Time gradually passed, and soon, the sunset and part of the sky dyed red. At this moment, Seth was in the main tent made from silk, sensing the change in temperature, he awoke and called the guard standing guard at the tent. 'He felt his body changing daily, as his power continue to grow'
A few moments later the guard enter, giving him an order he soon brought Ishikawa and Jin the bald Captain to come and find him.
“Your Holiness, can you tell us what happened?” Jin asked as he cupped his hands respectfully.
Seth nodded as he said, “Tell me about this bandit group?', All you know and heard. Following this, I want information on this kuru you mortal fear so much .
“That bastard kuru? I ask your holiness to give me the honor to end him?” Jin couldn’t help but speak when he heard what the Seth had said. After realising that he had spoken out of line, he apologized to the Seth of Seth .
Lightly shook his head, signaling that it was fine, feeling that Jin has bad blood with kuru he didn't bother to ask, as it was not in-line with his identity. "If the time come, you have my blessings,' to end him in the name of Seth."
Jin gave three bow after, Seth felt satisfied.
Ishikawa who has not spoken since he entered, broke the silence and answer the Seth question "I will explained in detail, lord Seth,' the kuru bandit come from a fishing village called Ohama village, located North-West from our Kuram village, it was originally a fishing Village but now it a place that other Village feared and they would often bullied Kuram village and the other Village's in our Tsutsu region.
Seth nodded and waited for the Ishikawa to continue
Jin, with his hatred for bandit, especially the kuru bandit open his clenched teeth "those bastard, they slaughter the Villager of Ohama and made the rest of the villager slaves." he continued "Kuru is a cockless coward, so are his man. They poison the warrior water source, over a long time, as the warrior grew weak and sick they slaughter them at night."
Ishikawa nodded in agreement to Jin impulsive remarks"They have no honor." he said wisely with a creaky voice.
"During the period before the Ohama Village take over by kuru and his bandit group, there was monk temples, full of talented people who had practice the Art of healing, but their life came short, they were be-headed and fed to the dog's.'' Ishikawa said hand trembling
Seth horrified but kept his calm 'I should be immune to poison, I guess' lost in thoughts.
Jin saw his holiness, paying no attention stayed and waited. Ishikawa was not a man with much patience
"ahem" Ishikawa said in a hoarse ton, respectably.
Coming out of his thoughts, feeling a bit embarrassed "I had a revelation, kuru and his thieves will be no more by the end of our journey'' he said with wisdom
Ishikawa feeling guilty of almost disturbing, his holiness bow his head not daring to face the Seth in the eye. Jin on the other hand quickly bow ten times with the same sequence, while preaching "Seth of Seth" ten times, like a fanatic.
Ishikawa feeling disturb by Jin act of devotion, gain some courage and continue "Kuru was once a talented healer from the monk temple, but one day he discovered a mixture of ingredients that when mix together causes complete paralysis, he brought his discovery to the head monk, the head monk view it as a weapon of war and death and order for the destruction of the formula."
Jin disturb Ishikawa and he continue the tales instead "So Kuru that bastard sip the monk tea with the colourless paralysis, he named 'Heartbrake'.. After that he slit the poor monk throat and vanished, nothing was heard of him until he was known as the Mastermind of Ohama massacred.''
Jin spoke no more so did Ishikawa, their silence show that nothing was left to said about the subject.
Seth ponder on the information, but say nothing more about it. " What do you suggest, the strategy to take out the bandits?"
“Your Holiness! I believe that we must stay away from a big battles if we are to win, especially a head on fight,” Jin said seriously. Even though Jin had been quite angry before, he quickly calmed down.
Ishikawa nodded. “My lord, Kira bandit is now the largest bandit group in the region of Tsutsu, and if we’re to fight head on, our number of casualty's would be too great.
"The best thing for us is to strike at night." Jin spoke, of his strategy but was quickly cut by Ishikawa
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"Thank you, wise bald man. Thank you for explaining Dishonored tactics to our lord." Jin was about to rebuke Ishikawa
"Enough." Seth said slowly but sharply "You may go now." Both man gave a bow and left the tent, soon after, one could hear bickering among the Captain and the old Famed swordsman.
Seth took in their advice. Moment after, the bickering came to halt.
Seth sighed. After he ponder for so long, he hadn’t found anything that he could use to win the fight with no injuries, and without using his power.
However, he learned some things about the bandit. First, their mostly criminal and thieves from Ohama Village and most of them should be weaker than Realm One, they are out of shape and are literally walking feast, compare to their slaves.
'The added pound of fat would lower their attacks speed but make them stronger than most, clearly my warrior are superior in all aspects except number'
Fighting power in total is likely not to be very high, and they mostly loved to fight peasant, bullying the weak, and grouping up on the strong. They are also not very intelligence and seems reckless, blockhead they are as they often started fighting over a piece of spoiled meat, when they already have fresh one's on their plates.
It was about noon, so Seth could only go for lunch, inviting the warrior that stand guard at his tent to lunch. As he ate, thanks too some nutrition, he was lost in thought once again and considered a night attack, but they still only had 20 people when adding himself and Ishikawa and captain Jin. Facing 30 or so bandit, even a night raid would not work, the slave would alert them.
Seth feel quite disappointed, he finish lunch early and was about to go meditate in his tent
At this moment, Jin who had angrily left to keep watch came to report and said, “Your Holiness! The Bandits have started to move.”
Seth calmly asked for more details. He learned that the Bandits soldiers had split a small group, with about 15 bandit and slave, and had headed in the directions, of a river, not far from here.
After Jin reported this, Seth felt that an opportunity had come. The Bandits were not plants to photosynthesis but human who needed food, and they relied on hunting to get food. The bandit went out hunting every day to make sure that they had enough to eat, but yesterday we arrived too late and miss their departure and arrival after the Hunt.
"Get our man ready." Seth said with haste
“Everyone! Hurry and assemble now!” Jin immediately ordered.
Following this, 20 warrior gathered in front of Seth. Ishikawa came with a few fruits to serve as a quick snack on the road, Seth led Jin and the soldiers to catch up to the hunting party the Bandits send out.
There were roughly 9 bandit in this squad, and it is led by a bulky bandit women, which at first glanced from behind one would have thought a man. The rest where slave's, which carry the tools.
At this moment, Jin and the warriors would show the results of the Chakra training method, and their new skill. What followed was a bloodbath, one-sided.
The Bandits squad had made a makeshift camp near the river, 'So they been here for a while, I wonder why?' Seth though
Jin ordered the warrior into an three man team: three swordsman in 3 group surrounding the area that lead to the archer, as Infantry to the enemy advance and for the ambush signal, are the Archers. This was an advantageous strategy considering their numbers.
“My warriors I know that this is, for some of you' your first battle, but remember no one but God can judge our actions, and God is on our side ,” Jin said to the warrior, a speech to boost their morale as he glanced at the Seth.
"Seth of Seth bring us victory!!" Ishikawa said slowly
Soon all the warrior follow, his lead "Seth of Seth lead us to victory!" The chant change, but the meanings remains the same
The warriors looked devotedly at Seth, Seth in thoughts again 'Mother would be proud, I need to do some godly thing.'
"Ahem" Seth cough, silent prevailed as he opened his golden eye's shining against his warrior
"Fear not, as my blessings rides with you into battle." Seth said more louder than his usual tone
Another chant started again, by Jin this time intentionally 'This guy' Seth though.
"Archer's you guys, will start the attack on my signals, hit for the head. use the thunderbolt skill to quickly injured or killed the bandits."
"Understood?!"
"Yes sir" The archers agreed, trembling with fanaticism.
They waited for the bandit to come back from their Hunt, as to not let one escape, Jin didn't like loose end, Jin making the signal to fire.
"Fire."
Following this, the Archers raised their bows, and arrows glowing with blue light shot out into the bandits while they feast. Seth also released a small Dark-ball with them, sending it shooting towards leader of this hunting squad.
The eight Archers all hit a Bandits. Three of them dead, as the glowing arrows pierce their head, two received heavy injuries, and the rest slightly injured. Seth Dark-ball also exploded, injuring the group leaders, the bulky women as she blasted into the sky and crashed to the ground on all four– standing angrily.
At this moment, the bandit leader also discovered the archers place. They shouted insult as they raised their spears and rushed in that direction.
Many of the soldiers revealed smile of joy while other disappointed, those that have only slightly injured the bandits. seeing the bandit ugly faces rushing toward them, they got a little restless but calm down after seeing the Seth near them and his Dark-ball he released before. After all, they had never fought in a real battle before, most of them haven't.
“Release arrows towards their feet!” Jin once again bellowed, and eight arrows flew, shooting at the bandit direction, slowing them down. The weight of the bandit did not slow them down, at all, they all run like dog whose tail got step on.
By now, the bandit were nearly within 10 meters of them. Jin yelled, “Warrior charge!
The 10 swordsman along with Ishikawa rushed up, using their trump card, The lightning flash. The warriors sword glowed with chakra as it was directed through their sword using the hand sign, the Seth though them.
The sword slice the enemy spears into two, and had enough power for another strike, leaving shallow wound on the bandit, but they were unable to injure anymore as they lost the momentum and fall back. Thus, most of the bandit had no weapon's and where slow down due to their wound bleeding, thus their momentum was greatly reduced.
A charge with the lighting flash required a large spurt of chakra, and only by continuously charging forwards could one do damaged. After losing their weapons, the bandit lost not only their momentum but also their morale.
In the beginning, the arrows and Dark-ball had already reduced the bandit strength by almost a third, and now that they stopped, the swordsman started to counterattack. The Archers behind them also freely shot, as Ishikawa continuously slash his blade with the bulky women, who seems at the peak of Realm 2.
The situation quickly turned to Seth favor. The other bandit was dead or full of arrow at death door, as for the bulky women she was held at bay by Ishikawa who was holding his own considering his age. Even though the bulky women look big, she was quite agile. she pierced her spear quite quickly, and Stage 1 warriors could only see flash of light when it attacked and strike. Seth felt quite worried when he saw this, but he knew the old man go an ace up his sleeve.
After ten minutes, the battle finally concluded. Seth people suffered no injury. On the other hand, the bandit where all dead, they had been destroyed. The results of the skill I have thought them, played an important role
Ishikawa finish off the bulky women, after using Lighting flash, glowing with a red energy. But also got injured in the fight, the bulky women was not bulky anymore as she was missing half of her body.
After resting for a while, Jin took his warrior to gather the slave, who offer no resistance and headed back to their camp, after taking the bandit goods.