Chapter 31: Bandit Attack (Part 1)
Henry's eyes twitched when he saw the hotel bill. Everything was fine except the food bill, and when he asked about it, he finally found the culprit who ate the food of an entire football team.
"How the hell did he eat the food worth seven thousand credits?" Henry paid the bill with a bleeding heart while cursing Evan for being a Snorlax.
"Alright, let's go," Henry said to Evan and others after paying the bill and left the Four Seasons Hotel. While leaving, Henry was looking at Evan like he is his lifelong enemy. Evan already noticed this but ignored him because he was already aware of how costly his dinner was last night.
They all came near the city gate where Henry's driver was waiting for them. Just like previously, Evan and the other hunters sat down at the back of the van, and they all left Oklima City.
"Hey, did you do something wrong? I felt like Henry was looking at you strangely?" Dean asked Evan after they left the city.
Evan's mouth twitched when he heard this because he was aware of why Henry was looking at him like this, but for obvious reasons, he can't tell them about it.
"I don't know, maybe he is not feeling good," Evan said, making an ignorant face as if he didn't know anything.
When Dean heard Evan don't know anything, he shrugged his shoulders because he asked out of curiosity.
After six hours, the van suddenly stopped moving, and the driver activated the barrier of the van.
"There are some monsters in the way; we can't move forward before you guys clean them," Evan and the other hunters heard Henry's voice after the barrier of the van was activated.
They came out of the van and saw seven tiger-like monsters blocking their way. Three tigers were three meters tall, while four tigers were two meters tall, they had light yellow skin and black stripes all over their bodies, resembling the Bengal tiger.
"Three D-rank and four E-rank forest tigers," George said after seeing the monsters.
'Let's check out the power of this new baby,' Evan thought after taking out his Nether Steel Sword.
'Haste!' Even before George and others could react, Evan used haste skill and charged towards the tigers alone.
"Hey, wait for us!" Dean shouted, and he also dashed towards the tigers with James and George.
The agility of Evan after using haste was too fast for a D-rank monster, so even before any tiger could react, Evan came before an E-rank tiger and slashed horizontally without using mana.
Swish!
Like a hot knife passing through butter, the head of the E-rank tiger was severed cleanly.
'The fifty thousand credits that I spent on this sword were worth it,' Evan thought when he saw how even without using his mana, the sword easily severed the head of the tiger.
Roar!
The remaining six tigers roared when they saw how Evan killed one of the tigers.
Swish!
Suddenly, a green aura appeared around all D-rank tigers, and they charged toward him with far greater agility than a D-rank monster.
When Evan saw the green aura, he remembered George telling him at the beginning of their journey that the forest tigers are famous for their agility.
'They are fast for a D-rank hunters, but for me.. ,' Evan thought and without much effort, jumped back and avoided the attack of three D-rank tigers.
With his D-rank monarch core and E-rank prime core, his agility was already much higher than a D-rank hunter, and with the help of the haste skill, his agility was in a completely different league when compared to D-rank monsters.
Even before the D-rank tigers could react, George came from behind and slashed at the back of one of the tigers.
James and Dean went to take care of the three remaining E-rank forest tigers.
Roar!
The forest tiger roared in pain when a deep wound appeared on its back because of George's attack.
All three D-rank tigers looked back at George when he suddenly attacked them, but it was a fatal mistake because Evan, who was standing in front of them, didn't miss this chance.
In a blink of an eye, he appeared before a forest tiger using his haste skill and slashed at the head of the tiger. Surprisingly, the forest tiger reacted quickly and with a quick movement, jumped back.
Because of its quick reaction, Evan wasn't able to kill it in a single move, but a large wound still appeared on its left shoulder.
Roar!
The tiger roared in pain, and Evan was about to finish it off while it was still trying to recover from his attack when one of the D-rank tigers opened its mouth and shot a dark green wind blade towards him.
'Shit,' Evan cursed when he saw he did not have enough time to dodge the blade. He quickly used his Nether Steel Sword and slashed at the incoming blade while imbuing his mana in the sword.
The flow of mana was a lot smoother than his previous sword, and when the Nether Steel Sword, covered in a light blue layer of mana and a faint layer of darkness, clashed against the dark green blade, it destroyed the dark green blade without any problem.
After destroying the green blade, Evan came before the forest tiger who shot the green blade at him earlier and with a swift motion, beheaded it even before it could react.
After killing the tiger, Evan didn't stop and quickly charged towards the other D-rank tiger and in just ten seconds, he killed it.
George also didn't take long, and after a minute, he also killed the last D-rank tiger.
Soon, Dean and James also finished the three E-rank tigers without any problem.
"Let's look for cores and leave immediately," George said when he noticed other monsters would soon come here after smelling the blood.
But suddenly an arrow came out of nowhere and pierced the shoulder of George, and even before Evan and the others could react, three more arrows came towards them at lightning speed.
Chapter 32: Bandit Attack (Part 2)
Swish!
Evan heard the sound of an incoming arrow and, with sheer reflex, slashed with his sword in front of him.
Kachh!!
Evan's sword clashed against an arrow and cut it in two instantly. After cutting the arrow he quickly looked at Dean and James and saw that both of them were fine.
Dean was covered in earth armor, so the arrow wasn't able to pierce through it, and James also cut down the arrow using his spear before it could reach him.
"What the hell is going on?" Evan asked while looking around their surroundings.
Just as Evan asked, suddenly a light yellow barrier appeared around them.
"Damm! It's a trap barrier, it must be the work of bandits," George said while taking out the arrow from his shoulder.
"David, didn't I tell you the archery of this bastard is complete trash? Look, he wasn't even able to kill those trash hunters who were not aware of us," suddenly Evan and others heard a gruff voice and turned around.
When they looked behind them, they saw three men who were smiling like third-rate villains coming towards them. The man who just spoke was two meters tall, and his head was completely bald.
The man was holding a light yellow crystal that looked strangely similar to the color of the barrier in which they were trapped.
"Whose archery is trash, you bald head? All of them are D-rank hunters, and I even managed to wound one of them," a short man who was holding a bow rebutted when he heard what the bald man said.
"Hey, David, I don't think we need this bald head who just activates the trap barrier whenever we rob someone. We can do this on our own, why don't we just kick him out from our group?" Oliver, the short archer, said.
"Stop fighting and get back to work," David, the leader, said in a cold tone, and both Oliver and Drew shut their mouths.
Evan looked at the bandits with cold eyes because if he hadn't reacted on time earlier, the arrow would have pierced his head. He was sure that even with his current strength, it would have been very difficult for him to survive from that kind of injury.
Among the bandits, Oliver and Drew were D-rank, while David was D+ rank.
Evan came near the barrier and touched it. "Shit!" but just as he touched the barrier, he felt a electric shock and quickly removed his hand.
"It's not going to work. We can't go out before the energy of the trap is exhausted, or they remove it using the controller," Evan heard Dean's voice who was looking at the bandits with grim expressions.
"Quickly, turn back and move towards Oklima City." When Henry saw how Evan and others were trapped in a barrier by bandits, he decided to ditch them without hesitation because he knew there is nothing he can do to save them and he would die meaninglessly if he did not run away.
Just as the driver started the van to run away, Drew, the bald man, took out a strange black device and pointed it towards the van.
After pointing the device at the van, he clicked the only red button available on the device, and suddenly the barrier that was surrounding the van disappeared, and its engine also shut down.
"Do they think we are stupid?" Drew said while looking at the van with mocking expressions.
"What happened?" Henry asked in a panicked voice when the engine of the van suddenly shut down, and the barrier disappeared.
"The engine is not working," the driver said in panic.
"Oliver, bring them here," David said to the archer after Drew shut down the barrier of the van.
"You bastard, remove this barrier and fight with me head-on," George shouted at the bandits while holding his shoulder that stopped bleeding after he drank a healing potion.
"Are you stupid? We trapped you inside because we wanted to rob without a problem. Do you think we will remove the barrier just because you asked?" Oliver, the short archer, said with a sneer and went towards the van.
"Don't worry; we will remove the barrier soon. After all, it cost us too much energy to maintain it," Drew said with a sinister smile. When Evan and others saw his smile, an ominous feeling bloomed in their hearts.
"But I don't think you guys will be able to see us remove this barrier," Drew took out a small bottle filled with dark green liquid.
"Poison of the swamp python," James said with a dark look on his face when he saw the dark green liquid.
"Oh, you know about this?" Drew said in surprise when James recognized the poison. "Then you should also know what I am going to do."
"What kind of poison is that?" Dean asked James since he didn't know about it.
"The poison of the swamp python will turn into gas as soon as it comes into contact with air. If he throws that bottle inside this barrier, the air around us will become poisonous, and we will die," James said in a despair-filled voice because there is no way they will survive if the air around them becomes poisonous.
"They will have to remove the barrier if they want to throw that bottle inside. Can't we go out at that moment?" George asked when he heard this.
"I don't think they need to remove this barrier. If my guess is correct, anyone can come inside the barrier from outside, but you can't go outside after entering the barrier," this time Dean answered with a helpless voice.
"Please let us go; we don't have anything. You can check our van," Henry said while pleading when Oliver brought him.
"We already know your van is empty, but I don't think your bank account is also empty. Just transfer two million credits into this bank account, and you can go," David said while showing a bank account number.
Henry's face turned white when he heard this and he said, "I am just a normal merchant; how can I have two million credits in my bank account?"
"Do you think we are fools? Just by looking at your van, I can tell that you are not an ordinary merchant," David said in a cold voice after hearing Henry.
When Henry heard the cold voice of David, a chill ran down his spine, and he looked at Evan and the other hunters who were still trapped in the barrier.
"Drew, kill them," David said when he saw Henry was looking at Evan and the other hunters.
When Drew heard this, he smiled sinisterly and looked at Evan and others.
"Wait, I will transfer the money; don't kill them," Henry shouted when he heard what David said because if Evan and the other hunters died, there is no way he would be able to safely reach Astrate City.
"Do it fast; my patience is limited," David said with an indifferent voice and showed the bank account number to Henry.
"Ahrghh!" Suddenly, David heard the scream of Drew and quickly looked back.
When David looked back, he saw one of the hunters who were trapped inside the barrier was looking at him coldly while his sword was plunged into the heart of Drew.
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