Setting Up

Dak Dak Dak Dak!

The knight acting as a scout was riding back to the temple convoy swiftly. The knight didn't even bother to pull the reins on the horse, jumping down right away, dashing towards Einderson's wagon.

"Lord Archpriest, someone is onto us! There are more than 500 men ahead of us, they must be the bandits from Smochker Hills!" said the knight as he entered the carriage.

"Just some common bandits? Are there others?" 

Einderson lowered the map in his hand, asking without showing much expression.

When they had decided to head north, the archpriest had known what they would encounter in Smocker Hills.

Bandits! As many as a swarm of locusts, leaving nothing alive in their wake.

In fact, other than the monsters, the bandits were the only other obstacle that troubled the archpriest.

When the monsters were blocked outside Arya Outpost by Ryan, the bandits became the only problem in their journey to the north.