Chapter 34: The encounter (2/2)

Ed could keep up this state for about an hour before running out of KI. However, this training helped him overcome a barrier in KI control as he now could hide his KI and manipulate his power at will. It was faster than he thought, but it was a welcomed surprise nonetheless.

Ed rode Raikou as he was recovering his KI. He noticed from his map that there was less than 50km to reach the city they were going to stay at.

”Raikou we're close to the city so you can get back in my shadow now”

”Woof!” Raikou followed Ed's advice and went into his shadow. As Ed was walking on the road to the city, he noticed, not too far away, a carriage being surrounded by people that had weapons. The carriage was guarded by soldier looking men. Ed guesses that they were being attacked by bandits.

'I guess it was about time for me to encounter bandits in this world' Ed knew this world wasn't a peaceful one and he would be meeting danger everywhere. He decided to wait and see what was going to happen before intervening. If the soldiers could handle it he wouldn't appear before them. It was better to stay away from trouble.

However, he soon found out that the soldiers were actually mercenaries as he heard them talking.

”We're not going to waste our lives here fighting some bandits. Let's move away everyone.” The one who spoke was apparently the leader as everyone followed him. Ed found it weird that the bandits let them leave without obstructing them. They moved closer to the carriage when a girl who looked as old as Ed came out. She was carrying her sword and apparently ready to fight the bandits.

Ed checked the map and noticed that the bandits were not red colored, this meant they might be targeting the girl specifically.

Ed decided to intervene since the girl wouldn't be able to handle so many bandits alone. He had scanned her and she was only a King establishment. The bandits were all Knight or King Establishment, rather strong for a bandit group, so she couldn't fight them alone.

”Raikou I'll be distracting them while you come out of the woods and chase them away” Ed instructed Raikou to act in such a way since he didn't want to defeat those bandits. Only scare them away. They weren't targeting him and he only wanted to save the girl.

”Let's move!” Raikou came out of Ed's shadow, Suika who was riding on his head, jumped out twice as if encouraging him and they started their plan.

Author's Thoughts

Shigun

Hello everyone! I'll only be posting this chapter today so please forgive me.

In case of any mistakes please point them out in the comments and i'll fix it asap!