Chapter 535 - Pauper Bandit Group (1)

The next day came. Auron was in the middle of preparing for his promise to his students when a loud voice was heard at the gate of the village.

Auron glanced from the inn's window to see what happened. The students who were eating their breakfast also hurriedly came over to the window and saw what happened.

Auron could see that there was a caravan that arrived. However, he could not see clearly since the view from the inn's window was too far away and a portion of his line of sight was blocked by a building in front of their inn.

"Let's go!" Auron said this word slowly. However, his students already knew what Auron wanted. They immediately changed their clothes and hid their weapon carefully.

Four people came out of the inn using casual clothes. One of the basics in intelligence gathering was blending with the crowd. Although they could not cover their identity as an outsider, they could at least cover their identity as someone from the military. And, his students learned this well enough.

Fortunately, Auron's students were coming from a normal background. So, they could blend casually with the people inside the village. If they came from a noble background, it would be difficult for them to get rid of the noble's behavior.

It would be strange to see a noble in a remote village like this without hidden agenda. Even if they told the others that they were on a vacation, people would hardly believe that.

Auron and his students quickly arrived at the village's entrance. It was just like what Auron had seen previously, the newcomer was a caravan. However, it was in a tattered condition right now.

The caravan's guards were also in a dire state. There were 8 people left from the caravan. And, all of them had injuries on their body, including the owner of this caravan. The owner even had replaced the coachman's position to control the caravan because the original coachman died.

The village's guards immediately came over to the crowd along with the village's cleric. There was also some cleric inside the village that helped them voluntarily. While the wounded was being tended with by the clerics, the village's head asked several questions to the owner who had light injuries.

Information already came into Auron's mind when seeing this caravan's state. The caravan was quite luxurious so there should be more than 20 members going along with the caravan. However, it suddenly reduced to this state. This means, they got ambushed and from the injuries, Auron could conclude that the attackers must be more than 30 members or even more.

Besides Auron, the girl also murmured several deductions like what Auron did while the boys only looked at the caravan like seeing an interesting movie.

The girl suddenly said to the boys, "Hey! Come back to your senses! This is our opportunity."

The boys turned their heads to look at the girl confused. The girl explained, "The caravan must be ambushed by a bandit group. Even though we don't know which bandit group, but there is a chance that our target was the one who ambushed them."

"You," the girl pointed at the cleric boy and said, "Go, help them while looking for more information!"

Auron was satisfied with what the girl had said. Even though they could ask the village's head about the story. However, there would be some piece of information that been missing. Moreover, as they had to keep their military's identity, the village's head didn't have any obligation to tell them the story even if he knew.

By dispatching the cleric boy to help the group, they could hear the information directly from firsthand. Also, by doing this, they could keep their identity safe.

After the explanation, the boys realized what the girl had meant. The cleric boy quickly went over to help tend the wounded. Meanwhile, the girl and the other boy also approached the crowd. They intended to eavesdropping some news. 

Auron was left alone by his student. However, he wasn't angry. Instead, he was ecstatic. It seemed he picked the right students, especially the girl. The girl was really suitable for the intelligence corps. Her behavior and way of think were already on the correct path.

Auron began to collect information for himself. An hour later, the crowd gradually dispersed. Auron wanted to bring back his students. However, before he could say anything, the girl already asked Auron to go back to the inn and postponed the observing agenda to later.

Inside the inn, the girl directly led the two boys and began to collect the information each of them gathered. Then, they started to discuss it.

Just like Auron had though, the caravan was quite luxurious. They had hired mercenaries and guards and totaled 26 people.

Along their way, they got ambushed by a group of 35 people. Although they suffered some casualties from the battle, their condition was still good. Hence, they continued their path.

However, suddenly, another group of 35 people appeared once again. With their reduced number, the caravan had no choice but to sidetrack from their original path and escape.

Surprisingly, the new 35 people didn't chase them. Without any chaser, the caravan had intended to go back to the original path. Unfortunately, a group of bandits with 50 people arrived and prevented them from going back.

Since they had escaped against 35 people, it was obvious that they would escape from the 50 people. Their path had deviated far from the original path. 

This time, the 50 people still chased them from behind. The caravan's owner noticed this village. Without any choice, the caravan's owner went to this village to seek refuge.

However, before he could arrive, another group of 50 people appeared blocking their path to this village. The caravan's owner didn't want to give up and charged through the barricade. And, here was the result. They managed to arrived at the village but suffered great casualty.