As humans from a modern world without magic and where science was the daily bread, William and his brothers were very curious about magic and wanted to perform many experiments on everything William, Glem and Arthur were quite interested in the subject.
The problem is that they did not have magical stones and they did not know much about the runic language either, it is likely that the cave located in the mountain range was a dungeon and they could extract magical stones, however, according to the twins it would be full of dangerous creatures and despite the fact that they had weapons the dungeons were like a nest that spawned creatures every so often, I couldn't if I tried to use the weapons to clear the dungeon an infinity of times they would probably run out of ammunition, William's idea was to create a group specialized in clearing the dungeons, by same as the adventurers guild, but with some differences.
Therefore, before thinking of clearing the dungeon, they had to put effort into the plan to increase the population since it lacked manpower, with the path to the village cleared it was time to send some men to other villages, the plan was to create some squads of 5 ostrich riders who go to neighboring villages carrying food to try to attract more inhabitants.
However, a problem arose before the plan started, the surveillance team led by Anderson had seen some villages being attacked by bandits, since the poor villagers had to face mother nature and wild creatures and now there were bandits who wanted to steal what little they had, what bothered William was that these bandits killed men, and kidnapped children and women, reducing the possibility of recruiting new inhabitants.
Therefore, the operation changed from a simple recruitment to a rescue, the main objective was to take the opportunity to bring as many inhabitants as possible in the shortest time, for which Charles, Hans and Glem would be sent, each leading a team of 4 ostrich riders.
Anderson, would use an armored vehicle to supply supplies and provide aerial reconnaissance and support with drones, once with all the detailed plans, William's brothers went to work, as experienced soldiers they made the preparations in the shortest time possible.
The group of 15 horsemen led by Charles, Hans and Glem set off south, behind them was the armored car driven by Anderson and one of his aides, this time the passenger compartment had been full of food and provisions, despite the fact that the ostriches could drop a lot of weight, they didn't want to tire them out, the only thing they had to carry was the food that would be distributed in the village and their own provisions, the weapons they planned to use was mainly a bow with many arrows, although the squad was relatively new They had been practicing archery on the move tirelessly for several days.
Even William's brothers planned to use bows as weapons, although they had prepared a semi-automatic rifle with several cartridges each, they wanted to save bullets and enjoy this fantasy world.
After several hours of travel, the group separated as planned, Anderson drove the truck to a place where there were several trees that served to hide it, then he deployed the 5 drones, in total they had brought 20 drones to this world, so far A total of 10 drones were deployed, 6 in charge of constantly monitoring the town mentally and another 4 to explore places of interest, this time they brought 5 drones for this mission, these drones had been armed as insurance in case of a difficult situation.
The ostrich riders split up into designated groups and headed off in different directions to cover more ground, Anderson had made himself comfortable inside the armored truck while keeping an eye on the screens, the drones moving rapidly taking pictures of the entire area, soon he could see how a A cloud of smoke was slowly rising from one of the villages they had previously explored.
Bringing the drone closer to the area, Anderson could see that many houses were on fire, while in the center of the village a group of villagers were kneeling, you could see the tattered clothing and the food deficit of the general population, around the villagers there was a group of 30 well-armed men, pointing their guns at them.
The scene was something they had previously seen in another village, a group of bandits would arrive and take the villagers under threat while destroying the village, probably to sell them as slaves, they still did not know the reason why these bandits suddenly they started doing this.
Anderson took the radio from him and spoke "this is hawkeye, do you get me vulture 1?" A few seconds later a voice sounded from the radio "vulture 1 here, I receive you loud and clear" who answered was Glem, his team had already traveled a few kilometers to the southwest and were close to his first objective.
Hearing Glem's voice, Anderson spoke again "go to target 1 as quickly as possible, they are currently under attack and need help" Glem replied "received, vulture 1 out"
In the village that was being attacked by the bandits, several men had stood in front of the women, children and the elderly, the village was not very large, it had about 70 villagers among whom only 20 were men, in the middle of these men there was one who stood out for his size and musculature, was the chief of the village and was trying to convince the bandits to leave them alone "they have already looted everything and burned the village, please spare our lives".
The bandit boss was laughing as he spoke "we already gave you a chance, you only had to pay the protection fee, but you chose to ignore us, now as punishment everyone will be sold as slaves if they resist we will kill them, but don't worry we will only kill the men and old men, I will let the women and children live."
The village head squeezed his hands, he had already heard what this group of bandits did to women and children, the worst of all was the feeling of anger and impotence although they were more in number, they had no weapons and they did not know how to fight. , they were nothing more than a group of peasants who were looking for a place to live in peace.
As despair descended slowly on each villager, an arrow silently stuck into the head of one of the bandits, the arrow traveled so fast that it managed to penetrate the skull from side to side and although it did not come out completely you could see how the tip came out from the back of your skull.
The scene was so fast that the bandits only noticed when their partner was lying on the ground, not even those who were smeared with blood could react, while the bandits were trying to process the situation, 5 ostriches came out of nowhere running in their direction. In each direction, on the back of each ostrich rode a man dressed in a strange brown-green uniform.
The ostrich riders had a strange bow that had a wheel on each end, while the bandits and villagers were watching the strange scene, Glem and his group aimed their bows at the bandits, extended the bowstring and fired another volley.
One of the arrows pierced a shoulder and stuck in the leg of the bandit who was behind him, another arrow managed to hit a vital part of a bandit ending his life, one arrow simply missed and the other 2 went through the same bandit.
Seeing such a scene the bandit chief yelled furiously, "stop them, there are only 5 kill them now" the bandits woke up from their trance and ran in the direction of the ostriches, the mountain ostriches were quite rare and no one had thought of breeding them anymore that they were difficult to capture, therefore few people really knew their capacity, William and his brothers had tanks, vehicles capable of reaching and terrorizing these birds, therefore it was easy for them to capture them.
The mountain ostriches were not weak creatures and soon the bandits realized this, one of the bandits received a kick that sent him flying several meters, when he fell you could see deep claw marks on his chest, another was hit by the beak of an ostrich, the scene was quite bloody since it was just in his head which was sunk creating a fountain of blood.
While the ostriches fought, their riders did not stay still, as they used their bows and swords to hurt or kill those who remained in their range, the short but intensive training they had undergone had paid off and in a short time only the chief remained. of the bandits.
The man was sitting on the floor while he was holding one of his legs that had been pierced by an arrow, the 5 ostriches stopped after a gesture from their riders, and under the gaze of the villagers and the bandit chief Glem. He got off.
Glem was a tall man with dark eyes and hair, he had a playful look and usually liked to play pranks on his acquaintances, he was also considered an otaku and his dream was to create a harem of beast women, however, he was very serious in his work , and currently he was somewhat angry, he thought that perhaps on this trip he could find some beast woman, but after a slight visual scan he had not found any, which had made him angry.
Glem walked slowly and stood next to the bandit boss with a strange smile which caused chills in the wounded bandit boss, "I'll just ask you a simple question, and I hope you answer me with the truth if you don't want to suffer, tell me who will you?" ordered to attack this village?"
The villagers were scared as they saw the ostriches and their riders, so none moved, because they were several meters from Glem they couldn't hear their conversation either, the bandit chief after seeing the strength of the riders and their mounts had left traumatized, along with Glem's sinister performance he spoke while stammering "it was Earl Clark of Yham City".