Chapter 40 (1/2)

GDoc . Sorry it’s late! The end of a semester is busy!

Scouting

AN: I'm sorry for the many POV s.h.i.+fts. My organizational skills are bad.

”So, how is it?”

The whole area was once the domain of a bandit group. The bandit chief asked his underling, who had climbed on a branch of a tall tree.

”There ain't been anything big since they camped out here. 'Been a few scouts who left, but they're not back yet.”

They were about a hundred Rools from the clearing where the Knight Corps advance party camped. (AN: 1 Rool is about equal 1 meter)

Despite the darkness of the forest at night, the knights were clearly visible in the light of the campfires.

The man who was observing the knights once worked as a hunter, and had the best eyesight among all of his goons.

'I… didn't think it would go this well.'

Without the cover of darkness, he wouldn't have been able to observe safely from just a hundred rools away. In the daytime, a sharp-eyed person would have easily spotted him, and, in the worst case, he would be discovered by one of the reconnaissance units who were scouting the area.

'Sheesh, if we didn't know how they would move from the beginning, this wouldn't have been an easy job.'

Relying on the moonlight, the chief looked down at the paper in his hands.

The paper contained orders dated two days ago and sported the Imperial Knight Order's official seal. To be more precise, it was a duplicate. The real one should still be in the hands of one of General Feyl's aides.

Rather, it would be a mistake to call that one the real one, because the orders in the chief's hands were undoubtedly the orders from the main army, which departed two days after the advance party.