114 Journey to the Border Town (1/2)

Yale started his travel towards border town with the soldier squad some minutes after the sparring.

As the captain had taken some liking to Yale since he discovered that it was at the expert stage in swordsmanship, the captain sparred with him every time they stopped the carriage.

The captain wouldn't be able to learn anything from sparring with Yale, but Yale was still better with the sword than all the other soldiers, so it was the best opponent to practice.

Of course, the others had a better battle prowess because they supply their lack of technique with raw power as they were in a higher realm than Yale, but comparing pure swordsmanship, they were only at the Apprentice stage, so Yale surpassed them easily.

Yale couldn't improve his swordsmanship at his current realm, but he was trying to develop new skills that suited himself, so the sparring with the captain was something he needed as it was an excellent practical experience.

Yale felt that the captain swordsmanship was incredible, but it still lost to Swordmad's by a huge margin. However, Swordmad wasn't there to train with him, so the captain was the best choice.

They didn't meet any problem in their first month of travel, having a Rank 4 with them, it would be strange if ordinary bandits dared to attack them.

However, that only applied to human bandits as there wasn't any Rank 4 human bandit in the area, anyone that strong didn't need to be a bandit.

That didn't apply to half-beast bandits who were moved by their hatred to humans and delighted killing them, stealing their belongings was secondary.

Before the end of the second month, the captain sighed.

”We really have bad luck.”

The captain a group of bandits nearing them from far away with his Spiritual Sense, but there was no way to avoid them since the bandits knew the area better than them and they were starting to surround them.

The group would meet with the bandits disregarding the path they would follow, flee wasn't an option.

The captain led the group into a small corridor between two cliffs; he had detected fifty half-beasts bandits, so choosing a narrow place that blocked left and right would avoid that the half-beasts used all their numeric superiority and completely surrounded them.

The group stopped and waited for the bandits; since there was no way to avoid them it was better to get ready for battle instead of being assaulted while moving.

The captain's Spiritual Sense was too strong, so they needed to wait a bit before the bandits appeared.

As the captain had detected, the bandits were fifty, and they were strong, their leader was also at the Rank 4, and there were twenty Rank 3 followers. The others were only at Rank 2, but that was enough to threaten Yale's life.

They were a famous bandit group formed by half-beasts who hated humans and had enormous bounties for their heads.

Initially, the information in the city reported sightings of that bandit group as they were in another area and there wasn't any chance of clashing with them. The only reason for the bandit group moving all their forces and changing their way to assault them was that someone betrayed them.

The drunk man who got fired after the incident with Yale had sold the information to a half-beast spy for a great amount of money. In fact, after getting fired, he had sold a lot of confidential information to bandit groups and not only the information about Yale's group.

Yale had secretly put Wyba in his Storage Space; he wouldn't risk to put her in danger. Everyone else thought that Yale had left her inside the carriage.

”Young master, this fight will be difficult, they have their best members here and surpass us in number.”

The captain was worried by Yale; all the enemies were far stronger than him, being skilled with the sword wouldn't save him.

”Don't worry for me and focus on the battle.”

Yale didn't fear for his life; in any case, the forbidden skill will activate saving his life, although he hoped to didn't need to reach that point.

Seeing that Yale was calm, the captain relaxed thinking that Yale should have some trump card to survive in a desperate situation.