Ast and Anya were on their way to Aldi. Both the siblings were seated inside the carriage and outside the carriage were their four bodyguards.
The journey to Aldi took 3 days. When the evening arrived the bodyguards setup three tents, 1 for Ast and Anya, 1 for the maid and driver and 1 for themselves. Ast asked the bodyguards and servants to come to their tents one by one separately, to which the bodyguards became skeptical. "Hey kid we know we are supposed to protect you but it doesn't mean we will listen to you" said one of the bodyguard. "Are you sure?, you know I can make your life very difficult along the way and I know some or all of you might be working under some order or maybe not but what happens if I or my sister disappears do you think the family would let you live.." Ast said with a smirk on his face.
" Kid do you think you can run away?. We four are level 1 elementalists do you think a normal human can outrun us. " said the same bodyguard, but this time a bit annoyed.
Ast had his suspicions but this man confirmed that they were elementalists. Ast winked at Anya. After setting up the tents all of them were busy gathering wood and building a fireplace. A bodyguard went to fetch some water and other one took out utensils from the carriage.
Ast could see that none of them had any storage ring with them, but he was not sure if they had artifacts or not. The artifacts in this world are graded as normal, rare, epic, unique, legendary and lastly divine.
The artifacts that Ast and Anya had refined were of rare grade and they were only able to do that because they had lightning essence in their body. Ast tried to check the bodyguards for any tatoos but he couldn't find any. But he still wasn't sure cause the tatoo could have been in other places.
Ast knew he had to gamble now, because he was again going to drug all the servants and bodyguards to sleep and later use the truth serum to find out about his family's plan. And to his plan the biggest threat was the presence of an artifact capable of neutralising poisons, that is why he was looking for the artifacts.
Ast did not ate with the rest of them and took his and Anya's food to the tent. Obviously they did it just for show they weren't going to eat what the servants made even inside. Anya had drugged the water when Ast kept the others attention on him. After a while Ast noticed that the servants and bodyguards started falling outside one by one, he could hear the sound of their falling.
Ast went outside to watch and note if someone was still conscious. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone was unconscious and lay defenseless on the ground outside. Ast quickly tied the servants down and asked Anya to take out her bow and keep a watch on them.
He didn't do the same for the four bodyguards as he knew that ropes wouldn't be able to keep an elementalist tied down. So first off all he poisoned all four bodyguards with a deathly poison. He didn't care if they were innocent, because Ast had no idea for how long the sleep serum would work on an elementalist.
Now he was somewhat relaxed and then he began interrogating the four bodyguards one by one using truth serum
And as he suspected all four of them were given the orders to keep and eye on them and report anything strange, using an artifact which was provided to one of them. Ast knew it was tough to steal an artifact so he didn't bother with that.