Chapter 17 Horse Bandit
The Kingdom of the North is a united kingdom of humans and orcs established by the Grey Orcs. After years of integration and development, the population ratio of humans and orcs has dropped rapidly, and hybrid half-orcs have gradually occupied the mainstream of the kingdom's population.

While integrating and developing, the Northern Kingdom also absorbed the traditions of humans and orcs in many aspects such as administration and military.

While retaining the Grey Orcs' tradition of powerful rule, the Kingdom of the North absorbed the human feudal system into its own ruling system, dividing the vast villages into fragmented feudal autonomy, retaining only control over towns and military strongholds while ensuring the absolute advantage of the central government.

Although this mixed ruling system enabled the Northern Kingdom to appease local human forces and ensure the stability of its rule, the extensive and fragmented autonomy also led to extremely poor public security in the Northern Kingdom.

Except for the areas directly controlled by the Northern Kingdom, the vast autonomous areas of villages are basically plagued by serious banditry, with murder and looting being common phenomena. Even if a few autonomous tribes disappear, no one will care. The previous cult organizations also developed in such an environment where they were able to thrive.

On the snow-covered ice field, more than twenty ice field orc horse bandits were observing their new prey.

A lonely carriage traveling on the ice field with no one in it.

Looking at the emblem of the Spellcaster's Association on the carriage, the leading orc licked his lips greedily.

All around him, the other orcs were ready to attack and plunder at any time.

However, among the group of orcs who were ready to fight, an orc who was obviously shorter than the people around him felt a little uneasy.

He touched the scimitar in his hand, his heart beating constantly, and said with some uneasiness.

"That looks like the badge of a transcendent. Are we really going to rob the carriage of a transcendent?"

"Don't be afraid. Those wizard masters rarely leave the city. Besides, there is only one carriage. At most, there will be one or two wizard apprentices. Real wizard masters will not be so low-key when they go out."

The orc next to him waved the scimitar in his hand and consoled him with a smile.

"As for those apprentices, they would probably be scared to death when they saw us. Be careful and just rush over and kill them one by one with one sword."

The short orc swallowed, nodded, and subconsciously tightened the scimitar in his hand.

Just when he was about to ask something else, the leading orc blew the whistle for looting and rushed forward on his horse.

When the whistle sounded, the remaining orcs immediately followed him and rushed forward.

"Follow!"

After shouting to the short orc, the orc next to him also followed the crowd and rushed forward. He gritted his teeth and drove his horse to follow.

This lonely carriage was naturally driven by Roland and Hela.

After the Orc horse bandits rushed over, Roland, who was teaching Hela in the carriage, stopped.

He raised his head and looked in the direction of the bandits and spoke softly.

"Free targets are delivered to your door. Twenty-three orcs and horse bandits, all ordinary people. Go and try it."

Hela, who was sitting at the table, nodded, closed the textbook on the table, picked up the staff beside her and walked out of the car.

Hela stood outside the carriage, calmly looking at the dust coming from the distance.

When the first horse bandit was about to reach her maximum attack range, she began her first pure magic combat.

First-level spell—weakness.

Hela stretched out her staff and cast a spell at the bandit who was aiming with a longbow.

Under the effect of the spell, several horse bandits suddenly felt as if their bodies were pressed down by something. Their hands softened and their aimed shots went astray. One of the arrows even hit another horse bandit directly.

And these were not the worst. The bandits were hit, and the horses under them were naturally not much better. Several weakened horses went limp and rolled to the ground, and the bandits on them were thrown out one by one.

In an instant, the bandits were in chaos, and the bandit leader shouted loudly, trying to restore order.

While the bandits were trying to reorganize themselves, Hela was not idle either and continued to cast spells and attack.

First-level spell—Corrosive Arrows x5.

Five pitch-black arrows quickly appeared around Hela and shot towards the chaotic horse bandits.

As the corrosive arrows shot into the crowd and exploded, the screams of the horse bandits instantly resounded around, and the chaos that had just eased immediately intensified again.

First-level spell—paralyzing pulse.

A gray ripple emanated from Hela's staff, covering the group of horse bandits in front.

Under the effect of the spell, the bandit's body was gradually paralyzed, and the wailing sound also weakened a little.

However, this is only a first-level spell after all, and the coverage area is not large. Therefore, there are still a few horse bandits outside the range of the spell.

These horse bandits realized that they had hit a wall by now, and without caring about their paralyzed companions, they turned around and tried to run away.

First-level spell—words of fear.

First-level spell—flesh rot.

Facing the horse bandits who were trying to escape, Hela directly used the combo that Roland taught her.

First, use words of fear to fill their hearts with fear, and then take the opportunity to use flesh and blood rot to quietly corrode and take their lives.

However, since Hela was still unable to manipulate the spell flexibly, the precise corrosion that should have been directed at their vital parts turned into corrosion that covered their entire bodies.

Several horse bandits who wanted to escape had just run a few meters when the skin of their horses, including the horses under their crotch, turned into countless pieces of rotten flesh. They lost signs of life and fell down, piling up into piles of rotten flesh.

Looking at the piles of rotten meat, Hela felt a little embarrassed.

She originally intended to rot the bandit's brain.

However, although the process was slightly different, the result was still good, and they all died.

Hela looked at the remaining bandits and cast a spell once again in front of their horrified gazes.

These fixed targets became the best experimental subjects for Hela to test her spells.

The remaining fixed targets were quickly consumed by Hela, leaving behind only a large pile of rotten meat and several smaller piles of rotten meat.

Of course, as Hela's practical experience increased, the large pile of rotten meat was also mixed with some mutilated corpses left over from Hela's precise erosion.

After all the targets were used up, Hela cast a spell again, throwing out several fireballs to ignite the piles of rotten meat.

While the pile of rotten meat was burning, Hela was thinking and summarizing her practical experience.

Only after the pile of rotten meat and the bones and corpses inside were completely burned did Hela turn around and return to the carriage.

After Hela returned to the carriage, the two horses pulling the carriage were no longer surprised and slowly started moving again.

(End of this chapter)