Towards Marinburg

"What is that?" Betty asks her as she approaches Asteri.

"And the reason we came here" Asteri puts the symbol in his pocket "I have a bad feeling about tonight, go to sleep I'll be on guard until morning comes" Asteri starts moving the bodies into a corner.

"Why only you? We can take turns" Allatu he disagreed.

"No, don't worry it's better that you rest ... it's not a problem if I don't sleep for one night" Asteri insisted on this fact.

"But you're a human, won't this lack of sleep hinder you tomorrow?" even Betty was worried.

"Don't worry, I'm not that weak, you better not underestimate me" Asteri pinches Betty's nose.

"Heyy, don't treat me like a girl I'm even bigger than you" Betty moves Asteri's hand.

"Ahaha I know, but it's funny. I'm grateful for your concern girls but don't worry, satrò well I swear" she tries to reassure the two.

"Ahhhh it's okay if you insist then we go to sleep, come on betty" Allatu takes Betty and they go to sleep in the tent.

'So how do you want to start?' Aurelion asks 'we don't have specific techniques or skills for those actions'

'You don't need techine or skills to get someone to talk,' Asteri replies, heading towards the woman who was in charge of the gang. She takes it is the door some distance from the group's accent.

'I understand that you want them to rest ... but do you know it was better to do it in three? you had a better chance of extracting more information 'Aurelion knew what was in Asteri's mind.

'I know, but they were awake last night ... they need to sleep,' Asteri says as he puts the woman down.

'Ahhh is that you? you said you don't need anything but that's not exactly true, you certainly accuse less than a normal human being, but still you won't be 100% tomorrow 'Aurelion seems to have a bit of concern.

'It will be so, but it does not matter ... I will always give 100%' Asteri ties the woman to a tree.

"Hey, wake up asleep." Asteri patted the woman's face twice.

"What ... where ..." she was very confused as to where she was.

"Already you don't remember anything? You attacked it a few minutes ago" Asteri lowers the scarf that covers half her face and lowers the hood that veils her face.

"Nooo, damn you don't!" she exclaims her harshly. But certainly Asteri does not stop and looks at the woman's face, she was a very beautiful woman with black hair, but this was certainly not a reason not to question her.

"I'll be frank and direct, tell me what you plan to do to the city of the noble merchants" Asteri wanted to start with the mission ahead, so that arrived at the city, in addition to knowing what was happening, to have more information.

"AHAHAHAH do you really think I tell you everything I know? Either you are stupid or are you kidding" the woman laughs loudly, while Asteri still had a straight face.

"Okay, from this answer I assume that you do not want to cooperate with good manners ... I will have to use the bad ones" Asteri raises a hand and a tricolor flame comes out of that.

. . .

After a good few hours, Asteri had managed to get some information.

"Uff she was an incredibly tough woman, but with the right means you can get what you need." Asteri stared at the ashes of what was once a person.

'Those who expected that my cosmic power, in addition to causing physical damage, could also cause damage to the soul' Asteri turned to Aurelion.

'A stroke of luck I would say, or who knows what fate' replies the dragon disinterestedly.

"It's almost dawn, I should get some rest at least. I don't think they will attack us after all this time, 'thought Asteri as he walked back to the camp. He silently enters the tent and falls asleep.

. . .

The sun rises and the group gets up to resume the journey. Both Allatu and Betty stare at Asteri.

"Are you okay honey? Did you get some rest at least?" Allatu is a little upset.

"Of course, tonight I'm fine, he didn't attack anyone and I took the trouble to ask their foreman for information," he reveals to the two women.

"Oh and did he reveal anything interesting to you?" Betty asks this question as she dismantles the tent with Allatu.

"Not too much, he was just a squad leader after all. His squad patrolled this area, and there are other squads patrolling the city limits. For now, just this one." He was a little disappointed with this little information.

"Isn't it normal that they do? They are thieves and murderers, after all." Betty was confused.

"If we are talking about simple brigands, yes. But they are a very well known faction on the black market, they are hired to eliminate influential people, steal precious artifacts or other valuables and all the other things that happen in the obscurity of society" Asteri corrects Betty .

"But sending all the teams to the borders of the city ... it is as if they want to close it to the rest of the continent" Allatu comes up with a very dangerous hypothesis, but one that could have a true background.

"That's what I feared too, but we can't finish anything here, let's hurry up to get to the city" Asteri was in a hurry to go to Marinburg.

"Of course!" the two women respond in unison. While Asteri looked at the dead bodies of the killers.

'Better burn them' he thinks. He opens his hand and creates a fireball that he throws at those dead. He immediately caught fire, evidently he had first placed them on a rock, he certainly did not want to start a fire for the whole forest.

"Now we can go, this will confuse them a bit" Asteri turns to her companions as they start walking.