The Guardian's Sword

"Stop!" Sean ordered under his breath.

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

"Zander, 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!" Sean said to Zander.

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

Sean 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 Zander to pursue them with the rest.

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

two city defense soldiers were now about 500 meters

in on foot!"

"Yes!"

city defense soldiers answered under their breath. Then the three of them dismounted and approached the

the stray mercenary regiment. Sean found out the number of people in the stray mercenary regiment by counting the horses tied to the outskirts of the camp. These

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

the fields outside the city with the adults and were kidnapped because they failed to escape in time. Regardless of age, they were sobbing

you. I'll kill you if you cry again!" A drunken strong man yelled with a riding crop

were silent. None dared

defense soldiers beside him, "You set fire to all the tents. And you cut

"Yes!"

soldiers nodded immediately and

crept closer to

approach frightened the women. They showed expressions