Seeing all these faces, Maxi's emotions seed to overflow for a mont.
"I hope that when you ca here with the intention of killing my n, you were also prepared to die."
Maxi showed absolutely no hesitation; the two knights really felt that they were going to die if they did nothing.
Argan and Tengan looked at each other, their faces betraying their hesitation. Maxi seed young, too young to be a serious threat despite his good looks and wyvern.
The idea grew in their minds that he was perhaps just a nobleman too sure of himself, playing the warrior.
Tengan gripped his sword, ready to risk his life to see if he could really get away with it.
"I have already t a great knight in the capital, and this young man is not one."
Hearing this, Argan slowly nodded. In this situation where he felt extrely close to death, he began to lose so of his lucidity.
Any tiny glimr of hope was worth taking.
"If we kill him, the wyvern might not co after us." he replied to Tengan.
It was a risky bet, but they had no other choice.
In perfect synchronization, the two knights lunged at Maxi, their swords tracing sharp arcs in the air.
They were incredibly fast, and their combat skills were among the best among knights of their level.
But this ti, they were facing soone much stronger than them.
Maxi did not back down.
With a precise movent, he dodged Argan's blade by leaning his body slightly to the side, then caught his wrist in one fluid motion.
"What!?"
Argan tried to escape, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't.
Without a second's hesitation, he exploded his vital seed.
By exploding his vital seed, he knew that he would have absolutely no future as a knight.
But it allowed him to greatly improve his physical abilities.
"If I can survive, no matter the price I have to pay, it will be worth it."
While thinking this, he mobilized all the power of his body and tried to escape from Maxi's firm grip.
His vital energy was such that green energy was escaping from his body, showing all the power he was deploying at the mont.
Faced with this, Liam couldn't believe it.
"Were we really facing such a monster?"
"Only now do I realize how lucky I was to cut off his arm."
Ivan swallowed hard.
"If he had used that strength from the start, we would have died without knowing how..."
Argan's hide seed almost incapable of withstanding such force, and it cracked in many places.
Maria, who was standing obediently behind Maxi a few dozen ters away, showed no expression, but inside she was amused, as if she were watching a show.
"How could the master of a wyvern be defeated by an ordinary knight? Those stupid humans!"
It was also at that mont that Argan began to panic.
"What's going on?"
"No matter how much strength I use, it makes no difference."
At that mont, he saw a smile appear on Maxi's face, and then heard these words:
"This is interesting, I've never faced a knight who can explode his vital seed before... But I'm a little disappointed."
"It turns out that the increase is at most 30%, for , that's still not nearly enough."
In the next second, Maxi pivoted on himself and threw Argan to the ground with brutal force thanks to the hold he had on him.
"Arghh..."
Argan's spine seed to shatter into a thousand pieces due to the violence of the impact, and at the sa ti he spat out a mouthful of blood.
All this happened in less than a second.
And there was still another knight.
Tengan, taking advantage of the opening, tried to pierce Maxi's body with a quick thrust.
But Maxi, with almost superhuman agility, sidestepped and caught the blade with his bare hands, squeezing it so hard that cracks appeared on the tal.
Tengan's eyes widened.
"He's neither a knight nor a great knight... Who is this monster?"
He couldn't help but mutter these words aloud, and Maxi coincidentally heard them.
And that made him smile even more.
"It's true. Currently, I am neither a knight nor a great knight. I am a simple rcenary. More specifically, the captain of the Saber-toothed Tigers."
"In your next life, try to be discreet and don't beco my enemy."
His sentence had barely ended when a fist crashed violently into Tengan's abdon, taking his breath away and sending him rolling several ters.
But it wasn't enough to kill him.
Tengan, still dazed, tried to get up quickly, but a boot crashed down on his chest, crushing him violently to the ground.
The impact was such that the force transmitted through the knight's body created a pit under his body.
It was hard to imagine the state his body must now be in.
The two knights lay there, unable to move, their bodies broken under the devastating force of the young rcenary.
They gasped, unable to utter a word due to the pain.
Liam and Ivan watched the scene with disbelief but also with admiration.
On the dinsional battlefield, because of the power of the Dravaks, they had failed to realize sothing important.
The power of their leader was truly phenonal, and far above that of any knight.
On the battlefield, the silence was heavy, the two knights completely unable to utter a single word.
Finally, after a heavy silence, Tengan stamred:
"We... we surrender..."
Argan growled, but in his current state, surrendering was the only option to stay alive.
"Surrender?" Maxi whispered.
"How could such a good thing exist?"
Maxi's cold words extinguished all hope for the two knights, their expressions changing from anger to sadness very quickly.
A few tears even appeared on the faces of the two knights.
"Please... Cut off my right hand and make disabled if you want, but I must find my family... My wife... my children..."
"They count... They all count on to live..."
Tengan's words were like a drop of water falling into an ocean; they did not provoke the slightest emotion in Maxi.
"I have a sister, without and with the number of people who covet her beauty, she will suffer an extrely unfortunate fate," added Argan, hoping to provoke a slight compassion in the young rcenary.
Especially since it was the truth.
But obviously, Maxi was still unhard.
"You should have thought of that before killing my n and causing casualties among the villagers."
Then Maxi's silhouette beca blurred for a mont, then the image beca clear again, Maxi still standing in the sa place while slowly sheathing his sword.
At the sa mont, the heads of Tengan and Argan rolled on the ground.
Two knights had just died so easily that Ivan and Liam still could not believe their eyes.
On the dinsional battlefield, there was no way of understanding the status and strength of the Dravaks they had themselves killed and faced.
But in this world, they understood very well the weight that a knight carried. He was a terrifying fighting force, a true one-man army capable of facing 100 ordinary soldiers without worry and even winning under these circumstances.
They were the weapons of the nobles to prevent any rebellion on their territory, as well as to prevent assassinations.
The number of knights a territory had was almost synonymous with the power and greatness of that territory.
But they were so rare that so barons had only one or two under their command.
Their training required not only talent, but also ti, resources and sotis luck.
But now two such precious knights had died before their very eyes.
"What are you waiting for?" asked Maxi, fury still clearly visible in his eyes.
"Our n are still fighting, go help them repel the invaders."
This roused Liam and Ivan from their stupor, so much so that they temporarily forgot about Wigor's death.
"Yes, sir!" they replied simultaneously, before running towards the center of the village.
Every second that passed could an the death of one or more of their n, so the two ran at full speed, to the point where they could both feel their hearts beating wildly.
As soon as they reached the center of the village, they spotted six rcenaries cornered between two destroyed houses, with two won and three children behind them.
One of the children clung to the dress of a young woman.
"Mommy, I'm scared..."
The woman took the child in her arms and comforted him with a soft voice:
"Everything is fine, the good rcenaries are going to save us."
"Sandrine..." murmured the other woman at her side, fear clearly present in her eyes, but not having lost hope.
"Yes, I know, if ever the situation goes wrong, we'll run as fast as we can into the forest," Sandrine whispered to the other mother.
If Maxi were there, he would recognize Sandrine imdiately, because she was the only waitress at the Plouta inn.
And she was very popular among the rcenaries.
All around them, there were many corpses.
Liam, when he arrived, recognized those of so of the rcenaries.
While those who were still standing all seed wounded and at the end of their strength.
"Hold on, guys!"
"If they want Plouta, they'll have to go through us!"
A voice among the rcenaries suddenly rose, boosting everyone's morale.
"Co on, let's fight!"
"We, the Saber-toothed Tigers, are not afraid of anyone!"
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