Chapter 563 - Rochbeich Family (1)

The morning came.

Auron directly moved to the commander's tent. On the previous day, they had agreed to come here today. Today's agenda was to interrogate the prisoner. 

Although Auron had interrogated the prisoner, it was not enough. Moreover, Smite was curious about the noble soldier that Auron had captured before.

Inside the tent, every member of the Absurd team had gathered. Not only them, but there was also the commander in charge of the stop area and the previous leader of the failed attack group.

Not long after, three guards came inside the tent along with the three prisoners. The three prisoners only wore their underwear with their hands tied behind their back. They were treated like this to prevent the prisoner hid a hidden weapon.

As a noble, the enemy's leader was never treated like this. That was why he was so angry because of the humiliation. However, he also knew his position as a prisoner. He could not help but only curse the guards and blamed all of the faults on his two comrades.

A fight even broke out in the middle of the night between the enemy's leader and the two other prisoners. The guards had to separate the enemy's leader from the other two.

"Kneel!" The guards who brought the three prisoners yelled.

As soon as they kneeled, the three prisoners became the center of attention inside the tent. Smite approached the three prisoners. 

Auron had watched this scene. He was surprised. Actually, Smite's ranked was beneath the commander of the outpost ranks. However, since Smite was assigned to become the leader of the attacking party, his command level was somehow elevated.

Currently, Smite and the commander of the outpost should have the same level of command power. However, from what played in front of him, Auron could see that the commander of the outpost actually acted respectfully to Smite. This made Auron became curious about Smite's background.

Smite went forward to the three prisoners. Then, he observed them carefully. He circled them several times. Sometimes, he touched the prisoner's faces and observed their eyes. During this moment, none of the people inside the tent talked. It was so silent that it made the three prisoners shuddered because of this quiet atmosphere. 

"Where are the prisoners' clothes?" After a moment, Smite asked.

A guard brought forward the prisoners' clothes and put them on the table. Everyone knew what Smite wanted to do, he was trying to guess the noble's identity. Auron frowned.

During his way here, Auron had tried his best to know the enemy's leader's identity. However, he could not know about it. The other two prisoners who had surrendered completely to Auron also didn't know about the leader's identity.

The two prisoners had only guessed their leader's identity as a noble because of the higher-up's behavior towards the leader. The two prisoners had tried their best to give Auron all of their information in the hope they could be released or at least their punishment could be softened.

Sadly, the leader's identity was too mysterious. What they knew was that even the commander of the Regalia's city had to act respectfully towards the leader.

Auron had tried to torture the enemy's leader, but the person in the question was muted. Since Auron was once the leader of a big guild, he knew some of the enemy's noble and higher-ups. However, he never had seen the enemy's leader anywhere.

What surprised Auron actually, this was the enemy's leader's first assignment. He just joined the Regalia's military a month ago and was quickly dispatched to the Bridge World.

Smite rummaged through the prisoners' belongings. He focused on the enemy's leader's clothes. During his time rummaging through the clothes, he called Jeffrey and discussed with him in a low voice. Smite didn't even include the commander of the outpost in their discussion. But, Auron could see that the commander was not angry because of this.

Five minutes later, Smite put down the clothes then he went to the three prisoners once again. Smite walked slowly with a solemn expression. Then, he stopped in front of the enemy's leader.

"Rochbeich Family." Smite only said those two words.

When everyone heard what Smite had said, everyone was confused, including the two enemy leader comrades. They never heard of such a family in Regalia.

While everyone was confused, there was only one person who flinched when he heard the two words. However, he tried to act normally and raised his head towards Smite with a confused look. 

Unfortunately, that little change could not escape through Smite and Jeffrey's eyes. Jeffrey approached Smite and tap his shoulder and nodded towards Smite.

Rochbeich Family was actually a family name in the Regalia. No one knew about Rochbeich Family except Regalia's royal family. When the enemy's leader looked at Smite with a confused look, his mind was messy.

There should be no one knew about Rochbeich Family, except Regalia's royal family. Rochbeich Family was not a true family name. They were like a codename given by the royal family.

The Regalia's royal family would adopt orphan kids and trained them. These kids would be trained in secrecy and only the royal family knew about this matter, even the noble family didn't know about this. After several times of selection, the kids would be assigned to one of Regalia's noble families.

The kids could either join the noble family from the bottom or got secret help from the royal family. The kids would serve as the Regalia's royal family's hidden weapon to really control all of the nobles in Regalia.

This enemy's leader was actually assigned to a high-ranked noble family just like the other kids in the Rochbeich Family. Then, he joined the military using this noble family's high background. Hence, the people fawned over him.

If Smite had guessed the noble family he came from, he would not be surprised. However, Smite had guessed his real background instead of his camouflage background.