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The next day.

Leaving Sealing for the King's Capital.

The carriage is still surrounded by knights, accompanied by me. However, Illis was there to accompany him today.

I'm asking Sylvia and the others to run errands.

All party members are moving.

"Master Keith."

"What's up?

One knight on a horse approaches the carriage for a report.

He's a knight who was in the scouts to see what's going on up ahead.

"We have a group of people waiting to be considered bandits ahead of us. It is a presence that makes every effort to eliminate it, but I would like to bypass it if I consider safety because of the large number of opponents..."

The street is the main road.

Moreover, it seems that the bandits are ambushing in the right woods with a river to the left, which is also difficult to bypass on carriage trips.

"No problem. Keep going."

"Ha."

I have no intention of bypassing Count Alistair from the beginning.

That's why I didn't do anything to stop the carriage even while I was getting the report.

The knights were also prepared to hear beforehand that there might be bandits. Still, he knew the size of his opponent and was intensifying his tension.

"Well, let me take a look at you."

Count Alistair looks here.

Let me guarantee the Count's safety more than I am taking on a request for escort. But I'm going to leave it to the knights to move in the main. They have their pride, too. No matter how many famous local adventurers I was, I can't allow myself to leave everything to the adventurer.

Leave the left side of the carriage to Illis to follow on the right.

After a while I saw the forest approaching and realized there were a number of signs of lurking.

If my sensing skills aren't wrong, there are quite a few of them for bandits.

"Whoa, let's get you to stop"

"Who is it!?

A wary knight screams at the beginning.

Then the men who seem to be bandits come out of the woods with zorros.

Stuck in the street with a sword in his hands in a miserable outfit.

"This carriage is Count Alistair's carriage!

It would be a crime of disrespect not to give way in front of noble carriages, even if they were not bandits and civilians.

But there's no way to retreat to the men with the invincible grin.

At this point, the knights decided they were bandits. And no matter if there's any mistake, I won't cover it easily. That's all aristocratic power is strong.

"I'm sorry, but it's my job. I want you to die."

"You think bandit style can beat knights?

"The knights are strong indeed. But how about this difference in numbers?

Bandits still coming out with zorros.

It was when about a hundred people came out that I finally finished coming out.

Ten times the power difference. Indeed, even a trained knight is difficult to deal with a hundred for ten.

"It's not like this yet."

See the rear of a bandit passing a carriage.

The river on the left is crossed by a bridge and there are signs of people from a large warehouse beside it.

There are imminent men on horseback trying to follow the woods on the right.

Block the front with a large number of people and hunt them down with separate moving teams approaching from left to right. This was the way the bandit group did it.

"Come on, what do we do? Even so, you're not going to let them get away with it unlike any other prey. We're all gonna end this together."

"No problem. If you really think you can handle this difference in power, I'll just remind you of the knight's power."

A knight declares as he pulls his sword out of his sheath.

The other escort knights set up their swords in a frightened manner.

"Oh, you know what we can do."

A knight who was wary of the rear turns his consciousness from behind to a bandit on an approaching horse.

"To?"

But the bandit who was ahead with his eyes turned fell off his horse.

I almost doubt horseback riding technology if one or two fell, but they all fell at the same time.

Obviously something happened.

"Hey, what?

Bandits blocking the front are also confused.

The fallen bandits are largely unable to rise from the shock of falling horses. Still, there are those who are about to get up.

"Damn... what the hell was that? The shake now... eh!

"Yes, I've fainted a lot."

Bandits pass out at the shock that hits them from behind.

Other bandits who were about to get up are similarly fainting.

The killer is Sylvia. When he approached his back without anyone noticing, he slapped him from behind and stunned him.

"Is that all you need?

The eyes of the leading knight are directed towards the river.

Bandits coming out of the warehouse. There are fifty.

But they had stopped moving where everyone was out of the warehouse. Correctly, I couldn't move.

"Gu, ugh..."

"Body, but funny......!

The bandits were unable to move their bodies forward by the gravity pressing them from the top. Magic is forcing the gravity of the space where the bandits are.

A red-haired woman approaches there.

"Well, I'll get rid of these guys, too."

"Please. Keep the movement sealed, so it's easy."

"Mm-hmm."

A red-haired woman - Ira slashes a bandit's leg.

The slaughtered bandits are pushed to the ground, unable to withstand gravity either.

"Ko, this..."

"Well, it looks like you're enduring only one."

One of the bandits who was running the lead turned as he withstood gravity.

"Temeye......! How come it's flat out!?

Magic is interfering against space.

Ira, who is trying to sew between the bandits and slashing them, should also be under the influence of gravity, but she doesn't look under the influence of magic because of how flat she is.

"What are you talking about? That's not a problem."

Even if the load was hanging enough to make it impossible to move slightly, it is not enough to affect the Ira.

A bandit reaches for the knife in a slow motion.

But by then, Ira's already circling back.

"Ha!

"Don't worry. Everybody, we're just going to disable it."

In each case, after stopping the movement, it causes injury to the wound so that it cannot move.

I'm doing this to make sure I catch everyone.

"The reinforcements I was hoping for aren't coming."

"Damn......!

Bandits who were confronted with knights irritate me.

The bandits behind us are frightened by the sight of the reinforcements being quickly rendered powerless.

"Ha, it's a big mistake if you think it's over to that extent. We're still on our side."

The bandit group will be hundreds in size if we put them all together.

Attacking with such an adult count would also make less profit. For this reason, there is usually a misappropriation of information, which is to be raided only by the required number of people. But our collaborators have asked us all to participate in today's raid.

The collaborators, of course, are about Baron Sealing.

The plan is to make Count Alistair a deceased here.

"Ha, you've done the most you shouldn't have done"

There was still room for discretion. Perhaps when I apologized from myself because I was cooperating because of circumstances that I had to stop, depending on the content, I was going to forgive.

But I don't condone it when it comes to tough measures.

"Catch him alive whenever possible. All of them, precious witnesses!

Copy that!

The knight slashes at the same time.

"Bastards! Show the knights the power of numbers!

"Oops!!

The bandits go to the knights to strength the number of their own.

The bandits who had hidden in the warehouse and planned to carry out raids with horses from behind were rendered powerless. But expect them to storm because they should still be lurking in the plans.

In this situation, escape is unacceptable.

Most importantly, if the latent bandit you're asking for was safe, there might have been a slight success rate.

But unfortunately, I'm stuck on a cliff with nothing but despair.