She then cleaned eyes and looked at the man.
" How much is the meal?"
"Fifteen silvers."
" Fifteen silvers!'' hearing the amount,Rita smiled bitter as she drew a few silvers and placed them on the table before she left.
*******
Having spent a few hours studying the base of the bandits.Hedrick began making preparations for his upcoming mission.Destroying two bandits fractions alone was similar to committing suicide.But he we go with Hedrick a sixteen year old teenage boy who is on mission Impossible he has to accomplish.
'Looking at the architectural plan,the kitchens and food stores seem to be on the right side while their bedrooms are on the left.The audience halls, libraries and training grounds at the centre.There are five entry points but are very highly protected making it very hard to pass by without notice.The five check points and entry points are protected by ten guards who take turns every six hours.Looking at such a deployment, this mission seems more impossible.' thought Hedrick as he looked at the map.Looking at the map, he studied it for a while before his eyes lit up.
' That's right. This entry point is about a hundred metres away from the food stores.Looking at the time,it should be time for the next deployment.Heavens seem to be in my favour,the wind is actually blowing towards the check point.I guess it's time I should begin acting.' With that Hedrick drew out an arrow with two tiny holes at the front.It was know as the whistle arrow.It was named so because of the sound it produced as it flew in air.Withdrawing the gun powder,he poured the gun powder into the arrow head before placing it back onto the the stick.Having done the same with about fifty arrows, he out them on his back and held the bow in his hand and nodded his head in satisfaction.He then stood on the top of a tree as his eyes turned a little red enhancing his vision. Spotting the sacks of grain and beside them a metal cart,he drew out an arrow that had gun powder inside and fired.Making a whistling sound as it attracted the attention of the guards,the arrow passed by the the metal cart causing sparks causing the arrow head to explode cause fire to catch the grains.
When the guards at a distance looked at the big smoke from the food stores, panic gripped their hearts trying to think of what to do.The leader then moved before and commanded.
" Five of you go help others put out the fire.The rest of you should stay here in case it's an enemy attack. I'll go ask for more back up."
"No problems big brother.You can definitely count on us."
" Remember not to allow anyone in."warned the leader before he rushed off with other five men leaving the four standing while holding their weapons.''
Just as Hedrick had calculated, the slowly began to blow the smoke towards the entry point blocking the vision of the four guards.Grabbing the opportunity, Hedrick used his mist-like ability and added more dark grey mist into the smoke making their vision completely blocked.Holding the bucket of gun powder and bow in his hands, Hedrick quickly grabbed the chance and sneaked passed the check point into the Bandits'base.But as he was sneaking in,he accidentally bumped into a piece of wood due to his vision being slightly poor causing a noise which good enough didn't alert the guards.
"Hey second brother,did you just hear something?"asked one of the bandits.
"Nope,what did you hear?"
"It seemed like but I guess it just my thinking.it must be from the food stores."
Not thinking too much about it,the two bandits quickly went back into their positions and continued guarding as the coughed due to the smoke with their heads feeling slightly dizzy.The smoke became too much to bare and covered their noses making the dizziness vanish away.
A few moments later,the leader came back with more than ten more guards and with a wave,the smoke the moved away clearing their sight.
" Did anything weird happen while I was not around?"
" Nothing,just an explosion from the food stores."one of them answered.
" Explosion... explosion?"the leader asked he doubted that.He began to feel something was fishy.
" Yes,leader. I heard a sound when the smoke covered our sight but the rest didn't so I thought it was an explosion from the food stores."
'' A sound...an explosion...that doesn't make sense.The food store are about a hundred metres from here.Generally speaking, no sound should be heard if it's a grain store on fire."the leader continued to analyze.
" Where were you standing and where did the sound come from?"
" I was standing right there and the sound came from behind at my right hand side.''the man said as he pointed at the positions.
Following the directions being pointed at, the leader stood and the point and assumed a sound from behind.Following his instincts, he moved a few steps until he arrived at a spot where a piece of wood that was normally used for handling hunted meat was still standing straight.Upon inspecting it for a quarter an hour, he found nothing unusual.As he was about to stand up and move away, he saw some dark powder on the ground. He slightly bent over and rub his finger against it and smelt it.It was the smell of gun powder.
"Everyone stay at the entry point.Do not let anyone enter or leave the base.We are in an urgent situation, we have a perpetrator in the base."the leader commanded straight way.
" Yes big brother. Don't worry we are at it. Not even a housefly or mosquito will leave or enter the camp." the second brother said as he patted his chest in assurance.
Looking at how confident and assured his second brother was. He patted his shoulder and moved to report to his seniors.