Karl sighed with relief, believing that after drinking blood, Dag would kill all their enemies with ease.

Dag took the cap off the bottle and drank its content all in one breath.

After just a second, he lowered his head down and began to breathe deeply.

When he looked up at his enemies, his right eye had turned purple: the power of magenta blood was once again circling his veins.

The bandit took his axe again, trying to hit Dag by surprise, but Reidar foresaw his move and antic.i.p.ated it, hitting him with an arrow on the shoulder.

The enemy dropped the axe to the ground, sore.

Dag, with the hammer in his hand, began to walk towards the men.

He looked at them intently, one at a time, activating Niva.

They were nine warriors, lined up next to each other, and their auras ranged from blue to light-blue.

A mocking smile appeared on Dag's face, whose arms began to be wrapped in black liquid.

Karl stayed soon after Dag, advancing slowly to cover his friend's shoulders.

Reidar stood still in his position, inside the wagon, loading another arrow.

The bandit who had just been shot in the shoulder, after falling to the ground, grabbed Dag by the ankle, trying to stop his advance.

Dag kicked him in the face and grabbed him by the s.h.i.+rt, lifting him off the ground with surprising force.

"Are these the only horses you have?" asked Dag, looking into the eyes of the bandit he held in his hands.

"Yes... just these" replied the bandit, frightened from Dag's purple eye.

After these words, Dag forcefully threw the man at the other warriors, who watched him fall to the ground without saying anything.

"Then Kjetil is still here, somewhere in the camp. He can't escape" Dag continued, looking around, trying to imagine where he might have been hiding.

With their weapons in hand, they were all ready to face Dag and one of them drew a bow from behind, trying to be faster than Reidar, who immediately noticed him.

After about a second, the enemy archer was. .h.i.t by an arrow in the stomach: Reidar had once again been faster than his enemies.

All eight remaining warriors charged toward Dag and Karl, screaming.

Dag stood still until his enemies were close enough.

He crossed his arms and used Earth Stomp: a gap opened in the ground about ten meters long, due to his increased powers.

Being one of the skills he had used the most, his execution technique was almost perfect.

Many of the men who were charging at him fell to the ground, unbalanced by the earthquake caused by Dag.

Others managed to overcome the obstacle and continued their advance.

A bandit equipped with an axe and a sword tried to hit Dag with a lunge, but he easily dodged the blow and counterattacked the bandit with a warhead on his forehead.

The man took a few steps back, before falling to the ground stunned, unable to get up.

Two other warriors came before Dag and tried to hit him with two cross-attacks, approaching each other as they ran.

Dag raised his hammer, parrying both blades of their swords.

The hammer emitted an electric shock, surrounded by purple sparks, and the two men were unbalanced by the shock wave.

Karl continued to watch Dag, astonished at his incredible power: he was facing warriors who wanted to kill him... and was throwing them to the ground as if they were puppets, just by defending himself.

Dag continued to walk slowly toward the men who had fallen to the ground after Earth Stomp, who had just risen.

He struck one with the hammer, which continued to emit purple sparks from its stone head.

The shot was not accurate, Dag moved his weapon without even looking, trying to make his way among the enemies, who were not his main target.

Karl advanced, beginning to face the first bandit in front of him, trying to make himself useful.

"Where is he? He must be here somewhere!" whispered Dag, as he walked looking around, uncaring of being surrounded by numerous enemy warriors.

Two other of them began running towards him, trying to hit him in the back, but Dag turned around and hit one of them in the head, killing him.

The other, however, managed to hit him with his spear on his arm, making him a cut.

Dag looked at his arm, then looked at the bandit and held his hammer with both hands, charging Overpowered Strike.

As soon as the hands clenched the handle of Magni's hammer, the electricity released from it increased and completely enveloped the weapon and part of Dag's dark arm.

The enemy, seeing the blow he was about to receive, tried to get away as fast as possible, but Dag struck him in the chest.

The blow emitted a huge amount of energy, making the man flying for several meters until he fell in front of Karl, who was still close to the wagon.

He looked at the man who had just been hit by Dag.

His body was smoldering as if he had just been struck by lightning: his mouth was open, expressing the excruciating pain he had felt before he died. His skin was burned, almost charred and in the center of his chest, at the point where he had been struck by the hammer, his flesh was torn, with a circular wound, similar to a hole.

Karl looked up at Dag, who kept walking slowly to the larger hut, killing anyone who tried to stop him.

Then he looked at Reidar.

The two friends understood each other without speaking, and Reidar got off the wagon, heading with Karl to Dag.

Before descending from his hiding place, the archer took the Red Executioner, which they had carefully hid inside the wagon and tied it behind him, as Dag used to do.