Some of them were even very clever, resorting to guerrilla tactics...
Furthermore, the bandits were extremely familiar with the local terrain, making them even harder for the imperial army to eliminate.
"Bandits are running rampant across the Empire. They rape, kidnap, murder, burn, loot, and commit every evil imaginable... I have a task for you: clear out a bandit stronghold."
At first, Durandal had not particularly cared about the bandits plaguing the Empire... because many of them had been driven into desperation by the Empire itself, and she had not wanted to interfere.
However, aside from those forced into banditry with nowhere else to turn, there were even more who had willingly fallen into depravity and committed every evil imaginable.
Durandal had unexpectedly found a bandit den. The bandits there could no longer be called human; even calling them beasts would have been giving them too much credit.
Chapter 60: Two Little Gluttons
When Durandal found this den of utterly vicious bandits, she had originally planned to wipe them all out herself!
But then she suddenly realized that future Valkyries could not merely be capable of killing Dangerous Species. In this world... humans were even more terrifying than Dangerous Species.
If they did not dare to kill humans, then the Valkyries she trained would be unqualified, and even less worthy of becoming members of the Blade of Immortality.
Valkyries existed to fight for a better tomorrow.
When facing evil people, they could not let them go just because they were human. Would they spare a villain who deserved to die a hundred times simply because he suddenly knelt and begged for mercy, claiming he would never do it again... that he would turn over a new leaf and become a better person?
If that were the case, what was the