Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

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When Dagover learned that the governor’s army had left Anheim town, he immediately moved his group to a valley far from the main road to let the governor’s army pass.

Dagover was originally a bandit leader in Triot. When the demons attacked Triot’s capital and it fell, Dagover attacked the refugees who were coming out of the capital. He killed the refugees and took their valuables and food. The severity of his actions was not that different compared to the demons.

However, since the number of demons that attacked Triot kept increasing and Dagover began to see types of demons that he had never seen before, he decided to leave Triot for his own safety and went to Bain Kingdom which had weaker demons while still attacking people to fulfill his own greed.

What made Dagover so vicious was the fact that after he entered the territory of Bain Kingdom, he mainly attacked refugees from Triot, his own country. Even refugees would have some money and some even brought precious metals with them.

Even when he kept attacking the refugees, the Bain Kingdom or, to be more precise, the people from Knap house didn’t do anything to him. Dagover thought that because the people he attacked were the refugees, not the citizens of the Bain Kingdom, the people of the Knap house decided to let him be.

What Dagover didn’t know was the fact that the knights of Knap house, the former lord of this territory, were almost all exterminated because of the incident in the Veritza Fortress, which was why the Knap house couldn’t spare the manpower to handle Dagover.

Because there was no attack from the Knap house, Dagover was able to do as he wished for a while and as time passed, bandits from Triot gradually joined Dagover and even some refugees joined his group. Because of the increasing number of people, Dagover’s group was no longer able to sustain themselves by only attacking Triot’s refugees.

When the people who gathered below Dagover reached 3 digits, Dagover finally decided to raid villages to feed the increasing number of people under him.

“Since the governor has only stayed in the town for a month, we understand this region’s terrain better than him. The governor will most likely start from attacking Zeghers’s group since his group stayed at a place with easier-to-understand terrain or Granack’s group since they stayed in a place where it will be easier for the governor’s army to move.”

Dagover laughed as he bit into a piece of meat he got from raiding a village. Dagover was the type of person who wanted to monopolize his prey. As such, the death of the two other bandit leaders, Zeghers and Granack, who were also from Triot, was a joyful thing for him.

Especially Zeghers’s group. Those arrogant bastards demanded his group to join them since they had occupied an advantageous base. Dagover even thought of ambushing the winner of battle between Zeghers’s group and the governor’s army.

“But since there is no water source around this place, we might have to move tomorrow.” (Dagover’s subordinate)

“Just.…” (Dagover)

“AA!!!!”

A scream cut off Dagover’s next word. Dagover turned to look at his surroundings and he saw several of his subordinates fall to the ground while screaming.

“Leader! Over there!”

One of his men pointed to the top of a hill. About 10 people were lined up on the top of the ridge and they were throwing rocks in the direction where Dagover and his men were standing with slings.

The effective range of a skilled shooter when using a sling was about 200 meters. Even if the shooter was not skilled, if he used a sling, the range of his throw would be much bigger than throwing it by hand. Stones could even harm proper soldiers that were wearing proper leather armors, let alone mere bandits.

The countless number of fist-sized stones rained down on the bandits, causing some of them to fall down. They were bandits, not soldiers, so few of them had shields. Above all, the opponents were on top of a hill, so that alone was a tremendous disadvantage for them.

“Son of a bitch!”

“You bastard!”

The fact that the bandits were huddled together became a huge disadvantage. Before Dagover could say anything, several of his men drew their swords and rushed toward the hill where the shooters stood. But since they didn’t have any shields, their actions were nothing more than recklessness.

Scream resounded. The men who got hit by the stones on their shoulders were considered lucky as many got hit on their faces and died on the spot.

“Those idiots!”

“Leader, it should be fine. It seems like our enemies’ weapons are only the slings and the stones.”

A man standing at Dagover’s side said so, prompting Dagover to observe his opponents more closely. What his subordinate said was right. None of the opponents had swords or bows, they only had slings. One of the opponents was even unarmed. All of them were wearing different armors, not of uniform quality. 

“Did some other bandits’ group hire hunters to attack us?”

“Perhaps.”

If his opponents were also bandits who were active in this region, it made sense for them to also know about the terrain here. Dagover clicked his tongue and made his decision. Dagover was a man whose hands had already been drenched with blood. He also had many men under him, so he couldn’t just let himself and his men be attacked one-sidedly like this.

Dagover drew his sword and shouted, “Kill those flies!!!”

After that, Dagover ran toward the hill and his men followed suit. In response, the unarmed man held up his hands in the opposite direction, and the metal plates on his hands glinted. The long, 2 times. The short, 2 times.

Then, the shooters started to run to the other side of the hill as if to hide from the bandits. The next moment, as if to replace the shooters, spears sprang up like trees on the ridge. Startled, the bandits who were running stopped in their tracks.

Not long after, a scream rose from the right.

“It’s a cavalry! It’s the knights!”

Reflexively, the bandits turned their heads to the right. There, they all saw the cavalry that were kicking clouds of dust as it approached them. That horrifying sight made all of the bandits scream. The spearmen who had stayed on the ridge finally moved. Shouting the battle cry, the spearmen descended the hill.

Immediately after, the hillside was filled with screams as the bandits were struck, beaten, and pierced by the spearmen, causing the ground to be drenched with crimson blood. Scared by the blood sprouting out from his peers beside him, a bandit tried to escape, but got mercilessly pierced by a spear. Without even being able to let out a scream, the bandit fell to the ground.

Wielding their spears, the infantry drove the bandits down into the valley and the cavalry, who came crashing in at a different interval, began to overrun the area with their horses and weapons. In no time at all, the battle had completely become one-sided.

“Those fools..”

“You should concentrate on your battle.”

The man who stood before Dagover replied to his mumbling with a cold voice. That man was not a noble, but he had a bearing akin to an unsheathed sword. Dagover felt a chill running down his spine. Nonetheless, Dagover readied his sword.

“You bastard!! who-”

Before Dagover could finish his words, the man attacked. Dagover was able to receive the man’s attack, albeit only barely. Dagover might be someone who was used to violence, but he was not a match for a mercenary who was used to an actual battlefield.

Dagover continuously swung his sword blindly and before long, his sword was flung away by his opponent. Since he had lost his weapon, Dagover turned away and tried to escape, but a stone hit his thigh, making him fall.

Schunzel signaled the shooter to stop and approached Dagover. Schunzel then ordered his men to capture him.

“Sir Gekke, it was a splendid swordsmanship.”

“Killing him would have been much easier, though.”

If Gekke wanted to, it would be easy for him to kill Dagover. It could also be said that Dagover could be captured alive because the difference in skill between Gekke and Dagover was far too huge.

Regardless of his origin, Gekke was now a mercenary as such he didn’t really care about the battle courtesy of announcing your name before striking and such. Since he couldn’t exchange the bandit for ransom money even if he captured Dagover alive, it would be easier for Gekke to just kill Dagover.

While looking at the tied-up bandit leader, Gekke said, “Sir Welner was right. The bandits let down their guards because we attacked using stones.”

“Well, stones are rarely used in the army.”

The most common long-range weapons on a battlefield were bows and arrows, not slings and stones. Adding to that, bandits were people who fought while showing off their strength. If their fellow bandits were to hear that they were hit by a mere stone, they would become a laughingstock.

Welner’s plan of using stones to provoke the bandits was a quite brilliant one.

“By the way, where is Sir Welner?”

“He is currently leading the spearmen to pursue the bandits. He ordered to not give the bandits any chance to surrender and went in that direction.”

“I see. Just as planned, then.”

Gekke ordered his men to ready their equipment, while Schunzel told Gekke that his team would follow after taking care of the remaining bandits. Then they both separated.

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