Chapter 259: Bandits and Hyuutia
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North West region of a kingdom known as Dioral was famously known as Hyuutia despite there had been another equally influential faction led by Seraph family and the fact that noble families, small or big, own their own land. Upon latest invasion by Orlais that was defeated by Hezri force, Seraph family was dissolved and families under it were annexed by Hezri-Hyuutia coalition. Hyuutia secretly pledged fealty to Hezri Kingdom, a government existed in secrecy. 

As Hyuutia land was the largest land in the western Dioral, it had border with Ferelden, Orlais and Korcari Wilds with Orlais shared the longest border with Hyuutia. Luckily, there was wide ownerless land between the two, filled with thick forest discouraging invasion by the Orlais. Nevertheless, the unnamed forest was not as large and mysterious as Korcari Wilds that protected Hinterland of Redcliffe from barbarians.

Another unique feature of Hyuutia region was each demesne owned by each noble family was separated by forest, swamp and hills, making them dens for bandits.

Bandits were various groups of lawless men that terrorize people by doing robbery, killing, abduction and some slavery. Although bandits were active throughout Dioral, most of them were based in and around Hyuutia region.

Upon defeating Goro, Hiro and Scott Aldiss led the over 200 fighters to area surrounding the bandits encampment.

Hiro speculated that there won’t be anyone strong left in the camp. There would be only ordinary bandits and they weren’t opponents of his skilled warriors.

“Kill them!” Scott ordered the warriors to sweep through the camp.

The men bellowed and rushed into the camp, with Clementine and Irijina at the most front.

The guard on patrol saw a tall woman and a short haired blonde rushed over. He panicked first. Then he wanted to scream but was killed by the fast Clementine before being able to issue a warning.

The warriors entered the camp without a warning and caught bandits off guard.

The morale of the bandits had collapsed and most of them turned to escape. However, their fate was death. Even ordinary soldiers were able to destroy a bandit camp so a highly trained and equipped warriors were like the grim-reapers.

The battle was over in less than 30 minutes. 

Hiro rolled his eyes as he sat on top of a large stone with Farnese and Luca beside him. He was satisfied. The mob of bandits couldn’t resist against the skilled warriors. Even if the bandits got the courage to face them, a single woman, either Sekrit, Clementine, Myla, Irijina or Lyla was enough to topple five or six of them.

Luca touched his arm to alert him of a girl running at them. It is the kunoichi with short boyish hair, the youngest among the girls, Mirai. 

"A team of bandits is coming to the camp."

She reported in a emotionless matter of fact tone.

"Farnese, Luca and Mirai. Go to everyone and tell them to hide. Ambush them upon my signal."

"Understood." 

It didn’t take long for a group of people riding horses enter the camp. A burly man roared up when he saw the bloody scene: “Who has got so much courage to invade my camp?”

The man’s eyes swept through the camp and saw Hiro's smile and sit on top of the stone: “Who are you? Are you the one who has killed my underlings?”

Hiro smiled: “Yes. It was me. So?”

“You are courting…death!” The man was furious.

looked at a group of maximum 100 bandits behind the burly man: “I’m not sure who is courting death but I’m sure that I lack gold and you have been pest to my land." Hiro told him in intonation of either being annoyed and provocative.

"Your land? Are you noble?" The burly man asked while staring at Hiro's attire.

"Yes but incorrect actually. I am the one who control Hyuutia."

"What the..."

Hiro waved his hand and the warriors rushed out from the hiding.

The burly man was aware that there was an ambush. However, this place was his stronghold. He didn’t believe that everyone was killed. That was the main reason why he rushed in without hesitation.

However, he didn’t think that the force that attacked his camp was a large group of skilled warriors. 

"Women.." The bandits were stupefied as several women skillfully dashed in between them.

Even the burly man got caught by surprise. Hiro didn’t give him chance to react and made Irijina attack him.

Argh~~

Irijina yelled and made several attacks.

The burly man roared and took out his sword. He used it to block Irijina’s attack. 

Hiro understood that this person was much stronger than Goro.

The female spear master was able to barely keep up with the broad sword wielder while they confronted each other. Hiro was afraid that his girl would suffer if she continued to face the burly man.

Sure enough, after a while, Iriji was wounded by the man. Although they were minor injuries it was a proof that she wasn’t the burly man’s opponent.

The man seemed to be a higher level warrior. 

"So that was former commander of Federation. Ivanna might recognize this guy." Hiro muttered. He also noticed that the 100 men were far stronger than bandits. He thought they must be former Federation soldiers.

But Irijina as a spear master was borne for wars and battles. The more blood was shed the fiercer she got.

Kurotsuchi was waiting behind him with Farnese and Luca.

"Kurotsuchi. Help Irijina."

Upon his command, the kunoichi immediately entered the stealth mode and waited for an opportunity to attack the opponent. After a while, she found that the burly man was too concentrated on the fight against the stubborn Irijina. So he got careless on few occasions. Kurotsuchi sneaked towards the man’s back and stabbed the sword to his ass.

“Ah …” The man screamed and used his hand to cover his ass.

Kurotsuchi decided to attack the man’s ass because the burly man may not react if she attacked to another place. But ass was a place which would make the burly man react subconsciously.

Irijina took the opportunity and made consecutive thrusts.

The person wanted to turn to chase Kurotsuchi but the kunoichi quickly ran away.

She waited for 5 several minutes for the skill to cool off and sneaked once again. She used the same trick again.

The burly man shouted: “Be a man! Why are you using such a way to attack?”

"Hahaha. As you see, I am a beautiful girl!" Kurotsuchi teased him.

"Once I get you, I will rape you!"

"Wooo. So scary!" She playfully lurked near the furious man.

Hiro laughed from distance: “Come on! Why should I now use tricks? You are talking as if you are a priest or some holy person. Damn it! You are a thief, robber, and bandit! Acting mighty!”

Despite being attacked from two sides, the man was overcoming them.

"Sekrit!"

Hiro called the nearest formidable fighter. 

Although the burly man was strong he couldn’t withstand the attacks when someone of Sekrit's calibre joined the fray. 

After a dozen of attacks, his defence went haywire and Sekrit's sword slashed through his head and he was killed on spot.

"The head is dead. We woooon!!!" 

Irijina screamed as the remaining opponents became demotivated once their strong leader was killed and they were easily butchered.

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