CH538 Girl Power
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Alex's words caused a pin-drop silence to descend upon the already tense scene.
He had seen the bandit leader's gaze roaming over his wives' bodies and was barely keeping himself restrained. He knew that if the man said one wrong word, he would throw caution to the wind and butcher this group where they stood.
He was only holding back for one simple reason.
A bandit force numbering close to a hundred, with about ten Gold-rank warriors among them, even at just One-Star Gold, was not ordinary.
There was a very real chance a greater power stood behind them. They could be an advance unit of a larger organisation.
They could be members of a shadow faction disguising themselves as bandits.
Or both.
Alex did not want to drag Fortuna into a needless storm if it could be avoided.
