After walking at a pace that would put the world's fastest sprinters to shame the group arrived outside of a group of tents surrounded by a spiked fence. As Leo inspected the camp, he noticed that there were about 25 bandits, including a large man who seemed to be their leader. " Apollo and I will deal with the normal bandits whilst you two hold off the leader until we can come and provide support. Hearing their leader's voice the party nodded before beginning to prepare for the battle that was to come.
Five minutes later, everyone was prepared and understood their role. Leading the group Leo sneakily approached the gate and took out the only guard. Signalling everyone to advance, Leo summoned all of his wolves before he rushed forward into the camp with a huge smile on his face, ready to kill everyone in sight.
Already in his transformed state, Leo rushed up to the first person he saw and quickly used his massive fangs to rip out the man's throat before continuing on to his next victim.
[Congratulations on reaching level 23, +4 to all stats]
The bandits finally noticed Leo after he had killed the third bandit, thus causing them to team up and surround Leo whilst another group surrounded the rest of the party. Noticing this Leo decided it was time to test out his new skill [Taunt]. Activating his skill, all the bandits surrounding him started madly charging forward, not even bothering to protect themselves with their weapons. Seeing this Leo let out a light laugh as he began to wonder how such a skill could have a rarity so low. Through a combination of skills, Leo was able to finish off the seven bandits surrounding him in a couple of minutes. Immediately after finishing them all off, he turned towards his party, ready to go and help, but to his surprise, all the bandits were dead. What Leo found even more shocking was the fact that it was done by one man, Apollo. Looking closely at his party member, he couldn't help but wonder what happened, but he didn't have time to continue his train of thought as the body of John shot past his face into a wall. Looking at where John had come from, all Leo could see was a large man shrouded in red bloody mist holding Rosana by her neck, getting ready to kill her.
Seeing what the man was about to do, Leo rushed forward as fast he could, but just as he was about to reach Rosana and save her, a loud cracking sound rang out before the man dropped Rosana and kicked her body at Leo. He caught up in the moment Leo couldn't even dodge, causing him to be flung back whilst holding his dead teammate's body. For some reason, seeing this, tears slowly began to leak out of Leo's eyes, white-out him even noticing. "You bastard!!" Leo yelled out with bloodshot eyes as he threw Rosana's corpse aside and began to dash at the man once again along with his summons. "Now because if you, that old man's gonna call me a screw-up again!!!." Noticing Leo's state Apollo decided to wait and watch what was going to happen.
Leo almost instantly reached the man surrounded by mist, activating his [Taunt] skill, but to Leo's dismay, the man didn't seem to react. Only after noticing this did Leo even bother to look at the man's description.
Name: Bandit Leader
Level: 34
Skills: [Blood Mist] [Slash] [Mental Resistance] [Stun] [Taunt] [Dash]
Description: A follower of the god of madness.
Reading through the bandit leaders description Leo was able to find the reason for his skills ineffectiveness it was the leaders [Mental Resistance] skill wich can nullify most skill below a certain grade that attack the mind but this wasn't the part of the leaders description that made him most worried. The part that worried Leo the most was the fact that he was a follower of a god. In this world, not everyone can be a follower of a god. They have to be personally picked by that god, and when they are, they gain certain abilities based on that god's type. Leo assumed the skill that the boss gained from his god was the [Blood Mist] skill. Thinking of this Leo instantly made up his mind to avoid that Mist like the plague.
After deciding to avoid the mist, Leo had to find another way to beat the boss. Unfortunately for Leo, the bandit leader didn't seem to have the same idea as he dashed forward, aiming his sword at Leo's head. Leo quickly ducked and backed away ordering his summons to slow down the boss whilst he thought of a strategy. Leo finally came up with an idea after a minute or so but he didn't like it. His plan would still require him to have some contact with the mist, and if he failed, his transformation would be over, leaving him defenceless. Making up his mind, Leo took out his shadow. Dagger and instantly inputting mana to activate the [Sneak] skill, causing him to become almost impossible to see.
Leo quickly rushed behind the boss before the timer ran out and activated all the attacking skills he had. After activating everything that he had, Leo dashed forward, aiming for the back of the boss's neck. Using his bite skill, Leo latched on whilst also using his new Hellhound Claws to inflict burns on the boss. Seeing that he had succeeded, Leo couldn't help but think that the battle was over, but this all changed when the boss reached over and grabbed Leo by his fur, launching him forward until he crashed into the same wall as John. Slowly losing consciousness, all Leo could do was look up at the boss as he approached, not seeming to be bothered by the wound Leo inflicted at all. Finally, the boss arrived in front of Leo just as his transformation started to disappear. This was the last moment before Leo fell unconscious.