In Elena's side, the solo S ranker from the other team was also a warrior wielding a large axe. He clashed with the S rank warrior from the bandits' side who was using a large sword. Both of them were power type warriors and they fought only using their brute force.

As for the S rank mages from two sides, they also started to exchange spells. Ruby was an expert of the water element while her opponent was using the earth elements. There levels were also not much different from one another, so they were locked in a stalemate.

But Ruby was not alone had the support of her husband who was a powerful S rank ranger. His skills with a bow was top notch, and when he joined his wife in targeting the mage with long range shots, that mage immediately found himself at a major disadvantage.

As for the warrior name Galos, his team also started to support him with various buffs. Continuous Healing, Light Protection, Veil of Shadow, Physical Resistance Up and many similar kinds of buffs were piled upon him. A normal S rank warrior would have trouble withstanding so many powerful buffs but that was not the case for Galos. He had a special talent in this regard and could withstand many more buffs than a normal person.

After getting the boost from all those buffs, Galos immediately started to dominate his battle. As buffing did not take much time, his A rank teams were able to start fighting the other bandits after they were done casting buffs on him. Those people were all getting taken care of by Elena, so there was no real need. But still Elena appreciated their help with a "Hmph" and a "Not bad".

Soon the battle was over. Even without the buffs, Glaos was slightly stronger the bandit S ranker. So when his stats increased greatly with the buffs, he steamrolled his opponent easily. Even the trump card of the bandit warrior was not able to do anything and was useless.

As for the fight in the mages' side, the outcome of this was also the same. With two S rankers as opponents, the bandit mage was powerless to resist at all.

The low level bandits were killed but the high level ones were taken as hostages. That was because Elena had questions for them. She was going to found out about their hideout from them. She started her interrogation with some weak bandits and soon moved up to the strong ones. Alongside her, Mark also participated in the interrogation as this was something he was experienced with.

Soon, with two expert interrogators taking action, those bandits told them everything. Not only about their hideout but also about how many total members they had, the recent action of the group and many more things.

At the start of the confession, Mark was quite satisfied with their answers. But as the interrogation continued, he started to notice something after hearing a lot things from many low level bandits. The sudden arrival of super strong powerhouses, their recent targets who were completely wiped out and how they were planning to increase their area of influence.

All these sounded very normal individually but when everything was considered together, this showed a different picture. Some bigger plot was happening behind the scenes and whatever was happening was not a good thing.

Elena had also noticed it and seeing Mark's expression she asked him about this. Hearing the question, Mark slightly shook his head with a wry smile and said -

"Miss Elena. Even though I can feel that something wrong this happening behind the scenes, I'm not sure about what exactly. We have very little information to go on and the S rankers are not giving us any good answers. So I think for the time being, we should take a short break while trying to get as much as information as possible from the S rank bandits."

Even though Mark said this, he was not feeling confident about getting anything from those S rankers. He had seen other S rank bandits before but none of them were as stubborn as these ones. From that Mark judged they were specially trained to resist interrogation and this just increased his suspicion of something big happening behind the scenes even more.

Elena noticed his uncertainty and said in an arrogant tone -

"You don't have to put on a brave face. If you can't get any answers from them, then just say so. I can easily extract everything they know if I try a little bit seriously. Just see."

Saying so Elena proudly went before the warrior and pointed her finger toward his head. Then a stream of white light came out of his forehead and started gathering on Elena finger. As more and more of the white light came out, the eyes of the bandit started to become dispirited and soon he fainted.

The light had gathered on Elena's fingers and had turned into a bright light ball. Elena then touch the light ball on her forehead and it immediately entered her head. Elena closed her eyes after that for some time and then she opened it and immediately and arrogant smile came on her face. Then she declared that she now knew everything about the bigger plot behind the scenes.

...

Actually even though Elena said that she knew everything about the bigger plot, that was actually not the case. This S ranker was a high ranking member of the organisation which was behind this whole plot but he was not a top ranking member so the information he was aware of was still quite limited.

But at least Elena now knew what the organisation behind him was actually planning. This organisation was called Thunder Destroyer Guild and they had a total of 7 demigod rank powerhouses. This was definitely a very powerful organisation.

As for their goal, it was to take over the Inazuyan Archipelago. They were also behind the last try and had failed at that time. But the higher level power of the organisation was still intact and they had even managed to gather a few new members. After hiding for some time, they had also managed to get a decent amount of their lower level strength back. So they ready to take action against the archipelago again.

This Bandit group was not a major part of their plans. the higher ups were only planning to use them to get rid of some important people in secret. All the newcomers were actually part of the main Thunder Destroyer Guild and the leader of the Red Fang Gang had also became a member of it.

...

After learning this from Elena, all the people present widened their eyes. Some of the merchants were originally from the Inazuyan Archipelago and they fisted their hands in anger. They still remembered the last turmoil where a lot of people had died. Several islands completely sank when the demigods fought all around the archipelago and one of them was destroyed completely. That was a dark time for all the inhabitants of the archipelago.

So when they heard that these scums were trying to do the same thing again, they all became extremely angry. One of the merchants who was also the oldest in this group of merchants turned to Elena bowed his head. Then he requested her to help out in this troublesome situation. For battles like this, any extra demigods on their side was a very big deal.

So would Elena accept their request ?

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