Chapter 6

"Takao. Maybe it's the barbarians." "Then? What should I do?" "I, I will look for it. Then, if I think we couldn't drive them away this time. Please help us." "I see. Very well. I will help you." "Like you said. We need to give you something in exchange for helping us, right? Then I think we couldn't give anything for now. But I will try my best to pay you. So please help us! I still had dreams for the future. And also... I had a woman I loved." "I told you,u right? Maybe I could help you without you giving anything to me. But once I know that you are unworthy of my help. I will leave you behind." "Yes! I promise! We are worthy of your help!" "Yeah. But I still don't know if my magic is potent enough." "You could try on them." "But wait. Why now? Why are they attacking now?" "We just completed the harvest a few days ago. Next week. A merchant will come by here and will buy all of it since we couldn't go to the city to sell it ourselves." "I see. Then let's go. I will go outside undetected first." "Martin. Please hurry!" He then opened the door. "I'm coming." They rushed towards the city gate. There. They saw twenty-seven barbarians. And in front of them. A hulking figure who wears more armor than they do and holds a gigantic axe. Which seems to imply that it is their leader. "Hey! Cowards! Give us your harvest and resources! Or if you don't want to. We will all slaughter you inside there once and for all! You might not want a piece of me. The MIghty Gallenhorn! Whahahaha!" "What should we do? Everyone? Village chief, maybe we should just give it. We could still survive since they are not taking all." A rather young-looking man spoke to an old man. Who is the village chief "But some of us died from hunger. Even if we gave them the harvest, and managed to survive. How about the others who died from hunger? They are just benefiting as long as we are living. I don't know what we could do. I don't want us to die from hunger... But as long as we live. They are just benefiting." "We will fight." "Martin?" Martin holds a spear. "We will fight. The village chief is right. If we are still living. They are just benefiting. But we must fight now. Either they decimate us all, or we win. It doesn't matter. Those people are fools. If they kill us. They won't get anything at all. They will leave this place if we all die. But if we managed to win. It is much better. So we will fight." "Then what do you want? The kids will be robbed of their future! We adults could go on. We must focus on the kids. For their future!" Said by a woman who seems to be nearly in her 3030s "Then that gives us more reason to fight! Not just for the children but for everyone! I'm just seventeen. That means I still have a future to go on. I don't want to die here. We will fight. But I'm pretty sure that We won't die." "How could you say we wouldn't die? Their leader,w whom we never saw before, is here. How could you say that? Aren't you scared of that person? His figure is enough to make us tremble." "There's only one person that I feared. And he's always here." "Who?" "Hey!!! Stop talking and give us what we want!" Said by Gallenhorn. "He, you! Three of you! Go there and get it." "Yes!" All of the barbarians have big bodies. But Gallenhorn's body is the only one that is the biggest. The three barbarians started walking towards the gate. "Now. Tell me. Will we fight or not? All you! All the guards. Stand with me and let's drive them away." "Yeah. I had faith in Martin. Since he's the strongest in this village. I will fight with you!" "Me too!" "Me too!" Until all the village guards agreed to fight after grabbing from their sheaths their designated weapons. "Hey, give it to us. The harvest." "We won," Martin said and stabbed the barbarian with his spear. "Hey! You want a fight!?" Another barbarian said. But the other 2 are annihilated due to being outnumbered. "Those idiot villagers wanted a fight, huh? Teach them a lesson and kill some of them!" He sent ten of them, and the other fourteen remained on his side. The two sides met. And Martin took the first kill. Martin is the most skilled warrior. They just couldn't fight before because they didn't want more corpse rolling. But now. The guards wanted vengeance, and so they took a final stance against them. Martincano killed three of them easily. But some of them are injured now due to the difference in body strength. "Shit. I had to help them." Martin quickly came to help the others. After a while. They won without any of the guards dying, which is a total of twenty in number, but almost half of them are severely wounded and couldn't fight anymore. The remaining fourteen charged towards them. I believe in you. Takao. Please help us. Martin and the remaining village guards charged, too. Though they are outnumbered this time. They still went and fought them. "Whaaaa!!!!" Martin charged and took on 4 enemies at once. They circled him. Martin stabbed the first one, which went through the body. That then instantly dies. He kicked the face of an enemy on his back. That then made it step back. He proceeded to intercept the attack from the left and kicked that person's crotch. Which dealt an excruciating pain. Disabling that person from moving for a few seconds gives Martin the window to cut him down. He then used the handle to hit the last person on his belly and cut him down, too. And just like before. He proceeded to help others and succeeded in winLuckilynd, none of them died. Martin can help them all. Gallenhorn then proceeds to charge at him. "You're good! Kid!" He launched an attack on Marting. But then somebody intercepts it. Seemingly out of nowhere. Takao appeared and blocked it. "What!? With bare hands?" Gallenhorn exclaimed. "That should be enough." He placed his palm flat on Gallenhorn's stomach. Then Gallenhorn suddenly launched fifty meters away. "Can't believe I could do things like Fa Jin like that here in such an exaggerated way." "Takao?"