#46 - The power of the stick - Two Worlds: I studied at Hogwarts

The person entering the cave was wearing a black leather outfit, with a sharp longsword tucked behind their arm. Faint traces of blood could still be seen dripping from it.

Muen glanced at the hand gripping the sword and hurriedly pulled Brad back to the side of the cave wall.

"I'm just passing by, I saw a light here, so, cough cough..."

The person in black was injured, but they were still approaching step by step.

Brad felt Muen's unease from his arm being squeezed painfully.

It reminded him of the first time he fought with Muen, the time he spent a month in bed.

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Muen's right hand gripped his magic wand tightly, and Brad also drew his family's rusty horse-cutting saber with understanding.

"Cough, I really just..."

"You~, you have a Night Owl on your hand."

Muen seemed to have exhausted all his strength to say this.

"Night Owl, yes, so what, do you recognize it?" The person in black said, raising their sword-gripping right hand.

The pitch-black, iron-like mark on the back of their hand was stained with blood, making the ferocious Night Owl tattoo even more eerie.

"Yes, my uncle once fought with you."

Muen answered the person with all his strength.

"Heh, so you're an old friend's child."

The person in black stopped pretending and pointed the longsword in their hand at Muen.

Brad also raised his family's horse-cutting saber, but his sword-wielding hand was constantly trembling.

Muen understood Brad's feelings very well.

Because he used to tell Brad stories about the Night Owls as horror stories.

'Mad King's' sharpest blood blade, an all-pervasive hidden arrow, the Empire's bloodthirsty fangs, an enemy the Federation army couldn't defeat...

These were all the most accurate descriptions of the [Night Owls].

However, Muen remembered another sentence his Uncle Neil said most clearly.

"Run! Don't look back!"

This was the last thing Neil's brother, Muen's never-before-seen father, had said to Neil.

This sentence was also the one Neil repeated the most when he was drunk, and it was also the most effective sentence for Muen to escape nightmares.

Now the nightmare had become reality, and it was time for Muen to run away, but the cave entrance was behind the other person.

"Actually, I really like herding children, especially those with toy knives and small wooden sticks, but not those who can talk."

The person in black's tone was very contemptuous.

However, as they took another step, Muen nervously waved the small wooden stick at them.

"Heh~, ......., what!"

Bang!

"Wait..."

Thud!

The small wooden stick in the person in black's mouth only swayed, and then a person fell onto the cold ground.

Thud~ Thud~

The ground shook slightly, and then two rocks fell from the top of the cave.

"Wha...what happened, why did he... why did he jump to the top of the cave and then fall down~"

Brad was even more terrified now, and he bit his tongue twice before finishing a sentence.

Muen also swallowed hard. This was his third wand test, and the first time he had used it on a person.

However, the effect was surprisingly good.

"See how he is."

Muen didn't answer Brad, but kept holding up the magic wand.

He was well aware of the power of the Night Owls, even if the other person was an injured Night Owl, Muen kept chanting the [Fire Starting Spell] over and over in his mind.

This was one of the few spells he currently knew that could injure people.

Muen knew that this spell wasn't very powerful, so he kept the tip of the wand pointed at the person in black's hair.

This was the only way he could think of to disturb the awakening Night Owl, and then the two of them could take the opportunity to escape.

Brad saw that the small wooden stick in Muen's hand was more useful than his horse-cutting saber, so he mustered up his courage and reached out to the person in black.

"He should be unconscious."

Brad touched the person in black's neck and turned to look at Muen.

"Let's go, let's leave quickly!"

......

The night road was very difficult to walk, especially a small path that the herdsmen had abandoned for many years.

Even though Brad was very familiar with the direction, the two of them stumbled all the way.

Because he was afraid of being discovered, Muen didn't use magic to illuminate the way, and even if he used [Glowfly Flash], it wouldn't last too long.

Fortunately, the two horses were much stronger than humans, and they became the best guides in the dark night.

It wasn't until blue and red spots of light appeared on the horizon that Muen and Brad saw the low walls of Xilin.

......

Last night, the cave where the herdsmen rested was actually very lively.

Not long after Muen and the others left, the patrolling soldiers discovered the place and saw the [Night Owl] lying on the ground.

However, they couldn't wake him up no matter what they did. It wasn't until the military doctor arrived that they confirmed that the Night Owl had broken his spine.

"Humph! Are you saying that the [Night Owl] who slaughtered my hundred-man team broke his spine in this cramped, narrow, manure-smelling cave!"

Lieutenant Colonel Landon Bruce had never been so angry as he was today.

Even though his accompanying military doctor repeatedly told him to rest and recuperate, he couldn't help but bring all the guards to personally inspect the enemy who had injured him.

Landon had only been appointed as the captain of the Fifth Battalion of the First Infantry Regiment of the Third Brigade of the Liuyun City subordinate legion three days ago.

He hadn't even finished familiarizing himself with the five-hundred-man battalion in his hand, and now he had already lost one-fifth of it.

Even he himself had been stabbed in the lower abdomen by the other person's longsword.

And what caused this situation was just one [Night Owl] from the enemy.

Seeing that the military doctor was no longer speaking, Landon asked the other person again.

"Are you sure this beast broke his spine!"

"Reporting, sir, confirmed. The fracture is just below the neck, very obvious, you can easily feel it with your hand."

The military doctor tried to answer quickly in concise language.

"Okay, then can he still wake up?" Landon asked the military doctor, trying to suppress his anger.

"Yes, but after waking up, he will lose all sensation below the neck."

"That's good, I just need his head to be clear enough!" Landon said, kicking the person in black lying on the ground hard.

"Someone, go find the person who is most skilled in execution, I want to know all the information from this mixed-feathered bird's mouth."

Instead of looking for someone skilled in interrogation, he asked for the person who was most skilled in execution to interrogate him. This was Landon's attitude.

While the prisoner was being interrogated, the news of the soldiers' huge casualties quickly reached the army's higher-ups.

Along with it came another secret message.

"The Mad King's sharpest [Night Owl Guard] broke his spine in a small cave..."

......

Muen returned to Xilin and went directly to Neil, explaining in detail what happened last night.

Neil knew that Muen would never joke about the name [Night Owl].

So that day at noon, he gathered all the trusted veterans in the neighborhood to his home.

"[Night Owl] has come to Xilin? Are the guards of Liuyun City just for show!"

"What can the guards do, that's [Night Owl]!"

"Don't say that, Hawke, the most important thing for us now is to hoard some food. It seems that the war will be faster than expected."

"That's right, let's all go buy it separately, so we can spread the attention."

......