220 Bandit Alliances Soul Mark (1/2)

”Do you really have confidence in discovering them?”

Herken would prefer that everyone in the group was still loyal to the empire, but he was ready to kill anyone who had turned into a traitor. The Larken Clan was very strict with that, the only punishment for traitors was death.

”Given how your Larken Clan usually teaches the younger generation, I believe that they will all fall into the trap.”

Prideful youths were the easiest to cheat; even the Larken Clan relied on that to make them train harder.

”Please, tell me. I will do everything I can to help you.”

Yale smiled and started to tell his plan to Herken while also asking for a profile of every member who had accompanied him to Sword City. Herken gave Yale all the information he needed and agreed with his plan without complaining.

They had decided to start the plan the next day, and they separated after killing the bandit leader because he wasn't useful in his state and they didn't have any reason to let him live more time given their current situation.

Yale was extremely happy while returning to his mansion with Wyba and Lar because he knew something that he didn't tell to Herken.

He had learned a method to identify those who were on the side of the bandit alliance. That was a secret method that anyone who had subordinates in the bandit alliance knew and let them detect a mark left on the soul of anyone who had collaborated with the alliance. They didn't believe even in their own members, and that brand could turn them into slaves at any moment.

That was the policy of the bandit alliance, those born inferior to others would never be able to improve their original situation because they will just turn into slaves at the moment they try to do it. The thing they hated the most were geniuses born later than them who could end surpassing them one day; suppressing those geniuses and forcing them to obey in all situations was one of the things most members liked the most about that bandit alliance.

The bandit alliance was born from a massive inferiority complex from the bandits and from the members of the noble clans who hated those with more talent than them.

Thus, everyone related to the bandit alliance had a mark on their soul, even if they were just members of the younger generation under a traitor elder. Of course, someone at Herken's level of strength or higher would have an easy time to hide a mark like that from being discovered, but for the younger generation members of the Larken Clan that was impossible.

Yale had discovered three members of the group that had that such mark on their souls. Thus, all the plan to discover them was only to hide that detection ability from Herken because Yale knew that Herken wouldn't consider them traitors without a true proof, and Yale saying that they were traitors wouldn't be enough; in such situation, at most they would be controlled more than usual.

The reason for Yale's happiness was that he was finally confident in succeeding to the recreation of the Sword Bloodline soon thanks to the betrayal of those three members.

Since they had their souls marked, they could turn into heartless murderers at any moment if they received an order from the bandit alliance, so they had no salvation. Moreover, erasing that mark wasn't easier than healing Aiwai's soul, and they were time bombs that couldn't exist for too long or would bring a disaster.

Yale hadn't any reason or ability to save them, so killing them before they turned into puppets was already merciful enough. Yale planned to use his Space-time Judgment Sword to kill them, so in case they weren't bad people and had been just dragged to the bandit alliance by their elders, they would be reincarnated.

The next day, the members of the Larken Clan had some battles in the Sword Arena. Selenia was the one who had been challenged the most by them, but she managed to win all the battles thanks to the restrictions of the rules.

She could just sight because it was normal that the members of the Larken Clan wanted to challenge the Sword Five, but she was the only option available for them.

Ralen was too strong compared to those members of the younger generation, but he was also older, so they didn't bother about him.

Lar was the little female tiger from the Larken Clan; they didn't dare to anger her without a good reason even if they were stronger than her in rank because her swordsmanship had proven to be able to skip ranks.