Φ As we ehe main chamber of the tunnels, I see a giant building bigger than the mansion I grew up in in the tre. It has many different bridges ing out of it, leading to tunnels. As I look down, I see men and women drinking aing, but they all let out a scream in terror due to Willow. Using the fusion to my advantage, I jump off Willow and say to Maple, “If I get overwhelmed, tell Willow to attack.”

  “Wait,” Maple says, but Orb has already headed straight down. “Did that idiot fet that I ’t speak the saviour’s song, how am I going to tell Willow anything.”

  Upon nding on the ground, I immediately used my legacy to freeze a rge crowd of people in front of me. After that, I used my speed to get close to and knosost of the people who weren’t frozen from my attack. I then saw one person with a unicator’s hand, and he screamed into it.

  “EVERYOHERE IS AN INTRUDER, RETURN TO BA”, I knocked him out before he could finish his sentence.

  I hear the sound of swords being drawn and strong footsteps. It seems some of them have regaiheir posure. They e at me, trying to kill me. They’re weak as all the others I have fought, but the issue is that there are ten of them ing at me, making it hard to dodge, and the sensory overload because of all the different hat are being made in the cave is slowing me down.

  I decided to focus on defending my vital spots while looking out for any form of poison; if I get hit with that, I am finished. So, the bandits e swinging their swords at high speed. I dodge but still take cuts here and there. Whenever I get an opening, I knoe of them out, and when lots of them get close, I freeze the area.

  Creating ice taxes my body, and with the rge amount I made to take out most of them in the beginning, I am already feeling tired. This and the fact that all the bandits in the giant building are ing out in droves has just increase my exhaustion; whenever I take o, five more pop out to repce the person.

  But the worst issue is these guys’ coordination. Individually they’re all weak, but they work together too well. When I am fighting five, I try to take o, but in that moment, another six of them e in to attack, me making my attack stop. I try to freeze them all after they do this, but then the initial five will back out as quickly as possible, and two of the six who jumped in would move back as well making it that I would only be able to freeze four of the eleven I could of.

  I still persevered and tinued my assault, but after their repeated attacks, I started to lose focus, and it the moment I was distracted, one of the bandits swinging a giant hammer came at me. As the hammer hit me, I was able to freeze it solid, but the impact had already sent me flying into a wall. At the speed I was going, best case, I get a cussion. Worse case, I die. This isn’t good. I was too overfident, dammit. If I make tact with my hands first, it might soften the blow on the rest of my body. It is a stretch, but I must do something other than leaving it to ce.

  As I make an impa the wall, I feel softness. As I look to see what happen, I see snow. Did I create that? As I get off the wall, I see the snow e down with me. While moving my body, I notice the snow follows the movement of my hands, and when I turn my hands 180 degrees, the snow turns to ice. I start to grind as I say to myself, “I work we this.”

  Φ “Boss, you shouldn’t e down here. It is still dangerous. That beast over there could still attack us.”

  “No, we are fio look around. He hasn’t killed a single one of us. If he wao, all he would have to do is tell that moo stampede over us, but he has done no such thing. This brat doesn’t want to kill us. Isn’t that cute?”

  “I see, sir.”

  “Well, if you do stop SITTING ON YOUR ASS, I EN OF YOU TO GO UP TO HIM AND KEEP UP THE ASSAULT! DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU RETARDS?”

  “YES, SIR!”

  “GOOD, NOW THE ONE WHO CAPTURES HIM GETS TWENTY PERT OF HIS SALE. YOU KNOW HOW MUCH LEGACIES GO FOR!”

  An enormous scream erupts throughout the area. God really does love me, to think a legacy would run straight into the heart of our base. I know of people who have earitles of high nobility by selling Legacies. This is my ake it into the big leads. Life is just going my way.

  As my soldiers runs towards the boy, he approaches us at high speed. That freaking idiot, seems like he wants to get cut down faster. As he gets closer to meeting my soldiers, he twists his hand and pulls it back. The brat has gone insane. What the hell is he doing?

  I suddenly hear a big rushing sound behind me. I look behind to see that all the frozen men are back to normal, and a rge amount of snow is rushing towards us. “The fuck”, I say before the snow hits us in full force. I

  push through the snow and stand up; seeing it now covers everyone. I try to get my legs out of it, but the moment I try, all the snow turns into ice, and I see the boy moving at extreme speeds, knog every one of my soldiers out, and as he gets to me, he says, “I heard someone call you boss, we’re going to talk ter.” And with that, the boy knocks me out.

  Φ “VICTORY”, I shout after knog the boss out. I look around to ensure everyone is down, and as I expected, the only ones who are still semi-scious are the ones whom I unfroze, but their bodies are frostbitten, so they’re no threats to me as they are now.

  “MAPLE, E DOWN, WHERE SAFE”.

  As Maple quickly rushes to my side, she says, “Good job, but I wish you would be more careful.”

  “I was careful even if I could have defeated them all. Worst-case sario, Willow steps in and knocks them out, probably killing a few of them in the process.”

  “You say that, but you almost cracked your head against the wall and were cut sixteen times, like right here and here.” Maple then starts pointing out where I was cut.

  “How the hell did you even see all that accurately up there.”

  “I happen to have amazing eyesight.”

  Well, I guess she did shat tor the first time we met. “Well then if you do, keep a wat any of their movement as we move,” I say as I pick Maple up and start running towards their base.

  As we get inside, I start running around frantically, looking for anything I could reise. While inside, I see how well-ahis whole pce is. Not only that, but it is also very well built. I wouldn’t have excepted a bunch of low-life bandits to be this methodical though they have shown they coordinate.

  After running around for a while, I hear something. “Maple; I hear something over in that dire. Keep being a lookout and scream to me if you see anything strange. I head toward the noises, eventually leadio prison. I see men, women, and children as I look through the cells, but when walking past all of them, I eventually see people with clothes from the vilge. “EVERYONE,” I scream as I get close to the bars.

  “Orb,” they say in response. I freeze the prison bars open and start breaking everyone’s cuffs. “Are you guys all ok, especially you, Pine? You’re an old dy. I hope they weren’t too ruff with you.”

  The moment Pis out of her handcuffs, she smacks me across the head, “Do you think I am some fragile baby.”

  “I was just worried”, but as I say this, I see Piumble. “Please be careful, Pine, ye is affeg you.”

  “It is not that, you idiot, they barely feed us, and when they did, something ut in the food that made us weaker.”

  It must be the same thing that Cole did to us. “Well, let me help you out of here then.”

  Hitting me in my crotch Pine says, “Go free the people iher cells first.”

  “But I o help you guys first.”

  “Stop being an idiot. You know how resilient we are, and we have only been here for a little while, unlike all the other prisoners who are in much worse shape than us, so go free then first; YOU HEAR ME, ORB.”

  “Loud and clear,” following Pines instru, I go to free the prisoners iher cells, and just like Pine said, these people have desote expressions and are also malnourished.

  As I break their cuffs, I tell the kids, “Don’t worry, the bad people ’t hurt you anymore. You’re free”, and after a while, I get everyo.

  As we all slowly walk from the cells to meet Maple, she runs over and gives hugs to some of the vilgers. But then she asked me, “Was Willow there?”

  Nodding my head from left tht in response, I say, “Most of the men were o be found.”

  “Willow, where are you,” she says despairingly. Maple sps both her checks and says, “I ’t do anything about this, sht now, let’s look after these people.” Fag them, Maple says, “You all look hungry good thing there is a lot of food around”, so me Maple and everyone else able-bodied start grabbing the food that was left around and some that had been stored arese to everyone. “I know this has been hard for you, but now you eat all you want.”

  Everyoarted having their fill of the ridiculous amount of food the bandits had. Many of them had tears flowing down their faces while eating. While that was happening, I expio the adults from the vilge all that had happened involving both Cole and Sequoia.

  They all had varyiions. Some broke down, and some rejected my words, but ohing everyone shared was the sadness of knowing not only their leader, but their home was gone.

  I get on my hands and knees in front of everyone and say, “I am so sorry. None of this would have happened if I hadn’t e to the vilge.”

  Maple getting down beside me, also says, “I should also apologise, if I had takera precautions when bringing both Orb and Cole back, we would have all been safe, and my father would be alive. I am so sorry.”

  Pine brings us both in close and says, “You both did well. Don’t bme yourself for this, even carrying all this shame and worry. You two kids have aplished a lot. If it is anyone’s fault it is ours, for being such useless adults. We should have protected you, and for that, I am so sorry.”

  “No, don’t apologise.”

  “He is right, Pi is my fault.”

  “Well, since we all want to cim responsibility, how about we all decide to let this go and bme no one? Isn’t that a fine promise?”

  “Yes, it is.”

  So as our versation ends, one of the other prisoners es up to us and says the men out there are starting to wake up.

  “I guess it is time to go question those scumbags.”