Unlucky Bandits [C102]

Now that there aren't any more monsters around, Shu Himo closed his eyes while thinking, 'Map!'

Suddenly, in his sight appeared the entire Shu Kingdom, so he tried to find his own location.

Looking around, only after a couple seconds he managed to find his own location, but seeing it, he could not help but frown, 'How is this close to the capital?!'

Right now, they were at the far east in the Kingdom, exactly in the border close to the dangerous area, where only Nascent Soul experts dare to enter.

Sighing deeply, he opened his eyes and turned to look at the others, "We are quite far, but a day of running should be enough to reach the capital."

Hearing him, Aura Azusa was shocked, just how can the headmaster be this imprecise?

Knowing that there was no other way, the three began running toward the capital, by following Shu Himo's directions.

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In the outer part of the forest, in the encampment of the bandit group Yoharm.

"That was truly an abundant profit!" This dominant voice is from the boss of the bandit group, a Nascent Soul expert in the 1q-Starting Soul.

"Indeed boss, I can't believe that we actually found three crystals! Those cultivators were hilarious, pleading for their lives at the moment we revealed ourselves!"

While they were bandits for years, their usual looting only consisted of gold coins, so they considered three crystals a rare drop. They earlier robbed a few cultivators who were traveling, thus the bandits were currently celebrating their victory.

Thinking of something, one of the bandits suddenly asked, "Boss, as we are all in the Dantian Core Formation realm of the 7th string and higher, why don't we try to rob a kingdom? With our strength, it should be easy!"

Hearing the bandit who just talked, many nodded in agreement, they were in total ten bandits from the 7th string to the 9th, and coupled with their boss at Nascent Soul realm most kingdoms would have no way to defend against them!

However, what they did not expect is that the face of the boss, hearing his words quickly turned grim, "Attack a Kingdom is too risky, while in appearance they seem weak, in reality, there may be an extremely strong hidden expert... I once tried to rob one with my old bandit group, but we all got exterminated, the only one who managed to escape alive from there was me."

The faces of the bandits froze, there is such a risk? Isn't it unfair if the kingdoms have a hidden expert?

Noticing the worsened atmosphere, a bandit quickly tried to lighten it, "Well, this is a celebration party, let's be happy instead!"

Hearing the bandit's horrible way of lightening the mood, the boss could not help but laugh, "Hahaha, you are right, let's start the feast!"

Taking a glass of alcohol, the boss raised it and was about to drink it, when he suddenly frowned and looked at the distance, "Someone is coming, everyone, get ready to fight!"

Hearing him the bandits smiled and stood up, it seems that the next prey was getting closer. Taking out their weapons, they stared in alert, ready for any reaction from the preys.

Suddenly, the preys came into their view… however the reality was different from expectations, and all the bandits were dumbfounded.

In front of them, three figures appeared, seemingly running as if they were making a race.

The three figures were Shu Himo, Aura Azusa and Phylia, who were running forward and looking at each other competitively! They were making a race on who reaches first the Shu Capital!

All of a sudden, the three noticed that a group of people was aiming at them with their weapons, seemingly ready to fight. Seeing them, they questioned them with a puzzled gaze, "Why are you pointing your weapons at us?"

Startled from their composure, the bandits reflexively answered, "Give us everything you have and we will let you escape unharmed!"

Shu Himo was startled, again? Why are all the bandits so kind? They forgot again a broken arm or leg! "What is wrong with you all? Just stop it!"

The bandits were dumbfounded, stop doing what? Meeting the weirdness of Shu Himo, they did not have another choice, so they all got into position, ready to fight.

Shu Himo was about to stop for teaching the right morals to the bandits when he suddenly noticed: both Aura Azusa and Phylia did not stop running!

Seeing them he was dumbfounded, "This is cheating, how am I supposed to win the race if there are the bandits slowing me?" While if he used Hopper he could reach them, they also added the rule that Shu Himo can't use Hopper when running! Isn't this completely unfair?

[What about just losing the race?]

'Never!'

Aura Azusa overhearing him smiled, "Fine, you are allowed to use that dash while you fight those bandits!"

Hearing her, Shu Himo's eyes immediately sparkled, 'I now have a perfect plan! I will be the one who wins the race!'

[The system feels sorry for the bandits who will be victims of the abuse from the User.]

Ignoring the system, Shu Himo looked at the bandits with eyes filled with greed, feeling lucky to have found them.

Meanwhile, the bandits seeing his expression were startled, what was he going to do?

Using immediately a stacked [Hopper_x4], Shu Himo vanished from view and reappeared in front of the first bandit, posing his palm on his torso.

The bandit, feeling a palm on his torso immediately turned down to look, finally noticing Shu Himo.

Completely terrorized, he tried to scream but did not manage to emit a sound before suddenly feeling a compelling force pressing on his torso, sending him flying on top of another bandit while being in a state of near-death, since his organs were almost completely crushed under the force of a reversed stacked [Hopper_x4].

Seeing his state, Shu Himo smirked. Any cultivator under Nascent Soul realm will get in a state of near-death by a single reversed stacked [Hopper_x4].

He then brought out his scythe and used a stacked [Hopper_x4], dashing rapidly toward the two bandits and slashed horizontally, splitting both in half.

The other bandits seeing this scene were petrified, finally realizing that if they don't work together to kill him, death was the only thing that awaits them.

Meanwhile, Shu Himo scanned through the bandits and found his target, the bandit boss in the Nascent Soul realm... 'He will be perfect for that role...'