The Goddess Made A Mistake Again-Chapter 363 - Preparation For The Bandits [ Part 1 ]

"M- Me? You want me to be his guard?" Lucian asked.

Yep, Lucian was to look after me.

You might be wondering out of any people in Whitedon, why would I pick the prick that had a thing for my fiancé. It was precisely because he had a thing for Margaret that I’m picking him.

This was the favor I asked from Seman, a guard job around me for Lucian.

While he was one of the strongest fighters here, I didn’t really pick him to guard me, it’s more like I wanted him under my sight.

Because while I would be going with Seman to hunt down some bandits, Margaret would remain alone. Although I do believe her not to do anything stupid with Lucian, I wasn’t going to take that chance.

I was going out for who knows how long and something could happen in the meantime... there was very little chance, but I didn’t want to come back and hear that it was a one-time thing only.

We all know how those one-time thing goes... over and over again.

And out of all the people in Whitedon, none had the level of love that Lucian had for Margaret and I’m sure that with her getting married, he would have the courage to say or do something.

Which is precisely why, I’m going to take this fucker with me.

Margaret nodded, "Yes, that would be your new job."

"But... are you sure that I’m the right man?" Lucian said, "Maybe someone better than me or a group of five or six people could protect him better."

"That could be the case..." Margaret said as I intercepted.

"But seeing you fight this past days, I know how far your capabilities go." I say as Lucian’s face pales, "And I have to say, I’m impressed Lucian."

’Impressed by how much you got dumped by Margaret.’

"You’re one of the best soldiers in Whitedon and I would have it none other way than to have you protecting my back always... a place where anyone could strike my blank spot and kill me effortlessly." I say with a smile.

The thought of being in Henry’s blind spot eluded Lucian. Yet he had a thought of how tough the wall was. So even though it was a very lucrative deal that he could use to kill the fiancé, Lucian wasn’t that stupid.

"But I still thin-"

"Nonsense!" I say jovially, "You’re coming with us and that’s it." That shut up all further conversations.

Margaret and I went inside the armory and found some soldiers strapping on the chest plate on Seman.

"Tighter... tighter..." He said as the soldiers tightened it further.

"Wait, wait! That’s a bit too tight... yes, that’s it." He said and they left with his signal when he saw us.

"So how do I lo- Holy Mother of Goddess! What monster are you?!" Seman suddenly said in great shock as he saw me in full armor.

He wasn’t the only one that said this, I’m sure most of the soldiers said it too, albeit in their minds or very quietly.

I smile underneath the helmet while Margaret did it outside.

"Oh! I’m sorry, Henry. I was just shocked seeing you." Seman explained, "I have never seen someone look so big and intimidating in an armor before." He looked at the armor on me and recognized it.

"Is that the set of General Khisner?" Seman asked.

"Yes, father. This was the only one that could actually fit him, so I arranged it for him. I hope you don’t mind." Margaret said.

General Khisner was once a great general of the Leonidas Kingdom. He had great achievements and one of his far known ones was that, he was humongous and in his armor he looked like a steel monster that many feared.

But he died a long time ago and now I was wearing his prized armor.

"It’s okay... I just thought for a moment that General Khisner was really standing before me." Seman laughed, "Do you believe, seeing a ghost, so suddenly like that?"

"If it worked against you then it would definitely work against the bandits too." Margaret said as Seman’s eyes glinted.

"A fear tactic... but one that would put him in harm’s way." Margaret was about to say otherwise but Seman stopped her, "We can talk about it later, for now let’s go and meet up with the others and discuss the plan."

Margaret didn’t say anything and we followed him out and into another room on the third floor. Inside the room, there were six men already waiting, all clad in armor.

They bowed in unison seeing Seman, "My Lord!"

Seman only gave a nod as he went to the head space, "I reckon you all know what this is about?"

I and Margaret stood by the door, listening quietly.

One of the men spoke, "Is it regarding those degenerate bandits, m’lord?"

Seman nodded, "Exactly! Our job this time would be cut down all the bandits lurking around our vicinity and to find out about their main base."

Hearing him, a smile came on to all the men’s faces. They had all been troubled by the bandits and being a martial city, they did not like having bandits right beside them attacking who knows when.

"Before I continue, does anyone have anything to say or report?"

One stepped up, "Will you be leading this expedition yourself, m’lord?"

Seman nodded.

"Then who will be here in your stead? Please tell us, it’s not one of us?"

"Why?" Seman laughed, "Afraid of the paperwork that much?"

"More than my wife, sir."

They all laughed at that as Seman pointed to Margaret, "No, it will be Margaret. She will be my Proxy while I am away on this expedition and if god forbid something were to happen to me, she’ll be leading the future discussions."

The men all nodded at Samantha and one said, "It’s good to see you back, Young Madam."

"Yes, I’ve heard that you bought someone jolly back too." Another said.

Seman pointed at me, "Yes, he’s right there. That’s Henry Van Tax, my son-in-law and Margaret’s fiancé."

The men all looked at me and all of them had the same dark looks as Seman did.

One of them even spoke up, "Ay, Shit! Is that thing for real? I thought it was just decoration."

All the other men sharply looked at him as the guy knew he messed up and apologized.

"Sorry, lad. I speak up my mind in the worst ways, don’t mind me."

My laughter came out a bit mechanical, "No worries."

Seman pointed the new men to me, "Let me introduce these men to you. These are my most trusted and best soldiers in the whole city... I would even say they are the best in the whole kingdom."

Biased, but I listened.

"The one to my left is Captain Gosco. To his left Captain Klein and at the end its Captain Marko. Then to my right is Captain Brock, Captain Vein and in the end, the one who spoke too much, Captain Calvin."

Captain Calvin rubbed his back in embarrassment at his introduction.

"They will be captains and will be leading units that will fight with me." Seman said and looked back at the men, "Let’s continue our past conversation, shall we?"

They all nodded.

"We’ll be taking 1500 men with us and all captains will have 200 each under them, leaving me with 300."

"Our first priority will be to take out closest bandit camps and secure the place, then secure any hostages."

"Captains, your job will be..." And the conversation carried on.