Bad deeds?

Argos was the name of my boy, I still remember his smiling and innocent face when he saw the great parades and asked me if he could ever be like those knights with their beautiful armor and their implacable aura and I answered him with all my honesty as a father "Yes, my son, you can do it if you try hard enough".

But when one day when he went with his mother for a walk, he did not return, my whole world had turned upside down.

I searched and searched without any clear clue, but at least I met people with the same purpose as me to find our loved ones at any cost.

5 years passed to find the truth with the help of some connections we met with one of those great slave traders he could tell us what happened but his answer was so direct.

"Most likely they died in the first month or year they were captured that is for the old men and old women for the young or mature women they probably died after giving birth so much" He took a time to breathe and speak again "Sure there is some possibility, but they would never be the same again it is useless to look for them anymore".

Our faces were totally shocked, everything we had done to save them was useless? Some of our companions drew their weapons against the merchant, but his escorts killed those who did it, I saw their armor and I swore they were the same ones my son wanted to wear.

{Was this what it meant to be a knight?}

Some simply killed themselves on the spot and the rest of us the merchant just gave us a bag full of silver coins.

{Is this what our families are worth?} That sounded in my head when I looked at the bag, I shook my head and grabbed the bag and left.

After a long time I tried to gather my companions to start a fight but all of them refused.

When I gathered enough money I started the guild and those who joined were few but little by little it was growing until we finally started attacks on the caravans to save people from that horrible fate, seeing the faces of the families to see their daughter, father, mother or son coming back made me extremely happy.

{Until the "human empire" hunted us down... human empire, what stupidity}

We were repudiated, but in the end we settled in several places and we are still doing our work.

I was known as "Erick, the fool of the humans and the genius of the slaves."

But that did not matter now I was on my horse there were 10 units of cavalry including mine 40 infantry and 20 archers all were in light armor with green painted chest going completely iron was very expensive and the little armor we had was a basic metal and cheap.

"There are only 40 infantry apparently and of course counting the knight" The scout told me confidently.