on a road in the forest near city eduki a thousand man troop was standing at attention ready to fight.
"everyone's ready sir!" mark reported as he saluted shiva who nodded turning to faes who was talking silently with her companions near the woods in a serious tone.
"gray, ethan, sarah and eli will come with me, baby this mission isn't suitable for kids your age hence i want you to go to city eduki and get the local knights along with few doctors and nurses here, can you do that?" faes asked sky
sky nodded taking emma and robin towards city eduki, while faes turned to the remaining four with her as shiva approached her.
"everyone's ready to move out" shiva spoke as faes nodded
"i believe my sister princess nia have been hunting a bandit group for the past year" faes asked shiva who nodded in return
"those bandits kidnap children both male and female around the age of eight to twelve. from the reports these children were used as means of entertainment in all kind of aspects" shiva spoke frowning
"i have received some intel regarding the situation, the cave we are going to raid is the bandit's headquaters, according to the report i recieved the bandits have managed to capture my sister" faes spoke alerting shiva and her companions.
"so here's what we are going to do~" faes spoke of her plan, discusssing it with the five as a translucent map appeared in front of her. this was the cave's map made by mi after scanning the lair.
there were around two thousand bandits in the cave currently, among them twenty were king establishment and two were elemental strenthening stage cultivators.
their thousand knights will divide in the team of ten and raid selected areas freeing the kids, few of them will also stay behind as lookout and get those who manage to escape, while shiva will take care of elemental strenthening stage cultivator while her other companions will take the king establishment stage cultivators captive. as for her, she will be going to get her sister out also taking care of the other elemental strenthening stage cultivator which was nearby.
once shiva divided the groups and gave out tasks they began their operation.
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in the bandit lair
several boys around eight to twelve years old were facing two horned demonic tigers, the tigers bit their limbs and tiny soft bodies from time to time playing with the kids,
the kids screamed and begged to the watching bandits in pain while the ruthless demonic tigers ate them alive.
the last kid standing would be taken out alive as the winner, his life as the reward until the next game.
the bandits watched the boys fight commenting every now and then while drinking and smoking, several girls similar age to the boys serving the bandits.
the girls were chained being forced to wear revealing dresses or it was much better to call it a tiny cloth wrapped around their young bodies.
the bandits hit them when they began crying, grabbing their bodies roughly and doing unholy things with them.
if a girl refused to submit they were chained to a pole naked while her body was covered with honey and other food. then several wild beast were allowed to feast on her as the bandits laughed watching the girl scream in agony of being ripped apart alive.
these things occurred in the various halls around the underground cave, while there were other rooms as well in the lair for different kinds of pleasure. the kids were forced to do things they dont even understand at their age, both boys amd girls alike were treated as toys and slaves.
as the soldiers moved deeper in the lair taking out the bandits one by one they turned angrier,
the kids were like walking zombies as they were rescued not responding and only either staring at the soldiers in fear or crying themselves unconscious.
some older kids were farring better than the young ones. these older kids thanked the soldiers with fears in their eyes while helping them handle the younger ones.
the soldiers turned colder as they fought the bandits, specially shiva and others who took care of the stronger bandits.
as they went deeper in the lair the number of bandits and children increased.
in the deepest part of the cave, nia glared at the grinning elemental strenthening stage bandit. the man had a huge ugly scar on his face. the cell had multiple arrays that supress the use of mana and weaken the person inside. even then they had nia chained to the wall~
nia knew what the man wanted as he entered the cell grinning after he sent the guards away. she was just 14 years old barely an adult in the world and a peak noble establishment stage cultivator who was an ice mage, but in the cell where she could neither use her magic not the rapier she was at the bandit's mercy.
the man chuckled as he began to take off his armour and weapons placing them on the nearby table.
"i am honoured your highness, to be your first. maybe after this his majesty might even let me get married to you in order to save the royal family's dignity" the man laughed while nia sneered at him
"i would rather die than allow a scum impure me"
nia knew that for her to save her honour there were only two options-either she gets out of here before they can do something or die.
currently to her the second option was far much easier than former as nia didn't even know if someone knows about her capture and are going to rescue her in time.
"its a pity! the monesterio family is really unluckiest in the history of kingdom altai. after taking the throne the first king of monesterio family vanished with his wife and elder son's family, his majesty king augustus isnt as strong and had barely reached elemental strenthening stage currently, while his eldest child his highness is somewhat decent, his one daughter is a waste while other is going to lose her dignity to a bandit"
the man clicked his tongue while moving closer to nia who tried to get as far away from him as possible. but alas she was currently powerless and tied up.
"don't fight your highness, its not everyday that we bandits get to have a taste of royalty. if you behave i would try to be as gentle as i can but if you struggle then this seat wont control himself" the man grinned as he traced nia's face with his finger enjoying how she tried to get away from him struggling to break free from the chains.
"looks like you aren't satisfied with this seat alone. maybe i should call some friends to join in on the fun" the man spoke before laughing at nia's dumbfounded and fear stricken expression.
"if your friends are joining the fun i hope you dont mind her royal highness friends to join the fun either"