" well this is just great," I hiss as I watch the bandits in the camp move around and I count how many bandits there are and even the prisoners they have. 16 bandits like the ones I stumbled across, 4 archers, 2 plated armored bandits and finally the one I could call the boss. The boss is a big guy probably 7 1/2' maybe 8' tall broad as a tree and missing an arm below the elbow that he replaced with a axe head. " kinda reminds me of axe hand Morgan from one piece," I say quietly to myself as I remember that show and old life. One of the good ones apparently where I died for my crew to continue finding the one piece. " damn fluffy you better have become king of the pirates you monkey bastard." I smirk before looking at the prisoners. Monster girls, human girls and beast folk. I grimace as I watch one of the bandits grab a girl by her hair and drag her out and away from the group towards the edge of the camp.
I pull out the two daggers i looted off the bandits from earlier and equip one of their cloaks before slinking through the edge of the camp and come up behind the bandit as he ties the girl to a stake in the ground. He starts fiddling with his pants when I come up behind him grabbing his mouth and quickly plunging the daggers i placed in one hand and shove them into his throat two times as well as another two times into his side below his ribs angling them upwards. He jerks in my arms and goes limp before I stab him in the back of the neck and twisting the daggers and pulling them outwards basically severing the bandits hand.
Turning towards the girl that's hooked up i notice she's terrified. Her green gray eyes wide and shaking, her lips twitching showing elongated canines. A pair of wolf like ears twitching sporadically as cut wounds pour blood slightly and a chunk is missing out of one ear. Her body barely covered in tattered clothes, possibly an adventurer or civilian beast folk, and her wolf like tail barely twitches as it's covered in blood near the base. I grab the bindings and slice them apart freeing her. I leave the two daggers and the bandits cloak. My white and gold armor catches her eyes and she relaxes a little. I turn towards the camp and grab my atlatl and start sulking through the tents shadows. I smirk at my thoughts on assassins creed before I grab a second bandit plunging the atlatl spear through his throat and driving it out his neck into the ground. I slice his throat with his own dagger.
Bandits remaining
14 grunts
4 archers
2 elites
1 boss
'Slowly but surely wins the race,' I think as I loot his body of clothes and weapons and I just happen to grab a large pack from the first set of bandits i killed. I look around the tent and find a locked chest and some arrows laying on top of it. Grabbing the five iron head arrows i store them into my inventory before slipping out of the tent. I start sneaking around some more taking out another six bandits before I'm almost spotted by the boss themselves. Hiding in a destroyed well i peek at his massive form before getting an idea. I move some rocks causing them to fall attracting his attention and when he looks over the well wall I throw dust in his eyes before stabbing him in the shoulder and pull his off balanced body over and into the well. He falls screaming before I hear a hard thud from below. Climbing out of the well I immediately feel my aura light up as an arrow skims my arm. 'Well looks like stealth is out of the question' I think as I grab another bandit using him as a shield as several arrows pierce him. Dropping the dead bandit i block a Warhammer with crocera mors and I swing the blade through the dirt scattering the loose soil at the elite. As he blocks his view of me i grab the hammer's shaft ,after collapsing my shield, push back on him as the second elite swings her battle axe at me. Ducking as she swings her blades weight carries the swing through the head of the second elite as I grab his Warhammer and swing the spiked tip into her armor piercing it but hitting chainmail underneath. I pull out the hammer and jump back as she retaliate with a swing. I counter as an arrow flares my aura again, this time going for me leg, and swing the hammer's spike straight into her armors bevor and jerk her off balance.
As she hits the dirt, two other bandit grunts charge at me when I shove the Warhammer's head into his gut before knocking him to the ground with a quick smack with the shaft which breaks. Slamming the shaft into the second attacker, and taking a uppercut to his face with the hammer's head. After knocking both them down i slam the hammer's spike into the elites neck killing her. An arrow pierces my aura and skims my arm drawing blood.
" luck that hurts," I say gritting my teeth as I rush into the tents. Arrows hit the tent sides as I take down three more bandits in quick succession.
Bandits remaining
Grunts: 3
Archers: 4
Boss:1
" damn the boss isn't dead," I say as I block a short sword and slice across the bandits chest and kicking him into another tent. As I fight another bandit in hear gurgling behind me and see the beast folk girl stabbing and bitting the bandit i kicked into the tent. I nod my head at her as I finish the bandit I'm fighting and she takes down the last bandit. With all the grunts done and just the archers and boss left I grab my atlatl and send a atlatl spear into an archer and the others fall shortly afterwards with more atlatl spears in them.
" raaaaaaagh, you have chosen death," screams the boss as he gets out of the well but I stop him from moving by throwing a rope around his neck and twisting it to were it cuts off his air flow. He grabs at the rope as he tries to free himself. As I twist the rope I hold on and stab the boss repeatedly in his neck and collar bone trying to slow him down but he's not stopping. I'm grabbed by my jacket and thrown into a tent. I try to free myself but I'm hit again by the boss before I'm being grabbed by my head and lifted into the air. I swing crocera mors and he blocks it with the ax blade and he jerks the sword out of my hand. He grins but I smirk back before accessing my inventory thrusting an atlatl spear strait into his eye then another through the other. He drops me and I grab crocera mors and swing upwards through his neck cleaving his head straight off. His body falls to the ground and I stand up before I look behind me and see the girl that helped me. She looks at me and I look at her before walking off towards the cages where the other girls were held. Walking to the cage they scatter further from the door until I open the door and walk away to loot the camp.
An hour later
I shove the final crate of loot on the boat that the bandits used and i take a tally of all I've have.
Weapons
Iron Battle ax
Iron daggers x 10
Iron short swords x 6
Wooden Hunting bow x 4
Iron head arrows x 75
Armor
Iron plate breastplate x2
Iron plate greaves x2
Iron playe gauntlets x2
Iron chainmail x 1
Cloth cloaks x 16
Cloth shirts x 16
Soft boots x 16
Simple leather quiver x 4
Captains boot x 1
Captains cloak x 1
Food
Smoked meat x 150
Apples x 150
Smoked fish x 150
Raw fish x 300
Raw meat x 300
Cabbages x 25
Carrots x 25
Leek x 50
Potatoes x 50
I sigh as I stretch my body but as I'm about to leave u see the girls standing there at the gang plank to the barge.
" you there, stranger," says a 7' tall woman with green tinted skin and tusks in her mouth possibly orchid.
" you have rescued us but leave us be do you not follow the laws of the land," she asks as I shake my head and she continues.
" the Victor's in battles takes the women they won or captured. It has been this way for eras and written down by many of the gods and goddesses" says the woman.
I sigh shaking my head and saying 'why me'. I look at the male beast folk and ask," do you follow that rule as well."
" no but we ssswear loyalty to those that do conquer usss. Banditsss don't count asss they just sell usss," says the lizard like beast folk his snake like tongue exaggerating his s's. I sigh as they start getting on the barge and helping me cast off. 15 people got on the boat , 3 lizard beastmen, 2 lizard beast women, 5 wolf beast women, 3 human women, and 2 or women. A group of monster girls also came aboard, 3 werewolves climb on board before sitting on thier asses as they look at me with the same eyes that Io and lehua look at me with. I sigh before telling the people to cast off and guiding them to my home. I look at the sky and I swear I feel people giggling at me.