20 Custodians of Iron (1/2)
Once Raymond was done with his task he approached the twenty captured women. Some of them looked at him devoid of emotion, others looked at him in fear, and the few seems to be broken.
”Do you guys have a place to return to?” Hearing Raymond's question the captured women had no answer.
”if you have someplace to return to, then I will gladly bring you home. But if you don't have anywhere else to go, how about following me? If you follow me I promise that you will never have to fear anything again. So what do you say?”
Some of the captured women agreed without hesitation, the others thought about it for a while and decided that they had no choice. While the few of them were unable to answer at all. Raymond could only sigh, as he looked at the ones who couldn't answer. Those women have already been broken, to the point that they might not be able to live normally anymore.
'Better ask the system if there's something in the system shop that could help. Seeing as I have the money now I could probably buy something useful.'
After getting the answer he wanted from the captured women, Raymond and his group set off to the forest of Elisora.
...
As Raymond and his group left the bandit hideout someone was looking at them from afar. A man with messy orange hair and sheepish looking black eyes was watching the whole situation take place. He scratched his head while he sighed.
”Well, this is a problem. Henry is going to kill me if he finds out someone else took the mountain bandits gold... Well, nothing I could do about it now. Though there is the option of stealing it back... Nah, that's too troublesome. Still, that guy... Is he perhaps another one of the Gods chosen?”
The orange-haired man looked at Raymond, who suddenly turned his head in the orange-haired man's direction. The man quickly hid behind the tree he was standing on.
”Did he noticed me? Heh, a chosen one of the Gods or not that guy looks like he'll be doing pretty interesting things. Should I report this to Henry?”
The orange-haired man smiled slyly while shrugging his shoulders. He backed away into the forest and vanished
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In the knight academy of the Custodians of Iron, a woman wearing full plated armor with two short swords dangling at her waist was angrily walking through the quest hall. Though her aura was menacing that didn't lessen her beauty. With wavy blond hair, piercing blue eyes, and skin so soft, she was as beautiful as she was deadly. She was one of the knight commanders in the Custodians of Iron.