Then Two days later, with the three of them already being at the Master level swordsman, they might be a bit tired but they could still fight if they need to, this was the difference between an Elite Level and Master Level, their physical prowess was just on a different scale!
The three of them had arrived at the outskirts of the city of sunrise.
They had already received a message from the messenger hawk, telling them where to meet with the team that sent out first.
The three of them rested for three hours before they heard a rustling sound from the bushes.
*Swoosh!
*Ziing!
Then a figure arrived in front of them and the three of them swiftly unsheathed their katanas ready for battle!
"Hahah! Good! The three of you are very cautious and are maintaining vigilance!"
"Captain Gautam!!!"
They happily said his name when they saw his face, then they sheathed back their katanas.
"Hmm! Lets go! Well meet with the others and keep the stealth mode of the cloak activated, we don't know if there are patrolmen in our way!"
They nodded at Gautam, they then put back their hoods on and followed Gautam.
With a few hours of rest, they were now near back to their peak performance level.
After sneaking in through the city walls, avoiding the patrolmen, they managed to enter the west side of the city.
Arriving at an abandoned house, the four of them entered.
"This is where the three of us are currently hiding, let's go, I'll introduce you guys to them."
Gautam then went in as they followed.
They then saw two middle aged people inside, one was sitting on a chair while the other one was on the ground bandaging his arm.
They looked towards them and smiled.
"Is this our back up?! They are quite young eh?!"
"Hahah! Don't worry! These guys are now at a master level just like us!"
"Ohh?? Hey! Koji! When you were eleven, were you a master level already?!"
Koji, the one sitting on the ground bandaging his arm, shook his head and smiled.
"Nah! I may be from the Day Clan, but I'm not one of those geniuses you know!"
"Oh!"
"Hahaha! Guys! This is Day Koji, And the guy on the chair is Hiroto Kato!"
"Ah! Hello! Nice to meet you! I'm Yami Marco!"
Then Marco enthusiastically greeted them.
"Hello! I'm Noya Eiji!"
"I'm Hanzo Akai!"
While Eiji smiled at them, Akai introduced himself blandly.
The two didn't care about Akai, or the other two's greetings, they just looked at Gautam.
Hiroto Kato then started speaking with seriousness.
"We had easily been able to infiltrate the city even though the count knows that we are coming, yet, although there are a lot of patrolmen, it wasn't really a very a strict one, it was more of like..."
Hiroto didn't continue rather it was koji who spoke.
"They were just maintaining order, and I was doing some spying when I heard that the count had a visitor from a Great Kingdom coming today, I didn't manage to know which kingdom from or who was it that was coming but... It seems like Commander Sadou was right, someone is instigating the rebellion of Moryo!"
Koji frowned. He knew Moryo as they were from the same clan, although they didn't really interact that much, he could see that he was a hardworking person, so his betrayal put koji's emotions into disarray.
Marco and the others could also infer that when koji was spying, he was found and got that injury in his hand.
"What do we do? The mansion of the count had already been surrounded by his personal army of swordsman, Even if we infiltrate, since there is a party going on, we wont be able to look for opportunity in the middle of the night when the whole mansions light is on."
Akai said in a surprising manner.
Gautam looked at him and smiled. Akai was usually silent but he analyse information very well.
"We could attend the party."
He said.
"We cant! The party was said to be very exclusive and only the family of the count and the visitor are allowed in!"
Koji said.
All the people in the room couldn't help but frown. Not knowing what to do.
"Uuhhh..."
Eiji opened his mouth to say something but when he saw everyone staring at him he shut his mouth up hurriedly.
"Hey! What are you tryna say?! Say it man!"
Hiroto said lightly with a smile.
"Hahah he's a bit shy! Don't worry, Eiji's very smart too! I don't know about Marco but these two have a good head in their shoulders!"
"Heeyy!!!"
"Hahah!"
They laughed lightly, even though the mission was now very very difficult to achieve success, the three veterans in front of them were still able to smile in this situation.
"Uuhhmm.. They.. They shouldn't be able to know.. How many of us exactly are coming right?!"
"!!??"
"Wait!"
All of them looked at Eiji in surprise.
It's not that they hadn't thought of that idea but it was too dangerous, and no one was willing to just actually go to a suicide mission!
Eiji's idea was basically diversion!
There would be someone who would divert the attention of the guards, and the other would ambush and kill the intended targets and then find out what was actually happening.
"Haha! Don't worry that's better than nothing!"
Seeing that Eiji felt bad when he saw their shocked faces, Hiroto Kato eased his worries.
"I- I can do it! I can divert their attention but we still need to have another layer of the plan!"
Eiji wanted to be the bait, his suggestion had basically told them that there should be a bait and since he said it, he decided to do it himself!
"Nah! It's fine! I can be the bait.. but it's true that we need another layer in our plan!"
Hiroto rejected Eiji's idea of being the bait, them Day Koji also said something.
"I'll go with Hiroto, we've been together for so long, and have been working together in missions for years, so I can trust my back with him around! You can continue your plans kid, just tell us... We'll do it!"
"Okay so..."
Gautam smiled at the side watching.
Hiroto kato and Day Koji have been partners for so long, and although one was from a noble clan while the other was a civilian, with the life and death they experienced together, that's a bond that no small things could break!
With Hiroto taking the lead as the bait, Koji didn't think much and just accepted the fact that he would also be going along with him!
Gautam knew there aren't that much plan that they could think of, if they waited until that big visitor to leave in order for the security to be lax then it would already be too late as they could hide Moryo and the money he had stolen.
And the big visitor might also be the instigator of this event so this needs to be done very quickly and swiftly!
If two big kingdoms get into war for something like this, the butcher knife of the Sword God would come for their necks!
They can't afford a war right now, so they need the evidence and swift action in this scenario!
*End Of Chapter.