Fwoosh!
Syla shoots the fireball from her palm. the fiery ball of fire flew rapidly into the triplet in the air, unlike the normal fireball that usually has the color scheme of yellow, orange, and red from the outside to the inside, Syla's fireball was instead dyed in deep red color, and instead of the color going darker, Syla's fireball had its core glowing with bright yellow hue, surrounded with the dark red gradients.
"Keugh!!" The triplet that was in the air saw the incoming fireball and realized that it was head straight for his head, seeing it he suddenly had an idea.
'If the fireball is going to hit my head, then i'll just have to move my head to the side! Unlike my body which is hard to move in the air, i can easily move my head!' He thought.
Once the fireball was about to hit the flying triplet, he quickly swerved his head to the side, barely avoiding the fireball as it goes right through him.
"HAHAHA! YOU'RE DUMBER THAN I THOUGHT! AIMING FOR THE HEAD— Huh!?" Although he had dodged the fireball, the triplet only saw Syla's face being unchanged throughout the whole moment.
He saw his other brothers who were about to launch an ambush as Syla was focusing at him and thought that something doesn't make sense.
'Why.. is she making that face—
BOOM!
Syla's fireball exploded right at the triplet's head, as it turns out, it was slowly turning back after the triplet had dodged it, the fireball gradually moved in a circle until it was facing into the opposite direction before launching itself straight into the nearest heat source, which is the triplet that was in the air.
"BROTHER!" The two other triplet, now twins, witnessed their brother's death as the explosion engulfed his entire body in flames and his head being blown into smithereens.
The explosion was loud enough to draw the attention of the rest of the bandits and also Errick's mercenary group.
When Errick saw one of the triplet being brutally killed by the fireball explosion, his jaw dropped and he gasped in shock, the scene was not in exaggeration, easy to take, Errick knew that fireball magic was deadly, it can kill someone when they were hit directly by it. However what makes his jaw dropped was that, a skilled combatants like adventurers usually only suffers severe burns from the fireball, their cause of death mostly came from the fact that their head will caught on fire if they were to get hit by a fireball.
If they had enough time to soak themselves in water or put the fireball out, they will most likely survive. Syla's fireball on the other hand, didn't caused such issue, instead of catching the opponent's head on fire, it instead blew it off along with their brains into hundreds of pieces, it was basically an instant kill.
'W- what just happened!? Did that guy exploded? Or is it from her fireball!?.. But i thought i see it missed its target– Then how come the fireball still hit..' Errick thought, his brain couldn't keep up with thinking about the reason for that triplet's death and dealing with the multiple bandits that were attacking him at the same time.
"Keukk!!" Errick's sword clashed with the bandit's and they went into a battle of strength as both of them tried to push their swords against each other.
"Where are you looking!" The bandit said, his eyebrows furrowed in anger due to Errick's attention being averted onto something else. "Do you really have time to turn your head! HUH!?"
Thwack!
The bandit suddenly kicked Errick in his stomach using his knee, the impact made Errick loses his balance for a split second and in the end he had to leave the battle of strength so that he could defend himelf for the next upcoming attacks from the other bandits around him.
'Huff huff.. Thankfully i have this leather armor on.. Or else that kick would've definitely caused me to pass out.' Errick thought.
CLANK
CLANK!
The fight goes on intensely, Anther used his huge body as an advantage to overpower everyone that get close to him, Hilma used her ogre's trait to overthrow the bandit's strategy as they couldn't see where she was going, Yveia was already strong on her own, her halberd dealed an incredible amount of damage thanks to its long reach, the bandits had to team up in order to get close, and Vahen, although small, had mastered various fighting techniques that allows him to find any small openings and squeeze through the barrage of sword swings with his figure.
It would be a lie to say that they have the advantage as a whole group, however they all managed to hold their ground individually, and if even one of them could defeat the bandits that was coming for them, then it'd be easy to turn the tides into their favor.
Meanwhile, Syla began combining her swordmanship and her magic to fight the remaining triplet now twins. The twins had abandoned their previous tactics of ambushing on every blind spots and instead went full defensive, they realized that Syla's reaction time was way too quick for them to successfully launch an ambush, and not mentioning the fact that she kept using a weird technique that allows her to parry two attacks that came from the opposite directions at the same time.
"Damnit, brother, her body is too flexible, she's like a rubber! We can't ambush her or fight in the opposite side." One of the twin said, his face was sweating profusely, most likely from the fatigue of moving rapidly for prolonged amount of time.
"You're right brother! She's also using a weird technique! What is that!? Its as if she has two swords!"
Syla stared at the two identical bandits, her expression remained firm and she still had a lot of stamina left, after seeing the twins having a hard time fighting her, Syla knew that her victory was guaranteed, however she also doesn't want them to escape, so to make sure that they will die by her hands, Syla lowered her body and placed her right leg behind, like a runner athlete that was waiting for the race to start.
THUMP!
The sound of the soil being pushed by a force similar to a grenade caused it to explode with dusts flying into the sky, Syla lunged herself towards the twins and prepared her sword.
"BROTHER! WATCH—
Swing!
Before one of the twin could warn his brother, Syla had already appeared infront of them, and within the blink of a second, she passed them both and grazed the ground as she gradually stopped moving.
Half of the twin's head then slowly slides away from his body, leaving only his mouth as his half head rolled to the ground.
Thud!
"Brother?..." The last triplet watched in terror, his brother's final words echoed through his ears as his lifeless body fall to the ground.
And while his mind was trembling, unable to process the reality, a shadow loomed from behind, blocking the sunlight as the last triplet turned back to see Syla with her cold eyes staring right into his soul.
Syla didn't give the last triplet any more time to reflect or to cherish his last moment, without any warning or sign, Syla then sliced the last triplet's head off of his neck. Her cloak quickly got covered in blood and she even got some on her face as Syla turned her head towards the other bandits in the area.
"S- SHIT!! SHE KILLED THOSE THREE!" One of the bandit shouted in fear.
"H- HEY.. A- AREN'T THEY EQUAL TO A B-RANK ADVENTURER?!" Another one also screamed in fear.
The rest of them soon also noticed Syla's blood stains and the triplets corpses laying on the ground, their expression turned grim and slowly but surely, their fear eventually overwhelmed them into a state of panic.
"UWAAGHHH!! WHO THE FUCK SAID SHE'S AN EASY TARGET!" Many bandits began to ran away from Syla and the mercenaries, those who stayed and watched the battle from near the cliffs also couldn't believe it.
They waited for their leader's order, however it was clear that even their leader was shaking in his boots.
"D- damnit.. How could this happen.. H- hey, run! NOW!" The bandit leader shouted to all of his remainings subordinates and they all ran together in one group, cramping on each other as they were about to enter the dirt road between the cliffs.
"We shouldn't let them live right?." Syla said to Errick while staring at the fleeing bandits and raised her hand.