War Against Thieves 4

Jack thought that he would not let women and children die from poisoning even if the thieves decided not to go out to fight, Jack imagined that it would take at least 45 days for people to begin to die from poisoning.

This meant that after 3 weeks passed after people started getting poisoned, Jack and the soldiers could attack and invade the thieves' base that the thieves would not have the strength to defend the base.

They would have time to kill all the thieves and let the women take the children to the nearest river to drink clean water, with clean water they would recover from the poisoning in a few days.

The secret of this poisoning was that people inside the thieves' base had to drink poisoned water every day and they kept on poisoning themselves and got even worse, but if they stopped drinking the poisoned water they would recover.

So Jack imagined the idea that the thieves would realize this and would realize that they would have to fight the soldiers to leave their base to get clean water when they left the base weaker they would be killed by the soldiers.

Jack kept waiting and after another week he decided it was time to tell the thieves the truth, he didn't expect thieves to not realize that the water was poisoned and if things went on like this they would die.

Jack said that he had decided this for his closest friends who also ran the groups of soldiers within the group of 100 soldiers he ran, but contrary to what he thought his friends did not agree with that.

"Jack, I think you shouldn't go to warn the thieves, we had a lot of work to poison them and as you saw the thieves are getting weaker, there's no reason for you to warn them of our plan."

"I agree with what Alex said, we have no reason to give the thieves the opportunity to find out what's going on and go out to fight, that decision could cause several of our soldier friends to die."

Jack heard what Alex and Peter said and had to agree that he hadn't thought about it before deciding to tell the thieves that the water was poisoned, from the beginning he never thought that the thieves would not find out that the water in the wells was poisoned and he thought they would have to fight from the start.

But Alex and Peter made him realize that the plan didn't have to be as he thought at the beginning, if they left 1 or 2 more weeks to pass the thieves would be too weak to fight and they could just enter the thieves' base and kill all the thieves.

The biggest problem that left Jack in a hurry to complete this mission was that they had food to stay only a few weeks, but with him and the other soldiers hunting and picking fruit this time almost doubled.

The truth was that Jack thought of warning the thieves to give them an opportunity to fight because he was so ashamed of the cowardice he did by poisoning the water in the wells where the thieves drank.

"Alright, I realized that you are right and I had not thought correctly, tell all the soldiers that I thought again and we will wait another 2 weeks before invading the thieves' base."

Alex, Peter, and Aaron were very happy to see that Jack had heard them and given up on his plan, the truth was that they hadn't told Jack, but the other soldiers also didn't like Jack's plan and thought it was crazy to warn them. thieves and risk fighting just for pride.

When they came back and said that Jack had given up on his plan, the soldiers, even more, admired Jack who was not too proud and admitted that he was wrong and changed the plan he had created.

The soldiers knew that if it weren't for Jack's plan they could have died trying to invade the thieves' base in the beginning before they were poisoned, with Jack's plan they could now fight the thieves even though the thieves had twice the number their.

What Jack didn't know was that a few days after he talked to his friends, the thieves would hold a meeting between Hector and the leaders of the other groups, the reason was that after two weeks that Jack and the archers had poisoned the well, all people within the thieves' base were left with the same disease.

Women and children had the worst symptoms and whoever got sick first was even worse, this left Hector and all the leaders of the groups who were also very scared after all this was a disease that infected everyone within their base.

The discussion they were having at this meeting was whether they would try to call a doctor to their base, moreover, they were trying to find out what disease was it that infected everyone on the base in 2 weeks.

"I am saying that there is no disease, it must be some kind of black magic or an attack by the enemies, it is impossible that we all got the same disease and if you thought that this meeting would not happen."

"Black magic doesn't exist, witches don't exist, curses don't exist either, but it can really be a kind of enemy attack, in that I agree with Jasper."

"Just because we didn't see any witches or someone cursed does not mean that it does not exist, I refuse to believe that this is a disease because if this is a disease we will all die without finding out what it is."

The thieves did not know what the problem was, but they refused to accept that it was a common disease, they knew that there were diseases that could kill millions of people in a kingdom, but if that was what happened to them, then they were dead.

Hector was also very concerned about this, after several years he had obtained the power he so wanted and had the strength to fight against the knights, it was difficult for him to accept that an illness would be the cause of his death.

"I also hope it is not a disease, we cannot call a doctor to our base because we cannot get a doctor out of the capital without the king noticing, even our allies cannot help us with this."

"I don't think this is a curse, black magic or some witch's work, so let's think that what is causing this is an enemy, we have to find out how an enemy can do this to all of us."