Chapter 74:A Gem Between Stones
A silence followed, thick with disbelief.
Then a voice from the crowd murmured, "In an instant... Lord Roland attacked multiple times... too fast for us to see."
Gasps echoed. Some unconsciously stepped back.
Till now, Roland hadn’t used a blade—only the blunt scabbard and his limbs. Every strike was efficient, brutal, and clean. His movements were like a tide—graceful but crushing.
Roland glanced around, a small smile on his face.
’If I can’t even do this much, then wouldn’t that mean my years of hardship were meaningless?’
He wasn’t the strongest in the world. He didn’t possess monstrous strength or legendary artifacts. But he had trained, survived, and bled through dozens of real-life battlefields and places where only four out of ten came back.
He hadn’t accomplished grand feats, but he’d given more than most. And now, those experiences spoke through his body.
Another wave of attackers came, driven by pride, vengeance or desperation.
They circled and lunged.
Roland moved again leaving behind after images that made one dizzy to look at.
A sweeping kick upended one, while his elbow cracked against another’s temple. A blade aimed at his neck was caught between his fingers and snapped in two. Another fighter tried to grapple him from behind, but Roland slipped from the hold and flipped the man over his shoulder like a sack of wheat.