Chapter 124: The Sand Cobras
As I kept the shop’s owner stuck to the counter with gravity magic, I asked him again for information on Abel’s mother, and just as his bones were close to cracking, the man began speaking.
"Look... kid... I can’t talk, or we all die... You understand!?" he said in between his struggles.
"You are gonna die now if you don’t talk. Let’s make a gamble..." I said, releasing the gravity spell from the man and allowing him to sit up straight.
"You tell me what I want to know, and I promise nothing bad will happen to anyone in here. But if you don’t tell me anything, well..." I said with a serious tone.
"Fine... I get it, kid. You are powerful..." said the shop owner as he fixed his jacket that had been slightly folded by my magic.
The shop owner’s name was Erden, and he explained that the day Livia disappeared, he had heard a commotion as soon as she left the store, but when he went out to check, he only saw a hooded man.
"The Sand Cobras strike and nobody sees. Is that right, old man?" said the man with the white robe as he turned to look at Erden.
Erden told me that the "Sand Cobras" used to be a myth among their nation where people talked about a group of bandits that were so secretive and so powerful that they could commit crimes and nobody would notice.
It made sense why there were no districts that seemed the most affected by bandits like in the empire, so I thought these guys were smarter simply by the way they were doing things.