Too late, they realised their folly when the host from Linguanea fell upon them. Swords flashed in the sunlight and the bandits fell like flies, unable to resist the men who rode on armoured horses, cutting swathes through the bandit footmen time and again. Shyasi made full use of being in the front by killing a number of bandits with his mind before his blades drew the first drops of bandit blood.