A Very Difficult Mission 1

The soldiers quickly took their sword, but they lacked their normal armor and had only some protection from the steel mesh trap they had hidden in their merchant's clothing.

The thieves heard their leader screaming and advanced quickly to where the soldiers were, meanwhile Jack threw a barrel away from where they were and threw a fire arrow at that barrel that exploded scaring the thieves.

This explosion would warn the other soldiers that the fight had started, if they could not win the fight the other soldiers could come from where they were to help in the fight, if the 80 soldiers arrived, the fight would be won for them.

Soon the fight started and Jack took advantage of the fact that the thieves were still far away and shot two arrows and managed to kill 2 thieves with those arrows, the thieves who realized this advanced to try to kill Jack so that Jack would not kill other thieves.

There were 33 thieves against only 21 soldiers, so Jack the soldiers could not protect Jack in this fight, Jack took his sword and prepared to fight against the approaching thieves.

3 thieves managed to get closer to where Jack was, but the other soldiers were not worried about Jack and continued to fight the other thieves, Jack's back was protected by the cart and he had three thieves to face.

Jack knew how to fight well using his sword, but the thieves did not have much skill and did not know how to use the advantage in numbers well in a fight like this, so one of the thieves came forward and tried to stab Jack with the sword.

Jack just sidestepped and cut the nerves of the thief's hand that attacked him, the thief who practically lost his hand screamed in pain and Jack cut that thief's throat with his sword killing the thief.

The other thieves who saw this happen in a few seconds began to be afraid of Jack, Jack did not wait and went to attack one of the thieves, the thief managed to defend himself from two attacks by Jack, so Jack kicked the thief who was out of balance and Jack stabbed the thief with his sword.

The other thief tried to attack Jack from behind to protect his friend and Jack dodged his attack, Jack sometimes attacked the thief who managed to defend himself, Jack pretended he was going to make a powerful attack and kicked the thief who fell to the ground and knocked over his sword.

Jack kicked the thief in the head and left him unconscious, shortly after Jack killed the thief who was seriously injured by Jack's stab, the other thieves did not expect Jack to kill 4 thieves in a few minutes of fighting.

Even though Jack and the soldiers were skilled at using the sword, some thieves also had a skill at using the sword and were able to fight well leaving the soldiers who were in fewer numbers tenser.

Jack soon went to face other thieves and a more skilled thief with the sword went to face Jack, the two started to fight with Jack attacking and the thief just defending.

Jack had a full advantage in the fight and the thief who was one of the best in this group of thieves was surprised to see that he had to do his best just to defend himself against Jack's attacks.

With the weakest thieves dying quickly, only the thieves had survived and began to face the soldiers on an equal footing, Jack who realized this was worried realizing that this mission would be much more difficult than he thought.

After almost 1 hour of fighting the other soldiers who saw the explosion finally arrived to help the soldiers in the fight, as soon as the thieves saw that 80 soldiers were coming to fight they tried to escape.

But the soldiers would not let the tired thieves get away easily, some of the thieves died trying to escape and others were captured, Jack captured the leader of that group of thieves and the most skilled thieves who could have more information.

Fortunately, no soldiers died in this fight, Jack realized that the soldiers that Max chose were really the best that could be chosen for this difficult mission, the merchant who was hiding was happy to survive.

"Very well, it is already getting dark, so we will camp here for the night, tomorrow we will return to the capital to take these thieves to be interrogated."

Some soldiers were left with some injuries in this fight because they were not wearing their normal armor, but with a quick treatment, everyone would be fine in a few days, so a night's rest was good for these wounded soldiers.

After that fight, Jack gained even more respect from the soldiers who saw Jack killing 4 soldiers and fighting for a long time with the thief who was more skilled using the sword, moreover, the trap for the thieves had been Jack's idea.

The other day the soldiers started walking back to the city very early, on the trip they made to that place they walked more slowly to pretend that they were carrying a lot of goods.

But on this return trip, Jack wanted them to return in just one day because the mountain thieves could not have realized that the thieves who had gone to steal had been attacked and some were even captured.

The wounded soldiers returned in the horse-drawn carts, so they would not be tired from the trip, after a long walk they finally arrived in the capital after dark.

The soldiers went directly to the defense tower where they were the base of the army and the guards, luckily Captain Max and many soldiers were still in the defense tower, so they could decide what to do that day, Jack went to speak to Captain Max while the other soldiers waited.

"Jack, I didn't expect you to be back so quickly, did your plan work?"

"Yes, Captain Max, a group of 35 thieves attacked us on the road, fortunately, no soldiers died in this fight and some soldiers had only minor injuries, in this fight we managed to capture 8 thieves and the rest of them died."

Max was surprised because he did not expect Jack to be really lucky with his plan and that the thieves could still be captured, only with the death of 27 thieves, and with those 8 captured he would already make the Royal road and the capital safer.

"Okay, Jack, let's start interrogating these 8 soldiers today, maybe we can get some information that will make your mission easier."

Jack was happy to know that the captured thieves would begin to be questioned, so in a few days they would get information about the mountain thieves, so perhaps the thieves would not discover that these thieves had been captured and the others had died.