'5 people... but one of them walks kind of...weird'

Mars looked in the direction where the group was coming from and soon he could hear them talking

"how much longer?"

"not much longer now, my detection spell picked up a group of goblins over there"

"good, rest a.s.sured as long as I officially become a hunter all of you will receive your payment in full"

"we are very thankful for your generosity young master"

soon a group of 5 humans arrived, 3 of them carried swords and was clad in leather armor, while the last 2 had staffs and wore robes, only one of them a youth around 15 years old carried a staff that looked many times more expensive than the other, the robe he wore also looked like it was made of fine silk, when Mars saw the group he found out why one of them walked weirdly

'...i had almost forgot there was people like this'

Mars looked at the youths well... round figure before he gave a sigh, the reason he was walking weirdly was he was very out of shape and seemed to be out of breath, Mars could not only see but also smell the layer of sweat the covered the youth and frowned slightly

"to think guild test would be so easy, I actually found a group of dead goblins"

"yes young master luck truly is good"

while the one that carries the staff flatted the youth one of the ones that was armed with a sword walked over towards Mars and with a hand on his sword and a slightly arrogant look on his face he spoke to Mars while he waved his hand

"hey brat those goblin copses belong to us now, also hand over all your coins and cores then we might let you go"

Mars looked around and filed to discover this 'brat' the rough looking man was referring to before it finally clicked for him

'so he means me...?'

"oi brat are you deaf? hurry up!"

"oh sure..."

Mars took off his backpack and pulled out the small pouch were he kept all his magic beast cores and took out the cla.s.s 9 core he got from the queen acid spider and asked with a innocent look on his face

"you mean cores like this one?"

the man's eyes turned round when he saw the core before he suddenly yelled while thick greed showed in his eyes while he quickly spoke in a hushed voice

"that's right brat, hand it over and i will let you live!"

when Mars saw the greed in the man's eyes as well as how he didn't seem to want his companions to know of the cla.s.s 9 magic beast core he knew the value of the core was high enough for the man to betray his companions and gave a smile before he put the core back into the pouch

"then why don't you come and take it?"

the man turned red in the face from fury and drew his sword

"don't tell me i didn't warn you brat!"

the man stepped forwards and swung his sword down towards Mars

'are you for real?'

as Mars looked at the sword that was swing down towards his face he questioned if the man was really trying to kill him as compared to Rex's swordsmans.h.i.+p witch he was used to the man in front of him that was attacking him looked more like a child waving around a stick

'maybe he's joking? well he kind of looks like he's trying to kill me'

Mars effortlessly sidestepped the sword that was swung down at him before he stepped in and grabbed the man's chin and hair before he---

*SNAP*

---twisted his face about 180 degrees to the side before he let go as the man fell down on the ground, deader than dead alerting the rest of the remaining 4 in the group

"you! what the f.u.c.k did you do to John!?"

"well... i killed him?"

Mars looked a little confused, obviously he killed him in self defense so why were they so confused?

"you're going to pay for that! young master please back us op with your magic"

"you guys sure are useless, but oh well I have been wanting to test my new spell"

the group of 4 quickly got into a formation that protected the 2 that were wielding staffs while Mars stood and watched them without doing anything in particular until Victoria that was sitting of the side in a tree watching sent him a telepathic message

"why... don't you... kill them?"

"because i want to see what they can do"

"who's he talking to?"

"i don't know, this brat is obviously crazy let's kill him!"

"i got this..."

the mage with the shoddy robe started to focus his mana into his staff, drawing Mars's attention as the mana seemed flow though some rather complex paths before it ended in the gem that sat a the top off the staff were it seemed to be slightly amplified before it was finally released in the form of a bright flame

"...fireball!"

"...really?"

Mars watched the fireball fly over with a amazed look on his face for a second before he reached out and caught it with his hand and snuffed out the flame

"impossible!"

Mars watched to poor mage's fl.u.s.tered expression and decided he had seen enough of their ability to end this farce and waved his hand, instantly summoning 3 fire arrows before he pointed towards the group and shot the fire arrows

"this is real fire"

the fire arrows shot out and before any of the humans could react they had pieced their targets leaving behind a charred fist sized hole in each of the swordsmen and mage's throats only leaving the 'young master' alive that had turned pale a sheet of paper

"y-you..."

Mars gave a wide smile and took a step forwards while he grabbed the hilt of his sword casing the young master to start shaking as he tried to back op

"w-wait! I can give you money!"

"oh really?"

"y-yes just please spare me!"

Mars put on a thoughtful expression for a second before his eyes turned cold as he took another step forwards

"nah I will just take it from you corpse"

"HIIIIII!!! please my father can give you more money then you can imagine if you just let me live!"

"i that case maybe i should kill and rob him too?"

"you dream! my father is---"

Mars suddenly disappeared from the young masters view before he appeared right in front of him

"i don't care"

Mars sent out a lightning fast punch to the young master jaw and knocked him out as he fell over like a sack of potatoes

"well then... let's take their stuff"

Mars walked over to the corpses and began to search them for things he could use

"what's this?"

around the neck of one of the corpses Mars found a necklace and pulled it off to inspect it further, the chain seemed to be made of iron but what caught Mars's attention was the main part of the necklace that was a hollow rectangle made of some sort of metal at the edge and in the middle was 2 tags that took up a equal part of the tag, one made off wood with a engraved bow and one made of iron with a engraved sword

"...maybe it's some sort of dog tag?"

Mars decided to leave the tags behind and continued his search when Victoria walked up to him as her horns flashed

"why... didn't you... kill the... last... one?"

"because there still is uses for that one, also based on how the others referred to him that one might be a little special..."

"special... how..?"

"well the human society's i know of aren't based on strength alone... that one there should have a high standing"

"really..?"

"yeah really, besides based on his stamina there should be a town or a form of transportation nearby..."

Victoria looked over at the young master that was still out cold for a while before her horns flashed again

"humans... are weird..."

"yep they sure are"

after Mars was done searching the corpses he found some small coins that was made from copper, some there was slightly bigger but also made from copper and a few small coins that was made from silver

"this should do, now for the weapons..."

fist Mars picked up a sword and gave it a few swings before he frowned and threw It over his shoulder and picked up the next sword and also gave it a try before his frown got deeper and he also threw the sword away and looked over to the first swordsman he had killed and his sword before he gave a sigh

"...well that was disappointing"

not having found any of the swords any use Mars picked up the staff from the dead mage and looked it over

"this at least interesting..."

the staff was made of wood and had a small dull gem embedded in the top, but Mars didn't really care about how it looked he was more interested in the staff's ability to amplify mana

"...well let's just give it a try"

Mars started to inject his mana into the staff while he felt how it was let around in small channels until it reached to gem at the top and started to amplify before the gem suddenly cracked and turned to dust

"...looks like it vent over capacity"

Mars felt a little sad about how his experiment ended before he could get any data and threw the staff aside

"well then, Victoria let's go"

"okay..."

Mars picked up his backpack and walked over to the young master that still was out cold and grabbed his staff before he took a firm hold on his color and began to drag him across the forest floor

"let's see... they came from over there"

Mars and Victoria began walking in the direction the group of humans had come from and after walking for about 10 minutes Mars could see the edge of the forest and got a little excited when they finally left the forest and out into gra.s.sland and stretched as he took in the midday sunlight for a little while before he gave a sigh

"it's nice to finally be out of that forest... oh looks like there's a town over there"

Mars spotted some walls in the distance and began to walk towards them with Victoria and soon he reached a gate that was manned by 2 guards that gave Mars and Victoria pretty cautions looks before they spotted the young master Mars was dragging along and raised their spears before they pointed them at Mars

"halt!"

"before that... are you guys guards of this town?"

the 2 guards gave a puzzled look at Mars before one of them gave a nod

"good, in that case i would like to report a crime..."

Mars raised the young master that now looked even more pitiful after he had been dragged on the ground for the last few kilometers into the air

"this load of lard here a.s.saulted me with a squad of goons in the forest"

"...what?"