Chapter 89: The economy and war in 'The Bridge'
Everyone quickly took a seat somewhere they deemed comfortable. Sadly, there wasn't enough seat in the room, there was only two, to be exact, which Friedrich used and another guy that has a muscular body with a shield to the side, clearly a Guardian.
"Just because I welcomed you quite nicely, doesn't mean that I don't see any problem with you being with us," Friedrich looked at Kayn. "If you try to cause us any trouble or hinder our operation, we will leave you and Gilbert behind, do you understand that?"
Kayn simply nodded his head in response.
"Anyways, let's start the meeting," Friedrich put five images on the table in front. "I don't know any information about their army, that includes their composition and formation, nor do I care about that information. But what I do know about is who their leaders are,"
"According to my sources in the Tenderfoot Village, there are five leaders in this army and they each respectively lead different units,"
"One is a knight, partnered with another leader who is a guardian. The other two are priest and mage, and the last one is an assassin,"
"If you ask me, the most dangerous of them all is the knight and the assassin. These two are quite well-known in 'The Bridge', Diaz and Lotte. Diaz claims himself to be a Flame Knight, while Lotte specializes in skills related to shadows,"
"The guardian is also quite formidable. His name is Adolfo," Friedrich looked at the man sitting beside him and said, "I think he knows him quite well,"
"He is so-so. I can handle him,"
"Is what he said. That's why I am not worried about Adolfo,"
"The Mage and the Priest are one of those people that ranks the lowest in the leaders of the Tenderfoot Village. The Priest is named Margie, a very beautiful name, but she'll sadly be dying today. And the Mage's name is Rose, she looks,"
"Ordinary," The flirtatious woman interrupted while staring daggers at Friedrich.
It's quite obvious that Rose is very beautiful.
"Rest assured, none of us will hesitate to kill any of them even if they are beautiful. The only thing we consider here is either they are enemies or allies. If they are the former, then they will have to die,"
"These five people are our target. The others, they don't matter,"
"I've seen those five," Natas whispered to Kayn. "They were there during the meeting in the tent along with Chief Kylo,"
"They are members of Assembly of Freedom," Kayn didn't hesitate to reveal.
Friedrich and the others instantly turned to look at Kayn.
"Is he speaking nonsense?" Friedrich looks at Gilbert.
"No, sir!" Gilbert shook his head. "We secretly infiltrated the army camp of our enemy not so long ago. I sadly didn't get much information, but Kayn here heard a lot of things,"
"What is there plan?" This time, Friedrich looks at Kayn as he now deemed the latter worth his attention.
"To bring anarchy in 'The Bridge', what else?" If it was anyone else, he wouldn't reveal such crucial information casually. But if it is the twenty Green Horn Knights, he can trust them. They might come off fierce and dangerous, but that's actually only because they are strong. When it comes to their principles and what they believe, they are quite honorable. Moreover, if one thinks about how Old Chief George always view everyone negatively, it's honestly a huge feat for these people to get his recognition.
"Has the old man heard of this already?"
"We reported to him first before informing you,"
"That's good," Friedrich nodded in acknowledgement. "Although such information is very crucial, we unfortunately have to wait for the old man's call. But for now, our operation is to simply kill these five people,"
"There's no plan yet how we'll kill them. We will only think of that once we find them," Friedrich paused as pointed at the images, "Memorize their faces within five minutes, then after that we will begin our operation to exterminate them,"
"Understood, sir Friedrich!"
Friedrich immediately left everyone started memorizing the images. It's quite evident that he went to see Old Chief George to discuss about what he heard from Kayn. Well, it is an important matter, so everyone could understand.
The flirtatious woman looked at the image for a few seconds before suddenly approaching Kayn.
"Your name is Kayn, right?"
"Yes, why?" Kayn instantly became cautious, and so was Gilbert.
"My name is Kimberly, nice to meet you," Kimberly put her hand forward, wanting to shake hands with Kayn.
"Nice to meet you too…" Kayn acted like he was slightly uncomfortable.
"What do you want, Kimberly?" Gilbert with a grave tone in his voice.
"What's your problem, Gilbert? Clearly, I just want to get to know this young man,"
"I know you are trying to investigate him,"
"Is there a problem with that?"
"He is under the protection of Old Chief George,"
Kimberly felt surprised, "So, he is that important for the old man? Tell me more,"
"Screw off,"
"No way, espeically now that you've made me more interested on him,"
"I'll tell Friedrich about this,"
"Tell him what?"
"That you tried to flirt with Kayn,"
"This ain't flirting!"
"It will be if I am the one who tells it,"
"You're very boring, you know that,"
"I am just doing my job,"
"Being a nanny, I supposed,"
"At least that's better than having her feeling not reciprocated by the man she is obsessed with,"
"You…!"
"That's enough, Gilbert,"
A man with a scholarly vibe interrupted Gilbert and Kimberly's argument before it escalate into something physical.
"I was just being nice,"
"And he also warned you nicely,"
"Che!"
Kimberly finally started walking away.
"Sorry for the inconvenience,"
"Not much of an inconvenience,"
"Glad to hear that. By the way, I am Cedrick, the Priest of the first squad,"
"I believe you already know me,"
"I do," Cedrick chuckled comically. "Sorry if Friedrich didn't bother to introduce everyone to you. That's because we prefer to introduce ourselves personally, and not let someone else do it. I hope you understand," With the nature of their job, some of them prefers to hide their name.
"You can know their codenames though," Cedrick looked at the only man who still hasn't introduced himself.
"No need," The muscular man stood up to introduce himself. "My name is Roshan,"
"That name suits you," Kayn can't help saying in remark.
"I hear that all the time," Roshan smiled before taking his seat once again.
"If it's okay to ask, shouldn't there be only two other members of the Green Horn Knights here in the Green Horn Village?"
"That is what we want other people to believe to be the case," Cedrick responded.
"So, are you telling me that some of the eleven territories don't have Green Horn Knights?"
"Did you perhaps hear these from when you infiltrated the enemy's camp?"
"Yeah," Kayn nodded his head. "Are you perhaps those Green Horn Knights that were assigned in the territories that doesn't need the Green Horn Knights' protection?"
"We are," Cedrick confirmed. "Honestly, most of the allies of the Green Horn Village are Towns. So, only those Villages needs our protection. Those Towns has their own formidable forces that shouldn't be reckoned with,"
"That's good! Since they believe there would only be three Green Horn Knights present in the Green Horn Village. Although, they considered the possibility of some of you guys returning to this place after hearing the news,"
"There are indeed four other Green Horn Knights that are currently on their way here. After all, Old Chief George is more important that the territories of our allies,"
"Wouldn't they feel displeased about that?"
"I am guessing that you are new in 'The Bridge' that's why you are still asking a lot of questions to us. Always bear this in mind, you cannot casually establish a territory in this place without meeting the necessary requirements. And one of those requirements is to be able to defend it from the invasion of other Villages,"
"It's not only today that a war has took place in 'The Bridge'. To tell you the truth, every Chief is constantly at war with one another, competiting for almost everything,"
"That isn't surprising though, because unlike the 'Tower' where there seems to be a never ending supply of materials. In 'The Bridge', there's only a limited number of them,"
"If one of the Villages gets a hold of the gathering spot of a certain material, that means less resources for the other Villages and Towns. And although it's possible to trade materials with each other, it just so happens that not all materials have the same value or worth. So, if a Village with a less valuable material wants to trade for a high-value material that another Village possess, then it would require more of the former's resources to complete the trade with the latter,"
"And sometimes, the expense in starting a war is less compared to what it would cost when doing such a trade. That is one of the reasons why a war would start,"
"Thank you for the insight," Kayn took note of such an important information about 'The Bridge'. To simply put, in the 'Tower', Heroes and Villains would compete for territories. But in 'The Bridge', they compete for resources.
"Anyways, have you memorize the faces of these five people already?" Cedrick kindly reminded.
"Rest assured, I have a good memory," Kayn pointed at his head.
"I hope you use that gift of yours wisely, unlike Gilbert here," Cedrick looked at Gilbert.
"You do know that the word 'Gift' is subjective, right?" Gilbert retorted.
"Believe whatever you want," Cedrick chuckled before walking to the table so that he can start memorizing the faces of their target.
Not long after, Friedrich finally returned. "Let's quickly go!"
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