That guy had very much lost all of his patience and it shows from how he was currently roaring at the guy in front of him to answer his question .
Not aware that minutes before he was standing on the same person that he was looking for ironically, i kinda felt funny about this .
I don't believe that i knew much about this, sir, as you see we were on our way to sell some of our merchandise and call it a day .
I don't know why i but something in my gut is keep telling me that you are lying .
I could swear an oath on that, if you want .
I heard that team leader chuckling at the mention of the said oath, he kept laughing for a few seconds, before stopping and saying dejectedly :
An oath, huh , kill him, him, him .
~Thud~ ~thud~ ~thud ~.
The moment he gave the order, three more bodies were now lying on the ground ,dead .
I guess he didn't take that suggestion of his too well .
So, still wanna make an Oath ? .
I'm terribly sorry for offending you, sir, it really wasn't my intention , is something wrong with the fate cutting oath .
Oh, you really look like oblivious or is it just ignorant, Tell me first, when did you arrive here ? .
I have been here for almost 10 days .
No wonder you don't know, these three guys really died for nothing, anyway never mind then , the fate cutting oath have no effect in here, it's ineffective for you to use it to declare your innocence .
I hope that you don't mind me asking, sir. but why do your superiors believe that it's still alive even .
There were blood marks on the crate where that thing crashed down and a few footprints were found leading into this direction, so that must mean that you at least got a glimpse of it passing by you .
I don't know how to prove our innocence and that we really didn't see anything of this sort, let's not talk about catching a glimpse of it, we didn't even encountered it .
I find that quite hard to believe, you appearing here all of sudden, can never be accounted as a coincidence .
That's because it wasn't a coincidence, sir. We were here to check on the prey we caught, that thing over there that looked like a statue from a far .
I suddenly felt a lot of gazes on me but it didn't stayed for long, just barely checking me up in down for a few times before that feeling of being spied on disappeared, i believe he didn't see me suspicious , i wonder what will his reaction be if he knew that i was the person that he was currently looking for .
That guy is your prey, are you serious, i landed earlier on his shoulder thinking that he was some weird statue like the other ones that were being miraculously found around the area, you mean to tell me this guy is still alive .
Yes, he is just petrified like that as a result of the trap rune we set and he directly went but we guessed that the shock might have been a bit much for him to handle and it directly resulted in him falling in a coma .
Did you see his mark, i will have you know that taking someone else property doesn't end well for the person who committed such an act, whether from the authority or the original owner of the said property, even if you are new here, you should have heard a lot of stories about this .
I did and thanks for your kind reminder, i will tell you the truth , you probably had already guessed it, we were just about to obliterate whatever it anyway, since we weren't able to make sure of whether did he even had one.
Booom, a deafening explosion sound suddenly appeared coincidentally it happened in the exact same moment that gang leader finished talking .
Ludo, check that guy immediately, you useless guy of the Dorell family, you really need to hope that what i currently have in mind isn't true, otherwise you and your friends may be destined to not leave here .
His icy chilling tone of voice and his sudden interest in me , were all the information i need to get one thing clearly, i might have been found out, so now what .
I thought the guy who he called Ludo would come to check me physically or even sniff me out like how the previous guy from before tried, but no that guy didn't even came towards me or even close to me, was that him just now .
I certainly felt the feeling of being pried on just now, but that feeling disappeared the moment that it appeared as if it wasn't even there, leaving me with goosebumps at what could he have possibly did and more importantly what kind of information was he able to gain in such a short period of time .
But i couldn't help but sigh in relief at how things turned out, since i was still trying to gain a few more information about how everything was going in this dark kingdom, if that wasn't possible i want to get whatever bits of information i can and if they had to move me physically like those bandits like guys previously tried to, then that could have led to the rise of a problem .
Since they too would be unable to move me an inch, i will then transform from being a forgotten about bystander to being completely spotted on, which will result in their interest to completely shift towards me, leaving all the serious matters that they were discussing aside, cutting off completely my ability to pry on more and more important information and forcing me to began tacking some actions or at least make some arrangements for when i'm about to .
But luckily for me, things didn't develop in that direction, just as i was rejoicing in my mind, a sudden hovering sound came near me before completely disappearing, his presence once again appeared, but this time it was in the shape of sn echo of the vibrations he made when he landed beside his supposedly leader .
The vibrations he made was quite similar to the one that were made by the leader of his before but a bit fainter, giving me quite the guess about the possible disparity in strength between the two .
Even though the two were still being labeled as SS Rank to me, as i was about to contemplate about why could be there such a disparity between the two, the guy from before gazed in my direction, the sudden gesture completely dispelled those miscellaneous thoughts of mine instantly, forcing me to focus more on what was currently happening .
That guy whose name Ludo landed beside the leader of his and without missing a beat looked in my direction and said resolutely and formally in a nonchalant tone :
He isn't marked , his strength readings entails that he is at Low Rank one even below than B Rank as the ranking system here goes, unlike others his reading entailing that he is a quite real human being unlike the others, he is currently releasing a unique aura, might be a spell or a special skill, as people here call it, he doesn't have a core of any kind nor does he have Battle Aura system or any kind of systems for that matter, but weirdly enough he is still linked and under the influence of that Shard somehow, so the possibility of him being linked to the system operated by the Shard is still quite likely to be true, the thing he is wearing appear to be quite different than most of the magical equipment that i saw other humans wield, it's completely devoided of any kind of magical circles or mana , other than it looking to be quite sturdier than most of the other norm low quality items, it in fact doesn't have any, just from the fact that he is unmarked, in addition to his set of armor looked like it was made from the same materials that we were able to found some small pieces of back at the crate, i would highly recommend marking him as a suspect, but with his weak strength he can't even dream to survive clashing with the barrier not to mention piercing through it, so he might have accomplices, or someone from the inside used some means to help him do it, there's also the possibility of him being a mere escape goat, i finish my report by saying that he could be considered as one of indigenous human around here, but there's something very fishy about him, but what exactly i currently can't tell .
If i were able to move or react normally and freely, i held no doubt that i will be currently opening my mouth wide open in pure shock and how incredulous was he able to gain so much information on me in no more than a second and he didn't just gave information that only scratched the surface .
No, he presented a whole report on me, strength wise, equipment wise, even power system wise , he still got a great amount of information about my strength wrong but him being able to pull such a stunt was more than enough to shock to the core, he also added a few information that my brain was still finding it quite difficult to decipher and to digest .
I said it before that i should have distributed some points in luck, i was just about to rejoice being able to escape being in the center of attention, but my shitty luck had to interfere and still put me under the spotlight .
And not only did i become under the spotlight, i have now officially being busted and completely found out, instead of becoming a person of interest, i become directly a suspect, with this happening my , now, my chances to get anymore information than i originally have, have officially become zero .
I need to began on making a few arrangements and decide on who to keep for information and who to finish off, that guy Ludo is in my book, but at least i'm glad that he wasn't able to figure out that i have been awake all this time and not in coma as they thought i was, or that could have blown the element of surprise which could be of great help to me in managing this situation .
But him mentioning some accomplices who helped me in this threatening to explode atmosphere is just pure adding fuel to the fire, making this crazy scene in front of me even more bizarre and chaotic .
Booom, a sudden explosion happened but this time, it engulfed most of the guys that were still on the ground behind the Dorell family member, completely extinguishing the life out of them, i was able to tell since their vibrations signatures suddenly disappeared as if they wasn't there any longer, but that was practically impossible, so the only possible explanation was them being completely dead .
I then heard the law enforcement team leader saying in a quite an angry tone :
You should have known better than to lie to me, you are responsible for the death of your friends, if you weren't from the 13 founding families you would be laying down like them too, but i guess you still have some purpose and value, you will cooperate and do your part whether you want to or not .
I can swear that i don't even know what is exactly going on, what part did i lie to you on, why did you have to do this .
The gang leader was throwing all his caution and began to loudly and hysterically asked about what he and his subordinates did wrong and why did they deserve such an end .
Shut it, or else there will be no second time .
Weirdly enough, the moment he said those words, the gang leader swallowed his remaining words and fell in silence, he probably was forced to listen to the voice of reason, or his eruption just now was merely his way of expressing his unacceptance to how the things turned out to be .
I don't believe he cared much for the life of his comrades, otherwise he would have probably tore all the face with that guy and directly attacked him, but that could be just my own thinking influencing me to make this kind of proactive judgment .
That's a good move on your part and at least you are still here alive and those merchandise of yours are still good, won't you say, as for why i killed them all, it is because you lied to me, you previously said that you didn't even catch a glimpse of the thing that we are looking for, yet you were just about to destroy it .
If what Ludo said was true about the accomplices of his, then the chance of you guys being his accomplices is quite high and i believe that i have already warned you not to lie to me, yet you still gone and did it anyway, even worse you tried to clear all this missed up situation by killing him to prove your innocence, so it's your last chance to answer truthfully, what were you guys trying to achieve by plotting this .
I'm thankful for your leniency, but i don't know of any possible way that i can use to prove my innocence, we aren't his accomplices, we came here after he fell into our trap, we weren't aware of his identity nor we took any part of the plot that he is a part of, if there a way to prove my innocence, i will willingly go through it to do so, hope that you believe me all of this was just huge misconception .
The law enforcement team leader fell in silence for a few minutes, wrecking the nerves on the now barley hanging in there bandits leader while he was waiting, then after releasing a cold and small chuckle he began to say :
So if there was a way which you can prove your innocence with, you won't hesitate to do it .
It was the turn for the other party to stay silent, he could already have a quite the idea about what kind of ways they could be able to possibly use on him, but he still begrudgingly say :
I would do whatever that i need to do to prove my innocence .
Allow us to peer in your memories, that will pretty much act as an unrefuted evidence about you not knowing anything, confirming what you just said, here i presented you a way, whether you want to take it or not fall entirely on you, but bear in mind that if you were to come back with us, you will lose the ability to choose the way you want to prove your innocence with .
I wondered too, whether would he agree to do that or not, after all his subordinates is already dead, the threat of him coming back to wherever they were stationed can't possibly be that bad, yet in a complete contrast to what i have expected, he actually agreed to have his memories getting checked, baffling me and leading me to finally began to have a quite through idea about the way the things are going around here .
I believe that i'm in a land not so different from Troland, a land where strong got stronger and the weak get even weaker or even lose their lives all together, but what made things here even worse than Troland is the fact that even if the weak decided to mind their own business, they would still very likely to suffer the moment they cross paths with someone who was strong .
A strong preying on the weak lawless land, that was the land that i have landed in and if i'm not mistaken, the upper hand in this land had been always belonged to the Demons, the outsiders dooming and deeming everyone under their authority, unworthy and unable to even have a minimal chance if standing up to them, or go against them .
Strength is always respected and weak is always thrashed, this isn't only related to Diblosia, no, that was the agreed upon law by most of the people and the kingdoms of this world and i can't find anything wrong in it, but yet again i couldn't help but wonder would the Demons be still able to do this if they didn't keep getting frequent aid and reinforcement from the other side .
One thing was now quite clear to me .
STRENGTH IS ALWAYS A DETERRENT .