Tensei Kenja no Isekai Raifu ~Daini no Shokugyo wo Ete, Sekai Saikyou ni Narimashita~ Chapter 45: I Tried A Counterattack

Chapter 45: I Tried A Counterattack

Several minutes passed since we escaped the campsite.

Rodis had stopped in front of a small cottage that had been built as if for a hiding place.

…It looked exactly like what you would expect a bandit hideout to look like.

Rodis then knocked on the door.

“It’s , Rodis. I’ve acquired so prey.”

After a mont, the door opened and Rodis went inside.

As the scout slis were a short distance away, they could not see inside of the cottage.

‘Can you get a little closer while being careful not to get caught?’

‘Okay!’

‘They’ll see if I get closer, so I’m going to hide!’

I gave the order to the slis to go closer.

This gave a much better idea of what was happening.

“What did you bring?”

“Two won and one man. The man looks really puny and won’t be worth much… But he is a B-Rank Scout, so maybe he has a lot of money on him. It’s an Earth Dragon investigation quest, so no one will pry into it if I say they were killed on the way.”

“And their equipnt?”

“About E-Rank stuff. They should fetch a decent price.”

Apparently, they were planning on selling us and all of our stuff.

Well, it was settled then. This was a bandit hideout and Rodis was one of them.

So that ant…well, I should probably ask the veteran Adventurers what that ant.

“Tina. Rodis just joined up with his bandit friends.”

“Yuji. Your detection abilities go that far?”

“Yeah. Actually, I had my tad slis do the scouting. It was also them that noticed that Rodis had run away.”

I said as I pointed to the sli on my shoulder.

I felt that I could trust Tina and Lisa, and so I could at least tell them that much.

“I never heard of a Tar doing such a thing! I knew your detection abilities were abnormal, but isn’t this is crazy!?”

“I never heard of it either.”

“I don’t know what to say, but I just can. …So, what should we do?”

“Uh… So you can tell where their location is too?”

“Yeah. Should I catch them?”

I said this as I used the slis’ magic detection ability to scan the positions of the bandits.

There were four of them including Rodis.

They had their own weapons, but capturing and defeating them seed like it would be easy enough with Magic Transfer.

“It would be better to kill them rather than catch them… How many are there?”

“Four including Rodis.”

“In that case, we won’t be able to kill them. There are only three of us, and Rodis is not soone I want to fight with such a disadvantage.”

Ah. She was thinking that we would all go and do it ourselves.

Well, that wasn’t quite necessary.

“We don’t have to go ourselves. I’m pretty sure I could just do it with the slis.”

“…You can do such a thing? Slis? Actual slis?”

“Yeah. Even slis can fight if you use your head. …Should I give it a try? If it seems like it won’t work, I’ll have the slis retreat and we can make a run for it.”

Tina heard this and thought for a mont.

“If you can do it, it would be our best option without a doubt.”

As I now had the approval of the party leader, I gave the order to the slis.

Rodis was quite strong, so I’d have to move carefully.

‘I’m going to attack the bandits with Magic Transfer, so I want you guys to surround the cottage! So of them are strong, so stay out of sight! Proud Wolf, I want you to stay hidden sowhere in case the plan fails!’

So saying, I cast ‘Monster Conceal’ on them once again.

The slis were semi-transparent and it was also the middle of the night.

They would likely remain hidden unless the enemy had monsters that could detect them.

Now that I think about it, Rodis had probably specifically chosen this ti to take the watch, because it made it easier to ambush us… Of course, it would be used to our advantage now.

‘Okay!’

‘Understood!’

The slis heard my order and began to separate and surround the cottage.

The Proud Wolf moved a short distance away and hid in so bushes.

I would have liked to just use Hellfire of Death… But the magic depletion was so severe, that I would not be able to do anything if we happened to be attacked by reinforcents.

So it would be better to use sothing less demanding… But I don’t think I ever used magic that was perfect for a small group before.

…Well, I’ll choose sothing randomly. And if it doesn’t work, then I’ll use Hellfire of Death.

With that decided, I searched my mory.

I would like to use sothing unrelated to fire this ti. Fire would light up the place and make the slis visible if I failed to kill all of them.

And then I found sothing called ‘Curse of Eternal Tundra’… But the na made think it would be in the sa class as Hellfire of Death.

Now, if there was only sothing a little weaker, that was also ice-type magic… It was as I was thinking such things that I found exactly that.

‘Area Freeze – dium.’

It sounded simple and to the point. I would use this.

‘Magic Transfer—-Area Freeze – dium!’

I transferred the magic to the slis while making sure that no one else would be able to hear my voice.

In the next instant…the sounds of the bandits’ talking suddenly stopped.

Not a sound could be heard from the cottage.

‘…What happened?’

In order to see inside of the room, I transferred a Magic Bullet to destroy the wall.

And then…everything beca clear.

At first, it just looked like the bandits were still talking to each other.

There was no surprise over an attack on their faces. If you took a photograph of bandits talking, it would look just like this.

The only thing odd was that they were completely still.

I checked their status through the slis, and it showed that their HP was 0.

Apparently, the bandits had died without ever knowing they had been attacked.

‘Area Freeze – dium’… It was stronger than I had imagined.

As I mused over this, I checked my own status.

…My MP had only depleted by 20%.

This was very useful. I don’t know how effective it would be against monsters, but perhaps it was the best for fighting humans.

But now I was curious about the effectiveness of Curse of Eternal Tundra… But that would have to wait.