If he wasn't stupid, how could he not see what was happening?!
Immediately, his sword was raised, and he looked guardedly at the bastards.
Whoosh!
The projectile was quick and light, and due to his distraction with the enemies, he noticed it too late!
The gooey substance shot on his feet. "Damnit!"
He was a level 40+ man and a little glue couldn't contain him for more than a few seconds, but it was enough for the two other strongmen as well as their guards.
His level managed to pull out the grass, but the distraction was enough to take a direct hit to the stomach.
"OUGH!"
Without allowing him to breathe, another attack smacked him from behind, and another from the side, and so on.
Fortunately, his defense equipment was still working for now, and it allowed Bentro to recover to some degree—enough to use a skill.
[REPULSION WAVE]
He yelled, pushing the enemies away with a skill, and they stepped away, making no further moves.
Bentro was panting a bit in shock, and he glared at two of his greatest allies who were now teaming up against him.
Both of them might have lower levels than him—both were level 40—but he knew that each one could cause him trouble, and now both of them were going against him at the same time.
These two were from his generation and had been lifelong rivals, and one of the things they battled for was his—the Lord's—friendship and favor!
They would give him the best gifts and slaves, attempting one up each other each chance they got. They were the last people he'd think would cooperate!!
How could they be cooperating like this, and fighting him together?!
"Why are you doing this?!"
At this, the two appeared next to him and began his attacks. For a while, Bentro could only focus on defense.
Slash!
"You think that you can keep taking our property away from us to weaken us and we won't say anything about it?!"
STAB!
"You think we don't know how you've been trying to get us to fight, so we will never get along?"
BANG!
"We know how you frame the other when it was your own doing—" Illyan sneered, spitting. "We actually knew most of them, but we didn't make an issue because we really didn't like each other anyway."
SLAM!
"But… we have our limits too, you know."
Bentro looked at them with gritted teeth, feeling his defense equipment's durability being chipped bit by bit. They were not wrong. The past few decades he had always profited off their dislike of each other. He had taken it for granted!
His eyes sharpened as he looked at them, hands defensively gripping on his weapon. "Then, which one would take the token?"
These two had been rivals for decades! He didn't believe they had truly started an alliance when there was only 1 token!
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