Building a World Class Empire in another World
Chapter 112: Explosion

Chapter 112: Explosion

Aric’s smile deepened as he heard the baron. He leaned back into his chair and spoke, "You are a joke." He said in a calm voice, and then glanced at his people. "Take them down," he said in a calm voice.

Immediately, Ariel, Pentharis, and Elisa moved. Ariel and Elisa seemed personally engaged by the situation. Elisa might not have been engaged in combat for a while, but she was still an adventurer and a noble, and with the time she spent with Aric farming, her physical and mental skills had risen already.

She moved from behind Aric with a swiftness that the men could barely follow, her hands stretching out toward one of the men. What followed was a blast of wind so powerful it slammed two men into the wall with so much force that they couldn’t get back up.

Ariel, on the other hand, collected a makeshift sword from Pentharis right at that moment. The sword got engulfed in her flames. She attacked with ferocity, not regarding the lives of the men at all. She sent them flying into walls with deep wounds through their armors and on their bodies.

Pentharis, on the other hand, couldn’t be bothered to get aggressive. All the men were wearing metal, and that was the first aspect of their downfall. He manipulated the metal of their armor and used it to crush the men until they passed out.

In less than a few minutes, they took down the twelve that were there, some heavily injured, while some unconscious.

The baron watched in shock. He knew that Aric would be able to take down these men, but he at least thought the men would buy him enough time to get out of here.

Aric sat there with his arms folded, his eyes cold as the night. His breathing could be heard piercing through the air, his entire aura had shifted into one extremely cold.

"Wait, wait, Sir Aric, let’s not be hasty now. You know the stakes are against you now. Even if you jump at me and kill me now, the people that helped me break the contract already know about you.

They’ll come for you, they’ll bring the army of kingdoms. They won’t just come find you, they’ll come to completely take over, and have you for themselves.

I am the only one that can sway them and make sure that they don’t get to you. You can’t kill me," the baron said, trying to swindle his way past death.

"Allow me to take his head off already," Ariel said. She gripped the blade tighter.

"Not yet. The baron does make a good point. The situation of our village now is very vulnerable, and those people will most definitely come for us," Aric said.

"You want to trust him? You can’t," Elisa said.

"Who said anything about trusting him? I only said what he said was true, but I didn’t say I cared even if it was true. I’m still going to kill him," Aric said.

Fear took form on the baron’s face, realizing that Aric was not going to allow him to walk away from this, but that fear only lasted a few seconds, as what followed was a maniacal laughter.

The baron suddenly pulled out a talisman filled with rune inscriptions. He poured his mana into it and it immediately started to glow.

"Shit, everyone run," Aric said. He jumped off the chair and charged at the door, and so did all of them. The baron continued laughing even as the talisman was about to be fully charged.

The talisman exploded—an explosion so massive that its sound traveled for kilometers. The entire office was blown to bits, the hallway, the walls, all of it, destroyed.

"Can’t believe he killed himself," Elisa said, staring at the destruction in front of them.

"He isn’t dead," Aric said. He turned and headed down the stairs. "He had two talismans with him. One was definitely for protection. The baron loves his life too much to risk it.

Right now we have no leverage and will have to fight out everything. His family isn’t here, so we can’t take anyone hostage. More men are probably waiting for us downstairs, so the fight continues," Aric spoke casually, like none of it bothered him.

When he got down the stairs, he saw over a hundred men already waiting for him, all of them armed to the teeth, as if waiting for war.

Aric could tell that all these men were not trained militants or knights, so they were probably mercenaries that the baron hired.

Immediately the men saw Aric and his group, they took that as their cue to attack. They charged all at the same time. Aric slammed his feet on the ground, and through the wooden floors of the house, earth spikes shot out, impaling a dozen of them in one attack.

He stared at their bodies without any emotions in him. He didn’t care in the slightest for those that tried to harm him or his family, so he couldn’t hold any emotions for them.

Seeing such a brutal attack take down a dozen in one go, some of the mercenaries immediately retreated, while some charged forward.

Ariel charged in, her feet barely touching the ground as she ran. Her hands moved swiftly, and her blade immediately started chopping them down.

Elisa refused to be outdone as well, and she started firing wind blades, taking down the mercenaries one after the other.

Pentharis decided to sit this one down, because even with a hundred men, getting through was already impossible. He didn’t need to bother.

And that was true because Aric kept supporting Elisa and Ariel. Any mercenary that slipped through their attacks would instantly be killed by an earth spike.

Aric made sure to keep his notifications on mute, because he knew that a lot of them would be coming in right at this moment, and he didn’t want to be too distracted until they were in the clear, far from this town.