Chapter 33: Zadi’s Guards

“Is it still far, Mazoi?” Eric inquired, feeling uneasy.

“We’re almost there. It is like the resting house we paid earlier,” Mazoi explained. “I often go there whenever I have a mission given by the Scorpion King. The owner is an old woman who is a mute.”

After Mazoi was silent, Elise saw some people challenging them in her mind’s eye. She read that they were not as powerful as them in terms of magic or normal people’s physical abilities. However, they were a band of vicious people.

“We’ll meet a band of robbers,” Elise warned her brother and Kent.

“Robbers? They have that here in the city?” Eric was suspicious, looking at his sister.

Elise nodded.

They figured out the robbers were sent by the general of the army of Lower Egypt.

“I did not know he’s a low life punk!” Eric uttered with disgust.

“I think they’re despe