Frank found the trail easily, and they followed it and approached the adventurers at the campsite. Brad and Alex marveled at how quietly Daniel could move when he wanted to, despite his huge size.
They found the adventurers sitting around a campfire. There were four adventurers, two women and two men, all in their early twenties. The adventurers were like lions in demeanor.
Since they were the biggest predators, it didn't even occur to them that there might be someone around who might come to hunt them.
A white-skinned woman with black hair and black hair, dressed in a blue and white tunic, who Daniel guessed was a healer, began to speak. "Too bad we missed the werewolf. Jack, next time you must manage to keep him in place or our careers in the guild will be over before they've even begun." "I'll kill it," grunted a 1.90 man in a chainmail shirt with a two-handed sword of medium-grade steel on his back.
This time the woman turned to the man in a black hooded robe. He was small, and seemed to be a timid man. "Zack you have to be careful too, freeze his feet this time, we have to make sure he doesn't get away." Zack nodded,
"You're right, Saphira." Saphira turned to the archer, who was dressed in full-body tight leather armor and a coat, topped with a green hooded cloak. "Did you find the trail, Sandy?"
Sandy was a green-eyed girl with auburn hair. She studied the ground carefully while Frank smiled. Alex couldn't help himself and whispered "What are you laughing at, man?" just then Sandy shouted "I found the trail."
Frank whispered, "That she couldn't see what was right under her nose. They must have wounded the creature they were after because it's trail is all over the place. It took the stupid woman half an hour to see the wolf hairs I can see from here on the bushes right under her nose."
"I'm going. I'll follow the trail." Saphira "No Sandy, you can't go alone, the werewolf is a very dangerous second-tier creature, even if it's wounded." Sandy "You'll slow me down, Jack will you come with me?" Jack grunted. He got up and they ran after the werewolf, leaving the wizard and the healer behind.
Daniel waited for the archer-warrior duo to move away. Then he began to explain the plan to his men. "I'll take the wizard, you three attack the healer." Brad and the other two smirked. Daniel realized what was going through their minds. "Take this seriously if you don't want to die."
For about half an hour they waited until they were well away. Then suddenly, all at once, they burst out from behind the bushes. They were ranged warriors. They would have a hard time in close combat.
Daniel came out from behind the bushes and without making much noise, he ran and attacked the sorcerer with the giant axe in his hand. The wizard, who was sitting on the ground, raised his staff and summoned a shield. Daniel's tremendously powerful blow was stopped by a shield of ice. The small wizard Zack had shown that he was no pushover.
Meanwhile, the healer woman, staff in one hand and short sword in the other, was trying to defend herself against the three bandits surrounding her.
She raised her hand and used her power to heal the small wound Brad had inflicted on her during the sudden attack. Even if the wound was small, what the healer had done was impressive for the bandits.
Zack looked at Daniel "You picked the wrong mage to mess with, rogue." the little man had a look on his face that told the six-foot Daniel that you were nothing to me.
"Then get your best shield ready, wizard, because you haven't seen my power yet," Daniel said.
Zack formed and threw an ice spear with a speed Daniel would not have expected from a mage. It was Zack's turn to be surprised because Daniel struck the metal of his axe against the ice spear, which was covered in blue flames. The spear shattered in a great puff of steam.
Taking advantage of the steam that suddenly appeared, Daniel pushed himself with all his physical and telekinetic strength. He then struck Zack with his burning axe.
Zack quickly made an ice shield, but the blow landed before the shield had a chance to form, so Zack used his staff to protect himself.
First the half made shield shattered, then the staff. Zack swung it at the broken staff to Daniel. Zack pulled a dagger from his belt, covered the weapon in ice and tried to stab Daniel.
Daniel saw the whole move a mile away. He swung his axe. He was faster than Zack. The short man fell to the ground, his head separated from his body.
At that moment he heard a scream, "Zack!" The healer woman had been hit in many places. She had obviously fought well, she had healed most of the wounds, but not the last one on her leg. She was on the ground, and she had lost her friend.
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Brad took the staff and dagger from the woman on the ground and said, "It's been a long time since I've been with a woman."
Brad said, "Of course the chief has first dibs." Before Daniel could say anything, Danny's voice was heard, "Daniel, please don't use my body for this.
Daniel thought for a moment, "You guys enjoy yourselves, I'm not in the mood right now."
Without a second thought, the thugs pounced on the struggling and screaming woman, tearing her dress, which was pierced in several places.
Meanwhile Daniel checked Zack's belongings, his dagger was much better than his own. He took his dagger.
He found two small vials with a red liquid in them, which he guessed were healing potions and took them with him. In the money pouch he found about fifty silver pieces. He took it with him, thinking that there was no more money.
His eyes shifted to his men, who had penetrated the healer woman in several places. She was beautiful. Daniel wanted to do business with her, but he couldn't risk upsetting Danny's psychology. Killing someone was one thing, but rape would be going too far for Danny and could drive him mad.
It would mean that he would have to expel the spirit that now provided him with a second power, and he would lose a lot of power as a result.
Daniel was no longer as ugly as he had been in his past life. He wasn't handsome, but at least he wasn't ugly anymore. And he was rich. He could get a woman he wanted in the normal way. 'No rape until Danny changes his mind,' he told himself.
Daniel was sitting on the edge when he noticed a rustling. He quickly stood up and got into position. A girl's voice: "We found Saphira, it's in the cave." The girl's voice stopped and Daniel shouted: "Kill the bitch now and get in position." The face of the raped woman lit up as she heard the voice. But the joy didn't last long. Brad grabbed his sword and slit her throat.
Sandy the archer shouted in a frenzy, "I'll kill you all, you bastards!" She leapt into the air and started shooting arrows at the bandits. But she didn't notice Daniel.
Daniel selected a throwing stone from his pouch. He threw it with all his physical and telekinetic power, enveloping it in blue flame just as he threw it.
Brad, with his years of rogue experience, reached for his shield. Two of the three arrows hit the shield, but seeing the shield, Sandy fired the third arrow at the leg outside its protection.
Brad and Sandy moaned "ouch" at the same time. Sandy was on the ground. Brad was on the ground. Frank and Alex ran to get into close range.
But the archer woman gathered herself quickly and drew two curved daggers from behind her waist. Two daggers in each hand, she charged at the two young thugs.
Daniel's wogs were at the ready, waiting for his command. They had followed him silently all the way and no one had noticed. But Daniel would not help his men for now. If they were to move up the ranks, they had to kill someone in dangerous conditions. And the stronger the person or creature they killed, the better.
The one Daniel had been waiting for came shouting out of the trees. This 1.90 tall man, who would normally be a very large man, was a little short in front of the 2 meter Daniel.
This man, Jack, began swinging his two-handed sword in wide arcs like a madman. Normally, when fighting a large group of men, wide arcs were fine, but in one-on-one combat it was wiser to attack quickly and precisely.
Daniel did not intend to concentrate all the power in himself. He left Danny in control of the body because he felt he was getting close to stepping up a notch after killing the sorcerer.
Danny said to Daniel 'so you kill the mage in close quarters and leave the warrior to me. So be it.' Daniel smiled.
Jack covered his sword with fire and Danny covered the head of his giant axe with blue fire. Jack said, "So you're tiered, it's been a while since we had a good duel.
Before I kill you and your men I want to know, I guess you're a bandit, why? Why did you attack us? What do you have to gain from this attack, equipment? We don't have a lot of money, what was your problem."
Danny asked "I don't suppose you've heard of Alviribus?" Jack shook his head no. Danny said, "Just like you guys level up by killing monsters, we level up by fighting and killing people. If it's any consolation to you, we'll probably finish off the monster you wounded after you."
Jack said, "Well, when I kill you, I'm going to investigate this Alviribus and convert to his religion, it's seems useful."
Jack went on the attack. Wapons clashed, sparks flew. Jack was a little shocked "I expected you to be strong, given your size and tier, but you're very strong." "You haven't seen anything yet," Danny said, pushing himself with all his telekinetic power.
His strength was increasing every day, it wasn't like when he was first tiered.
Jack was thrown back. Danny increased his speed even more by pushing himself with telekinetic power and started to make one move after another.
Jack had always fought monsters and had little experience fighting humans. The sword technique he used had been developed for controlling large swarms of monsters, or for delivering blows that would damage the vulnerable parts of large monsters. So he was helpless against someone stronger, faster and with better technique.
Jack thought about running away. He couldn't. Fighting was hopeless. As he thought this, he uttered the last word "oops", he had swung his sword too far and it was too wide. The giant axe hit him in the throat. Danny had only dragged this fight out this long to avoid damaging the chain mail shirt. Jack, though shorter, was almost as muscular as Danny and the armor was already a bit loose on Jack.
Danny calmly looted Jack's belongings. He put on the armor shirt. He found two more vials of what Daniel called health potions. He took them with him.
Like Daniel, he felt himself approaching the second tier. Daniel took control.
Sandy was fighting against two thugs. He had given them both a few scratches, but neither bandit was giving much away. They were always attacking from two directions, never letting her concentrate on one of them.
Sandy felt a pair of eyes behind him. She turned around in fear, and as she raised his head he was at first delighted, he recognized the chain mail "Jack" she was speechless. When she rised her head up enough, she realized that it was not Jack wearing the armor, but the giant chief of the bandits.
Daniel grabbed both arms of the girl who looked at him in shock and squeezed, she let go of her daggers, then grabbed her throat with one hand and lifted her up.
The 1.60 tall girl struggled to breathe, shaking her legs in the hands of the six-foot man. "I'm suffocating," she moaned.
"Aren't we going to have fun with her, boss?" Alex asked. Daniel pointed to Brad sitting on the floor. "Your last bit of fun almost cost Brad his life. Have fun with more toothless women in a safer environment."
Sandy wanted to live and would have happily said she would do anything to live if the giant thug would let her, but she didn't get the chance.
Daniel broke Sandy's neck with a snap.
Daniel searched Sandy and found two potions and some money. He threw one of the potions to Brad. He said, "Drink."
Brad drank it and to his amazement saw the wound on his leg heal.
Alex and Frank looked at Daniel and asked, "Boss, won't you give it to us?" Daniel said, "I don't know if we'll ever get any more of these potions, you're on your feet, I can't waste it on small wounds."
What Daniel didn't loot, the other bandits did. The two daggers of the huntress were shared by two young bandits. They saw that her leather armor had been specially made for her and sadly left it behind.