We reached the entrance to the main building of the museum.
The four of us were standing with our backs against the wall around the entrance door.

We guessed that there were about twenty or thirty bandits holed up inside the building.
However, if possible, I would like to have more detailed information about the enemy.

'...... snoring, huh?

Cyril muttered.
Indeed, if you listen carefully, you can hear something that sounds like snoring coming from inside the building.

'Maybe so. I'll try to listen in.

Mee whispered to him and put her ear to the door of the entrance to listen.
She did not make a single sound of the door creaking as she did so, which was quite a feat.

'...... There seems to be some people just inside the door. I can hear some snoring.

I listened to Mee's report and began to think.
This was all going according to plan.

There are two reasons why we took the trouble to spend the night on the road and arrive here early in the morning, around sunrise.

The first is that if we were to leave the city in the morning and visit here at night, we would have to light torches to walk in the darkness.
Even if you use an insensible spell to make it difficult for people to notice your presence, there is a limit to its effectiveness.
If the stones on the roadside are glowing at night, the risk of being noticed is still high.

Another reason was that we thought that if we arrived early in the morning, there would be more people still asleep than in the daytime or later.
The result was as expected, as can be seen from Mee's report.

'But I'm not sure if any of them are awake. I don't hear any talking. ......'

Mee's words made me think harder.

First of all, the premise of this idea is that a head-on collision between four new adventurers and a band of twenty or thirty bandits is a complete fool's errand.
We need to proceed as covertly as possible.

As for the difference in strength between us, if I were to describe the bandits as monsters, I would say that most of them are of the G to F rank.

Because they are human, they are larger than goblins, and their weapons are rarely just a club made from a thick wooden stick.
Most goblins are expected to have spears, axes, and other weapons with sufficient lethal power, making them a high threat.

At the same time, however, it is unlikely that any of them have received specialized training, and their skill level is likely to be that of a thug who is used to fighting.
The average skill level of these adventurers is somewhat lower than that of F-rank adventurers, most of whom have had some training to begin their careers.

However, there must be some who are reasonably skilled.
If there are a few of them in a group of twenty or thirty, they may be in a position of leadership among the bandits.

They are probably F-ranked.
The rest of the bandits should be regarded as a G-rank threat.
This is one rank higher than the general goblins, which are H-ranked.

On the other hand, since Mee and Cyril said that they had only minimal training in weapon combat, we should estimate their warrior ability to be around F rank.
But even so, they are definitely not up to the level of being able to fight a war against a bunch of bandits.

And as for me, I'm clearly not up to the task in terms of weapon combat.
I am not equipped with a weapon with sufficient killing power, and I have not trained for it.

The only one who is out of the ordinary is Satsuki, whose abilities as a warrior are at least D-ranked at this stage, or even C-ranked depending on your point of view.
She is capable of taking on eight to sixteen bandits at the same time and still be able to compete with them.

To be honest, it remains to be seen how much her fighting ability will be degraded by the fact that she is now in the body of Filia, a mere village girl.
However, judging from her confident words and actions when she took over, it seems that she can draw out most of her power, so for the time being, we can assume that she has a combat ability of D rank.
There may be some instability in her mental state, which needs to be taken into account.

When I said earlier that Satsuki was capable of fighting 20 or 30 bandits single-handedly, I was assuming that she behaved tactically and planned a minimum of individual defeat tactics.
If she were to fight more than twenty of them head-on, even Satsuki would end up being slaughtered without a choice.

Anyway, that's it.
The first thing we should think about now is how to deal with the bandits behind the door in front of us.

It's hard to imagine that all the bandits are there, but according to the information that Mee brought, there must be at least a few of them.

If all of them were asleep, he would not need to use the sleep spell to catch them off guard, but if some of them were awake, he might get into trouble depending on how things unfolded.
If they go to call their friends and start an all-out battle, the whole plan will be ruined at that point.

'Mmm, in this case, we might have to bet that everyone is asleep and try to sneak in secretly.

'I don't know. Rather than that, it might be better for all of us to launch a raid at once, which will result in a smaller risk. ......'

Mee and Cyril consulted with each other in a whisper then their gazes turned to me.

'William, I'd like to know what's going on inside. Can't we use the wizard eye that we used on the goblins?

Mee asks, but it's not exactly a good idea.

'No, the wizard eye can't go through doors or walls. You'll have to open this door anyway. Besides, the wizard's eye is a relatively high-level spell. Rather than using that, it would be more effective to use see-through in this case.

'Mmm, I see. So, if you're going to use the wizard eye, it's better for you to sneak a peek at ...... what?

I've been thinking about it for a while, but the second half of my statement made her tilt her head.

'Use see-through. It's also a high-level spell, so it consumes a fair amount of mana, but in this situation, it's worth it.

I replied, and began to chant the spell.

The see-through spell is a spell that allows you to ignore walls and other obstacles within its area of effect and 'see' beyond them.
The spell's area of effect is just enough to contain the mansion in front of you - in other words, by using this spell, you will be able to 'see' the entirety of the mansion.

Once I completed the spell, I set out to grasp the entire contents of the mansion.
I found out how many bandits were in each room, how many of them were sleeping and how many were awake, what the ones who were awake were doing, whether they were carrying weapons, and so on.

It's not perfect information, since we can't get audio information, but once we've got the whole picture, we start passing it around to our friends, starting with the most recent information we need.

'In front of this door is a hall. There are six men, all of them lying on the ground in the hall asleep. There are barrels of wine and scraps of food scattered here and there. It seems that they are just eating and drinking all day every day with the loot from the village. ...... It's a good thing, but it's a bad thing. It's easy to get rid of them.

When I reported this with a personal touch, both Mee and Cyril looked at me blankly as if they were looking at something refreshing.