How did you bunch of silly group members also time travel?

"Of course it counts, A-Cang." After dealing with the last bandit who was so frightened that his lower body was shooting wildly, Miss Fox, who was still free of the stench of liquid, swung her light sword, her face slightly pale.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that Miss Fox wasn't satisfied. It's just that she ate too much shark meat at once and was a little too full. The mixture of three or four different smells made her feel nauseous.

"Ah Cang, the so-called stealth means that all things are false and all things are permitted!"

"What do you mean?"

"This is how I understand it: everything is illusory. Killing everything you see is the perfect stealth," Miss Fox said seriously, and then left the slaughterhouse.

The hamster looked around for a moment, then climbed up the tree and used its jumping motion to avoid getting the strange liquid on its body.

"Fox, fox, where are we not allowed to bury it?"

"Bury it, bury it, don't rush me." After all, it's a level 15 pathetic elf, a weakling who would go limp if slapped hard on the butt.

Manipulating the earth was quite taxing for Miss Fox. She felt completely drained, weak all over, and light on her feet, as if she were dreaming and had reached the pinnacle.

"Hmm~" At this moment, you need a bottle of MP potion to sweep away the discomfort, fill up the emptiness, and be yourself again!

This feeling!

It feels just like a shrine maiden at a daytime shrine, outwardly respectful but inwardly elegant, managing to complete the final ritual flawlessly without being noticed! It's incredibly addictive!

Well, okay, it's not really an addiction. It's just that when I run out of mana, I just drink a few mana potions to get it back.

It's like waking up naturally after a long, tiring day and then having a good, restful sleep! (A proper metaphor)

"Alright, Acang, there are still many bandits waiting for us in the cave~" Miss Fox felt excited!

"Whether we succeed or fail, victory belongs to us!"

...

The main gate of the bandit stronghold.

A very conspicuous hilltop, with a large open space on the road leading to the bandits' stronghold. The bandits' cave entrance is not covered up at all, just blatantly showing a direction. If you didn't know better, you would think this was a military combat exercise.

Meanwhile, in the forest area next to the clearing, dozens of adventurers were hiding and cautiously communicating, watching the defensive line set up by the bandits.

"Captain, why hasn't that Steel-rank adventurer arrived yet?"

"I don't know. He's a steel-level adventurer, so it's normal for him to have a temper."

"How much longer do we have to wait?"

"In short, let's wait and see. We can't handle Brian on our own. Our mission is just to hold off those bandits so that the Steel-level adventurer can fight Brian one-on-one!"

The adventurers were all excited, eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Steel-ranked adventurer so they could witness the beauty of Ye Lantir's most beautiful adventurer and have a thrilling duel between the strong with Brian!

This will give them something to talk about later!

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Chapter 73 The Unsuspecting Mountain Bandits

In the dark cave.

The former leader of an adventure team, now the head of a mountain bandit group, had just come out of the prisoner's room. He stretched comfortably, looking relaxed and casually dressed, walking with a brisk pace, and even humming a song.

"Shh~"

Even if he heard the gossip of the other bandits, he was in a good mood and didn't care. He pretended not to hear and walked quickly.

After all, he was the leader who got to eat the meat first, so it's normal for the other bandits who needed it to have some complaints about him. But once they go in and have a bowl of soup, they'll be fine. Some of the prisoners of war from the initial battles of the bandit group were quite good.

And so, he went to rewatch it in broad daylight.

We should thank him for not keeping such a high-quality loot all to himself, but for sharing it with everyone.

"Ah Cang, look what I found!"

Acang? Is there someone named Acang in their mountain village?

Perhaps it's their nicknames. It's impossible to remember all the nicknames of your subordinates; when funds are tight, you just copy and paste people. The bandit leader thought to himself.

By the way, do they have any female members in their gang?

"There's a lone bandit here. We can try to capture him. A bandit can provide a considerable amount of shark meat experience. He's rich in protein, vitamins, oils, and so on—"

However, bandits are not easy to deal with. If things go wrong, they will suddenly split up and we won't even know how to catch them.

So we need to approach him cautiously and stealthily, without letting him spot us, and then do it like this!

"Hey! I'm telling you guys—" The impatient bandit leader turned around, but instead of seeing the female bandit he expected who would openly make fun of him, he saw a giant hamster staring straight at him.

Moreover, the passage behind this giant hamster was full of corpses!

They were all headless corpses of bandits!

"!?!" The bandit leader tried to shout, but found himself unable to speak! His head also wouldn't move—it fell to his feet with a thud!

Huh? At his own feet?

"Like this! Before the bandits split up, twist his head off!"

The bandit leader heard a gentle and melodious female voice recounting terrifying events. He opened his mouth and let out a silent roar, but soon his consciousness was completely plunged into darkness, embracing death.

popping.

Miss Fox clapped her hands. Her face was only slightly flushed, like after strenuous exercise. Her accumulated Shark-like experience had finally leveled her up. She could now help someone split up without feeling disgusted, and her condition was excellent.

The weather is clear and cloudless, my heart is pounding at 180 mph, and my mood is as bright as the sun!

"I don't think this counts as stealth at all," the hamster complained.

From the moment they entered the bandits' den, the giant hamster listened to Miss Fox's vivid and expressive speech, something like, "Actually, this thing is edible."

'As long as you remove his head, you can eat the rest of him.'

They say this stuff looks like peanut butter and tastes like peanut butter, but I've never had peanut butter before.

'Just bite off its head... crunch... spit it out, remove the internal organs, and the rest can be eaten... munch munch... let's continue on our way' and so on.

Then she watched as one bandit after another fell, none of them getting up again. And Miss Fox didn't seem to be going to eat them either.

"Alright, Acang, the wilderness survival training camp is over." She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. Miss Fox needed to cool down.

"So this really isn't stealth..."

"Oh dear, I've told you so many times, Acang, this isn't important."

Miss Fox, ignoring the fact that the passive ambush hadn't been turned off and that the big hamster, Ah Cang, couldn't see her, continued waving her hands, seemingly unconcerned about pulling on the eggs, and strode forward: "The important thing is..."

She instinctively stopped abruptly, only to find that half a person had appeared in front of her! What does "half a person" mean? (Requirement: Write your understanding of a person. (80 points))

Miss Fox happened to be standing in front of a hole covered by a cloth. Inside, a blue-haired man with a full beard poked half his body out and looked directly at Miss Fox. Their eyes met! If Miss Fox hadn't instinctively stopped abruptly, she would have bumped into him!

This is a big thumbs up for Miss Fox's intuition!

"Phew!" The moment Miss Fox realized that there was half a person in front of her, her usually steady heart soared to 180 miles per hour, and she was truly in a state of utter madness.

It's like riding your bicycle to school, chatting with a classmate, and suddenly stopping abruptly, turning around to find a half-open window right in front of you, almost touching your nose. Terrifying!

"Who are you? A newcomer to the adventurer's party?" Lowering one's presence only means lowering one's presence, not becoming invisible. Once eyes meet, the effect is temporarily lost and one is noticed.

As Miss Fox was startled and stepped back, the man with the blue seaweed-like hair was also startled. He immediately jumped out from behind the door, drew his weapon, and assumed a fighting stance.

"A hamster monster..." The blue seaweed-headed man observed for a moment, and since Miss Fox hadn't buried the corpse yet, he easily realized that his guess was wrong.

Not only were there hamsters taller than a person standing there, but the fact that the passage behind them was filled with headless corpses was enough to confirm that they were enemies.

just,

"Where is she?" He had only been distracted for a moment, and Miss Fox had already 'disappeared' from his sight; he had lost track of her.

"Phew! That really scared me to death!" Miss Fox gently patted her conscience, her ears still ringing with the sound of her own rapid heartbeat.

Humans are creatures that love beauty, and so are elves.

If you had chosen a cute, pretty girl, or even a man who's prettier than a woman, anything that fits Miss Fox's aesthetic, it wouldn't have scared her like this!

I almost bumped into a scruffy-bearded middle-aged man when I turned around. That was even more terrifying than almost crashing into a window!

"Fox, this person is very strong. I can sense that this bandit is the same as Clementine!" The giant hamster was already bristling, and the magic patterns on its belly, which were not usually noticeable, were now glowing. The whole hamster became ferocious!

Miss Fox was confused.

In her perception, this unshaven middle-aged man was no different from the bandits who had split up along the way.

There was no sense of oppression, nor did it give her any feeling of danger.

"Ah! Right, I didn't feel anything when I got close to that necromancer and Clementine yesterday either!" With a slap of her hand, Miss Fox discovered the blind spot!

"Mountain bandits?" Miss Fox resolved her own doubts, and now it was Blue Kelp's turn to be confused.

"Isn't this an adventurer's base?"

"Huh!? This is an adventurer's base!?" Upon hearing this, Miss Fox's heart rate exploded! More audacious than ever before!

"Didn't the map say this was a bandit stronghold?!" She just wiped out an entire adventure party?!

That's terrible! We made a huge mistake! We won't get the Adventurers' Guild's quest rewards!

Or should we bury this place and pretend nothing happened?

"This idea is feasible!"

"Fox, fox, this is indeed a bandit stronghold." The big hamster was speechless. He was so serious when he accepted the mission, but he didn't listen to anything?

"These bandits were adventurers before, they only became bandits a few days ago. They even intercepted a caravan and killed the adventurers who came to hunt them down."

"Huh? They became bandits!?" The blue seaweed-headed girl was even more clueless than Miss Fox!

They were clearly bandits, but they didn't know they were bandits!

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Chapter Seventy-Four: Waiting in Vain

Outside the bandit stronghold.

The adventurers, who had been keeping a close watch on the bandits from behind the trees, were exhausted and had been waiting for Miss Fox, their main force, to provide support, for quite some time. Most of them were already impatient.

"Captain, how much longer do we have to wait? If we keep waiting, we'll miss dinner!"

The captain was also helpless. Who knew what that steel-level adventurer was thinking? He was a steel-level adventurer, surely he couldn't be lost?

Furthermore, if it weren't for their expectation of encountering the most beautiful female adventurer in Ye Lantier, many members of the team wouldn't have made it this far. Could it be that they've been tricked by the Adventurers' Guild?

Or perhaps the Adventurers' Guild didn't tell that the Steel-ranked adventurer to follow the marked trail, so they waited for them in another place.

After all, the bandits over there didn't seem to be in any trouble...

"Let's wait a little longer..." The captain had said this for who knows how many times.

"Wait and wait! It's been three hours, Captain!"

The adventurer who asked the question was clearly impatient, like the protagonist in a shonen manga who wants to prove himself after being criticized a few times. He angrily drew his weapon and said, "If you're going to talk about it, why don't we just stop waiting for that 'master' of the adamantite-grade adventurer and do this job ourselves!"

If they weren't outmatched by Brian, do you think the members of the adventure team wouldn't want to?

But the captain couldn't say that; it would be too real. Before society had truly beaten the young people, he, having already been beaten himself, wouldn't explain it clearly from the start—even if he did, the young people wouldn't believe him!

"It is a major taboo for adventurers to interfere with other people's missions!"

Even if we want to do it, we have to wait until the other party's application fails or is deemed unsuccessful before we can proceed!

Since we accepted the mission to support that adamantite-class adventurer, we must complete it successfully, so let's not talk about this anymore!

"Even if that 'master' of the steel-grade adventurer doesn't come!?" The young man was still unconvinced, emphasizing his words.

“Even if that steel-class adventurer doesn’t come!” the captain said confidently.

The young man gritted his teeth, kicked his feet a few times, and then obediently returned to his post. Anyone could see, however, that a burning, inextinguishable fire resided within him.

This is the undiminished vigor of youth. Regardless of the reason for this event, it will become fuel for this young person to grow stronger. How long it takes to burn out depends on the young person's will.

"Don't worry, that Brian is a swordsman who can rival the kingdom's strongest warrior captain. Even a steel-level adventurer would have a hard time against him alone. Without us delaying the other bandits, no matter how good that steel-level adventurer is at stealth, he can't possibly kill all the other bandits before going to fight someone else, right?" the captain reassured him.

The young man nodded, his complexion at least much better.

Seeing this, the captain stopped paying attention to him and continued to stare at the bandits, lost in thought.

If it weren't for Brian.

Although this band of bandits was once a famous adventurer team, the captain was confident that his team was no weaker than the enemy's, and that becoming a steel-level bandit was only a matter of time.

That's why he stood out among several adventurer teams of similar size and became a hired candidate of the Adventurers' Guild.