Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Before Leo could arrive, there were only less than 5 Bandits remaining alive from their former group of 15 Bandits.

All the remaining Bandits were gathered in one place, including the Bandit Leader who has the Storage Ring, while shaking in fear as they were being surrounded by all the scary-looking Elementals. One of them has even peed his pants and keeps on crying out loud his mother's name.

Moments ago they were still screaming from the joy of finding a lot of gold coins, but right now they are screaming for help as they are being surrounded by some unknown entity capable of easily killing their fellow Bandits.

They were only hiding at the nearby trees tens or so of minutes ago after they unexpectedly stumble upon Leo on their planned trip of looting the ruins of White River City. They were watching him store some unknown items inside his Storage Ring while at the same time leaving lots of lots of gold coins on the ground.

At first, they really thought that Leo would still pick up the gold coins when he was done with everything, but shockingly after storing all of those unknown items he actually left to the forest and never came back again.

Noticing that, they immediately sprang into action to grab all of those free gold coins on the ground. But in the end, they now regretted doing such a thing. If only they calmly thought about it why an unknown guy would leave lots of lots of gold coins on the ground, and not let greed take over their minds, then they would have realized something really suspicious and thought that the only reason for that guy to do that was because that guy was planning on catching Bandits like them.

And there exists only one occupation that they know that would do such a thing in the entire Celestial World, the Slave Hunters.

Such hateful kinds of people! If only they...

Hayst, unfortunately, there were no what if's in the Celestial World? What's done is done, and they could only pay for the consequences of their own action.

Now, their only path left is to be sold as slaves. Well, at least they still kept their lives, right? Unlike those others who all died.

Unbeknownst to the Bandits, Leo wasn't actually a Slave Hunter, rather he had purposely didn't kill them, not because he felt pity for them or any superficial feelings, but instead because he wants to use them to find more Bandits. Why? It's simply because he still needs more Storage Rings to store the Chaos Orbs that he would be creating later on at the Will City and Honoris City.

These Bandits would definitely be able to tell him where the other Bandit groups are hiding at inside the forest nearby, especially the Bandit Leader, and from there he would get himself more Storage Rings.

Soon, Leo arrived in front of the 5 Bandits. He quickly disembarked on his horse before he slowly walked towards them with the Elementals opening a path for him to enter the circle.

Seeing Leo, the Bandit Leader immediately put both his hand forward while closing his eyes and saying, "I surrender! I won't be resisting you anymore, Mister Slave Hunter."

"I also surrender! I don't want to die. I'd rather be a slave than die."

"Me too!"

"Me three!"

"Me four!"

Leo doesn't know what he should react after being called a Slave Hunter. This group of Bandits had for sure misunderstood his action in catching them as an act of a Slave Hunter.

"You misunderstood me, I'm actually not a Slave Hunter." Leo quickly tried to clear out such assumption in their minds. He still wants to ask them where the other Bandit groups are hiding inside the nearby forest, and it would cause a lot of negative impact on him if he was mistaken as a Slave Hunter since one of the most hated enemies of the Bandits is the Slave Hunters.

The reason is simply because; for the Bandits, Slave Hunters are people that don't care whatever or whoever a person is, either part of the white area or the black area. In other words, Slave Hunters are people in the gray area, neither could be considered good nor bad, since in their occupation everyone can be considered as a slave, which includes catching Bandits.

Because of that reason, once a Bandit is caught by a Slave Hunter, they have this unspoken rule in them that they won't sell out the other Bandit group's location, even if they die, since doing so meant that they are letting the Slave Hunter earn more money.

"Tch, don't think that you can easily trick us by saying that you are not a Slave Hunter." One of the Bandits sneered at Leo. Does this guy really think that such a stupid reason would be able to trick them? Unfortunately for him, they have met a lot of fellow Bandits already who survived from Slave Hunters, so they know many kinds of-

Whooosh!

That Bandit wasn't even able to finish his monologue as his own head immediately rolled down the ground.

"Look, do you think a Slave Hunter would do that?" Leo smiled mischievously.

"You-"

Whooosh!

Another Bandit has his own head rolling down the ground.

"I don't care how many of you will die, because right from the start I wasn't intending of keeping any of you alive to sell you as slaves, but rather- "Leo said as he arrived in front of the Bandit Leader. He then put his hand forward, causing the Bandit Leader to close his eyes to prepare for his death, but to the Bandit Leader's surprise, he actually still didn't die, though his Storage Ring was now on Leo's hand.

"I only want this," Leo showed them the Storage Ring. He then turned to look at that Bandit Leader before saying, "Do you want me to kill you as well to unlock this Storage Ring, or do you want to unlock it yourself?"

Seeing Leo holding his Storage Ring, the Bandit Leader could only let out a long sigh of helplessness before unlocking it himself. What else could he do? Even if he doesn't unlock the Storage Ring, this guy would still be able to open it by simply killing him. So, instead of choosing to do that, he'd rather choose to try his luck on a slim chance of living. He was not afraid to die, since that's the basic requirements of his occupation, especially as a Leader of a Bandit group, but if he can choose to live as well, then why choose to die, right?

Ting!

The Storage Ring was finally unlocked, allowing Leo to open it and see the inside.

There was really nothing of importance inside the Bandit Leader's Storage Ring aside from a few common rank Magical resources which only cost around a hundred silver coins in the market and tens or so of gold coins.

Without any hesitation, Leo took out everything, except for the gold coins, and soon walked towards his piles of 1 million gold coins.

"I really thought I would be leaving all of you here, but thanks to Fate who is in my side now, there is no need for me to do that anymore, hahahaha!" Leo laughed while carefully storing all the 1 million gold coins inside his Storage Ring. He smiled in delight when he was done as he then returned to the 3 remaining Bandits, "Thanks to you, I don't need to leave all of my gold coins anymore."

He was actually speaking his gratefulness genuinely to the Bandit Leader and his Bandit group for his timely save. Without this person... No, this Bandit Leader, then he would have no choice but to leave while feeling the pain of losing 1 million gold coins, and possibly even more gold coins as he would definitely still need to store more Chaos Orbs that he would be creating later on.

The Bandit Leader was still doubtful whether Leo was just acting or not, so just to be sure he asked, "So you meant to say is, if only we arrived a bit later we could have had all of those gold coins?"

Leo smiled and said, "Yes, because the reason why I left all of those gold coins from the very beginning was because I don't have any room inside my Storage Ring."

"Then does this mean you will let us go since you're already done?" The Bandit Leader followed up on another question.

"Indeed," Leo nodded his head, not intending to hide that he was indeed going to let them go, "But first, I want to propose to you a business."

"What kind of business? Is it about us selling out our fellow Bandits location so that you will have more slaves to catch?" The Bandit Leader replied without feeling fearful of Leo. If it's against any Slave Hunter, he would never feel afraid of them. In fact, he had even already prepared himself to die moments ago when Leo went to pick up his Storage Ring.

Leo felt amused by the Bandit Leader's attitude. He shook his head and explained, "No, my business proposal to you is very simple. You're the Leader of this Bandit group, right?"

"Yes!" The Bandit Leader nodded in affirmation.

"Are you sure?" Leo smiled mischievously.

"Of course, I am! Even if you ask the two of them!" The Bandit Leader replied while pointing at the remaining two Bandits.

"Yes, yes, he's our Leader!"

"You can trust his words, he's indeed our Leader!"

The two Bandits immediately replied, in fear that Leo might just kill them if they don't quickly confirm that he's indeed their Bandit Leader.

"Oh, but words wouldn't be able to prove that, right?" Leo said before suddenly sending a command to one of his Earth Elementals to turn into a throne.

Whoosh!

One of the Earth Elemental quickly turned into a throne.

Soon after, Leo slowly sat on the throne before crossing his right leg to his left leg. He then clasped both his hands together in front of him and letting his chin rest on top of it before slowly forming a mischievous smile on his face and saying, "So, to prove that you're indeed the Leader of this Bandit group, then how about you go out there and convince some other Bandit groups to sell me their Storage Rings to me, the price is 1,000 gold coins per pieces. If it has more storage space, then the price is negotiable."