81 Chapter 81. Smiling Blood makes appearance

George walked out from the tent opening onto the desecrated field.

"What do you want?" Wenella cautiously asked as a sense of foreboding fell on the group.

"You guys have created a massive scene here and destroyed the area outside the tent. Alongside that, you guys have disturbed all the other guests in the party. I need you guys to give me compensation for it," George spoke out as he spoke, trying to make himself sound like the victim.

"Are you kidding me? Look at all these guests, they all seemed to enjoy that fight. Plus we were told that the party was in the tent and not in the field, judging from the fact that the tent is unharmed, we are in no wrong and do not have to pay anything to you," Wenella instantly argued back coldly without a hint of respect.

George's facial expression suddenly froze as anger suddenly filled his mind, a mere stage six refinement realm dared to speak to him, a stage two origin cultivator.

But just as he was about to flip out, Mars spoke out as he walked over to Aurora's side, "Chieftain of Darkness, I will pay for her group's compensation as well as mine. Please let her go."

Wenella's face was suddenly filled with surprise as she could not believe that this man that she had just fought a few minutes ago had just stood up for her against the top ranker.

"Haha! You are the infamous sword master, you still have the face to speak to me after losing to a cultivator with a lower cultivation than you?" George mocked as he haughtily laughed.

"Both of you need to pay me fifty thousand gold coins and the Apostle of the Phoenix must pay me an extra hundred thousand gold coins for talking back to me, alongside that. Each member from her group must pay fifty thousand gold coins as well," George replied as he evilly stared at Mars, secretly telling him to back off.

"Th-this is a bit too harsh isn't it?" Mars spoke out as he was extremely surprised by George's reply and his back began to sweat.

"Shut up! Know your place! I want all the coins here on the ground now!" George angrily commanded as he looked at Mars.

Mars' face turned extremely ugly and he slowly turned towards Wenella and whispered, "Wenella, I do not have enough to pay for your compensation. I only have about one hundred thousand with me right now. Please, wait for my signal. Then, we can make a break for it."

Wenella was immediately surprised by Mars' concern for her even though they had just met.

"Why are you doing this?" she asked in confusion.

"We are friends now aren't we?" Mars replied.

"Are you not able to pay?!" George loudly asked.

"If you are not able to pay then how about letting the Witch spend the night with me. If you agree then I will let you off," he greedily suggested as he eyed up Wenella.

"Is it true that they cannot pay?"

"I feel so bad for her,"

"I'm so jealous of the chieftain of darkness, he is getting such a beautiful woman,"

Quiet yet audible whispers filled the scene as tension rose, George was impatiently waiting for their answer. Just as he was about to speak again...

"Hahahaha!" Garrick's sudden laugh interrupted the whole scene.

"What's so funny?" George cluelessly asked with a cold expression.

Garrick however did not answer him immediately, he turned his head towards Mars and tapped him on the shoulder, "Brother Mars, thanks for all the help but we will not be needing it. It's no use to do this, leave us here. We will be fine."

"Impudent peasant! Answer me when I talk to you!" George furiously shouted as he slowly began slowly walking over to them.

"You arrogant idiot! You probably won't even know how you died. Haha!" Garrick insulted while heartily laughing.

"What did you say?!" George completely flipped in anger.

"Stupid peasant, you have made me angry, say your last prayers!" George ran straight towards Garrick to deliver a full-fledged blow of anger.

"Run! I can't block this attack for you guys!" Mars shouted as he powerlessly retreated backwards. But as he retreated, terrified confusion filled his face as he saw that Wenella and Garrick were still fixed on the spot not budging an inch. Even more shock filled his face as he saw that there was no trace of fear on their faces and instead there was a face of pity.

"Woa woa woa! Wait a minute!" another voice called out, interrupting George's angry advance and an outstandingly handsome young man wearing a mysterious beautiful the same cloak as Wenella and the others openly walked out of the dense spectating crowd.

"Who are you?" George asked annoyedly as he angrily looked back.

"I'm am Groot," the man replied in a deep strange tone.

"Groot?" George asked confused.

"Hahaha! Just joking. I'm just a simpleton who is simply here to speak of something so simple," Leo laughed out loud as he realized that no one recognized the joke.

"Piss off! I don't have time to listen to you!" George roared as he started slowly walking towards Garrick again.

"They don't have to pay compensation to you,"

"Huh? What did you say?" George stopped in his tracks.

Seeing that he had gotten George's attention, the man smiled as he began explaining, "I saw you watching this fight from the tent. You could have stopped it at that time but you didn't so you only have yourself to blame, alongside that they did not harm anyone except the man but he deserved it and the Azure Priestess. Plus, everyone enjoyed the fight. There's no logical reason for you to require compensation."

"Who is this man?" George once again asked this time towards his subordinate.

"Leader, he is the man who was there when we invited those three," the cultivator replied as he pointed toward Wenella, Vanessa and Garrick.

"So you are the leader of the Killing Cloud mercenaries?" George asked as he now knew the man's identity.

"Oh my goodness! That is the leader?"

"He's so handsome. I want to join that group,"

"He looks too young to be the leader,"

Countless audible comments burst out from the crowd as they all stared at Leo, seeing if he would deny or confirm this.

"Yep," Leo nodded and he simple added, "Nice to meet you, I'm Blood Cloud, leader off the Killing Cloud mercenaries."

"I want you to leave her and never interact with her again!" George commanded.

However Leo did not pay any attention to him and slowly walked over to his fellow mates.

"You took too long," Vanessa complained as she put on an annoyed expression.

"I think I perfectly timed my entrance," Leo replied with a smile as he turned to Wenella and spoke, "Hey! That fight was so good, I'm glad that I helped you with that art."

Hearing this, Wenella suddenly blushed as she nodded and simply smiled. Leo's appearance had helped her release all of her pent up stress.

Leo then stood up and turned towards Mars and thanked him, "Thank you for trying to protect her, you are indeed a good friend. Please help Wenella take Vanessa and Garrick back to our home. I'll try to negotiate with numpty here."

"How dare you ignore me!" George angrily shouted out loud as he clapped his hands three times.

And as soon as he clapped, a dozen stage four refinement realm cultivators walked out the crowd blocking Aurora and Garrick's escape forming a circle around them.

"Now isn't that a little underhanded?" Leo complained as he put on a childish expression and looked at George with beady eyes.

"Are you going to step away and let me pass?" George now demonically asked as he tried to intimidate Leo.

"Sigh, I can't let that happen, you should know that. However is there not a peaceful way to end this problem?" Leo asked as he did not want to hurt anyone at this moment. As his killing intent might accidentally be released, causing his killing intent tribulation to arrive.

"There is no way to do this unless you are willing to let her spend the night with me," George evilly spoke with a smirk.

"I think I'm going to have to shout this so that it will make it's way into your thick blobby head," Leo spoke as he brought his hand to his mouth and cupping into a C so that it would amplify his voice, "Karma has no menu. You get served what you deserve."

"Too much talk! As if I care," George spoke as he took a heavy step forward as he revealed his stage two origin realm energy, shocking the crowd into silence as they stare at him in awe. Some with expression of shock to the point where they felt suffocated.

"Wenella is the Vice-leader of this mercenary group, if she to be treated like this. As the leader, I can't let this happen can I?" Leo commented as he disappeared.

Shadow Eight Steps!