Chapter 58 - Meeting Again
Translator: Eros
Is suffering from insomnia lately, don’t feel too good to translate.
On a wasteland located on the north of Suminastar.
On the side of the pavement road that leads to Rindieze Kingdom, a group of people can be seen camping.
The sun has set for a while and the only things that illuminate them are only the dim moon light from above and the light generated from their camp fire.
“Let’s go according to plan shall we. The front group will stall their guards while the sneaking group will surround and take over the horse cart. Until the sneaking group gives out the sign, don’t chase them too far okay?”
“It’s alright, no problem. We have more people here. This job will be just as easy as the job before”
Not far from the camp, there are a group of men wearing hood and armor set made of leather. They laugh silently as they discuss something that sounds dangerous.
There are already twenty of them lurking under the shadow of a boulder.
They are all waiting impatiently for their leader signal.
After a bit while, the man leading them in the front silently lift his hand. With only that signal, that group of people spread out to their planned position. Their movements are neat and organized. This group seems to be a well-trained one and it proven by how they managed to surround the campsite without taking much time.
It seems like there are only 3 people acting as the guard in the camp.
If one guard is to be surrounded by 3 people, then much less stalling, they can even finish the 3 guards quickly. And after they deal with the guards, they can steal the horse cart and all other valuables then the job for the night will be over.
That’s right, tonight job will be another easy one ---- as the bandit leader think so.
The guards noticed his underlings sneaking toward him and start fighting. When he affirms that, he gives the sign to surround the horse cart while he also jumps into action.
“Well, this is an orthodox strategy but to think it will work out so well”
But he immediately got thrown out by a sudden kick that is followed by an appalled voice.
“GUHA!?”
Seeing their leader suddenly tumbled over like that, his underlings around got stunned as their legs stop moving spontaneously.
But that moment of delay is proven to be fatal as hail of light bullets, ice bullets, and arrows suddenly shoot out from inside the horse cart aiming straight to those bandit underlings that had turned into a sitting duck target in that moment and pierce through them without them even realizing it.
“GYAA!”
“BOHE!”
“DOA!”
“HIGI!”
Amongst those who shriek out from pain, seems like there are some unlucky one who got hit on delicate places but anyway, around 10 bandit underling got immobilized in that instant.
The one who looks like the bandit leader can only sit there dumbfounded as his brain can’t follow what had just happened in front of his eyes which is something that totally different from what he had imagined before.
But it seems like he still have the nerve to regains his calm and he thinks of casting his magic to create chaos so he can create chances for him to slip out from this situation.
“Oops, no magic allowed now”
“GUHA!”
Renya who feels a fluctuation of magic on the bandit leader body conclude that he must’ve tried to form magic runes so he quickly come and kick him square in the chest to disturb his spell casting or whatever it was by not letting him concentrate.
The powerful impact seems like to penetrate the leather armor defensive power and made the bandit leader to have difficulty in breathing which in turn also made the constructed magic words got extinguished.
The bandit leader thinks hard for a solution but he seems to be already check-mated.
At that time, he finally realizes that the sound of steel hitting against each other had already stopped sounding.
He got roused up, it seems like there are still hope for him. The bandit leader then screams with all he had.
“O-Oi you guys! If you had finished there then quickly come here and save me!!”
Too bad for him, because his sight is obstructed by the horse cart, he can’t see the situation on the other side.
“Well then, did we have an obligation to save that bandit boss no matter what leader?” Arda walks up while looking at Greiz jokingly.
“Nope, not at all. It seems like his fear got the best of him and made him hallucinate or so” Greiz just follow along with Arda joke and gives out his logical opinion.
“What leader said sounds to be true, he is just someone who got baited by this kind of trap after all” and Darel just give the finisher to mock the bandit leader.
The bandit leader had made light of these warrior guild elites combat power and earned his just due.
And on that day, one bandit group got eliminated in just one night.
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What Renya proposes as the capturing strategy is actually quite simple.
From the information he heard about the bandit before, he knows that the bandit have a habit of constantly changing their base, it is clear that they are afraid of getting their tail tracked easily. Everyone could guess their hideout easily if they stay still in one place. After all, people could just guess it from the location of attacks and rough direction they come from. So Renya concluded that this group moves their base around while also executing their attacks.
If it was like that then this bandit group should be divided into two major groups no matter how big they are. The 1st group is the group that will do the attack while the 2nd group is responsible for their mobility.
There, Renya decided to lure the bandit group into a trap instead of chasing them around. His party and Greiz party will disguise as a trade caravan with the 3 from warrior guild acting as the guard and start traveling outside just like a normal merchant caravan that is doing its job trading to other city.
The bandit group that they chased attacks randomly without any significant pattern across the continent but most of the attacks seemingly to follow 1 similar pattern: and that is that each attack usually happened not too far from a city. From this Renya and the others roughly guess their current position and set a trap to catch the bandit group’s attack group.
And the result is perfect. They made the one bandit acting as the leader to spit out all the information about their meeting point and other related information. But unexpectedly, they don’t need to chase the mobile group as the mobile group is closing in by themselves to the camp. They must’ve thought that the attack group’s attack was a success and they move in to join them. But too bad for them, what awaits for them there was not their ally but instead a surprise attack. With that, Renya and his companion managed to capture more than 30 bandits just like that and take them to jail.
They suffered no damage.
The job that they accepted had been perfectly accomplished without any complain.
“WAHAHA! Just thinking about how smooth the strategy went, I just can’t stop laughing”
Arda’s mood is considerably good as he keeps on laughing. Well, it’s not like I don’t understand his feeling. After all we managed to finish the job without much receiving any damage and without having to spend much on the usual expense to do the job but still managed to land ourselves for the prize money which is not little either.
Adding to that, when Renya work out the plan, he said that because he planned to use surprise attack as the main point of his strategy, he asked Greiz team to only move out with other team that is familiar with each other to increase the success rate. But because there is no other team that is familiar enough with them, in the end, they do the mission with only the 8 of them.
Because of the scale of the mission, the one who issues the job, Tosminia Kingdom, also prepares a big reward because they also thought that this mission isn’t feasible with only a small number of people. But when they learnt of the fact that the job was accomplished by a team that had a far below number of member than what they had guessed before, it just surprised them greatly.
“Arda, I understand how you feel but calm down a bit. This time job finished with a great success is mostly thanks to Renya-dono’s party support. Self-conceit will only bring oneself doom you know?”
“Roger that leader. But I’m really surprised by your party member, boy. Seems like Darel’s judgment about your party not being normal hit the home”
“You can say that again Arda-san. With an offensive forward Renya-san as the center, there are the balanced all-arounder Floria-san, stable vanguard Elvira-san, and lastly, there are Brenda-san and Therese-san waiting in the back as rear support. Not only their team balance is superb, their individual ability is also first class. I can’t even find a hole in their party composition”
After not meeting them for a while, the trio from warrior guild is really surprised by how much Renya’s party has grown and they keep on praising them without holding back.
But everyone in the party doesn’t feel proud of it and act humble as usual. Even Renya is smiling awkwardly inside his heart.
(Well, what do you expect from a rule breaking god’s private party)
There are war god, a goddess, and a dragon in the party. And even if the other 2 member are just a normal human, they are still someone who manages to receive the war god divine protection no matter how small it is.
With that kind of lineup, finding a human who could stand up decently against them would be very difficult. After all, the previous mission still a big success even when they still holding back their true power. If they went all out, they might even win against a kingdom’s entire army so against those bandits small fry, this result can only be said as something natural.
“Anyway, we are grateful for Renya-dono’s support. It would be not wrong to say that we could managed to subjugate those bandits in this kind of smart way is all thanks to you guys”
“You are welcome but we would not be able to do the job by ourselves either. After all I’m the only man in my party. We don’t look dependable enough to receive such big quest which often resulted in us getting rejected from accepting the job. Thanks for letting us work together with your party too, Greiz-san”
“Indeed that is so. Not much people would believe you guys true ability only from the rumors. But because of this job, you might not have that much problem with that while still staying here in the future. Well, if there are indeed troubles then you can just come and visit the warrior guild for help. We will be staying here for a while so feel free to contact us. You can even leave messages for us in the guild”
“What will your group do next, Greiz-san?”
“We received reports about some dangerous aquatic monster creating their nest in the southern river. I assume that we will cooperate with the magician guild for this subjugation job”
“You guys really are in great demand nowadays”
“Well, we won’t complain as long as there are jobs for us. Well, because our next job has been decided we need to make preparation for it so until we meet again”
“Understood, good luck”
“Yeah. You guys too, good luck. When we have free time let’s meet again”
After saying their goodbye, Greiz party left.
When their figure swallowed down by the flood of people around and gone from sight, Renya do a quick stretch then turns back looking at the girls.
“Well then, we managed to get a jackpot this time so what should we do next?”
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