"Jack, have you thought of any plans to make this mission easier for us?"
"I haven't thought of anything yet, I am waiting to know what the thieves' base is like, I have to see the location of the base and how is the security of the base to think of a safer way for our group to complete this mission."
"I agree, we have little food and we don't have much time to attack the thieves' base anyway without a plan, after all, they can just defend themselves and use the archers and we will be the ones who will have to give up the mission if that happens."
In fact, all the soldiers were very concerned and anxious about this mission, they did not know Jack for a long time and this was a mission that could easily kill them all if Jack made the wrong decision.
Even though Jack's friends were concerned that Jack might make a wrong decision even though they trusted him, Jack naturally knew that and so he had told the soldiers that Captain Max had ordered them to back off if several soldiers died.
Jack was doing this mission because he wanted to somehow pay for the help that Captain Max had given him by getting him out of prison and giving him a position of leadership and trust in the army.
But Jack also wanted to take a chance to try to complete this mission because he knew he could gain a better position in the army if he continued to do these difficult missions so that he could have the opportunity to kill Jan Stokes more easily in the future.
Even if Jack wanted to take a chance he wouldn't risk the lives of all the soldiers and his friends just because of his selfishness, but Jack was also concerned that he would end up making the wrong decision and that several soldiers would die because of it.
The other day the soldiers woke up very early to set up camp and eat, then they left to continue walking in the mountains towards the thieves' base which was on the highest part of the mountain.
The mountain was very high with kilometers of distance from the forest that was in the lower part of the mountain until the highest part of the mountain, but this mountain did not have a peak like other mountains and the highest part of it was plain.
So no one could know if the thieves' base was on the highest part of the mountain or in a different place, this mountain had a strange shape that had no direct path to the capital, that's why the king didn't care about that mountain.
In fact, the mountain was natural protection that the kingdom of Andaria had just as the forests were, no kingdom could use the mountain to attack and so the two kingdoms had only one way to attack the kingdom of Andaria.
So it was easy for King Ricardo to decide to create a defense tower on one of these paths, so he could be sure he was creating a strong defense against one of the kingdoms that could attack Andaria's kingdom.
King Ricardo also knew that the kingdom of Viggo was also interested in attacking the kingdom of Andaria, but he also knew that the kingdom of Viggo would never attack before the kingdom of Batti decided to attack first.
This was because everyone knew that the decision to gain more territories was not for the king of the kingdom of Batti but for the church that supported the kingdom, the church would not allow the kingdom of Batti not to attack the kingdom of Andaria.
Paolo continued to guide the soldiers as they climbed the mountain, after walking for several days in the forest Jack had also become accustomed to walking in the mountains and noticed the difference between the mountain and the forest.
So Jack was able to find fruits and animals for the soldiers to have food, Jack was also able to find the wild animals before the soldiers were in danger, in this mission they did not find any animals that put them in danger.
That day after a few hours Jack ordered the group of soldiers to stop walking again, the soldiers saw the signs that Jack did and realized that Jack had found some wild animals on the mountain and they prepared for the fight.
Soon they could see a group of 8 lions coming far from where the soldiers were, this time the lions saw the soldiers before Jack and the soldiers could prepare the bows to attack, so the lions started running towards them.
It was not normal for lions to see such a large group of people and they did not know that armed soldiers were dangerous, Jack was calm and made some signs, so Alex led the group of archers to retreat.
Peter led the group of soldiers who used the shield to protect all soldiers, and Aaron made sure that the soldiers who used the sword stayed behind the soldiers who were using the shield, so they could attack after the soldiers using the shield defended the attack of lions.
Jack also retreated to go near the archers, Jack's order for the archers was that they wait for the lions to approach before they started shooting the arrows, but Jack was confident and had already prepared an arrow.
When the lions came closer Jack shot one of the arrows and almost hit one of the lions, but he missed the first shot and took another arrow calmly, Jack prepared the arrow and fired again.
This time Jack hit one of the running lions that fell after being hit, Jack didn't know if his arrow had hurt the lion badly or if it was the lion's fall after running at high speed.
The other lions saw one of the lions being hit and let out a powerful roar that intimidated soldiers who had never faced a lion before, of course, even though the soldiers had intimidated them, they didn't let go of the shield.
"Don't worry, our group has 100 soldiers and we will face only 8 lions, with a group of 30 soldiers I have already faced 4 lions, so we will certainly win."
Jack cheered the soldiers up while preparing another arrow, the archers shot the arrows when the lions were closer and hit only one of the lions that did not even fall despite being hit.
The lion that Jack hit also got up and started walking even though they were badly injured, Jack realized that the lions were very close and he dropped his bow and took his sword and went to where the soldiers using the sword were.