Unknown and Beastkin were at the edge of a mountain cliff. They stood there, looking at the surrounding scenery from that height.
Up here you can see views of the mountains, green and spacious lowlands, dense forests, even the town walls of Rijeka Town can be seen from here, although small in size like a piece of dried of your nasal mucus.
The point is, on this clear day, all the sights with a radius of several kilometers, almost everything can be seen just by standing on this cliff.
The two then discussed where other cities and towns besides Rijeka were located from the top of this cliff. Unknown who has information about this, then explained to Beastkin while pointing in a direction when telling several towns and cities he knew from the information he got when he chatted with Casey and other guests last night at Ami's Inn. In addition to explaining this, Unknown also told Beastkin that of all the places he described just now, he told Beastkin that he seemed to want to visit Trsat Town or Ligweb first.
By the way, the two of them climbed up this mountain and then ended up on this cliff, at first they wanted to look for the bandits because they thought that maybe there were some caves that the bandits used as their nests or hiding places in the area of one of the foothills of this mountain.
But there isn't a single cave at the foot of this mountain, how could the bandits make their hideout here if there wasn't even a cave on this mountain?
“Unknown. Why did that carriage suddenly stop.” Suddenly, Beastkin made a sound, alerting the Unknown who was observing Rijeka Town from a distance.
"Where?" Unknown asked as he turned his gaze away from Rijeka Town in the direction Beastkin's gaze was directed.
"That." Beastkin then pointed to a path that led to the Odesa Serfdom, which was roughly 300 to 400 meters from the cliff where the two of them were standing now.
There's a carriage down there. And the carriage stopped and there were several people guarding the carriage.
"Oh, that's right. Why did they stop? From up here, there are no bandits or people blocking the carriage on the road.”
Beastkin nodded in agreement. "Even if someone wants to ambush them, the trees there are also quite far from the road."
"Yeah. What caused them to suddenly stop then? Everything always has a reason." (Unknown)
“…”(Beastkin)
“…” (Unknown)
Then they both realized something.
"Shit!" (Unknown )
“…!!” (Beastkin)
Did they think we were bandits!?
The escort team's visibility was very amazing to be able to see us up here at such a distance!
Is there an expert among them? C-Rank!? B-Rank!!?
“….”
Keep standing here, we will be considered criminals.
Leaving this cliff, we will still be considered criminals. It even added to their suspicions that we were real criminals!
Damn, we're in trouble.
Whatever. I hope the person who has the eagle eye-like ability won't be able to recognize us when they are in Rijeka Town later, it looks like the carriage is going to that town.
***
Odo, Nigel, and Stephon are hiding in the bushes not too far from the side of the road.
The three of them were seasonal bandits and now they were serving as front scouts to carry out raid missions that would be carried out by their comrades in the back who waiting for their signal.
They would attack anyone who passed on this road.
Whether it's a traveler, some wannabe adventurers, merchant carriage, and even noble carriage.
Of course, only low-ranking nobles were after them.
For mid-rank to high-rank nobles, they will not touch them because the nobles' escort team definitely exceeds their numbers and strength.
They would just be digging their own grave if they targeted those people.
The bandits didn't underestimate the banquet party that some low-rank noble like Lord Rijeka would host, could invite some medium or high-rank noble, so they also needed to be careful in choosing their prey.
It could be a problem later if they get the wrong target.
Anyway, after a long wait while being bitten by mosquitoes, they finally found a carriage passing by on this road.
They are happy because of that, after that they then observe the condition of the carriage, how many people are escorting it, how much money can be generated by the carriage, basically they think about the risk vs benefits that the carriage brings.
The escort team that escorted the carriage was six people. Two sword users, two archers, and two spear users.
If you add the carriage drivers, there are seven of them, but that carriage driver seems like an ordinary carriage driver so they don't add that to their list of people to watch out for.
Even if that carriage driver was an expert in disguise, he was too old. He looked healthy but his health could only make him drive the carriage.
It's no big deal.
After knowing the approximate strength of that carriage escort team, one of them then went immediately to the main group of his bandits band in the forest to announce that their target had come.
Instantly when he arrived and told his comrades about that news, without further ado, All of his comrades then quickly carried out their operation to storm the carriage with the strength of 14 men armed with swords, bows, and arrows.
Including him and his two friends who were at the location, there were a total of seventeen of them who would raid the carriage now.
Surprisingly, when they came to their ambush location, their prey seemed to know their presence was about to ambush them.
That carriage suddenly stopped in the distance and it confused the bandits.
What's going on?
Asked all of them to himself or to his other comrades who certainly don't know either but are still being asked.
They then choose to be patient and don't rush into making decisions, they then wait for the situation first before taking the next action.
But after about half an hour later, that carriage still doesn't advance. In fact, they backed off.
The bandits became even more perplexed seeing that scene.
We didn't get caught, did we?
The kids are also good at choosing a hiding place.
What made that carriage and the escort team do that?
Was it because our body odor could be smelled all the way there so they knew and chose to stop there?
The heck?
Are they wolves?
To Be Continued
