222 Absorbing the Sword Bloodline Foundation (1/2)

Inside the tent, Yale and Herken were waiting for an attack that Herken hoped wouldn't happen.

”Herken, if someone attacks us I will kill that person immediately, we can't afford to travel with prisoners and with the traitors as backing in the Larken Clan, I doubt those prisoners would end up punished afterward even if we managed to reach the Larken Clan with them as prisoners. I can use Soul-search or kill the attacker directly with my sword; it had a special effect, and if the one who dies due to my sword isn't evil, that person would be able to reincarnate. You can choose the method.”

Yale doubted that those members of the younger generation knew anything because they were just pawns of the elders behind them and if he wanted to soul-search them Herken wouldn't know. However, if Herken thought that the attackers needed to be soul-searched, Yale would do it because using the sword to kill them wasn't important; letting Herken choose had another finality.

”Kill them directly with your sword. In case there are some traitors in the younger generation they wouldn't know anything important, and we can know the elders easily behind them.”

Herken didn't want to turn any member of the younger generation into a beast-like being as they did with the bandit leader, and Yale's words about they being able to reincarnate if they weren't evil gave him a hope that any traitor that could appear would just be a brainwashed victim.

However, even if someone was brainwashed to betray the clan, treason was still treason, and the rules of the Larken Clan were clear, death was the only punishment for them.

That reply was just as Yale expected, but asking that to Herken had been beneficial to him. Yale had just given Herken two options and in both Yale was killing them traitors; he omitted any option of Herken dealing with them personally provoking that even Herken forgot about that possibility and gave permission to Yale for killing the traitors after choosing one of the options.

Since Herken who was the group leader had given Yale permission to kill any traitor, no one would be able to blame Yale afterward; all responsibility would fall into Herken in case that those traitor elders wanted to blame someone. However, Herken was backed by Lar's grandfather, so the others wouldn't be able to touch him. On the other hand, Yale didn't have such a position and didn't want to ask favors to the Larken Clan to avoid the problems of killing a member without authorization.

”Will this illusion of yours work well? If someone notices us inside the tent, the attack won't happen.”

Yale had used Body Illusion inside the tent; any outsider would see Lar and Wyba sleeping peacefully instead of Yale, and Herken whom were sitting with swords in their hands ready to kill anyone who appeared.

”Don't' worry. Someone like you will be able to see through this illusion, but the others in this camp won't be able to do it.”

Body Illusion was strong, but it was an illusion created to cover the body of the caster, so when using it to affect all the tent the effects were a bit weaker, but it was still enough to fool some inexperienced members of the younger generation that lacked experience dealing with illusions.

They didn't speak more after that, and in some minutes the tent's entrance was opened by someone.

”Those two are sleeping as we guessed. One of you stay here to watch; if anyone leaves the tents, kill without hesitation. The other shall grab Wyba, but be careful and avoid harming her; we need her to threaten that fearful Sword Mage. There is no benefit in harming her right now. As for Lar, I will kill her personally.”

Herken's face was grim as he heard the conversation while Yale just thought that they were fools.

”Don't they know that if they open the tent's entrance, those who are inside would be able to hear everything?”

The girl was the one who entered the tent with the leader; the other wanted to remain watching outside hoping to be able to kill someone else.

The leader neared the place where he saw Lar resting, and the girl did the same but to the place where Wyba was supposed to be.

”For the glory of the True Empire and the True Larken Clan!”

Both shouted at the same time provoking that Yale thought that they truly had some mental problems, shouting before trying to assassinate someone in secret was foolish.