587 Amounting to nothing Part 1 (1/2)

The eleven swordmasters were flustered, they did not escape on their own but had followed Aini, rushing into the camp compound.

Ever since Su began following Saleen, he had been spending his days in danger. It was only after returning to Metatrin City that he witnessed a regular army from this world. Lex's army caused Su to be dumbfounded, while the swordsman's camp in the Bitter Water Prefecture was valiant and ferocious. Even Su himself could not infiltrate them.

Su originally thought that all the armies on Myers mainland were like that, but the bandits' camp was very lax and normal. The bandits only reacted after Su had barged into their camp and knocked over two tents.

The bandits charging forward towards Su did not even wear armor, they only wielded short knives and swarmed forward. Su wielded two swords, slashing at this left and right as his eyes darted around looking for other pesky enemies.

Su led eleven men and traveled through this small camp twice. After almost destroying the place, he then saw a brigade of cavalrymen rushing out from another camp. Su noticed that there was a white-robed mage traveling with this brigade of soldiers. Mages who dared travel with cavalrymen were usually of outstanding quality.

Su could not care less about the grandeur of a mage. Since this mage followed the bandits, it meant that he deserved to die. Removing the longbow from his back, Su yelled at the soldiers behind him to retreat, then he loaded feather arrows on the bow and fired into the distance.

Su had trained his archery back in the subcontinent plane. After following Saleen, he was lucky to have gotten some tips from Eleanor, thus improving his archery skills. His feather arrows covered a distance of over five-hundred yards in a flash, which had even exceeded the range of a steel crossbow.

That white-robed mage on horseback was enveloped by the bandits, so he was caught off guard by a feather arrow descending from the sky. In a moment of haste, he could only wield an Invisible Shield. A ring on his finger flared brightly, then he opened the Fire Ring of Resistance.

The Invisible Shield obviously could not block a feather arrow containing the Sword Aura, it cracked with a clap. As the feather arrow slanted, the Fire Ring of Resistance had already been lit up. The attack principle of the Fire Ring of Resistance was to burn the arrow, while its physical defense was similar to that of the Invisible Shield.

Su's feather arrows had been personally crafted by Saleen. Even though they were low level alchemical arrows, one Fire Ring of Resistance was not sufficient to destroy the arrowhead. The body of this arrow grazed past the left side of the mage's neck, just into the area where his arteries were.

Fresh blood spurted out, causing this mage to be petrified. He immediately cast a Freezing spell onto his own neck, freezing a large block of dark red blood. The mage then turned around and fled, clamping his hands around the warhorse's neck.

It would be strange for him not to escape. One arrow from the enemy could overcome two of his defensive spells, no matter how stupid this mage was, he could figure out the standard of his enemies.

Seeing that the white-robed mage was fleeing in shock, Su took out another three arrows and launched them. These three arrows landed on three bandits who were clad in exquisite armor. Despite these three bandits wearing beautiful armor, they died quickly.

Although the remaining bandits had elegant equipment, Su already lost the intention to harm them. Su alone could not massacre all the bandits. As the powerful force among the bandits had not emerged yet, he just wanted to bait them to chase him.

Su and Jola were different. Even though he was still young, he handled matters much more calmly than Jola. If Jola was to bait the enemy, he might even go to the enemy's main camp to massacre them and embarrass those he did not like. Even though Su already possessed the ability of a Silver Grand Swordmaster, he still followed Saleen's instructions earnestly.

It was very clear that Saleen did not only want him alone. If Su was the only one who could fight while the rest of the subordinates were slack, then Saleen's plan would be fruitless.

Saleen had allowed Su to come along to ensure the safety of those eleven soldiers.

After killing the three bandits who looked like the headmen, Su fled on horseback. His warhorse might not contain some noble bloodline, but it had been carefully selected. Its endurance and sprinting abilities were all above average. The enemies were more than five-hundred yards away, their bows were helpless against Su. Just like that, Su had abandoned a chaotic camp, escaping with eleven swordmasters.

The bandits at the rear were outraged. If Su had only wrecked one of their camps, they only had to reorganize and arrange their defensive measures, the big picture would not be affected. This person had attacked the men in the camp and burned five trebuchets.

Five trebuchets were destroyed, and it would be very difficult to purchase them again. On the other hand, if the bandits were to build the trebuchets themselves, they would waste a lot of time, and the trebuchets would be inaccurate and would no longer fire magic stone cannons.

Thus these bandits quickly gathered some horses and gave chase.

The soldiers in Cexing City had already given up hope since the enemy outnumbered them and possessed military-grade trebuchets, which could swiftly reopen the cracks in the city walls. These soldiers had already planned to die in battle. Out of the blue, there was a commotion outside the city, and the soldiers immediately discovered that the enemy's trebuchets had been set ablaze.

Judging by the color and shape of the flames, an experienced soldier would know that the flames were a result of magic fuel, there was no way of salvation. News of this spread, and cheers could be heard coming from the city.

The owner of Cexing City was a third class viscount. He already had the notion of committing suicide, but this abrupt change outside the city energized him instantly. Rations were aplenty in Cexing City, as long as the city walls were not broken, it would not be too difficult to assemble the farmers to act as guards. Someone outside had destroyed the trebuchets, so the bandits would surely allocate some manpower to deal with the threat, lowering the number of attacking forces. He would be able to manage the situation.

As long as he held out for a few days, reinforcements from Huoxing City would arrive. Since the bandits did not have any logistics support, they would naturally retreat by then.