4 | The Bandits |

In a forest, late at night, you could see smoke rising through the dark sky as people were sitting around a campfire, the night was cold and quiet, you could hear the crackling sound of the fire and the chatter of the people near it

from the clothes they wear you could think they were your tipical adventurer with armor, swords, daggers, spears and so on,  but if you looked around closely and paid attention you could see a caravan near a tree with what appears to be several people in it. You can hear their cries for help, some are asking for food, others are silent, and others entirly giving up and accepting their fate. 

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Around the fire the bandits started talking to each other on how they gone do a lot of money from those slaves the just caught

Pov : Bandit

"Ey boss, do you think these slaves will fetch us a lot of gold from the nobles?" One bandit asked

"Hahahaha of course, in there you could choose from old to young, the nobles have a strange taste you know." The Leader of the bandits said as he took a sip of his beer and enjoyed the touch of the woman around him.

"The boss is right, yes, yeah,yep " the crowd cheered for their leaders words were like melodious songs to their ears.

"Hey, boss come quick look what I found" On of the bandit yelled behind a tree a couple of meters away from the camp roughly thirty to forty meters away.

"I swear Gareth , if you find something stupid again, you'll end up as food for the direwolfs tonight." The leader yelled angry at someone ruining his peace.

"No, no, boss, this time it's really something special" the bandit now named Gareth quickly shook his head and responded to his words.

After the group approached Gareth, they were stunned by what they saw: a baby, a human baby in the middle of the forest,who would leave a baby in the middle of the forest to die of hunger or cold

"Check if it's still alive,Gareth" the leader said to Gareth, the bandit checked on the baby

"Yeah boss, it's still alive, it seems to be sleeping and it was not left hear to long ago" Gareth responded after checking the the baby.

"Boss, what should we do with the baby?" Asked on of the bandits.

The leader started to think but did not respond and as such the other bandits started to give their own opinion on the matter.

"Lets just leave it hear,lets take it whith us,lets sell it" Each bandit had different ideas, but they couldn't do anything without the direct order of the boss.

"After thinking about it, l have decided to raise the child as a bandit because it would help us trick our victims dont you think." The leader responded sounding quite proud of his genius idea.

"How are we supposed to raise a child, boss? We have no idea how to raise a child"Gareth asked the leader confused at his leaders words.

"Ohh do not worry about it I have an idea "said the boss while looking on the direction of the carriage where the slaves were.

"Take the baby Gareth and bring it to the female slaves and order them to take care of the baby if they do not want to be killed." The leader said coldly.

While the others moved back near the fire, Gareth went to the carriage and told them what the boss told him.

A woman named Eda took the baby in her arms and held it like a treasure, after all the baby was her key to salvation, so she will do her duty with the utmost effort

Now that she is paying attention to the baby, it is really cute, its blood-colored hair that seems to shine in the night and its soft and white skin make the child look like a doll.

Hmm I wonder what are they gona do with this poor child I feel sorry for you little one maybe they will sell him a group of bandits will not feel sorry for a child found in the forest

Unnoticed by the child, many things happened to him while he slept.

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Time passes quickly and a week has gone by

Pov: ???

After I woke up I was very confused because it was not the place where I last slept last time but something that looked like a caravan from the past a lot of chained people were also on the caravan we were moving to the camp of the bandits

After some time I found out that i was picked up by a group of bandits at first i was really worried that they were going to sell me but after hearing them talk about me i was a little relieved that they just wanted to train me and make me do their dirty work for them.

For some reason I can understand what they are saying, maybe because of the system or from God.

I also tried to make the mana core fragments come together to my sternum, I could not control them completely but i could direct them to some extent. I thought it would be more difficult but I was able to sense mana on the first day and now I can sense it more clearly as if a fog was moved away, does this imply that my affinity for mana was high or is it because my reincarnation and my devolept mind if my calculations are correct than I would have a mana core in a year or a little less.

"Ohh look who woke up are you hungry littel one l think you are lets give you something to eat so you can become strong and healthy" Eda said as she went somewhere and asked a man to bring milk for the child to drink

this woman Eda is the only one who really takes care of me but I can see it in her eyes she does it for other reasones i also heard the bandits telling her to take care of me in return she will be free, really naive of her to think a group of bandits who live by killing, robbing and kidnapping would let her go

They will use her until they need her, then they will throw her away like a used rag and no one will care I will try to save her in the future, if she is still alive by then.

Only this much activity and this body is already tired as hell.

Damn, this child's body, it sleeps at least 12 to 16 hours a day and I have no control over my body, it's really hard to live in a child's body while having the mind of an adult.

After eating and trying to not sleep I succumbed to the beautiful thing known as sleep.