Chapter 2: Group of Bandits
Everyone sat silently next to the campfire. Atmosphere was awkward as everyone was eyeing the man who stopped their leaders powerful attack with bare hands. Some were shaking heads that there is no way someone like him could stop their leaders attack like that, leader must have gone easy on him or otherwise he would not be sitting next to us.
The leader of the adventurers decided to end the silence by asking ''So what's your name? My name is Rico, the guy next to you is called Bull, the cute girl next to Bull is called Sofia, the person next to Sofia is called Gerald and the mean looking fellow next to me is called Leroy.''. Each of the adventurer's nodded when their name was said.
The man stared at the adventurers and started to smile ''My name is Nerobartametosulkandal, nice you meet you all.''. Everyone stared at him trying their best to not laugh.
''Nerobarta-ta-tame-tos... How about if we just call you Nero?'' Rico said after trying his best to pronounce his name. ''Nero? I like it, it's short and simple.''. Nero answered.
''So you wanted to get into the city of Nabarel? I have never heard of such a city before, is Nabarel the name you use in the language you spoke earlier?'' Rico asked.
''Nabarel is the largest city known to a mankind which is ruled by 4 kings, king of north, king of south, king of west and the king of east.'' Nero answered while receiving a cup of coffee from Sofia.
''We are from the city of Yowald, it is known as the largest city in the world. However, i have never heard of a city that is ruled by 4 kings, could it be that you meant city of Yowald?'' Rico asked while scratching his head.
''If it is the largest city, then yes. I would appreciate it very much if you could take me there.'' Nero said while sipping a cup of coffee. ''Sorry kid, we have come too far now to just turn back empty handed, one of our members already got killed while we were trying to get here.'' Once Rico said that, the expression on adventurers faces turned sad.
The awkward silence returned, everyone were staring at the campfire gritting their teeth's together out of frustration. Nero did not feel asking about their dead friend, as he noticed how touchy subject it was among them.
He stood up and started to chant some type of spell when suddenly valuable looking artefacts started to appear out of nowhere ''If you take me to the city, i let you have these.'' Nero said.
Adventurers went into a shock after seeing such expensive looking artefacts laying on ground.
''How did you do that? I have never seen anything like this and these artefacts looks really valuable.'' Rico said in a shock.
''What kind of spell was that? I have never heard of items popping out of nowhere!'' Sofia asked who was the magician in their group while inspecting a wand that had appeared on to the ground. ''Some of these items seems to be legend rank quality!'' Said Gerald who was holding one of the swords from the pile.
Nero looked surprised of the reactions he received from the adventurers ''The spell i used was dimensional magic which is used to store items, it's a simple spell. And the items were just some junk that was laying around.''
Adventurers became even more shocked after hearing Nero ''Simple spell? Just some junk?''.
''Where the hell are you from?'' Leroy asked while holding multiple items on his arms.
''I'm from Nabarel, i don't know how i ended up here though. The last thing i remember was a fight i had with one powerful witch at some dungeon, i almost won but suddenly she cast a curse on me... Can you believe that? I thought i was a goner, but suddenly i woke up butt naked in a pit filled with shadow people and here i am.'' Nero said with a carefree attitude.
''We just came from there, the place seemed like nobody had set foot in there for thousands of years and the pit definitely did not have people in it when we looked.'' Sofia said.
''I was shocked as well to find myself in such a place... That witch must have used some type of teleportation curse. Usually if someone get's cast with a curse, they become disfigured, but the curse must have been a weak one which she used to teleport me away from her so she could escape.'' Nero tried to rationalize.
Suddenly a voice behind the tree line said ''Well, would you look at that? They actually found something in this god forsaken place.'' Group of 30 bandits were standing there with evil grins on their faces.
Adventurers quickly gathered together getting ready for a battle. ''You followed us all the way here?''
Rico yelled at the bandits.
Bandit leader stepped forward holding a severed head on his hand and throwing it at the adventurers feet. ''We couldn't leave your friend behind, could we?''
Expression on all adventurers face turned into rage when they saw their friends severed head rolling to their feet. Rico, Bull and Gerald all used power boosting enchants and launched with full force against the bandits, while Sofia started to charge her mightiest spell which caused the ground tremble beneath them. Leroy who was the bowman of the adventurers released barrage of arrows flying towards the bandits.
''Woah, what kind of thank you this is?'' Said the leader of bandits who threw the severed head at them while blocking the first strike from Rico. Bull who was the tank of the adventurers charged with full force trough the bandits knocking couple of them to the ground while Gerald who was also a swordsman sliced couple of the bandits open. Sofia's charged spell was a massive lighting strike which concentrated to area with most bandits, however 2 of the bandits were magicians who cast defensive spell which reflected Sofia's spell back at her barely allowing her to dodge it.
Leroy's barrage of arrows managed to hit the bandits which were knocked down by Bull, but the rest managed to dodge the arrows. To normal eyes the battle seemed intense but to Nero the fight looked like bunch of kids fighting with sticks and throwing rocks at each other.
Soon all the adventurers were out of breath breathing heavily while the bandits had managed to surround them. ''Any last wishes before we let you join your friend?'' Asked the leader of the bandits.
Out of desperation the adventurers tried to muster last ounces of their strength to break free from the surrounding bandits, but they failed. ''Enjoy the afterlife'' Said the leader of the bandits and gave the command to bandits to slaughter them all.
Before bandits managed to land any fatal hits on to the adventurers, a sudden burst of force swept trough the bandits sending them flying. ''I can't let you hurt my new friends.'' Said Nero who had sent the bandits flying with his bare hands. Bandits flew into a nice pile leaving them unconscious.
Adventurers could not believe their eyes what just happened while Nero crossed his hands behind his head saying ''What a bunch of weaklings, are you guys okay?''.
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