After the television show Xena: Warrior Princess ended, the merchants and their family approached their camp again. Several of them were young men and women and they approached Anton. There were six of them and they introduced themselves to Anton, Anna, Ramona, Belinda, and Lunelle who were gathered together. Three were from one of the caravans heading to Homura and the other three were from the caravan heading to Whaling.
“We saw that you’re the one controlling the spell that showed that unique play. Are you a wizard?” One pretty girl asked Anton.
It was Anna who answered.
“Yes, he’s a wizard. The spell that showed us the television show was his original spell. Anton is my brother and he’s so powerful that Zalnothel made him a baron!” Anna boasted.
The six young men and women gasped when they heard that. Then as one said they were sorry for what happened to Zalnothel.
Anton explained to them that they were not truly from Zalnothel but from a city further south. They ran from the undead and reached Zalnothel but unfortunately, they had to leave the city because it was attacked by the coalition.
“Where are you heading now?” One of the young men asked.
Since it was not a secret, Lunelle answered the question.
“We’re heading to Whaling.”
“Oh, you can join our caravan! We’re heading to Whaling as well,” One of the pretty girls said.
“Probably not since we only have two carriages and our horses are half-magical beasts so they would be able to run very fast. That meant that we’ll leave you behind. Sorry about that,” Anton said.
The girl and the two other youths who were with her on the way to Whaling looked disappointed. They knew that if Anton’s group decided to join their caravan, they would have more chances to see shows from Anton’s spell.
Suddenly, Anton was alerted by one of the Ravens that a huge group of men numbering around two hundred was approaching from the North. They clearly had nefarious intentions since they were trying their best to stay as silent as they could.
He excused himself from their discussion and approached his Father who was with Nemina, Lucas, and Frederick talking with the merchants and probably their wives.
“Father, Lucas, I need to speak with you.”
Anders and Lucas excused themselves while Nemina and Frederick continued talking with the merchants.
“What happened?” Anders asked his son.
“There’s a group of two hundred men approaching from the North heading our way. They’re probably bandits since they were all trying their best to stay as silent as they could. I could attack them using my summons and there’s will be no danger to us since even if the summons died, I could just summon them again. It would be best if I do this now since they’re still a long way from us,” Anton told them.
“Are you sure they’re bandits?” Lucas asked since they didn’t want to attack a group of people and suddenly learned that they were not bandits.
“Most of them are wearing some sort of medallion with a skull that has a scar on its forehead,” Anton said.
“Let me ask the merchants about that,” Lucas said.
After a few minutes, Lucas returned and told them that the merchants confirmed that they were a bandit group called The Scarred Skull group. They’re infamous among these parts and they had a very evil reputation. Apparently, they had a few mages amongst them with spells that allowed them to hide from the armies of Homura and Whaling so that’s why they were never captured by either city.
“Let me attack them now using my summons while they were far away so they would not disturb our camp. I don’t want to alarm the girls. I think it’s also a good idea for us to watch a movie so that any sounds that might drift here could be covered up,” Anton told the two men and after thinking a while, Anders nodded.
Anders and Lucas returned to the merchants to inform them that as a sign of friendship, they would show a unique film to everyone. Anton informed his father that he would show an animated film. He decided to show the Disney film Pocahontas which was a movie he chose randomly.
After Anton started the film, he made sure that the audio was higher than normal and no one questioned it. When he saw that everyone in the campground was focused on the screen, he slipped away and when he was far enough away not to be noticed, he flew between their group and the bandits. He then summoned all of his summons under the summoning tree of his Druid skill character and commanded them to attack the bandits. He planned to use one of the Ravens as his eyes so that one flew above the bandits.
Anton then returned to the camp. He looked like he was watching the film but he was actually watching the battle between the summons and the bandits.
The battle was brutal and there were three mages among the bandits. Anton commanded the Grizzly Bear to attack the three mages first and too bad for them since the bear had an extremely high magic resistance and their spell didn’t work on the Grizzly Bear.
Anton was expecting that some of the summons would die but maybe due to his high level, the summons killed all of the bandits after around thirty minutes of battle.
He then tapped Lucas, Devon, Frederick, and Colin and they all followed him to the forest.
“The bandits are all dead. We should gather what we can and don’t spare any weapons or armor. Remember I can repair anything,” Anton told the men so riding their dire wolves and spirit wolves, they hastily went to the battle site.
When they arrived at the site, Frederick and Colin gasped when they saw the dead bandits. Not one of them was in one piece. Anton dispelled the Grizzly Bear and the Spirit Wolves summons but let the Dire Wolves remain to act as guards while the Ravens acted as lookouts.
After an hour, they completed stripping the dead bandits. Anton cleaned the items they gathered using his Cleaning spell and stored them in his inventory and then he buried the corpses using his magic by digging a huge ditch using Telekinesis and moving all the corpses there. They managed to return to the campground without anyone noticing due to all of the people there being focused on the movie.
Weirdly enough, even Anders didn’t notice their disappearance. When the movie ended, everyone clapped even though the movie was supposed to be for kids.
Anton overheard everyone talking about how beautiful Pocahontas’s voice was and how pretty she was. He even heard some of the girls say that Smith was very handsome. After that, Anton asked Colin to take down the white blanket as a show that the movie show had ended. It was truly late so everyone prepared to rest.
Anton and Lucas reported to Anders that they did during the movie and Anders just nodded. Then they all went to their tents to rest. They didn’t assign any guards since six dire wolves, three from Anton and three from the golden tablets, and two spirit wolves and five tiny ravens were guarding them.
The next day, they woke up early enough despite sleeping late since Anders wanted them to leave the campsite as soon as possible. They saw that the two merchant groups were still asleep so they tried their best to move quietly but soon all of them were on the road leaving the camp far behind.