[That's right! everytime you have an ongoing quest the mini map will show you were to go! pretty convenient right?.]
I chuckled and nodded "yeah, it is thank you Astraea".
[Your welcome Rean!.]
Feeling ready and excited for adventure i spread my wings and with a flap from them i took off flying towards the direction my mini map was guiding me to.
It didn't take me long to reach the forest marked by my mini map, it was dense and dark the perfect place for bandits to hide.
I landed just outside the tree line and crouch down on one knee, i closed my eyes and focus with my Aura sense skill.
Suddenly an image or the surrounding area takes form in my mind allowing me to see the entire forest, it didn't take me long to find the bandit's camp right in the middle of the forest within a small clearing.
My Aura sense immediately marked all the bandits in red but to my surprise, in one of the tents four of the people in there were highlighted in green letting me know that they were non combatants or civilians.
"Tch... either they capture some adventurers that tried to take them down or they kidnapped some people from the houses around and outside of Axel... this complicates things a bit, i can't just go in there and blast them to hell hmm".
I opened my eyes and think about what to do with this situation, i couldn't just go in attack the bandits, i might accidentally hurt a hostage or the bandits might use them against me.
"Hmm looks like I'll have to be a bit creative with this, Liligant, Pidgeot, Gardevoir and Frosslass come out!".
The four Pokemon i called out appeared in flashes of white "hey guys, i need your help with a quest but we have to be a bit careful okay? so for now let's wait till nightfall".
My four Pokemon nodded and then together we waited until night had arrived, then me and my Pokemon entered the forest, after a while we reached the clearing used by the bandits to camp, we stop at the edge of the tree line and hid in the darkness of the night.
"Okay, here's what we'll do, Gardevoir you see that tent in the middle of the clearing" I pointed out the tent were the hostages were being kept, Gardevoir turned to take at look at the tent I'm pointing at and nodded at me "i need you to teleport in there and kill any guards inside, then quickly raised a psychic barrier around yourself and the four hostages inside okay?".
Gardevoir nodded and smiled at me, i smiled back at her and gave her a pat on her head, she then teleported to fulfill her part in my plan, i then turned to Liligant and Pidgeot "okay, next Liligant use Stun Spore towards the camp and Pidgeot you use Whirlwind to make sure it spread around the entire campsite".
Pidgeot and Liligant nodded and immediately began to follow my orders while i turn towards Frosslass " you and me will finish the bandits while they're incapacitated make sure you get the one inside the tents I'llhandle the one outside, sounds good Frosslass?".
Frosslass nodded and grinned, i chuckled and caress her under the chin causing her to smile and dance around, meanwhile Liligant's Stun Spore began to quickly spread around the camp with help of Pidgeot's Whirlwind.
"Great job guys! me and Frosslass will begin taking out the bandits, you guys stay here and keep an eye just in case any bandit is able to somehow still move and tries to get away".
Both Liligant and Pidgeot nodded, Pidgeot took off and began to circle the campsite from high above while Liligant spread her roots into the ground and began to monitor the area, i smiled at my Pokemon actions all the time spent training and dungeon diving had allowed my Pokemon to gain massive amounts of battle experience and they already knew what to do in all kinds of situations like these, so I'm very proud of them.
I nodded to Liligant and gave her a pat on her head getting a cheerful chirp from her in return, then me and Frosslass took off and began to finish off every bandit in the camp while they were paralyzed.
The poor bastards couldn't do anything but to just lay in the ground and stare at me as i stabbed them in the heart with my Tachi while Frosslass froze their head and then shattered them into pieces.
Ruthless? yeah but me and my Pokemon learned to no show mercy against enemies like these, do i feel guilty about taking a human life? a little bit but i can rationalize this with the fact that these guys made their decision to be thieves, killers and just plain bastards to everyone plus my dragonic instincts helped me accept all of this rather easily.
However when i reached the biggest tent my instincts told me to dodge and i immediately did so by jumping back fast enough to prevent a dagger from entering my belly.
As soon as i landed on the ground i stared right into the entrance of the tent and a tall and lanky bandit came out of it, he glared at me the moment he saw me "pretty quick on your feet kid and clever too... I take it that the guild sent you to take care of us huh?".
This guy is strong, more than likely an ex adventurer since he was able to resist Liligant's Stun Spore "yes, the guild issued a kill quest on you guys".
The bandit who i assume was the leader of the whole gang here looked around and saw that he was practically the only one left alive "i see... just who are you? you're to smart and too strong to belong to that town of weaklings, there's only one strong adventurer in Axel and that idiot doesn't bother with quest like these".
So Kyouya doesn't bother with these kinds of quest, what an idiot he probably thinks that these kind of quests are beneath him or something "tch, you don't need to know my name".
I disappeared in a blur and appeared behind him but he block my strike with his daggers however with my strength i was still able to pushed him away easily, he recovered quickly enough and took off towards in an impressive speed and got ready to attack me but a Grass Knot attack made him trip and rolled towards me uncontrollably, i easily dodged him by getting out of his way and sweatdrop when i saw him crash against a tree, suddenly i was able to hear Liligant giggle her self silly from a distance away.
"... well that took off the intensity out of this situation rather quickly.."
Even Pidgeot sweatdrop at the situation since she was watching from the sky, i shook my head and walked towards the boss bandit who was groaning in pain while he layed there on the floor, as soon as i reached him i immediately stabbed him in the chest causing him to gasp and glare at me "b-bastard...".
He died soon after cursing at me, i sighed and turned around to head towards the middle tent where Gardevoir was waiting for me with the hostages.
As i walk i got a notification letting me we completed this quest which tells me that Frosslass finished off the rest of the bandits while i was busy with the boss bandit.
I immediately checked on my rewards which was the skill orb containing the Skill Sonido which is a high speed movement technique that doesn't require any exertion of energy which makes the target unable to detect the user during movement making this technique extremely useful for hit and run tactics and surprise attacks.
Instantly i use the skill orb and obtained Sonido which then combine with my Pokemon priority attacks like Quick Attack, Extreme Speed, Bullet Punch and some my swordstyle techniques making me undetectable while using these type of skills.
"Hmm how very useful..." soon after, i reached the the tent and step inside, i immediately noticed the guards inside laying on the ground with their heads turned all the way backwards, more than likely Gardevoir did this to take them out instantly with Psychic.
When i was done looking at the dead guards i noticed Gardevoir in a corner surrounded by a pink barrier, three young girls were huddled and trembling on the ground behind Gardevoir while the fourth was on the ground unconscious and with a fist size bump on her forehead, for some reason she seems familiar but i couldn't remember from where.
I approached Gardevoir and she let the barrier break apart letting me approach her and the girls, i raised an eyebrow towards the unconscious girls but Gardevoir just shook her head "so she was already unconscious when you found her?".
Gardevoir smile and nodded "I see well that's fine" i then turned towards the scared girls, then i take out my adventurer's card and showed it to them "hello, I'm an adventurer and I was sent here by the guild to take down the bandits, are any of you hurt?".
One of the girls stood up and shyly approached me "no were okay, these people said something about selling us so they didn't want to hurt us, she's the only one who's hurt...".
She pointed at the unconscious girl "I see, I'm glad everyone is okay, but what happened to her?".
The girl nervously laughed and scratched her head "well you see... she saw us getting kidnapped this morning and she then confronted the bandits but when she tried to attack them she tripped and hit her head pretty hard on the ground and so she's been unconscious since then the bandits took her too... I've never seen the ground crack like that before...".
Me and Gardevoir sweatdrop, who the hell just trips and knocks themselves out like that, i turned towards the girls and it was then that i immediately recognized her "son a bitch...".
Gardevoir and the girl gasped at my swear while Gardevoir began to weakly slapped the back of my head to teach me a lesson in manners while i stare at the girl * that's YunYun... if i remember correctly she's the self proclaimed rival of Megumin and a very powerful Arch Wizard but the girl was just very unlucky and the proof is there in the form of a fist size bump on her forehead".
I couldn't help but sighed at my luck, this girl was another person who knows how much loneliness sucks and now that she's right there in front of me i can't just ignore her plus she's actually pretty competent when she's not being unfortunate.
"Well.. I'll take all you back to Axel, I'm sure the guild will be able to help get you all home, this girl is an adventurer she just had a bit of bad luck so I'll take her back to the guild too, is that okay?".
The girls nodded and picked up YunYun into my arms and carried her outside where Frosslass, Liligant and Pidgeot were all waiting for us.
The girls awed at my Pokemon and began to pet and hugged them, i let them enjoy the attention for a while, they deserve it after all.
After a while i sent my Pokemon back after thanking them for their help and teleported myself and the girls back to Axel, we walked a bit towards the guild and immediately went inside, it was pretty late but it seems like the guild and tavern where still open so i approached Luna who was wiping her counter.
She smiled at me the moment she saw me but then frowned and raised an eyebrow when she noticed the girls hiding nervously behind me and me carrying an unconscious YunYun in my arms "err... I can explain?".