Chapter 368: Buying Storage Rings from the Bandits part 1 (1/2)

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Before Leo could arrive, there were only less than 5 Bandits remaining alive from their former group of 15 Bandits.

All the remaining Bandits were gathered in one place, including the Bandit Leader who has the Storage Ring, while shaking in fear as they were being surrounded by all the scary-looking Elementals. One of them has even peed his pants and keeps on crying out loud his mother's name.

Moments ago they were still screaming from the joy of finding a lot of gold coins, but right now they are screaming for help as they are being surrounded by some unknown entity capable of easily killing their fellow Bandits.

They were only hiding at the nearby trees tens or so of minutes ago after they unexpectedly stumble upon Leo on their planned trip of looting the ruins of White River City. They were watching him store some unknown items inside his Storage Ring while at the same time leaving lots of lots of gold coins on the ground.

At first, they really thought that Leo would still pick up the gold coins when he was done with everything, but shockingly after storing all of those unknown items he actually left to the forest and never came back again.

Noticing that, they immediately sprang into action to grab all of those free gold coins on the ground. But in the end, they now regretted doing such a thing. If only they calmly thought about it why an unknown guy would leave lots of lots of gold coins on the ground, and not let greed take over their minds, then they would have realized something really suspicious and thought that the only reason for that guy to do that was because that guy was planning on catching Bandits like them.

And there exists only one occupation that they know that would do such a thing in the entire Celestial World, the Slave Hunters.

Such hateful kinds of people! If only they...

Hayst, unfortunately, there were no what if's in the Celestial World? What's done is done, and they could only pay for the consequences of their own action.

Now, their only path left is to be sold as slaves. Well, at least they still kept their lives, right? Unlike those others who all died.

Unbeknownst to the Bandits, Leo wasn't actually a Slave Hunter, rather he had purposely didn't kill them, not because he felt pity for them or any superficial feelings, but instead because he wants to use them to find more Bandits. Why? It's simply because he still needs more Storage Rings to store the Chaos Orbs that he would be creating later on at the Will City and Honoris City.

These Bandits would definitely be able to tell him where the other Bandit groups are hiding at inside the forest nearby, especially the Bandit Leader, and from there he would get himself more Storage Rings.

Soon, Leo arrived in front of the 5 Bandits. He quickly disembarked on his horse before he slowly walked towards them with the Elementals opening a path for him to enter the circle.

Seeing Leo, the Bandit Leader immediately put both his hand forward while closing his eyes and saying, ”I surrender! I won't be resisting you anymore, Mister Slave Hunter.”

”I also surrender! I don't want to die. I'd rather be a slave than die.”

”Me too!”

”Me three!”

”Me four!”

Leo doesn't know what he should react after being called a Slave Hunter. This group of Bandits had for sure misunderstood his action in catching them as an act of a Slave Hunter.

”You misunderstood me, I'm actually not a Slave Hunter.” Leo quickly tried to clear out such assumption in their minds. He still wants to ask them where the other Bandit groups are hiding inside the nearby forest, and it would cause a lot of negative impact on him if he was mistaken as a Slave Hunter since one of the most hated enemies of the Bandits is the Slave Hunters.

The reason is simply because; for the Bandits, Slave Hunters are people that don't care whatever or whoever a person is, either part of the white area or the black area. In other words, Slave Hunters are people in the gray area, neither could be considered good nor bad, since in their occupation everyone can be considered as a slave, which includes catching Bandits.

Because of that reason, once a Bandit is caught by a Slave Hunter, they have this unspoken rule in them that they won't sell out the other Bandit group's location, even if they die, since doing so meant that they are letting the Slave Hunter earn more money.

”Tch, don't think that you can easily trick us by saying that you are not a Slave Hunter.” One of the Bandits sneered at Leo. Does this guy really think that such a stupid reason would be able to trick them? Unfortunately for him, they have met a lot of fellow Bandits already who survived from Slave Hunters, so they know many kinds of-

Whooosh!

That Bandit wasn't even able to finish his monologue as his own head immediately rolled down the ground.

”Look, do you think a Slave Hunter would do that?” Leo smiled mischievously.

”You-”