Elowen had an ugly look on her face as she wasn't in the best of her shape to confront George. Since that day she had escaped she had always been finding ways to kill him too but somehow both of them never crossed paths and today she found herself in the same path for the first time and it didn't look god for her.

Elowen knew that there was no way she could easily get out of it and thus said.

"George, I am sorry for what happened to you. But here you are alive and well. You even took the caraccas of the beast that day and was able to get quite a bit of coins. Can you just leave us alone?" Elowen said.

"Hahahaha.. After all these years you finally admit that you left me to die and now have the audacity to say to leave you alone. I have prayed and waited for God to give me a chance to deliver retribution. I almost lost faith in God Aurelius, but I guess he delivered. He even made your team incapacitated. What more can I ask for?"

"What do you want then?" Elowen said while gritting her teeth. If it was any other person she would have thrown herself into the hands of the opponents and slept her way out of it. But she knew how much George hated her. She would have to fight it out.

"To drink your blood bitch." George roared as he jumped forward onto Elowen. Elowen had already been expecting the attack and made a defensive water screen in front of her. Aric was numb to all of this and went back in the cave to hid himself from this fight which he wasn't a part of.

He showed a coward and frightened expression. The other three individuals who came with George also surrounded Elowen. Elowen had a desperate look on her face as she confronted them.

"You can't kill me. This bell boy is the son of a rich businessman. If you kill me, he will speak about you to the Guild and you lose the license." Elowen screamed as he was about to be stabbed by the girl from the side.

This made all of them stop and Aric's eyes narrowed. Eveyrone looked at him as if he was some kind of item in a museum. He didn't expect such bold words and assumption from Elowen at all.

"No.. She is lying. I am just an ordinary bell boy.. This is my first day." Aric cried out in a frightened manner. But this small hesitation from George and others was all she needed as she took a dagger out of her ankle and thrust it straight at George's heart.

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George being the warrior he was he tried to dodge to the side but it was too late. The dagger went right through the side, into his abdomen. But the dagger didn't George to act against this vile woman. He swung his heavy sword and it went towards her neck. Before she knew it, she felt the world was rotating in a slow speed before stopping.

Everything happened so fast that the rest couldn't even react. They ran to George and started helping him lay on the ground. The woman opened her bag and took a bottle of vial and some bandages.

"I am so sorry Captain. It was a fault on my part."

"Captain we are so sorry."

George didn't seem to mind at all and just allowed them to take care of him. Aric witnessed all of this with a fearful expression and just stood as far as possible from them.

"This bitch really fooled me again." Though George was stabbed, it was not by much and it would be healed easily. "But we caught ourselves a dead Eclipsian Hyena. Hahahaha.. We will be rich." He said as he saw the dead body of the Hyena lying on the side.

"Yes, Captain and then we will have a better life."

"But Captain, we can't bring the body of the animal to Distant Wind and will have to go other city to sell it." The woman said as she reminded that this mission was taken from the Distant Wind and if they went back with the dead body of this, they might be cross examined for the crime of killing a fellow adventurer.

Killing was a crime in the empire, but it didn't mean that it didn't happen. This was a dog eat dog world so killing was more common here. The only way one could get away with killing was to make sure to remove evidences. And that was an easy part, until of course actual mages were involved.

As the woman and the man tended to him, another man approached the two bodies lying down unconscious.

"Tory, what are you doing?" The woman asked as she saw her team mate approaching the bodies.

"Getting rid of them." Tory said and looked at George for approval to which George nodded. Aric was expecting this to happen but seeing how these people still followed through made him feel a bit emotional.

Tory didn't waste time to cut the necks of the two. Two of them flopped for a bit and Lyria even opened her eyes wide, but the loss of blood was too much to sustain her life. She passed away in a minute, making the whole cave filled with the smell of blood.

"Now, what should we do about this youngling?" Tory said as he pointed his dagger at Aric, blood dripping from the blade one drop at a time.

"I .. I am just a bell boy.. I am innocent. This is my first adventure. Please.. I will never speak of this.." Aric went on his knees and begged. He was frightened out of his wits.

"Captain, he says that we should leave since he is innocent. Hahahah.. Didn't you hear what your Captain said before? You belong to a rich family. If we let you go, you will use your family to get security and later snitch on us. We can't let you do that. I am sorry but you will have to die." Tory said.