Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 58

Noticing unusual shadows and leaves rustling, I don't remember any monsters from the Dradevow Dungeon book that exhibit this behavior, so it's definitely got to be people who are following me.

I stopped walking and turned to face the people following me. I was in a hurry and would rather deal with them now than later.

"Hey, all of you come out; I know you're there."

Hearing my shout, there was a moment of silence before they came out of hiding, one by one.

I counted seven people, three of whom I recognized as the people who approached me in the village. They all looked to be well-armed, and one seemed to be a mage.

My intuition warns me that they intend to harm me, which means they are most likely red-listed or black-listed adventurers.

Black-listed adventurers are expelled adventurers who are wanted criminals for breaking the law. However, red-listed adventurers are like black-listed adventurers, but the main difference is that they are in the guild and haven't been caught yet.

Seeing my predicament, I thought to myself, this is a good opportunity because I get to try out my new daggers.

Pointing their weapons at me, one of them said.

"Hey kid, give us your key, and maybe we'll let you go."

The person who said that to me was the guy who approached me first back in the village. His smiley demeanor was gone and was replaced with that of a thug.

Hearing a very generic line you can see from a thug or bandit in most fantasy stories, I was unimpressed by his threat and wasn't taking it too seriously.

In all likelihood, they want Maria's key to her house to steal everything inside while she is away. They'll probably kill me if I do what he says to hide the evidence since a dead body is easily disposed of in a dungeon.

From how they hold their weapons, I can tell they are trained and well-experienced, but they have a lot of rough spots, so they aren't too much trouble to deal with. However, the real trouble and unknown variable is the mage in the back because I don't have a lot of experience fighting mages, and I don't know what attribute he has... good.

A big smile started to form around my face from all the excitement inside me, and eventually, a snicker leaked out.

"Heh heh heh."

Hearing me snicker, one of them got angry and said another generic line, thinking that this was funny or something, which I didn't listen to because I was now laughing.

"Ahh, ahh, ahh!. Ahh ha hahahaha!"

As I began laughing out loud from my excitement, they took a step back, as if I were crazy or something.

They had a mage at their party, and I had never fought one on my own; of course, I would be happy about it because Lucia offered me to duel her, but one thing or another came up, which led our duel to be postponed. With them, I get to at least scratch that itch I was having.

The fight started off with three of the closest red-listed adventurers charging at me as their mage's hair glowed a light blue, preparing to cast his spell, which I'm guessing is a spell relating to the water attribute.

They were surprisingly coordinated because I could tell they were planning to force me to move in a certain direction, which was in the line of sight of their mage, who was preparing multiple large ice shards.

I was not about to let that happen and did the opposite of what they wanted.

Putting my daggers in my right hand in a reverse grip, I ran at one of them who was charging at me.