Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 402

Chapter 402: Breakthrough

"I’m ready, sir," Warner said quietly . "Waiting on your order . "

"Be careful," Anfey warned .

"Don’t worry, sir . I won’t risk my life for this . "

"Good," Anfey nodded . "I trust you . "

Warner nodded and hurried away . Anfey watched the man with a frown as he disappeared .

"What’s wrong?" Blavi asked .

"This is the first time I am trusting someone I don’t know well," Anfey said with a shrug . "Just a bit nervous . "

"Don’t worry," Blavi said with a grin . "He won’t risk his life . Plus, we still have Suzanna and you . If you can defeat a grand swordsman, a few necromancers shouldn’t be a big problem . "

"I defeated him because he wasn’t thinking," Anfey said . "If it had been Anthony or Manstuly, I probably wouldn’t be standing here right now . "

"You’re just being modest," Blavi said .

"No, it’s the truth . "

Blavi smiled . "What should we do if Fernando turns against us? Most of his men came from Maho Empire, but he is still their commander . "

"Don’t worry too much about it," Anfey said . "I won’t give him the chance . "

"Are you going to kill Fernando too?" Blavi asked, shocked . Fernando was a senior knight with a lot of powerful guards . Killing him would be very difficult .

"No, of course not," Anfey said . "Fernando’s fate lies in the hands of His Majesty . Let’s wait for Warner . If he can protect us, we will break through and head north . "

"If we are going to break through, there are going to be thousands of zombies in our way," Blavi said . "We can’t guarantee that we’re all going to make it out . "

"We’re not leaving immediately," Anfey said . "We’re going to leave when everyone’s too distracted to notice that we’re gone . "

"That’s a plan, I suppose," Blavi said . "Don’t have to worry about Fernando and his scheming that way . "

"Our food supply is running low, though," Black Eleven suddenly said .

"Really? We brought so much food when we left . How is it gone already?" Blavi asked .

"We left Reddenburg and spent six days on the road . Those mercenaries who joined us needed food as well . This is the seventh day we are trapped here . "

"How much do we have left?" Anfey asked .

"I’m not exactly sure," Black Eleven said, "but I know that we’re running out . "

"This is bad," Blavi said with a frown . "All the cities we passed had no food . Everyone was starving . Even if we head north, we may not find supplies . "

"Are you saying we should go south and back to Moramatch?" Riska asked, shaking his head . "This is too good an opportunity . We can’t give it up . "

"I know that!" Blavi retorted . If even Riska knew this was a good opportunity, Blavi must also have known . He was ambitious and knew this was their best chance at expanding their influence . "But what can we do without supplies? There must be thousands of mercenaries waiting for us along the way . If we don’t have food, they have no reason to join us or help us . If we just leave with no supplies, no one will join us . "

"You’re right," Anfey said . "But we can’t turn back now . Armin, go find Ozzic and see how much supplies we have left . We need to limit everyone’s portion . "

Black Eleven stood, nodded at Anfey, Riska, and Blavi, then quickly left the room .

"Hopefully the mercenaries will be fine with losing part of their portion," Riska said worriedly .

"They have to," Blavi said, shaking his head . "They have to know that without limiting their portion, we’re going to run out of food even faster . "

"This is not a long term plan, though," Riska said . "What should we do when we find new mercenaries who need food? Are we going to decrease the portion even more?"

Blavi frowned and nodded .

"You’re right," Anfey said . "We won’t go north, then . We’re going east . "

"Where are we going then?"

"We’re going to Entos," Anfey said .

"That seems good," Blavi said with a wide grin on his face . "Marino seems like a good person . He and Entos will surely help us . "

"It’s going to be a long hike," Riska said, looking at the map . "It will take at least half a dozen days . "

"We should be able to make it," Anfey said . "We need to talk to Ozzic and Shinbella and the others . "

"Wait," Blavi suddenly said . "I have a way . Maybe we don’t have to go to Entos . "

"What is it?"

"Most people in the Shield of Light Legion are from Maho Empire," Blavi said . "Even though Fernando is their commander, their loyalty surely still lies with Maho Empire . They won’t ignore the needs of their countrymen . "

"We can’t do that," Anfey said, shaking his head .

"Why not?"

"Fernando was friendly before because he needed to stabilize his relationship with us," Anfey said . "Now that he doesn’t need to do that, he will not react kindly to this request . We have thousands of mercenaries, we can’t risk him finding out about it . He will know better than us how much supplies we took . "

"You’re saying he can guess how much we need and set a trap?"

"Very possibly . "

"Really?" Riska asked incredulously .

"What kind of a person is Pope William?" Anfey asked .

"He’s powerful, that’s for sure," Blavi said . "And smart . "

"He gave the legion to Fernando for a reason," Anfey said . "He’s not stupid . Everything the pope did, he did for a reason . We cannot underestimate Fernando . "

Anfey wasn’t scared of Fernando, but he was scared about what kind of situation a conflict with Fernando would put him in . Fernando was a top level power, and Anfey knew better than to underestimate those people .

"Alright," Riska said, nodding .

"Fernando must know that His Majesty wanted to take him out from the beginning," Anfey said . "He must have prepared for this . If things go bad, we can’t let ourselves become Fernando’s scapegoats . "

"Can’t he just blame the generals?" Riska asked, frowning .

"Are you stupid?" Blavi asked, his eyes wide . "No matter who wins this, we aren’t the ones responsible . We only have so much power . "

"Who are you calling stupid?" Riska retorted angrily .

"Oh let it go," Suzanna said, shaking her head . "Blavi’s right . We need to do our best not to get tangled up in this . "

A strong surge of magic rippled through the air . Anfey glanced at his friends and they all stood and dashed outside . Zagreen City was covered by blinding white light . A large magic barrier was expanding and covering the city . In the middle was Warner, holding the Book of Life .

Because Anfey kept Warner’s presence a secret, a lot of mercenaries did not know who he was and thought he was one of the priests . Some aimed their bows at him .

"Wait!" Ozzic jumped up and hurried towards the mercenaries . "Goodness gracious, wait! He’s on our side!"