7 Bandit King Buser [Part 2]
Nemesis arrived at the gate entrance the next morning. He is thirty minutes early but there are people and five carriages already waiting near the gate.
The most eye catching was the carriage in the middle tied to five Dragon Horses. As the name implies, yeah they have a part dragon bloodline. Their size is much larger compared to normal sized horses with big muscles that will make other horses feel intimidated. Their endurance and abilities to attack or defend due to their draconic bloodline is the reason they are sought-after. These horses are usually used for warfare, but if you are luxurious enough you can buy them as carriage pullers.
The other four carriages were pulled by a creasure as big and bulky as the Dragon Horses. They were Sleipnirs. Sleipnirs have 4 pairs of legs, same body build as the the Dragon Horses, their endurance is on par with the Dragon Horses, but they are mostly used by rich mechants to pull their carriages filled with trading goods.
The door on the Dragon Horse pulled carriage suddenly opened. What appeared was an obese looking elf. He's like a walking meatball with elf ears. Funny, but he looks menacing. With a level of 98, Nemesis wouldn't dare to underestimate this walking meatball.
The merchant introduced himself as Fatty Lin. He comes from the Elven kingdom in the East and is going to the capital of the Human Empire for an important trade.
Even he looks menacing, his tone is actually kind, surprising personality for someone as a merchant. Seeing that he's a child, Fatty Lin just asked for his payment and told that he'll be staying in the 3rd carriage the one behind his.
Seeing the child went inside, Fatty Lin went back in his carriage. Outside it looks like an ordinary merchant carriage but in the inside, it was beautiful, with expensive items everywhere, from the seats made from magical beasts hide in high quality, to the lamps that lits up continuously powered by magic crystals, the inside fits the Royalty instead of a merchant.
On the other end sat a little elf girl, she has a silky black hair with braids on it reaching her lower hips, dressed in white that countours her curves despite having a young body, and a beautiful flower placed on the left part of her hair. Her age is the same as Nemesis' but more intelligent than our dummy protagonist.
"Your highness, the kid is already in the carriage."
"Good. You have done a good job. Thank you Fatty Lin. You even helped me get out of the royal capital. My father will send someone to find me later. Don't worry I'll help you in this mess when the time they find me." replied the girl in a sweet tone.
"It was nothing, really, your highness. It's my honor to serve you."
"Your highness, might I ask why you let him join our caravan? He looks like a normal child to me. Innocent looking but definitely hiding something. He is already suspicious looking with that cross-shaped scar on his left cheek if you ask me. He might even be the one sent by your older sister to kill you, your highness."
"Ah Fatty Lin, you don't have to worry about my sister. I have someone monitoring every movement she makes. She is not a great threat to me at the moment. As for that kid, he's not that much of a threat either so relax. Anyways, now I think everything is in order, tell the others that we are now leaving."
"Yes your highness." bowed Fatty Lin and exited the carriage.
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Inside Nemesis' carriage, there are a total of 17 people inside including him with stacks of chests in the front.
"Hmmmm. Magical chests? They really are a merchant caravan. These mercenaries are really good, with a level of 86, the bandits will be in the run for their money.Let's not forget that we have Fatty Lin, he might roll them over to death or something. Hahahaha."
"They said that the travel will take 16 days if it goes smooth sailing. Well, there will be a bandit raid later, so I hope this won't slow us down. I really want to arrive there fast. It's the first kingdom I'm visiting since arriving here." saying this inside his head. He tasked the system to alert him, in case the bandits arrived and is surrounding them and then take a nap.
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Somewhere on the forest kilometers away from the capital, a skinny looking man is currently on it's way on the mountain near the route the carvan will take.
Sitting inside was a Dark Elf middle aged man. Scars on the face really makes him scary to the victims. This is Bandit King Buser.
Buser started his banditry when he escaped as a slave that is supposed to be sold off from a Slave merchant at the age of 18.
Twenty five years later, he is now the fearsome Bandit King of Azelac Mountain Range. With an army of 65 bandits, he conquered all other bandit groups in the area, making him the sole leader of 500 bandits.
In front of him is his subordinate that he sent to spy the caravan.
"Boss, the caravan has just left Ghrompee Town and is expected to arrive at the ambush point in 10 days." said the thin man to Buser excitedly.
"You have done well Antonio. Now alert our brothers to prepare the ambush point, fill it with traps and make sure it's not noticeable. After that, rest and eat, then help your brothers tomorrow. Make sure we do this right. This is our first major high paying job in years and I don't want this messed up. Understand?"
"Don't worry boss, we will revel in victory after we finished this job. I might even retire after this with the reward we will all receive. Hahahaha." he confidently replied then left.
"Yes, we will revel in victory after." Buser said as he see the leaving Antonio.
Antonio was the only friend he had all these years. He trust him more than his other lieutenants and occasionally leaving him as second-in-command of he bandits when he is not arround.
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Over the next 10 days, Nemesis has not detected anything weird on the way but he still kept his vigilance on high alert.
"Where the hell are they? Did I really heard it right? Maybe this is the wrong caravan. But this is the only caravan that left ten days ago. This is the 10th day already and still no sign of them. Sigh. Six more days and I'll finally arrive at the capital." he wonders as he went back to sleep again.
This is what Nemesis does on this trip, he just sleeps until they stop on rivers to let the Dragon Horses and Sleipnirs to drink and rest, or lets the warrior escorts to stretch themselves outside.
Nemesis doesn't need to wash himself on rivers. He just cast the [Clean] spell on himself so he does not need to take a bath in the river. Really a handy spell to have on travels which makes the mercenaries with him on the carriage wonder on how he always looked refreshed despite not going outside to clean himself. He only went outside just to answer the calls of nature.
He's not short on food either, he just gets it from his inventory that he bought before leaving and eat alone when everyone is outside.
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A few hours later.
"Boss they have arrived." Antonio reported.
"Good. Signal everyone. Our prey is here." Buser said with a big smile on his face.
