The leader of the men who were surrounding them was a tall guy, and despite his big belly, he had big muscles with veins popping on his arms, but chicken legs. His face was really ugly, and he had a strong odor. In fact, all of them had a strong smell of odor.
Only God knows how many days they hadn't taken a bath...
In their hands, they held swords, daggers and axes.
The leader held two daggers, but he also had an axe strapped to his back.
'I've seen them before...' Luan began to recall from three days ago.
It was when they were camping in the dungeon, and he saw this group there too.
Thinking now, they wouldn't stop looking in their direction, but it wasn't something so uncommon like that, others also stole glances in their direction.
However, he began to think that since that moment, this group of men had made them a target, and waited for the right moment to attack.
"Third time..." Luan murmured with cold eyes.
"What is this idiot muttering?"
The rest just laughed, not giving it any importance.
Only Catharina understood what that meant.
This was the third time that a group of idiot people attacked them.
Just like now, they waited for them to get tired to surround them and attack.
Catharina's nails became longer and sharper.
Behind the veil, her vampire fangs stood out.
"Wait, there-"
Before the leader finished what he was going to say, something very fast passed by him, claiming his head.
"Ahhhh! She killed the Boss!"
One of them was the first to notice the headless body of their boss.
Catharina was now behind them holding the decapitated head of their Boss by the hair.
Throwing it to them like something dirty, she demonstrates indifference to what she did.
"You murderer!!"
"I'm going to rape you, then kill you in the worst possible way, you-"
He couldn't finish what he was going to say.
Distracted with Catharina, he didn't even notice when Luan appeared behind him, and a butcher's knife went through his back, piercing through his throat.
Pulling the knife with total coldness, Luan stepped back a little, dodging an axe that was catching fire.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
Taken to the extreme, the one holding a long spear advanced toward Luan, but even before he could get close to him, something as fast as a cheetah attacked him.
"Cough—cough—!"
Grabbing his chest, the lancer coughed violently, with his face contorted in pain.
"Pfft—" Moments later, a jet of blood sprayed from his lips.
"My God, that was cruel!"
"I think we messed with the wrong people..."
"Ah, really? You really think that? Look, aren't you a genius?" Another one of them, taken by terror, ended up rolling his eyes disdainfully at the words he heard.
"W-Let's run away!"
Without hesitation, the one who shouted started to run.
The rest followed his example, running in a different direction.
"Don't let them escape!" Luan shouted.
He himself chose his target.
Of the 4 remaining, the weakest was one who held an axe.
He let the backpack fall to the ground and started to run.
Catharina was at least 3 times faster than him.
She moved so fast that she reached the first bandit.
Upon reaching him, she lifted the veil and her teeth sank into his left shoulder.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
A scream of pain echoed very loudly.
In a matter of seconds, the man became mummified.
"M-Monster!" The other two shouted while fleeing.
Catharina's predatory eyes fixed on them, and in instants, she reached them.
Putting his hand back, one of the two bandits shouted, creating a kind of triangular thing made of water.
Catharina's transformation increases, and she places both hands on the ground, and began to run even faster.
She dodged the water project with extreme ease, and in a high jump leap, she raised her left hand, then descended with a lot of speed and force, tearing the bandit from the right shoulder to the belly region.
It was a bloody scene.
"M-Mercy!"
The last one knelt on the ground with his hands together, bowing.
Catharina approached.
"Die!" The bandit shouted, wanting to make a surprise attack.
Catharina dodged with ease and counter-attacked, piercing her hand through the bandit's throat.
Meanwhile, Luan finally reached the bandit with the axe, and upon attacking the man's face, created wool in his throat, and while the man fought for air, he pierced his chest with the butcher's knife.
The last one also had no luck. Catharina reached him very easily, and cut his head off.
...
Canceling her transformation, Catharina went to Luan.
"Are you okay?" She circled him, lightly patting his body in search of possible injuries.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." He assured.
"That's good." She let out a sigh of relief.
"We can't get relieved now, we need to do the same as last time." Luan reminded.
"Right."
The first thing they did was gather the bodies, then they took everything they had of value.
Done that, they attracted a Brugnar to that location, tying it with the corpses, hitting its belly several times with stones from afar.
The belly that was being hit of the Brugnar started to swell, shining.
*Booom!*
Suddenly, an explosion erupted.
It was very loud.
It was stronger than a grenade.
Pieces of the bandits who surrounded them before were scattered by the explosion. Nothing was left intact.
"Done." Luan was satisfied.
"Shall we go back now?" Catharina asked.
"Yes." He agreed.