With no chain to keep him in place John immediately headed towards the closest bandit . Full of adrenalin he sprinted and reached the bandit in few moment the spider hot on his tail as the bandit saw the humanoid sized spider approaching he entered a combat stance and tried to slice his head. The spider paired the attack with his legs and because of that John succeeded in safely retreating.
Now he started moving nimbly towards the a corner and making his presence as faint as possible watching the situation a little bit the sprinted towards the chief's cabin. As soon as he entered the cabin he started to search and found some letter and some files. No key in sight after a little bit more search he found it in a corner drawer. Now with the key he sprinted back towards the prisoners cells and as stealthy as possible he signaled the other prisoners as well to make silence and started to free everybody from the shackles. Soon he reached his siblings and with crying eyes they were happy to see their big brother.
Now a problem arises the bandits for sure contacted the bandits outside for help but how can they be sure that nobody is guarding the entrance so they decided to wait. As the battle became fiercer and fiercer a giant spider around at least six times bigger than humanoid size one appeared and with every passing second he put the chief in disadvantage as the battle continued for some more minutes the chief was caught off guard and as he was almost severely injured an precise aura beam even stronger than his hit the spider knocking him back three meters. The leader of the bandits came.
-You dirty insects dare to run rampart in my territory ? Die!
"Now is my chance" As John saw that probably all the bandits gathered here to fight he signaled everybody to run towards the exits. He moved thought the prisoner assuring that no bandit observed them and as they were almost at the exit he signaled for them to stop. He moved alone and as he expected one guards was still guarding the door and some bandits were patrolling.
-I will get the attention of the bandits while they run after me go to the east corner then continued ahead trough the forest you should be able to reach the town.
-Brother, No!! His little siblings screamed at him crying then,
-Don't waste your life little one I can act as decoy I can run a little faster than the little you your courage is for sure worth praising. And don't try to change my mind you are probably the only one who knows the safe path back. My name is George I'm a former adventurer but I was to scared in the end and retired here so let me make at least one courageous thing before I die.
I don't have anybody to come back to .You have a lot of little brothers to take care of. Also it's not for sure that I will die. That damn chain had a mana suppressing encryption as well it's not for sure that I will die.
Convinced by George let him go ahead and as they both nodded George sprinted ahead like wind and caught the attention of the guard outside.
-Sound the alarm we have an escapee.
All the patrolling bandits started going after George. Not only that but George intentionally passed by the patrolling guards to make them all come after him then he headed straight in forest . Bandits having their pride hurt ran straight after him. The prisoners then bolted towards the exit and with John's help they headed straight for the town.
Some minutes later in the depths of the forest George stopped.
-This should be far enough.
-EHEHEHHEHE, did your legs give up you dammn rabbit.If you think that there is a chance to come back alive from this you better check your brain. We will kill you right here right now but not until we torture you so you regret the moment you provoked us damn slave.
An icy look appeared on George's face and with eyes cold like tombs said.
-Mere worms dare to threaten me.
Shiiing. George appeared right next to the bandit who viciously threatened all the other bandits were already slashed in pieces. Cold sweat was pouring buckets from the bandit the next instance he fell abruptly on his knees.
-Oh mighty lord please have mercy on this mere worm who failed to see your greatness. I just did as ordered please your blade can't be wasted on garbage as me.
-Indeed you are not worth my blade but you know what's the punishment for colluding with demons?
The bandit was petrified "He knows, he won't let me live for sure maybe I can sneak attack"
-Also who said that I used my blade?
SHIING
"What's that? My body the world was turned upside down as the bandit's conscience faded.
-Even cutting you with aura blade is a waste. If the boss didn't want to catch that demon you would have been long annihilated. That boy should be able to reach the town in the fallowing hour let me check if monsters are near.
For real boss you work the shit out of me every time.
Then George disappeared in an instant.
The prisoners with John at the front had a safe journey even thought they scouted ahead for any roaming monster nothing came their way. And after an hour they reached the town safely without any causalities. John and his siblings fallowed by the beggars went straight to the barracks the others went to theirs families. Seeing the children come back safely and only a little bruised and dirty made the nannies cry tears of relief. They hugged and cried together for the next minutes then John explained everything. From how he went out the city to the how he got captured and escaped.
Unfortunately George was nowhere to be seen and Conrad made a pledge that tomorrow a tablet shall be raised in his name near the entrance of the barracks for all his knights to see his courageous deeds.
Bang.
-Ouch, nannie did you develop a habit for violence it wasn't enough to slap me last time now you even punch me in the head.
-You deserve it, why were you so reckless??
And who made you make us worry to death because of you??
-But in the end everything worked didn't it?
Bang.
-No excuses? now nannie Angela hit John with a stern expression.
-Ok, ok, no more hits I know I am wrong.
-Young men are you sure that the bandit leader and the and the supervisor from the mines are master rank?
-They for sure used aura they probably faked their strength last time.
-I see then this needs to be reported back to the Council we are in grave danger.
Now you can all go to sleep I will take care of the beggars now everything will be resolved have faith.
Fallowing the reassuring words of Conrad unlike some drunkard who only knew how to say that he can't do anything they went to sleep with smiles on their faces.
Back at the mines a bandit came rushing at the remnants of the intense battle.
-Leader the prisoners escaped and the guards outside disappeared
Bang the Bandit leader punched a wall.
-How could those weaklings kill at least twenty men at the professional level something is fishy
Then another bandits came rushing.
-Sir we found twelve red mana stones in the depth of the tunnel it seems that big spider kept them.
-Good we don't have the sacrifices but at least we can summon our lord.
Let them have a sense of peace they will cry when our lord descends.