Saifei'er ran towards the direction of the sound, keeping her body low and not taking the main road, but nimbly weaving through the trees.
Soon, a dozen or so menacing-looking men, armed with machetes, appeared in her sight.
These men were heading towards the carriage, clearly with ill intentions.
Seeing this, she quickly turned back and returned to the moving carriage.
Waving her hand, she said, "Someone is approaching here!"
Upon hearing this, the guards driving the carriage slowly brought it to a halt, and everyone adopted a vigilant expression.
However, Saifei'er noticed that Ailiya and the other adventurers were poised for battle, ready for a fight.
But the two guards, one driving the carriage and the other on horseback, showed expressions of terror, as if they were afraid of something.
At this moment, the employer, Pick, from inside the carriage, spoke with a trembling voice, "Is...is it a Black Knight clad entirely in black armor?"
However, Saifei'er shook her head, "No, they should be a group of bandits."
Hearing this, Pick let out a huge sigh of relief, muttering softly, "That's good...that's good..."
The cat ears on Saifei'er's head twitched, hearing everything clearly.
It seemed that the so-called 'Black Knight' was the reason this employer had spent a fortune hiring adventurers to protect himself.
Was he an enemy?
A moment later, the dozen or so bandits encountered the carriage.
Upon seeing the adventurers already prepared for battle, they couldn't help but show surprised expressions.
However, a burly bandit with three scars on his face stepped forward, seemingly the leader of the group.
He said loudly, "No need for extra words.
Hand over all your valuables, and I might let you go! Otherwise..."
However, his only response was the sound of a longsword being drawn.
Ailiya stood directly in front of the carriage, staring seriously at the enemies before her.
Before this, Ailiya had always appeared somewhat dazed and adorable, and this was the first time Saifei'er had seen her serious expression.
Then, Saifei'er looked at the longsword in Ailiya's hand.
This sword had a light golden hilt, and intricate, ornate gold patterns could be seen on its blade.
This reminded her of what Ailiya had said about pulling out the stone sword from the village.
So this was that 'stone sword'?
It certainly looked very powerful.
Douglas and the female warrior from another adventurer team also stood side by side with Ailiya.
Seeing this, the bandit leader smiled, "It seems you are refusing my offer?
Then...brothers, get your weapons!"
In terms of numbers, the bandits definitely had the advantage.
They even subtly formed a surrounding formation, encircling the carriage.
The bandit leader placed his hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist.
He grinned, and the already ferocious scars on his face wriggled like centipedes.
Then he let out a loud roar and charged towards Ailiya, who was closest to him.
On one side was a burly man with a menacing face, and on the other was a slender young girl.
This scene looked exactly like the bandit bullying an innocent girl.
Seeing this, Saifei'er hesitated for a moment, then spread her legs, leaned her body forward, and adopted a starting-line posture.
Streaks of golden electric light also appeared around her.
Visibly, in Saifei'er's perception, everyone, and even this world, gradually slowed down.
The leaves that were originally falling in the air slowly froze in mid-air, and the charging bandit leader also stopped in place, maintaining that ferocious expression, like a sculpture.
In reality, it wasn't that the surrounding time slowed down, but that Saifei'er sped up—incomparably fast!
In the game's plot, by tossing the 【Flipping Coin】 high, the demigod of trickery, 'Saifei'er,' would gain unparalleled Godspeed.
And three days ago, she had already experimented with this ability.
A Flipping Coin hung around her neck.
She had tried tossing this coin, but nothing happened.
In subsequent continuous attempts, she discovered that she didn't actually need to toss the coin.
As long as she concentrated and wanted to activate the Godspeed ability in her mind, she could activate 'Godspeed'.
Although she didn't know why this was happening, it wasn't important.
What was important was that this superpower was really cool!
It was like the Godspeed of the Flash!
In these past few days, since she spent most of her time on lookout and was very bored, she had been continuously familiarizing herself with her body and training her abilities.
Now, she could almost control it at will.
It must be said that human adaptability is truly strong.
It had only been a few days since she became 'Saifei'er', and now she was completely accustomed to this body.
Even the tail behind her could be controlled freely, as if she was born this way.
Saifei'er cut into the side of the battlefield and instantly arrived beside the bandit leader.
She extended her right index finger, gently pushed away his right hand gripping the knife hilt, then drew the knife from its sheath, and then turned and left the battlefield.
She didn't do much; she merely 'stole' the leader's weapon.
"I spent all that time practicing finger dexterity before, but stealing things is this simple?" she muttered to herself.
Saifei'er returned to her previous position, casually tossed the weapon in her hand, and then deactivated 'Godspeed'.
If Saifei'er's speed was already very, very fast before activating 'Godspeed'—to the extent that others could only see her afterimage—then after using Godspeed, others couldn't even see her afterimage.
No one on the battlefield noticed that a 'little cat' had just strolled around in front of them.
The bandit leader was still grinning, and he suddenly swung his right hand, 'chopping' towards Ailiya in front of him.
Then, he realized that the sensation felt a bit off.
But it was too late.
Ailiya raised her 'stone sword' high and shouted, "Holy Strike!"
Immediately, a dazzling light appeared on her sword.
It should have been a clash of blades, but the bandit leader's weapon vanished into thin air, causing Ailiya's strike to land squarely on the bandit leader's body.
A surging torrent of magic directly tore a huge gash in the bandit leader's body, almost cutting him in half at the waist.
Accompanied by a roar, the bandit leader flew backward like a piece of rag, even knocking over several of his subordinates behind him.
As for himself, he was as dead as could be the moment Ailiya struck him.
This was a Holy Knight; despite having no magic of their own, they could release various 'spells' through their vows, and this only required consuming some stamina.
