Chapter 14: Chapter 13: Battle With Bandits...
The men with the eye patch looked shocked upon seeing Magic Knight discover their plan. He immediately opened his grimoire with a firm gaze, looking at Annie and Selena. He first panicked, but after a second of thought, his panic faded.
"Surrender! Put your grimoire down; otherwise, we will take action," Selena said, looking at the two men before her with utter disgust.
Seeing this, the eye-patched man, instead of panicking, smirked.
"Well, you see, we still have our boss. When we start fighting, they will know about your existence," the man said with a smirk.
"Fire magic: fire blast."
The man roared, pointing his hand toward Selena and shooting a compressed fireball the size of a football.
"Water magic: water dome."
Selena immediately reacted, casting a defensive spell around her and Annie.
"Rock magic: stone wall."
Annie cast her spell, creating a thick wall made of rock before her and Selena.
The fire spell hit the water wall; suddenly, the condensed fire blasted with high temperature, and the water dome started to evaporate rapidly.
After the water dome stopped most of the power of the fire blast, the stone wall blocked the remaining spell.
Due to the water evaporation, the room was filled with water steam, which blocked the eyesight of both Selena and Annie.
Both of them didn't let their guard down. The impact of the fire blast spell shook the whole orphanage, alerting the remaining bandits.
After a few moments, their steam started to fade, and their vision cleared.
When they looked at the place where both men stood, they wore shocked faces because the short-bladed guy was pierced in his chest by a big knife, while another one had slit his throat by himself.
"Why did he do that?" Annie asked with a shocked face looking at the two dead bodies.
"It looks like they are not normal bandits; they are doing something illegal or very dangerous. So he killed his companion and killed himself,"
Selena answered Annie while checking the dead bodies for any information regarding their group.
Some of the alerted bandits ran towards the room where the orphanage kids were sleeping, while the others ran towards the secret room where the explosion occurred.
Ben, who noticed the previous explosion, didn't waste any time. He clicked the button on the Omnitrix.
The display moved upwards while showing the shadowy appearance of the alien. The bright green light emitted from the Omnitrix covered Ben's entire body.
The bandits who came looking for the orphanage children noticed the green light and ran towards it at full speed.
"FOUR ARMS," they heard a loud voice.
When the bandits arrived at the location of the noise and light, there was no one there.
"Who are you? Come out; otherwise, we will kill you brutally," one of the bandits shouted in anger with a smirk on his face.
Sigh...
"I think someone is distracting us here. We should move to the locked room where those kids are kept."
"Let's go and teach this coward ba..."
The wall beside him was blasted off immediately, and a fist wearing black grappling gloves hit his face along with the knife he was licking. The bandit had no time to react and was sent crashing into the opposite wall.
"____"
"____"
When the other bandits reacted, they saw the one who was given instructions a while ago lying on the ground dead, with his knife stabbed inside his mouth, splitting his tongue while blood dripped from it.
They slowly turned their heads toward the wall that was blasted.
They saw four eyes shining brightly looking down on them, while a big giant appeared with red hair covering his whole body and four arms.
The giant's body exploded with muscles like a bodybuilder, and his body emitted a killing aura around him.
"Monster!!!"
One of the bandits screamed, looking at Ben with fear in his voice. They took their grimoires and started casting spells on Ben, who showed himself.
"SURRENDER OR DIE," Ben asked them calmly, walking towards them.
Boom... Boom... Boom...
Each step he took caused a slight tremor in the orphanage.
Seeing this, they responded to Ben with various spells. Fire magic, water magic, and stone magic didn't cause any damage to him, but one of the users had poison magic, which started to take effect on one of Ben's hands.
"____"
Ben was shocked to see the poison slowly turning his skin purple.
'Shit, I could have avoided it, but I got hit due to my overconfidence.'
Ben started to feel disappointed in himself. He didn't take them seriously because he was powerful and got hit by a low-level bandit.
"I think..."
Before the bandit who cast the poison spell could inform his comrades that his attack had succeeded, his head was grabbed by Ben and smashed on the floor continuously until the bandit's consciousness faded.
Seeing this scene, the remaining bandits started to run from Ben.
"WHY ARE YOU GUYS RUNNING LET'S PLAY SMACKDOWN."
Ben caught up to the bandits who were going to run and caught all four of them with his four hands.
"NOW KISS YOURSELVES."
Ben smashed the faces of the bandits together until they fainted due to a lack of breath. He carried the unconscious bandits and walked towards the room where Mary was left to guard the kids.
Sometime before, inside the room, Mary was guarding the kids who were peacefully sleeping. Suddenly, she heard the sound of an explosion, which woke up the kids.
When the kids noticed the presence of Mary, they started to panic.
"Don't panic, kids. I am a Magic Knight. I was here to save you guys. My squad is now fighting the bandits," Mary assured the panicking kids that they would be safe from now on. The kids started to calm down, while some started to cry in relief.
Suddenly, they were attracted to a bright green light outside the door and a loud voice shouting.
"FOUR ARMS."
Hearing the loud voice, the kids once again became panicked.
"Don't worry; he is my fellow Magic Knight," Mary reassured the kids again.
Boom... Boom... Boom...
The kids started to hear the sounds of the walls being blasted and the screams of the bandits coming from outside.
In the present, when Ben was about to knock on the door, the door was broken by the strength of the four arms.
"Ah... ah... ah..."
The kids who saw Ben in his Four Arms form started to scream.
"____"
"Ben, how is the situation?"
Mary came forward and asked Ben with a serious expression.
"They are the bandits. Bind them, Mary; I will go down to assess the situation." Ben put down the four unconscious men.
"Snow magic: snow cocoon."
Mary nodded and cast the binding spell on the four bandits on the ground. When she cast the spell, a thick layer of snow formed around the bandits, covering their bodies like a cocoon, except for their faces.
Ben ran towards the ground floor where Selena and Annie were currently battling.
In the hidden room, Selena was facing three bandits and their leader by herself, while Annie was facing five of the bandits.
"Water magic: water bubble."
Selena, who noticed three bandits supporting their leader in the assault, took a breath and cast a spell on them, catching them by surprise.
Three bandits were covered by a water bubble filled with water; they couldn't breathe inside the bubble.
Every attack they made became ineffective against the water bubble. The leader grew angry and attacked Selena with full power.
Boom...
The iron door was blasted open and hit the three bandits that were battling Annie, smashing them against the wall and causing several cracks to appear.
The battlefield fell into complete silence.
"I AM HERE!!!" Ben declared, entering the room with a smirk on his face.
"Who are you?" both Selena and the bandit's leader asked at the same time, looking at the red girl standing before them with four arms and four eyes.
"Sister, it's Ben," Annie clarified, dispelling Selena's violent doubts.
"Is it you, Ben?" Selena asked in a shocked voice.
"Yes, sister, it's me. I came here to provide help as soon as I dealt with the bandits and came after the orphanage kids." Ben nodded his head and walked towards Selena.
Seeing the monster on the side of the magic knight, the leader, taking advantage of Ben's distraction, attempted to sneak attack him. However, he was caught by one of Ben's arms. Ben wasted no time and broke the leader's arm. The leader started to scream in pain.
"You... you will pay for this." The leader backed off from Ben and opened his grimoire.
"Acid magic: strong corrosion."
The leader cast his attack toward Ben, and a purple-colored acid was sent at him like a slash. This time, Ben didn't take the attack lightly and evaded it. When the attack hit the floor, it caused a huge crater that corroded the ground.
Ben gripped the leader's neck to prevent him from casting any other spell, but the leader was blasted, splashing acid all over the place.
"Rock magic: stone wall."
The wall blocked the acid from coming in contact with Selena and her. Ben, who was very close, was impacted by direct contact with the acid.
"Ben!!!" both of them screamed, looking at the spot where Ben was standing.
When they emerged from the stone wall, they saw Ben standing, but the top half of his dress was blasted and melted by the leader's self-destruct. Ben's hand, which was trying to catch the leader, was injured by the acid impact, and there were some bruises caused by the acid all over his body.
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