219 The Plans of the Bandit Alliance (1/2)

The bandit leader saw Yale's smile like if he was in front of a monster smiling before eating his prey.

”Please stop! I will tell the truth! Don't come!”

Yale was just walking towards him with a cold smile in his face.

”You tried to kill everyone in Sword City. Why would I believe you? You should know that resisting while I use the Soul-search in you will only increase the chances of something going bad and you may end with the same cognitive ability of a tree.”

The bandit leader wet his pants; he never thought that after having reached the Expert Rank he would be so frightened in front of a mere Apprentice Rank.

Yale reached the bandit leader and put his hand of the bandit's head while activating Soul-search.

After a few seconds, Yale retrieved his hand from the bandit's head as the Soul-search had ended. The bandit leader was lucky enough to end better than Yale's previous targets, but his thought capability had been downgraded to a beast one and couldn't even speak; he could just make some sounds impossible to understand.

”Oh, I thought you would kill him in the process, but he is still alive.”

Herken knew that it was possible to extract all the memories without damaging the target, but that level was far too high. In Herken's opinion, for Yale as long he obtained the memories it was a great success even if the other party died.

”I improved quite a bit lately, but I am still too far from being able to do it without any consequence.”

Even without the influence of emotions, doing the Soul-search without harming the other party's soul in the slightest was too difficult.

”What information did you obtain?”

That was the most critical point to Herken because that topic was far too important to be ready against any plan that bandit alliance had.

”The situation is far worse than I expected...”

Yale jumped backward where Wyba, Lar, and Durgan were situated and wielded his Space-time Judgment Sword; he had been retreating slowly since he ended the Soul-search.

”To think that even people from your Larken Clan have betrayed the Revgen Empire. I thought your clan had more moral integrity than that.”

Lar, Durgan, and Herken were dumbfounded by Yale's words, but he wasn't joking, and his sword pointing Herken was just a distraction as he was ready to activate the random teleportation to flee together with Wyba, Lar and Durgan in case Herken tried something. Yale knew that there was no way Lar or Durgan were implicated with their personalities, but he didn't trust that much into Herken.

”Wait, I don't know if what you said is true or not, but in any case, I know nothing about that. I would rather die than do something as shameful as being a traitor. I swear by my own soul that I am not related to any organization planning to betray the Revgen Empire, nor I do have any intention of betraying the Revgen Empire.”

Herken didn't hesitate in making an oath; he was perfectly aware of his innocence and given his rank his soul would have received some damage if he lied in the oath.

”Sorry for my caution, but I needed to be careful after discovering that.”

Yale lowered his sword, but he didn't store it again; he wasn't relaxed after discovering such a big plot to destroy the Revgen Empire.

”It is alright. After discovering some danger, you rushed to protect your family, that says a lot about you. I can't blame you for distrusting me. Please continue; if someone of the Larken Clan is also implicated this matter is more serious than I thought.”

Herken didn't want to believe that his clan was a traitor, but he couldn't discard that someone was speaking in the name of the clan without the clan head knowing it.