Darius looks around as he walks past some of the wagons, heading up to the front of the caravan. He soon makes it there as none of the guards stop him. Darius climbs onto the wagon, turning towards the merchant who is in the back of the front wagon “The bandits attacking the back of the caravan have been captured, I’ll let you deal with them.” The merchant nods, before he says “Good to know, we can bring them with us, and make sure they face justice when we get back, there is a good reward for capturing bandits after all.”

Darius nods as he turns around, keeping an eye out for anything else happening. It takes a while for the caravan to get moving again, having to sort out the prisoners, but they get underway without any problems.

They travel the rest of the day, and as the sun starts to set Darius sees a village in the distance. “Looks like we are nearly there.” He says as he looks over the village. “Good, there is no need to stop then.” The merchant says as he pokes his head out from the back of the wagon, looking towards the village.

The caravan speeds up as news that the village has been sighted gets passed down the line of wagons. They make it to the village in half an hour, with a few people from the village coming out to meet the caravan. The merchant goes and talks to the people for a few minutes, before motioning the caravan to fully enter the village.

Darius looks around, seeing 20 or so buildings built around a square plot of land that has been kept empty which is where the wagons from the caravan end up. Most of the guards and people of the caravan start setting up tents, while a select few are invited to stay in homes.

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The merchant and an old man who Darius thinks is the village head walk up to Darius, the village head saying “Sir Darius yes? I would like to invite you to stay in one of the houses, I heard about what you did during the bandit attack today.” Darius shakes his head as he says “Thank you for the offer, but I’d rather stay out here, I’d prefer to be ready in the case of another bandit attack. Though, you wouldn’t happen to have any idea where the bandits camp is located would you?”

The village head shakes his head as he says “Sorry sir, all I know is that they come from the east.” Darius sighs as he says “Right, I’ll probably head out that way tomorrow to deal with them, thanks.” Darius then turns to walk over to where the other adventurers are to get some rest.

Darius sets out his bedroll and quickly goes to sleep. As he sleeps his dreams slowly change, becoming increasingly violent and disturbing. In the morning he wakes up, drenched in sweat. He frowns as he shakes his head, getting up from his bedroll and looking around, seeing he is the first one up.

Darius shakes his head, putting his dreams to the side as he gets ready for the day, he prepares breakfast for himself, nearly finished by the time the others are starting to get up. When Folred sees that Darius is already up he says “I’m surprised that you’re already up, bad night or something?” Darius shrugs saying “Something like that, it’s not something I want to talk about.”

Darius quickly eats his breakfast as the other adventurers start to get up and get ready. He finishes his food and then gets up and walks through the village, heading towards the east. Darius keeps watch, looking towards the east for a while. He soon hears somewhat approach him from behind.

“Yes?” Darius says as he starts to turn. Darius sees the head of the village standing a few feet away from him who says “Sir, last night you said you wanted to go after the bandits. We don’t have much money, but if you do that we will pay you all that we have.”

Darius sighs as he shakes his head “I don’t need your money, I’ll do it, but I need some information about where they could be hiding, is there an abandoned mine, or logging camp out there somewhere?” The village head thinks for a little while before he nods “There was a homestead about 5 kilometres east of here, it’s been abandoned for a little while.”

Darius nods as he says “That’s probably where I’ll find them then, I’ll be on my way.” before he turns back to the east, and uses blink to start travelling.