"Boss, help me!"
After witnessing the whole process, Keer was no better off. At this moment, his hands and feet were soft, and he collapsed to the ground, not even having the courage to cast magic, looking exactly like the boys and girls outside who had just discovered they were surrounded by the bandit group.
"I'll help your grandma!"
Leidi stepped on Keer's head. Gritting his teeth, he used all his strength, and with a'squelch,' he actually trampled Keer to death!
"It's time to end this!"
Asta looked at the earth wall that resembled a turtle shell, lifted the demon-slayer sword, and leaped up. Under the effect of the demon-slayer sword, that sturdy earth wall was as good as non-existent!
Wherever the heavy sword passed, the earth wall immediately crumbled, finally revealing Leidi's terrified, fat face.
"No!"
Leidi let out a shrill scream, but the demon-slayer sword in Asta's hand showed no sign of stopping.
"Boom!"
The demon-slayer sword smashed heavily into Leidi. With this, the Fierce Dragon Bandit Group was completely annihilated!
"Ding! You killed a red-named intermediate Mage and obtained 500 points!"
"Not bad."
Asta was very satisfied with this finishing strike. Thus, he had obtained a total of 18,500 points from annihilating the Fierce Dragon Bandit Group. Adding his existing 500 points, that made 19,000 points. This was truly a huge harvest!
"Is it all resolved?"
"And completely wiped out, not a single one left!"
"God, I'm really lucky to have met such a powerful companion!"
"Thinking about it now, it's really terrifying. If we hadn't met him, we would have been sacrificed by that bandit by now, right?"
A group of boys and girls wept with joy; for them, this was a true escape from the jaws of death.
"Asta, when did you become so strong..."
Yuno looked at Asta in disbelief. To outsiders, it seemed like Asta had always been chasing his footsteps, but in reality, only he knew that he had always been chasing Asta's footsteps! He envied Asta's strength, so he became strong himself. But once upon a time, he thought he was strong enough, powerful enough. For a while, he even thought he had surpassed Asta, but now he realized that he had been looking up to Asta all along...
"Um... thank you so much for saving us. My name is Lisa, and I live in Lanlin Village. If you happen to pass by here in the future, I will definitely treat you well."
As the most beautiful of the three girls, Lisa walked toward Asta with gratitude and confidence.
"Oh, are you planning to go home?"
Asta asked calmly. He could sense Lisa's intentional or unintentional flattery. The girl in front of him was indeed beautiful, but there was a bit too much worldliness about her; she seemed adept at currying favor, which made her unlikable.
"We haven't been out of Lanlin Village for long, and we already encountered such danger. The road to the Royal Capital is still long, and I can't imagine what other dangers we might face, so I plan to... go home."
Lisa never expected to join the Magic Knight Squad when heading to the Royal Capital; she just wanted to add a feather in her cap for her life, so that when she returned to the village, her beauty could make her a highly sought-after suitor. But if the road to the Royal Capital was too dangerous, she would never persist.
"Lisa..."
The other two girls' eyes dimmed upon hearing Lisa's decision. As girls, even if they banded together, it was indeed too difficult to travel thousands of miles to the Royal Capital, so they also decided to give up.
Consequently, many of the boys immediately expressed their decision to give up on going to the Royal Capital.
Because they had witnessed the horror of the Fierce Dragon Bandit Group and Asta's power, they felt that this world was not as simple as they had imagined. Being selected as a genius at a grimoire tower didn't mean anything. This gave them the feeling of falling from the clouds into the mud.
"Sure enough, compared to the outside world, the peaceful village is more suitable for me..."
"I originally thought about going to the Royal Capital to broaden my horizons, but the cost of broadening my horizons is too high; I can't afford it."
A group of boys and girls soon said their goodbyes. Asta and Yuno had already left. The remaining boys who wanted to follow Asta saw this and could only helplessly choose to go home, because they really didn't have the courage to continue on the road.
"Open the mall."
Asta said as he walked.
"Dōjutsu: Single Tomoe Sharingan (10,000 points!)"
"D-rank Ninjutsu: Shadow Shuriken (50 points!), Binding Technique (50 points!), Clone Technique (50 points!), Transformation Technique (50 points!)"
"Items: soldier pill (1 point for ten!), Kunai (1 point for ten!), healing potion (1 point per bottle!)"
"All Ninjutsu... exchange for all of them!"
Asta curled his lips and said domineeringly, 19,000 points, that's just how willful he could be!
"Ding! Successfully exchanged for Single Tomoe Sharingan, costing 10,000 points!"
"Single Tomoe Sharingan!"
"Normal effect: Slows down enemy attack speed, improves insight!"
"Special effect: 30% chance to cast Genjutsu, 30% chance to copy the opponent's magic!"
"Finally exchanged for you."
Asta's pupils began to change. The field of vision in front of him turned blood-red, and then the beautiful amber iris was like red dye being introduced into clear water, gradually turning into an enchanting dark red. A circle of black lines appeared around the black pupil, and a dot of ink-like tomoe circled on this black line. The Single Tomoe Sharingan was fully opened!