Rosie's Games

Chapter 134: Bandits 2

After a few more hours of talking about the north, Fraunces finally left her carriage telling her that she had to leave to facilitate the next camping grounds where they will be staying for the night. And she will not be staying with Rosalind tonight. This somehow made Rosalind happy as she wanted to visit the black market to get more supplies for the night.

Moreover, she needed to get more of those black stone relics before they discover their uses.

"Lieutenant…. We have a problem."

Rosalind immediately frowned when she heard the soldier outside of the Fraunces' carriage. She looked out of the window and noticed something. A smoke not far away from them.

Slowly, she felt the carriage stop. Not long after, Fraunces sent a soldier towards the black smoke. When the soldiers returned, they were informed that it was a carriage that had been burned. Bodies lay next to it and all of them already lost their lives.

Rosalind knew this as the maid Tabatha informed her of the matter.

"Bandits?" Rosalind asked.

"Perhaps… we must be very careful. This place in Lonyth has many bandits that liked to rob merchants. Although, the lieutenant is quite strong so there should not be any problem." Tabatha was quick to assure her so she chose not to think about it too much and focus on going to the black market instead.

Slowly, their carriage started moving again and they passed by the burning carriage and the bodies earlier. Surprisingly, the bodies around the carriage were… too badly damaged. Bloodied flesh strewed everywhere. Many maids and even some soldiers puked when they saw the body.

"Are these the works of bandits?" she could not help but ask.

"Certainly."

"Why were they so brutal?" Rosalind asked Fraunces who was now back in her carriage.

"How should I know? Many people chose to end other people's life just because they wanted to."

Rosalind nodded. She agreed. Many people would indeed kill someone just because they have the capability to do that.

"We found someone!" a soldier shouted. "Alive! We have someone alive!"

"Bring him or her to the other carriage," Fraunces said before looking at Rosalind. "Do not move. Bandits may be watching. We cannot risk showing a beautiful face to them. They would surely target us next."

The corners of Rosalind's mouth lifted. Did the woman really just call her beautiful? But she agreed. Now that her face had changed, it was simply too hard to hide her appearance.

The previous Rosalind, while not ugly, was not really considered very good-looking. In fact, the woman would easily disappear in a crowd. She liked to call herself a wallflower as many people would never notice her. But now? This Rosalind looked too dashing. The changes in her face and hair were very eye-catching.

Rosalind immediately thought of bending the light to change her appearance in other people's perspective but then again, she cannot just single out someone to see it. Everyone around her would also see a different face. Obviously, this would not work as everyone on this journey already saw her real face.

How troublesome.

Rosalind then heard the door open. josei

"You are back?" she looked at Fraunces. "We are going to continue with the journey. The man that we rescued is dying. We need to find a shelter very soon before I can start surgery."

"You— you knew— "

"Just some basic ones," Fraunces answered as if Rosalind's questions annoyed her. "All women in the north knew basic treatments. It cannot be helped that we encounter a beast or two while running around. Without knowledge, all of us would have died a long time ago."

Rosalind only smiled in response. She did not know what changed but it seems that this Lieutenant is warming up to her?

As if realizing what she just did, Fraunces glared at Rosalind "Stop smiling! How could someone smile in the middle of a tragedy?"With that, Fraunces left the carriage once again. For a few minutes, Rosalind deliberated if she would show them that they could heal that man but decided against it.

It was too early.

Moreover, it seems that Fraunces had some knowledge of medicine. It would be nice to watch the woman try her best and observe.

Rosalind immediately asked the maid not to disturb her as she was going to sleep. Obviously, she made sure to lock the carriage from the inside too.

Then she teleported into the black market.

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Lonyth Forest

"Are you certain that is the group of merchants that we are looking for? I do not want to make mistakes this time!" a muscular man wearing nothing on his upper body asked. He looked at the group of people surrounding him. "If not… I would kill one of you!"

"Sect Master please forgive us this time. We just got the information wrong. We did not think that they would make a detour and delay their trip. This was not our fault but the fault of whoever it was that is currently overseeing this trip! If they did not make a detour then we wouldn't have attacked the wrong carriage and killed for nothing!"

"Hmph!" the sect master harrumphed and once again stared at the group of carriages nearby. Nighttime is upon them. Soon, the darkness would swallow the light.

"We cannot make mistakes this time. I want some good maids to warm my bed and those horses. They are fine horses. We need them too. Just kill all the men and then we can take the women and the goods." The Sect Master said. A spy in the posts informed them about merchant carriages with women. How could they ignore such information?

Hearing the news, everyone in the sect immediately set out to find the goods and the women.

"Aigo… looking at those carriages… they look simple but expensive. Are we really going to burn them?"

"We are known as the carriage-burning bandits!" the sect master said. "How will they know it is us who created the ruckus if we do not burn the carriage? What a stupid bandit!"