As Yaku continues his journy to the north he hears screams coming from inside of the forest, He carefully sneaks around to check what it is, Fire reflects from his eyes as he watches villagers get slaughtered by bandits, women scream, children weep and men defensless
As Yaku looks out of a bush he contemplates helping but he doesn't know if he can do it, He counts 12 bandits and he only had a cheap sword he managed to buy with 2 copper coins, A women holding her child falls to the ground as she's running from the horror behind her, The bandit following her catches up to her and with a devious smile he raises his sword, His eyes bloodlusted
As the bandit swings his sword to kill the woman and her child a sound of swords colliding is heard, Yaku's body has moved on it's own
"Darn I've done it haha, me vs 12 bandits, maybe my journy will be cut short today" thinks yaku silently as the bandit is pushing down on his sword, Yaku takes a deep breath and channels his mana into his sword, The only ability he has developed in his 7 years of training, The sword shines faintly in a beautiful blue aura and in a second the bandit's sword gets parried
Yaku turns to the woman behind him and screams "RUN WHILE YOU CAN!", The woman gets up and starts running as the bandit gets his footing back and starts fighting Yaku, sword clinks and clacks are heard, Yaku has the upper hand, Even with a cheap sword his mana reinforcement adds much needed strength and steardyness
Yaku smiles as he starts to overwhelm his opponent with each strike until he disarms him of his sword, The bandit falls to the ground and with eyes of fear he starts screaming "HELP HELP ME", Some of the other bandits hear and before Yaku could knock him out they lunge at him, 3 bandits, one of them tall and big holding a giant axe, the other 2 holding bandit swords
Yaku backs off trying to keep them in his vision, being sorrounded will be very bad in this situation, "I might've bit more than i can chew with this one" yaku says to himself with a helpless smile, The big bandit tries to cut Yaku in half but he dodges easily due to the big bandit being slow, He looks at the situation and decides to take out the big one first, as he keeps dodging sword swings and defelcting with his sword he waits for the right opportunity to slide in between the big bandit's legs and slash his heels, the big bandit falls to his knees unable to stand
Yaku hesitate to stab the big bandit in the back but the situation is dire and there is no time for mercy, The big bandit widens his eyes as a blue glowing sword stabs him in the back, Yaku doesn't stop, he uses the shock of other bandits to immediately attack the other two killing them immediately, the bandit on the ground tries a sneak attack on yaku but luckily he reacts in the nick of time, he ducks, the bandits sword cuts strands of his hair as he ducks and with a leg swip and a sword stab he takes the 4th bandit down
huff huff huff Yaku takes many breaths as he is getting tired, he removes his sword reinforcement to conserve mana, He already used half of his reserve, "Damn my mana reserve is so pathetic, already burned half and ive been increasing it for 7 years, im truly not gifted" Yaku mutters to himself
Yaku starts sneaking around hoping for surprises attacks since the numbers aren't on his favor and he manages to surprise 3 different bandits separately that were looting villager houses, "only 5 more to save this village " and as he walks out of a villager house he sees the bandit leader with his goons around him, "WERE YOU THE ONE WHO ATTACKED MY MEN ? PREPARE TO DIE" the bandit leader screams as he points his sword towrds yaku "ATTACKKK" HE SCREAMS
The 4 bandits all rush yaku as their leader watches from the back, Yaku sighs and when he opens his eyes his sword glows even more than before, "i put all my mana reserve into this, i only have 3 minutes to finish this before i completely run out" Yaku says as he prepares for a huge swing, the bandits are running towards him and then he screams "MANA SLASH" gritting his teeth he swings his sword with all his might, a big curved mana wave apperas and takes the 4 bandits running towards him by surprise and before they could react 3 of them get cut in half, one of them slides under it and the leader jumps over it
Yaku immediately attacks the bandit who slid under it giving him no time to breath, the bandit blocks his attack but yaku screams again "MANA SLASH" and his sword cuts through the other sword like butter ending the bandit for good, The sword glow faints and yaku starts breathing heavily "I can only do 2 slashes with this amount of mana, i only have 1 minute of normal reinforcement to my sword now" he says in a tired tone
"HAHAHA LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE AT YOUR ENDS WITS" the bandit leader screams at him, Yaku falls to one knee "damn this might really be the end" he says as his vision becomes blurry.