Chapter 28
Sandy and Mark had both brown hair and a short red beard . They were of medium stature and were, apparently, brothers from two different mothers and the same father . They were quite young, as their age didn't reach the 40ies .
Susan was a woman nearing her 50ies, with blond hair and an imponent frame and with her right ear missing .
Ethan was the youngest of the group, around his 30ies, and he was the tallest between them .
They were in a room inside the guards building sitting around a circular table with cups of hot tea on the side of each of them .
Susan was explaining the information she knew about the mission .
"We know the group is formed by a former mercenary group that was going to be absorbed by the soldiers of the Shosti family . Some of them, unhappy with the status of a stable soldier, rebelled and became robbers . You all read the report about Tasart village, I don't believe they could have cleared all their traces while kidnapping so many women . Of course, our best option is to start investigating from there . "
Everyone nodded .
"What about their number and capabilities? And what do we do if they use the hostages?"
It was Noah speaking . He wanted to make sure that he was ready for anything in his first battle with cultivators, even if he didn't have to participate .
"We have some description of the strongest of them and their group should amount to 20 people in total . As for the hostages, we save them if we can, we cut through them if they are used as shields . "
Noah nodded, he was happy with her answer .
'In this world, the weak are to blame while the strong are to revere, I won't endanger myself to save other people I don't care about . '
A village would be wiped out because, by chance, a pack of magical beasts found it in their way, weakness was indeed a sin in this world .
Having cleared his doubts, Noah listened carefully to the questions of the other soldiers .
They set up the priorities of the mission, the plan of attack and everyone's role .
Noah had to clear anyone trying to get closer to the other 4, leaving the cultivators to fight themselves with no one interfering .
"Since everything is settled, let's set off immediately . We will see each other again in 2 hours . "
The group got dismissed and went to prepare for their mission .
Meanwhile, on the side of a small mountain covered with trees, 20 or so men were camping near a campfire .
It was winter so the temperature was low but these men didn't seem to care too much as they were doing a line to enter the bigger tent of the camp .
Cries and pleads could be heard from the tent but the men outside it would just laugh and lick their lips eager to enter .
Two men got outside of the tent and proudly announced .
"Now, there are no more virgins inside!"
Disappointed sighs and curses were spat out by the men still in line but then were suppressed by a yell coming from higher in the mountain .
"Shut up you beasts, I'm trying to concentrate here!"
The men shut up but soon whispers sounded again on the mountain .
"I heard that the boss managed to steal a magic spell's scroll from the old captain . "
"Shhh, he is still in the process of learning it, he doesn't want any distraction . He let us raid the village just to make us happy and stop complaining . "
"What a pity though, he had been a mage for such a long time and the only way he got a magic spell was with the rebellion . "
"You chose to rebel too remember?"
"Well, we are mercenaries, we follow gold and women!"
The deserters talked for some more time and then went back to enjoy the contents of the tent .
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