Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

After an hour or so of traveling, Leo finally found the familiar hill that he was looking for. But unlike before, the hill right now has surprisingly been turned into something akin to a watchtower.

The reason for his assumption was because there were a few obvious holes with some crossbows showing its head outside. Aside from that, a few people were also seen patrolling around the hill.

Because of that, Leo was forced to hide far away with only the Wind Elemental disguised as a wind sending reports to him from time to time.

As soon as he found out about this, Leo's face immediately turned serious as he can't help expecting that something might have already happened to the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest, specifically this group of people has found it already and is currently trying to harvest them in order to earn a profit for themselves.

"It's useless to keep on assuming things, it's much better to see it myself," Leo said before turning around and following the familiar path he had taken in the past to get to the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest.

Aside from the hill, Leo was also very familiar with those bushes he had hidden himself before while traveling towards the mountain and towards the direction of the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest. After all, he used those bushes to save his life.

With that, he was able to easily find the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest, which at this moment has become a Bandit camp. Yes, a Bandit camp. Those people over the hill as well were actually Bandits.

At this moment, there was now a new hole leading towards the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest, with a few Bandits going in and out every now and then while bringing on their hands a Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs and putting them in front of a Bandit who was currently listing everything and at this Bandit's side was another Bandit who was putting the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside a Storage Ring.

Around the hole of the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest were tens or so of tents, showing that this was a Bandit camp and not a Bandit base.

The difference between a Bandit camp and a Bandit base is that the former is just a base of operation, meaning a temporary base with not all the members of the Bandit group being in such a place, which can easily be determined in their use of a tent, while on the other hand, the latter is the main headquarters of the Bandit group, meaning it has all the necessary requirements needed for a proper base, including proper houses and other infrastructures, war weapons, and many more, and aside from that the majority of Bandits would also be stationed over there.

Taking all of that into consideration, then his guess would be; this Bandit group has unexpectedly stumbled upon this Yellow Skinned Anaconda's nest and then right after sent out Bandits to camp in here to easily harvest the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs.

"Bandits again?!" Leo can't help himself from exclaiming inwardly. This was now the second time he has to meet Bandits, and similar to the first time, he encountered them stealing his own fortune again. Just how unlucky was he to experience such a thing twice?!

However, unlike the last time, the situation right now has become much more troublesome for him to handle.

It wasn't the same as fighting against mere 15 Bandits like the last time anymore, which was an amount equivalent for a small Bandit group.

This time, he needs to fight against 100 to 200 Bandits, an amount equivalent to a medium Bandit group. But taking into consideration that this is just a mere Bandit camp and that normally only large Bandit groups would have Bandit camps of this size, then it's obvious that these Bandits are part of a large Bandit group.

Also, he still hasn't seen any signs of the Bandit Leader yet... No, to be more exact, the Bandit in-charged of this Bandit camp. If his memories serve him right, it always has the position called Boss.

The strength of a Bandit camp would usually be depending on the capability of the Bandit Boss. Without knowing the capability of the Bandit Boss, then he won't be able to just casually attack this Bandit camp. After all, he's still wasn't sure whether he has the ability to fight them or not, and at the same time successfully escape whenever the situation became against his favor.

"I guess that I would be staying here for some time then," Leo thought to himself before turning all of his Elementals into a toy soldier form, except for the Fire Elemental as he immediately unsummoned it without any hesitation as its mere existence alone was already very conspicuous enough. In fact, it was already really fortunate for him that no one was still able to notice him despite having a brightly lit figure right by his side. Of course, the Wind Elementals stayed the same way as they were really needed to scout around the Bandit camp in order for him to gather more information.

After doing that, Leo immediately climbed up to a tree with a thick and dense amount of leaves for him to use it to hide himself.

Below the ground, the Bandits continued on working.

"Just how many Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs did we find?!" The Bandit in-charged of listing the number of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs they got, whose name is Yosles, can't help himself from exclaiming in delight while watching the continuous stream of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs being brought up by the other Bandits.

"We strike it rich!" The Bandit at the side in-charged of putting the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside the Storage Ring, whose name was Irilebant, replied in joy.

"The last two days we've been here, we have already accumulated 2,000 pieces of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, don't tell me we would also be getting 1,000 pieces for the third day and yet there would still be a lot of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs remaining inside?!" Yosles's eyes lit up brightly while thinking of such thoughts.

"Most likely! Fortunately, Boss Nuwyuse has bought over 150 pieces of ordinary Storage Rings from one of his connections. So, even if we can't take all the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside with us, we would still be able to bring a considerable amount before finally leaving." Irilebant replied while putting more Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs inside the Storage Ring he's holding. He suddenly added, "Look, this Storage Ring is already full with 100 pieces of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, marking the 8th Storage Ring for today."

Hearing Irilebant's words, Yosles exclaimed, "Keep it up, Bandit brothers, we would be striking it rich once we are finished with everything here!"

"Yes, sir, Yosles!"

"Roger that, sir Yosles!"

"No worries, sir Yosles!"

The Bandits immediately replied.

Turning his head to look at Irilebant, Yosles asked, "By the way, where is Boss Nuwyuse?"

Irilebant rolled his eyes after hearing the question as he pointed at a big tent nearby a broken tree with a circling skeleton of a Yellow Skinned Anaconda, "Where else? He's obviously inside his tent either having 'fun' with the women we have brought with us or devoting himself with counting the profit we would be making from this Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs."

"Hahahaha, we are extremely lucky to have Boss Nuwyuse in-charged of this operation right now. Not only is he capable, but at the same time, he's also very easy-going. Unlike the other Bosses that likes to always act arrogant." Yosles said with a smile on his face.

Hearing Yosles's words, Irilebant's displeasure was quickly replaced with understanding, "Indeed!" Though it only lasted for a few seconds as he frowns and said, "But sadly, we lack any real strength. Aside from a few veteran Bandits like us, there are basically only a few Bosses aside from the Bandit Leader that is considered capable and strong. The rest are either cannon fodder, fresh blood, and a few are even only blinded by greed."

Actually, their large Bandit group was already considered very good. It has a lot of members, a capable Bandit Leader and Bosses, and a lot of connections to all sorts of different people from both the dark area and white area. But unfortunately, that wasn't still considered enough for their Bandit group to be counted as one of the best in the entire Silver Kingdom. They still lacked real strength, specifically a really huge number of strong Bandits.

"No need to rush, let's just take it very slowly. Look at those other large Bandit groups in the Blacksmoke Canyon, they might be counted as one of the best Bandit groups in the entire territory of Silver Kingdom, but what had happened to them right now?" Yosles asked with a sneer on his face.

"They are slowly being eliminated by the forces of the Mischievous Lion organization..." Irilebant expressed his sympathy.

"Yes, that's why we don't need to rush our growth. Let's wait for the Mischievous Lion organization to stabilize the new Silver Kingdom, and then when that time comes, it would be the perfect opportunity to strike!" Yosles smiled cunningly. He added, "Also, the members of those large Bandit groups at the Blacksmoke Canyon are currently escaping all over the entire Silver Kingdom right now. No one knows, maybe we would just be lucky enough to fish a few strong Bandits in this currently troubled waters, hehehe!"

"Indeed!" Irilebant nodded his head to express his delight.

Although it was an unfortunate time for all the different Bandit groups in Silver Kingdom right now, at the same time it was also considered fortunate. Any Bandit group who can make use of this time to their advantage would certainly be able to grow new heights once the new Silver Kingdom stabilized.

To be honest, what Yosles had said was exactly what all the Bandit groups are currently thinking about right now.

However, unbeknownst to all the Bandit groups, the new ruler of the new Silver Kingdom, which is the Mischievous Lion organization, was unlike the Silver royal family or the other Noble Households.

For the Mischievous Lion organization, no Bandit groups around the new Silver Kingdom would be able to exist, as in as in completely erasing all of their existence.

While the new Silver Kingdom is being rebuilt, the only Bandit groups that would be allowed to exist would only be those that signed a contract with the Mischievous Lion organization.

To begin with, the Mischievous Lion organization was an organization in the dark area, so they are obviously fully aware of the huge benefits the Bandit world could bring to them, especially during this time where they are still trying to rebuild the Silver Kingdom as they needed all the profit that they could get their hands on right now.

There was absolutely nothing to worry about implicating Queen Olivia and the new royal family of the new Silver Kingdom, since on the surface and to the outsiders they were already a separate entity to the Mischievous Lion organization. Also, with the limited information of the Bandit groups have towards the Mischievous Lion organization, they would only be able to suspect that the Mischievous Lion organization has become greedy after Queen Olivia stepped down from being their President.

With no other choice remaining, the Bandit groups could only choose to accept the unfair partnership to keep on existing. After signing such partnership, the Bandit groups would need to sell over half of their income to the Mischievous Lion organization.

Not only would this mean that the Bandit group's income would decrease, but at the same time, it will also discourage those others that want to try and become a Bandit. Aside from that, it would definitely make a lot of Bandits retire in their occupation or force them to migrate to other Kingdoms as they would find being a Bandit in Silver Kingdom is really hard.

Through this way, Bandit groups would slowly be eliminated in the Silver Kingdom, until no Bandit remains.

This would then complete the Mischievous Lion organization's plan of completely eliminating all the Bandits in the territory of the new Silver Kingdom.