Chapter 7: The Outsider

Here it is the Seventh chapter! It took extra time. The team is sorry about it.

The flue is going around here and combined with the college project, chapters are taking time to get published. However, we assure that it will not become habit.

And please tell us if you agree with the naming of the skeleton or if you have some alternatives.

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The distant horizon looked as the endless void of black. The sky as always was dark and turbid grey like the darkest dusk.  

The greyness in the sky kept on rolling but whether it was cloud or fog it could not be seen clearly. There was neither day nor night, not even the notion of time.

The forest, it had already lost all the vitality of the forest millions of years ago.The towering trees had only the body and the thick branches remaining in them. Hanging on the trees were the faint traces of web-like of spider, but they could not be the spider web. No spider could survive here.

There was mud all over the ground and one or two bubbles would appear from time to time in the grey mud. Occasionally, there would be skeletons of god knows what creature floating up and would spin and swallowed again by the mud.

The wind was damp and had a cold smell, blowing with it the stench of the dead forest.

Here was the world, paradise for death and devil.

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Romance had no idea how long it had been in this forest. It cannot remember where he came from. He just had the memory of that “Rogge” creature that gave it its name. 

The romance felt the instinctive felt like vomiting about the name; however, it had no idea where this feeling came from. It wanted to spit just thinking of the name. Spit, ah it felt familiar to this word, but it could not recall how to spit. Of course, what can it spit?

It was bleak here, the skylights mottled on the ground and in its body through the branches of the towering trees. 

Romance just wanted to get out of this forest, but as to why it wanted and where it wanted to go, it had no idea. I guess it was an instinct.

Romance could at times feel the faint trace of the energy from the “Rogge”, the person from up there. 

Romance also knew that he couldn’t refuse the commands of Rogge. This world had many things that Romance didn’t understand. 

But this energy made him comfortable, making him more powerful, but it was too little. He felt as the helpless traveller in the middle of the desert that only had a drop of water at a time to quench the thirst.

The romance was extremely hungry and thirsty. He was carrying a rusty knife, and aimlessly wandering in the forest, he himself had forgotten where he had gotten the knife.

He was very careful to avoid a number of local areas where his intuition told him that there was a strong and evil presence.

However, Romance was extremely clever, and while facing the skeletons like himself, he always came with some clever way to knock them down as they carried with them an energy that can satiate his hunger and thirst.

He had forgotten the day when he found some fine quality bones, and he used those bones to fill the empty place in his 24 ribs. 

The romance felt that his ribs should number 24. 

This patching of his ribs had led to exhaust his energy that he had been saving. If not for the timely energy transfer from the Rogge, he didn’t know if he could confront his first zombie.

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The fight had been going for a long time. Zombie’s strength was not something that Romance could compete with. And after playing with three broken bones, Romance finally realized that he could not overcome the Zombie with the direct confrontation. 

Romance keeping its distance began to circle around the zombie, and every now and then cutting the rotten flesh from the zombie.

By the time Zombie fell, Romance had less than 20 ribs in him.

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When other skeletons and zombies meet each other they didn’t seem to mind each other nor did they attack each other.

However, what Romance couldn’t understand was that whenever he saw them, he did whatever it took to beat them.

“I am hungry”. Skeleton kept on thinking.

There was no idea of time, and Romance was constantly wandering. He didn’t know how long he had wandered, nor did know how long he has to.

The forest seems to never end.


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After the fight at the small building, Rogge was interested in the skeleton that could play dead.

In the dead of night, on the second floor of the building, often a person and a skeleton stood eye to eye staring at each other. 

However, after trying countless times to mentally communicate with the skeleton, without any result, Rogge finally lost interest.

Rogge didn’t know where the rusty knife of the skeleton came from. He tried to study for a long time but did not get any results, so he no longer delved into it.

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The Weather was getting hotter by the day. and before he knew, it was time to leave the Magic Academy. 

Rogge had already passed his 20th birthday and the exam was in a few days. 

In the past several months, he had read more than 30 volumes of the history of the continent. He also had read a lot of adventure, travel biography, and all kinds of notes.

Emmett had passed the magic exam three months ago, was now working towards developing himself as a magic knight.  After all, he was too wasted as the magician considering his big body.

Keith had become a good Rank 5 knight under the training of his old man, according to common belief, the father and son seem to be in the path of becoming the Dark Knight.

As for the Lawrence and Franco, instead of being idle they have improved their swordsmanship. What was more unusual was that, instead of chasing the women, art and wasting money on wine most of that money was used to own good equipment, so their strength far more than their actual Rank.

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Few people are really aggressive by nature but were forced by the situation. 

After the fight in the small building, there were some situations when somebody tried to seek and seize the relatives of the mercenary group but some people would jump out to help.

The sword and blood rose mercenary group was not large; it was not even a third-rate mercenary group.

But the head of the group (the Mage who died) was known as a magnanimous person. 

Moreover, Kiwei had her own charm and her pursuers were numerous.

There were many mercenaries that knew the truths and were willing to take revenge.


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The weather was hot, the people were moving as their will had dried up. 

On the day of the examination, in the examination room, Rogge showed the two finger-flame magic to the examiner to fulfil the requirement of the exam, letting him pass the examination. 

He was rewarded with the mage robe and in the afternoon he went to the mage guild to register, officially becoming a junior magician.

After passing the exam, if he wished he could be recruited as the Rhine city magician and withdraw the monthly allowance of 5 gold coins. 

But after going through the belly full of history books, Rogge had entirely another idea.


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"Tink" a few wine glasses touched each other heavily.

"We brothers have not been together for a while, Grandma, there are killers everywhere, and come, today we will not return till we are not drunk."

The bear-like Emmett was taller than a pure knight Keith. He raised his glass high and drank it in one breath.

Keith's face was full of vigour and had the look of righteousness. He was flushed red at the moment.

As for Lawrence and Franco, their looks were also pretty handsome but were considered ordinary in the nobility as the noble ladies were also pretty good.

This group of people had faced not little risk together and nearly died many times this year, which lead to the forging of a deep friendship.

“Brothers, tomorrow I will go to Fort Worth to join the guard there. Alas, we cannot keep in gathering like this. But later you guys must often come to visit me there; certainly, the travel expense is not that much.” At that Keith had a depressed look on his face.

Franco said: “Farborg, it is the one that is close to the magic forest. There are many thieves and monsters nearby."

"I heard that recently Rowen Duchy also frequently had a small band of scout passing through that forest to reconnaissance. You have to be careful”.

Keith took a sip of wine and said: "My father insisted on me going there to accumulate the military exploits; he said this will be good for me." 

"Besides, the captain of the knight garrisoned at the fort and my father is childhood friends so he will take care of me. Last time he visited the family, he gave me a black elf breastplate.”

“Brothers, Farborg’s a good place!” Rogge was spirited. 

He sat straight in the chair and said: "That place is close to the magical forest, close to the front lines. There are many adventurers!"

"This time Keith will be there as a cavalry captain……. Ah? Is it Platoon leader? It doesn’t matter, isn’t the head of the knights your family friend?"

"We can have a good development there. Think about what those adventurers, monster hunters, even the military need?"

"It is Weapons!"

If we open a weapon shop wouldn't it be a heaven-sent?"

"It is not good to do what everybody is doing, there are many restrictions, but why do we have to limit ourselves to the restrictions?”

“ Think again, those who enter the magical forest, how do they earn money?"

"Yes, they hunt monster for their monster crystals, fur and sell them for money. We do not have that strength to hunt monsters at the moment, but we can purchase their prey. These things, in the hand of Frost, are perfect material for the magic items.” 

Then we sell those magic items back to those adventurers, we just sit there not taking the risks and just taking profit over and over.

Lawrence also became spirited. 

“There are 200,000 people in Farborg, and there are ought to be a lot of beauties. Keith is an official there so we don’t have to live like this rather as the grandchildren of the kings. I'm okay with the plan, Roggee, I am partnering with you. ”

"When it comes to taking the risk your eyes shines brightly, you had not had enough of that girl last time, huh?" Emmett laughed and stared at Lawrence.

"Damn it, why am I so unlucky, pulled legs at me to say hello. Made me unable to touch any woman for a month, grandma, and later could not even taste her for all my trouble! ”Lawrence gnashed his teeth.

 "That girl, are you still thinking about her?" Franco asked.

"Of course, I am, how could I let her go so easily. How about it brothers, let’s go to my place later tonight”

The people at the table laughed.


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They kept on drinking wine. Except for the Keith, rest of the people were unemployed and were raring to have a go at the plan.

And hence, they agreed to go to the Farborg Fort together, and open a weapon shop to purchase and sell the goods to the adventurers.

Keith went first, and the remaining people packed up and left together after a few days. 

As for the Frost, he had been dragged off by Rogge, but his stuff at the lab will take some more time to move them.


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Around midnight, several people swayed out of a pub, their robes stained with wine.

When they reached a dark street, several people dressed in masks suddenly jumped out and circled those few people in the middle.

"You scums, deserve to die! Today I will avenge Kiwei."

A few sighs sounded, this opening statement had been heard at least seven or eight times till now.

Several masked men flashing their weapons rushed towards the people in the middle of the circle, and one magician in the sidelines began chanting an incantation.

Suddenly a crossbow bolt flew like lightning and entered the chest of the magician, Rogge, now was known as mage killer. 

Meanwhile, several surrounded people took out their weapons from under their robe; their action didn’t slightly exude of being drunk. Moreover, under their long robe, they impressively were fully armed.

 With the tacit understanding, they rushed together to meet with the attack of the masked men in front of them.

 The masked men were shocked, one rolled, fell into the roadside ditch and finally escaped the fatal disaster.

The people in the long robe immediately broke through the siege and fled. The masked men were like a spilt bag of soybeans, letting the ambush go belly-up, only to watch them disappear into the night.

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Chapter 6: Withered ( Part Two)

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Rogge felt like he fell into an ice cave, and watched the great sword coming closer to him. It was still impossible to move.

Two swords from both side of the Rogge suddenly reached over and held the great sword. The greatsword borrowed a force to gently bounce and suddenly became extremely light and kept on moving toward the Rogge. 

However, all the incoming attacks were blocked as if two long swords were woven into a tight net of swords. Apparently, the people holding the two swords were not simple.

After the blast like attacks passed, the sword lights dissipated and Kiwei, gasped for breath, holding the sword still pointed towards Rogge. 

Her face was pale, she was wearing a set of leather armour, her eyes bloodshot, and bruises vaguely visible in her neck.

At the same time, three shadows exited from the building, appearing in front of the group. Seeing this, several people beside Rogge moved to meet them together.

Surprisingly, those three shadows were the same mercenaries of that day in the bar. Only the mage seems to be missing from the group.

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At this point not far from them a loud shout rang: "Bold rebel, dare to attack the city guards of the Kingdom?!"

With that Sonorous sound, a squad armoured soldiers rushed over under the leadership of a heavily armoured knight and surrounded them and the building.

The people fighting with the Kiwei also tore the robes, revealing the soft armour inside with the city guard logo.

Rogge quickly retreated to one side and Emmett and others also came over and sneering at the female warrior.

The knight in heavy armour without saying a word pointed his Lance forward, and then the soldiers immediately swarmed, slashing their sword toward the mercenaries with the intent to kill.

At this moment, the mercenaries knew that they had fallen into the trap and without losing any time retreated into the building, pulling away from the soldiers.

From the Second floor, of that small building, the sound of an incantation could be heard and the next moment a large fireball came blasting in the midst of the group of the soldiers. The heat from the fireball mercilessly burned the bare skin of the soldiers.

Followed closely the second fireball flew down, a few soldiers who had been seriously injured immediately turning into fire people, screaming and falling down.

On the window of the second floor appeared the missing mercenary mage with both of his hands circulating deep frozen cold air. Numerous icicles rained down from his hands into the soldiers, a few of them immediately frozen like ice sculpture by the cold air and the icicles broke them into pieces.

Immediately after the attack, a gap appeared among the tight formation surrounding Kiwei and others and they seized the opportunity and immediately rushed out of the encirclement.

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A tall soldier threw a rope to the window and wrapped it around the mage and pulled him down. But mage leapt out from the window and tried to float away in the air and escape.

Seeing this, the heavy armoured knight gave a loud shout his whole body flashed with the dark blue colour. The lance in his hands flew like a meteor and nailed the mage in the wall firmly through his chest.

Kiwei screamed and tried to go back. However, the mercenary warriors beside her held onto her tightly and put her on his shoulder and depart rapidly.

Another mercenary chanted a brief incantation, throwing out a scroll, which upon impact with the ground, many plant vines started to emerge from the ground, their branches crazily flying in the air.

Any objects touched by the vines were immediately wrapped within them. Several fast soldiers that were closely chasing the mercenaries were immediately entangled.

The mercenary took this opportunity to disappear in the slums.

Rogge looked at the direction that female warrior disappeared, was lost in thought, knowing fully well that she will never let go of this. 

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Heavy armoured knight looking at the injury of his men, coldly snorted.

Keith walked over and asked the knight: “Dad, what now?”

The knight was silent for a long time and then sighed.

“Your troubles are yet to come in the future.”

“Hey soldier”. He attracted the attention of a soldier and whispered something and the soldier went way.

"You want to bully the people, be domineering!? First, you have to have good skill to back it up, train well," the knight looked at Keith and the company and said while pulling away.

A little while later, in each of the city gate, a group of knight squads posted a notice offering a reward in the bulletin board. 

“Wanted”

Sword and Blood Rose Mercenary Group

This mercenary group premeditated rebellion against the king and the kingdom. After failing, killed the members of the city defence Army!

At the present, the head of the group, Kiwei and its three leading members are at large. 30 ordinary members of the group are at large!

Capture or kill!

500 gold coin reward for one who captures or kills each of the main members! The reward of 30 gold coins for each of the ordinary members!

Informants reward half the bounty!

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Chapter 6: Withered

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A sharp stabbing pain brought unconscious Kiwei back to reality. She groaned and tried to caresses the wound on her hand, but found that she could not move both of her hands. Next moment another sharp pain suddenly erupted in her body, this time she was completely awake.

Like a nightmare a fat face slowly become clear in front of her eyes, the face was so close that even the pores on the nose could be seen.

Kiwei was so startled that she screamed and she instinctively wanted to jump and get away.

However, both her hands couldn't move behind her back. She lost her balance and fell heavily on the table. 

There was another sharp pain in her buttocks, but this time she nearly fainted.

"Beauty, don't be so scared. The night is still long." The fat face said while revealing a sly expression.

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Kiwei calmed down a bit and observed her situation. The room she was in was rather large, and about a dozen candles were lit on the chandelier hanging from the ceiling,lightening the room brightly.

The furniture in the room was brand new and one could see at a glance that they were made using inferior wood. The wall had a brilliant gold colour that expressed the owner’s taste.

But Kiwei was more worried about herself. She quickly found that her hands were tied firmly behind her back and she was laying face down on a big experiment table.

The Fat man’s hands were holding a small plier that was clamping a crossbow bolt stained with the fresh blood. 

He brought it in front of his face, looking carefully at it for a moment then tossed to the side. 

He reached out and then gently picked up Kiwei’s chin.

“Ha-Ha, you are looking pretty good." "Ah, why are not you being fierce? Not going to hit me huh? Could it be that this sort of rough treatment feels good to you?”

“Great beauty, I shot this arrow in a really nice place, it seems that I have a real talent for archery.”

Hearing that female warrior let out a cry, and mercilessly bit down Rogge’s hand that was on her chin.

Seeing that, Rogge quickly pulled back and grabbed her hairs, pulling them up. 

A painful expression appeared in Kiwei’s face, and as her whole upper body was pulled up, revealing the curves of her chest.

Rogge's hands touched them and Kiwei felt as if the cold snakes were crawling on her body.

However, her hair was caught, making it hard for her to struggle free.

Finally, she could not stop the tears from flowing down from her closed eyes.

Kiwei was half a head higher than Rogge, as, for her skirt, chest armour had already been stripped by Rogge.

Her body now revealed soul-stirring thin waist, bare hips huge and plumps, long and straight healthy legs.

Rogge was so excited that his ten fingers were deeply immersed in the slippery hips followed by the waist and entering the softness.

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The candlelight in the small building swayed along with hoarse curse of the female warrior, the poor inferior experiment table squeaking unable to withstand the burden of two people.

The devil dancing in the fire and the resentful spirits howling.

Rogge was trembling, the tides of pleasure were intertwined with the joy of the revenge so that every piece of his fat body was shaking. 

The deepest part of his heart was boiling, unceasingly impacting his every nerve.

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The early spring nights were still cold and the blowing cold wind withering the flowers that had not even begun to bloom.

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Rogge smugly hummed a song and looked at the snow-white lamb that was captured by him.

The soreness in his body seemed to be singing. 

Not long ago, this lamb became a lion. 

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Rogge put on his clothes and decided to go look for Emmett and the company and so that they too could have a look at the prey.

The only thing that kept bothering him was Kiwei’s eyes. They were completely cold, completely cold, no sorrow nor anger, just empty coldly looking at the fat man.

Rogge felt like a frog that was being stared by a snake and he didn't like that feeling.

He bounded Kiwei with another rope and naturally touched her a few more. But Kiwei had no reaction, as if it was not even her body, quietly staring a fat person like a snake.


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Roger hastily left, almost to escape those murderous gazes.

The best way to escape this, of course, was to kill her, but currently, Rogge did not possess such courage. Besides, it would be a pity to kill such a great beauty.

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Emmett and the company excitedly came to the small building, the building looked like a storm has passed through and everything was smashed and upside down.

Their heart grew cold and suspiciously rushed to the second floor to see the large experimental table empty except for the bundled rope used to bind the female warrior.

Keith picked up the broken end of the rope, looked closely at it and said, “It has been snapped, god can anyone snap this thick rope, was she really captured by you!?

Rogge remembering the female warrior who bore the grudge, suddenly broke the cold sweat.

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Emmett being the oldest, and with more experience, was the first to calm down."Guys don't panic; they still do not know who we are. But Rogge, you can't stay in this building any longer."

Everyone slowly calmed down. When the panic was over, Lawrence raked his brain and said: “I am afraid  they are going to set fire to the building."

 “In for a penny, in for a pound. Now, this matter has been reached this point, that it is impossible to think of the good way to escape, the only way is to a pre-emptive strike." 

"Time is running out, we have to act together."

If they dare to set the building on fire then let them. Let me think of an idea, understanding the thinking of these mercenaries was no trick.” 

To the not much speaking Franco, this all was too much leaving him in a daze.

They deliberated for a while, eliminated any trace of them having been there and quickly left.

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In the alley, Rogge and several people with the appearance of nobility were swayed to the small building, Whispering along the way, laughing loudly and talking about men's common topics.

They walked up to the small building and stood in front of it. One person next to Rogge suddenly said, “No, some people have gone in. There is an ambush here."

“Thud”

At this point, a loud sound came and the door crashed open with the fragments of the door, a sword light arrived in front of Rogge, seconds away from chopping him in half.

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Chapters 5: Kill

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Looking at the gradually moving closer, the female warrior, Roger forced himself to calm down.

Run or not to run.

As for fighting, the fight between low raked warrior and the low-rank mage could only have one result.

While Rogge could not see Kiwi's strength, he knew that she was of at least seventh-eighth Rank.

Even if the opposite party was just a three-ranked warrior, looking at the way she was armed, there was absolutely no way to fight with her on his own with only a magic ring.

For now, the only option was to introduce her to his newly acquired building. Only by relying on the traps and instruments laid there can he have some hope of winning against her.

Once Rogge decided on his plan, he started to look around to prepare for his escape. To his rear was ruin, and many poor people had built simple shacks in it.

Going forward through the alley, and walking another 500 meters was his own small building. But unfortunately, Kiwei was in front of him, blocking his path.

Rogge retreated a little in the alley. After pausing for a moment started to chant an incantation.

Kiwei stared coldly at Rogge and waited for him to finish his incantation while dangling her greatsword behind her.

A red light flashed in Rogge’s hand and two magic arrows flew towards the female warrior, right at her chest.

Ping …… Ping…..

Blue sparks erupt in her breastplate but other wiseKiwei seemed unharmed.

Seeing this Rogge quickly chanted another incantation for the flame spell.

A flame shoots past him toward Kiwei but they too are stopped by blue lights of her breastplate.

Obviously, that was anti-anti magic amour, no matter how low grade it was, against Rogge’s magic there was no problem.

Rogge felt the cold sweat falling down on his head, all the fat in his face shaking. While he was getting ready to chant his third spell, suddenly the figure of the female warrior disappeared for her place.

In the next moment, Kiwei appeared in front of Rogge, her nose almost touching his.

Rogge only felt a strong force colliding with his abdomen and in the next moment, even with his newly gained strong body, he could not stand the force.

…….“wou’”...

And his today’s meal was thrown out on the ground.

Kiwei, then hit the back of Rogge with the hilt of her sword, knocking him to the ground and kicked him few feet away.

Rogge’s mouth and nose were starting to bleeding.

Kiwei flipped Rogge over with her feet, and viciously said,

“Aren’t you very fierce? You wanted me, don’t you? Come on, let me see how much of the capital do you have, can you satisfy me?” saying this she raised her foot and stepped on the Rogge’s crotch, severely trampling with her silver leather boot.

Rogge's whole face immediately turned into liver-coloured, unable to make a sound. With both hand he clasped the boot of female warrior, trying in vain to remove the foot away.

Kiwei with a cruel smile, heavily smashed a few more time before removing her foot.

Grasping for breath Rogge opened his big mouth and rolled hard in the ground clutching his injured place. Uttering a couple of whines once, time to time.

With disgust, Kiwei looked at the fat man with a disgusted look and said, "why, What’s wrong, are the two down there good? Are you still a man? AH….There are many more methods, this grandma, have not used. Today you will experience all of them equally.”

The female warrior put aside her greatsword and suddenly saw Rogge staring at the alley behind her, happiness surfacing in the depth of his eyes. Kiwei sneered in her heart at this attempt to trick her.

However, she turned, pretending to be deceived. What she wanted was for Rogge to attack her or for him to try escape, so that she can catch him and bring him back.

"These silly nobles, never having any fresh ideas.”

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Behind her a soft buzzing sound rang, Kiwei immediately felt that something was wrong.

Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her buttocks, a short crossbow bolt was stuck in her snow-white skin.

Kiwei was wearing a very short skirt, moreover, Rogge had shot from the bottom up, plus the tall stature of the female warrior, that really was no place for a crossbow arrow to be stuck into.

Kiwei’s heart was filled with shame and anger; she grabbed the great sword, desiring to hack this despicable man.

As soon as she turned around, a sharp pain shot up, and  Kiwei immediately felt dizziness filling her head.

In addition to that, her wound was getting numb and she was feeling tingling sensation there, apparently, the arrow was coated with drugs.

She then stretched her hand to explore the extent of the wounds, only to wet her hands with blood, apparently, the short bolt was stuck deep into the muscles.

Kiwei took a deep breath and gave a sigh of relief.

“Boom”

She moved little farther away and suddenly a white light suddenly flashes and covered her body and disappeared.

Rogge was dismayed in heart, this is terrible! It was hard to say for how long can he maintain his life before the drugs coated in the bolts could take its effect.

Although Kiwei was forcefully repressing the effects of the drugs, for the time being, she didn’t pull the bold immediately, not to mention in front of that despicable fat man, especially from that place. She has to finish the battle in the fastest way possible to resolve this situation.


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In the meantime, Rogge who had already stood up began to chant an incantation, a small flame shot up and flew toward the warrior.

Kiwei didn't try to avoid it, rather she sped up. Just as the flame reached in front of her, Rogge blinked and suddenly the breastplate together with the inner cloth of Qi  Wei was lifted by an invisible hand. In that occasion allowing the sensitive parts of her body to have the taste of fire. 

Moreover, the bonus was that Kiwei could not stand the overwhelming power and shrieking painfully, squatted down.

However, Kiwei quickly recovered, and immediately pulled down the breastplate to cover her chest, this humiliation had let her lose her sanity momentarily.



At the same time, Rogge suddenly rushed up to her and threw punches and kicks towards her, although they lacked the technique and methodology that a warrior posses, the movements were agile and the strength was powerful.



"How can a little magician and an injured one at that can be like that ??"

Kiwei was shocked and while blocking a storm of attacks, tried to fight back.

Rogge, however, instead of continuing the fight, actually broke through from the side and fled.

Kiwei almost fainted with anger. Despite the pain, she clenches her teeth and chased him.

Just at that time, the sounds of tables and chairs being knocked over in panic drifts over from the second floor.

Listening to that the rage in her chest began to burn up again. She rushed over to the stairs leading to the second floor.

Kiwei had jumped up the stairs.

"Click"

Just when she put her right foot on the stairs she heard the sound and the stairs collapsed.

Seeing this Kiwei didn't panic and kicked left and right on the wall, not falling down rather slowly climbing up.

She was afraid that there would be another ambush; hence she extended the great sword on the stairs a before climbing to the second floor.

"Swish"

Two crossbow bolts shot over to the female Warrior.

Kiwei used that great sword to shot them down.  However, she could not avoid the cutting of a barely visible thread. A Flash of lightning and a lightning trap on the wall next to her was triggered.

Kiwei, who was in the air, was unable to dodge in time, was rendered numb by the electricity and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, this trap was not very powerful, moreover, she also had anti-magic defence equipment. She experienced dizziness for a while and otherwise, she was fine.

Hearing a smug and ugly laughter coming from the second floor Kiwei gritted her teeth and rushed upward.

Just as she rushed over the corner, she heard a loud bang and, Kiwei immediately saw stars and flew backwards and fell heavily on the ground.

It turned out that a transparent energy barrier placed there. The trap was heavily impacted by the Kiwei's body and after it flashed a couple of time, it lost its effects.

Kiwei who fell to the ground couldn’t get up for a while.

The female warrior barely supported her body with the help of the great sword and walked down the stairs.


"This damn building, who knows what tricks are still there, I will let go of this asshole for now and wait until tomorrow to burn down this pig house.” Kiwei thought bitterly.

…………………………….


Rogge crossed seven-eight houses and ran to a small building, opened the door on a flashed in.

"Well, letting me see your kennel, I will see how you can run now!”

Female warrior rushed forward and kicked down the door, but felt the burst of dizziness come over her, the wounds in her body also began to throb more painfully.

Kiwei took a deep breath, letting the refreshing night air sober her up.

A black fog suddenly drifts over and skeleton “Romance” stood there in front of the female warrior blocking her path.

Rogge was also not feeling good, his mana had run out and his injuries were not light; summoning his pet “Romance” was his last capability.

He sat on the second floor, watching the fighting downstairs. This place was still safe if Kiwei wanted to rush to him, there were at least three more traps waiting for her.

Romance seemed to be little different than before, now it was holding a rusty knife, moreover, its ribs seem to be more complete.

Kiwei harrumphed and rushed forward, greatsword slashing towards the Romance’s neck in an oblique angle.

Romance lifted his rusted knife to block, however, the female warrior took this power to lightly curve her sword path again to strike the neck of the skeleton.

The skeletons had lifted hands to parry the strike but couldn't stop the attack.

Its raised bare bones couldn’t withstand the impact and with the twittering sound, the arm bone was cut down.

Romance swayed and fell on the ground and didn’t move again.

Kiwei coldly snorted, this was the waste of mana, summoning a skeleton that has no use in the current situation. Kiwei leapt over the skeleton in the ground and walked towards the door.

Behind her, came a swishing sound of the wind and Kiwei felt something wrong in her heart. She immediately squatted down and put the great sword behind her back

When the sound was heard a rusty knife heavily slashed into the greatsword.

And before Kiwei could react, it kicked heavily in her arm, wounding her.

Kiwei looked back and saw that it was a skeleton “ Romance”, and could not help but gasp,

“Skeleton played dead??”

Kiwei for the first time felt that this building was eerie.

Rogge was also dumbfounded.

...........


However, the Kiwei and the skeleton started another melee fight, but the Kiwei gradually began to gain the upper hand, after all the difference in the strength was too vast.

Just as she was preparing to completely smash the skeleton into pieces, it turned into a black fog and vanished.

Rogge seeing the situation was bad for the skeleton, unsummon the skeleton back to its world.

 “Bang”

 A sound rose in the building and Kiwei felt dizzy, but before losing consciousness, vaguely saw the fat man holding an iron bar, was grinning and looking at her.

EdN: We had a good and heated in regards to the division of this chapter and some of us wanted to post in two but in the last we decided to post it in a go. Hope you all will appreciate that. Thank nes for that she was very against the division.





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Chapter 4: Nest

Here is the third chapter of the week….. We intended to post these couple of hours ago but fragrantpig89 fell asleep while editing.  And as for the compensation we are making fragrantpig89 do the editing of chapter 5 too. So there is high possibility of another chapter tomorrow. ( if the sleep didn't win over)

TL: Shovatranslations

EDts: Fragrantpig89 

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The morning after the first snow, Rhine city looked as if the whole city was covered in silver. 

The rays of the sun were being reflected off the ice in the treetops, creating a festival of bright colors.

All the dirtiness and the ugliness of the city seemed to have been washed clean overnight.

This year winter came early to the Rhine city, and the noble and rich people of the city were just as happy. Its time for noble and rich ladies to show off their new winter dresses.


Solon was the slum area, located in the Southwestern area of the city.

It was a forgotten corner of the city where all sorts of people with lower occupation and income gathered, a haven for criminals.


For the people here, the arrival of the winter was not a good thing. For it meant, patching up the dilapidated houses, preparing the clothing and fuels for the winter.

On the edge of the Solon, Rogge was standing in front of an old two-story house, watching his new nest with satisfaction.

The building was in the excellent location, of course, this was only the case for a few people, such as Rogge.

Not far from the Small building was a small cemetery, surrounded by tall oak trees. Which looked dark and gloomy even int he sunny and cloudless days.

Rogge opened the door with a pleasant mood and went in.

The building seemed to be unused for some time and many pieces of furniture were covered with dust and cobwebs. Half of the Blinds in the house were not working.

Beside the living room, there was a wooden staircase that led to the second floor.

The second floor had three rooms, one large and two small. The large one, Rogge was preparing himself to use it as the study, as for the two small ones, one for a storage room, and second as a laboratory.

Heaven knows, Rogge has a place where he can experiment, at least for now.

Due to the unique location, that building cost Rogge only 50 gold coins. Just a week ago, this was Rogge’s a year's living expenses and tuition fees.

However, today there were 350 coins in his pocket.

The staff that he seized a week ago from the mercenary mage was of good quality.

It was a high-grade staff with water affinity and good equipment for the water mage.

Because Rogge brilliant record of single-handly taking care of two warriors and a mage, Lawrence, and others believed that the staff should go to him.

After Rogge spent a few days thinking, he finally summed that the staff was of little use to him, therefore sold the staff for 400 gold coins.


Rogge had never held so much in his life.

The annual income of his father viscount Reeves from the rent of various land and other taxes summed only 300 gold coins. 

Naturally, there will not be much surplus for his son. 

Besides declining nobles are still the nobles, and the necessary social relationship and interaction with other nobles still needed to be maintained. This put heavy economic pressure on old Reaves, resulting in his increasingly irritable temper.

.................

It took a week to set and prepare the building for him to move, and in the process.

Rogge spent 20 gold coins on the set of new furniture. 

Now Rogge laid in his bed full of satisfaction in the study (as his taste, he didn’t feel that there was anything wrong for a bed to be in the study), filled with gold coins around.

For god knows how much desire a son of a declining noble has for the gold coins.

After tossing and turning for the innumerable times, Rogge was finally tired and slept.

After sleeping for a whole night and day and only woke up when the sun was setting in the west.

“Yaaawwwnnn!”

Stretching his waist in a very lazy manner, Rogge jumped out of his bed, and several gold coins dropped in the ground making a jingling sound.

That sound, for Rogge, was very pleasant to hear.

After sleeping a long sleep to wake up to count the money till hands cramp. This was Rogge's happy life.

.................

In the following month, Rogge would return to his new nest from time to time and layered it with a number of booby traps and instruments.

Lawrence and the parties, who have been to the Rogge’s new nest, have several ideas and advice but naturally, most of the ideas were jokes. But occasionally there were also some surprising ideas.

Of course, the arrangements of these rookies were limited in power, but with some sinister twists.


During this period, Rogge learned a new spell, the flame fingers. A small flame erupted from the fingers that can be used to attack the enemy.

However, the power of this Rank two-spell power was extremely limited.

After discovering that the spiritual force can be used in a fight, Rogge began to practice with dogged motivation.

But beyond throwing the cat out of his room in the last January, there has been no further achievement.

Rogge finally understood that he was not going to make any progress any time soon, and his blood subsided. 

And began to look for Emmett and the company and they started fooling around.

Rogge almost forgot that he has a skeleton.

...................

If one wants to be good at his work, one must first sharpen his tools. This point, Rogge understood quite well.

           
The scars left by the old oak fight, let Emmett and others understand this bitter truth.

A few of them bought some high-quality equipment and naturally some that are not up to the standard of the Knights.


Rogge bought a fine elf-made crossbow, one that can be loaded with three bolts, with a simple inscription added to it to slightly increase the magic penetration.


"This is much more convenient to use than throwing a food plate," Rogge shamelessly said to Emmett.

Emmett shared the same feeling and recommended that the bolts should further be dipped on the anesthetic, which Rogge immediately accepted.

.................

These friends have been honest for a month and didn't go out to fool around other than to purchase equipment and spending a lot of their monthly stipends.


The reason was that they were still afraid of meeting those mercenaries. Those mercenaries, if any of them were to be serious, were enough to beat them all.

Although they were not blatant enough to kill a noble, a fleshly pain was inevitable. Moreover, mercenaries were mostly skilled in meting the punishment.

Whenever they thought of that female warrior, they remembered the kick between the legs. Lawrence would always shudder and subconsciously clamp his legs.


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In the city of Lille, capital of the Bavaria Duchy, 200 miles west of Rhine city, in Duke mansion, Orpheus was reading a report of Rogge and the company with full enthusiasm, particularly the action of arming of the crossbow with the toxin and the description of the traps and the instruments in Rogge’s nest.

Erica, who looked like the combination of both ice and black flame, gently picked the report with her slender fingers as if picking up some dirty things. Her bright blue nail glistening under the sunlight.

After reading the report, she was more and more disgusted with the company and couldn’t understand why Orpheus was interested so much in such a waste.

..............

A black flame lit up from her fingers, quickly reducing those reports up in smoke, leaving not even a trace of ash. Her icy crystal like fingers was in a fire, but not a bit burned.

Orpheus didn’t mind that, stood up and walked to the window.

The window was facing west, and the setting sun was tinged with a layer of blood red.


Orpheus's eyes seemed to cross hundreds of miles of space and time, falling on the Rhine. 

The setting sun was getting even more red, covering the thousands of miles of the country in blood. Orpheus blood boiled picturing the bird view of the earth from the house.

..............

Erica, as hidden in the black fire of the purgatory was also stared at the blood red mountains, rivers, and the rising Orpheus.

The ice-cold eyes slowly melted for a moment and a silver-white light flashed past her eyes like the cold light on the sickle.

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As the snow melted in the first sunshine of the spring, Rogge came out from the Frost’s laboratory, silently watching the snow on the roof melting and dropping drip by drip. 

Rogge and Frost had a long talk last night after he finished consulting some questions about magic, the master and apprentice talked about a lot of things as they had a lot in common.

After talking about the legend of a powerful and legendary magician, Frost suddenly sighed and said, “To become the formidable magician, money is absolutely necessary.”

Hearing this Rogge’s eyes lit up. He said, “Yes those great magicians, what they have are priceless equipment.” 

"Ah, the staff that I grabbed off a mercenary mage sold for hundreds of gold coins.”

So the conversation naturally turned to how a magician could make money.

 “Rogge, you are now considered to have the money."

"Of course, they are not enough, you cannot even afford some decent magic materials. However, You were with me for so long, this teacher has not given you anything."

"This magic ring can be of some use to you. And this black crystal, good quality. However, you have to rely on your own effort make into a magical equipment."

"If you do not understand anything in respect to the magic array and inscriptions, come and ask me."

"The rest, you will have to depend on your own hard work."

"Improvement in magic will not be done in one or two days. If you want to quickly become stronger, make money, money will get you good magic equipment. Become powerful and make more money.”

“In the history of man, which of the rich is not influential? As for those legendary mages, all of them are equipped with the great artifacts. While founding figures, emperors, why for them more money is not enough. And which war is not a money-burning war? ”

Frost was still unfinished. 

"As to make money, role knowledge paly is not small. In the road of making money, the first is to recognize the situation, and the second is to understand the people."


 "Know the general trend of the world, know the trend of the time, take advantage of the trend and the opportunity to earn money will all around you. When it comes to knowing people, you must understand the human nature. Sometimes even if you are poor, you can be smart. you can't always have everything. You can gather the world's heroes for your use if you have enough money."

"The last thing is that everyone and everything can be abandoned. you need to have self-knowledge, you can move ahead, and can also retreat if you see things that are not in your favor. You have to have the courage to concede defeat."

"Lose once, lose twice, it doesn't matter, as long as you are not dead you can always make a comeback."

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"Roggee, you are all right, just lack little-bit of perseverance and patience."

"If you have the time to look at the history of the mainland, the roads that the predecessors have traveled can always be a little bit of reference."

"It is important to know that it is not that you are running faster than others on one road, but that you are choosing the right path."


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Rogge heard him with a stunned expression, blood surging in his heart. Who could have thought that usually dull and stiff Frost had such insights? 

Rogge felt that a new world was opened to him, and his heart was filled with the soft light of gold coins.


The magic ring that Frost gave to Rogge was an ordinary magic ring with boosting effect. The boost helped the bearer to control spells more precisely, thus a mage could cast a spell with less magic power.


Because of this one can release lower rank magic without much mana drain.


……………………

Rogge walked with powerful steps towards his house.

Never in his life, had he felt his way, confident of himself.

Everything in the night seems to transmit golden light.

Gold coins, jewelry, and beautiful women seem to be dancing around Rogge.

Oh, look at those towering breasts, those long legs, they are really nice, like the real thing.

"Oh, Why does that face look a bit familiar?"

 “It looks good, bright enough. Where have I seen it?”.............. “This is not an illusion!”

Roger suddenly sobers up from his fantasy and stared at the women walking toward him from the other side of the alley. 

He was stunned to see the female mercenary Kiwei was coming over with a murderous aura. 

"I have been looking you for two months!" the sound that squeezed out of her teeth was like a death bell.

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