Chapter 538 - Pauper Bandit Group (4)

Inside the village's head's house, Auron was reiterating his story based on his experience. Of course, he still covered his identity by saying that he saw the young man hid the knife behind his clothes.

Then, the village's head moved to the young man. He asked the reason why the young man did that. The young man didn't want to answer and kept on silent. Meanwhile, the village's guards and the caravan's owner already barked at him furiously.

However, the young man kept silent. The guards could not help but began searching his body for a clue. The young man was obviously an outsider.

This was a small village. So, everyone inside the village knew about each other. When there was a new face, then it would be an outsider. And, this young man was unknown to the villager here.

After 5 minutes of searching, the guards could not find any clue, not even the young man's name.

Although everyone had their suspicion of the bandit groups because of the recent incident, they didn't have any proof. And it would be difficult for the military to dispatch their soldiers without any evidence.

The young man was actually a part of the Pauper Bandit Group. He was tasked to kill the caravan's owner and covered it as a personal robbery. Of course, the bandit group had carefully not left any clue on the young man, including the bandit's group's emblem.

This was actually a suicidal mission. The young man was a sacrificial pawn for the bandit group. However, the young man had already been brainwashed by the bandit group's head to become extremely loyal.

"He must be from one of the bandit groups that robbed me!!!" The caravan's owners shouted harshly.

"You have to take action and report it to the military!!" The caravan's owner said to the village's head.

However, the village's head said, "Not yet. We have to look for proof first!"

The village's head could not ask for the military's help freely. He had to have firm reason and proof. If not, he would get punishment and free from his position as the village's head. That was why, without any evidence, he would not report it to the military yet, even though he already had the same suspicion.

Meanwhile, since he got nothing else to do, Auron asked to leave the place. His students also left the place along with him.

Auron had to start his investigation on the bandit's group's base. Before he left, he reminded his students to stay low and gather information around the village. Auron also asked his student to pay attention to the jail.

The young man would be jailed before he was trialed. And, this young man was the only lead to the bandit group right now. Because of that, Auron wanted to let his students watch for him.

Auron's students agreed to his request. And Auron quickly left the village. He was already behind his schedule.

Auron traveled not quite far from the village. It was only 15 minutes if one traveled at normal walking speed.

This was the possible location for the bandit's group's base. There were many places to hide here. Unfortunately, Auron was wrong.

There was no trace of the bandit group's base. However, it didn't discourage Auron since it was just the first possibility from many possibilities.

Auron quickly moved to the next location. There were many possible locations to cover. Auron intended to finish his tour before evening came.

Auron could not find anything on the first location, the second location, and the third location. When it was the fourth location, Auron saw something. The place was far from the main path, but Auron could sense humans were around his place.

In such a remote place, the only possibilities were the bandit group or people who were lost. Auron carefully approached the location. And, his conjecture was correct. This was one of the bases of the Pauper Bandit Group.

Auron could see several guards roaming, guarding something like an entrance. Auron took out his map and noted this place on the map. While taking note, Auron carefully listened to the guards' conversation.

From the conversation, he found out that this was only a small base. It was the initial base but had been moved due to the increasing size of the bandit group. And, now, this place acted as one of the storage for the bandit group.

The bandit group had split all of their loot to several locations. And, the location in front of Auron was one of them. Unfortunately, this location only held a small portion of all of the bandit group's fortunes.

After gathering enough information ranging from the number of guards and the terrain here, Auron moved to the next location.

Time passed by as Auron moved to the next several locations. The evening came when Auron finished his investigation on the last locations.

Auron had visited more than 20 possible locations. From that 20 locations, Auron got a total of 8 bases of the bandit group. Fortunately, Auron managed to get the potential location for the main base for the bandit group.

From the tour, there was a piece of new information that Auron got. The Pauper Bandit Group should not be classified as the small bandit group anymore.

Auron managed to find all of the bases because of the lack of security since the bandit group seemed very active in raiding. During Auron's visit, he could hear that the leader had brought many people to raid.

However, even with many portions of the members being brought out to raid, the number of guards stationed in each of the bases was not that few. In total, there should be more than 100 members inside the bandit group.

The bandit groups should be classified as a medium-sized bandit group instead of a small-sized bandit group with that many members.

This new piece of information was clearly not that good for Auron and his students.