A short time later the Princess, Hope, had stopped crying and began to look at Vance with admiration in her eyes. She then opened her mouth to speak.
"Excuse me mister, can you tell me your name? I wanna know the name of the strong and handsome man who saved me."
"Eh? My name? It's Vance." After saying this Vance turned to the rest of his party and spoke.
"Hmm. Well then I guess we successfully saved the princess, right girls?"
"Yes Master!"
"Yeah Mr. Vance!"
After hearing the girls' confirmation Vance smiled and looked back toward the way they had came from and opened his mouth to speak. "Well then, it seems like all I have to do now is neutralize the rest of the bandits. Oh, and maybe loot their treasury as well. Should be some fun."
After saying this, Vance began to use Earth Magic to get a general feeling of the cave, as he had grown bored of wandering around without direction. After getting a gist of the cave's area Vance began to head toward the Treasury, knocking out every guard they came across on the way.
A short time later, Vance and his group had reached the Treasury of the bandits. After breaking into the room and knocking out all security, they gazed at the large amount of wealth that was inside.
"Woooooooow, Mr. Vance I have never seen this much money in my life."
"That is a hell of a lot of money."
"Master can't you get more than this easily?"
"Yeah, but it would be kinda tiring."
"Hmm! You guys think this is a lot? You should see the castle's treasure room." Said Hope with a childlike pride behind her words.
"Cute. Well I guess I should get to work then instead of just sitting here." Vance said before walking in fully and putting all of the bandits' wealth into his inventory while barely paying attention to what's there.
"Ah. Sir Vance, there were more people taken prisoner here. Could you please free them too?" Asked Hope.
"Hm? Ah. Sure." Responded Vance.
After Vance had fully looted the treasury, and had used his magic to guarantee nothing was hidden, he then lead the girls toward the area where the bandits kept the regular people they had captured. As Vance got closer and saw the conditions that they were held in he began to become angry. The women were used as servants and to vent their desires and were beaten and whipped when they resisted till they were naught but soulless husks and then sold when they tired of them. The men were beaten till they had no desire to resist in them and were also sold.
Seeing the people with no light left in their eyes and those that still had hope of escape with bruises and cuts all over them, Vance decided in his heart that he would make all of the bandits suffer before they were sent to the guards.
"Master, it'll be okay. We're here now in order to free these people. You can make the bandits pay later, but right now you can't scare them."
Celine said to Vance to calm him down as he subconsciously was releasing a strong killing intent out of anger. Realizing this, Vance began to calm down.
"Thank you Celine." He said as he pet her head.
"Now, let's free them."
Vance began knocking out the bandits that were in the area and opening the cages and cells, informing those inside that he was here to free them. Hearing this, the captives' eyes began to regain light and hope. After getting up they began to cry tears of joy and profusely thank Vance for freeing them.
"Don't worry about it, just stay with the group so you don't get lost. And don't worry about the bandits. If we come across any more we can protect you."
After finishing this statement, Vance and his group began to head out of the cave.