Chapter 12
"Got it, I will wake the leader and the others!" One of them nodded seriously and Chelsea followed him, leaving the other on guard.
Chelsea quickly helped him wake all the members and in rush, she secretly disappeared in the crowd, skillfully losing the guy.
The guard who had been hiding all the time finally revealed himself, before the guy who was left to guard could even react, he was sliced in half by a sharp sword,
"Hmph, turns out they were just mere bandits who wanted to eat more than they could digest." His eyes were cold as he looked ahead.
He had come to the conclusion that they were just some bandits who had come to know of the merchant's wealth and had devised a meticulous plan to eliminate him secretly and loot his wealth.
And he had to admit, they were quite successful in killing the merchant under his nose.
'I am ashamed… But I will make up for it by slaughtering all of them and taking that dressmaker with me to the lord.' He thought and went inside the camp to start the slaughter.
In the middle of night, screams and wails of people ranged, the bandits and the guard and had long started to fight, being bandits, none of them were much skilled and were easily killed by the guard, not even wounding him much.
The guard kept killing ruthlessly, he ignored their cries and pleas of mercy,
"P-Please! Let me live, I will do any-" A bandit was begging but he couldn't even complete his sentence before the guard beheaded him in cold blood.
"You should have thought of the consequences before daring to scheme against us in the first place, bold of you mere bandits to think you can win against me." He snorted coldly.
He was madly attacking everyone in the village, be it the women, the children, none were spared, in his mind, these women were just sex slaves who were kidnapped her and these children were spawns of bandits, their blood was filthy to begin with.
So he was actually doing a favor on them by killing them, in his opinion.
The bandits were enraged, they saw their families being killed in front of their eyes and by a single man.
Today, either they live or die but the man will be killed here to avenge all the fallen people. They weren't even aware of this all scheming thing this man was blabbering about.
They haven't robbed any noticeable person from the empire in a long time, so why was this man after them?
But they all believed it might be that their leader was involved so they fought, he was only a single guy and they were many, even if they could not match his skill, they can tire out this guy before sending him to death.
They madly charged at the man and the man also retaliated in berserk mode, killing anyone who came near him, the fight continued on, and more screams sounded out in the isolated area.
The smell of blood was extremely thick as the guard slaughtered most of the people in this camp, now only a few were remaining, he had also sustained some wounds but they were not that deep,
Just as he was about to charge at the remaining men, someone bellowed, "WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE!?"
And a huge and burly barbaric man came out of the woods in the side, his expression was black in extreme rage, veins popping out all over his muscular body, he had a gray greasy beard, and small gray hair.
He was wearing just pants and his chest was barred, his chest contained many scars just like the one above his neck,
Just as he entered the scene, the remaining bandits suddenly shouted, "LEADER!"
Their spirits were suddenly lifted, initially they had thought that they could kill this guy but this guy was just too strong and just when they had lost all hope and prepared to die, their leader had come back,
Now, no one could save this man.
He will be killed by their almighty leader and all will be avenged.
"Hmph! So you are the idiot leading these livestock, let me kill you in one swing, this way it will be painless for you." The guard said.
"You bastard, not only you killed my men, you even slaughtered their families, I will give you the most gruesome death ever to avenge my subordinates and their families." The bandit leader roared, his voice so loud that it was heard by everyone.
The bandit leader charged, and the guards' eyes widened.
'Fast.'
The guard barely managed to dodge this attack and he turned serious, the bandit leader seemed not far from his own level.
'Killing this man would be troublesome.'
Both the bandit leader and the guard thought at the same time.
Their fight continued on, the bandit leader launched a flurry of attacks with no delay on the guard, the guard meticulously and cautiously dodged all of them,
He was already a little tired from all the bandits attacking him before so he had to be careful while dealing with this barbaric leader of bandits.
Swinging his sword, the guard suddenly slashed at the bandit leader making him take a few steps back, the sharp sword had left a small wound on his forearm, blood dripping from it.
The bandit leader narrowed his eyes, and looked around, it was not long before he had picked up a heavy axe in his hand.
Swinging the axe in the air, he charged once again at the man, the man swung his sword to deter him, but his sword was easily blocked by the hard metal of the axe.
Taking advantage of the moment, the bandit leader kicked the guard in abdomen sending him few meters backwards.
"COUGH-!" The guard coughed up some blood, the impact and force behind the bandit leader's kick was massive.
'My ribs have broken for sure, this barbarian is stronger than I expected, if only those fools hadn't tired me out, I could have killed this fucker.' The guard gritted his teeth.