Beer Wars

It was only after seeing Senshi had he understood what Myra had meant when she said ‘dragonoid’. He never thought that the quiet friend of Myra was actually capable of transforming into a beast of myth. Thanks to Myra’s efforts and the combined efforts of their friends and pet, they were easily overwhelming the opposition. Well, what did they expect? They were up against thieves and fighting mages isn’t up their alley. Sure, some of them could manage to use dark magic but that wasn’t enough to take down these veterans. Jin nodded to Aegis who had just saved Kaya from a possibly painful blow. She did had berserk strength in her large form but she was also a large and easy target. ”Myra.. Magna… Aegis.. Senshi…. Kaya” he stepped forward and called out the names of all of those who represented Black Rose. After acquiring their attention, he would continue: ”…about time we wrapped it up”, he said with a smile.

Outraged by Jin’s confidence one of the stronger mages charged at him, conjuring up some kind of dark spell. Before he could launch at Jin, Kaya jumped on top of him, crushing him underneath her weight. Just to make sure, she swung her large paw and smacked him away, hurling him quite a few feet. She was indeed relentless in her form. Jin walked towards Kaya and patted her head, apparently ignorant to the remaining foes around him. Another one charged towards him as Jin allowed him to get close. Right when he did, a bunch of explosions happened as he used his spell: “Miniplosions”. The cold based explosions caused piercing damage and reduced the mobility of the foe significantly. Jin rushed towards him and punched him in the stomach, depriving him of his conscious. Though majority of it was done by Kaya, Jin had contributed his part. All that remained was his friends to finish up their opponents. He was confident, that neither of his friends would need help against such foes. Just to be sure, he stood in the battlefield prepared to lend a hand, if needed. Kaya continued to use her large form just in case they had to fight any more foes.

Magna himself had still not moved into the battle. He really didn't like hurting people. He didn't like hurting anyone really. He was a chef. He was the one who served and made people happy. He didn't hurt even animals unless he knew he would be using them for food or his hand was forced. He knew sometimes hurting people was necessary in self defence or to protect the weak, but it was rare he could bring himself to it. Even after years in a gang of thieves and despots. Perhaps time in Black Rose could allow him to bring himself to fight, but right now it was not in him. He was glad he had Aegis and his new friends here to help and to do the fighting. He hoped his friends would not take it badly. They had done most of the work and he had done, well, nothing.

Well, that perhaps wasn't entirely true. He had helped them recover from their journey to get here and he had convinced the men to leave the bar so that they could protect it more effectively. There had been far less risk of damaging the beer barrels from out here. Still he felt bad that it was Aegis doing all the fighting and not him. Perhaps he should step in. He aimed his hand to aim a spell, but couldn't seem to focus the magic. His heart was not in it. He just...couldn't do it. He would have to apologise to them later.

Aegis on the other hand shoulder barged into one and then hurled his makeshift club at another. The club was vaporized by a blast of dark magic, but that didn't stop the man suddenly receiving a kick to the chest from a huge armoured boot sending him flying. The men who were still standing were beginning to look worried.

"You have fought and fought well. Leave and we will not follow providing we have your oath you will not return." Magna said deciding to pretend to be the leader. The leader wouldn't fight. They would let their subordinates do it. His eyes flared red again. "This place is under the protection of Black Rose. You will not return and you will spread the word that this tavern and this town are not to be harmed lest we return with greater numbers and eradicate you all once and for all." He summoned a fire to his hand as if for demonstration and that seemed to break the men.

Magna too was outraged by the sneak attack and actually prepared a fireball in his hand ready to hurl it and bring down the thief once and for all. However, he saw Jin hold Kaya back and decided himself to hold back. He held the fireball ready, but it seemed that Myra was more than capable of dealing with the man. What's more she managed to use her magic to sooth the remaining bandits meaning that the mission was over. They had successfully driven off the bandits and now their job was done. His first job as a Black Rose mage. It had gone pretty well from what he could tell. He smiled and spoke telepathically to Aegis. "Thank you for your hard work. We might not of made it without you." with that he dispelled the knight and the knife reformed in his hand. He nodded and sheathed it hearing the words echo in his mind 'Happy to serve' the motto of his family and the motto of Aegis.

The owner returned shortly after offering them free drinks and other such things. Jin wisely asked for a table to be brought outside. However, the fact the bar stunk of stale beer and old pickle juice didn't seem to have passed through the ears of the owner. IT was almost as if he thought that Jin and the Black Rose mages just wanted to drink outside and admire their handy work. Fortunately, they had not damaged anything except that table Aegis used so it was all good.

He sat down at the table and was surprised to be served with a tankard of beer. He wasn't allowed to drink. He was too young, but instead he stood above it smelling at the beer trying to discern how it was made. There was a faint hit of cinammon in it and some honey. There was also a scent of a particular type of wood. Perhaps the wood it was distilled in effected the flavour somehow? The cinnamon and honey were of more interest to him. Honey made it almost a mead, but it wasn't quite. It was a rather interesting drink. He summoned up a small spoon and scooped up the smallest fraction of the drink. It was quite delectable. He could identify a lot more ingredients this way. Unlike the theives Magna was quite likely to be able to get the secret recipe. However, he would not try to steal it. No, instead he would learn from it and find a way to craft his own ale.


Shortly, after this the three mages and their allies were on a ship sailing back to Black Rose to tell Sophie of their success and prepare for future jobs and endeavours.

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