The 10 Legendary Swords
Maya Towards the Battlefield

"You ... Don't you get tired of keeping me in this place? You'd rather just kill me than hold me like this!" Said Aidyn laughing loudly.

He knew that he who was sitting on the chair could do nothing plus his whole hand and body were tied to the bench, so Aidyn could only provoke Arav in a mocking manner.

Since the day he was defeated by Arav, the place for Aidyn's interrogation to move around, it was decided that Vinterm was the only one safe from outside threats so as not to happen unwanted things.

"It's a pity if I can't dig up information from you ... But do you know how your father is doing right now?" Arav asked, sighing deeply.

Aidyn who lives in an enclosed room with a lighting light from a torch certainly does not know much about the events outside. Even so, some information such as the events in this residence could easily be obtained when eavesdropping on the conversation of the guards guarding it.

"You don't have to worry ... His father and army will release me soon, so you just need to get ready to be finished afterwards ..." Aidyn smiled faintly.

"Hm ... I heard Avan's uncle and his army went through a lot of fighting ..." Arav recounts every detail of the war incident some time ago, when Avan Ariville invaded the city of Garlet by ordering Dyrk as its leader.

At first Aidyn smiled widely hearing this thinking all the problems would be controlled easily by his father. Arriving at the time of the story when Arav managed to reverse the situation by finishing off the 1000 soldiers, Aidyn's face suddenly turned pale.

"You ... Don't lie!" Jerit Aidyn. He wants to know the final part of Arav's story that is believed to concern the safety of his parents.

Arav shrugged his shoulders, "Why should I tell you everything? Wouldn't it be of no use to me if you knew?"

"What do you want?" Aidyn raised an eyebrow, the first time he planned to negotiate for this information.

The information he had was about a Black Rose organization that had been wiped out in Antasia's history, considering this group is working for the murders it might be useful for him to hire one of the assassins to kill Arav in the future.

While Arav himself knew about it from a book in Melida's previous residential library, there was a page explaining how terrifying this organization was because it had more than hundreds of members.

The Black Rose and the Nine Roses had nothing to do with it. Even the former chairman of the Nine Roses, Masket had never told him about this.

If the Black Rose is in charge of murder, then the Nine Roses provide detailed information about the target of their opponents to their customers. This customer then gave a mission to one of the Black Rose members, indirectly they were dependent on each other.

But Masket chose to avoid the Black Rose so that the Nine Roses could be kept secret. Unlike the Black Roses that wanted their organization to be popular and talked about by many, the Nine Roses were just the opposite.

"Speak up again! The Black Rose is not an organization under my auspices! Unless the group is fully working for themselves!" Aidyn was only half in his explanation, "Now it's your turn to tell my father what happened!"

Arav stroked his chin, "This has not been fully proven to be true ... So it takes a little time, you should at least tell me about the location of their base ..."

He could not calculate the exact number of branch headquarters of this organization but could only guess but not as accurately as Arav thought.

Arav does not wait for Aidyn to explain everything, but the most important thing is that he does not have to deal with this organization first, because first of all he still has a conflict that must be resolved.

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"Hamba reported, five people involved in this mining case have been cleared ..." Maya humps her head as she confronts Arav.

"May ... It takes about a few days to master the entire mining area?" Arav asked while in the meeting room.

"About ... I think maybe less than a week ..." Maya is either convinced or unsure in the success of this attack.

On the move are the city's guard troops who are the current Maya leaders, arguably the number is very limited and inexperienced in the war compared to the main army of Vinterm army which was a veteran in the previous war.

At present Ariville could be said to have an army that was close to seventy thousand, this number had decreased after the war, while Vinterm only has half or at least thirty thousand troops because this region is the smallest of the other provinces.

"If we send in the main army it will burden them because the civil war of Ariville makes them a little exhausted ... Even if deploying those in recovery will make Vinterm unprepared for attack, so the solution is to send a small unit of this army ..." Said Arav in arranging his defense.

Conditions in Antasia did look peaceful, but at any time there could be other kingdoms that have problems with this country began to attack Antasia starting from the easiest region to control.

So he stationed most of the troops in the west that were prone to border conflicts and placed them in the eastern region slightly, the royal family also stationed special forces at their borders but not as much as Arav's current movements.

Arav knocks his finger on the table and tries to digest the situation, Masket looks at him as if his master is facing a war like the one in Ariville, but she realized Ailya's background was the daughter of the head of the extended family, so it wasn't easy to start a conflict with this family while resolving it without any losses to both sides.

"May ..." Arav made Masket and Maya even more curious waiting for his answer, "Stop those who you think are enemies, I've decided not to make my people suffer because of this problem ..."

Maya nods slowly before retreating from the room, while Masket is seen to support this decision despite a hint of doubt in her heart, but he was very confident and confident in the decision taken by Arav.

"Master did his best ... Sir don't have to worry if this mission fails, because I'm sure you've prepared it carefully ..." Masket woken up on Arav's shoulders trying to calm down.

"I hope so ..." Arav got a little confidence.

Day after day passed, Maya and fifty of her troops set off towards the location ordered by horseback, at least they were never intercepted by robbers other than wild animals. No one walked that far so as not to waste much time, some of the surrounding residents were willing to help such as giving food and providing a place to shelter before starting the war the next day.