Chapter 131 Journey to the wasteland 4 (1/2)
in a forest 2 days travel from Marlton a group of bandits were camping out, the group consisted of close to 50 mercenaries turned bandits, most of them were around silver rank when they turned to banditry, as for the reason it was simple at sliver, which was the 3rd rank from the bottom the death rate in mercenaries spikes this is because of most requests turn more dangerous the higher the rank. Silver is considered the first 'filter' in the mercenaries world as was every 3rd rank after silver. The group of bandits were part of the 'lower' silver rank and were unified by a former gold rank merc, Now the problem with killing former-merc bandits were that while they were bandits they were also former merc's so they still had their training and they also posted sentries and generally kept alert, they also didn't use drugs too often, one would not find themselves in a situation were an entire group of former merc bandit were drunk and unable to fight as would normally happen with normal bandits so they were generally harder to kill then regular run of the mill bandits
”anything unusual happen?”
”well there was this one thing...”
like clockwork the sentries were switched one by one, the sentries that just got off duty gathered around the campfire and talked
”you don't mean you saw it too?”
”what are you guys talking about?”
””a wisp””
”really?”
”yeah it was this pair of blue orbs that floated in the air shortly before disappearing again”
”isn't it just a wild animal?”
”with blue eyes?”
”....I see your point but still, my guess is it's just some sort of animal or magic beast”
”might be...”
”what are you guys talking about?”
”oh, boss”
”boss hear this, these guys say they saw a wisp”
the bald boss gave a frown and mumbled
”a wisp?”
the underlings kept quiet as they could see their boss was thinking, after some time the boss' eyes lit up and he pointed at two of his underlings
”you and you go check up on the sentries”
”sure boss, but why?”
”because we might be under attack”
”okay boss we'll go right now!”
the two underlings ran off meanwhile the boss commanded some of his other underlings to wake the ones that were sleeping, all this were reflected in a pair of blue cat eyes that watched from nearby...
the attack the bandits were expecting never came but when they dropped their guard a few hours later the sentries were silently taken out, one of them managed to see a flash of a elf before he was stabbed in the neck with a sword, while another was stabbed in the heart from behind with a dagger and a third was was hit with a darkness glue ball in the face and suffocated while rolling around on the ground, but alas soon someone discovered they were under attack and yelled out before a arrow stuck his heart
”dammit, I was just a little late...”
Chloe lowered her bow with a sour look on her face it wasn't until Mars patted her on the shoulder that her face lit up again
”don't mind it Chloe we have them on the back foot.... Victoria go ahead and run wild”
”okay...”
as soon as Victoria answered she disappeared almost like she melted into the shadows around her
”WHO DARES TO ATTACK MY TROOPS!”
”oh and there's the boss, I'll be right back”
Mars drew his sword right before he disappeared from view then the boss' head was sent flying and Mars reappeared again
”and that's that... let's clean up the rest”
”the boss is dead!”
”run for it!”
the remaining bandits scattered like bugs in sunlight and was easily cleaned up by the rest of the group, Varvei walked over to Mars, she was wearing some leather armor and carried her long spear over her shoulder
”well that was easy... Thanks to you Mars”
”i only did my part”
Jack also walked over he was wearing his half plate armor and had a large grin on his face
”Mars you are even faster then last time we sparred”
Mars gave a smile
”of cause I have been training”
the request was over in just 5 days, 4 days for travel and just one day for locating and destroying the bandit group
”the completion of the request have been confirmed, congratulations Mars you have ranked up to silver”
”thank you”
the girls also ranked up to steel and the group headed over to the local restaurant to celebrate, the usual private room was a little cramped but in a good way, the celebration lasted long into the night and like last time it ended with Mars carrying Jack that was blackout drunk
”sorry for the trouble Mars”
”I don't mind Lina, besides I can't make you carry him by yourself”
Mars cheeked Jack to see if he really was asleep by poking his nose a couple of times before he asked Lina