Chapter 218: Chapter 218

With the map in hand, Du You identified a few mountain tops and let Xiaozi fly towards them.

Temporary Mission: Wipe out the Mountain Bandits.

The Mountain Bandits have threatened the survival of Qingji City. The lord of Qingji City has employed a mysterious mage to exterminate the Mountain Bandits. Please eliminate as many nearby bandits as possible. (0/32)

It’s indeed thirty-two groups of bandits, Du You thought, upon seeing the newly appeared mission. However, he noticed there was no associated penalty. Was it due to the lack of confidence in him, or low expectations from him?

Regardless, as long as they weren’t formidable beings, Du You paid little concern to these large numbers of ordinary individuals.

A moment later, Du You landed on the nearest mountain top. This mountain top was occupied by a group of bandits who reputedly were few in number but extremely vicious and brutal.

Perched on Xiaozi, Du You swooped across the sky, his eyes locked onto the scene below.

Now, with Qingji City all retracted in defense, these bandits had begun to till the surrounding lands since they had nothing much to do daily. Therefore, the majority of the people were inside the camp.

This slightly smaller bandit camp housed around thirty people in total, maybe not as precise.

However, many people in it were ordinary people with a few of them at not very high levels. The highest one was at level 2 only, as Du You observed. This meant, beyond their brutal ways, they hardly had anything remarkable.

In the middle of the camp, some people were tied to pillars, but they all seemed to be lifeless bodies.

For such ruthless bandits, Du You had no mercy at all.

"Xiaozi, go back and give them a good show." Seeing that the bandit camp was not large, Du You did not hesitate to prepare the attack. As Xiaozi turned around, Du You cast a Mucus Swamp en route. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝·𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖·𝕟𝕖𝕥

Yes, only one, he didn’t need more. The Mucus Swamp instantly appeared and the sticky substance spread quickly to cover almost seventy meters, enveloping a large part of the camp.

As soon as the slime covered the area, a torch in the camp instantly ignited it.

Next, a huge fire swept over, becoming brighter and brighter, turning the entire camp into a sea of fire. Subsequently, a poison fog spread out, permeating an area over two hundred meters.

This range just covered the entire bandit camp, including those bandits tilling the land nearby.

Although the primary function of the Mucus Swamp was not the poison, it was still an important feature. The poison spread and these low-level humans were poisoned almost immediately, then started to die off.

By the time Du You approached again, he found that many people had already collapsed. Looking at the mission panel, he had already destroyed a bandit camp. It seemed too easy.

However, it must be said that inside this vast mountain, if it weren’t for the bandit distribution map provided by Qingji City, it would not be easy for him to find them. He was indeed lucky this time.

"Xiaozi, let’s go to the next camp." With a wave of his hand, Xiaozi started to turn around.

Meanwhile, down the hill inside a grassy den, two level-less individuals were hiding, closely watching the bandit camp. Suddenly, the camp was brilliantly lit, indicating a large fire engulfing the camp.

This was definitely not an ordinary fire. If it wasn’t summoned by magic, it could only be the simultaneous burning of a large amount of oil, which was truly a spectacular scene.

"What’s going on? Why is there such a huge fire? Could it be that they are being attacked?"

Even from this far, they could feel the heat rolling in waves. They could vaguely see the bandit camp rapidly being burned to ashes. This truly brought them indescribable satisfaction.

"Wait, something’s wrong; this smoke seems poisonous, let’s not get close for now."

Suddenly, a scout noticed something wrong with a bandit. From here, they could see a few bandits. Then, one bandit collapsed. By all indications, it was similar to the deaths caused by malaria in the mountains.

A few seconds later, the fire began to die down and gradually disappear. After a few minutes, when the two men dared cautiously approach, the poison had already dispersed in the mountain wind. They saw nothing but death all over the place, victims of the poison.

The deaths were not gruesome, but because the poison was so potent, many realized they were poisoned just before they died.

On the bandit side of the camp, the fire was still burning. It wasn’t the fire from the Mucus Swamp, but that of other inflammable materials in the settlement. If the fire continued, the entire camp would become ash.

The area that had been burned, a range of about seventy meters, had turned completely dark.

"What do we do now? The lord asked us to surveil this camp. Should we still observe it?"

"Idiot! Why would we watch over it? They’ve been wiped out! Let’s quickly head back and report what happened. It’s really satisfying to see these bandits getting what they deserved."

The two men quickly made their decisions, then hurried down the mountain to deliver their reports. The most critical parts of this bandit camp had been turned into ashes, leaving nothing behind. There was no way they could find any valuables.

The same scenario was not only limited to one place. Based on the information recorded on the map, Du You flew around, and upon sight of a camp, threw the Mucus Swamp of varying amounts according to the size of the camp.

If there were any fires in the camp, they would ignite automatically. If there were not, Xiaozi used a Thunder Light Orb to trigger the ignition. Many camps were inexplicably engulfed by a massive fire, followed by the spread of poison. Those camps without any countermeasures were burnt and slaughtered one by one by Du You; it was simply too easy.

Even during the search for camps, the magic power consumed had already been replenished.

If it hadn’t been for Xiaozi’s need for energy to fly, Du You could have kept fighting indefinitely.

Helpless, the bandits were simply too weak. At the border of the human realm, the humans were even weaker than Goblins, let alone their poor resistance to poison. Du You’s attack to them was no different from a Heavenly Disaster.

As one by one of the camps were burnt, more and more scouts chose to return. This near-apocalyptic destruction and assault left a deep shock within everyone. By dusk, the news was finally delivered to the City Lord’s Mansion, where all the officials were gathered under bright lights.