Auction Thieves (2)

Following the figure that was dashing across the roof tops, the Magpie masked man let loose several thrusts of the rapier.

And each time he did so, several visible wind funnels flew across the air and tried to strike the figure inn grey.

Hitting the roof tops and partially destroying them, the masked man mentally noted down which houses had been destroyed and how to pay them back later.

'But it is strange'

Despite showing impressive battle prowess with the bow since the stealing of the second most important item.

Firing arrows that canceled out the power of the wind thrusts.

The Figure in front of him hadn't done anything of the like, and was just focusing on running away.

As if it was a distraction....

Suddenly coming to a conclusion that caused the face under the mask to pale sharply, the man let out a quick thrust that pierced the figure.

But despite being pierced straight through the shoulder, the figure kept on moving without flinching.

'Shit!'

Cursing within their mind, the man resolutely gave up on the chase as the figure kept on running on the rooftops as the magic did it's work and dispelled the illusion the masked man foolishly fell for.

Turning around, the man let out a yell as he grabbed a potion from within the pouch and broke the bottle across their chest.

Ignoring the glass fragments that stayed after, the man ran across the rooftops, a visible air current following his moves as the man ran faster than before.

'I can't believe that I was tricked! Hopefully the Merchants guild has realized what has happened and has sent reinforcements to keep the thief from taking the heart'

Keeping those delusional thoughts within their mind, that even the man himself knew were delusional, the man ran under the starry night sky.

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After beating up all the people who were raiding the VIP's on my side, and in doing so, gained the favor of several people who I had zero idea about.

Using the gloves to manifest several ice shards from my hand, I threw them straight at the figure who seemed surprised and tried to attack them.

I spun the assassins dagger in my hand and threw it at the distracted figure.

Drawing a bit of blood from their body, the figure cursed before flipping in the air and fired tons of arrows in my general direction.

And by tons of arrows I mean that.

Ignoring the ones meant to restrict my movements I rolled forwards.

Surprised at how the arrows seemed to phase through my body as I ignored the arrows going through my body.

A piercing pain struck my shoulders and back.

'The fuck? Invincibility frames! You betrayed me!" Gritting my teeth, I ignored the pain and gritted my teeth as I used the cudgel to parry the rest of the arrows

A visible shockwave leaving the shield and pushing back all the arrows at the figure, making me have to throw several ice shards at them alongside using the marks mans bow to fire a few arrows.

'Fuck'

Biting my lip and drawing a bit of blood, I grabbed the arrows lodged into my back and with a cry of pain leaving my lips, I ripped them out of my back.

Blood spurting every where as I hurriedly bit into a piece of jerkey to heal the outer wounds.

Ignoring the arrows lodged into the pauldron, I turned to the figure and fired a few more arrows and ice shards before running to them with a vengeance in mind.

Dodging the random arrows that flew my way, I fired a few more ice shards and arrows the figures way as they countered it with a slew of arrows.

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'What the fuck is this!?"

Shouting within their mind the figure grabbed the dozens of arrows from the space ring and shot all of them straight at the unknown man.

Watching the man deflect the dozens of arrows that flew at speeds easy to miss with the naked eye unless you carefully watched them with ease.

The figure gritted their teeth and assessed the situation.

'The plan to get the heart is a bust with this idiot in front of me protecting it, and it seems that she failed to get the Vine Rune if he has the Ice shards'

Dodging the Ice shards that flew their way, as they couldn't afford to waste any more arrows than necessary.

The figures thoughts continued uninterrupted.

'Should I...?' thinking about cutting their losses there and running away.

A blade clashed with their sword.

Wielding the bloody sword with practiced movements, the continuously dripping blood was thrown outwards in the form of a flying curve.

Watching the man phase through the flying slash, the only signs of injury being a small cut, the negative thoughts within the figure deepened.

'Although it seems like he's practiced a strange technique, it can't last that long'

The blood gushing out of the small wound was proof of that.

'However it seems the Rage Amulet is doing its thing properly'

Smiling the figure wielded the Quick bow once again.

'I'll have to pay a visit those ruins again'

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'God dammit!' Feeling the blood gush out of my wounds, my reckless movements made it so I accidentally broke the Balanced blade.

And taking advantage of that fact, dozens of arrows flew towards my body.

'Cudgel Parry!'

Swinging the green shield at the perfect time, I seemed to have miscalculated it as I let my guard down and subsequently ignored the final two arrows that were just outside of the shockwaves range.

Taking out the spite sword I ran.

'DIE!'

Anger clouding my mind and reason, I knew deep down that this rage was incredibly unnatural as I had faced worse wounds from mistakes when fighting the zombies and skeletons.

But I couldn't care less as I tried to rip apart the figure in front of me.

'Ice Shards! Marksman's Bow!'

Firing both of them simultaneously, I took the figures shoulder as they tried to dodge.

"AAAGggh!"

Letting out a cry of pain, the unnatural rage cleared out of my mind as Reason came back to my mind.

'The hell was that!?'

Looking at the injured figure clutching their shoulder that was now hanging limply at the side, having dropped the blood sword due to the wound.

I dashed to freeze him.

'Ice Shards!'

And had to stop due to an outside parties Interference.

"AaAAaaAaaaAAAAAhhhhhHHH!"

Buzzing with shock as the touch of lightning caused electricity ran through my unprepared body.

I rolled to dodge the second attack and glared warily at the third party.

"Boss! Are you okay!?"

And that third party was aquainted with the guy I'm fighting, what a shitty development.

Looking at the figure holding the electric whip retract the whip of lightning into a black and purplish handle.

They reached out to support the figure.

"Who did this to you!?"

Looking at me I pulled back the string of the bow and started to charge the attack.

"Was it you!?"

Aiming to lop off my head with electric whip I looked at the information as the whip traveled above my head.

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'Where in the Nine Hells are they getting these Dead Cells equipment!?'

"Stop" hearing the figures voice properly for the first time, I looked at them as they whispered something to the newly added third party.

Glaring at me through hooded eyes, the newly added third party grabbed the figure I had injured and took the object laying on the ground with them.

'What'

As it was so abrupt it took me a moment to understand what I was seeing, but when I did.

It was to late as they had run away, second auction item in hand.

'Well shit'

Scratching my head and looking around at the devastation, several arrows being strewn around here and there as traces of the battle between me and the guy made itself known everywhere.

Ice, blood, arrows were the least of it as the stage itself was destroyed.

And as I looked around at the devastation, my eyes laid upon the final untouched item on the stage as the calculations were processed within my brain.

Grinning as my feet went to the desired location.

The Merchant's guild arrived.

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