55 Aftermath of battle. 3

[Servant system upgrade]

[Host can copy abilities, talents, bloodlines of your servants.]

[Host can improve their status with world energy.]

[Host can give your servants talents, traits and skills.]

'Interesting.' He checked pricing of simple bow talent and it was 100 times more expensive than adding talent to his status.

[Imagine army of multitalented mutants in your possession.]

'That's right. I can still improve my servants. It can be part of reward system for their contributions.' It was simple case of reward and punishment system.

Aron entered hut to interrogate Filip, and his connection to Copperhead Village will be great.

"I want to know everything about deals with Copperhead Village." The next step was gaining control of Copperhead Village, mostly controlling the blacksmith family. Red maple village was last stop before going to Blood City. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting.

"I have deal with Blacksmith family. In exchange of bronze weapons and copper ore, we didn't touch the village." His suspicions were confirmed, those people didn't care about wellbeing of other villages. It was understandable, always put your people before others.

"Where is base of Red skulls?" He didn't plan to rush to kill them, but knowing location of your potential enemy was good thing.

"Far from here. They have couple smaller groups to control the area around Blood city." Filip dodged giving exact location.

"Ok. You have two choices now. Give me exact location and obey my every order. OR GO TO HELL!" Filip connections could be used by Aron, it could be done in other way.

"I don't know! I lied… I have friend in other gang that was spouting some nonsense about treasures inside of fucking mines. AND HERE AM I." It was simple greed and he almost succeed. The mana stone of such size could grant him fortune.

'He can be useful. Hmmm. Let's leave him alive.' He needed to take control of Copperhead village and there will be opportunity to lead Joe's cousin by nose. Filip will be good chess piece, killing him at this movement wouldn't bring him any profit.

"I will let you live…for now! I might spare you if your performance will be good enough." Those words reignited hope for survival in greedy bastard's mind.

'I don't really care about those people. As far they don't mess with me and my plans. They can live…' Some bandits were non salvageable, rapists, pedophiles and murderers. Those people were weeds that he needed to pluck from this world. The rest of them, bunch of greedy half brains could be still used with some teachings.

'Entire team is in ragged state… People will think that it's my fault…' All of his subordinates were important to settlements. The death of any of them could create chaos in their village.

"Aron. Can we talk?" Casper initiated the conversation, his expression revealed that he was worried about something.

"Yes. What wrong?" The boy decided to be straightforward.

"Did Robert tell you anything about my past?" It was quite interesting, still he didn't ask about it.

'I should pretend to know something? Maybe, it will force him to reveal something to me.' It was a simple tactic if your opponent believed that you know something. It will allow him to talk about it openly.

"He told me some interesting things." Those words made Casper expression worsen a little. This change was slight, still, his acute senses could perceive it.

"Ok…Let's talk. Do you want me to talk about this or you already know everything?" Casper didn't have anything to lose, a boy was slowly taking control of the village and it was impossible to reverse it. The killing was also out of option, there were still images of the battle between Robert and Aron in his head. This battle was definitely out of his league. The worst thing was that he discovered that Robert wasn't even fighting him seriously, his pride was hurt pretty badly by this fact.

"I want hear your version. I cannot believe entirely boss of bandits, can I?" Simple but effective method to get information from the source.

"I am Casper. Villagers know me as simple hunter, still it wasn't like this in the past…Many years ago, I joined army. I earned my title as black arrow by killing enemy commander…I was respected and someone saw my talent… I thought I got opportunity of my life, but I was mistaken…I got recruited into special force. I was trained to murder and gather information. I found out cruelty of war, when I was sent to slaughter village…I admit…I was…No…I am monster! I did inhumane things for kingdom… Robert was part of the same group as I am…" The simple case of vicious system, problem is that army needed such monsters to win wars. Soldiers don't take responsibility for taking orders, but they are cursed for their lives. Many veterans cannot get back into society, their minds are corrupted by memories from battlefield.

The lives of citizens are only statistics for higher ups of army. One settlement of villagers can be sentenced to death only because they could be supply for enemies.

'All is fair in war and love…' Marcus wasn't good person either, and he sent many people to their deaths. The science required sacrifices.

"What about Rose? Who is her mother?" He didn't use the word 'what is her mother' as it would make Casper angry.

"How? Robert didn't knew about her…" The race of Rose was secret and Aron's awareness about this fact was unexpectable.

"I didn't know. I felt something is off about her. There is something spiritual about her…You know what I mean." Implication was obvious, Casper started to panic.

"FUCK! Who sent you? Are you part of this sick organization?" Casper was ready to fight for a future of his daughter, even if it was impossible to win.

"No. I wasn't sent by anyone. I saw her creating fire from nothing. I think even she wasn't aware of this 'gift'." The truth wasn't important, Casper heard what he wanted to hear. His daughter is safe.

"Her mother…it's not easy story…" Pained expression appeared on his face, still Aron needed to know if Rose wasn't a treat for his future.

"I want to hear it. It's important." There was no escape from the past, so he forced Casper to embrace it. The stakes were too big, getting a powerful psycho on his back wasn't on his wish list.

"I met her during one of my missions… She immiadately saw through me… She pitted me…Imagine… I could take her life anytime…but she saw through my mask…she felt my pain and saw real me… I collapsed on my knees… I started to speak about my deeds… she said its soldier's duty to follow the orders… I felt like she was my sun… I decided to protect her and later on… We meet few times… It few months and we fell love with each other… When she became pregnant, I faked my death and wanted to take her away from this hell… The worst possible thing happened to me… She was kidnapped by bizarre organization… It took me an entire month, but I found them… however it was too late… THOSE MONSTERS EXPERIMENTED ON HER… THEY WANTED TO CREATE A WEAPON… I infiltrated the base and saw her… her body was deformed and her mind was simply…broken…my sun was taken from me… I felt rage… I was ready to go on a rampage… then she saw me… saw my wrath and said….Save our daughter… I am already dead, but she deserves to get a chance… leave with her …. FORGET ABOUT ME… I found my daughter in another room… I needed to protect my daughter from them…when I left the building…I saw an explosion… it was her… she sacrificed her life to make sure that they won't chase us…" Aron understood Casper's worry. Rose was result of human's experimentation, human-made hybrid. In his mind, she was failed as possible future events and mental instability.

'There are mad scientists in this world. I need to be careful… I am a perfect test subject…' The number of mutations on his body made by system grew with every day. Every scientist would want to research such body and mystery behind it.