"Heh heh, what a fragile and weak person, yet you still want to be a hero? Don't you know that rats belong in the sewers? Now that you've come to the surface, you really look like you're about to die!" As the Bandit Leader spoke, he violently struck Kryss's back with his elbow, causing Kryss to immediately vomit a large amount of blood.
"Asta!" Nero immediately wore a pleading expression.
"I know you are members of the Magic Knight Squad, but you'd better not move. Because no matter how fast you are, can you be faster than the flames in my hand? The flames in my hand can instantly burn this bug to death. Of course, as leverage to negotiate with you, I will only teach this guy who dreams of being a hero a lesson, so I will leave him with a breath of life!" The Bandit Leader finished and laughed heartily; he loved the feeling of controlling the entire scene.
"Is there no one who can be faster than the flames in your hand?" Asta's gaze was calm, but this was the silence before the storm!
"Shadow Shuriken Jutsu!" Asta moved. Before he even moved, the Kunai in his hand surged violently toward the Bandit Leader's shadow.
"How dare he move? How dare he move!" The Bandit Leader looked in disbelief at Asta, who had disappeared from sight due to his excessive speed. He never dreamed that a member of the Magic Knight Squad, representing justice, would charge at him without regard for the hostage's life. Did they think he wouldn't kill the hostage? Or were they truly confident enough to think they could be faster than the flames at his fingertips?
However, this was only a fleeting thought for the Bandit Leader, lasting less than 0.1 seconds. Then, a look of cruelty appeared on his shocked face; he wanted to kill Kryss! He wanted to burn Kryss alive with his flames!
Just as this crazy thought surfaced, the Bandit Leader began to act, but immediately after, he discovered that his body couldn't move!
It was precisely because of this sudden stagnation that Asta had already locked his hand around the Bandit Leader's throat and lifted him up. Now, Asta only needed to gently twist his fingers, and the Bandit Leader's throat would be snapped!
"Asta, you—" Noelle was startled by Asta's sudden attack, but before she could even exclaim, she was shocked to see that Asta had already taken care of the Bandit Leader!
What kind of god-tier teammate is this! Does he have to be this powerful!
Noelle's little heart began to thump wildly.
"He really is a powerful young man~" Vanessa's beautiful pink eyes also revealed a look of amazement. She really didn't know who was taking care of whom on this trip to the ancient battlefield!
"Heh! Heh!" The Bandit Leader looked in terror at Asta's red, floating eyes within the black shadows. Asta loosened his fingers, and the Bandit Leader immediately asked, "Are you human or a ghost? How did you do that?"
"Your Fire Magic made you, but it also became the cause of your downfall. Perhaps this is karma?" Asta laughed at himself. If it weren't for the Fire Magic at the Bandit Leader's fingertips illuminating his shadow, he wouldn't have been able to rescue Kryss so easily.
"Asta, keep him alive!" Vanessa, Nero, and the others walked over quickly, then helped Kryss up.
"Yeah! Got it!" Asta threw the Bandit Leader aside, slamming him against the stone wall of the passageway, intending to knock him unconscious before taking him away. After all, he didn't have any binding magic, so simply knocking him out and dragging him away was easier and safer.
"Boom!" The Bandit Leader's body made a loud sound against the stone wall, which immediately startled countless cockroaches and bats in the cave!
"Keke-keke!" The passageway lost its light, and combined with the sudden loud noise, the cave instantly became a sanctuary for all kinds of insects and bats to revel in.
"Run!" Vanessa's expression changed. She could sense that many insects were swarming toward them; if they didn't leave, they would be directly drowned in a sea of bugs!
"You guys go first!" As Asta spoke, he took a deep breath and then exhaled a Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique toward the pitch-black passageway!
"Boom!!!" The raging flames instantly incinerated who knows how many cockroaches and unknown insects, and quite a few bats that couldn't stop in time were also roasted.
"Asta will take care of himself!" Vanessa saw that Noelle didn't want to leave and quickly said.
"But..." Noelle wanted to stay with Asta, because every time she had been plunged into darkness, it was Asta who brought the dawn, so she also wanted to be Asta's dawn!
"No 'buts'!" Asta naturally noticed this scene and immediately scooped Noelle up by her waist, then flipped her onto his back. "Hold on tight!"
"Yeah!" Before Noelle could react to the situation, she had already subconsciously hugged Asta tightly. Then she saw Asta holding Kryss and the Bandit Leader in each hand, while Vanessa reacted quickly, taking Nero onto her magic broom and speeding toward the exit of the passageway...
After the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique disappeared, the insects and bats behind the group crazily rushed toward Asta and the others again, as if they wanted to wipe out all the humans remaining in this cave!
However, when they chased them to the cave entrance, they stopped, because sunlight was shining in!
"Phew... finally saved!" Noelle thought of those hideous insects and was still feeling lingering fear.
"Brother!" Nero rushed to Kryss's side immediately; Kryss looked like he was on the verge of death no matter how you looked at him!
However, Asta could feel Kryss's tenacious vitality; he was just a bit weak now, but there was no danger to his life.
"Silly little sister, how could you come here?" Kryss finally cried. He didn't cry when he was trapped in dire straits, nor did he cry when he was about to be thrown to feed the bugs, but at this moment, he wept uncontrollably.
"Brother, water!" Nero looked at Kryss's parched lips, which were covered in blood, and quickly brought over the water bottle she had brought.
"Gulp! Gulp! Cough, cough, cough!" Kryss took a few large gulps of water, then couldn't help but spit out quite a bit.
"Brother, are you okay?" Nero became anxious immediately.
"Nero, your brother was just hit in the back by the bandits, so his lungs are injured. That's why he's like this after drinking so much water at once. Don't worry." Vanessa comforted her.
"Asta, do you still have that kind of potion?" Noelle looked at Asta and asked.
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