The wagon of the party moving as fast as they could toward Kimberry Town as Cheryl grew his worries, this time Huey also sit beside him to help him watch the road.
"Hold on! I see something, another fight?" Huey warn Cheryl about what he see.
"Another bandits attack?" Cheryl ask.
"Likely, but someone fighting them..." Huey reply.
"Then let's not waste any time! We'll help that person!"
"Alright!" Huey agree with Cheryl as they drive their wagon toward the fight, before they park it and rushing to the fight on foot, Angie also come with them too.
What they see is a group of bandits fighting someone clad in armour, a knight with big shield and jousting lance. And Cheryl recognize him immediately as he saw the knight.
"Brigid!?"
"That's him? Your junior knight?" Huey asking, remember that Cheryl once talk with the royal capital's guard captain about this Brigid.
"Yeah, let's help him first." Cheryl said as he moving with fast speed.
The young knight names Brigid having trouble fighting bandits that block his path
As soon as the horde of bandits trying to attack Kimberry Town, taking adventages of confusing situations of the kigdom. Many times the town trying to send messengers to the capital for reinforcements, the bandits here seems to be smarter then they looks and block the roads to prevent communications.
Eventually, the Town decide to send Brigid as messenger since his stout defense might help him survive the bandits and break through their blockade, which has been proven wrong.
He's too slow to outrun the bandits, and now he's surround, his big shield, long lance and full armour might be great for him in open field battles, but not against agile bandits.
They have hard time at first since their weapons are short swords or axes, but they're quickly learn how to deals with the young knight and surround him, trying to worn him down through hit and run and harassing tactics.
"Too annoying...." Brigid the knight whinning as he was stuck within the bandits clutch, no way to break through this situation.
Luckily, the help has arrive.
"Here we go!" Huey cry as he fire the first arrow at one of the bandits at their back, while Cheryl jump high with help from wind magic and strike down at another bandit that behind Brigid.
"Sir Cheryl!? Good grief!" The young knight sigh out in relief.
"We can talk later, just deal with these outlaws first."
"Understood~!" Birgid reply to Cheryl as he raise his shield in front of him and ready his lance, no more worry about his back.
"Here I go~!" He then charge at the group of bandits like a battering ram, causing them to disperse in panick.
The situation was turn, and many of the bandits start to run away.
"Not so fast!"
"I won't ler you!" Huey firing another arrows at his targets one by one while Angie casting defensive magic, creating the wall of light to block the bandits path.
And soon, most of the bandits either dead or surrender.
"What's happen, Brigid? Things seems to be worsen than I through." Cheryl turn to his junior and asking the situation as soon as the battle end.
"The town of Kimberry was under attack by bandits, and we're desperately need for reinforcement." Brigid report the situation.
"What about the troops station there? Even if those bandits are so many, there shouldn't be this bad."
"Well, about that...." Brigid begin to tell the story while they're heading to the town, with Huey moving ahead of them to report the town about what's happening earlier.
The situation that Cheryl heard was so bad that his face turn pale, as Brigid tell him that the town's water supply has been poisoned, then the bandits begin to attack the town from multiple directions except for the southern gate where the town send out their messengers for aid request, which is where the bandits set up trap to cut the communication off.
This isn't just a raid, it was a full siege, and their plan was so good for being just a bandits.
"We need not just troops, but also healers, there's so many injures and sick people from battles and poison."
"Well, good thing is we have healer with us." Cheryl telling Brigid as he introduce Angie.
As the three apporach the town, they can see smoke coming from far north.
Kimberry is a woodland settlement, their main economic income are from hunting, foraging, selling woods, and as a trading route.
The town's buildings and fortification are mainly build from wood and clay due to lack of amountains neaby for stone, the town does have canal around outside the wall for defence, however.
As the team enter the town, most of the soldiers station here they saw are poorly equips, likely a local militia from town's civilians. And they looks so restless.
"Most of capable bodies are at the walls for defense, luckily it seems those bandits don't have enough manpower to attack this gate too." Brigid show his worry as they finally arrive at the town's stable to park their wagon, with Huey and some town's guards waiting.
"Sir Brigid, you've return earlier than we through." One of the guard talk to Brigid.
"Sorry, I don't go that far, those bandits are too much, and I don't think I could do much walking on foot." Brigid reply to the guard, his relaxing tone become more serious at the moment.
"What about the reinforcement? We can't hold off those bandits if things continue like this!"
"Don't worry, at least I got helps for us." Brigid assuring to the guards as he introduce Huey and his team.
The town's guards worry at first since they don't think just 3 of them are enough to turn the table, but with Angie being healer, their worry fade away.
"Finally! At least we could treat the sicks and get them back on fighting again!" One of the guards relief.
"By the way, what about this town's priests?" Angie ask as he believe this town should at least have priests reside here as well.
"Unfortunetly, they too get poisined from water supply, 2 of them succumb to it and died, only 1 remain." The guard answer the young priest.
"That's horrible."
"By the way, please go to the church at the town square, if you could heal our priest, he could at least back in actions!" The guard beg, making Angie feels uncomfortable due to the pressure of his role.
"We'll go to the town hall and prepare for the next attacks, they should prepare to attack us again soon." Brigid then telling everyone and urging Huey and Cheryl to come with him.