The caravan comes to a stop as Darius’ firebolt blasts into the sky, the guards jumping off the wagons with most of them running towards the front. Darius frowns as he looks out towards the bandits, seeing that they are continuing to ride towards the caravan.
Darius shakes his head, starting to overcharge Arcane Tendrils, as soon as they get close enough he casts the spell. It flies through the air, hitting the ground in front of the riding bandits.
The ground starts to violently shake as the arcane tendrils reach up into the air, grabbing onto everything they can, including the bandits and their horses, as well as some nearby trees and bushes. Everything seems to calm down for a moment before the last tendril grabs onto a large boulder. After the tendril grabs the boulder all of the tendrils quickly pull into the center point, ripping trees in half and the boulder from the ground, causing a loud boom when everything hits the center.
The guards around Darius pale as they watch the tendrils do their work, as Darius starts to walk back through the caravan, keeping an eye out for more bandits. Darius hears the sound of combat coming from the back of the caravan. Using blink he gets there quickly, looking around and seeing a group of 8 level 20 bandits fighting against the guards, with two bandits already dead.
Darius sighs as he walks towards the battle, getting right behind the line of guards before blasting out his aura for a second. Which causes a few of the bandits to drop their swords as Darius says “I’ve already killed your riders, it’s best you give up if you want to keep your lives.”
The bandits that had already dropped their swords surrender, as do a couple of the others, leaving only two with their swords out, backed against each other as they get surrounded. Darius sighs as he walks into the circle with them, saying “So, you two still want to fight, I really don’t recommend it, one you are outnumbered, two there are five iron rank adventurers here, I’m one of them, and three, even if you escape from us directly we will just track you down.”
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One of the bandits says “Better to die than to give up like a coward.” Darius sighs as he shakes his head “I’d really rather not kill you, but I will fight and capture you if I need to.” The bandit laughs as he says “And what can you do?”
Darius looks at them, holding out a hand before casting arcane needle and throwing it at the bandit's sword hand “That” Darius says as the needle goes through the bandit's sword hand, causing him to drop his sword.
The bandit swears as he grabs his hand, looking down at it surprised before he looks towards and charges at Darius. Darius frowns as he casts arcane needle a few times, throwing them at the bandit's legs “Just give up.” Darius says as the bandit falls after his legs get riddled with arcane needles.
The bandit glares up at Darius, spitting on the ground as he tries to stand. The second bandit who had been watching this drops his sword and raises his hands while Darius walks towards the first. Darius looks around towards the guards “Do any of you have some manacles?” He says as he stands in front of the bandit on the ground.
The guards all stare at Darius for a couple of seconds before one quickly runs up and gives him a set of manacles and then runs back to the other guards quickly. Darius shrugs as he puts the manacles on the bandit on the ground before he moves to his legs. Darius casts healing touch on the bandit's legs, healing them before he helps him stand. “Right, now where is your base?” Darius asks with a frown.
The bandit shakes his head and says “Why the hell would I tell you that.” Darius sighs as he says “Because, if you tell me, you might not have to worry about getting executed.” The bandit frowns and spits on Darius’ shoes.
Darius sighs as he walks the bandit over to the guards and the rest of them before turning around and seeing the other adventurers looking at him. He walks over to them, saying “What?” as he sees slightly fearful expressions on their faces.
“We saw your battle here and your work towards the front of the caravan, that’s all,” Folred says as he looks around a little. Darius shrugs as he says “So, what?” “We just didn’t expect you to be able to do things like that,” Folred says with a shrug. “Well, it’s stuff I can do, it can be very useful as you’ve seen,” Darius says as he walks towards the wagons again, starting to whistle.