In a few minutes, Juri and Luria closed to the distance of 10 km, then at the top of a tree, hidden, they looked at the wooden fortress.
"Is that... is that what I think it is?" - Luria asked frowning.
"Yes!" - Said Juri looking at the [Map] filled with Yellow and Red Dots.
Currently in this fortress with several houses, there are dozens of dark, muscular men wearing light clothing, wielding bows, spears and swords.
All Humans... but... it is obvious from the way they act, talk and even beat each other, that they are bandits or criminals.
"What bad luck..." - Luria said sighing.
"Yes, of all things, soon a Bandit camp, well, at least we should get some money from Continent and information!" - Said Juri calmly, Luria nodded.
As such, they soon moved on.
It took a while, until a loud whistle sounded, arrows were aimed at the two, but soon laughter began to ring out.
"Look at that, we have two beautiful beauties delivered on a platter for us!" - A crooked-toothed man said cheerfully.
Juri felt the lecherous look, smiled, picked up a rock on the ground, Luria didn't bother.
"Hey snow white, today I will-" - The man didn't even finish his obsequiousness, when a hole appeared in his forehead!
[Skill "Throwing" has reached Level 44!]
"Oh, until that thing was not useless, [Throwing] has reached Level 44!" - Said Juri smiling and showing the Skill to Luria.
"I have that too, but how did you do it?" - Luria asked curiously.
"The stone? I just accumulated my Chi... so there you go!" - Said Juri stopping in mid-sentence, extending a palm and the arrows flying in their direction were stopped in mid-air!
"Let me try..." - Said Luria picking up a stone, injecting Chi and a faint pop sounded as the stone exploded.
"Be softer... think of Katya, how you carefully held back so as not to break that fragile, adorable little body!" - Juri said calmly.
Luria nodded, picking up another stone, then succeeded this time, she received a notification about her [Chi Control], so she fired it, but it hit the wooden wall, which exploded in the area hit and several pieces flew out, hitting several bandits.
"Nice, just need to improve your aim!" - Juri said smiling.
She soon advanced towards the entrance of the bandits' fortress, before delivering a powerful kick and the door flew open, as well as part of the wall falling!
Screams and cries began to ring out, Juri stepped back to avoid being hit by the falling pieces of log, but soon after they fell, she climbed off them and used her Chi to keep herself more stable.
Chi amplifies a lot of things, it's what allows you to walk on walls and ceilings, avoid slipping and stuff, kind of like those Korean Martial Arts Webtoons, it's pretty much the same!
"Monster!"
"Run!"
The thugs started running and running away.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING YOU BASTARDS!" - A furious roar sounded as a tall woman approached.
Luria landed next to Juri, then noticed the tall scarred woman, she looks like she has had a rough time in life.
This woman has an exposed torso, where one of her breasts is missing, a very ugly wrinkled scar, her chin up to her nose has an ugly cut, as well as half of the woman's hair is missing.
From what little Juri and Luria have analyzed of this woman, she may have been quite beautiful, but after so many horrible scars, not much needs to be said.
The woman looked fiercely at Juri and Luria, in her hands a poleaxe.
"Do you want it?" - Juri asked pointing at the woman, Luria shrugged.
Juri then disappeared as she activated her [Thunder Flow], she was soon in front of the woman who stared wide-eyed, before being catapulted into the building in the background.
...
A while later, Juri is sitting with Luria beside her, the woman, Ogarlva, was kneeling with both hands on her thighs.
Many bandits sitting and kneeling around.
"Well, now you answer, if you don't know something, who knows raise your hand and answer!" - Said Juri calmly and everyone nodded.
"Well then!"
...
The place they are in is the [Great Shadow Panther Jungle], a region known to be home to one of the fiercest races of beasts, the Shadow Panthers!
Even Archmages and Sword Masters have trouble killing them, many have fallen in the past.
Juri believes them to be Level 100~200, perhaps more so due to the limits of the world approaching Level 300.
Ogarlva is a former citizen of the Kraiakus Empire, which was dissolved in a Civil War, where the entire Imperial Family was annihilated, the members of the Revolution, could not decide the new Emperor and split, where they are warring and many have proclaimed themselves Kings and Emperors.
Ogarlva was a Captain of the army that fought against the Rebels, that's where she got all these scars and deformities, but nothing could kill her.
Finally the Empire fell, she could no longer and due to having killed many Rebels, she was being hunted.
So she fled far away with a group of soldiers, where they were forced to become bandits in order not to starve.
And after 5 years after the fall of the Kraiakus Empire, Ogarlva is one of the last survivors of her troop, she and 4 other companions still live as bandits and over time, they recruited many commoners and bandits.
Today they are 72, actually 64, 8 died with the arrival of Juri and Luria.
But the important thing is, that going east, they will find a road, continuing east, will take them to a former Duchy, which is now called the Kingdom of Floriar.
Duke Arnaldo Floriar, formed the Kingdom 4 years ago, but is having difficulties with enemy Kingdoms.
If you decide to go south instead, you will reach the [Eviresdec Swamp], home of the Lizardmans and if you keep following the road, you will reach a new Kingdom.
Ogarlva said everything she knew, if she didn't know something, any of the bandits who did know would speak up.
And after collecting the knowledge they wanted, they decided to go to the swamp and continue from there.
They don't want to get involved in a useless war that could last for decades, it's not their problem.
Juri just out of curiosity asked if there are any powerful Mages and Wizards, but learned that the most powerful ones, who were loyal to the empire, have perished.
Their Towers and Castles taken, much knowledge was lost, as Mages and Wizards of that level would not want their assassins to take their work and treasure.
The Empire's library was also destroyed, centuries of history and knowledge lost!
The Imperial treasure emptied and divided among the Rebels!
There is practically nothing that Juri considers useful in this chaos.
As for taking some territory? Why?
She can proclaim this fortress as her own, but Juri hasn't, because she doesn't want to!
To stay in a place like this is asking for trouble.
So they will move away from here, look for a place with more useful information!
It turns out that Ogarlva and her bandits are poorly informed, they focus only on knowing what and who to steal now, information beyond the Empire is little.
Ogarlva knows the most, only vaguely she talked about some Dwarven, Elven and Orc Kingdoms, she talked about a Goblin Kingdom that appeared less than 50 years ago, which has strange weapons that allowed them to repel the Orcs coming from the North.
Juri discovered that this continent is somewhat different, or maybe not, since his information and vision was limited to the Winter Kingdom and its surroundings.
But here there is a sea, which boats pass through that cross it and reach another part.
Juri is now curious, but since they said it only takes a few days, it doesn't mean it's another continent, just that the Continent itself has a sea connected to the colossal ocean.
Does that mean there is less land?
Juri is curious to know, but in any case, she has gathered the information she wanted, so since they will not give XP, just as Juri took 1/3 of their wealth, she let them live.
...
Juri and Luria returned to their journey, running and jumping, not taking long to find the road, so they went south and advanced without fear and worry!
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