"Who is attacking us?!" Fires burned as a bleeding man crawled through the rubble that had once been their base. The bandit had been part of Black Skulls, a powerful group that raided towns and villages outside of the Brielle Kingdom. They were a minor power but the flow of goods was nice and steady.
Indelia was so massive that a few terrorized towns and villages were not worth the time of the kingdom's forces. It was a plain fact that resources were limited and the hope that words meant something from politicians was a naive belief.
Thus the Black Skulls had become the de facto overlords of their area but now, they were wiped out in a few days.
It had started with some of their raiding parties not coming back, followed by one of their patrols shortly disappearing. It sped up from there and now the man with blood flowing out of his body like a river tried to get to his chest full of healing pills.
