Hans turned to Danny and said "I can't believe we're going to the village, what am I going to tell my sister?" Danny said "I don't really care, I don't like being smart, Daniel is out of my head now I can be stupid again so don't ask me how to solve your problems.

In the meantime, tell my uncle to hide the sword in a safe place in the house and if they can, make me a suit of armor out of that hide."

Danny got a big stupid look on his face. Then he left Hans's side and ran stupidly after a butterfly.

Hans covered his eyes with his hand in cringe. Why would anyone want to be stupid?

When they entered the village, the first thing they did was go to Hank. Hank could not believe his eyes. "I heard there was no news of Esther and her entourage," he said to Hans, "How are you alive?

Danny started running around laughing." Hans answered. "Danny saved me when they were fighting the bandits and we escaped. But something happened to him after that and he went back to his old self." Hank nodded knowingly. "Danny's mind was badly upset. It's good that he's back to his old self."

Hans beckoned Danny with his hand, Danny came, Hans said to Danny, "Give me the sword and the hide." Hank looked at the giant sword and the giant hide. He was surprised to see more than a thousand cuts on the giant bear's hide.

Hans said, "Before Danny went back to his old self, he told me to hide this sword where you could easily reach it and to make him some armor out of this hide if you can."

Hank knew he had to hide what had happened. The villagers had never seen Danny kill anyone. Hank was glad Danny was back to his old ways and he wanted him to stay that way.

He said to himself, 'Losing a son is hard enough, there is no need to lose a second son'.

Elise, Sam and Eva greeted Danny's return after a long absence with shock and joy. They all ran to hug the giant man and Danny smiled shyly.

Ten minutes later two little kids were on Danny's shoulders. Seeing this, the other children of the village also ran to Danny

"Where have you been all this time, Danny?" asked an eleven-year-old boy. Danny laughed and said, "I don't know."

Eva turned to Danny and asked, "Why didn't you bring a present?" Danny said, "I did. He said, "I brought bright blue fire."

He raised his hand, aimed at the air, and started shooting fireballs one after the other. The balls floated a little in the air and exploded brightly.

The children clapped for joy. One of them said, "Hey, Danny is a wizard."

Two weeks went by like that. Danny was even happier than usual, when he lost something he appreciated it even more.

In his head Danny had used his memories of Daniel to build a Ferris wheel in the middle of the village with boards and ropes, and all the village children were having fun on the toy Danny had made for them.

Meanwhile, a man arrived in town, barely able to walk. The villagers called out to Hank and Hank called out to Danny.

As soon as they showed them who this person was, Elise and Hank's hearts sank. For this was Saul the knight, and he was the one who had been sent to war from the barony.

Hank held Saul, who could hardly walk, before he fell to the ground. The barony of Danburg was a long way from the borders, and Hank couldn't understand how Saul had come all the way here in such a state. In the border towns someone would have helped him.

Hank asked, "What's going on, Sir Saul?" "Water!" said Saul, and he drank the water with great thirst, then sat down on the ground and began to speak.

"The unit I was in was wiped out six months ago, those of us who died died, very few of us escaped, the rest of us were taken prisoner. "Normally in war prisoners are exchainged or ransomed, but the damn Lang queen had no intention of doing so.

She sold us as slaves to merchants in the kingdom of Sargot. I told the slavers that I was a knight and that they could get a big ransom for me, but they said that a third-tier warrior would be worth a lot of money to the arena owners."

He took a deep breath. "I was fought arena after arena, and I was glad when I was finally sent to the arena in Darapol, our capital. After all, I should have been protected as a knight in my own country.

But the authorities said that I had been legally sold to the Sargothans and that they could not jeopardize our trade with Sargoth during the war with the Langs.

They left me to my fate. After fighting for this country." Saul sighed "I am wanted by slave hunters in my own country. They are after me."

Unlike Esther, Saul was well liked by the villagers. He was a normal man who did his job properly. No one had ever seen him abuse his position or persecute people to satisfy his own ego. So Hank was willing to do whatever he could for Saul.

At this moment two armored men entered the village, their faces adned with cruel smiles.

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They said to the villagers, "There is someone in your village who is the property of the Sargot merchants. Hand him over and we have no quarrel with you."

Hank said to the two armored men dismounting from their horses, "There is no one like you are looking for here. He said." One of the men tried to punch Hank in the face, but his hand was caught in mid-air by Danny.

In front of the villagers, Danny's goofy expression was replaced by that of a man trying to hold back his anger.

The slave catcher was surprised by Danny's strength, he pulled his hand away and swung his whip at the ground, the whip crackling with electricity.

Danny smiled and leaned into the man's ear, "We can solve this easily, but not in front of everyone, meet me at the top of that hill this time tomorrow." The slave catcher turned around to show he understood and left.

"What did you say, what are you going to do?" Hank asked Danny in a whisper. Danny said, "I'm going to take care of it outside the village."

Danny waited for the villagers to disperse and then went into the house.

Elise and Hank made an armor out of bear hide. Anything they had been able to cut bearhide. So they used the blacksword as a cutting tool. With a lot of effort they been able to shape the bearskin armor which bears had acted as helmet.

Danny, already a majestic man, looked very intimidating with his giant black sword in his hand and his bearskin armor on.

"Slave hunters, aren't they both tier three?" Danny asked. Saul painfully nodded yes. "Then he said sadly, "You will give me up, you have no choice."

Danny threw a bottle at Saul. Saul's mouth hung open. "It's a healing potion, the kind adventurers use."

He turned to Hank and said, "We also need weapons, tell him I sent you, to get his sword and shield from Hans."

Saul drank the potion, then smiled and said "man, don't take this the wrong way but I'm in this state and I know you look scary and I'm sure you're strong but you can't be tier three, how can the two of us..."

Danny said, "I'm tier three and I'm strong enough to beat them both on my own. The reason I healed you is to eliminate the danger of me getting seriously injured in a fight."

Saul "How can you get to third tier in a village, I'm the only third tier person in all of Danburg." Danny said, "Aperantly you are not"

Hank turned to Danny and asked, "What happened to you? You had been your old self?" Danny said, "I had no intention of going back to my cinical smart self, it pains me to be in this situation, but these slavers will be our way to Ean. If Ean is alive it is my duty to go and find him. I owe him that much."

Elise had heard the conversation behind the door and tears came to her eyes. "My innocent Danny, I wish you didn't have to go through this terrible pain."

Knowing that Danny was stronger than the strongest warrior in the barony and that he would do whatever it took to find the son he hadn't seen for two years gave Elise hope for the first time in a long time. Elise did her best not to show it to her children and Danny, but some nights she cried for hours in silence for her son.

Hans handed Saul the weapons and Saul admired the quality of the weapons. He looked at the sword and said, "It's obviously a family heirloom, very high quality, but the shield is mass produced, but it's also very high quality."

"Are you sure you don't want me to come, Danny?" Hans asked. Danny smiled "Are you sure you want to be around for the battle of the third tiers?"

When they arrived at the meeting place, one of the Slavers pointed at Danny and said, "I was right, look at that monster's weapon and armor."

The slave hunter blew a whistle. About twenty mercenaries came out of the forest towards the meeting place on the side of the hill.

Their weapons and armor were of good quality. Half of them wore chain mail. Saul said, "Sorry, man, we got played." He threw his sword and shield at Danny's feet and said, "Leave my friend alone, I surrender."

The slave hunter laughed. "What makes you think we would agree to such a thing?"

Danny smiled. He whistled and four wogs jumped onto the field. The slave catcher laughed even harder, "Nice trick, really nice, but you'll beat me with four wogs."

When Saul heard that the slaver would not accept his surrender, he took back his sword and shield. He was surprised to see the wogs.

Danny smiled, "No, these are just scouts." Twenty-two well armed and well armored bandits came out from behind Danny.

Daniel had a big smile in his hadsome face "Danny boy, how do you manage to bring us first quality game without even leaving your village."

Daniel wore chain mail, and over the chain mail was plate armor, breastplate, arm and hand armor.

He had two swords at his waist and a round shield on his back, standard issue for all bandits.

"We have no problem with you, just give us our slave and..."

Tim grinned and shot a lightning arrow into the face of the man who had spoken.

A third-tier warrior blocked it easily, of course, but the battle had begun.

The two factions clashed.

Danny flamed his sword and began to attack one of the two tier three warriors like crazy.

The man was stunned. He was struggling with each blow. He could hardly believe that he was the same tier as he was.

Daniel propelled himself at great speed with his telekinetic power, increased his speed with his Time power, increased his speed even more with his space bending power, so fast that the other warrior did not know what to do.

The other mercenaries were not doing well either.

The bandits were very good fighters due to their constant phisical and teamwork-based training, the only real advantage of the mercenaries was that they were all tier one.

But where the bandits struggled, Saul stepped in, not allowing the bandits to be subdued by special forces. To Saul's surprise, he noticed that with each enemy that fell, two or three bandits who had previously been unranked suddenly became ranked

.

He didn't know that this was because these bandits were already very close to tiering up in their own way. He just wondered why they hid the fact that they were tiered at the beginning of the fight. After all, the Alviribus path was not well known.

Tim shouted with joy, "That's it, I'm tier two." Frank said, "I beat you, man." Brad "I've caught up, who do you thing you're leaving behind." Alex "Me too."

Meanwhile, Hans dived into the jungle with a lousy spear, threw it with all his might, and took down a wounded mercenary who was trying to escape. With only a little bit left for his tier up, he shouted with a laugh, "I'm tier two."

Meanwhile, the three bandits who had worked so hard to bring down the mercenary were shouting with joy, because they too had finally reached the first tier.

As the bandits' strength increased rapidly during the fight, the mercenaries, who did not have much of an advantage to begin with, tried to escape, but that was in vain.

The Wogs blocked the exit. As the Wogs ambushed and killed the wounded mercenaries trying to escape, they had reached the first tier too.

At Daniel's telepathic suggestion, they had chosen a power that sharpened the claws they had seen the bear use before.

Starting the fight with a small advantage, the mercenaries were mowed down with a huge disadvantage.

There was only one bandit who did not join the fight, Arn. "There are no women among them," he said.

Seeing all the mercenaries defeated and having to fight two vastly superior warriors, the Slavers threw down their weapons and begged for their lives.

Danny turned to Daniel and said, "Let's find out where Ean is, if they don't know, I'll kill mine and you kill yours."

"Of course we know, Ean of Danvillie, if you leave us alive..." Daniel put his hand on the head of a slaver who was begging on his knees on the ground.

The man resisted, it was not easy to get into the head of a third-tier man.

But he had the information he needed. 'If he's untiered, to the salt mines, if he's tiered, as well as handsome and docile, to the slave guard school, if not, to the arena...'

Then he put his hand on the other one's head. 'Oops, I know who this boy is, he looks like the giant one, his hair and eyes are similar, but he's handsome.

When he resisted the rape of that horny old bitch Teresa and made a big scar on her face, he was sold to the iron mine in Barburg to suffer as punishment. To the cruel Dimitri, they don't live long in Dimitri's mine.'

Daniel nodded yes to Danny and the two heads were cut off simultaneously.

Daniel telepathically transmitted to Danny what he had just learned. Danny turned to Saul, "From now on (pointing to Daniel) this man is your boss, you are a bandit, you will have nowhere to go now that you are branded a slave." Saul just nodded in agreement with a helpless expression on his face.

Danny didn't linger, he filled a small ration bag with the rations the bandits had brought with them, while Daniel weighed the slavers' pouches and threw the full one to Danny.

Danny said, "Thank you, everyone," and set off for Dimitri the Merciless's mine in the kingdom of Sargot.