Karn and Fiora made their way deeper into the forest following the trail that had been created by many people using the same path over time.
Fiora's mind was racing with many thoughts as they walked to the bandit hideout.
'If this old man loses or runs while fighting the bandit leader I should probably tell them that he forced me to tell him where the hideout was.' Fiora was worried that the old man might not be enough to save his little brother. She was increasingly feeling confident about him when he came back with blood all over his clothes after dealing with the two on the trees. But she could not help but think about the 'what if's'.
Fiora had lived through enough of this dog eat dog world where nobody was there for her other than her brother as emotional support. She had no idea who her family was, first thing she remembered was being in a orphanage with her little brother who she had to keep safe. If not for her brother she would have probably gone insane long time ago.
She was the first one to know that nothing in her life goes right and this might be the same situation as always.
Karn was watching her this whole time and the slight body language changes in her body the whole time while looking forward with a slight smile caressing his beard.
'This young lady seems very scared and uncomfortable. She is probably thinking I am not going to help her or is scared I am going to lose, worried for her brother maybe?'. Karn made an assumption which had landed spot on.
As they walked they soon saw a cave which was lit up with many torches along with many people outside the cave sitting around campfires. Most of them looked rough with many scars on each of their bodies and an aura of savageness present in all of them. Some of them could be seen with a few village women who had been tied up with barely any clothes on. All of them seemed to have eyes that were dead.
It was clear they had been through a lot by the bandits. Fiora had proven herself useful to the camp and the leader of the bandits otherwise her fate might have been similar to these women. Fiora looked at the men with disgust.
Among the bandits two men seemed to exude a different air to them. Both of them were on different sides of the camp and the bandits around the two all looked at them with admiration.
Karn looked at most of the bandits. All of them had a banner on top of their heads which ranged from lvl 5 - 25. The two bandits with a different air about them both had a level of 35 . Surprisingly the two had an additional thing added on their banner '+5 AP'.
'Oho? That is the first time I have seen that. This system is really mysterious, more and more things are popping up which I don't understand yet'. Karn thought.
"The leader is in the cave, I have never seen him but everybody knows he is a 1st tier martial warrior. Be careful." Fiora whispered to Karn.
Karn nodded and asked "Where is your brother?"
Fiora looked around until she pointed towards a certain location near a campfire. He had his hands tied but otherwise he looked a healthy young man with jet black hair around the age of 15. Fiora looked at her brother with relief in her expression after seeing that Zane was safe.
Karn nodded and said "Okay, go around and get close to your brother. When I make a move, get your brother and go back to the village and wait there for me." Fiora nodded after hearing the plan.
"Old man" asked Fiora.
"I thought I told you to address me with respect. What is it?" Asked Karn with slight annoyance in his voice.
"Are you really blind?" asked Fiora who had been curious all along whether the old man was really blind or not.
"Yes, I am blind. Is that all you wanted to ask? Go and do what I told you to do and save your brother." Said Karn while looking at Fiora. Karn did not like delaying what he wanted to do. One could say that the old man was really insane, he wanted to fight everybody in the camp.
Karn had realized the terror of killing and had become like this in the war. Instead of having to deal with the people he had killed his way of coping was to enjoy the kills. If he didn't how would he deal with the people that would come after him at night.
Being blind had made Karn believe in the supernatural in his past life. Every night he would deal with every face he had killed in the war telling him how awful he was to take their lives.
Now he had his sight back but his life of killing had also made a return.
Karn could nothing about it now though. His mission was to take care of the girl and her brother.
Once Fiora was in place to rescue her brother, Karn made a move. The bandit camp had 30 people in total. 10 of them were under lvl 10 and another 10 of them were under lvl 20, 7 of them were under lvl 30 and only 2 were under lvl 40.
Using god's eye Karn looked at everyone's sight and moved within a blind spot that nobody was seeing walking casually up to the man who was level 18.
"These women are getting boring we needa take some more from them villagers. HAHA! eh? who are yo-?" Before the bandit could finish his sentence the man's head had flown through the air.
Karn immediately used the heavenly thief technique and went full speed to the other man beside him. Another head had flown and only blood was flying everywhere in place of the head. This man was level 17. Karn didn't even look at the people under level 10, his next target was a man at level 24.