“Hehehe, finally drank it, huh?”
“This house is big?”
“Indeed, because it wasn’t our house to begin with, hahaha.”
After Liyakade and the other two drank the three glasses of water handed to them, the originally friendly and enthusiastic Dage immediately changed his demeanor.
He let out a series of strange laughs, no longer hiding the desire in his eyes.
His naked gaze swept over the exposed fair skin of Liyakade, Alice, and Field.
“Hee hee, I’ve been holding back so long.”
“Finally, no need to pretend anymore.”
The Zhuanghan who had brought them water earlier was also rubbing his hands together.
A lecherous grin spread across his face as he looked eager.
“Wha… what do you mean?”
Hearing the two men’s words, Alice sensed something was wrong, her voice trembling slightly.
“What do I mean?”
“Little beauty, I mean, the owner of this cabin really isn’t us.”
“Since you came with the caravan, didn’t you hear them say there are a lot of bandits around here?”
“You mean… you’re the bandits?!”
Alice’s eyes widened as she stood up from her seat, shrinking back slightly and looking frightened.
“Hmph, girls from rich families like you should know what happens when you fall into our hands, right?”
The lecherous smile on Dage’s face grew even more obscene.
Though he didn’t say it outright, the nauseating tone in his voice made everything clear.
“No, don’t hurt us!”
“I’ll give you all the valuables I have!”
Field panicked immediately, hurriedly trying to hand over her belongings to buy her safety.
“Miss, are you stupid?”
“Now that we’ve caught you, isn’t all your money already ours?”
“Not hurt you?”
“Fine.”
“If you make us feel good, we’ll think about letting you go.”
“Oh, right, you should be feeling hot all over and dizzy by now.”
“The drug we gave you should be taking effect.”
“Wait a little longer and you’ll enjoy it.”
“…Heh, forget it.”
Crash—
Suddenly, Field changed her pleading attitude.
She grabbed the glass in front of her and threw it at Dage.
Luckily, Dage reacted quickly, raising a hand to block it.
The glass shattered, the shards cutting several small wounds on Dage’s palm.
Blood dripped down like a thin stream.
“…You!”
“No, why aren’t you affected?!”
A stinging pain shot through his palm as Dage glared at Field.
But he found that her face showed none of the earlier panic.
Her movements were not sluggish at all—completely unlike someone drugged.
“I was going to use you to take us to that well.”
“But it seems you don’t even have that much value.”
Field sneered, coldly meeting Dage’s gaze.
“You… you dare to mess with me?!”
Dage looked at Liyakade and Alice.
They were the same as Field—they had clearly drunk the prepared drug, but their faces showed no effect at all.
In truth, though Field appeared to drink the drug, she had actually already noticed something off about these two men.
Just as she raised the glass to her lips and was about to drink, she used her magic power to completely evaporate the water in the cup.
Thus, not a single drop of the drugged water entered her mouth.
As for Alice, though she was kind-hearted and pure, after going through so much with Liyakade, she was no longer the same as before.
She too had judged that these two were suspicious, and she trusted that Field and Liyakade would notice it even earlier than she did.
Moreover, Alice’s Light Element Magic User constitution made her immune to all poisons.
The moment the drug touched her skin, its toxins were purified.
As for Liyakade, she relied on her Demon bloodline to forcefully resist the toxins.
Still, since Field and Liyakade hadn’t openly confronted them yet, Alice decided not to act rashly and just kept quiet.
“Dage!”
“I told you not to play these games with these little bitches!”
Even the slow-witted Zhuanghan now understood the situation—they had been exposed.
With a furious roar, he grabbed his axe, exuding a violent aura, and stomped toward Liyakade and the others menacingly.
“Fools.”
Seeing that Field and Alice had both detected the problem and avoided being affected, Liyakade felt a moment of relief before immediately acting.
She spat out two cold words, and a surge of immense magic power erupted.
Boom—
A sudden gale swept through the cabin, sending Dage and Zhuanghan flying.
They crashed into the wooden cabinet behind them, leaving a large dent.
The axe flew out of Zhuanghan’s hand as he tumbled.
“Cough, cough…”
“You… are you magic users too?”
Dage, embedded in the cabinet, coughed twice.
He tried to channel his magic power and struggle out of the shattered wood, but Liyakade wasn’t about to give him the chance.
From Liyakade’s perception, these two bandits were only around Level 10.
Even if they joined a caravan robbery, they’d only serve as harassment or lookouts.
They were useless in direct combat.
How could they possibly fight back against Liyakade?
Boom—
A powerful wind pressure slammed down.
Before the two could even crawl out of the wood and sawdust, Liyakade’s fierce gale smashed them through the floorboards.
Not only that, but they fell into the cellar and created another large crater there.
They smashed their heads and were left covered in blood, both unconscious.
The young girl in the cellar stared in shock at everything before her.
A flood of light poured in from above, illuminating the dark cellar.
Having been in the dark for so long, the girl found it a bit blinding.
She covered her eyes with her dirty little hands but still tried to peek through her fingers to see who had brought this light.
Earlier, after the girl had warned Liyakade and the others above but found no effect, she had fallen into despair.
She thought Liyakade and her companions would meet the same fate, and that she herself would not only be unable to help them but would also remain trapped in this cellar.
But then the argument broke out above.
Before the girl could process what was happening, the two bandits crashed through the floor, and she seemed to be saved.
“Come on up.”
Liyakade leaned down, smiled softly, and extended her hand to the girl in the cellar, as if she had known all along that the girl was hiding there.
At that moment, the girl got a clear look at the other’s face.
Silver-white long hair.
A pure, angelic smile.
But crimson-red eyes that gave off a hint of eeriness.
Like a demon.