Traveling across the plains only lasted about a day and was uneventful so not much to say about that , however after they entered the forest was a another matter all together.

The forest sways gently besides the road as nick and Jakob walk calmly while playing mario kart on the DS that nick brought out from the system. "Ha inked you!" Nick says joyously. Jakob has a frustrated look on his face. "Come on red shell ....yes!" Jakob launchs the shell at nicks character stunning it before passing him . "damn it! Get back here!" Nick rages at the game before suddenly tensing up "you noticed something odd Jakob?" Nick says to Jakob quietly. Jakob powers off the DS and places it in his spatial tool. "Its too quiet which means either there are bandits nearby or some kind of demonbeast neither of which is good , any ideas?" Jakob says while cautiously hovering his hand over his sword. Nick takes out a small round object from his inventory and holds it carefully between his pointer and middle fingers. "In about 30 seconds after I release this item launch your most powerful wide range attack to our right and I'll do the same to our left." Jakob nods and gets ready . nick rapidly throws the round object onto the ground at their feet revealing it to be a smoke pellet covering both of them in a think cloud of smoke. As soon as nick makes his move about 20 men wearing black with their faces covered rush out of the surrounding trees towards the smoke cloud. Jakob jumps straight into the air towards the right and throws his arms forward sending a massive wave of razor window towards the bandit who are on that side.

"RAZOR STORM!"

WHOOSH! SLIIIICK!

They winds mange to accurately strike and rip apart 4 of the bandits while injuries another 2 after being dodged by the 4 most cautious bandits.nick quickly follows suit on the left running out with his sword held horizontally at his side before a thick red strain of lightning coats his blade while he swings his sword across in front of him launching a wide beam of crimson light screaming at the bandits.

"THUNDER WHIP!"

ZZZT! KRAAAK! BOOOOM!

The beam travels faster than most of the bandits can dodge striking 8 of them followed by the sound of a thunderstrike before the water in their bodies turns directly into steam causing them to explode showering the area in viscera and blood mist.the last 2 bandits are so terrified by the attack that they passed out before it could hit them unintentionally saving their lives. Jakob is distracted by the explosion caused by nicks attack that 1 of the bandits almost stabs him in the heart , luckily he reacted just in time to move slightly instead getting stabbed in the left shoulder right above his lung a painful injury but nonetheless not fatal."shit! That hurts!" Jakob explains while dodging the attacks of the other 3 bandits.nick quickly kills the 2 passed out bandits by painlessly cutting off their heads before turning to help jakob before his senses scream danger at him from his back causing him to rapidly dodge to the side barely avoiding a spear coming down from above. The spear cleanly pieces 2 feet into the cobblestone road before stopping still vibrating from the force of the throw now deep in the road at a 45 degree angle. "Tch, couldn't just make it easy on me and died quietly could you." A deep barratone voice comes from the forest where a man slightly different from the rest of the bandits walks out from behind 1 of the trees not hit by nicks attack. The man wore the same black leather suit as the other bandits except his face was completely uncovered giving nick a full view of his face. The man had short blonde hair and swordlike eyebrows on a heavy angular face with a thick survivalist beard and sharp purple eyes. The man's face and body language had absolute anger all over them as he looks at nick who is covered in the blood and pieces of his comrads.