Chapter 8 - Sacrifice is the root, Success is the fruit

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~As our team arrived the village of Astraeas, as an old man appeared in front of them

"Welcome" The old man said

"Who are you?" Sky asked

"Well I am the head of this village of course"

"I see, may I ask why there a lot of sick people here?" Ikken asks

"Good question young one, you see my people are deprived of hunger and they got sick, bandits have been attacking us every week stealing our money, food and medicine, it's too bad they'll be attacking again later" The old man explained, he sighed and felt depressed

"We need to find Yoruya" Anya says

"These people are suffering too much" Ikken says with a bitter expression on his face

"Who are these bandits anyway?" Sky asked

"They call themselves the Doves of Peace" the old man replied when Ikken heard this he suddenly punched the wall really hard, everyone was surprised

"Doves of Peace? And for what they did? Cut me some slack, kuh! they piss me off, don't make me laugh" Ikken said really annoyed and pissed off

"Calm down Ikken" Terence said anxiously, suddenly they heard the sound of horses incoming, the people of the village knew they were coming so they immediately panicked and ran into their houses and closed their windows and locked their doors

"Oh no.. They're here sooner than I thought, quick hide yourselves!" The old man exclaimed

"Anya, Sky, take Sonya and Zael  into a safer place, Terence and I will handle this" Ikken says

"What about you?" Sky says

"Just trust me" Ikken says

"You heard him, let's go" Anya says as she pulled Sky, they all went to a safer place while Ikken and Terence also hid somewhere else, the horses arrived and the bandits who rode them went down their saddles

"We are the Doves of Peace! We have come in peaceful harmony! Just give us what we asked for and we'll be on our way!" One of the bandits shouted, the old man approached the bandit and handed him a handful bag of coins

"Let's go!" Ikken says

"This'll do, thank you for your patronage old man, let's go!" The bandit shouted but before he was able to climb his horse, Ikken and Terence decided to take action

"Halt bandits!" Ikken shouted as he and Terence appears in front of them

"You don't know what you doing!" The old man exclaimed, but Ikken just ignored

"Who are you?" the bandit asked rudely

"I'll ask the same thing to you, you call yourselves the Doves of Peace am I mistaken? Doves of Peace my ass, what peace do you bring to this village! Sorry but I will never leave people to suffer" Ikken replied

"Show this brat a lesson!" The leader of the bandits ordered his other fellow bandits, the bandits started to attack Ikken with their daggers, but Ikken dodged all of their attacks

"Is that all you've got?" Ikken says, the leader of the bandits got annoyed and started attacking him too, Ikken suddenly drew his sword and blocked his attack

"Terence, do it" Ikken says

"With pleasure" Terence replied, Ikken strikes the bandits with his sword while Terence fought with him, the other bandits got defeated and the leader was the only one left standing, he pointed his sword toward him

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