Chapter 257 - Tavern Fight!

Dilli still kept her rage under control, but for sure wanted to battle this fool. As she stood up, Chan grabbed her arm and asked with a whisper. "Do you want to kill him?" This isn't exactly something she wouldn't do, she killed hundreds of ill.u.s.tratian Guards before she was crazed with mind control.

"No no don't worry." She answered calmly and gently removed his hand from her arm. "Don't touch me." She stated after, gender differences have no word at this case she just doesn't like being touched. But wants to battle this fool head on... Interesting don't you think?

She threw her torched Barramundi tail on the air and swallowed it with a catch, an interesting scene indeed but she just wanted to show off a little bit. "I'll challenge you."

"You? You are an Ignite!" He answered, considering her more than weak especially since she is a woman too.

"What's the matter? Scared?" She asked as she stood taller than him by half a foot.

"No, lets get this over with!" He answered with a shout and threw the bottle of Ale he was holding, against the floor. "I'll bet 50 Gold Coins that I can beat you under 15 counts!"

Dilli gave Chan a quick glance and pulling a little bag of Gold from his belt, tossing it towards Dilli without fearing at all that she will loose, the challenge was accepted. She clung on the little leather bag to let out her rage there and faced this loudmouth head on!

The Tavern clerk took the honors of starting the match, first he tried to make their heads fit better according to the rules since she is taller and with a little pat on both of their heads the match started!

This man tried to push Dilli from her feet, but it felt like trying to push a wall with his head. "How is this possible?" He whispered lightly and took a couple of deep breaths as the sweat he was breaking out of nervousness made both of their foreheads slippery.

Trying to unleash more power with a burst of energy, he almost slipped enough to accidentally kiss her lips in the process. If he did, the situation would have turned into a disaster. Because his honour would be spoiled for kissing an Ignite and Dilli would likely make him meet the Tavern's wall through and through.

Dilli on the other hand, just kept firm with her hands behind her back. So when she wins, they can't say that she cheated in any way! Apart from remaining firm with her footing tight against the ground, she was counting and already reached 20.

This man out of fear of failure forgot that he can pull back and use her mass to trip her down and win, by now he has already lost the deal since he said that he can put her down in 15 countings. As for Dilli, she had no plan to trip him.

Thankfully the Clerk explained the rules too before they started, so she wanted to give him a lesson that he actually might forget. Reaching at 30 with her countings, she pulled her head back and gave this c.o.c.ky loud mouth a strong head butt and forced him to become airborne.

Flying 3 meters far before he met with an empty table after, breaking the table some of the wooden barrels too that are sometimes used as chairs, it was made furniture breaking clear that Dilli has won.

But of course here where double standards are very common, the Clerk walked buy and yelled. "Hey, you aren't supposed to break furniture in this game, you've lost and you're paying for the things you've broken!"

"Bullshit!" Chan screamed across the room and he stood up with his Beer bottle at hand. "She won fairly and the rules you are mentioning are non existent."

"So you think this Ignite is rig...?" Seeing that this clerk isn't willing to work fair, Chan didn't really bother to reason and just wanted to distract him for a little bit until the rest of his group stands up.

Dilli has made a good name in between this group of 11 ill.u.s.tratios even though she almost torched one like a fish stick at the very beginning. When Wild Boars attacked the squad, she walked near the Wagon so the injured can sleep inside. That is kind hearted and they knew it regardless of race.

And although some of the 11 don't quite have a good relation with her yet, they couldn't sit and watch while the rest are up for a fight.

When Chan was a foot apart from the clerk, he smashed his Beer bottle right over this moron's head and send him falling down unconscious a moment after. "Tavern fight!" Yelled a man across the room, and the guy who lost the battle first and sat on someone's lap, charged towards Dilli trying to tackle her.

Anti climactic enough, Dilli just moved out of the way casually and saw the opposing man run like a wild boar and dash his head through the Clerk's place of alcohol and transactions. Watching him head deep in plank built counter, she just moved her head from left to right repeatedly and whispered. "Drunk bastard."

The rest of the 20 men in this tavern stood on their feet to fight the opponents since they can feel like they can outnumber them, got into battle. Their main target however became Dilli and Guard Commander Chan.

One tried to attack Chan from behind, but met with a kick on the head from the left side. These Guards have a duty of protecting Chan after all. The charger was forced to change direction, he didn't even manage to tap Chan and found himself charging towards 2 other men who just stood up, accidentally tackling both of them and breaking another table he just repeated. "Shit shit shit!"

"Nice hit!" Complimented Chan as he struggled to keep his balance, he already had drank half of the bottle before he cracked it over the Clerk's head.

6 more men tried to charge Dilli from the side, but where stopped by the Guards surrounding her who indeed stand out in size and strength, well at least most of them. The biggest of the Guards grabbed two men by the neck and slammed them down like a bag of wheat.

As for the smallest of the group who had his armour roasting after the threatened Dilli upon the first meet, charged at one man like a bull and knocked him over the other. One sided enough when it comes to rage, he used a Chair after to become Airborne and tackle two other men through a table after.

Standing on his feet swiftly after he shouted. "Woohoo!" Indeed out of the thought of success and was sniffing for another enemy to tackle.

As for Chan, he still is dead ass drunk. Taking on a 6 foot tall man alone, even asking the Guards to back off, the opposer found himself in quite a dance as Chan moved sloppily around enough to avoid all of his swings. At the end he just clung upon the opponents shoulders and with a head butt he threw him down to the ground and found himself sitting on the 6 foot tall man's head.

As for Dilli, the guy she hurled across the room at the beginning has stood up again and gathered his guts enough to face her again, not breaking a sweat all she did was punch the man on the forehead and sent him hurling towards another table, she has months of experience I suppose.

The rest of the Guards took care of anyone who was left after Dilli and Chan victimized a few men. Chan even grabbed a couple of bottles, cracked it against some heads and started cutting people with what was left of the bottles.

The scene began with a little head butt, and ended up with a bloody floor, broken furniture and a knocked out clerk. Indeed a day to remember, the Guards around here are used to Tavern fights so much that they have been ordered to no longer intervene especially after considering the military shortage. So there is practically no one to stop them or punish them here.

Chan walked out of the Tavern last with as much bottles as he can carry on his arms and threw a few bags of gold in the Tavern, no one was conscious but he still spoke. "Take this for the trouble."

Now, they have to make their way along the shore and just fish out their food when they run low. The shores anywhere around the continent are often filled with fish, so food won't neccesarily be a problem for a while.

Throughout this way they will eventually met the colder parts of Ignis, their targeted spot is on the edge of the Continent after all and what better way to reach an edge than to follow the shore from here on out?