As they were cowering behind the guards, the bandits started charging toward the caravan. The bandits’ leader led the charge and charged at the strongest guard of them all.
He knew that if the other bandits faced him, they would only be slaughtered. Sure that would give him time to kill everyone else, but a bandit group without members wasn’t very useful.
The 1st Circle Aura Knight Bandits were also very aggressive while the other bandits followed their lead with a little hesitation. They weren’t as strong, so they weren’t confident in a proper battle.
While they started charging at the caravan, a shadow swooshed past the bandits who were in the back. They were the weakest of the lot and didn’t even notice that something was happening behind them. The action in the front was distracting them.
A bandit who had started to charge from the back fell to the ground with a soft thud. Someone looked back to see if they heard something odd. They too suddenly fell to the ground. The shadow was incredibly quick and switched from bandit to bandit at lightning speed.
The 1st Circle Aura Knights had already started clashing blades with the guards, so they didn’t even realize what was happening behind their backs. By the time the bandits who had hesitated reached the caravan in the center, over ten members had fallen.
Leo quickly jumped to the nearest Apprentice Aura Knight he could find and precisely slashed his dagger. He was using the Twilight Veil Slash, so the only remnant of him was masked by the darkness. It was perfect that they were being attacked during the night because they couldn’t see Leo at all.
The guards were very surprised that they were holding out. They thought that they would be quickly overwhelmed by the number of bandits crowding them, but it felt like they weren’t as many bandits as they thought.
As they kept holding out and actively defending, it became easier and easier to hold back the bandits. It was like the number of bandits was magically decreasing.
After taking care of the outer circle of bandits, Leo had already moved to the bandits that were attacking the guards. He was thinning out the bandits who were actively attacking the guards. At this point, someone finally noticed something was wrong.
One of the 1st Circle Aura Knight Bandits quickly retreated because the support he was getting from the bandits who were supposed to be attacking along with him had decreased a lot. He was ready to shout at them and go for a second round, but what he saw shocked him.
There were three bandits laying on the ground with huge gashes on their backs. He quickly looked around and saw multiple bodies spread out in the bushes that they were just in before attacking the camp.
“Boss! Somethings wro-”
Before the sentence even finished, he dropped to the floor. A shadow breezed across him and moved to the next set of bandits. Meanwhile, the guard who had all the pressure lifted off him quickly killed the four Apprentice Aura Knights who were attacking him and quickly went to help the other guards.
He attacked the Apprentice Aura Knights attacking the guard closest to him from the back, dispatching them with ease. Meanwhile, Leo was going to help the head guard.
The Leader of the Bandits heard the shout from his underling but couldn’t properly understand what was being said. He only knew that he had been called. But if he shifted his attention during battle, it would be the end of him. So he kept concentrating on the battle.
In reality, the leader of the bandits was only an Early-Stage 2nd Circle Aura Knight. Realistically there was no way he could actually beat the head guard. However, the plan was to hold him off until they got to the center and got some hostages.
However, his plan was disrupted by a factor he didn’t expect. He heard a thud right beside him and shot an eye in that direction to catch a glimpse of what happened.
He saw one of the bandits who were supposed to be helping him pressure the head guard lay on the ground with blood guzzling out of his chest. He immediately looked back at the guard in time to defend a slash. The head guard was able to take the chance when the leader wasn’t paying attention and pushed him away.
In this time he quickly attacked one of the 1st Circle Aura Knights that was attacking him. The bandit fell in a single attack because of the force that he put into the slash. Meanwhile, the other 3rd Circle Aura Knight also fell mysteriously to the ground.
The entire camp was shrouded by darkness so the leader was infuriated that he had no idea what was going on. He was now facing the head guard alone and knew there was no way he was going to win. He turned away to run, but the head guard quickly blocked his exit route.
Meanwhile, Leo found his next target. Everyone else was struggling to see in the low light that the moon offered, but he could sense his target and know exactly how strong each person was. With his sneakiness added to the equation, he was essentially the perfect assassin.
He slowed his speed down significantly after he helped the head guard. This was because the number of 1st Circle Aura Knights had decreased by half by this point. The only people left facing the 9 Aura Knight guards were 5 1st Circle Aura Knights and 13 Apprentice Aura Knights. There wasn’t anyone left after the battle.
None of the guards had even been injured properly because of how quickly Leo had dealt with the situation.
Meanwhile, the onlookers were having the most unbelievable sight of their lives. They saw almost 50 people surround them and then watched all of them drop one by one like flies. Since they weren’t engaged in the battle, they could see everything clearly.
They even saw the 1st Circle Aura Knights fall to the floor as a shadow blurred past them. Since it was dark, they couldn’t distinguish who the shadow was. However, they saw the shadow reach the head guard and the leader of the bandits. Then they saw the sudden shift in the battle between the two because of the defeat of the three 1st Circle Aura Knights.
Finally, they saw how the guards easily cleared the rest of the bandits with ease while the head guard subdued the leader of the bandits. He kept him alive to let Joshua decide his fate. He brought the bandit to the center of the caravan while the rest of the guard also brought the surviving bandits who surrendered.
After watching their leader start fleeing, many of the bandits chose to flee, but Leo caught them before they could. When they saw the bandits running away fall to the ground, the rest of them surrendered.