The Guardian's Sword

"What?" Sean was shocked as his expression turned shocked.

The City-State Union was in disarray with many stray mercenary regiments of all
sizes. Some mercenary regiments were too small to take on enough tasks to
support themselves, so they sometimes partook in bandit raids.

Sean knew about these too, but he had no idea someone would be so bold as to
raid Dorodo's town and kidnap the poor residents!

"Why hasn't Quentin contacted me? Doesn't he..."

Before Sean could finish his sentence, the phone on the desk rang suddenly.
Needless to say, it must be Quentin on the phone.

Sean answered the phone immediately, and Quentin's voice came through the
phone.

"Commander Lennon, I don't know if you've heard, but the poor people who went
out to work in the fields through the west city gate were arrested by a gang of..."
"I've heard of it. I'm preparing to deploy soldiers to exterminate all stray
mercenary regiments... No, stray bandits in the vicinity of Dorodo. I will also bring
back all the poor people who have been captured,” Sean said solemnly.

Quentin was relieved to hear Sean's promise but said, "Hurry, Commander
Lennon. You must hurry! Those who went out to work in the fields are basically
women with no protection. The consequences would be unimaginable.”

"I see. I'll hurry."

Sean hung up and ordered Zander to gather the city defense soldiers.
According to the information Zander had gathered, about 20 poor women were
captured, and there were 40 to 50 stray bandits armed with weapons and fast
horses.

The west city gate was now closed. With 200 city defense soldiers, Sean rode
fast horses out of the east city gate and searched the wilderness for traces of the
stray bandits.

There were many horseshoe prints on the west of Dorodo.

Following these horseshoe prints, it would not be difficult to find the gang of
bandits who had taken the poor

women.

"Come on. Let's go after them!" Sean ordered, waving his hand.

200 city defense soldiers followed Sean and Zander and galloped toward the
direction the bandits had left.

Sean and the rest caught up with a stray mercenary regiment after about an
hour.

The stray mercenary regiment was small-only more than 20 people. They were
not the gang of bandits who had taken the women.

Sean frowned and ignored the regiment, continuing the chase with city defense
soldiers.

While chasing, Sean told Zander to take some beans out of a bag and sprinkled
them on the ground.

These beans had been soaked in a special medicinal liquid that would exude a
pungent smell for a long time.

The city defense army's specially trained hounds could pick up the pungent scent
from afar.

"It's getting dark..." Zander said helplessly to Sean after looking up.

"No time to rest. Keep chasing! I don't believe I can't keep up with those damn
b*stards!"

Sean rarely used profanity, but he could not help it this time. He was furious at
the thought of the inhuman treatment those poor women would have suffered at
the hands of the bandits.

As the night darkened, Sean and his men saw several bright fires from afar.