Chapter 373: Troublesome Bandits (1/2)

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

After an hour or so of traveling, Leo finally found the familiar hill that he was looking for. But unlike before, the hill right now has surprisingly been turned into something akin to a watchtower.

The reason for his assumption was because there were a few obvious holes with some crossbows showing its head outside. Aside from that, a few people were also seen patrolling around the hill.

Because of that, Leo was forced to hide far away with only the Wind Elemental disguised as a wind sending reports to him from time to time.

As soon as he found out about this, Leo's face immediately turned serious as he can't help expecting that something might have already happened to the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest, specifically this group of people has found it already and is currently trying to harvest them in order to earn a profit for themselves.

”It's useless to keep on assuming things, it's much better to see it myself,” Leo said before turning around and following the familiar path he had taken in the past to get to the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest.

Aside from the hill, Leo was also very familiar with those bushes he had hidden himself before while traveling towards the mountain and towards the direction of the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest. After all, he used those bushes to save his life.

With that, he was able to easily find the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest, which at this moment has become a Bandit camp. Yes, a Bandit camp. Those people over the hill as well were actually Bandits.

At this moment, there was now a new hole leading towards the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest, with a few Bandits going in and out every now and then while bringing on their hands a Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs and putting them in front of a Bandit who was currently listing everything and at this Bandit's side was another Bandit who was putting the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside a Storage Ring.

Around the hole of the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest were tens or so of tents, showing that this was a Bandit camp and not a Bandit base.

The difference between a Bandit camp and a Bandit base is that the former is just a base of operation, meaning a temporary base with not all the members of the Bandit group being in such a place, which can easily be determined in their use of a tent, while on the other hand, the latter is the main headquarters of the Bandit group, meaning it has all the necessary requirements needed for a proper base, including proper houses and other infrastructures, war weapons, and many more, and aside from that the majority of Bandits would also be stationed over there.

Taking all of that into consideration, then his guess would be; this Bandit group has unexpectedly stumbled upon this Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest and then right after sent out Bandits to camp in here to easily harvest the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs.

”Bandits again?!” Leo can't help himself from exclaiming inwardly. This was now the second time he has to meet Bandits, and similar to the first time, he encountered them stealing his own fortune again. Just how unlucky was he to experience such a thing twice?!

However, unlike the last time, the situation right now has become much more troublesome for him to handle.

It wasn't the same as fighting against mere 15 Bandits like the last time anymore, which was an amount equivalent for a small Bandit group.

This time, he needs to fight against 100 to 200 Bandits, an amount equivalent to a medium Bandit group. But taking into consideration that this is just a mere Bandit camp and that normally only large Bandit groups would have Bandit camps of this size, then it's obvious that these Bandits are part of a large Bandit group.

Also, he still hasn't seen any signs of the Bandit Leader yet... No, to be more exact, the Bandit in-charged of this Bandit camp. If his memories serve him right, it always has the position called Boss.

The strength of a Bandit camp would usually be depending on the capability of the Bandit Boss. Without knowing the capability of the Bandit Boss, then he won't be able to just casually attack this Bandit camp. After all, he's still wasn't sure whether he has the ability to fight them or not, and at the same time successfully escape whenever the situation became against his favor.

”I guess that I would be staying here for some time then,” Leo thought to himself before turning all of his Elementals into a toy soldier form, except for the Fire Elemental as he immediately unsummoned it without any hesitation as its mere existence alone was already very conspicuous enough. In fact, it was already really fortunate for him that no one was still able to notice him despite having a brightly lit figure right by his side. Of course, the Wind Elementals stayed the same way as they were really needed to scout around the Bandit camp in order for him to gather more information.

After doing that, Leo immediately climbed up to a tree with a thick and dense amount of leaves for him to use it to hide himself.

Below the ground, the Bandits continued on working.

”Just how many Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs did we find?!” The Bandit in-charged of listing the number of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs they got, whose name is Yosles, can't help himself from exclaiming in delight while watching the continuous stream of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs being brought up by the other Bandits.

”We strike it rich!” The Bandit at the side in-charged of putting the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside the Storage Ring, whose name was Irilebant, replied in joy.

”The last two days we've been here, we have already accumulated 2,000 pieces of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, don't tell me we would also be getting 1,000 pieces for the third day and yet there would still be a lot of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs remaining inside?!” Yosles's eyes lit up brightly while thinking of such thoughts.

”Most likely! Fortunately, Boss Nuwyuse has bought over 150 pieces of ordinary Storage Rings from one of his connections. So, even if we can't take all the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside with us, we would still be able to bring a considerable amount before finally leaving.” Irilebant replied while putting more Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside the Storage Ring he's holding. He suddenly added, ”Look, this Storage Ring is already full with 100 pieces of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, marking the 8th Storage Ring for today.”