The Land Of Thorns
Night length part 2
Even so they look more relaxed when they see the store owner Uncle who is so focused with his serious expression that looks intimidating to them.
Their attitude is clearly seen to change when after finding out that the store owner Uncle followed Edgar's plan to attack the bandits, previously they seemed to just want to keep their face as mercenaries and were cool at joking with others.
“It seems this Uncle is quite famous, was he once a mercenary?”
Edgar muttered to himself as he saw the change in attitude of the mercenaries as the shop owner's Uncle approached them.
But if seen well - this time they look like pure soldiers with a professional attitude who keep their authority when near the Uncle of the tavern owner, just looking at it made Edgar understand that they respected him.
As time waited for Ludi and other hunters to lurk, Silvi saw from earlier noticed Edgar who was alone looked worried to see the look on his face like a man who had so many thoughts.
At that time Edgar was still thinking about the nobles who supported the bandits of this city and felt they did not understand what the benefits were in supporting the garbage that damaged the city.
‘Are you okay?’
Silvi asked in mind as touching Edgar's shoulder all at once was soothing.
‘I'm fine, I just feel like I don't understand who the nobles are supporting this city's bandits.’
‘Why do you think of that?’
‘Should the fairy spirit tell you, doesn't she know much about me.’
Edgar's answer sounded so mocking because he thought the fairy spirit should have given Silvi a lot of information about her.
‘They look upset, you should say ‘they’, because the fairy spirit I mean is not just one.’
‘I don't know that, I can't see them. Sorry then the fairy spirit.’
‘It's okay, they said they just wanted to tease you. After all they can only see what will happen in the future but cannot see the days before.’
Her tone Silvi sounded joking, hearing the fairy spirit teasing Edgar made her smile as she said that in Edgar's mind.
‘Then did they see us beat the bandits?’
‘They just said that we will live and they said that they are not fortune-tellers because they can only catch a glimpse of what is happening in the future and that too suddenly.’
‘I think it's kind of their magic, whereas I want to ask them to see this kingdom.’
Hearing him made Edgar pout a little disappointed, because he wanted to know what the future of this kingdom would be like and to find out if he saw the same future with them.
‘This kingdom? Is it possible that you are a noble in this kingdom?’
Silvi's question that was so arrived - suddenly made Edgar seem silent to think for a moment, but he felt it would be useless to hide
‘Yes, I don't think there's any point in me lying, I don't want the fairy spirits to hate me because they told you to trust me.’
Silvi smiled again hearing Edgar say that to her which sounded so funny.
‘After all I wonder how these bandits can take the heirloom necklace belonging to the wind Spirit?’
‘I do not understand how it can be in their hands, but what I knew a month ago the necklace disappeared from its storage at the top of the mountain Alv.’
‘Ha! Isn't Alv the highest peak in Blume? The distance from Rosten city alone has taken 3 weeks.’’
Edgar was so shocked to hear that the necklace disappeared from Alv Mountain so far away from Rosen Kingdom, and not to mention he just found out that at the top of Alv that is difficult to climb has an heirloom like Silvi said.
‘Don't tell me you live at the top of Alv!’
Edgar again confirmed because little considering that the witch always lives in an awkward place to live.
‘Iya I stay at the top of Alv.’
‘Actually what is with you witches living in places - places that are difficult to reach humans.’
Edgar said that because he remembered a place quite close to the Rosen kingdom which was also the residence of witches and elf-man inhabitants who lived in the big dream-eating forest. Where when humans enter the place will sleep forever.
‘I've told you that this has something to do with the mystical magic you feel is on me.’
What Edgar said made Silvi see him beigtu interested, already 2 times Edgar saw him seem interested when he said magic that makes him understand that Silvi is so excited by magic.
Not long after that Edgar saw Ludi had returned from the reconnaissance, only this time Ludi seemed to show a different expression from the previous reconnaissance.
“What's Ludi, what's with that expression?”
Edgar asked so curiously looking at Ludi and the others looking so pale.
“They are not Edgar humans!”
“What do you mean Ludi?”
“I found a building that looks different like you said, there I saw..”.
Ludi and the other hunters looked nauseous as he was about to tell them what they saw from their reconnaissance.
“...., they are putting a collection of corpses in a freight car, they are piling them on a horse carriage!”
Ludi again continued, she told him something bad she found from the place.
“Are you sure it's a human body?”
Edgar asked back to make sure as Ludi looked not so relaxed as he spoke.
“Despite the darkness of my eyes this still works normally Edgar! I saw them throw a little girl so skinny together with the other victims!”
“This is crazy! What are they doing that for?
“That's also something I want to know!”
Ludi sounded so emotional as he told Edgar what he had found. Seeing death is actually common for those in dangerous jobs like this, but seeing innocent residents in slum districts fall victim, making Ludi and the others feel unable to bear seeing anything inhuman.
‘For what bandits do, do they sell human organs?’
In Edgar's head came so many questions about what they were actually doing to their current inhabitants.
“Ludi, how about the storage warehouse?”
Edgar asks her to get the others to refocus into the plan first at this time.
“As you may have guessed I saw a man coming out of the building next to post three!”
Edgar gathers them to discuss what he plans to do, he sees they all seem to feel the same way as Ludi, Edgar knows that just thinking will not get any answers, he had to find out for himself and see firsthand what the bandits were hiding in their headquarters.
“We have to do this attack at the same time. For the archers make sure you lock your targets in posts 2 and 3, while the others finish off the supervisor at the first post of your arrow shots.”
“We have to divide into 2 groups. Ludi, the shop owner's uncle and the others you guys pass the south side. The rest come with me through the north side.”
“When I signal the group with me will attack the hiding place, and I hope you can barge in to directly attack their headquarters.”
Clearly Edgar was on them regarding the details of the plan to carry out their surprise attack.
“Then what will we do with these small bandits?”
Ask a mercenary near the small bandit as Edgar finishes discussing the assault plan.
“Just make him faint, we no longer need him at this time!”
“We will find out for ourselves what secrets they are hiding in their headquarters!”
Edgar said back when they were all about to leave to start their attack tonight.