They are narrowly beaten by them.

As it became clear to the bandits that the church convoy wasn't going to give them their wealth the easy way, the bandits drew their weapons to prepare for a fight. "Alright, time to beat some fools then", their leader said as he charged towards the convoy.

"We'll see...", replied Shamir and Catherine as they repelled his attack easily, and began to repel the bandits, with the rest of the knights of seiros inside shortly joining the fight.

Things went very well for Catherine and co as they slaughtered bandits left and right, however, while a first glance one may seem to believe that the knights would easily win due to their superior training and equipment, what they didn't take into account, was the sheer amount of bandits attacking them all at once in all sides, as nearly everyone in town joined in the fight against the convoy for some scrap of the loot.

"'sigh', They are too many of them..:", mutterred an ever tired Catherine a she found herself nearly overrun.

"Dammit, i ran out of arrows....", exclamed a surrounded Shamir as she resorted to using her bow to whack the bandits.

"HELP, HELP!!", yelled a terrified Gilbert as he was held in the air by a vicious mob.

"Don't hesitate everyone, as long as Rhea is safe, we'll win this fight!!", said Catherine a she continued to hold out.

"Are you sure about that, gal ?", said a female bandit holding none other than Rhea hostage with a knife.

"Ehh...no!!!", Shouted Catherine trying to come to Rhea's aid. "If you take a closer step, she dies!!", the bandit threatened as she drew the knife closer to her throat, stopping Catherine dead in her tracks.

"Now you better do as we said for you own good!", the bandit said, "Please do it for everyone.....", a nervous Rhea said to Catherine, not wanting for things to end worse.

"'sigh', fine...then...." said Catherine very reluctantly, "What is what do you want ?", she asked to the bandits.