Author: M_W Cancer

"If that's the case, then those Bandits are simply sent out by the teachers to stage a play in front of us!" Leo finally thought of the reason behind this ambush.

"The question though is, why did these Bandits agree to attack us?" Leo feels in deep thought again.

"Leo, we are done gathering!" Alfred suddenly called out with the entire Class 1S- behind him.

"Same on our side!" Carlos followed after with the entire Class 1S+ behind him.

"Class 1S is also present!" Justine, who was one of the leaders of Class 1S also followed after with the entire Class 1S behind him. Since these Bandits attack their side, then obviously Justine and the Class 1S wouldn't be absent.

Leo was quickly pulled out from his deep thought the moment the three Class 1S's called out to him.

"Let's not bother about that, those cunning teachers would reveal the answer, anyway after this..." Leo thought as he turned to look at everyone. He continued, "Class 1S+ proceed to 9 o'clock position, Class 1S proceed to 3 o'clock position, and Class 1S-, let's proceed to 12 o'clock position!"

Alfred, Carlos, and Justine nodded their heads without any thoughts of hesitation before they quickly proceeded into their allocated position along with their respective class.

Leo followed along the Class 1S- as they quickly run towards the 12 o'clock position. This was the location where 5 Bandit Mages were gathered together, so he purposely decided to handle this place in order for the other Class 1S's not to disagree with his plan. After all, despite Carlos and Justine being Leo's friend, they would still think of what was better for their class, right? So, if Leo had indeed assigned one of them to handle the middle, then they might hesitate to think whether to accept such order or not. No, to be more exact, it's Carlos and Justine's classmates that will hesitate since not all of them trust Leo yet. Although, in the end, they will still decide to accept Leo's order, but definitely the next time a lot of them would not follow Leo's order that easily anymore, thinking that Leo was going to set them up once again.

To be honest, the 12 o'clock position was not really a big problem for Leo and the Class 1S- to handle. Although there were indeed 5 Bandit Mages in this location, it was still easy to handle since there is basically 20 Mages in Leo's Class 1S-. No matter how a person looked at their current situation right bow, the attacking Bandits were obviously at a disadvantageous position here.

To be honest, that reason was actually just the minor reason behind why Leo decided to choose the 12 o'clock position. The main or major reason was actually to train his classmates to fight an actual battle against real Mages and to also see their capabilities for himself.

After all, he took the position of the leader of Class 1S-, hence in order for him to become a good and capable leader he needed to know his classmates better. To be honest, from the very beginning till this present time, he actually still doesn't have any idea of his classmate's real capability, and this situation right now is the perfect time to know about it.

*Boom!

*Bang!

*Whooosh!

*Clang!

*Sziiihh!

Arriving behind the soldiers and mercenaries, Leo immediately heard the sounds of Mages Magic spell, sword clashing with each other, and other more sounds of battle around him.

"10 Mages group into 2 as you attack those 5 Bandit Mages behind the group of ordinary Bandits!"

"The 8 of you, go and assist the soldiers and mercenaries against those ordinary Bandits!"

Leo quickly positions all of his classmates to a different location. As he doesn't know yet the real capability of almost all of his classmates, hence he had to arrange a 2vs1 fight to those Bandit Mages so that he will be assured that no one would be seriously injured or worst case dies amongst his classmates.

Also, he only sent out 8 Mages to fight those ordinary Bandits as it wasn't really a big deal to handle them, especially since they have the assistance of those soldiers and mercenaries in their side.

Lastly, he decided that he and Angel would also have to remain for two different purposes.

His purpose was to dictate the flow of the battle, not just his battle at the 12 o'clock position though, but also the 3 and 9 o'clock position, specifically Carlos Class 1S+ and Justine Class 1S. Although the other Class 1S's have their own leader to dictate the battlefield over their position, an army wouldn't only have a General, but also a Commander. He was that Commander, and Carlos, Justine, and the other leader of the Class 1S, Dylan are his respective Generals.

On the other hand, Angel's purpose is to assist those classmates of his who were currently fighting against the 5 Bandit Mages.

Obviously, a 2vs1 fight is not a sure guarantee for his classmate's safety, hence he purposely left out Angel in order for her to assist in times of dangerous situation, especially since she was near to becoming a 1 Star Mage, so she could easily triumph over those Bandit Mages and be successful in rescuing her classmates if ever danger really arises.

Observing around, Leo quickly spotted a group of Bandits trying to push a huge boulder at the slope at the side of 1S+ group.

"Carlos, go and take care of your 9 o'clock!" Leo quickly sent out a warning.

Hearing Leo's warning, Carlos quickly turned to look at his 9 o'clock location as he then found out a group of Bandits pushing a huge boulder towards his Class 1S+.

Carlos quickly understood what that boulder was meant for, hence he dash straight towards those Bandits, wanting to stop their goal in mind.

"Justine, your 3 o'clock!" Leo quickly sent out another warning as he also spotted another group of Bandits trying to push another boulder towards the Class 1S location.

Hearing Leo's warning, Justine also did what Carlos has done.

"If this is the teacher's plan, then why are these Bandits intending to kill us now?" Leo can't help but think. If the Bandits were hired by the teachers to stage an attack, then obviously it would just somehow turned out into a play, right? However, those boulders were obviously used in order to kill them!

Looking around, Leo quickly noticed that there were already a lot of ordinary Bandits and Bandit Mages laying around on the ground either seriously injured or totally dead.

"Of course, that would be the case!" Leo finally thought of something, "If these Bandits were only hired to stage a play, then no one should have died amongst the Bandits. However, a lot of them had already died, which is obviously against any scripted play!"

Leo finally understood what the teachers really planned to do!

Obviously, these groups of Bandits that attacked their group of carriages wouldn't agree with such a plan if it was just plain profit alone, hence the teachers should have thrown the assurance of safety in their deal.

Well, which Bandit group of Silver Kingdom would even think of attacking such a huge group? Just from the numbers of carriages alone, it could already be seen that they were not something to be underestimated about.

To be honest, almost all of the Bandit groups usually only attack a target when they were sure about that they can handle their target. If they can't, then they won't since that was obviously akin to plain stupidity, and Bandits weren't those types of people.

So, the only conclusion to these Bandits seemingly reckless attack should be that the teachers had assured of their safety.

However, though, the moment a Bandit died, those other Bandits quickly realized that the so-called assurance of their safety was actually just a plot. It wasn't an assurance of safety at all, but an assurance of death!

Two birds one stone! Not only did the teachers of Silver Mage Academy seen the capability of their students, but they had also eliminated plenty of Bandits groups living nearby the area around this seemingly ordinary forest leading to Green Weed city.

In such a way, this forest would lose plenty of Bandit groups, and hence the people traveling this road wouldn't experience being attacked frequently by Bandits for a few months or maybe a year after this event.

"What a wise plan!" Leo can't help but comment.

"What do you meant wise?" Angel at the side suddenly asked as she heard Leo's murmuring.

"The teacher's plan..." Leo replied.

Angel immediately feel in deep thought after hearing Leo's reply. As one of Sword and Magic's elite, she was naturally able to feel weird about this situation.

"The teachers had planned this?" Angel asked as she wanted to confirm something.

Leo just nodded his head in response as he already knew that Angel already thought of something in her mind.

"What a wise plan indeed!" Angel nodded her head as she also agrees with Leo's comment.