Chapter 619

Chapter 619: I’m a Fan of the Living Armor

The bandits looked at the situation in front of them. It was too confusing for them to understand. And I’m just watching them being confused.

I could hear what some of the bandits are talking about. They are indeed friends with those three in front of the camp.

“Hey, what do we do here? Boss said that he would join their camp, but he’s still out there,” one of the bandits asked.

“I don’t know. Seems like there’s a barrier protecting the camp. Should we continue chasing for the boss?” another bandit asked.

Not only were these bandits are connected with the three people in front of the camp. But one of the three is actually their boss. But which one? The small one? The man? Or the woman?

Whichever case, since the bandit group is split from their boss, they don’t know what to do. It’s all up to their boss.

After stopping for a while, someone finally made his first move. The small man is the one making the first move.

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“Mom! Dad! Let’s escape! They said that they will delay the bandits, right? So it’s fine if we escape! The bandits will go after them instead!” the small man said while acting like a child.

I have to say that he’s a good actor indeed. But that will only work if he’s actually that young. But he’s not. The people in the camp also know that. And some of them couldn’t even hold back their laughter so they retreated into the tent. But I guess Burnes is doing very well. He can hold his expression back. He’s indeed our second best clown after me.

Though some of them are actually looking at the small man in disgust. But the small man didn’t notice it. Which is good.

Seems like it’s obvious who the leader of the bandit group is. The one with a wanted poster in Melk. The small man.

After he said his piece, the bandits return back to their ferocious mood and started shouting to attack the camp instead of chasing the three people.

“This camp is much bigger than three people! We’ll capture them instead!”

“But there’s a barrier protecting them! What do we do?”

“Just wait until the barrier is gone. There’s no way the barrier can stand for a long time!”

The man who acted as the bandit leader lead the bandits to surround the camp. As for those three who acted like parents and son, they were about to leave.

No, they can’t leave. I think it’s best to bring just the small man at least to Mellian. Although he has no wanted poster there, I can bring one from Melk and show it to Hill or the others there. We can then get the reward from bringing him in.

It’s time to make my move. And with Ray’s speed, we’re in front of the camp in no time.

“What the... Who are you!?” the one acting as the bandit leader asked when I suddenly cut in between him and the camp.

Of course I didn’t answer. I’m a living armor. And I’m not supposed to say anything.

“Oh! Is that the real thing? The living armor who defeated the giant salamander back during the stampede?”

Inside the barrier, Burnes follow-up my appearance as he introduces me to everyone. The other agents also looked excited seeing me and say things to praise me.

“Oh, the living armor who helped people in trouble? I heard that it was just some rumors. But it’s true?” another circus performers said.

“Well, let’s see what he will do. Oh, where’s Roy? He’s a big fan of the living armor!”

“He’s asleep in his tent! When he’s sleeping, not even earthquake can wake him up!”

“Then he will miss everything. What a shame. At least we can continue telling him what we witnessed tonight.”

“We can wake him up by pouring water on his pants though. Should we?”

“Hmm... that’s an interesting idea, but let’s not do that. Because we might be the one who will miss the living armor in action.”

What is this? All the circus performers are bullying me? They made me a fan of myself? That’s not wrong but I can’t say that’s right either.

Sigh... I guess I’ll be a fan of the living armor and help spreading the rumor as well.

Well, let’s just kill the bandits except for the three. For now, I’m a living armor who thinks that these three are not related with the bandits at all. Though just the circus troupe alone is more than enough to handle them. But they are still inside the barrier.

With Reizpear in my hand, which I still keep inside my pocket even after I got more weapons, I slash and stab the bandits while riding on the abyss horse, Ray. The bandits are panicking because their magic were easily dodged by me. and the stray magic attack that attacking the other circus performers were stopped by the barrier. Only the three people need to protect themselves from the stray magic.

I took care of the bandits easily. And by the time the barrier finally opened, all the bandits have been defeated. Leaving only the circus performers and the three people who were pretending to be chased by the bandits.

As expected, their expression turn bad seeing how I killed their friends. But they can’t do anything. Who is the stupid one who had the idea to infiltrate someone’s camp to let their guard down? Probably the small man’s idea.

In the wanted poster, there’s only a picture of him. The description says that he look like a child but he’s an adult. It wasn’t known yet whether he worked with the bandits voluntarily or not, but he’s the only clue to capturing the bandits in the area who often targeting traveling carriages.

But with my words, or any of the circus performers’ word, they would believe that this small man is actually the leader of the group. We can safely brought him to Mellian and make him think that we are protecting him. But once we’re there, we will give him to the guards.

I killed all the bandits easily. And then I looked at the three people and the circus members who are acting as if they are looking at me with respect and awe before I left the area.

After disappearing, I opened a portal to one of the tent inside the camp. And then I pretend that I just woke up from sleep.

“Hey, what’s the ruckus?” I asked while rubbing my eyes to make myself look sleepy.

“Hey, Roy! You missed the living armor that you love so much. He killed those bandit group and left right away,” Burnes said to me.

“Oh, fuck! I should have stayed up! And those are the bandits?” I pointed at the dead bodies on the ground.

“Yes. The living armor killed them in just five minutes!” Burnes said excitedly. He’s such a great actor.

“Sigh... fine. And those three are?” I asked about the identities of the three people who I shouldn’t know about.

“They were being chased by the bandits before the living armor came. Oh, right! Hey, the three of you! Come join us! We will travel to Mellian. We’ll protect you till we get there!” Burnes said.

I can see in one of the tent, Thomas who returned early panicked a bit when Burnes said that. He’s the only normal person here. The rest are not normal.

I’ll tell him to keep staying inside the carriage the whole time during our journey so our act won’t be discovered by these three.

The three people who were in shock seeing all their friends were dead looked angry. I can see that the small man seems to be prepared to use magic. But if he does, his disguise will be discovered. I can’t have that. I want to enjoy seeing their expression during our journey to Mellian.

“Hey, you! Go clean up those dead bodies! We don’t want to be noticed by monsters because of the smell. You’re an expert level earth mage so take care of them. And you, you’re a expert level wind mage. Blow a wind to make the scent of blood disappears,” I said as I pretend to sulk because I didn’t meet the living armor.

Hearing that we have at least two expert level mages, the three people were in cold sweat. They didn’t expect that we would be that strong.

About those expert level mages, they were sent by Albert and old man Henry. Although they need strong mages in their army, they still send expert level mages here thinking that it would be safer this way. And it’s also an agreement with Thomas who is just an ordinary human with low level magic. Since I would often leave, he needed protection so the circus can go on. And Albert then sent the earth mage while old man Henry sent the wind mage.

The earth mage pushed the corpses aside, and bury them on the ground away from the road. And the wind mage blow a powerful wind to make the scent of blood disappear.

“Even if the living armor wasn’t here, we could easily take care of the bandits easily,” Burnes said.

“But I want to meet him. Whatever. Hey, you three! Come in and have some meal. We’ll take you to Mellian!” I said.

“Ah... umm... we’re fine! We can just... find nearby village on our own!” the man said. The one pretending to be the father.

“There’s no village nearby. And Mellian is much closer than any village. Or is there any reason why you don’t want to come with us? Suspicious...” I said while pretending to be in deep thought.

The small man then noticed that he can’t escape, so he pulled the hand of the woman and the woman figured out what they need to do.

“In that case, please take care of us. Thank you for saving our lives” the woman said.

She’s better than the man. Though the small man is still smarter.

“We’ll prepare another tent just for you three. Family must not be separated after all. You can rest right away. No need to worry about night watch. We have expert level mages with us,” Burnes added.

Those three have no escape. They will be brought to justice in Mellian.

But what I didn’t expect was such thing won’t happen. Two days after the three joined us, something unexpected happened. And without hesitation, I ended up killing those three.