While everything was happening another beast-kin guy was listening everything hiding behind one of the rock.
He was the leader of this group of bandit. He was hiding here, while his group reveal themselves and try to find out the exact power of the people in the carriage for him. They where more like his pawn whom he could use as sacrifice.
Since their was no way in which they could see through the rank of their enemy. He use this pawn to let them confront the enemy while he watch from the back if there is anyone higher rank then him he would retreat if not then he would act and kill them and take their possessions. He didn't wanted to lose his life for such reason that whom he tried to rob of their belongings comes out to be higher rank then him.
Now he knew that his enemy was lower rank than him he grinned ear-to-ear, Already Seeing his success and taking all those thing from them by killing them. This was their usual plan, Even if they had given their belongings and retreated from here they would have still killed them. He knew that if he let them go they surely would report this on guild or could even post a mission for killing them, and they didn't wanted this to happen.
About killing them their was no problem in that Since no one would know how they died ,Even they would not be sure that they where dead or got missing ,guild would have no way to figure that out and probably wouldn't even care about it. But if someone report this to guild they would probably take some action and wouldn't be able to ignore it, Since that could hurt their reputation by such doing so.
He finally came out of his hiding and joined his group showing himself in front of them.
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Merchant and beast-kin guy saw one more beast-kin was coming from behind the rock. They were having bed feeling about this. And the beast-kin guy hands was trembling with some fear.
I already knew that someone was hiding behind the rock through demon eyes when I activated it just after learning about their Rank just to confirm that their was no one else rather then them but I found him. Though I couldn't see through that rock but the magic power that was coming from behind that rock pretty much gave up that someone was their and who's magic power was above everyone else leaving me. It was close to my magic power but little less. So I knew that he was at same rank as me or higher because we demons had more magic power then any other race and its show from beginning.
I finally checked his ranking through system. 'Ohh... he Is only one rank above me rank 15, it wouldn't be much of a problem if I use my magic attack to deal with them.' I thought to myself.
The leader came out and finally spoke "He means that I their leader doesn't fear that demon because I am at rank 15 and can kill him Hahahahh....," he laughed out loud.
When the beast-kin guy and merchant heard this their eyes became wide while their body was trembling in fear clearly visible.
The beast-kin guy thought to himself 'What the Fuck ,he is at Rank 15 even above that demon' He looked toward the direction of Merchant in anger 'That son of the bitch said we would not find the bandit above rank 10 and here he is at Rank 15. If I knew this I wouldn't have came along with them. Damn I am in danger if they came at us I would definitely die. I need to run from here that is only way I would be able to save my life,' While cursing the merchant in mind again for putting him in this situation.
While merchant said in disbelief "No it can't be, You are just bluffing. Yes! Right you are bluffing," The way he spoke clearly showed that he was trying to convince himself rather then other.
The leader enjoyed this seeing them in fear he said "Hahaha.... Who would be that stupid to come out of their hiding if they were in lower rank then the enemy and just to get killed by them."
Merchant hearing this lost his little bit of hope too that he had. Feeling that he could die here. He started running his mind at fast speed then said," S-Sir How about t-this we would leave all are belongings, You can have them all but let us go?" He said in some hope even though he would face a large amount of loss but that was still acceptable as long as he came alive from this. The greatest fear of everyone is this world is basically fear of dead the longer you live the greater you will became to love your life to live more that became one of the reason too, to keep on increasing their Rank to live long.
The beast-kin guy to got little hope hearing this and looked toward the leader of the bandit group because he was the one who could decide either they would live or die. They didn't even consider that the demon with them could save or even kill this bandit. Even though it was just 1 rank difference between us it could still be more then enough to dominate the lower rank guy. And the one who could defeat his opponent even if he is above his own rank where few and they didn't even thought that demon would be able to do it, and even if he do manage to kill thus leader, their was still number advantage for them and they didn't knew anyone's rank but only I knew.
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