Chapter 535 - Pauper Bandit Group (1) (1/2)

The next day came. Auron was in the middle of preparing for his promise to his students when a loud voice was heard at the gate of the village.

Auron glanced from the inn's window to see what happened. The students who were eating their breakfast also hurriedly came over to the window and saw what happened.

Auron could see that there was a caravan that arrived. However, he could not see clearly since the view from the inn's window was too far away and a portion of his line of sight was blocked by a building in front of their inn.

”Let's go!” Auron said this word slowly. However, his students already knew what Auron wanted. They immediately changed their clothes and hid their weapon carefully.

Four people came out of the inn using casual clothes. One of the basics in intelligence gathering was blending with the crowd. Although they could not cover their identity as an outsider, they could at least cover their identity as someone from the military. And, his students learned this well enough.

Fortunately, Auron's students were coming from a normal background. So, they could blend casually with the people inside the village. If they came from a noble background, it would be difficult for them to get rid of the noble's behavior.

It would be strange to see a noble in a remote village like this without hidden agenda. Even if they told the others that they were on a vacation, people would hardly believe that.

Auron and his students quickly arrived at the village's entrance. It was just like what Auron had seen previously, the newcomer was a caravan. However, it was in a tattered condition right now.

The caravan's guards were also in a dire state. There were 8 people left from the caravan. And, all of them had injuries on their body, including the owner of this caravan. The owner even had replaced the coachman's position to control the caravan because the original coachman died.

The village's guards immediately came over to the crowd along with the village's cleric. There was also some cleric inside the village that helped them voluntarily. While the wounded was being tended with by the clerics, the village's head asked several questions to the owner who had light injuries.

Information already came into Auron's mind when seeing this caravan's state. The caravan was quite luxurious so there should be more than 20 members going along with the caravan. However, it suddenly reduced to this state. This means, they got ambushed and from the injuries, Auron could conclude that the attackers must be more than 30 members or even more.

Besides Auron, the girl also murmured several deductions like what Auron did while the boys only looked at the caravan like seeing an interesting movie.

The girl suddenly said to the boys, ”Hey! Come back to your senses! This is our opportunity.”

The boys turned their heads to look at the girl confused. The girl explained, ”The caravan must be ambushed by a bandit group. Even though we don't know which bandit group, but there is a chance that our target was the one who ambushed them.”