Chapter 980: Unstoppable Walk
Chapter 980: Unstoppable Walk
The large bald man laughed, knocking on the cage with an amused face. "Cry about it! You can't use magic in there, it's over for you. Did you think you could trick me and get away with it?"
The fairy growled, her wings sparking a bit but her magic faded away. The cage is made from a special iron alloy that disperse and nullify magic, usually used to catch some monster birds. "I'll skin you alive once I get out!" She glared at him.
The balm man extended his hand to the woman who sat beside him, and she pulled a knife from between her breasts. Like Merlin, she had a storage magic circle tattooed there. But thanks to how well endowed she was, Arad for a second thought she was just shoving things there.
"You two, hold the cage still. I'll pluck her wings out so she won't be able to cast magic." He smiled as the two men did what he asked, holding the cage down so the fairy wouldn't shake it. He pointed his knife at her, "This is what you get for trying to scam Balon. Now cry..."
The guild master wanted to stop them. The guild indeed stays out of the hunters' business outside of signed contracts, but this seemed to be going a bit too far. He said a bet, and that isn't a thing that magic takes lightly. If two consenting adults agreed on a bet with a magical contract, the will of the goddess would see it through no matter what. That is probably how they managed to catch the fairy.
He stepped forward, but suddenly Arad walked past him, each of his steps thudding loudly on the wooden floor. Thud! Thud! Thud!
All the hunters looked back, seeing who was so heavy to make the ground wail, and it was none other than Arad approaching the hunters with the fairy. Balon's friends looked at Arad, they were sitting around his table drinking, and they could smell trouble.
One of Balon's friends extended his foot in Arad's path, "Hold it, my friend, where do you think..." Krunch! Arad stepped on his foot, dislocating the poor man's ankles. Even as a human, Arad weighed more than 200kg of pure muscles and bones, it was no different than a bull stepping on someone.
The man screamed, his cries of agony filling the whole guild as he rolled on the ground. Arad ignored him and kept walking. More of Balon's friends jumped before Arad to stop him, but they all ended up getting pushed aside, unable to stop him.
Then a woman approached Arad, pointing her wand at him. "Bastard stop or else!" She growled, but immediately noticed everyone in the guild reaching toward their weapons. The use of weapons against other hunters in the guild is absolutely forbidden, that is why no one had pulled a sword on Arad. If someone dared use his weapons, the whole guild was allowed to use lethal force against them.
She knew well that if she used a single spell, all the other hunters would jump at her. Arad is just walking, he didn't use any weapon so he's fine. Her plan was to intimidate him to attack with a weapon or with magic.
Her wand pulsed with magic, arcing like lightning, but no spell came out, that was a threat. She pointed it straight at Arad, "I'll blast your head right the fuck off!"
Arad stopped walking and lifted his hand forward, slowly, he grabbed her wand by the tip. The arcing magic jolted him, but he didn't even flinch. In the blink of an eye, he had snapped the wand in half with three fingers.
Everyone in the guild stared with gaping mouths, Arad's hand was bleeding rivers, severely charred but he didn't seem to care.
Arad extended his hand toward the frozen woman, shoved the shattered wand in between her breasts, and wiped his bloodied hand on her robe. "SIT." He pointed at a chair, and the moment the woman heard his voice, she sat down with a sweaty face.
With a faint spark of holy magic Arad's bleeding hand stopped oozing blood, and he kept walking toward Balon.
Balon's group finally looked back, stopping Sky from starting to rip the fairy's wings out. One of the two men growled. "Hey, you! Back it off!" Balon's group consisted of Balon himself, two men, and a woman who looked like a wizard. "Do you want to get stabbed?" He pulled a knife.
As everyone in the guild stood, Balon's group was sitting all around his table so they could keep him and his companions protected. Arad noticed the first difference between hunters and adventurers.
While adventurers travel in small groups of at most five people, hunters can group up in the tens of heads. They were closer to mercenary groups that took on the job of hunting large monsters.
The man swung a quick stab at Arad's chest, demonstrating that he wasn't spitting empty threats. The guild master shouted at him, "You bastard!" But the man knew the guild master would lose one of his largest and most profitable hunter groups if he kicked him out. Balon's group was making this guild over 30% of its income, losing them would literally push them far past red.
Protected by this group's fat name, the man smiled, but that smirk immediately was washed off his face as he noticed that his dagger didn't pierce Arad's chest, it stopped on his thick and large ribs.
Balon's face shifted into a serious one in an instant, that was only what he needed to see to figure it out. Arad didn't just survive by luck, he moved a bit to make the dagger hit his ribs instead of going between them. Such rapid acceleration, precise movement, and fearlessness are akin to recklessness. "Got a wild animal on our hands."
"Who are you calling an animal?!" The fairy growled behind him with an angry face.
"Not you, bug." Balon looked at Arad with a sharp glare.
Arad slowly lifted his hand and grabbed the man's dagger between two fingers. The man tried to pull it out, but Arad's grip was tighter than a vice, it didn't budge.
The man gave up on the dragger, let go, and took a few steps back. Arad looked at the weapon in his hand, grabbed it between his hands, and tried bending it. He failed, it was too tough and hard to break.
Arad tilted his head, staring at the stubborn dagger, and tried again, putting more force into it. As the veins on his arms bulged, the dagger suddenly gave up and shattered. Everyone in the guild stared in horror, to break a dagger like that...not even a vice and a wrench could do it. The only two who didn't seem shocked were Jimmy and Mary, the two expected nothing less from a man who took a claw straight from a bear and punched back.
Arad threw the dagger on the ground and kept walking toward Balon. He tried his best to keep his promise to Mira and use as little violence as possible. He could probably beat anyone who stood in his way, but he was trying to be as peaceful as possible for her sake. Although this man already attacked him; so he wasn't sure whether he should attack back or not.
Arad stopped walking and looked back, "He attacked me first, is it okay to attack?" He was looking straight at Mary.
One of the hunters in the back replied, "Bro! He pulled his weapon, if you can slap his ass to the ground, do it. Fucker asked for it!" Sadly, the other adventurers can't jump to help without getting themselves in a deadly fight with Balon's henchmen.
Indeed, Arad was just walking toward Balon to ask him about the fairy, he wasn't doing
anything wrong. They were the ones attacking him unreasonably.
The man growled, lunging at Arad with a second attack, he had another dagger stored behind his back. This time, he aimed for the soft neck.
The man's dagger hit the thin air, and Arad disappeared. In that instant, he realized that Arad sidestepped his attack, and was now glaring down at his ass. How could someone so big move
that fast?
Arad swung his torso, flinging a slap at the man's butt, clapping him so hard that he went rolling for three meters, screaming and crying his lungs out in panic and shock. He gasped for air, wiggling like a dying fish in agony, smacking his face repeatedly at the ground until his nose shattered, trying to knock himself out to not feel that mind-boggling pain.
Dalla's slaps are extremely effective even here.
"...Not to literally slap his ass down... The poor soul can now walk naked and have no shame nor dignity to lose." The hunter who spoke earlier giggled.
Arad was now standing face to face with Balon, the wizard woman and the second man in their group. Balon could take a closer look at Arad.
^He's massive, and those chizzled arms and harsh hands, a warlord, a general of some sort of warmonger.^ He leaned on his chair, "So, what is your name? What do you want from me?" Balon asked, he knew Arad was strong, but was still confident he could kill him.
"He'll eat you alive." The fairy said in her cage warning Balon, her glowing eyes fixed on Arad. Her danger sense was tingling, and she got a hunch Arad wasn't human, but something
greater.
"Like I'll get tricked by you again, you just want to be freed." Balon snorted her warning
away.
"Yo!" She waved her hand at Arad, "Slap king, count me out of this fight." She sat down, ready
to enjoy the chaos.