Tales of Magic Swordsman 102 Hostage 2

"Why such rush. Hear me out first" Auron stated

Without waiting for the reply, he directly explained what he had in his mind, "It was almost the same as what you want, but there's some that had to be tweak. After all I was the hostage and I needed to ensure my safety."

"For starter, it was still the same as before, you will get a paper and pen for you to write the information"

"For the way the information given, it was also the same as what you want, you will need to put the paper filled with the information on the ground at the forest's entrance."

"We will also satisfy your wish to have a hostage to ensure your safety and I will be your hostage for that."

"And what makes it different was that to ensure my safety, first, I want you to be put under the effect of uncommon grade [Restrict Chain]. This will halves your fighting strength to around level 150."

[Restrict Chain] was a commonly item used by the guards to capture the enemy or trouble maker. Using this item, the target would had their strength halves for a certain period of time. After being used on a target the [Restrict Chain] could not be cancelled or healed. Only after it passed the time that the target's strength would automatically went back to normal. The duration of the effect was depend on the grade of the [Restrict Chain]. A common grade will only had 1 minute duration whereas the legendary grade would have 100000 minutes duration. For the uncommon grade it effect will last for 10 minutes.

"Next, calculating your reduced speed as a result from the [Restrict Chain] and the distance from here to the forest's entrance, using your full speed, you can arrive at the forest's entrance in 5 minutes. As a safety for you, we will add another 5 minutes for you to run away."

"So, after 10 minutes, whether you have arrived at the forest's entrance or not, our group will go to the forest entrance to secure the information. Of course, after 10 minutes, if we spotted you, we will captured you once more."

"And lastly, I will use [Life Indicator] on me. If in the period of 10 minutes, my health was reduced under 75%, our group would also set out to safe me."

Auron took out a a crystal white object from his bag. It was the item [Life Indicator]. It was mainly used in a group and be used if they had to split their group or used the item on their scouter. When [Life Indicator] was used on a living being, the item will represent the health of that being. The crystal would change color depend on the percentage of the target's health. Red would mean that the target had 25% of his health left, purple means that the target only had 50% of his health left, and yellow means that the target had 75% of his health left.

Hearing Auron's proposal, the prisoner had a deep thought. He was after all only pretend and bluffed at Radit like he didn't fear death. If he could have a chance to life he would surely took it. Auron's proposal seems enticing for him and he also got a hostage with the lowest level out of the entire group. Even with his reduced strength, he believed that he could killed the hostage easily when things went south. With him killing the hostage, he didn't have to worry about the information leaked out.

"So, do you agree?" Auron asked.

"Okay fine, I will agree with your condition. Give me pen and paper." The prisoner felt ecstatic at the chance to keep his life intact.

What the prisoner didn't knew was that he was underestimate Auron's strength. Auron had calculated everything that the prisoner could only escape if he used all of his strength and time to escape. If he even had a slight of hesitation in running away or waste even a minute, his chance of being capture was higher.

Auron also believed that if the prisoner decided to kill him, even though he could not kill the opposite, he was confident that he could get away and regroup with his group back.

Radit gave out a blank paper and pen to the prisoner. Receiving the paper and pen, the prisoner went back several step and started to write on the paper. Radit didn't afraid if the prisoner tried to run away since the prisoner right now was under the effect of [Restrict Chain]. When the first time the prisoner was captured, a [Restrict Chain] was directly used on him. With this short distance, he didn't believe that the prisoner would be that fool to try to ran away.

After several minutes of writing, the prisoner put the pen down and folded the paper and hold it in his hand. He lifted the folded paper in the air as if indicating that the information was inside. All eyes was focused out on the paper the prisoner held in the air. If there was any sudden movement from Radit's group, the prisoner would directly destroyed the paper.

Seeing no movement, he took Auron. As their agreement, Auron used another [Restrict Chain] to renew the duration time on the prisoner. [Restrict Chain]'s effect could no be stack. So, when a new [Restrict Chain] was used the old effect was replaced with the new effect if the new [Restrict Chain]'s grade was the same or higher that the old one. If the new [Restrict Chain] had a lower grade than the old one then there would be nothing happened and it would just waste a [Restrict Chain].

After that, with a folded paper and Auron, the prisoner walked slowly out of the group facing the group as he was afraid that the group would disregard the hostage's life and captured him. Seeing there was no movement from the group, he turned back and bring Auron with him and went full speed toward the forest's entrance

Chapter end