“Sir, are you perhaps from Demon lineage?”

“What the fuck did you say, say that again you bastard!” in response he got a sharp voice directing hostility towards him.

This is the first time Goat person ever showed his bloodlust towards the group, his earlier demeanor was only rough but that was it, but this time, this.

“Look here, look straight at me you son of a bitch, do I look like a Demon, say that again and you are fucking dead.” Bloodshot goat eyes glared at Reggie’s existence.

Terrified Reggie tightens his grip on his Battle axe instinctively.

“Hey hey we were just asking, you don’t look like a human that’s all… okay?” The pink-haired girl interjected, Emily.

“Fine fine, since my gentle goat self can’t be bothered with your pathetic self, then I’m going but if you wish to die you can follow me.”

Just as silence assaulted the still air, even though there had been no noisy substance other than Goat persons rattling, he realized that he was needlessly wasting his time on the group, he realized that but even so, even so.

Sigh, along with Reggie rest of the group sighed in relief, their breaths somehow felt lighter, perhaps the presence of the Goat person made the air around them heavy, Tessa thought, she thought that but she already had her kunai ready to attack if things were to escalate.

But the Goat person turned around and walked off from the group, this encounter was simply breathtaking for the group, the rest of the soldiers were frozen, and they were still in their tracks.

“You---”

Suddenly the moment peace respite in the hearts of the group, all of a sudden within a blink of eyes, the GOAT person barked standing right in front of the group, this time even close to them.

Tension rose in the atmosphere, and with a shriek, every member of Battle Rankers' eyes widened.

“What the fuck are you retards doing here huh, are you even from Empire, last time I checked Empire's flag didn’t look like that, hey hey you bastards?”

It failed, and the chances of negotiations failed, since they were an invading group of soldiers and Battle mages from another nation, it was enough much of a declaration of war, so if this person felt loyalty and responsibility to the empire, fighting him was inevitable.

Right beside the man transparent jelly-like wobbling occurred, then he thrust his hand inside, taking out something looking like a Brass Sand Glass Sandglass Clock, instead of sand it had a jet black material.

Their surprised face were dumbfounded at this feat from this person, because what he did was.

“He created a dimension ring portal in mid-air.” Reggie widening his eyes remarks.

“How… without even chanting at that.” Tessa frets.

“Hmmm---My quota of grief scale hasn’t been completed yet, I’m willing to fulfill it with your lives, be grateful brats cuz my Gentle Goat self is delivering this execution, you guys are lucky, very lucky.”

With both of his hands bent towards his visage, as if honoring himself he declares.

With an expression of nobility in his posture, standing straight, legs joined together, arms outstretched, his palms showcasing his noble GOAT face, he declares.

Then his face contorted into a sinister smile his white teeth visible, his body exudes black smoke from his gigantic body.

“Be alert he is ab—”

Instead, Reggie’s face was covered by a hand, it was the human hand of a Goat person, all fingers groped his entire face with his big palms, and then Reggie’s body was lifted aloft his legs dangled.

“Ridiculous,” the GOAT person said, disappointed.

“Reggie, you bastard.” Edward found the man's figure in between his friends all of a sudden, his friend Reggie held hoisted from his face.

Anger and fear grounded the group.

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“When did he??” Emily.

“---Aargh”

“ATAACK HIM EVERYONE!!” Fred bellowed.

“KILL HIM.” Tessa.

Bashing Reggie’s face onto the ground, the ground quivering at the impact, small craters forming in those moments yes in that exact moment muscular build of the man disappeared, as if he had been made of smoke, it disappeared just like smoke, of smoke was only thing left at that place,.

A desperate friend swung their blades and sword, two kunai all reaching their target, but in those moments, in those one-fifth of the seconds, the man disappeared in mid-swing, leaving Reggie’s body unprotected.

“Huh!”

Immediately they realized their opponent had vanished from their sight, leaving Reggie’s unprotected unconscious body, their attack, their magic-enchanted powerful blow burst open Reggie’s internal organs and tore through his tissues, and red blood oozed out from his chest, two kunai stabbed his neck, his lungs were ruptured by the thin black blade of Fred and sword of Edward.

“Ah… Regg…” Edward's eyes widened, fear encapsulating his features.

“Aaaaaahhh, Regggiee, aaaaaaaahhh.” Her finger on her scalp brushed roughly, her eyes teary, her pink hair disheveled, Emily screamed.

“No no no no no this is, this is---“Tessa shook her head in denial.

Reggie was the most calm and easy going person on there, perhaps he was the most kind person and logical person Fred ever met, he would always come up with ideas, and he would always avoid needless fights, and he would meditate between them, he was a good person, but that was, that was it, this was it, this is it for him.

Life has been snuffed out of him, he died, he died with the blade and sword of his friend, even his magic enchanted body was cleaved open, blood pool soaked the ground, he was killed, by the hands of his friends.

“Hahahahah, brats, this is what kingdom got hahaha, this is so laughable, seriously you guys dared to trespass into Empire, fucking immatures.”

The moment the Goat person slammed Reggie’s head onto the ground, he saw Reggie slipping out of consciousness, he knew Reggie couldn’t have avoided the attack, and he disappeared at the exact moment when the attacks were reaching him.

He realized they couldn’t have stopped their swing in one fifth of the second, he realized that but even so, he realized that Reggie would be slaughtered by his friends, but even so, but.

“Such weaklings, trash, trash friends, that’s why you shouldn’t have made trash friends, oh wait for you tash yourself, fucking trash,aaahahah, hahahahah, hahahahahahah---” his laughter only reverberated their shock, they were losing their mind, they were losing their friend.

“EMILY HEAL HIM, PLEASE JUST DO!” Bellowing Edward pleads to Emily, that if it was Emily then they still had some chances, even if those chances are 0.1% Edward wouldn’t let go, he can’t let Reggie’s cause of death be this pathetic.

Staggering steps, eyes teary, senses of horror dance on her face, she extends her palms, and a pink hue glows, it glows, eyes filled with prayers but

“The fantasy of bringing the dead back to life isn’t gonna happen with healing magic, idiots, heh.” The Goat person smirks.

“Shut the fuck, I will definitely kill you, you bastard.”

Edward with his war cry, launches himself with his sword raised to kill the Goat person.

His small body with his big sword swung to tear apart Goat Man’s broad chest, his sword mid arc halts then his eyes widened, he was yet again shocked.

The man with his big hands simply caught Edward's swords mid-swing, the intensity and speed of Edward's attack should have cut through the man white white-gloved hands, but that was not the case.

Magic strengthening in his palms, with a transparent bluish aura glowing, he punches at the man's abdomen, with a backhand block of his big hand Goat Man canceled the punch, it was fast, accurate, and it sounded as if heavy objects collided into one another, with that sound a smoky air fades, then.

“You, you bastard.” Glowering Edwards pulled backs his sword back, but the grip was tight, so he pushed the sword out by the support of his legs, his legs lifted and rested on the man's arms, very quickly, and then he rotated his legs, he kicked with magic strengthening with blueish transparent aura glowing at his kick, like a flash of blue it was about to hit the mans head, the goat face of the man in the black suit.

It was swift, swiftly the man's hand lost grip on the sword he defended his face with both arms bent by elbow covering his face, the kick assaulted his arms and elbows, or so the least Edward accepted.

With a dull sound, Goat person launched a barrage of cannon-like punches in the next instant, it was quick, quick punches assaulted Edward's body, with a loud thunderclap sound echoing in those moments.

It was so quick that, even Edward couldn’t understand how he was being punched, was he being punched, so many punches in a second or two, his body flung, twirls, and was thrown away.

Everything transpired so quickly and swiftly that none of the members had the opportunity to intervene and help them, by the way, their friend was dying, he died at the hands of his friend, confused, guilty, angry, terrified, they were numb.

They succumbed to numbness, so they didn’t react quickly, but that is the curse upon novices, numbness that it is.

“---high”

Twirling in air Edward's body fell onto the ground, and yet he was shocked.

“---huh?”

The Goat Man halts his steps, lo dozens and dozens of sharp pointed flashes of dark purple in the form of knives were fired, firing similar to an automatic machine gun, even though this world had no concept of such type of weapon, with the same sound those sharp flash of light, purple in hue were projected at the Goat Man.

In the blink of an eye, all of a sudden the man was strangling, the attack of purple flash vanished along with countless glass-like purple knife-like shards which descended upon the ground where the man originally stood, but he wasn't hit.

He can’t be hit, Tessa’s sneak attack was simply not quick enough, it was lacking, and it was not sneaky enough, well Tessa even after being in assassin class, was the center of attention even after her class required her to be stealthy, but along with her features adding her mannerisms it made her popular.

But right now this caused her body to be hoisted aloft from the ground, her neck tightly strangled by the big palm of the man, his white-gloved fingers bore deep into her neck.