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10. Bandit I

Especially for this part and the next part, the story is about the incident of Prince Sein before meeting Lilian who was rude. The author tells you so that readers are not confused about the storyline. Happy reading don't forget to leave a trace yes 🤭

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In a very spacious room there are shelves that fill the entire room, the shelves are filled with various books.

The middle of the room there are several soft chairs that are very comfortable. The room has a terrace that directly leads to a garden.

The corner of the room there is a work desk with various rolls of documents on it, next to the table there is a chair that is now occupied by someone.

The man's forehead shriveled even until his jaw hardened as he read the sentence contained in one of the scrolls of the document he was now holding.

The scroll he squeezed out strongly, his breath hunting and the gaze of his eyes sharpened, the one who saw his current expression would probably tremble.

"Artem." He said as he kept the scroll back.

"His high servant." Salute by bowing his body.

"Send a report to my father, tell him I'll intervene directly and prepare the defense forces." Said firmly.

"Okay, your honor." He turned and left the room.

The person is the prince Seint the next King candidate. The aura that Seint emitted now was terrifying, Artem had always even been formal if Seint was in serious fashion as he was now.

If he had decided to intervene directly then there would be no mercy for his enemy.

For a very long time the bandits in the Nania area did the action until it made the citizens uncomfortable. The residents even opted out of the area and looked for other safe areas to occupy.

Already several times warning letters were presented to the bandits but they did not stop they were rampant.

Every day something is done by them, they start robbing, oppressing, raping girls, and they don't hesitate to kill.

Sein closed his eyes and tapped the table with his finger waiting for Artem to arrive.

Before long the sound of someone's footsteps could be heard heading towards him that person was Artem. "Your highness, Your Majesty has allowed and the preparations have been completed."

"We're leaving now." He got up from his seat and walked ahead of Artem.

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After passing through the horse-drawn journey to Nania, Prince Seint and his army waited for information from one of his subordinates about the whereabouts of the bandits, after waiting for quite a long time finally the person who awaited came and saluted.

"Your noble report, the bandits have three headquarters points, two of them are here including the core headquarters while one point is in the capital." Report that person.

Seint smiled at the reports of his subordinates, the people who saw Sein's smile gulped in horror at the expression of the Prince. It was not the sweet smile he showed but rather the smile that made the person who saw him shudder in horror.

"Where is the location?" Seint.

"One point is in the south of Nania region and one core point is in the eastern area of Nania while one point is in the capital near the main market." Clearly this subordinate.

"They even want to spread out wings in the capital." Seint.

"Then what should we do, prince?" Artem.

Sein looked at Artem seriously. "We will divide the group into two, one group to the south and one group to the east, you will lead to the south and I will lead to the east."

Artem seemed hesitant with Seint's words "It doesn't matter that we divide the group into two noble ones."

Sein looked at Artem and smiled cynically. "Are you scared?"

Artem sighed softly. "Hamba instead of being afraid of the noble, I would even be very happy if I had fallen as a knight of Apollonia."

"What makes you doubt?" Sein.

"Hamba is only worried about you, your majesty, the troops we bring are not enough and we have to divide them into two groups, you're going to the core headquarters which means their members will be much more there." Artem.

"You doubt my ability Artem ?" Sein.

"Not your majesty, servant only..." Not yet Artem continued his words, Seint interrupted.

"Then do as I say" said Seint.

Artem resigned he knew very well how the nature of his best friend if his decision was round. "All right."

"My left is for you." Sein patted Artem on the shoulder and walked towards his horse.

Artem stared at the troops. "Then for tonight we rest first, tomorrow before sunrise we have to get to their headquarters and no one makes a move that makes them sniff our existence."

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As previously planned that the defense forces would be divided into two groups led by Seint and Artem respectively. They move in different directions, one group to the east and one group to the south. As a result of the negotiations between the two groups if they succeed they will meet in the middle of Nania but if they are in trouble they will have to light a sign to the sky so that other groups can help.

Now Seint is monitoring the condition of the bandits' headquarters before he and his troops attack. There were several people in front of the gate of a building standing guard.

Sein gave the code for him and his troops to attack carefully, Seint approached the gate and threw a stone the size of a handful of hands at the guard.

"Who's there?" Shouted one of the guards.

"Is there anyone there?" Ask again, when there was no answer the guard approached the direction of the stone to check but there was no one there.

When the guard wanted to check into the bushes a hand pulled him and broke his neck in one fell swoop, the guard sprawled on the ground and no longer moved.

The other guards began to suspect his friend who went to check never came back.When they wanted to catch up with his friend, suddenly a crowd of people came and attacked them. It didn't take long for the mob to paralyze the guards but one of the guards managed to escape and ran inside the base and shouted.

"INVESTIGATOR....THERE'S INTRUDERS...." Shouted the guards so as to wake the people up.

Sein coded his team to be on standby. "You ready?"

"Ready man." Said his troops in unison.

They entered the base and dozens of bandits confronted them, one of the bandits with a scratch on the cheek pointing towards Seint using his sword "How dare you attack at the base Thursday, are you looking to die?"

Seint smiled sinisterly towards the bandit. "We'll see who dies here." He started to pull the sword from his waist

The face of the bandit was flushed red with anger, his gaze was sharpened. "ATTACK!" Shouted the bandits.

Seint and his army advanced against the bandits. Sein's sword moves were so agile that it overwhelmed the bandits against him.

Sein fended off the sword aimed at him, with a quick movement he kicked the stomach of the bandit and swung his sword towards the bandits. The gaping wound on the bandit's chest was the result of a sword directed by Seint.

Not giving long for the bandit to grimace due to his wound, Seint stabbed the bandit right in his heart so that the bandit spewed blood from his mouth and sprawled on the ground.

When Seint wanted to turn a sword towards him, it was fortunate that his instincts were very strong even though dark Seint could avoid the sword and the sword only tore off part of Seint's sleeve.

Seint's gaze sharpened towards the three bandits in front of him, with a quick movement he pointed his sword towards the bandit and with a wit Seint's sword injured several of the bandits' limbs.

Not wanting to waste a long time, Seint moved agilely towards the bandits. CRACH...CRACH...CRACH.

Seint glanced at his troops who were now fighting against the bandits, the defense forces are specially trained forces by Seint although the defense forces are at the bottom of the other troops but the ability of the defense forces cannot be underestimated.

The defense forces dominated the fight but before they could cripple the bandits, dozens of other bandits even far more than before came attacking them.

Seint moved agilely swinging his sword towards the bandits whether how many lives had been lost to his sword. Occasionally Seint glanced at his troops in case any of his troops needed help.

Long enough they fight finally Seint and his army managed to paralyze the bandits, and, some of the bandits were even lifeless and some were still breathing but had serious injuries so they could no longer fight.

"Are you still willing to fight ?" Ask Sein to his team. However Seint could not force his troops to fight in bad condition, he had to think about the safety of his troops as well.

"We are still capable of the noble one." Said his troops in unison.

Seint nodded and stared at the entire base. "Then we'll go deeper into this base."

Seint and his troops entered the base even deeper, carefully moving and remaining on standby. By the time they reached the center of the headquarters it turned out that dozens of bandits were already waiting for them.

One of the bandits who had a large body and held a large axe advanced and spat on the ground. "How dare you fuck up our headquarters."

Seint smiled cynically. "Who's the leader here?"

The bandit laughed loudly. "You can't even beat us yet, but you dare ask who our chairman is."

Seint's eyes stare. "I don't have much time to serve you guys."

The bandits were angry and went forward to attack Seint with his big axe. Seint agilely avoided the slash of the huge axe. Several times the big axe almost hit Seint's skin but Seint quickly could always avoid.

The bandit kicked towards Seint but Seint was able to youngly dodge, not until there the bandit raised his big axe and pointed it towards Seint, with a quick movement Seint rolled onto the ground and kicked hard at the bandit's feet. Seint had only avoided making the bandits overwhelmed and looked for the weakness of the bandits.

Seint moved quickly and slashed at the bandit's back.CRACH....."AKHHHHHHHH" the bandit's agonizing cry.

The bandit did not give up even though his back was injured he was still able to lift his axe towards Seint, with a twisting motion Sein dodged the axe attack and swung his sword towards the bandit until it hit the bandit's arm.

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