When I arrived to the forge, I saw Emerald forging something one of the forges. I went upstairs to find out who else was in the house. But there is no one other then Cassie who was reading my Reading Skill book. I chuckled and went to desk to took out my Reforge Sword Skill book. I turned to Cassie. "Cassie." She looked up from the book to me. "I need you to call for me when Mary or Merideth comes. I will talk with them about what we found today." She nodded and returned to her reading. I lied on the bed and started reading then I felt Focus activate.

"Ash." I looked up. There was both Mary and Merideth. "What do you need us for? Cassie said something about an abandoned building."

I nodded. "With Cassie, today we found an abandoned warehouse with crates of flintlock weapons and probably ammunition and gunpowder too. I need you to find out about who owns them and for what purpose they are hiding them. If they are illegal I want to take the gunpowder from them, without any problem of course."

"But if the warehouse is full of them, how are we going to take them all without notice?"

"We will get Kingdom's help with that. We will give them the information in exchange for the gunpowder. We just sit and watch while they take them. That way whoever owns them won't be coming after us."

They nodded. Looked at each other. Then Merideth turned to me. “Should we go now?”

I shook my head. “There is no need, I think. Since the number of guards were low we can safely assume that whoever owns them thinks that they will stay hidden until they are needed. You can start at the morning, after breakfast. We have no hurry after all.” They nodded again and started changing their clothes. It was a feast for my eyes. I stood up and got closer to Mary. I stopped her from wearing her clothes and started massaging her ass. “Hmm. Mary they are very hard. I think you need a massage.”

She smiled. “Yeah, I think so too. Maybe after massaging outside you can massage my insides too, but not here.” She pointed her chin towards Cassie who was looking at us intently. I nodded to her and took her hand, then led her through another room. After making sure Cassie didn't follow us, I gestured Mary to lie down at the bed. She did. I climbed the bed too and started massaging her back. She started moaning and gasping. After a while she stopped making those noises but instead started murmuring. Hearing this I stopped massaging and looked at her. She was asleep.

“Damn. Amateur mistake. I should have massaged harder. Well, it can't be helped.” Then I got out of room and closed the door behind me.

I made my way back to the bedroom we all used and laid down with book in hand on one of the beds. I felt Cassie's gaze on me. Seeing that I noticed her gaze, she quickly turned away her head. 'We need to find those pirates. If we don't, I feel like I will do something I shouldn't.'

I opened the book to read but I didn't feel like reading so I put it away. I had a feeling I was missing something, so I started to think about the most likely subject. Abandoned warehouse. Not wanting to miss something, I quickly wore my black clothes and after telling Emerald who was sharpening a katana, what I am going to do, I went out of forge. I quickly made my way towards the warehouse. There was no one outside this time, so I gotten closer. There was voices coming inside, but I was too far to make out the words. I slowly got closer, willing my presence to hide within me, just in case. I leaned forward and started walking below the windows silently.

After a few seconds of walking, finally I got close enough to make out the words.

“-we need. They won't even understand what hit them.” They laughed. The man continued. “Starting next week.” Here it felt like he turned his head, probably to look someone and waited a second.”If all goes as planned, we will start distributing the weapons among our fodder.” 'What a heartless guy. Talking about his men like that. Bad, you are bad, ehehe.' “You just make sure people don't learn about this place before that.” Another pause. “Is there anyone that wants to add something or some other concern?”

Someone cleared their throat then after a pause, started talking. “There is this new bounty hunters. I don't know how but they are keep finding our men. If they continue like this, I'm afraid our men will want to run away to save themselves from their fate that waits for them after they get caught. I think we should deal with them first.”

After her speech finished, there was a few seconds of silence. After that, the man that was talking before started talking. “We can lay an ambush for them. If we gather most of our man in a place with traps, they should spring it soon enough.”

“Won't they know its a trap? It seems too obvious.” She asked.

“They will know but they will still spring it, to catch more criminals quickly. Thinking they are powerful enough to deal with everyone there.”

“Aren't they? You should remember we can't use Leo before the final attack. If we do and Queen learns about him, she won't leave any stone unearthed. That might cause them to find out about our progress. We don't want that outcome.”

“True, they are powerful.” He then palmed one of the crates with a thud. “But these weapons here, they will help us deal with them. It will be good training for our fodder too.”

“Do you mean to say we will take care of them next week, or..”

“We will deal with them sooner than that. I don't want to deal with them while we are trying to take over. I will send some men tomorrow night to take the needed weapons.” He paused a second. “You have seen Abbot right?” Another pause. “Good. He will be leading them. Try not to make him angry. He is a bit.. unstable.” After another pause someone clapped. He continued. “Then that is all.” A pause. “What is it Torri? Do you want to say something?”

“No, boss. I just can't wait to see this faceless queen. I want to see her face then her body. HEHEHE..” He stopped breathless. 'This guy is worse than me. But faceless queen?'

Boss chuckled. “Easy, Torri. Don't worry, you all going to see your faceless queen in time.”

After a pause Torri said “Boss, what are we going to do with the rat here?” My heart started to beat like crazy. I thought of running away but I didn't dare in case somehow I made myself known.

Boss chuckled and said. “It depends on the rat. Ferret it out so we can see for ourselves what to do with it.”

“Yes, boss.” Then I felt him running towards other side of the warehouse, then outside. A woman was running away from him, but he was faster. I thought of saving her but I didn't want them to know someone listened their conversation and got away with it. 'They might change their plans. I can't let that happen. ' I leaned closer to the wall and watched Torri catch her and knock her out easily. He then put her on his shoulder and started walking towards the entrance. In these moments I have managed to take a good look at his face. He got inside and with a thud, threw the body to ground. I really wanted to see the Boss and the person they caught but I couldn't look for the fear that they might feel my presence. So I just waited for them to start talking again.

“Well, well. This is an exceptionally good looking rat. I wonder what should I do with her, maybe I should gift them to our trusty fodders or maybe, maybe I should both give her our men and use her as a bait. Yes, that will work.” After a pause he continued. “She will stay here for now. Don't touch her, I want to make the opening ceremony.” They chuckled. “When Abbot comes give her to him with the weapons.”

“Yes boss.” They answered together.

“Good. Katelin. I want you to leave their house a note saying we have a hostage at our other warehouse and that we expect them to come two days from now.”

After a pause, he clapped again. “Now, we will be moving out.” I felt they got out but I didn't see them. 'It seems they went towards the other way. I wonder when will Katelin leave the note. It would be great if she did it now.' While thinking this I saw someone with a hooded cloak going towards the forge. I waited a little more and just before she was getting out of my sight started following. Since I knew where she was going, I stayed away while following. After we went inside the city I gotten closer to her and started walking normally towards the forge, acting like I am on my way to home. She saw me but didn't do anything about me. 'Sometimes being a minor is a good thing.' I saw her leaving a note to the door and she turned back, making me see her face. I memorized her face and looked down. Passing by her.

When I was passing by her someone hit my side. It wasn't a punch or something. It was a soft hit. I turned to see Katelin. She looked at me and smiled. “Hey little kid. Isn't it too late for a kid to be out here hmm?”

“I am a man not a kid and I can get out whenever I want.”

She lost her smile and got closer to me. “Don't contradict me, kid. You don't want to know what being adult means.”

I swallowed my saliva. It wasn't an act this time. When she talked I felt her power. She was nearly as strong as Emerald. “Yes, miss.”

She smiled again. “So little kid. Do you want me to make you a man.”

“How?”

She made a follow gesture and I followed. She got inside an alley. There was no one other than us in this dark. She then started to undress. She had a nice body, but I didn't look carefully since I was still trying to understand. After she was done with undressing she came closer and started taking off my clothes. When she was done she pushed me down towards her crotch and told me to lick. Hearing this I shrugged and started doing what she said. Just when she was about to come, she stopped me and got down on her knees pushing her as towards me. “Now, put your thing in where you lick. If you put it in wrong hole I will punish you.” Here I was tempted to make a 'mistake' but I didn't for the fear of punishment. I put it in and slowly went all the way. Surprisingly, she managed to take it all. She whistled. “You have a good thing kid. You will be a good man. Now take it out and put it in again, then repeat.” I did as she said and started the motion. Of course I did took all of it out every time to keep the act of innocent kid.

After she came she stopped me. I looked at her with wide eyes and said. “I am a man now right?”

She shook her head. “Not now. You will be a man soon enough but one time isn't enough.” She swallowed her saliva and looked at my son. “Now, lets see how rich you are.” She said then leaned towards my son. She held it and massaged the length of it. I was already close to coming from the sex so after a few seconds I came. My load reached at her face. I thought she would get angry but she just smiled and started licking. After she cleaned her face she looked at me. “Kid, say, do you want to come with me? You felt good when it come out right?” I nodded. “If you come with me it will happen more.”

I shook my head. “I can't leave my mother alone. As a man, I need to gain money to look after her.”

She frowned. “Can't she gain money herself?”

I shook my head again. “She is sick. She is sleeping all the time. She only wakes up once a day, for a few hours and in that time she eats and cleans herself.”

She nodded to herself. “Say what. Come here every night in this time, I will give you money and we will work on making you a man, okay.”'This is not something a teen in my place would decline. Though I doubt it will stay like this forever I should accept it too.' I nodded repeatedly. She seemed pleased with herself. “Well then. I need to go.” She then stood up and started wearing her clothes. I followed her example and started dressing too. After a pat to my head she went away.

I quickly made my way towards home and found the paper. It said the exact thing their boss wanted so there was nothing new other then the location. I knew that place. It was one of the buildings we explored with Cassie. It was just a building out in the open. There was another floor with open center that's looking towards entrance. It is a good pick for an ambush of this kind. He probably wants to put the rifled people to second floor and hide them until we were inside, then start shooting. I got inside, made my way to the bedroom and tried to sleep while thinking what the future has for me.