The Purple Saint

Leus was standing with his arms crossed in front of the blue-haired man's unconscious body contemplating

'What's the best way to deal with this troublesome situation?'

But many sounds were coming from behind him, so he looked back, and he very quickly became surprised by what he saw.

Directly behind him, Scar, Bones, and Kyle were standing along with the two guys who were escorting him, and behind them, stood more than 25 armed guys, some holding knives, some holding daggers, and a few holding swords.

They all seemed tensed and ready for combat.

When Leus looked back at them, their eyes quickly darted between him and the unconscious body lying in front of him.

Suddenly, one of his escorts shouted

"THE BOSS WON!"

And all the guys raised their weapons high and loudly cheered.

Scar and Bones quickly approached him.

Bones walked to inspect the man's body and Scar spoke to Leus

"Leus ..... Who's that?"

Leus shrugged

"No idea"

"Is he even still alive?"

Bones replied

"Yeah, he is just knocked out"

The escort who entered Leus' Blizzard came and excitedly said

"BOSS! That was an amazing fight! That's something out of the world! The snowstorm! And that strange whirling water! What was that? That was crazy! Boss! You're out of the world."

Leus scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment

" ... Thanks?"

Scar gestured to Kyle with his hand to take the guy away.

Kyle understood Scar's gesture and went to the escort

"Hey ... Let's leave the Boss for now alright? They gotta take care of the situation"

The guy was reluctant and didn't want to leave Leus' side, but after Kyle persuaded him he loudly said

"My name is Maxton! Remember me! I'll be your Escort forever BOSS!"

Leus just smiled and waved his hand

"Alright Maxton, sure"

After Leus said that, Maxton stopped resisting and walked away with Kyle.

Leus asked Scar in a low voice

"Why .... is everyone here?"

"You're asking me? You're the one who created all the noise and anomalies in the area"

He pointed behind him with his thumb and continued

"These guys were following you and they met some patrols on the way who also followed them, and they called others and so on.

After they found you, someone came to the base and said that you're in combat here, so we brought everyone and came."

Leus snickered

"So you were worried about me"

"You could say that .. Yeah"

Bones interrupted their speech

"I hate to be the one interrupting your reunion guys, but .... what are your plans now, Ki-"

Bones started looking at Leus in a very weird way

Leus tilted his head and asked

"What's wrong?"

Bones didn't say anything for a couple of seconds and just rubbed his eyes

"You okay buddy?" Scar asked

Bones nodded

"It's just that, he no longer looks like a kid ...."

He looked at Leus and continued

"For some reason, you seem a lot older than how I remember you."

Scar quickly added

"I know, right? I swear he became taller"

"Oh, that .. that's a long story. How about we take care of the matter at hand first?"

Scar and Bones nodded

"Yeah"

Leus asked

"Do you have a place to do some experiments?"

Bones calmly replied

"Do you mean torture?"

Leus shook his head

"He's too strong for that, I want to experiment with something that'd ... you know, a poison that'd drain Life Force or something."

Both Scar and Bones didn't understand what Leus meant, but it didn't sound any different from torture, regardless, Scar asked

"What is it that you need for that?"

Leus pointed at the man's body

"A more private place to keep his body in, and a couple of glasses"

Bones said

"That's quite easy, let's go to the Safe House"

Bones turned back and called his Escorts

"Carry the body and let's go to the Safe House"

Bones' Escorts complied and carried the body. Leus, Scar, and Bones walked behind them.

The armed guys cleared the way for Bones' escorts and stood on both sides of the narrow passageway, so Leus ended up walking in the middle of the road surrounded by -Subordinates- on both sides.

As Leus walked forward everyone started praising him

"Good job Boss"

"That was amazing Boss! I saw snow for the first time ever."

Scar and Bones intentionally slowed down, making Leus walk alone in front of them and behind Bones' Escorts, which made him look even more impressive as if he was leading the two.

"Woooooo! Great fight, Boss!"

"We count on you, Boss!"

Leus genuinely smiled

'The guys here are too enthusiastic ...'

'Fuck the Kingdom and its laws, I promise to do my best to protect this environment.'

For Leus, this was his area, his territory, his domain—the place where his friends and numerous innocent people resided. Although Leus didn't necessarily adore the people, he opposed causing them pain.

If he could bring joy without much trouble, he would, and it gave him a sense of satisfaction, especially since he considered some of these people as his friends and acquaintances.

As for the guys, most of those praising Leus genuinely looked up to him.

Many of them were newly evolved to the Second Realm, which means that they weren't old gang members or glorified thugs calling themselves -Protectors-, no, they were just normal guys who trained hard to be accepted into the new structure Scar and Bones created, and Leus knew that.

And they had countless reasons to look up to Leus.

- Leus is the reason they got rid of gangs like The Butchers who killed people for fun.

- Leus is directly responsible for all the quality changes their area went through recently.

- Leus gave them a new way to live, a purpose in life.

- Leus significantly reduced the mortality rate of children in winter.

- Leus was the first one who treated them like humans, not numbers to extort Protection money from.

To them, Leus is the first real Protector.

To them, Leus is The Purple Saint.