Published at 20th of November 2020 09:24:59 PM
Chapter 19.1: 19.1
Translator: SFBaka
「It’s now morning . Please wake up . 」
“Alright, I’m gonna do my best today as well!”
Twenty days have passed since we left from Talas village . We haven’t encountered much trouble during the trip so far . We were, however, assaulted quite a number of times by monsters .
We were attacked by Gray Hounds twice . We also got assaulted by those green-skinned, midget humanoid creatures . It seems like they were called Goblins . Six of them appeared before us and attacked us while crying out *gukyaa, gukyaa as usual . They seemed to be much less of a threat than Gray Hounds . I used them as target practice for my homing Flame Arrow spell and finished them off all at once .
We also passed by two other villages along the way . Because Beck was acquainted with them, we were warmly welcomed . They seem to be of the same scale as Talas village .
We passed by many byroads and encountered many other travelers along the way . They were mostly merchants and adventurers .
According to Cleria and Beck, an adventurer is a profession that undertakes jobs like pest extermination, gathering raw materials and serving as mercenary troops . I don’t really think those things have much to do with having an adventure, but they’re called adventurers for some reason anyway .
Adventurers have a ranking system, and high ranking individuals were apparently highly respected people . It might be a good idea to become an adventurer if I ever had problems putting food on the table in the future .
Beck and the others have also woken up .
“Good morning . Master, Alan-san . ”
Beck and Thor have come to address Cleria as ‘Master’ . Looks like Cleria doesn’t dislike how the two of them are addressing her either .
“Good morning . ”
Beck and Thor’s sword skills have been steadily improving day by day . However, even if they’ve been getting in at least two hours of sword practice every day, they still aren’t able to take on two goblins at the same time . Obviously, fighting a Gray Hound would be a tall order for the two .
I and Cleria have been teaching them how to properly fight a Big Boar if they managed to encounter one recently .
However, since the two of them didn’t have their own swords, I hope we’ll be able to purchase some once we arrive in the city . It seems we’ve managed to get along quite well with Beck and Thor these past few days of traveling together . But just how much does a sword cost, I wonder . Let me try asking Cleria later .
We went on the road once more after having breakfast . According to Beck, we should be able to reach Gotania this evening, so I’m really looking forward to it .
Five hours after our departure, just a bit more before lunch, I managed to detect a reaction from my scans . This signature was definitely that of a human . A fellow traveler, perhaps? The signature was stationary .
When we got until 200 meters from the target and would finally get it in visual range, that person suddenly made a move and headed away from our carriage .
I wonder what’s up? I changed the detection target from small animals to humans and tried to scan once more . The detection range would expand if I set the target to larger objects .
Finally, I managed to get twelve human signatures 1500 meters out . The person from before was apparently heading towards that group of twelve .
Umu, how suspicious . Looks like the person from earlier was coming back to the group in order to report about us . Looks like these guys were bandits that Zack warned me about .
“Ria, I detected at least thirteen people 1500 meters away from us . They’re probably bandits . ”
“Eh!? You can actually detect them from that far out?”
Oh yeah . I haven’t told her much about my scanning magic, have I?
“Yeah, I can tell . What are we going to do about them?”
“Well, we certainly can’t turn back the way we came . Alan and I should be able to take on those thirteen people . ”
Well, she’s right . Handling them wouldn’t be a problem if we used magic, and we’d definitely win once I used my rifle .
“Well, it’s not like I’ve fully confirmed them to be bandits . But is it okay for us to kill bandits just like that?”
It does feel kind of bad for some reason .
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“Why not? They’re all villains anyway . ”
Un, seems like it was a mistake to ask Cleria after all .
“Beck! Stop the carriage!”
We told Beck about the suspected bandits ahead . Beck and Thor fell into quite a panic afterward .
“Hey, is it okay for us to kill the bandits? It won’t cause us any trouble later?”
“No, no, Alan-san! There are thirteen of them, right!? I don’t know how exactly you managed to get their number, but you can’t possibly take on thirteen bandits all at once!”
“Nah, we’ll probably be okay y’know . More like, if those guys don’t have mages at least on par or greater than Ria and I, we’ll certainly win . ”
“Huh!? Well, I’ve also seen mage adventurers before, but I haven’t met anyone stronger than Alan-san or Master . But there’s thirteen of them y’know? Can you really win?”
“Yup, we can . So there’s no problem if we kill all those bandits, right?”
“Un, that’s true . And as long as there are witnesses, we won’t be charged with any crime after killing bandits . ” But I also heard that we’ll get rewards if we manage to turn the bandits in alive . ”
“I see . So it’ll earn us some money, huh?”
We truly need more money . Looks like we can’t kill them after all . I wonder how much we’ll get per person .
Beck started to panic again when I started to consider capturing the bandits .
“Hey, are you guys really going to fight them?”
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“It’ll be fine . Trust in your Master . We’ll get the people back at the village some souvenirs with the reward money . ”
“Let’s do this Beck! Master and Alan-san will surely be fine . ”
Looks like we managed to persuade Thor by mentioning souvenirs huh .
“Un… I understand . Let’s do this!”
“It’ll be alright . I promised Zack after all . I’ll protect you guys at all costs . ”
We’ve decided to go ahead with the bandit capturing plan .
We headed out on the carriage once more . First, we’ll have to make sure those guys really were bandits . If we attack them by mistake, we’ll be branded as bandits instead .
“200 meters to go . ”
I announced our distance from the targets . I and Cleria were sitting on top of the luggage at the back of the carriage .
What we needed to watch out for were projectile weapons like arrows and throwing knives, as well as magic . I can shoot down arrows and throwing knives with my rifle . Magic, however, could prove to be a bit more troublesome .
I zoomed in on the targets . They were trying to conceal themselves, but I managed to spot two people up on the trees . The others were still in hiding and were not in visual range .
“100 meters left . There’s two people up in the tree . ”
“50 meters . Don’t launch an attack before I do so first . ”
“10 meters . ”
Cleria raised her arm out front and got ready .
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Suddenly, a group of men moved out to block the road . There’s seven out front . Four at the back . The two on top of the tree were getting ready to attack as well .
“Who are you, people!?”
I stood up from the luggage and addressed them . I knew what they actually were, but it’s just standard procedure .
“Whoah! Just get a load of that babe over there! She looks high-quality!”
I got somewhat annoyed when these guys didn’t properly respond to my question and talked among themselves instead .
“Yer right . That lass’ll fetch a pretty penny, I reckon . ”
It seems no use talking to these guys . I’m tempted to just turn them into money already . Keep calm, me .
“I just asked you lot who you are!”
I’ve just about lost it .
“Can’t ya tell just by lookin, fool! We’re bandits!” nameless grunt A answered cockily .
In that instant, thirteen fire arrows appeared around me and flew towards the bandits all at once . I also aimed my rifle at the guys hanging out on the tree, who were preparing to fire arrows at us . One of them panicked and hastily fired an arrow at us .
An instant after the sound of the gunshot from my rifle rang out, the arrow the guy released was disintegrated . I aimed my rifle at the other guy, but he was already falling from the tree branch after taking a hit from a flame arrow . The guy who fired the arrow earlier followed suit .
I turned my rifle towards the other bandits, but they were already writhing in agony from being hit by my flame arrows on their right shoulders . With this, it’s over .
“Ria, disarm them!”
I jumped down from the carriage and instructed Cleria with a yell .
Cleria was momentarily stunned but jumped down the carriage as well after a few moments when she heard my voice .