While I was observing the situation of battle carriages being parked on the side of the road, they are parked as closely as possible so I can protect them more efficiently,While Jade champions moved towards the supposedly bandits.
//Taylor POV//
We were almost at the place from where we will be to supposed bandits , I really hoped that mage girl is wrong as fighting twenty of bandits while making sure they don't run towards the cart is going to be hard, but I knew that she is unlikely to lie, I have felt her magic power and amount she has is phenomenal, I could sense it due to one of my traits {mana measurement}, with the help of this trait I can tell approximately how much magic power other person have and that girl is more then three times my magic power and I could be considered C-rank adventurer ability wise.
While I was musing over the ability of the mysterious girl we were detected by the bandits, unfortunately upon seeing us all of them dispersed pretty much confirming that they are bandits and wouldn't clash with adventurers if they can help it.
We decided on the plan while we were moving here, we will pretend to leave and then sneak attack them by coming back, gurran did find others that were hiding in the trees along the road so we knew they were hidden enemies, so we decided on the groups Gurran had taken five bandits that were staying on main road while I take right were 7 people were hiding while Brittany take right with 8 people while Mina will support anyone that are in trouble .
We did as planned and pretended that we had left as we sneaked from back I did as I planned and went to the right side of the forest, first I decided to deal with Archer first it wasn't easy but I was able to sneak attack him by throwing the knife straight to middle of his forehead I had used physical enhancement to throw the knife at blinding speed.
But the death of the Archer alerted others so I had to come out of my hiding bandits are generally people without any class, getting class is extremely difficult, so it is quite rare to see any magic users in their midst.
I used my own type of physical enhancement that increased my defence, they weren't able to hurt me at all I did use some earth magic to deal with them as fast as possible, killing people always left me with deep regrets but these guys were scums without doubt while I did kill all I wasn't sure Gurran can deal with five at the same time, he is quite strong scout with poison magic but he is specialised for one target attack.
//Gurran POV//
After pretending to live we snuck in from there back it was harder for me to sneak attack the ones that were on the main road because of absence of obstacles so they were able to see me before I attacked and began retreating I enchanted some of my combat needles with poison magic though they were able to dodge most of my needles but few that scratched them were enough to paralyzed two bandits I decided they are unlikely to fall for same tactics, I decided to engage the ones that are not paralyzed, It would've been hella lot tougher if we have to protect the merchants while dealing with this bandits as they would ruthlessly attack the merchants to divert our attention while also attacking us by using there number advantage, they weren't much good in close combat though they were stronger then average E-rankers I was able to fight three in close combat and kill them rather easily without needing the help from Mina it would've been more difficult to deal with this bandits with the new spell I created recently, paralysis poison spell is quite effective afterall. I dealt with the paralyzed foes by injecting them with more paralysis poison so we can interrogate them later.
//Brittany POV//
I was given a group with the highest number of bandits due to my nature mage class fighting the nature mage in the forest is felony, it helped that there weren't any class holders amongst the bandits I manipulated plants and immobilized them before they could even react though I did knock them out I didn't kill them as bandits would be made into legal slaves and we can earn lot of money if we hand them to the local guards though it would be hard to transport them I decided to live the decision to Taylor, I asked biggest group because I was confident that I could defeat any C-rankers and below while I am in forest which gave me confidence to fight this measly bandits.
I also came out of the forest to see Gurran fighting, though he was almost done, and Taylor had also came out of the forest while Mina was keeping watch on everyone and would've came to aid anyone if they were in trouble, when it comes to battle instincts and reactions no one in group could rival mina in those departments.
After Gurran also dealt with the bandits we were looking around for anymore bandits but like Evelyn had told us there were only 20 bandits in that area.
"It seems she was right, anyway Mina could tell the merchant and young lady that we have dealt with bandits and it is safe to come forward now."
Taylor asked while still being alert Mina nodded and left to inform them about the situation, we waited until the arrival of merchants to think about how to deal with the alive bandits.
//Evelyn POV//
I was flinched every time one dot disappeared in my search radar after about 10 minutes of fight the battle has come to stand still and it seems the Jade champions have dealt with all bandits and still managed to keep some odd 10 bandits Alice while I was thinking on what to do miss Mina arrived in front of me I have sensed her coming back but didn't know about reason so I waited for her.