The 5 Elemental Lord
The destruction of Hanof's hand
Hanof only incubated in pain for ten seconds before realizing that his stomach had frozen from the blow given by Zeno. The arrogant-faced Hanof now changed the look on his face to a very bad one. Moreover, he had to endure the pain from his slightly crushed stomach.
“I've never been here to find any trouble, your young master Dion was the first to bother me. You, you are accusing me of nothing, your actions that accuse me just make me unable to stay silent. If you continue to do that to me, then I will not hesitate to kill you again. Come back, and tell Duke Arlos not to accuse and target me, we assume this matter is over, and I will not commit any crime!”
“Just bad people get more involved, it turns out that good people often make false accusations that make people become evil and get revenge. I wonder who the bad guy really is.” Keep Zeno.
Zeno had almost exhausted his patience with Hanof, but he did not immediately act silly to release his anger, yet he waited for Hanof to make a move, if he moved to run away, then Zeno would just let it go, however he waited for Hanof to move, but if Hanof acted stupid, a single slash then that was enough.
Hanof tried to stand up while holding onto his wounded stomach, he did not expect that the underrated Zeno could be this strong, even though he had already become like the strongest person in the Duke's territory. But it turned out that he could be defeated with a single blow, truly he felt that Zeno was no match for him. But he did not give up so easily, he stood up while raising his fist, at least he wanted to attempt to hit Zeno one punch only.
But what Hanof did actually made Zeno feel that Hanof wanted to die, instead of giving up instead of giving up was the biggest mistake. Without the slightest hesitation, Zeno took back the Ice Sword and slashed out toward Hanof's neck. Unfortunately Hanof here was not that weak, the hand he used to hit Zeno now he used to fend off the Ice Sword.
“Stupid!” Zeno Mumbled.
Even so, Hanof opened his eyes wide and noticed that the Ice Sword could pierce through the ice protecting his fist, this left Hanof's hands split open with fresh blood rushing between the ice that became Zeno's protective fist.
“Mr Hanof!” the warrior leader who was with Hanof cried out in fear when he saw Hanof's fist split in two. His face seemed to not believe that the ice that became Hanof's boxing glove could be penetrated using a sword, whereas during his life, he had never seen a single sword that pierced through the ice boxing glove that protected Hanof's hand. Most swords will break.
“You're Rungdaf's men, fucking witches!”
Zeno then placed the Ice Sword under the chin of the warrior leader, causing the person to tremble in fear from feeling the danger of death as Zeno moved his sword forward. Even he felt that Zeno's sword was extremely cold beyond the temperature of the Arctic continent.
“Say once again!” Zeno Pinta.
The warrior leader could not open his mouth as if his mouth was locked for fear of Zeno, his heart pounding because if he misbehaved, Zeno would push his sword and smash his neck. As for Hanof, he still looked at his hands in disbelief, there was no pain at all as his mind was completely blank.
Zeno pulled out the Ice Sword and left the tavern, but before leaving, he placed two gold coins towards the cashier. Perhaps two gold coins were too many, but it was also used to compensate the losses of the tavern that had been damaged by his fight.
The day had also started the night, Zeno wanted to find an inn to calm down. It felt like he wanted to get out of this Alvolus kingdom territory and head for another kingdom so as not to be chased. At least maybe news of Rundaf's subordinates will reach out of the region and head for another kingdom tomorrow morning, so that Zeno can rest at night.
But heading for another kingdom was definitely too far away, so Zeno chose to find the nearest inn to rest, and it was better that he did not give his name to Zen, so that people would not be too afraid of him. Maybe using a real name is a good option like Zeno. Because while here he used a name called Zen.
The temperature of the Arctic continent is getting colder, it makes Zeno embrace himself while looking for lodging so that he can be warmer. He somehow smiled to himself, imagining finding his father was not as easy as he imagined. This was only one of the hundreds of regions in the Southern Empire.
After a long walk, Zeno finally found an inn that was quite crowded. He walked over to the reception and booked a room that was worth taking a break.
“Can you show your identity?” Ask the receptionist.
Zeno knew that the news about him who was the son of Rungdaf had spread here, so the hotel owner must also be on guard not to carelessly serve guests. Zeno finally gave a badge from his country.
“Mr Fang Zeno, it seems like you are not from this emperor. But you have to be careful, lately there is someone named Zen who is a subordinate of Rungdaf.” The female receptionist whispered.
“I also know, even in the tavern earlier, the people from Duke were fighting him, it's a good thing I was able to leave, because that person named Hanof was so terrible when fighting.” Zeno said with a big smile and lied, because if he did not lie and did not convince the receptionist, then Zeno's identity would be easily exposed.
“Mr Hanof is not as terrible as you might imagine. He was actually kind to people, even he smashed the collarbone for anyone who was bothering people in the territory of the Alvolus kingdom, or rather on the territory belonging to Duke Arlos.” The word receptionist explains.
Zeno just shook his head while laughing in his heart, all about Hanof is just nonsense, in fact Hanof is not as strong as people say. But there is a question that makes Zeno curious, who exactly is Rungdaf. To dispel the curiosity, Zeno asked the receptionist in front of him. “If you may know, who is Rundaf, why is that person such a hated figure?”
The receptionist before Zeno looked around, making sure that no one heard him. Then he whispered something to Zeno, “Rundaf was a storm witch who killed the emperor's parents Aurrora. Even Rundaf himself had become a bitter enemy of emperor Aurrora, a dozen years ago, Rundaf appeared again to rule the emperor. But luckily there was the emperor's son, the general emmm I briefly forgot.”
The woman finally gave up thinking, so choosing to continue her words, “That must be the son of emperor Aurrora managed to repulse the storm witch. But what a pity, they didn't have time to kill him.”
“Alright, thanks for the information.” Zeno smiled towards the receptionist while taking back his family badge.