Romulus : The Rise Of The Demon

Chapter 29 : What If

"How was that!?" I ask as I judo-flip the thug on the floor. Axel, who is sitting on a sawed timber with three blobs of darkness hovering above him, looks at me with a disapproving look and says, "Its ok. Five out of ten". I pout at him and wait for more thugs to come out of the abandoned sawmill. It's been three days since we had completed the Dread quest in Crux. At first, I was excited because the Dread were such a handful that I thought the quest would be considered as a S-class quest. But when we reported back to Gramps, Axel submitted the conclusion that this quest would have been a high B-class quest; but since the element of assassination was thrown in to the mix, the quest difficulty bumped to A-class level. But since the members of Dread were not officially mages, he concluded that it was a low A-class quest.

Gramps and the whole guild praised me a lot for my achievement. Axel, on the other hand, was asked to hold back his impulse by the lot. He laughed it off, saying how good it felt to blow off the steam he had accumulated for five years, which is something I never understood.

Right now, we are 10 miles from the town of Poiuy, which is exactly 90 miles from Asaria. A horse breeder in Poiuy had issued a low B-class quest stating that 8 of his prized horses, which he had imported from the Kingdom of Tracia Imperial, were stolen from his stables by a gang of thugs. Axel was sceptical at first, stating that I needed some rest before I could go on other quests. But I guess I am stubborn. He had sighed, saying how he hated me for not taking any rest and had reluctantly joined me. The plan was simple. Axel would track down these thugs and I would apprehend them. Before you say how unmanly of him to not help me capture these guys, I assure you that I insisted that I will catch them. The plus point would be that he can see my progress that way.

"Why is it five out of ten?" I ask.

"Because that thug is still conscious", is his reply. I click my tongue in annoyance and kick the thug's face, thus putting him into the realm of unconsciousness. Swiftly​, six more thugs come out of the sawmill. How much would that be? I have already defeated three thugs, so that would mean nine. I extend my arms out towards one person, look at Axel and say, "I discovered an ingenious way of using Gale Thread. Want to see?" Axel gestures his hand, as if indicating 'the stage is yours'. I give him a grin and say, "Wind magic: Gale Thread". Wisps of wind flow towards the man I am pointing at. I grab his waist, hands and legs. The man starts to panic and before he can do anything, I bend my left little finger and the thread which is connected to it causes him to hit himself in his face. I quickly flick my little finger again and he hits himself again.

"MAN! WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF?" one of the thieves asks.

"That girl is controlling me. Kill her", the man says between the punches. The thieves charge towards me but I flick my right middle finger and left index finger at once. The man I am controlling turns towards the charging thieves and kicks one in the stomach. Then, with a series of finger movements, I make the man jab at another person.

"DUDE! WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING US?" screams another thug.

"I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE KIDDING OR YOU WERE BORN DUMB! I JUST EXPLAINED IT A MINUTE AGO THAT THE GIRL IS CONTROLLING ME! FOR GOD'S SAKE! DO SOMETHING!" screams my puppet. Few guys take this as a cue and rush towards Axel. One stays at the back and using Earth magic says, "Earth Creation Technique: Terra Boars" and six boars made of earth rush at Axel along with the other thieves. Well, it was a wrong decision on their part, but I don't blame them. Axel's blobs start spinning in clockwise direction in front of him. Suddenly, the boars are sent flying towards them and they vanish into the void created by the blobs. Axel then pushes the thieves with his leg in my direction and says, "They are all yours, Cassie".