"what plan!!???"
"I pla-n ….our conversation suddenly stopped when we were riding along a quiet place, there was a carriage surrounded by a group of armed people.
I immediately marked them as bandit. Bandits are always harassing merchants when they transport their goods from other places. But this isn't the usual merchant supply caravan. It seems this time they are looting the people in the carriage.
I looked at lena and nodded my head to signal her. We are planning to rescue the victims. But because we are already in enemies' field of view, it became much harder. There are eight bandits in total who were surrounding the carriage. Five of them low tier and two of them middle tier of apprentice warrior realm. One of them is in the peak tier of apprentice warrior level. He must be the leader of this bandit group.
On the other hand, the people in the carriage were five in number. One was a peak tier apprentice warrior realm who is engaged in a fight with the bandit leader. One is a mid-tier apprentice mage who seems to be an elf. The rest were all fighter of low tier. They seem to be protecting the carriage as they weren't leaving far from the carriage. Low tier members of the victim side were fighting defensively While the elven mage gave them support. From their fighting style, they seem to be waiting for the battle between two team leaders to end so they can mount a counter-attack.
But to me it looks like that's not going to happen. Although the victim's leader is strong, he can't focus on the bandit leader fully because of the mid-tier level archer in the bandit's group who keeps firing arrow to distract him. The bandit leader is stalling for time hoping that his underlings will finish the battle at their side and come to help him defeat the victim groups leader. that's what currently happening though, bandits were pushing back the fighters from the opposite team. They wanted to kill them quickly and help their leader end his battle. So, they increased their onslaught even more.
The elven mage was running out of mana fast. She chugged down another mana potion again. She was the one who kept this group still alive. The bandits group were also targeting her more and more. They knew even if they could not kill her, they could make her run out of mana. Then, she would be no danger to them at all.
The three low-tier fighters were suffering from many scars already. They had to defend and fight at the same time. Their stamina was depleting very fast. Many of the injury came from the arrow wound they got from the archer's bow. The mage and archer from the bandit group was doing too much damage to them while they stayed out of their reach.
Our arrival alerted both groups. They thought we were reinforcement for the other party. When we approached them, both sides looked at us cautiously.
Arthur stayed at a distance from both groups. He positioned himself in a way so that he can attack the bandit mage easily. Lena followed beside him.
"who the hell are you? Are you guys the reinforcements?", one of the bandit asked in a harsh tone.
I raised my eyebrows at the bandit's question. Were the bandits expecting reinforcements?
"yes, yes, I am reinforcement but unfortunately, not for you."
My response immediately shocked the bandit's and the victims cheered. They can finally have some room to breathe.
"two more people doesn't make any change in our plan. Just kill them.", ordered the bandit group's leader.
The fighting started again. Two low-tier warriors attacked us. The rest were battling same as before. They kept their focus on the mid-tier elven mage apprentice. The leader's focused on each other.
"Lena, cover me and watch out for the archer."
I joined the fight with my hand on my sword. As soon as, the two low-tier bandits came in my swords range, I swung my sword at them horizontally. When they blocked my attack, Lena attacked them with magic. She used a wide range fire magic to burn their faces. They howled in pain and lost their posture. I got my chance to attack so I attacked them full strength.
But I never killed a person before so I hesitated and instead of killing the bandit, I made him unable to fight by hitting him hard in the neck with my swords hilt. After disabling one bandit I rushed to the other one, seeing me come towards him, the other bandit retreated back and asked for help.
The mage and archer were the support of bandit group. They didn't fight directly with anyone but they caused chaos all over the place. They were also each other's support. If any one of them is in trouble, the other one helps him out.
The bandit mage was the closest one to Arthur. So, he came forward to help the bandit fight Arthur's group. But Arthur was happy because he wanted to finish off the mage and archer separately. So, it's a good thing that the bandit mage came to fight him of his own accord. Also, now that the bandit mage is here dealing with them, the other group can finally have some room to move around.
The bandit mage was quite talented one. He could use earth and wind magic. For a bandit, he looked quite a civil one to me. Maybe, he comes from a fallen rich family.
He had begun casting his magic as soon as he came here. He used a magic named wind blade to cut me. But, as if I will let him succeed. I drew my blade and used the second strike of [SIX WORLD DESTRUCTION SWORD ART] to repel the attack. I was surprised that my technique was able to deflect a magic spell. I thought it will just diminish the attack mid-air. but I guess I was wrong. My system is proving itself formidable day by day.
The bandit mage was flabbergasted by this. He quickly dodged sideways to escape the attack. I guess that's the limit of my ability. I can't control the trajectory of a deflected attack with my sword. But when I was fighting with the mage, Lena was keeping the burned fighter at a distance. The fighter was struggling against Lena's continuous fireball magic.
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