Two men were inside: one of them held Agnes, who had her face resting on the wall, while the other was bent down.

There was no sign of Karl.

"Hey! d.i.c.kheads!" shouted Dag, pulling out his weapons. 

The two men quickly turned to him.

Finally, also Karl popped up, who was on the ground in front of one of the two men that showed his two huge ram horns when he looked at Dag.

"Horns Of Heimdallr!" continued Dag, realizing who the two enemies came from and looking at them in the face, trying to recognize them. 

"Don't you remember me, kid?!" exclaimed the man who was holding Agnes, who was hornless.

Dag narrowed his eyes, trying to remember his face, but he couldn't.

"You killed my boss and just before him, you stabbed me with a blade! I would have died if my mates hadn't arrived immediately!" he replied.

Dag finally remembered: the man was one of Kval's goons. Before fighting him, he had been forced to kill them both.

"Captain... what the f.u.c.k is going on?! Do you know these b.a.s.t.a.r.ds?!" exclaimed Reidar, pulling out the Failnaught and an arrow from the quiver.

"It's a long story, now let's get rid of them quickly!" said Dag, looking at the man holding Agnes still, approaching her ear and licking her neck, as if he was enjoying a succulent meal.

Karl was still on the ground, battered: the charge of the two enemies had caught him by surprise. Knowing him, presumably, he was still asleep when they broke through the door.

"Captain?! Ahahaha! Do you have friends now, probie? That means you're going to see them die before your eyes!" chuckled the man, trying to make Dag nervous, who began to lose patience, seeing his best friend and his woman injured and imprisoned.

The man with the horns began to walk towards Dag. 

He was much larger and more powerful than his ally, that however, seemed to boss him around.

"We've come a long way and we've finally managed to get to you! We only got a few feet wrong and we 'knocked' on the wrong door! Hahaha, not bad, since I found a nice loot! Hahahah!" the man continued, kissing Agnes on the neck as she screamed and squirmed unnecessarily.

"Leave her alone... piece of s.h.i.+t..." whispered Karl from the ground, barely moving, with swollen eyes and a bleeding mouth.

"Grog, step on that bug!" replied the enemy, ordering the horned man to kill Karl.

More like a beast than a human, he turned to Karl, emitting grunts, similar to those of a wild boar.

Just then, Dag grabbed him by the horns and pulled him back, unbalancing him and dropping him to sit on the ground, under the astonished gaze of his enemy, who did not remember that Dag's strength was so great.

At that very moment, another figure entered through the door.

"What's going on here? Who are all these people?! The door is broken, what happened?! I demand an explanation!" the innkeeper yelled, rus.h.i.+ng into the room after hearing the noise.

Reidar pushed him off by the shoulder, quickly telling him that those two men had broken in to catch Dag and that he should leave because they were very dangerous.

Distracted by the innkeeper's words, Dag did not notice that the beast-man had grabbed him by the arm and in less than a second he found himself with his back to the ground, after being lifted into the air.

"Aaagh!" said Dag, touching his back in pain.

"Hahahaha! Go, Grog! Let's destroy this b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" chuckled sadly at the man close to Agnes.

Reidar fired an arrow, which lodged behind the horned giant's neck.

He turned around without any problem, detaching the arrow stuck in his flesh and watching Reidar, who stood still in the spot, frightened by what had just happened.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, poor deluded! Grog doesn't feel pain, you have no hope! Hahaha!" the man continued to scream.

As the giant was still turning toward Reidar, Dag quickly rose from the ground and grabbed the man holding Agnes hostage by the back, pulling him off the wall.

He began to squirm, relinquish his grip on Agnes, while Dag dragged him to the window of the room.

"Grog! Help me!" he yelled, but in the meantime Dag broke the window gla.s.s and making weight with his body he threw himself down, carrying his enemy with him.

Grog turned to them, and Reidar, quick as a flash, snapped in that direction, evading the beast-man's gaze and seized the weapons of Dag, who had left them there on the ground.

He also jumped out the window and when Grog saw him, he uttered a snarling-like verse and ran towards him.

During the fall, Dag had managed to s.h.i.+ft his weight, cus.h.i.+oning the blow with his opponent's back, which touching the ground emitted a noise of broken bones.

After getting up, with his opponent on the ground in front of his feet, Dag saw Reidar just jumped out of the same window.

"Captaaain!" he yelled, throwing his weapons at Dag, who promptly grabbed them, before noticing that behind his companion, the other enemy had grabbed his ankle.

Dag was unable to intervene and Reidar was thrown against the wall by Grog, before touching the ground, suffering extensive damage.

"f.u.c.k! Reidar!" shouted Dag, after witnessing the scene.

When Grog's feet touched the ground, the soil beneath him shattered because of his weight.

Reidar, from behind, began to move again, rea.s.suring Dag with a hand gesture.

Dag sighed, looking down.

His companions had been injured, Karl was the one in the worst shape, but at least he had managed to get the two enemies out of the inn, avoiding endangering all of its patrons.

The beast-man in front of him continued to snort and when he saw his boss on the ground, touching his sore back, he began to rub his foot on the terrain, as if he was a ram ready to charge and looked at Dag with bloodshot eyes.