Asta: 'steady. Steady... NOW!!'
Cutting through the air the arrows charges towards the leader but is intercepted by a nearby bandit who walks into the trajectory.
The chief panics and opens his grimoire when suddenly the knights attack from the sides while few of captives take bows and begins shooting from the tent.
Chief: You dare fight back... I will rip you bozos to shreds. Whirlwind maelstrom.
Cresent air blades begin flying in the direction of knights who raised their shield to protect themselves.
Chief: take this you stupid arch- 'where is the archer?'
Just as the chief realised that the archer was not among the captives, a flew and hit his grimoire, the arrow gets absorbed into the grimoire and the maelstrom stops before scattering in a strong wind.
Chief: There you are *turns towards asta who is on the sentry tower* Eat this swirling jave-
But the spell didn't get cast, the chief's eye shift to his grimoire in annoyance and he saw his grimoire forcefully closed and it's colour much darker than usual.
The next second asta begin firing at the archers instead, giving the knights open area to engage in free combat.
The knights strengthen their body with ki before dashing towards the horde of bandits as they discard their half broken shields.
Chief: I WILL KILL YOU BRAT.
The chief takes the bow of the nearby archer and aims for asta but just as he begins aiming, Asta has already shot a arrow that broke the bow(through coincidence) and hit the bandit straight in the neck.
Asta: the leader is down. *Grabs a dagger* Shall we go close quarters then?
Asta leaps out of the tower, multiple arrows are shot towards him but he spins mid air by kicking the tower's supports and dodges them. He cleanly severs a bandit's knee before using his ki sense to identify attacks, he weaved through the group using the bandits as meatshield while disarming them one by one. Soon he reached the archers and begins his dance. He leapt from the tent wall right behind the cover and instantly stabs a archer in the back of head before ripping out the knife and throwing it at another and hitting him straight in the eye.
Asta: Two more. *Takes cover and retaliates with his shortbow killing another archer* One more.
Asta watched as last archer burns in a flame and falls to the ground screaming in terror while a injured dwarf slowly drags himself out from behind the archer.
Ragon: This is payback you b****. You thought there will no consequence of using me as a target.
Asta: RAGON
Asta quickly dashes for Ragon who has a few arror embedded in his arm, just as Asta reaches ragon he falls down and lays on the ground.
Ragon: Don't worry kiddo, something like this can't kill me. Focus on the others first.
Asta nods and picks up his bow again while showering the melee bandits from the side. Under the constant attack the bandit's numbers dwindled and soon none remained standing, the knights killed off any survivors while the former captives went around gathering their belongings but there was a small boy with pointy years going around using something to help the people.
???: Thy spirits of nature, thy friends of life, bless with your power and save the weak's lives.
Few small golden orb of lights appeared and flew to the injured, ragon was also blessed and his bleeding stopped before the spirits returned to the boy.
Asta: A elf? 'Dad did say the war of calamity where most elves died in previous world was stopped midway by someone.'
Asta notices something among the corpses, the grimoire of the bandit chief, he gets closer and picks it up before throwing it into his sackbag.
Asta: I guess this counts as my part of reward, it was a 2 leaf anyway.
Asta again goes to Ragon and helps him get some food before everyperson gathered at the center. A person with yellow moustache and bald head comes forward to asta and grabs his hands.
???: Whoever you are, Thanks for saving us. we are a merchant group which was going to the other side of the mountain but one of our chefs was a member of these bandits, he drugged us and we got captured.
Ragon: We don't what we would have done without you kid, if you didn't kill that mage then we would all have died here. That guy is gill, my business partner.
Asta: I just did what I could. But which side of the moutain were you going to?
Gill: the Direction of Golden moon kingdom, we were supposed to deliver a bunch of fabric to the nobles.
Asta: How about giving me a ride then? I was going to get a carriage from the nearby village anyway.
Gill: Sure it will be my pleasure. Since it has been decided, *turns to the other people* Everyone we must leave Tommorow morning, fix the carts and the cargo and help the injured.
Everyone got some work assigned to them while asta sit in a tent staring at the two leafed grimoire. The dwarf rogan comes in, his arm covered in bandages with some bruising on his head.
Ragon: What are you doing kiddo? Why stare at a grimoire like that?
Asta: I was thinking of how to deal with it.
Ragon: what do you mean? Aren't you gonna sell it?
Asta: no.. something better.
Asta grabs the grimoire and opens his own grimoire, Ragon is stunned at the shabby appearance of the asta's grimoire but keeps quite.
Asta: Anti-magic: conversion.
Ragon stares wide-eyes as the two leafed grimoire gets absorbed by the anti-magic grimoire and it's design changes a little. A few new pages appear and the three clover symbol on the cover changes from the rusted dark to light brown. The cover changes from a shabby rotten book to a plain black cover with a black gem in the middle.
Asta: Success.
Ragon: Amazing... How did you do that kiddo? And that light brown clover, isn't that the symbol of pre-bronze rank?
Asta: My grimoire doesn't have any fixed attribute so it can absorb other grimoires, I just feed it to mine.
Ragon: That's something new I guess. Did you really make it yourself?
Asta: I did.. my dad were a grimoire maker at intermediate stage and I learnt from him.
Ragon understood the meaning of asta's words, he came closer and puts his hand on his head and slowly ruffles his hair.
Ragon: I can't do anything about that but if you want to learn higher level runes and techniques in that field then maybe I can help you.
Asta: Huh?
Ragon: I am quite well known runesmith in my hometown, i can have a friend of mine teach you.
Asta: What is a runesmith anyway?
Ragon: It's like mix of a blacksmith and a rune master, I can make enchanted equipment that people use.
Asta: *thinks for a few minutes* Can I learn both?
Ragon: If you got talent yes but why do you need both?
Asta: I need better weapons, what better than self made customized weapons? 'maybe I can make a version of demon dweller'
Ragon: Quite good ambitions you have kid, let's go through your knowledge while we travel to the city... I will leave you alone for now.
Asta: Bye.
Ragon leaves the tent while asta looks at the near additions to his grimoire.
Asta: *turns the pages and reads* Temporary. Enchant. Blessing. Wind. Effect. A spell to give something a temporary enchant? I could use it for a lot of things. *Turns pages again* Maybe i can add a few wind spell... Okay I am gonna make one.
He brings out his ink bottle and quill and begins writing again.
Asta: I would need to restock when I reach the city.