Knocking the merchant guy nolan tied him to carriage and started to make dinner in another pot ,to ease the kids hunger he gave two slices of white bread as snacks, victor didn't speak much just ate his bread but on other hand Lavinia asked for more ,nolan gave another slice and asked her " do you like this bread " ,with a smile Lavinia started to speak " yes I like the food brother nolan makes ,I want my ah breakfast and din -dinner must made by brother nolan " , hearing Lavinia's reply nolan got a smug look on his face cause his friends and exgirlfriend always complain about his cooking skills but after hearing a compliment he started to think about making different kind of dishes for Lavinia ,then victor who was silent for the whole time asked a question. " how did you find nacali powder in food brother ",nolan Just gave him a simple reply " I found that when I smelled the food as I have some experience in finding drugs " actually he used appraisal after the noble incident nolan started to be more cautious so before eating he will appraise the food , even during the travel if he got some black bread from the merchant guy he will appraise it before eating,when the dinner was ready he served in new Bowl's ,after finishing their dinner Nolan asked victor and Lavinia to get inside the carriage to get some sleep,but Lavinia invited nolan " big brother nolan sleep with us I will tell a bed time story for you " nolan laughed heartful and patted Lavinia's small head and spoke "I have some work to do once it was done ,I will definitely listen to your story ok " , Lavinia felt some disappointment but she smiled back at nolan and nodded her head, when the siblings went inside the carriage, nolan dragged the merchant guy who was tied for few few feet and gagged him with some cloth so his screams can't be heard, nolan took a cup of hot water from the bonfire and poured it on the unconscious merchant, feeling the pain he woke up with screams which are muffled by the gag and he tried to move but he couldn't , looking at the merchant,nolan didn't speak anything and started to beat him controlling his strength, after hitting for few minutes nolan looked again at the merchant whom with bloodied face with tears and snot crying in pain which he didn't experience in his life , without wasting time nolan asked him about why he wanted to drug them and loosened the gag to speak, not understanding his situation the merchant guy screamed for help desperately but there is no one to hear his screams,so nolan kicked him multiple times to shut his mouth, taking a machete from inventory he put the blade at the merchants neck and asked the question again in cold voice, fearing for his life merchant started to speak " I was going to sell you three for some money to the sagilian bandits " , Nolan with annoyed expression asked " who are these sagilian guys ", remembering the pain merchant told everything about sagilian bandits " they are a bandit group who controls the travelling routes from mitalek to robilestain,and they also do slave trade ,they will select few merchant's like me to procure the goods ,what we have to do is make some civilians travel with us in our carriage ,when we reach the patrolling camp of sagilian the civilians will be captured,we will get the money based on the quality of goods,." .
even though nolan was angry , he understood as this is a mediaeval era where moral's are scarce ,and asked another question " so is their any other routes to reach robilestain? ", the merchant hesitated but once the blade was pressed hard on his neck he told what he knows " their are only two routes to reach robilestain one is machustas mountain route connecting the northern part of robilestain which was closed cause the Ogre attack and this route connecting the southern part of robilestain, " ,nolan doesn't want to fight so he asked about the checking process of bandits and just in case if things go south he also asked about the strength of the bandits and found these sagilian men will just check the carriage's on surface level and collects 50 small silver coins as toll,what surprised nolan was the sagilian aren't some small group they have more than 70 men and their leader is a aura user after getting everything he asked one last question " why didn't the adventuresn guild do anything ", the merchant spit blood and saliva from his mouth and spoke " there are some rumours as the mitalek adventure guild gets 40% of sagilian's revenue to not disturb their work " ,
After telling everything the merchant started to beg .
" Plz forgive me just give me a chance I will take you guys to robilestain,I will give you money or anything plz don't kill me I don't want to die plz" , nolan wasn't in the mood to kill so he took a small pouch from his pocket and poured the contents of the pouch in his hand which is a white powder like substance ( not cocaine) and made the merchant forcefully eat it within a minute merchant fell unconscious,what nolan gave was the nacali powder which was found in the merchant's cloths , after tieing the unconscious merchant to carriage he washed his hands and took the night watch with some bitter coffee
SORRY IN ADVANCE IF MY WRITING FELT UNCOMFORTABLE