'Yes host, increasing language proficiency now'
Suddenly max felt something prick his mind and a language foreign to him entered his mind.
He suddenly understood what the people below fighting were saying
"hold the line don't let them get closer to the master's family" he heard one of the properly dressed troops shout, this guy was clearly different from the rest perhaps their he was their commander because fought with much skill and he had a black cape behind his armor whiles the others had none besides his armor too looked better.
"Richard keep these filthy peasants away from us they attracted those bandits and get me out of here or I will have my husband execute you and your family" a shrill voice sounded from the carriage, whoever spoke certainly had a lot of power because max saw the caped warrior grimace before fighting with more intensity.
But max could see they were losing,two more had died and they were down to 15 moreover they were heavily outnumbered.The bandits to had started to rush amongst the civilians, some had already captured some women and were rending their clothes about to rape them.
"Hahaha that's it boys kill them all and the women are yours for the night" the bandit leader in brown leather armor fighting with the guard commander shouted to his men.
The bandits felt their turn red and began to fight more.
After accessing the situation max decided to act and help them he needed guidance in this world and couldn't trust bandits for that.Besides with his strength and weapons he was much safer and only the bandit leader and commander posed a threat to him and even with them he had the advantage of firearms.
Don't misunderstand he wasn't some hero who cared about justice and wanted to be a hero, he would be a hypocrite if he called himself one. He was neither a demon rather he acted based on his bottom line and the benefits involved.
Back on the blue planet he had seen a lot of families getting killed for their so called heroism he was not going to be and idiot and try to be one here even if could harm his life.
Max took aim at one of the stronger bandits with his crossbow and fired at him impaling his head with a bolt.He continued to take aim and pick them off one by one.
By the time the bandits realized that someone was snipping them 11 bandits had already died. Six bandits rushed at where he was brandishing swords as they headed for him with ferocious faces.
Max saw them and took out one of them with his crossbow.He threw the crossbow aside, drew out the sword strapped across his back in one hand and then held his shotgun with the other he then rushed forward to engage in combat.
Against these fellows who didn't have any skills and only knew how to fight crudely max didn't fear them at all.
Before the first bandit could react max had made use of his speed and instantly appeared before him,he then slashed diagonally almost splitting him in half due to the amount of strength he used.He took aim at the same time and fired at two other bandits bringing them down.
He turned and have a back kick to another bandit approaching him and then shot him in the head.The last bandit seeing the fate of his friends turned around and run to where he came from in panic, max had scared him too much and he no longer had any intentions about fighting again.
What a joke !! this guy looked stronger than their leader who they knew was a proper knight and had cultivated before, to go against such a monster would mean one didn't know how to spell death.
But before he could get far the was a bang and he was sent flying forward, he died before he touched the ground.Max stood there looking cool with his shotgun still smoking and his sword with the other hand hand.
At this time he had already drew the attention of both parties the bandits were scared of the strange weapons that had reaped the lives of their brethren especially how loud it sounded like thunder.
After that he run towards the bandits and started to slaughter them.
The bandit leader looked backwards and saw that max had begun a slaughter, he gritted his teeth in hatred and ordered the bandits to retreat. He couldn't defeat the captain he was fighting with and his men to were no much for max so instead of meaningless casualties among his lackeys he decided to just retreat.
The bandits turned and run back into the forest with their tails between their legs,they had lost a lot of their numbers and were now about thirty two.Max ignored them and didn't try to Pursue them after all they no longer posed a threat.Max himself had killed about twenty of them, strangely he felt fine after taking human life and didn't look pale at all.
Ever since his fight with the python he had realized that he had changed a bit.
Whiles killing the bandits he had realized also that he couldn't draw energy from them like he did with the python which meant not all creatures could have their life force drawn by the treasure.
As max kept thinking he saw the two dozen people heading towards him including the commander who kept looking at him warily the other was a fat man who looked cheerful and kept smiling as he approached, unlike the other people max had seen that he had two guards behind him, they were different from the commander's men.
"Hello sir thank you for helping us earlier without you we would have been in a lot of trouble" the knight commander first placed his right hand across his chest before bowing a bit whiles thanking him.
"No need to thank me at all I did what I thought was right" max waved his hand whiles dismissing what he did as trivial.
"If you don't mind can I know who you are and what you are doing around here oh and
I am captain Richard a guard captain of house Tiberius" the captain probed further.
"Ah where are my manners my name is Maxwell pendragon a wandering merchant" max thought for a moment before answering, he truely only came to this world world to earn his keep.
"Is that so? for a while I thought you were a wandering knight of a certain noble house looking for a master to serve". the captain kept inquiring with suspicion.
Captain Richard had seen the skills and strength max possessed which was way above the average knight,especially with the sword he caught glimpses of techniques from it when max used it so he thought was either a young knight of a noble family going out to temper himself or a member of a fallen house looking for a new family to serve besides max was dressed well and did not look like a peasant.
If max really wanted a new house to serve he would have introduced him to his, after all max looked young about twenty two years and could advance further bringing him would provide his house another potential knight Level 2 grand knight.
He himself became a knight at about 28 years old.Now he was 35 and had almost no chance to advance.
"Captain richards that is enough our young hero is tired we should wait for him to rest before questioning him again" the fat man commented from the side.
"Watch your tongue merchant you speak to a knight of house Tiberius" Richard scowled at him turned around and left.
"My good friend I am Pedro a merchant of the land" Pedro introduced himself while stretching out his hand.
"I am max also a wandering merchant looking for a place to sell his wares" max took the hand and shaked it.
Compared to the strict Richard he preferred to talk to a merchant to obtain information he needed.
"Come,come my friend let me take you back for a rest before we continue to leave" Pedro left followed by max.
Soon the convoy began to continue it's journey, from Pedro max learnt that the convoy was moving towards the city of militus . The city belonged to the duke Mildred,a duke under the the royal family.
He also understood that the feudal system worked here and that he was in the kingdom of Avalon.
Night time was approaching and everyone had stopped to set up camp, they lit fires and started cooking.
Max also set up the small burner he bought along and started to cook some packets of noodles whiles drinking some beer. He could see the peasants around looking at him with curiosity and fear they had seen how he fought and new that he was a noble knight but it was strange that he was all alone and what he used to cook to was something they had never seen before.
"Aah max my friend why won't you let me treat you to a meal, look I bought you a gift" Pedro came in followed a young girl who kept her head down all the time.
Max observed the girl,she looked like she was 19 years old and was a bit thin, the clothes she wore looked like rags and she kept her head down all the time but he saw that she looked beautiful.She had a small nose and deep blue eyes.