Chapter 151: Bandit Buddies

Chapter 151: Bandit Buddies

Walking into the lit room or whatever you would call the cave version of a room. Lake instantly started to count how many people were in here. It wasn't a hard job to count to six before any of them started a conversation with him. "Millon, tell Stev we can't leave the cave until the sun goes down. He keeps saying there are more carts during the day and it's safer because the carts that come by during the night have more guards."

"What we're doing seems to be working alright, why change now." Lake had more to say but he didn't want to over do it. For all he knew the person he was pretending to be was usually silent. Lake had decided to not use Play the Part because he didn't want to, that was pretty much his only reason.

He knew it would help him blend in but he really didn't plan to stay in this cave for long; he was just waiting for a good time to strike, like if they were to split up or something. He also wanted to see the exact number he was facing so far he had confirmed eight; the two at the front and the six here.

Using Mana Vision, Lake started to look around to see if he could spot any other cores through the walls of the cave. There was another doorway in this room that led deeper so he guessed the rest of them were down there, but it seemed the cave went deeper than he had expected because he didn't see anything with Mana Vision. "I still think we should go out now. The carts holding people are the only ones that have any food on them, all we're going to get tonight is more stuff we can't use or sell."

"We have plenty of food, you're just tired of eating bread. Now's not the time to get picky with what you have to eat." After he heard the person called Stev say that they were mostly stealing junk they didn't need, Lake started to look at some of the stuff in the room with them. The only useful thing he saw was a boat he guessed they used to cross the river.

They probably drug it inside to hide it and a few of them were using its benches as seats so he guessed it doubled as furniture then there was a lot of lumber like the stuff they were using to build out front so he guessed there must be some lumber company that passed its stuff through the road they were robbing people on.

Lake wondered if that had been the company that had put the bounty on these bandits in the first place and if that was true lumber was a lot more profitable than he would have expected. The twenty thousand these bandits had on their heads was no small sum because most people made only a few gold a week from farming.

It was possible there was another source of the money though like the king or maybe the guild itself had a source of revenue to raise the money they paid out to its members. He couldn't really think of what kind of business they would have though, so it probably came mostly from the king and the businesses that were being affected.

"Alright let's get the boat ready. They're probably almost back from buying the armor by now." When Lake heard this it made him realize he was currently here with only part of the bandits and the others weren't too deep for him to see they were gone. That meant this was probably the best time for him to start killing.

Seeing them all start to line up on either side of the boat, Lake lined up behind them and started helping them carry the boat out the front of the cave. He had eight people to kill because he was sure there would be enough of a commotion for the two people out front to come to look what was going on but he wasn't worried about making a mess this time so it would be extremely easy to kill all of them especially with them having their hands full and he was already right behind them.

Lake wasn't going to take any risks though so he quickly used Summon Hands and then used Fast Hands. With his two regular hands Lake reached forward and broke the neck of the guy directly in front of him. [Level up] Then he used burst to rush forward to the next two people on his side of the boat and used Crunch to decapitate them both with the two of his left arms while supporting the boat with the other two. [Level up] The source of this content is N0veII_bIn

He was moving so fast that the first guy's body was just about to hit the ground and with the two heads barely leaving their necks the guys on the other side hadn't noticed anything was happening so using his two right arms that were still holding the boat stable to throw the boat upwards, Lake slipped under it.

Dexterity 87

Perception 83

Intelligence 114

Charisma 23

Free stat points: 123

He had killed nine bandits and leveled up five times in the last half hour, he just hoped the seven that were left were enough to max out Ripper. He would be really bummed if he didn't end up getting any new skills today. He was pretty sure it would be fine though he might even have a bandit left at the end to use to level up Archer a few times.

That being said he needed to find the rest of the bandits first. These six had clearly been bringing this boat to the river to help them across so he guessed he could just go to the shore and wait. He wasn't sure if he should bring the boat with him though. If he tried to pretend to be there to pick them up they would most likely drop their guard but he had a better idea that involved the boat.

Picking it up, Lake brought it down to the shore with him and pushed it across to the other side hard enough that it went up onto the land on the other side. After that he found a good place and hid. He figured when they got here they would see the boat and use it to cross and he could just do the same exact thing he had done this time and kill them all from behind while they carried the boat back up to the cave.

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The guy who said they would be back soon ended up being wrong, it took about an hour. This meant he had about five more hours until the sun started to go down. That meant he would soon decide if he was going to return to the guild tonight or not but that was for later. Right now he had five bandits to deal with.

It was two less than he had expected but by the looks of the five that did return they had run into some trouble on their shopping trip. He wasn't going to complain about someone doing his job for him though even if it kind of messed up his hopes of getting the next two skills from Ripper.

His last hope for that to happen was for the bandit leader to be worth more Exp but he doubted that would happen. Lake marked them as he saw them all get into the boat and hastily start to row it across. It seemed whatever had happened to them had them in enough of a hurry that they didn't even question the empty boat or where their friends that were supposed to be in it were.

Once they were across the five of them didn't even bother picking up the boat and just left it where it was and started to run to the cave. Lake didn't want them to see the mess he had made and freak out and run because he would have to waste his time tracking them all down so he swooped down behind them with Mute and started to break necks.

The only one who noticed him long enough to make a sound was the last one. They made a n sound and Lake assumed they had been trying to say no. Done Lake didn't worry about cleaning up any of the bodies and removed the cloak while heading to his helmet. Putting his helmet back on Lake returned to the cave to start the looting process and tried to not think about the fact he didn't level up.