Jones stepped out of the bushes preparing to give an explanation, but instead of the people freaking out like how he had expected they only looked at him once and continued fighting.

It looked like Najimi had already told the group in a short time span all of the information they needed.

How he was able to get the group of people comfortable was a mystery to Jones, but he ran and got in formation with the rest of the mages and started chanting some magic. He watched as Najimi tied up the rabbit sentry with the rest of the team.

Sometimes the rabbit would counterattack mostly toward Najimi, but whenever it would try to, Najimi would just stand still without moving. The reason why was because every time without fail Jones would always make sure that Najimi was safe whether it be with his magic or with a small counter-attack swing with his staff, it would happen each and every time. This time an expertly time fireball swung right next to Najimi and collided headfirst into the rabbits head.

The rabbit staggered and started to move slowly as if it was dazed by the fireball, the offensive group didn't lose the chance and went in for the kill.

The rabbit sentry died under the merciless barrage of sword swings.

[you have defeated a level 11 rabbit sentry]

[+100 EXP +1 rabbit fur +1 rabbit tooth +5 copper coins]

When the rabbit fell Najimi went back to Jones while what seemed like the leader of the group walked up to him.

The leader was a tall mage that wore glasses and had a sinister look in his eye. He spoke courteously

"thank you, kind people, for helping us in our battle,"

He was about to continue saying something when a red-haired swordsman walked out of the crowd he was visible upset

"hey! we could have won the battle without your help."

He faced Jones "if you and that stupid looking thief hadn't interrupted our battle and distracted us we would have won already and left to the village."

Jones kinda knew what was going to happen, but let the swordsman continue his berate

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"and if it weren't for the brat over there I wouldn't have gotten injured and let one of our comrades die"

Even though Jones agreed that Najimi was sort of annoying, he did not appreciate the swordsman getting up in his face letting his spit fly everywhere.  And for some reason he was getting annoyed, this anger was building up inside of him and his fist curled up a bit. But with enough careful restraint, he answered calmly

"Okay what do you want"

The swordsman grinned, and why would he not? that was he was going after the entire time.

"heh the man who died lost EXP and some money, he happened to hold all of our money, you know how much he lost!"

Jones followed along with the swordsmans thought

"how much?"

"Yeah, that's right, your going to owe us 2 silvers."

Jones looked at the leader who had retreated to the back of the group, but Jones could still see his sinister grin as if everything was going according to plan.

Jones started to weigh the benefits of the "trade" if he did give the two silver which was not allot compared to the 20 silver he and Najimi had, he could walk away. On the other hand, he as an enraged person shouldn't take this lying down.

Evaluating the situation he was getting slowly surrounded by the swordsman and the archers and mages were readying their bows and staff. Even if he fought there was a high chance he would lose.

Looking at Najimi with an interesting look in his eyes, he could see Najimi's head nodded as if he was scared or maybe furious it could be one of the two or it could even be something different.

He put his hand on his mouth as if he was taking time to decide something. The swordsman kept on pressuring Jones

"ha watcha doing brat, trying to buy time for your friends, hah as if anyone could get this far besides us"

While muttering something, Jones took out 2 glittering silver coins the swordsman thought that he was swearing at him under his breath. Hetook action

"Oh, now you want to cuss at me? I was about to let you off easy but now I'm giving you a free pass to the village."

Jones held out his hand to give the swordsman his money, stretching out the hand holding his staff.

The muttering finished and a fireball materialized in front on the tip of his staff flying straight into the swordsman's chest. A level 3 fireball at close range was able to instantly kill a level 10 rabbit let alone a level 6 swordsman.

The swordsman fell dead to the ground before he even knew it.

The leader of the group reacted and yelled at the rest of the men

"kill them!"

But Najimi had reacted faster, the moment the fireball materialized he was already running toward Jones. Using one of his special skills Najimi had gained from the thief training center he picked Jones up by the waist and started sprinting away at inhuman speeds. While breaking through one of the weaker links in the group.

Even though there was a thief in the group Najimi was much faster than him and was able to disappear into the forest.

When they got far enough they stopped to take a break. Jones plopped down and massaged his waist.

Jones gave a sigh of relief

"Man I'm so glad you caught my signal"

"Yeah Jones I was so lucky to see it also"

Jones gave a light chuckle

"man the dude's expression when he got fireballed in the face"

Najimi got salty seeing Jones's gratified expression

"wait you saw it? I was to busy sprinting to you to see his expression awwww I wanted to see it"

Najimi sat down next to him breathing heavily. he turned to Jones and grinned

"We make a great team don't we"

*sigh* "yeah, fine we do"