16 Trouble? (1/2)

On the location of the ambushers down the road...

There were numerous corpses that had recently died in a battle. Some bodies burning, others were frozen, while some were crushed into gore.

”I... I can't believe that you're a wizard!”, a bloodied man was cornered by a tree by a man holding a staff and was wearing a peasant's clothes.

The latter was none other than Lord Levine!

”You have the guts to make an ambush spot that leads to my castle, so tell me, what is your true goal?”, Lord Levine eyed the bloodied man.

”You'll never know!”, the bloodied man maniacly laughed.

The wizard couldn't help but frown that there was something wrong happening.

”Hahaha... you should've killed me already! Now die!”, the bloodied man's eyes glowed green and he pointed his index fingers towards the corpses behind Lord Levine.

Suddenly, the corpses twitched, stood up and surrounded the wizard!

”Even though you're a wizard, you'll never survive this many enemies at once! HAHAHAHAHA...”, the bloodied man grinned and laughed maniacly.

”Yes, you're right, I'll never survive a necromancer's dead army if I'm a wizard.”, Lord Levine said.

”There's no point of surrendering now! Die!”

However, the feudal lord's hands that was carrying that staff suddenly glew in golden color, then golden veins appeared on the staff.

His eyes became gold and he shouted, ”Holy Retribution!”

He lifted up his staff, and pounded it's bottom end to the ground.

-BOOM-

An instantaneous explosion could be heard as the holy light spread towards the surroundings.

When the light faded, all the corpses crashed to the ground as greenish smoke came out of their orifices.

Meanwhile, the smile on the bloodied man froze when he saw what just happened.

”You're still right, I will never survive a necromancer's army if I'm a wizard.”, Lord Levine smirked.

”Y... y... you're a Holy Priest?!”, the bloodied man stuttered between his words.

Lord Levine then pointed his index finger towards the man, magic power and holy power condensed on the end of the finger and a beam of light shot out from it.

The beam of light pierced through the forehead of the bloodied man, the man's eyes were still wide open in horror when he died.

”How I love face slapping.”, Lord Levine grinned and he searched the belongings of the bloodied man.

There, he saw a coin made of black metal, in addition, there was a shield and a staff engraved on each side.

”This... it's that organization!”, Lord Levine looked at the direction of the Riverboard City.

”No good!”

”Hurry up!”, suddenly voices came from the wilderness.

Lord Levine looked at the direction of the voices, and saw Melissa and some guards walking to his location!

”Mi'lord?”, Melissa and the guards were surprised when they saw their lord standing amidst the bloody corpses!

'Our lord, did this?!', some of the guards thought frantically, they've already saw gore as much as this, but this time, it was done by one person, and not just any person, it was done by the seemingly scholarly lord that they were serving!

Actually, they knew that they were serving a magic user, but could an adept do this by himself?!

However, Melissa's countenance came back to normal, it's obvious that she already knew about Lord Levine's true power.

”No time to talk. Clear up these corpses, immediately!”, Lord Levine commanded.

”Yes, mi'lord.”, Melissa and the guards bowed and started cleaning up the corpses.

Lord Levine looked back at the direction of the city.

”I hope you'll be safe, I can't help you this time.”, Lord Levine muttered.

***

Riverboard City...

The city was surrounded by the other fiefdoms of local feudal lords in the area. Long time ago, the city was just a port with a small settlement. However, due to the efforts of the surrounding local lords, they've managed to make a permanent community and even outbest the Crescent Town those times.

Now, the current city was being managed by an earl, but the local lords doesn't seem to mind about it as long as they get their benefits.