Aftermath

Two miles down the road, a party of 4,000 individuals marched, and Tyros was at their head. There were about 2,000 Aura knights, including the sword saint and Tyros. There were also 2,000 men-at-arms and archers.

Typically, a warband would not have so many Aura knights, but Tyros led the party, and he brought only the best of the best under him. The men-at-arms were meant to die; that was their duty.

Back inside the castle, Gore and Lintos stood in front of a Vault. Gore lifted his blade, and he charged his blade with Mana. A fireball blasted the door's hinges and slightly bent the door in. 

Gore lifted his right leg and smashed through the other hinge of the massive metal door, sending it flying into the room towards the far wall. 

The door smashed against the wall and then fell down to the floor, shattering three chests and spilling thousands of gold coins onto the floor. 

Two women screamed. Gore walked inside the vault and glanced towards the screams. Both women had red hair and they looked related. Next to the women there was a boy with a dagger. He clutched the dagger and his knuckles turned white as his eyes locked onto Gore with hatred. 

Instead of an ugly expression towards the boy, Gore looked pleased. "Boy, I killed your father. That fury you feel inside your heart, use it. Come and find me when you are stronger."

Gore turned away from the boy without another thought. The boy on the other hand screamed as he stood up. Then he ran towards Gore with his dagger raised. In a blur, Gore turned around and shattered the blade with his just two fingers pressing against it. The boy then ran into Gores' muscled leg and fell to the ground. 

Gore sighed. "BOY. I said when you are older. Go back to your family and let your fate guide you."

Lintos stepped beside Gore. He was extremely surprised that Gore had not killed the boy, and he was a little happy inside that Gore had not. "Gore, why don't you go take a look at the treasure and lift that door away from it."

Gore nodded and then moved over to the massive, disjointed door. He wrapped both of his massive arms around it, lifted it, and then moved it out of the way. 

Gore turned back to the treasure. There were Six chests. Three of gold, two of silver, and a much smaller one full of various brightly shining gems. Lintos cleared his throat solemnly. "You practically took this castle all by yourself, Gore. Take all of the treasure. The castle itself is worth far more than anything in here."

Lintos turned to the women in the corner. "You can have them if you want. One is the Viscount's daughter, and the other was his wife."

Gore shook his head. "I don't want them. Instead, let me have a cart full of extra armor and swords or spears from the corpses. I am trying to expand my warband, and that was one of the major costs for me."

Lintos nodded. "I can arrange for a wagon to be brought over and my Men-at-arms to gather and load the items."

Gore muttered. "I remember that stupid green window saying that I had a spatial space in my ring for items."

Lintos raised his eyebrows. "What?"

Gore stepped towards the treasure chests. "Wait. I'll try something."

Gore transformed his sword into a ring and then he injected Mana into it. As he did, his Mana brushed past a massive space. He felt that with his Mana he could move his items in and out of the space.

Gore tried it. He sent a string of liquid Mana from his ring towards the chests. As soon as the string touched them, they glowed green for a second and disappeared. Gore blinked and then moved the glowing string across each of the items.

As the items disappeared, Lintos blinked rapidly as if he had just seen something impossible. "Gore… Who are you?"

Gore whipped around. "Did you just hit your head? I am Gore, Fury's son."

Lintos sniffed. "You know what, nevermind…"

Lintos turned to one of his knights. "Round up all of the women, men, and children prisoners and bring them into separate rooms. I am going to head outside with Gore."

"Yessir!"

Lintos strode past the knights out of the empty vault, and Gore followed him. They walked outside of the castle into the crisp air. Lintos walked past the gates of the castle and to the side, away from the blood. 

"Gore, I want you to work for me more. I see you as an incredibly valuable asset that this kingdom most certainly needs. You see, the history of Veros is about to be decided because this war against Alios has been dragging on slowly for far too long. I feel like they are about to make a huge campaign against us. Rather than waiting for them to come. I would love to meet them and show them that we are not so weak."

Gore rubbed the back of his head. "That doesn't bother me. I don't give a shit about you or your country. I just respect the strong and I have never seen you fight. I don't respect you. You have just been my employer until this moment. I will take the armor and weapons that I wanted and then I will leave."

Lintos blinked. "What is your plan then?"

Gore grinned. "I'm going to make my warband much larger and then I am going to head across your country or Alios destroying, looting, and killing as I go. I am going to gain wealth and build experience before I start conquering castles and cities. My ultimate goal though will be to take over the entire Human kingdom."

Lintos coughed and then started to chuckle lightly. "I thought you didn't know your worth, but now it seems like you overvalue yourself. Making a country and holding it isn't so easy as it seems." 

Gore stuck his finger in his nose. "Yeah whatever. I'm going to go find my warband. Make sure your men-at-arms gather up all the weapons and armor. I'm going to find my people."

Gore walked away from Lintos who had a frown etched over his face. Lintos wasn't furious; he was expecting Gore to say no, but Gore had done so in a manner that had hurt his pride as a Duke.

Gore eventually found David, Dal, Dor, Lor, and Yor inside the walls of the castle. They had been helping to search through the hovels and were gathering up loot. None of them had even been in the initial charge. Gore had ended the battle much too quickly.

When Gore found them, he shook his head. "Stop what you guys are doing. I already got paid. Follow me."

Gore led them towards the broken gate where there was plenty of bare space. Gore began to train them all slowly and patiently. The men-at-arms who had seen Gore fighting the Aura knights were surprised at his sudden change of demeanor from a devil to a gentle giant.