The Guardian’s Sword by Talking Cigarette

“Stop!” Morine ordered under his breath.

The city defense soldiers at the front stopped, and the city defense soldiers behind naturally followed suit.

“Anne, keep guard here while I take two city defense soldiers to investigate. If I confirm that the bandits are the ones who took Dorodo’s residents, I’ll signal you with a flare!” Morine said to Anne.

Anne wanted to say something, but Morine had already headed that way with two city defense soldiers.

Morine did not take these 200 city defense soldiers with him because it would be too loud with so many people riding together. The bandits would notice them before they got close. It was why he approached so quietly with only two soldiers.

After confirming they were their targets, he could create chaos with his men to delay them while firing a flare to inform Anne to pursue them with the rest.

200 city defense soldiers and Anne were about three kilometers away from the camp.

Morine and two city defense soldiers were now about 500 meters away.

in on foot!” Morine

“Yes!”

and approached the camp on foot, finding that it was indeed the camp of a

people in the stray mercenary regiment by counting the horses tied to the outskirts of the

defense soldiers snuck in and found two dozen poor women sitting together tied up with ropes when they reached

30. The 11 or 12-year-old girls had gone to work in the fields outside the city with the adults and were kidnapped because they failed to escape in

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women were silent. None dared to

set fire to all the tents. And

“Yes!”

defense soldiers nodded immediately and

crept closer to

frightened the women. They showed expressions of horror and