Mercenary Guild

"The information was pretty accurate" Chepi spoke, as she flew towards the burned three-storied building, just at the entrance of the inner circle.

Kylian nodded in agreement.

When the nobles had pulled back all the food from the outer circle as a punishment, a small group from the outer city sneaked inside the inner circle and burned an inn along with a noble and its guests to show their retaliation. The group was obviously annihilated instantly by the city guards and soldiers.

This incident made it clear to the nobles of the rich circle that it was foolish to stack back all the food as the whole city might rebel.

Learning from their earlier mistakes, the nobles allowed the outer residents minimal food, just a piece of bread in two days, and even middle city residents' food was cut down to half.

To make sure the rebel does not take place again, nobles distributed the food unevenly among the people, it was a smart move Kylian had to admit. The people of the city were busy fighting among themselves for food and they had neither the energy nor time to stand against the nobles.

Even though the situation was handled well by the nobles of the inner circle, but lower nobles of the inner circle were still horrified by the earlier incident. So they paid everything they had to get inside the rich circle and those who could not afford left the city for safety purposes.

As there was no commerce happening inside the inner circle, so the soldiers and guards were pulled back inside the rich circle by the Nobles for extra protection.

The inner-circle was now just left at the hands of Guildmasters of different assassins and thief guilds who were loyal to the Nobles.

After walking for an hour through the inner-circle, Kylian stopped in front of a huge pillar that stood outside a gate. The board on the pillar said 'ANIMALS ALLOWED BUT NOT NOBLES." in bold letters.

"Hehehe, they really hate the nobles don't they." Chepi giggled as she read the letters.

There was only a single Mercenary guild and it was located in the complete opposite direction from all the rest of the guilds. It was the only guild that was not controlled or run by nobles.

Previously it was also controlled by the Nobles, but two years back Veteran captain named Hector rebelled against the corrupt nobles.

The nobles would have executed the man hadn't the captain been influential among other soldiers. So all they could do was to forcefully remove him from his post and banish him from the rich and inner circle.

Seeing their captain mistreated and ostracized, soldiers loyal to Hector raised their voices.

To deal with the situation the nobles called these soldiers for a discussion. When the soldiers arrived they were welcomed with a surprise attack from the mercenary guild. In this attack most only a few soldiers managed to escape.

Captain Hector was furious at such a dirty tactic, so he along with his escaped soldiers started recruiting members and training them to take revenge for his fallen subordinates. Within just a year and half he had a group of hundred.

Just three weeks back Hector and his soldiers took their revenge on the mercenary guild and killed each and every one of them. Further, they even took over their guild building and even named themselves as the mercenary guild so as to not forget their purpose.

The nobles would have attacked them, but things were not moving in their favor for a few past months.

This was what Kylian had learned about the Mercenary Guild.

Kylian then pushed opened the gate and walked inside through the large gate. Even though the area was big but what surprised Kylian were the poor straw huts built in half of the area while the other half was covered with a training ground which right now was filled with around fifty guild members' training.

These fifty men were divided into groups, some groups were training their physical strength while some with the stances while others with their sword.

"Atleast some soldiers know how to train their men." Kylian was impressed with the lot and especially with their captain who knew how important training was. In his time as a slave for the army he had not seen the captains and higherups bothering much for training their soldiers, not to mention these were all nobles who were seated in these positions.

Even at battlefields, they gave their orders hiding behind the army, and Kylian very much doubted they even had some basic knowledge.

Earlier Kylian had not thought much about these things, but after his awakening, he strongly felt the whole system of this world was awful. Just because they were born with the right blood or in the right family, these people automatically got the right to do anything and everything they wish to. Kylian strongly believed one should be capable of the position that one holds.

"Didn't you read the board outside?" A tall man, with a beard and in his late thirties shouted aloud, from the training ground, when he saw Kylian walking in.

"I did. " Kylian replied nonchalantly and asked "Where is your leader Hector? I have some business with him."

"How dare you call Master with his name." the man was infuriated and came straight towards Kylian clenching his training sword, followed by three other members who seemed to be trying to calm the man down.

"Kylian you sure about this ? You are just level 1" Chepi spoke a bit worried as there were fifty people on the training ground at present. She was uncertain that Kylian would be able to take down so many with his mana, and she was clueless how Kylian was with his sword.

'Don't worry' Kylian replied.

"Where is Hector ?" Kylian repeated when the man got closer. Kylian stood their unfazed by the tall man or by the number of guild member that were present on the training field.

Kylian had to make an impact here and show these men the hierarchy that they would be following in the future, so right now he could not show any weakness even if he was facing a hundred mercenaries.

"You nobles think you rule everything," The tall man pointed the sword towards Kylian and spoke through gritted teeth "Leave kid, I am warning you."

A woman among the group of three that had followed the tall man put her hand on the man's shoulder "Delvin he is just a kid", she then looked at Kylian, " Leave immediately or you would die" she spoke with a sharp edge to her voice.

"Make me leave and I might." Kylian replied staring at the group.

The three behind the man sighed, they knew that Delvin was short-tempered and he could even kill the boy in rage.

"Now you have done it." Delvin roared and lunged at Kylian, aiming for his shoulder.

Kylian swiftly stepped aside, and with his left hand held Delvin's sword hand while with his other punched him right on his face. "Bammm"

The three people behind were shocked with such an outcome. By the time they could even react,

Kylian was already landing another heavy punch on Delvin's face knocking him to the ground.

The woman was the first one to react and charged at Kylian.

Kylian pulled out his blade and swirled around dodging the woman. Then with the hilt of his sword he landed a blow to the woman's head. "Bammm"

The remaining two members moved too and attacked Kylian, but Kylian was too quick for them. He swiftly crouched down and knocked both of them with a 360-degree low sweep kick.

"STOPPPP" a firm voice came from the training ground.