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Suddenly, the templars stopped and turned around toward the crowd. Why would they turn around? That question was soon answered when the inquisitor showed himself to the crowd.
"Everyone else, make way."
With those words, the crowd quickly moved away before Astalos had a chance to react. He soon found himself standing between the crowd and the templars. He now realised it was all a setup.
“Take him”
With a gentle smile on his face, the inquisitor ordered his men. Four men rushed toward Astalos to obey the order. First two tried to pull the pincer movement while the other two tried to stop him from the front. Before the first two templars reached him, Astalos quickly casted
Blinding Light on the man to the left while casting
Ignite on the man to the right.
The man to the left grabbed his eyes in pain while the other man was screaming loudly as he was trying to take his heated armours off.
While Astalos was dealing with the first two men, the other two men who tried to stop him from the front have almost reached him.
Astalos casted {#170|Lump] on the man who was still holding his eyes to knock him out. The lump hit the man in the face, causing him to fall on his back. The sheer weight of the armour he is wearing probably knock the wind out of him.
Astalos unsheathed his sword to confront the first man out of the two who has managed to get close. He tilted the blade of his sword to give it some angles remembering how his father once taught him a long time ago. As the two swords met, the templar's sword slid off along the edge of Astalos's sword. But his sword was longer than what Astalos thought and it manage to lightly cut his left shoulder.
Their faces have gotten very close as the templar lost his balance. Astalos immediately casted
Thundering Shout. The spell made his voice loud enough to make the templar to take off his helm as the sound echoed inside. Astalos hit the man in the back of his neck and knocked him out cold.
But it was too late for Astalos to dodge the fourth templar's attack. He tried to block the attack with his sword. But it was not an ordinary attack by a sword. It was a shield charge with a heavy wooden tower shield. The attack was strong enough to send Astalos flying for a couple meters. As he landed on the ground, his back hit empty wooden containers. His arms were badly bruised from trying to stop the charge and his back was scratched from hitting the containers. His cut wound on the left shoulder worsened from falling on the ground hard. He somehow managed to hold on to his sword but with his arms badly bruised, it was too hard to wield the sword with enough strength to attack or defend.
Astalos could not get up for a couple seconds and the templars did not wait for him to recover. Two templars have fainted but the templar who has just hit Astalos with the shield charge drew his sword out as he dropped his shield. To make things worse, the templar who was hit by the ignite spell finished taking off his armour. He was covered with burns but they were not serious enough to stop the man from carring out his order.
Astalos slowly backed away while trying to shake off the pain. The inquisitor seemed to be entertained by this. Astalos quickly looked around to find a escape route.
There were two templars closing in from the front and behind them, there were more templars and the inquisitor. To the right of him, there were people who obeyed the command of the inquisitor. Behind him, there was the ship where the templars came from. To his left, there were horses used to unload shipments. Astalos had to decide quickly to escape this trap. The storm has not yet withdrawn from the village so jumping into the sea was a suicide.
"Get him!"
The armoured templar shouted as he attacked. The unarmoured templar followed immediately. Astalos casted
Flea pact on the armoured templar and
Blinding Light with
Lump on the unarmoured templar.
As Astalos casted his last spell, he ran as fast as he could to get on to one of the horses.
