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Chapter 28 - 28. Attack on Lucia

Armaros was standing in place as he was looking at the direction as he felt that something felt wrong as his guide was a bit confused at the silence as he looked at the boy and blinked at his sudden silence.

"Is everything alright?" The guide asked him curiously.

"Uh, just no feeling good. Can I stay here, I would like to stand here for sometime. I can get back on my own." Armaros said to the man as he looked at him.

"Well, it's no problem for us. I'll stay there okay, after you are okay let's go on our way." The guide said to him as he went to sit near a farm house.

Armaros looked at the direction from where he was getting the feeling as his body was rigid as he frowned as he placed his hand on the hilt of his sword as he didn't know what is happening right now.

'It is probably just my paranoia. I mean, I'm not even magically powerfull and my senses aren't as strong as my sisters or my mother. I shouldn't be able to know if something does happen.' Armaros thought to himself as he still felt uncomfortable.

But the fact that he feels uneasy like this was a sort of proof that something is wrong, but he doesn't know what it is, and why he is even feeling like this. But then his eyes widened when he discovered something as he touched his forehead and looked at his hand...

"I'm... sweating...?" Armaros said in shock and disbelief as the sweat on his hand.

He felt his heart starting to pound in his chest as the feeling of wrongness was starting to grow inside of him as he gripped his sword handle tightly as he felt nervous as he looked at the direction he was getting the feeling from as he was tense while standing there, ready to act.

"Just why am I..." Armaros muttered before his mouth went dry as his eyes widened.

He felt fear when he saw a fireball coming towards the animals, screaming through the air as it was coming towards the herd. And the herd had already known about it as the different cattle, which also notified the other villagers there as panic started.

"Fuck." Armaros said as he looked around for anything to use.

His eyes then fell on a wooden cart a few feet from him as he immediately went and grabbed onto it as he used his mana to strengthen himself a bit before he lifted and threw the cart at the fireball.

The cart hit the fireball as it was destroyed and an explosion occured as he turned to the stunned guide as he was looking at the explosion in shock.

"Get the guards!" Armaros shouted at the guide as he snapped out of his stupor.

"R-Right." The man shouted as he ran away.

Armaros looked at the cattle and their caretakers as he saw them guiding them away as he looked at the direction from which the fireball had appeared from. The uncomfortable feeling had also become more profound as he unsheathed his sword as he ran towards the stone wall as he saw the guards at the top panicking at the sudden attack.

He ran up the wall using Mana as he got on top as he spooked the guards as they were surprised at his sudden appearance as they aimed their weapons at him.

"What happened? Where did the fireball come from?" Armaros asked them as he looked at them.

"Who are you?" One guard asked as he looked at him shakily.

"I am an adventurer who had come here on behalf of the Guild to check up on the village. Do you have any enemies near the village?" Armaros said as he fished out his Adventurer card and showed it to them.

The guards that looked at his card verified it after they had read it as they told their fellow guards about it.

"We do not have any enemies as we are the ones here. There aren't any other places around here." The guard said to him as Armaros looked at the direction nervously.

'But who attacked? And why would they even attack a village? Actually, that's a dumb question.' Armaros thought to himself as the village has great resources as well.

Armaros used Mana to sharpen his eyes as he looked forward and changed it to look at mana to find out enemies. But he narrowed his eyes when he saw something which made his eyes widen in shock.

'D-Demonic energy?' Armaros thought to himself in shock as he saw humanoid demonic energy coming towards the village.

"Shit, evacuate the village." Armaros said as gripped his sword tightly.

"What? We can't just evacuate the village just like that. They're already in a panic due to the attack." The guard next to him said in surprise as the thought was the same for the rest of them as well.

"Look, I don't exactly know what it is that is attacking but there is an entire group coming towards the village and if they are able to use attacks like that, then they will be able to shit!" Armaros shouted in alarm when he saw more fireballs coming towards the village.

"We-We don't have anything to take care of that." The guard said in shock at the sight as they were all scared.

'7 guards and not even one has enough power to stop it? Well, if they aren't attacked they will be lax about training.' Armaros thought to himself as he looked at the 6 fireballs.

He immediately created light spheres and threw them at the fireballs as all six of them exploded and covered the air in explosions and also created a guest of wind which hit him and the guards as they covered their faces. The guards looked at the explosions in surprise before they looked at him in surprise.

"Like I said, get the villagers out! All of you get off and warn the village and get all the guards ready!" Armaros shouted at the villagers as he felt the feeling worsen inside of him.

"R-Right! Let's go!" The guards said as they scrambled as they jumped down the wall and ran to inform the village.

"At least they can do that." Armaros said to himself as he looked towards the group coming towards the village as the smoke from the explosions had already disappeared.

He sharpened his eyesight as he looked at the approaching enemies and his eyes widened when he saw them coming towards the village. All the enemies that were running towards the village looked like humans, except for the fact that they had horns on the sides of their heads and tails as well.

And all of them had demonic energy in them, and his eyes widened as he realised what species it is that is currently attacking the village.

"Demons. Why are demons..." Armaros felt his throat go dry when he saw them coming towards the village.

'How many are there?' Armaros thought to himself as he felt nervous as the dreadful feeling that he got rose as they came closer.

"I... Want to kill them." Armaros said as he felt the need to destroy them as he tightened his grip on the sword.

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