Chapter 74: Danger inside the danger (5)

 

Aaron and Roan went to Io’s tent along with Pens .

“Mmm . ”

Io looked at Pens’s report and fell into his thoughts .

Pens and Oren .

Even if the locations were different, it was just too different .

On top of that, they were sure that it was the top option and not the 2nd or 3rd in reserve .

There was a high possibility for one of these to be the enemy’s trap .

No, perhaps both of them could be it .

Then, Oren mumbled with a blunt voice .

“Our organization is made up through the support of the Phillip’s family and has steadily expanded its force . There are more than 300 active members . It’s a tolerably small squad . ”

His eyes moved to Pens .

“We started gathering and analyzing information in the eastern region the moment war started . There are high possibilities for the storage we found, to be the real one . ”

Pens didn’t show any reaction .

‘We gathered and analyzed information even before war started . ’

 

He wanted to say that but he couldn’t .

It was better to hide Chris’s agency the more they could and not expose it, while thinking of the future .

But Aaron wasn’t planning to just endure it and let it pass .

“It seems like this young friend is ignoring our information squad . ”

He continued saying with quite a displeased voice and expression .

“Just looking at the staff number, our side certainly has less . However, he had already found several supply lines of Istel kingdom . On top of that, we grasped their surprise attack beforehand and annihilated them by counterattacking . It’s a squad that already has its history . ”

At those words, Oren shut his mouth .

Even if he was receiving the support of the Phillip’s family, he was still a commoner .

He couldn’t say anything back at Aaron yet .

Only, there was a displeasing look in his eyes and pride about his organization mixed in it .

Then, Roan’s voice was heard .

“Anyways, we are in a situation that we have to check the two places . ”

At those words everyone nodded .

Roan looked at Oren and continued saying .

“We decided to check if the information you brought us was true or not, so how about you go check if our information is real or not?”
“We?”

Oren had a confused expression at the unexpected proposal .

Io, who was listening, hit his knees .

“That would be good . ”

If the concerned parties checked it themselves, they would be convinced more easily .

Aaron and Oren, who pondered for a moment, nodded at the same time .

“Certainly, if we check it with our own eyes, there wouldn’t be useless trouble . ”

There wouldn’t be saying such as stealing away the merits, or upturning the truth .

They had to block fighting between themselves in front of a big battle .

“Then . Go and check the truth with your own eyes . ”

These were Io’s order .

Aaron, Roan, Oren and Pens bowed at the same time .

“Yes . We understand . ”

It was a short reply, but with strength .

The four people were composed and confident, just like one person .

Roan left Io’s tent and grabbed Pens’ shoulders .

“Mister Pens . ”

Pens slightly turned his head and looked at Roan .

Roan looked at Pens’ eyes fixedly and continued saying .

“I believe in the information you, Chris’s agency, and the information squad has brought me . ”
“Ah……”

Pens let out a low exclamation .

Roan looked at him and smiled faintly .

“Let’s show everyone which information agency is the real one and the best . ”

He was confident .

But it wasn’t because he remembered things related to the storage .

When he first came running to him bringing the paper with the location written in it .

The expression from back then .

‘An expression filled with confidence . ’

Pens was overly careful and meticulous .

Because of that, his words and actions were heavy, and the expression of his face was consistent .

But that him was smiling brightly .

‘If I don’t believe in my people, who will?’

Roan trusted Pens .

The Pens that smiled more brightly than anyone .

*****

The next day, the small scaled squad left Lancephil’s territory .

As they had the role of just checking the location of the storage, the number of the soldiers was quite low .

As they picked the nimblest soldiers and the ones with the best stamina among the 12 squads, that number amounted only to 40 .

And the one leading them was none other than Roan .

He was sent off by Aaron and moved towards Istel kingdom .

Roan divided the 40 people again in groups of 5 and only moved when the sun had set or at dawn .

The reason he split the already small squad .

It wasn’t only to dodge the eyes of the enemy .

‘If the location of the storage is true, we have to secure a road to approach them secretly while evading their eyes .

Roan wasn’t thinking of only checking the location and returning .

He was thinking beyond that .

Because of that, the movement speed was really slow .

However, Roan didn’t rush and that was the same for the soldiers .

They obeyed Roan’s orders .

And after nine days passed like that, they could arrive at the storage located in a deep place in the enemy territory .

It was a storage located between mountains .

‘They are located in a normal location . ’

It wasn’t that far from the front lines and was a comfortable location to come and go .

On top of that, the main road was well extended from east to west .

It was the optimal place to store their supplies .

On top of that, different from the last time, there were quite a lot of guards in it .

It had an amazing number of tents, sacks, and soldiers .

‘Is this the real location?’

Roan sent the soldiers to the sides of the hill for now and ordered them to check the storage thoroughly .

At the same time, he climbed to the peak of the mountain .

‘Fortunately, there’s nothing covering my sight . ’

As he climbed to the peak of the mountain, he could see the entire storage in his eyes .

If you were a normal person, you’d only be able to see its shape .

But Roan was different .

He had Kalian’s tear with him .

‘It’s quite a solid camp . ’

Roan concentrated his sight on several places of the storage .

And every time he did so, the place he looked at seemed as big as if it was in front of him .

Quite some time passed by .

But he didn’t discover anything wrong .

‘The abilities of the organization are quite gre…… . ’

When he thought up to that point, one scene caught his eye .

A middle aged soldier, who was circling the surroundings as if he was patrolling, approached a young soldier .

At first glance, it was a really natural scene .

However, the problem was the thing the young soldier was holding .

‘Report?’

It was a pile of documents made with mixed old paper and rough leather .

It obviously was a report .

Although he couldn’t see the exact contents, what was filling the side were letters .

‘A normal soldier can read?’

When Roan revealed that he knew how to read and write, Aaron, Gale, Mendel, etc . were really surprised .

That’s how much strange it was for a normal soldier, and a normal soldier at that, that had to battle while putting their life on the line, to know how to read .

The middle aged man swept through the papers for a moment and then, made a handsign towards the soldiers .

The guys that were circling the surroundings started to gather one by one .

And then, they started to read the report in turns .

‘All the soldiers know how to read?’

At this point in time, it was almost impossible for more than tens of soldiers to know how to read .

‘Something’s not right . ’

The ones that knew how to read and fight .

At this point in time, only knights knew how to do it .

‘If they really are knights……’

He had a method to check it .

Roan inserted mana into Kalian’s tear .

At that moment, the world was dyed in a golden colour .

“Ah… . ”

Roan let out a low exclamation .

The golden stream was filling the camp, the mana .

And the mana of that place moved really roughly compared to other places .

On top of that .

‘Mana flows in the bodies of the patrol guards . ’

They certainly weren’t normal soldiers .

‘They were the knights of Istel . ’

And quite skilled ones on top of that .

Their number surpassed 500 .

‘It’s a force that amounts to more than two knight squads . ’

Even if the storage was important, there was no reason to dispatch 500 knights at the rear like this .

On top of that, it was even weird for the knights, who had strong pride, to be wearing the armors of normal soldiers .

‘It’s a trap . ’

The thought filled his head .

As there were thousands of normal soldiers protecting the outside of the camp, at first glance it seemed a real storage . But there were hidden knights at the center .

‘If it wasn’t for Kalian’s tear, it would have been dangerous . ’

A sigh of relief flowed .

‘I’ll have to use Kalian’s tear more earnestly from now on . ’

He wasn’t using it much because of the pain it inflicted him until now .

‘But after that day, much of that pain has disappeared . ’

The moment he escaped the fake storage .

After the chill exploded out of his body, it became easy for him to handle mana .

It was a feeling that the explosive and rough mana became calm .

And maybe it was because of that, that when he inserted mana to the tear, the pain wasn’t that severe .

‘Although I couldn’t find the cause in the end, it became easier to learn the Flamdor mana technique . ’

But of course, the speed of accumulating mana was still slow .

Roan wrote out the deployment of the soldiers in the storage and climbed down the mountain .

Soon, the soldiers were all gathered up .

The results of asking their opinions was that most of them couldn’t find strange points .

They just replied that the feeling it gave wasn’t good .

But Pens was certainly different .

“Looking at the location of the camp, the deployment, and the number of soldiers it seems like a real storage . But……”

He seemed to hesitate for a moment and then, continued saying .

“Looking at the armors, weapons, movements, and military discipline, they are an excessively powerful force . Although it’s true that the location of the storage is important, taking into account that the front line is in a deadlock, it doesn’t make sense that they are leaving this strong force in the rear . ”

At those words Roan faintly smiled and nodded .

Although Pens couldn’t grasp the flow of mana as he didn’t have Kalian’s tear, but instead, made the same conclusion after looking at the equipment and the faces .

“Yes, I also think like that . They don’t look like soldiers protecting the storage . ”

Roan replied in a low voice .

“They have an attacking posture that seems like they may be attacked at any moment . ”

He took in a deep breath .

His sight moved to below the storage .

“Even so, this place…… . ”

He smiled bitterly towards Pens .

“Seems like a trap . ”

Oren and his agency would probably also have analyzed and checked the storage thoroughly .

‘Even I was about to get tricked . ’

Roan looked at Pens .

‘But Pens found weird points even without Kalian’s tear . ’

He was amazed at his abilities .

‘Why wasn’t someone like this known in my past life?’

The most famous people in the agency were Chris and Oren .

He didn’t have any memories about Pens .

And Roan also didn’t know until now .

That his role was quite big in making Pens bloom an ability he hadn’t even thought about in this life .

*****

Roan, Pens, and the soldiers safely returned to the camp of Lancephil .

And Oren and the others also did .

Aaron, Roan, Pens, and Oren found Io’s tent once again .

‘It’s been decided . ’

Io could know the results even without asking .

Aaron, who was smiling faintly, and the stiff expression of Oren .

But even so, he couldn’t make a decision beforehand .

“Has the truth and fake been revealed?”

At those words Aaron hid his expression and bowed .

“Unfortunately, it was shown that the location Oren’s agency found was a trap . ”

He gave the information Roan gathered, analyzed, and organized to Io .

Io looked at the pile of papers and asked Oren .

“How was your side?”

At those words Oren smacked his lips for a moment and then replied with a low voice .

“The results of our agency having checked on the storage the 7th corps found……”

He let out a short sigh and continued saying .

“We speculate that it’s the real deal . ”

At those words, Aaron’s expression became even brighter .

On the other hand, the expressions of Roan and Pens didn’t have any change .

Io checked the pile of paper Oren gave him thoroughly and then nodded .

“You all have done well . Because of that, we could separate the storages between fake and real . ”

He looked at the knights, mages, and the captains that were seated at his side and continued saying .

“The opportunity to finally end this war has come . ”

They exchanged opinions and talked about tactics and strategies about how to attack the supply storage .

“Whew . ”

Io let out a long sigh with a relieved expression .

“Then, each commander is to prepare to depart . ”
“Yes!”

At the order, everyone replied in one voice .

Only then could Aaron, Roan, Pens, and Oren get out of the tent .

Even before they could take some steps, Oren blocked Pens .

“Mister Pens . ”

He spoke in a blunt expression and voice .

However, his eyes were shining strongly .

He extended his right hand .

“This time, we……”

Oren hesitated for a moment and then continued saying .

“No, I lost . I realized that I still lack a lot . ”

Pens grabbed the hand Oren extended .

“As I paid too much attention on the number of the soldiers, the location, the formation, and the composition, we were neglectful in observing the people . ”

Roan, who was listening at the sides, was slightly surprised .

‘Oren also realized his mistake . ’

Certainly, someone that was born with it was born with it .

Oren looked at Pens’ eyes fixedly .

“Next time, I won’t lose . ”

At those words, Pens who was absentminded, said with a casual expression .

“It’s fine if you win the next time . ”

At the unexpected words, Oren frowned .

‘Is he feeling sympathy for me?’

When he thought like that .

Pens continued saying .

“I just hope for our allies to win . ”

He spoke one heavy sentence .

Oren’s face stiffened .

He looked at Pens’s expression for a moment and after letting go of the hand, he started to walk away .

Aaron looked at Oren’s back, who was getting further away, and mumbled in a low voice .

“He took one, no, two blows by Pens . ”

At those words, Pens just laughed .

Roan hit Pens’s shoulders and smiled .

“The location of the storage you and the information agency found with difficulty… . . ”

He put strength in his voice .

“I will pay you back with victory . ”

At those words, Pens replied shortly .

“Yes . That’s enough for me . ”

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