12 Knight-apprentices (1/2)

Brom dug a huge hole on the ground and placed all the bodies he could find into that hole. He wasn't sure which one were his parents, his aunt, and uncle. All the bodies have been torn, burnt, or eaten. There was no possible way to verify who was who.

Roselia looked at all the dead bodies and was no longer able to hold it in and started to cry. Seeing his little sister act that way, Brom had no words to comfort her. So he continued to pile up the bodies into a mass grave. Once he was done he started burying them under the land.

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While Raymond's group was getting sidetracked, a group of three youths wearing gambesons and had short swords on their waist were heading to the same town, Raymond and his group were heading to.

”Hey, are we really doing this?” One of the youths spoke a little bit hesitant.

”If we don't do this, then we'll never match up to those upper-class snobs. Even though we're not the firstborns, we're still children of nobility. We got to show those b*stards that we can do better than them.” Another youth with a fierce look on his face responded while raising his fist up in the air.

”Daniel is right Rei, we gotta do this.” The tallest of the three youths spoke with determination in his tone.

”But wasn't this quest the highest difficulty. It clearly stated that third to fourth-year knight apprentices were recommended to take the quest. Are you sure about this, Lux? ” Daniel still looked a bit scared.

”That's just a recommendation, it doesn't mean we can't take it. Also, if it wasn't this hard, then it wouldn't be worth doing it. Don't worry Daniel, we're just going to scout the area. If it looks like it's too much for us then we retreat.” Lux smiled reassuringly at Daniel. Hearing what Lux said finally calmed Daniel down a bit.

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The three were knight apprentices from the custodians of iron, a local knight academy of the city of Scorchrun. After taking a quest from school to subjugate the bandits near the borders of the human kingdom and demi-human kingdom, they headed town that requested for the subjugation.

It was a bustling town with a lot of security, as they saw a lot of local watchmen. As the trio walked through the streets, they noticed an abundance of crippled homeless people. Some of which approached them, unfortunately, they had nothing to give. They might be knight apprentices and noble children, but they were broke. They were only slightly better of the peasants, in fact even a merchant was better than them. They had no money, no claim to a noble title, and were only barely allowed to attend the knight academy.

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After evading more of the beggars, the trio headed to the mayor's house. Unlike nobles, the mayor was an elected individual who governs a small piece of land. Upon arriving at the mayor's house the first thing that came to to their minds was 'what a big house.'