Chapter 58 New headache. (1/2)

Roland’s body twitched as he felt cold He began to slowly open his eyes while having a tough tireeted by a splitting headache His vision felt muddled and it took a couple of seconds for it to focus

He found himself in an unfamiliar location if you could call it that What he saas an uneven ceiling that consisted of just rocks and dirt The walls were uneven with bugs crawling on them, he was clearly in so out from the side, probably the cave’s entrance Thanks to it he could barely see as he didn’t possess any night seeing skills or abilities

He felt terrible as if a sta and he needed to assess the situation First, he checked if he was in any condition to fight He did this by trying to stand up

Luckily besides so was broken There was a lack of bindings around his feet and ar or anyone

There was also the possibility that the person that brought him here didn’t see hied his danger level to be quite low

He leaned back against the wall as his vision slowly started returning He quickly looked to the side and found that his ars of holding still on hih out in relief

Roland tried recalling what had transpired before he went unconscious He reroup of bandits attacked theh the cart he was in and landed on one of the boxes, then it all began and also when it all rong

He jue stopped in its tracks The way foras blocked off and the bandits attacked They were safely up on a faraway ledge above them and had an easy way to pelt them with more arrows

Roland ducked behind the cart he was previously inside It didn’t havethe fra as a roof Outside he could at least hide behind the undercarriage and also the boxes on the inside would stop the arrows fro further in

The hired adventurers and the guards sprung into action They in a sions and carts Soe shi+elds and bows of their own to fire back

There were more people on the caravan’s side but at least half were non-co, merchants, and their fauards that ca force

The bandits had prepared thes to block the way forward There was also a group ofthere with bows and crossbows The way back was blocked off by thee rocks down froht some cover for theetting hit themselves Their thick wooden barricade above couldn’t be pierced even by tier 2 archers that were ast the adventurers

It was clear that the bandits didn’t want to take any prisoners They encased them in a trap and would slohittle them down They could probably blow them up with explosives if they wanted to, but they probably didn’t want to dae the items they could plunder

The adventurers and soldiers set up a defensive periether They were only able to make a half-circle with nowhere to run

They all were now high up in thewas thick so they couldn’t really tell as down there They all presu doas a one-way ticket to their afterlife

Roland found hi in her er in his hand He didn’t look like someone that kne to handle such a tool His hands were tre between a few places

Roland could identify these three people and clearly see their classes The child had none, the father had a farmer class while the woman was a cook

Classes like this existed, nified that the person that had it was unfit for co even the simplest class like warrior or archer They were also e continued for a while but soon enough the bandits switched to fire arrows and flaes started burning along with the iteest problem was on the slavers side as they had people on the inside

Before things could get any uglier Roland decided to act He had an option of either helping these people out or running away on his own He didn’t owe anyone anything here but he didn’t feel like leaving defenseless children behind

It would leave a distasteful taste behind in his mouth if he abandoned kids and woer nuer chance of survival There was strength in nuo but forward

First, he used one of his runic scrolls to put out the fire on the carriages The heat was pushi+ng people away from the protective barricade Which would then leave them open to arrow attacks

He combined two spells, one to make water and another one to freeze it First, the water splashed against the flames, then with the addition of the cold, the fire subsided The people looked at him with surprise in their eyes as he wasn’t part of the adventurers or the guards

After putting out the fire Roland took out an orb of some sort It looked like a tennis ball-sized sphere made from metal Hethis ball at the bandits above theet

The bandits took notice of the spell caster a the caravan but it was a bit too late They also noticed hi their way This caused theular shi+elds

The ball of metal collided with one of those shi+elds and just bounced off It tumbled down and away from the bandits that looked at it curiously It looked like Roland threw a round rock at them which caused more eyebrows to raise

The men dropped their shi+elds and were ready to return fire It looked like the attack was a dud and they panicked for no reason Before they could continue though they heard a strange sound

The ball of reeted by a small ball of fire and pieces of sharp metal The metal caused widespread injuries while the explosion pushed them back

This was an item that Roland made in his spare ti with his runic scrolls

The metallic ball was hollow on the inside with a little slit through which he could fit a small version of a scroll in Thanks to his condensation skill he was now able to miniaturize his scrolls even further

The scroll was placed inside and he added runic parts to the ball They mostly consisted of ethereal pathways so that he could activate it So a runic grenade ca that the runic scroll was in would go flying in all directions