of blood nor resistance as if they were made of air,
I took a glance at the long sword in my hand. se Trasks.
So far, this word was the most dangerous sword that I ever wield.
From Harris’s memories, all of them, from armor to the smallest accessories, were made from the same material Whitril, a super top grade metal from the hardest of the lightest metal that existed in this world. It had the properties as the best conductor and amplifier for spirit energy (Mana), it was also increase the effectiveness when using magic or any related abilities that used spirit energy.
The strange thing was that there were no memories on how he created or where he obtained the materials from, it was like a blank spot. What he understood was that he created them, their properties, special abilities and knew it was incomplete.
I also found a few other blank memories. It was like someone or the most likely was he himself erased them from his memories to prevent any important information being read by someone who could use
Anyway back to the topic, this Grandine was most likely the sharpest sword in this world, if you put the tip of the sword on top of a top grade metal bar like adamantine, with just the pulling force of gravity, it would slide piercing the metal bar as if it was made of tofu. So Trask’s turtle shell wasn’t really a problem for me.
As its special abilities…… well, who knows? Even Harris didn’t know what special abilities it had, according to his memories, to awaken most of the sky knight series abilities, first I had to complete the armor which meant looking for a compatible soul for its core.
Whatever, let’s think about that later.
As I was in mid-air, the sight in front of me made me grimace. On the deck I saw the crews of Armored Turtle, the rest of the adventurers party, and a few personal attendants of the other noble kids, were fighting the Trasks.
What made me grimace was quite a lot of the crews of Armored Turtle were on the deck floor, lying on top of their own blood. Hopefully they weren’t dead yet.
Meanwhile the adventurers and the few personal attendants could hold their ground pretty well despite being outnumbered.
It seemed the children and other non-combatan crews were hiding inside the ship, I could sense many small presence of children from behind the entrance door that were guarded by two adventurers, ready to dash out of the ship when the path had been cleared.
As soon as I land, I darted to my next target, two Trasks on my right that was fighting with a butler, I slipped between them, cut the two Trasks with one slash and darted again to the nearest Trask.
I continued cutting every Trask until there was only one two left, both of them were attacking Captain Juan and a few of his crews from the front and back, but even though they were in bad position, they still managed to give the two Trasks quite a good fight.
Without much thinking I darted to the two Trasks and cut them down, as soon as I finished and lowered down my sword, the flow of time went back to normal or my perception of time? Whatever it was called, one by one the bodies of the Trasks I had cut before, were split into two and slowly fell to the ground.
No one moved, fresh blood were flowing out of the two parts of the Trasks creating a large pool of blood. The people who were fighting the Trasks before could only stare blankly at them.
I approached Captain Juan from behind and called out to him
“Captain.”
Juan was so surprised and jumped while turning back to face me and pointed the sword at his hand at me as a respond.
“W-Wha!?...” He stared at my face for a few second and as if something struck his mind, he yelled “Princess!!... Ah, sorry about that, it’s just that you look… different…” He muttered the last word as he scratched his head.
What the hell is he talking about?
Is it because of my armor?
Well yeah, I know its design is quite unique
But I don’t think anything strange about it.
Haaa whatever, this is not the time to ask something useless like that.
“Do you know what’s going on here?”
Juan shook his head and said “No clue, these Trasks just appeared so suddenly from the river and start attacking the ship. Uhh princess, did you… ” He glanced at the Trask dead body near us.”Did this?”
“Yes, but let’s talk later. We have to hurry and evacuate everyone to a safe place before those Trasks attack again.” I took out a bag from my ring and gave it to him “There are potions and other medicines inside it. use them to treat any injured people.”
Including the priest, there were only a few people on this ship who could use healing magic, for them to heal everyone that were injured would take most of their spirit energy, which would be a very bad thing considering our situation right now.
Though my healing magic was far superior to anyone in the ship and could patch them up instantly, not that was an impossible thing to do, but for me to engage the Trasks while I had to keep casting healing magic was a bit… inefficient? That was why I gave him the bag so that the priest could preserve their spirit energy, and used them later for emergency situation.
Juan stared at me and the bag with eyes full of curiosity, he seemed to want to ask me about something, but he swallowed back his question and nodded “Alright.”
Turning her back facing his crews and the adventurers who still stared blankly at the corpse of the Trasks, Juan started yelling a few orders at them which snapped them out of their daze.
Even though all the Trasks on the ship had been killed, they understood that they weren’t safe yet, so as soon as they heard Juan orders, they began moving following his orders without any question.
Now then, I will leave the rest to Juan.
To evacuate everyone safely into the city, I need to clean the path.
So my next job is to eliminate any Trask near the ship.
But to cover such a large area with just a sword will be too troublesome.
I don’t want to run all over the place cutting them one by one just like what I did earlier with the Trasks on the ship.
Hmm… Ah yes!
A Bow!
Yeah! I can use a bow.
I only need to aim and shoot without any need for me to run all over the place!
There is that way!
I started to walk toward the front bow of the ship, jumped and stood on top of the guardrail, from here I got a full view of the port.
The situation on the port was still in chaos but it was a bit better than before. A lot of civilians seemed to have evacuate into the city, though they were still coming from the river, but seeing the corpse of the Trasks here and there, I could tell that their numbers seemed to have reduced quite a bit.
When I turned my head to one one side of the port, at a place that looked like an open market that sold marine goods, I found Cecil was running towards a party of adventurers in a pinch of being attacked by three Trasks.
And with a single slash, she jumped to the closest Trask and beheaded it instantly. The adventurers who saw this were in shock and just stared at her, but it didn’t take them long to recover and began to attack the remaining Trasks.
To behead a Trask so easily with just a single slash. It seemed the sword I had given to her had worked like a charm against those Trasks.
While I was watching Cecil’s fight, I heard a lot of footsteps and the sound of clanking metal from the road that was connecting the port area and the city. I turned my gaze over there and a few seconds later a small army of 500 man wearing heavy armor came into my sight.
In front of them leading the army was a young man in his mid twenties, with his high grade red and gold shining armor that looked very expensive, he stood out like a sore thumb among the soldiers who wore deep blue heavy armor.
Is that reinforcement from the army?
The young man in who wore the flashy red and gold armor, which I presumed to be the commander, as soon as he entered the port area, he began to scan the surrounding area as if to evaluate the situation on the port. After awhile he started to point at some directions and gave commands to his men
Well, they are going to make my job easier.