220 Bandit Alliances Soul Mark (2/2)

Yale was simply a monster capable or annihilating an army without help; they would need to have brain issues to challenge him in a direct battle.

Finally, Wyba was still too young, and no one wanted to anger her because that would also provoke Yale's fury.

Thus, the only member of the Sword Five that could be challenged by the members of the Larken Clan without the need to worry was Selenia.

Excluding Ralen, the others at the Expert Rank had also suffered quite a bit as some of the stronger members of the Larken Clan's younger generation challenged them and beat them after a long battle.

Those Expert Rank swordsmen weren't able to beat Selenia, so after the members of the Larken Clan also lost against Selenia, they had targeted those at the Expert Rank to clean their names because they didn't want to leave the Sword Arena without winning at least one battle.

Of course, the usual rule that if one lost couldn't battle more on the same day didn't apply that day because that would be the only day those members of the Larken Clan would fight there.

While the younger generation of the Larken Clan Battles, Yale just watched the battles in silence, but he focused his attention on the three members with the mark on their souls.

They weren't bad at all, but they weren't the best either; they could just be considered ordinary geniuses inside the Larken Clan. For anyone else, that level would already be a lot, but the members of the Larken Clan had high standards and being an ordinary genius wasn't enough for them.

After all the battles finished, everyone met in the main plaza again.

”I am representing the Larken Clan to give thanks to all the citizens of Sword City for your hospitality. We have important matters to report to Imperial City related to the bandit attack towards Sword City. Thus, we will be leaving now.However, I need to inform you that we will take with us the Sword Mage, Lar, and Wyba. I am sorry for that, but you will need to find another three new members for their places in the Sword Five.”

Taking three members of the Larken Clan at once was a lot, and Herken was ready also to take Selenia and Ralen with them, but given their current situation, he decided that it would be better to delay that a bit more. He had already informed both of them about it, and they agreed to join the Larken Clan latter after the problems with the Bandit Alliance were solved. Of course, he didn't tell anything about the traitors, only that the Bandit Alliance was an urgent problem to be solved and that everything else would need to wait.

The people felt sad about their departure, but they knew that going to the Larken Clan was far more alluring than staying in Sword City although the true reason was completely different as Yale, Wyba, and Lar would have preferred to remain in Sword City.

Once the group had advanced a bit, Herken stopped.

”I have something to tell to all of you.”

Everyone stopped after hearing Herken because he was in charge of the security of the group, and they feared that something important had happened.

”I discovered that there are traitors in our Larken Clan that collaborated with the Bandit Alliance. This is a serious matter that involves people of a high standard in our clan, and we discovered that there is a plot to kill Lar in this travel. Our travel isn't secret, so we can't discard the chances of suffering an attack, please everyone be extremely careful.”

The news was shocking, but the members of the Larken Clan didn't dare to say anything about the topic. Moreover, since Herken only spoke about higher-ups, those traitor members felt that they hadn't been discovered and Herken expected an attack from the outside. They had been in fear after the bandit leader had been captured, but they sighed in relief after confirming that they weren't suspects.

”I doubt that we need to worry, anyone who is colliding with that Bandit Alliance can only be considered a coward. We are a lot of us here; there is no way that those cowards dare to attack us.”

After saying that Yale noticed that the faces of the three who had the mark slightly reacted to his words while all the others seemed to have their mood improved after hearing Yale. That was just a cheap trick, but for a prideful and narrow-minded person avoiding that cheap trick would be difficult.

Yale was sure that those three would act after his taunt, and that recklessness would cost their lives.