Max slash the both legs of the Daider with dagger and try to stab him in the heart but Daider got jolted awake by the pain in his legs he quickly grabs the dagger with his hand not letting max hand move forward one inch, Daider look at Max in the eye with anger and mocking smile as he stop the dagger with his bare hand from stabbing his heart not realising it's the poisonous dagger.
When Daider attacked with his hammer to break Max ice wall the shockwave sent Max and the poisonous dagger in the same direction, Max didn't see the dagger getting thrown along with him but when Daider slammed his head in snow in order to resist and get out from under his feet.
Max was moving his right hand in snow to get bearing and manage to get his hand on dagger, while waiting for perfect moment to stab Daider with such opportunity came right away as Claude ice spear manage to distract Daider taking this opportunity to his advantage Max attack him.
Daider quickly realised the grave mistake he made but it was already too late as he was holding the dagger with his bare hand dagger edge cut through his skin spreading the poison in his body. Daider realise his mistake when he saw his fist colour change from white to blue as he saw this colour on their victim's numerous times as those twin assassins have this same dagger and their target dies from the deadly poison as their blood becomes cold as ice and soon starts to freeze.
"Ahhhhhhh…." Daider screamed out loudly in anger and fear.
"Give me, antidote for Ceilious and William dagger." Daider screamed out loudly in anger, his face showing clear signs of fear and frustration. He quickly starts running back towards their leader and doesn't even bother looking at his big hammer.
As he runs the poison spreads faster in his body, his shoulder has completely turned blue and now it's spreading towards his chest and all the bandits are scared and shocked by a situation that switches completely from dying mage to one of their own is about to die.
All the eyes that were fixed on Max few moments ago is now focused on big bulky bandits, all though it was for long but for few moments focused shifted to Daider from Max and it was enough for Max to run away from them not for long as he knows that they are soon going to catch up to him but he can make better if he gets few minutes to think with clear head away from them. Max stretched out his hand and start casting spell.
"Those who wander in the illusion of chaos and blindness of one own hope, Let the mist of snowy spirit guide you to its heart."
Just as Max completed his spell, an intense freezing cold took over this place and made them all surrounded by the dense mist, where one can barely see their own feet and those trapped in it will be lost and confused. Walking in a circle but won't be able to find exist.
All the bandits that were charging towards Max now suddenly surrounded by the mist and freezing cold that sent shivers down their spine. Once the clear view of the forest is gone along with their fellow men beside them, they can barely see their own feet in this mist.
"Get out of here, everyone run."
They don't know who shouted first or run but all of them start running in different directions without considering any plan or survival of their companion as for bandits there is no such thing as friendship, everyone lives for themselves and their own greed.
Once they get caught in a dangerous situation they will abandon their comrade and run for their life and even if no-one shouted to run, all of them still would have run but the bandit didn't realise that's the biggest mistake they made today in their life.
The bandit leader looks at the mist in front of him with fear and frustration as they really look down upon this lone mage now they fall for his spell, as visibility gets lower they won't be told what next trick this mage will use against them.
Even though it's a bit risky but he still doesn't want lose his hand on the evolved beast, that's why he run to bit closer to the beast who still in evolving with its eyes close, while rest of his men are running around like scared chicken in confusion and in chaotic manner to get out of this trapped.
This bandit doesn't understand that a more powerful mage is stronger the spell would be and more long lasting it would be but this lone wasn't in peak condition currently, that's why he knows that its matter of a few minutes before this spell loses its power.
The bandit leader shouted loudly to get his men's attention and make them stop in their useless struggle of leaving this trapped as it's impossible to know its boundary because if that mage didn't have confidence in himself, he wouldn't have cast this spell.
"Listen up, all of you bastards gather around each other. Don't stay out there alone in this mist trap or you might fall for this mage's next trick."
"No-one can see anything but we can still hear the sound. So, follow the sound of other bastards near you to gather too gather fuckers." The bandit leader shouted out loudly and after that he didn't say the single word as he also doesn't want any of them beside him as in chaos and confusion they might turn against him too. As there's no eternal loyalty in bandits.
After hearing their leader's words bandits started to shout out loudly to get closer to their fellow comrade by listing their voice but when everyone shouts out loudly without caring about anything it causes bigger panic among them and wolves always take advantage of sheep in panic.
These bandits didn't realise that their role has been reversed from predator to prey cause their biggest nemesis wasn't just the mage but the hungry beast hiding in the woods took them out when they made a single mistake and let down their guards.
Max as caster of this spell is able to move and see normally inside the spell, all these bandits are low level warriors and few are ordinary human or strong and mysterious. One of the mysterious ones is the leader, the bandits who threw the dagger and as for Daider he is as good as dead.
As mage Max might won't be to fight warriors in close range but that didn't meant he can't injure them when he got the perfect opportunity, Max quickly sneak behind the only three ordinary
humans in this group. They seem to be young boys 16 or 17 but the path they choose to walk on was wrong and sooner or later they would get killed by him or the other doesn't matter anymore.
Max move his one hand to cover the bandit mouth and slice of his neck with dagger, blood gushed out of his neck but as Max tightly close his mouth the bandit couldn't let out any scream except for muffed cry, slowly the neck of the bandit turned blue and slowly its start to spread toward the young bandit chest and head his body start to shake uncomfortably under the pain and soon the young bandit lost his life as poison reached his brain and heart.
The young bandit died gruesome death as his eyes were wide open with terror and fear in them just before his death and the same fate befall upon other two ordinary humans as the couldn't overwhelm Max with their physical strength and died by his hand or more precisely because of the poison.
Now, It's low level bandit's turn to sneak behind them going to be hard let alone killing them, Max knows the risk but he still wants to do this as it would lower their number. Max silently approaches one of them standing alone from the rest of them. He seems to be young in age, Max took each step gently not making any unnecessary noise as it would alert the low level warrior and rest of the bandits.
As Max goes closer to the bandit he can see that the bandit is on high alert as the sword in the bandit hand is in the perfect position to attack any given moment and the low level bandit is continuing to rotate around his position to check his surroundings. Even though he couldn't see everything that makes the big difference between ordinary humans and low level bandits.
Just as Max got a few meters behind him Low level bandit sensed something behind him and turned towards Max's direction. The bandit kept staring at the sound of footsteps he heard, he might have made a mistake or there's just one of their own but the sound stopped once he turned towards that direction.
That was what raised his suspicion as other bandits were still shouting out loudly to gather around in groups while the footsteps he heard from behind him didn't say anything or he was just hallucinating from the stress.