As the carriage of Viscount Silva, kept marching closer and closer towards it's estate, a Shadowy figure kept closing in, while trying it's best hiding it's presence.
"You call this a camouflage" Ian whollowed while glancing at karn "We are lucky he doesn't have any Knight's or Magicians with him, or else we would have been doomed from the start."
"I'm trying my best you know, just for your kind information, I've never tailed a nobleman's carriage in my life before." Karn refuted immediately.
"Stop losing your focus, once he manages to reach his estate, with your current abilities forget about rescuing someone, we would be lucky if you didn't get yourself killed." Ian comanded while lazily sitting on Karn's shoulders.
"It's easy for you , giving order's while sitting leisurely on someone else's shoulders." Karn complained.
"There's no helping it, I couldn't possibly catch you or that carriage with my speed, after all I am"
"JUST AN ORDINARY CAT" both Karn and Ian said it in unison.
"Yes, I've been hearing that for two years now, Do you really think I'll believe that after all that I've gone through."
From the ability of taking, to possessing ancient knowledge, and now convincing him to rebel against an entire nation, if Ian is what people call ordinary then he would even dare to imagine what unordinary things look like.
"So what exactly is the plan." Karn asked.
"Just get past that carriage and then." Ian stopped speaking while looking at Karn.
"And then what ?, Don't just stop in middle damn it." Karn exclaimed loudly as he was irritated by the unnecessary suspense this darn cat has been creating.
"You'll ambush the carriage" Ian said nonchalantly.
Karn's face couldn't help but twitch his face from anger, as Ian's grand plan seems to be, just him jumping in the fiery pits of hell.
"You're just straight out telling me to die aren't you." Karn bellowed.
"Just cover your face or something, we'll be leaving this place anyway."
Hearing Ian's suggestion, Karn immediately started looking for a piece of cloth to cover his mouth, but he couldn't find one,So he took his own shirt off and used it to cover his face.
" So, how do I look ?" Karn asked Ian curiously.
Ian immediately frowned listening to Karn's questions before he finally answeing. " Naked."
Ian continued "Now is the best time to get past the carriage, we are about to reach Khalisa pass, the roads their are narrow and it's usually abandoned, a perfect place for our plan."
Soon the figure, following behind got past the carriage, as they started preparing for the next step of their plan.
Viscount Silva has been in a foul mood for while now, as his father recently passed away recently being his only heir he inherited his title and estate, but along with those he also received his father's workload and responsibilities of managing the estate, which stressed him quite a bit.
As he went into the town, to blow off some steam, which led to that incident that occurred earlier.
"If only that woman had given up and stopped resisting, this wouldn't have happened."
Viscount Silva murmured.
"No if that brat, just hadn't interrupted me, I would have finished my job without harming anyone." Viscount Silva said while making excuses for convincing his own conscience, while looking towards the girl sitting in the corner of the carriage with eyes completely devoid of life.
'Well, she has a pretty good appearance, In few years, she would most definitely surpass her mother in terms of looks.' Viscount thought inwardly.
'I was planning on skinning this bitch alive, but now that I think about it carefully, that would be quite a waste, of that appearance of hers, may be I should put it for some better use.' Such vile thoughts kept running through his head before getting interrupted,as he felt the shock, when his carriage suddenly halted in the middle of nowhere.
"What the hell was that ?, you better have a good reason for that." Viscount Silva roared at the carriage driver.
"My lord there's a black cat blocking the path in front of us." the carriage driver answered.
Viscount Silva peeked his face out of the carriage and witnessed a black cat sitting in the middle of the road.
"Tsk, what the hell, it seems every being in the world has made a plan to annoy me today" Viscount Silva complained, before commanding one of his servants to get rid of that cat infront of them.
~ Phack ~
A loud noise was suddenly heard throughout the entire road, just as that servant got out of the carriage.
"What was that ?" The Viscount exclaimed hurriedly while questioning the carriage driver. "I asked you, just what in the hell was that noise, answer me immediately."
"From his appearance, I think it's a bandit." the driver answered honestly.
"Who dares !" Viscount Silva screamed "They dared to steal from me, on my own territory"
But before Viscount's fury would burst open he immediately calmed himself down, as he remembered, that he hasn't brought any of his Knights with him.
"Damn it why does it have to today when I am completely defensely, as I thought it quite omnious day for me."
'No wait, its not the time yet, I just need to get out of here, and then I'll just command my Knight's to wipe out their entire strongholds.' Viscount Silva thought inwardly, before asking his driver one last question " how many people are there ?."
"Just One."
But the answer, the Viscount received was completely outside his expectations.
'Someone dared to rob me alone, are they that tired of living.' Viscount thought as he was about to get outside the carriage to see who this individual his.
But immediately stopped his steps while pondering on something "Wait!, if he dared to rob me, while being alone, he must be pretty confident on his skills" Viscount Silva murmured before grabbed his pouch and throwing a couple of bank notes worth 100 gold coins each towards one of his servant while commanding him to present it to that forementioned bandit.
"Wait !, make sure to take note of his appearance, I'll deal with him after I get back to my estate."
Viscount silva gave one last instruction to his servant.
~PHACK~
Just as those servants stepped outside the carriage, while holding those golden notes Another loud noise, echoed through the entire area.
This totally freaked viscount silva out, as he suddenly heard a pair of footsteps walking towards him.
"Fuck !, Just what in the fucking hell does that guy want, I gave him 3 bank notes worth 100 gold coins each, is that not enough for him."
Viscount immediately rummaged throught his pocket taking out his entire life savings out, a total of roughly 3300 Gold coins.
"Fuck"
Looking at that, he couldn't help but curse loudly, as it's more than one-tenth of his entire fortune.
Soon the carriage door opened from the outside,and the scene that greeted him was an half-naked shirtless man, with his entire face covered with cloth.
'Wait is he covering his face with his own shirt, is this some new kind of bandit faction, that I'm not aware of.' Viscount had such thoughts, but he immediately shook it, as it didn't really matter, as this person decides whether he lives or dies, it doesn't matter how he looks or how he dresses himself.
Viscount glanced towards his two servants who appeared to have been knocked out cold 'He didn't kill them' Viscount Silva sighed in relief 'I was right he's just here for money, I'll just send him away for now, then I'll show him what happens if you make enmity with me.' he though inwardly.
Viscount immediately plastered an amicable smile on his face before speaking "I can see this Venerable Senior, needs my help some money, here let this humble friend of your help you with it."
Karn almost his footing hearing those sugar coated words like 'Venerable Senior' and 'humble friend' out of Viscount's mouth.
The always dignified image of a noble came crashing down, as Karn realised these nobles are just like any other humans, fickle and dubious, there nothing special about them except for the fact that they were just born with a golden spoon, other than that, there's absolutely nothing special about them.
Karn looked at Viscount silva, who's giving him a kind and amicable smile towards him. looking at him right now no one could tell that this person has just killed an innocent woman in the middle of a street, just a few moments ago.
Karn just walk passed Viscount silva, while completely ignoring him, before reaching towards the young girl tied inside this carriage with a shocked expression on her face. He immediately bent down and started to untie the rope around her.
"Ahh!, I see the senior has taken a liking towards this girl, although I was planning on taking her for myself, but since the senior has took a liking towards her, you can have her as a small token of friendship from this friend of yours." Viscount Silva said, as he seemed to have completely mistook Karn's intentions.
" Shut your mouth up" Karn said with a furious tone.
But it seems the Viscount didn't hear him, as kept on spilling garbage out of his mouth.
"Well her mother was a pretty good looking bitch as well, you know I was this close from having her, If not that brat over ther..."
Before the Viscount could even complete his sentence, Karn immediately clenched his wooden stick, as he moved his entire body in a circular motion while gathering his entire force of a peak 'One Star Swordsman' in that wooden stick of his, while aiming right at the jaws of Viscount Silva.
First Heaven of Nine Heaven's :-
"COILING DRAGON"
~ BANG ~
A loud sound that was completely on a different scale compared to the ones earlier, echoed throught the entire khalisa pass. As the entire carriage still seemed be rattling from the aftereffects.
As for the recipient of this attack Viscount Silva, he was thrown dozens of meters away from the carriage, lying on the ground with a completely caved in face and dismantled jaws.