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your Rainian sword,” replied Iziro. “It would have come in handy here.”

      Iziro saw a worker running toward the crowd from the other side of the blockade, approached him, and snatched his pickaxe, saying, “Sorry, I’ll return it.”

      “Raderians are escaping!” the worker started shouting, but almost no one paid attention to him.

      “Tighten the chain as much as you can,” said Iziro. “If I hit a link in the chain accurately and with great force, it might come apart.”

      “Yeah, just don’t hit me,” replied Rain.

      “Don’t worry. I’ve been pretty accurate all my life, and I haven’t lost that talent yet. A-ah!”

      Iziro struck with all his strength at one link in the chain.

      “A-ah!”

      Then he struck at the second, freeing Rain from the post with the shackles still on him, while the remnants of the chains dangled from his hands.

      “We need to help them,” said Iziro.

      “They chained us here and made us eat scraps, and now you want to help them?”

      “They’re clearly not against us. They have some plan of their own.”

      “But not for us either!” Rain replied.

      Iziro threw the pickaxe he had taken from the worker back to him, surprising the worker greatly. After that, Iziro walked into the crowd.

      Rain was so angry with Iziro that he even shouted something in his direction. Looking at the shovel stuck in the ground, Rain said, “Not a Rainian sword, but it’ll do.” Rain approached the shovel, took it, and followed Iziro.

      By this time, many workers had already fallen in the skirmish, and the knights continued to kill them one by one. The crowd had dispersed considerably, and one of the knights managed to enter the crowd with a sword, starting to cut down the workers with tripled force. The other knights continued to kill the workers gradually, throwing knives at them, while the main knight observed, sitting on his horse. When the knight in the crowd swung again, his sword was sharply deflected aside by a palm, and then he was struck in the center of the torso with the base of the palm, causing the knight to fly back and slide a bit on the ground before falling on his back. It was an irate Iziro. Everyone who was present noticed, and even the crowd dispersed from the fallen knight. Everyone was curious about how it would end.

      Iziro approached this knight and said, “You shouldn’t be killing anyone here.”

      Seeing this, Rain remembered that he had a hard time fighting just one knight, and now there were many of them. However, Iziro simply walked into their midst, passing through the crowd without fear or hesitation. Rain realized that he had seriously underestimated Iziro, especially considering that he supposedly didn’t like fighting much.

      The fallen knight, pushing himself up from the ground, quickly stood on his feet and began to swing his sword very fast and gracefully towards Iziro. However, Iziro dodged each knightly strike with the same speed and grace, as if he were smoke drifting in the wind, avoiding every obstacle. When the knight attempted to strike at his legs, Iziro jumped, and upon landing, struck the knight in the same spot, causing him to fly even further, almost reaching his fellow knights, and cough. Everyone was once again extremely surprised, and some were unable to close their mouths, including the main knight who, sitting on his horse, ordered all the knights to defeat Iziro at all costs. He waved his hand, and four knights began to attack Iziro, forcing him to evade as much as possible. However, Rain suddenly entered the fray.

      “How’s the assistance?” Rain asked Iziro, blocking one of the sword strikes with his own.

      “I thought I’d be alone against all of them,” Iziro replied.

      Iziro continued to dodge the attacks of the knights as if nothing had happened, now facing only two of them. Meanwhile, Rein struggled with two knights simultaneously, which proved to be much more challenging for him due to their skills. Although the knights he faced were weaker than the one he had fought before, Rein found it more difficult than Iziro did. Rein defended himself with a shovel, attempting to dodge similar to Iziro, but with less grace, resulting in a few minor wounds from the sword blades.

      Although the leader of the knights wore a mask, his displeasure was evident. The knight leader took a small knife from under the strap on his chest, pressed it against his mask, and threw it at Rein. The knife hit him in the shoulder, causing him to lose balance, almost costing him his life.

      At this moment, one of the laborers with a spear decided to help Iziro and Rein, ultimately saving Rein. Other workers witnessed this and joined in, converging on the knights and trying to separate them. Iziro, on the other hand, pushed one of his opponents away again, and the group of spear-wielding workers immediately surrounded him. Iziro began assisting Rein without seriously harming the knights. It was amusing, considering these were trained assassins guarding the kingdoms, but Iziro played with them as if mocking.

      He took a sword from one, sheathed it in its scabbard, removed the mask from another, created distance, and then threw the mask back at him, making him catch his own mask. However, Rein was not having an easy time. Accustomed to fighting with a Reinian sword and sturdy armor, he now had to battle with a dirty, semi-rusty shovel against an opponent who far surpassed him in speed. Moreover, the mounted knight aimed his lance at him.

      Meanwhile, the chief knight finally drew his sword, seemingly prepared to charge on horseback and end this pathetic spectacle. However, unexpectedly, a boy with burning hands emerged from the crowd and unleashed flames upon the knight, causing him to fall off his horse and attempt to extinguish himself in vain. This distraction allowed Rein to take advantage, grabbing the knight by the neck and forcefully slamming his forehead into the knight’s face. Realizing he was finally gaining the upper hand, Rein began to smile.

      The boy, like a meteor, flew towards Rein, extinguishing his flaming hands and freezing Rein’s opponent’s feet to the ground, causing the boy’s hands to turn blue. The knight was bewildered by what had happened. In the midst of it all, Rein, without losing his composure, gracefully beheaded the knight with the sharp edge of the shovel.

      “Maybe the shovel isn’t so bad after all,” Rein remarked, looking at it after the victory.

      Next, the boy looked at Iziro and began to breathe deeply and evenly, causing his hands to return to their normal appearance. After a couple of moments, winds started swirling around him and his hands. The boy directed his hands towards Iziro, and a hurricane-like wind swept towards his two opponents, Iziro himself, and the workers gathered behind them. The two knights closest to the boy were simply blown away – one fell near Iziro, and the other flew into the crowd. Many workers also struggled to stay on their feet. Iziro, however, managed to stand firm by anticipating what would happen and assuming a special stance, kneeling with his side facing the direction of the wind. Once the hurricane subsided, Iziro subdued the knight who fell next to him to prevent any retaliatory actions. The knight who was blown into the crowd surrendered. The other knight, who had been separated by the crowd of spear-wielding workers earlier, had already been killed, as he had killed more workers than anyone else. The girl who led all the local village workers and this mine personally subdued the surrendered knight.

      Stepping out of the crowd, she said, “You did well… I didn’t expect… You took care of our guests in my absence.”

      “Not bad yourself, but I almost handled it on my own,” Rein said to the boy. “Wait… you’re the kid from that carriage! For your age, you handle elemental magic pretty well. You used almost everything…”

      The boy clenched his fists and aimed them as if targeting the ground beneath Rein. As a result, the ground disappeared from under Rein’s feet, and he sank waist-deep into the pit that formed beneath him. When the boy released his fists, the earth enveloped Rein up to his waist.

      “Hey, I didn’t do anything to deserve this!” Rein exclaimed

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