The Birth of the Demon Sword

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Chapter 28 - 28. Scroll

Sandy and Mark have brown hair and short red beards. They were of medium stature and, apparently, brothers from two different mothers and the same father. They were quite young, as their age did not reach their forties.

Susan is a woman approaching her fifties, with blonde hair and an imponent frame and with her right ear missing.

Ethan is the youngest of the group, in his thirties, and he is the tallest among them.

They were in a room inside the guard building, sitting around a round table with hot tea cups on each side.

Susan explained the information she knew about the mission.

“We know the group was formed by a former mercenary group that will be absorbed by the Shosti family army. Some of them, unhappy with the stable status of soldiers, rebelled and became robbers. You all read the reports about Tasart Village, I can't believe they could erase all traces of them while kidnapping so many women. Of course, our best option is to start investigating from there."

Everyone nodded.

"What about their numbers and abilities? And what do we do if they use 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 did not have to participate.

"We have some descriptions of the strongest of them and their group should total twenty people. As for the hostages, we rescue them if we can, we cut them off if they are used as shields."

Noah nodded, he was pleased with the answer.

'In this world, the weak are to blame while the strong are to be respected, I will not harm myself to save others I don't care about.'

A village will be wiped out because, by chance, a group of magical beasts found it in their path, weakness is indeed a sin in this world.

After dispelling his doubts, Noah listened carefully to the questions of the other soldiers.

They set mission priorities, attack plans and everyone's role.

Noah had to clean up anyone who tried to get close to the other four, leaving the cultivators to fight on their own without anyone bothering.

"Since everything is in order, let's leave immediately. We'll see you again in two hours."

The group disbanded and left to prepare for their mission.

Meanwhile, on the side of a small mountain overgrown with trees, about twenty people were camping near a campfire.

It was winter so the temperature was low but these people didn't seem to care much as they were marching to enter the larger tents in the camp.

Crying and pleading could be heard from the tent but the people outside would just laugh and lick their lips to enter.

Two men came out of the tent and proudly announced.

"Now, there are no more virgins inside!"

******* was disappointed and the curse was spat out by those who were still in line but then suppressed by the screams coming from higher ground on the mountain.

"Be quiet you animals, I'm trying to concentrate here!"

The people were silent but soon a whisper was heard again on the mountain.

"I heard the boss managed to steal the magic spell scroll from the old captain."

"Sst, he's still in the process of learning it, he doesn't want any distractions. He let us invade the village just to make us happy and stop complaining."

"Unfortunately, she has been a witch for a long time and the only way she gets magic spells is by rebellion."

"You also chose to rebel, remember?"

"Well, we are mercenaries, we follow gold and women!"

The deserters talked for some more time and then went back to enjoying the contents of the tent.

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The houses burned down and no living creatures were seen inside.

A group of 3 men, a woman, and a child got off the train, of course they were Noah and his group.

"Aww man, you are too boring, you do nothing but meditate and practice during the journey. Aren't you at the age when you want to talk about women?"

"Sanford, don't try to ruin the boy, he still has time to waste time like you."

"Captain you are so evil! I'm just trying to educate him on the path of maturity!"

Sandy and Susan had a fight, they basically did it all the way.

Mark will only laugh at every word they say to each other while Ethan tries to imitate Noah in his compulsive training.

'Don't tell me that you became an idiot when you started cultivating your dantian?'

This was his thought of cultivators after 4 days of traveling with them.

'Now that I think about it, even Master isn't too normal with his constant smile.'

He was considering the possibility that cultivation could have some side effects on the practitioner's psyche.

They approached the remains of the village and looked around for clues from the deserters.

The bodies were still lying on the ground, left there since the attack.

As the report said, there were no women among the bodies and signs of dragging were everywhere.

"What's in that direction that could hide 20 lustful men?"

Mark asked a question while pointing to where the trail was dragging away.

"A mountain."

Answer Password.

"Mount Cliffshear."

Ethan showed.

Susan massaged her temple to refrain from yelling at the three of them.

"They must have gone there, we must hurry while they are still busy using hostages."

Noah could not help but feel a hint of vigilance against Susan's helplessness after her proposal.

"Oh, something's coming."

"Yes, they must be interested in the smell of blood left on the ground."

"Eh?"

This was the first time Noah was not the first to notice anything approaching.

'Have they become witches?'

Seeing Sandy and Mark gazing into the distance, he followed their line of sight, focusing on the dark spot several hundred meters in the distance.

The point becomes 2 points and then 4.

Then the silhouette of the 6 thunder wolves was made clear.

"Son, you take care of them, have fun."

Sandy patted Noah on the shoulder and sat on the ground as if waiting for a show.