They started walking towards the house.

  “Ken, what will you do if she finds out that the coin is not magical?” Galen asked him.

  “I don’t know, I didn’t know about that when I gave her the coin; it is just a temporary measure,” he replied.

  “I can’t describe his character,” Galen tried after hearing the reply.

  “Don’t worry, she won’t use it unless she gets into any trouble,” Harkey said.

  It was 10:15 am when they returned to the house.

  “We are back home,” Harkey said, entering the house.

  “Welcome back,” Calyra welcomed them.

  “How was the food?” Cassian asked them.

  “It’s good, but there is no one other than us in the restaurant,” Andrew revealed.

  “Nowadays, no one is willing to share their thoughts with anyone; they are just considering the possibility that the one they meet might be the one who leaks the information,” Cassian describes the situation.

  “They are mostly in their home, just willing to buy the necessary things; no one wants to go to a restaurant or a common place,” he added.

  “Then there is no way to find a traitor?” Harkey asked, frustrated.

  “For at least now, there is none,” he responded.

  Their conversation went on for a while.

  Meanwhile,

  Some place in Aurelios,

  “He didn’t meet you, then where is he?” A scarred man asked on his phone call.

  “He is heavily injured now. He was lying in one of the open grounds when our men found him,” Veris replied.

  “Who did this? Is he that strong?” the scarred man asked.

  “We don’t know who the reason is, but there is a possibility that he might know about our threads and our plans,” Veris responded, slightly worried.

  “If he gets to know about this, we are done for,” the scarred man said.

  “We shouldn’t let him know. I would find the man who attacked him,” Veris said.

  “I have trust in you, find him quickly. Who is the next one?” the scarred man asked.

  “Icaron, he has been living in the Lyricos for the past 5 years. The date given is November 21,” Veris gave the details.

  Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.

  “Send all his details to me,” he said.

  “Ok,” Veris told and hung up the call.

  On the other side,

  In Theron village,

  After having a conversation for a while, “Andrew, we must meet Lorien, do you forget?” Ken asked.

  “No, why didn’t you remind me earlier?” Andrew muttered.

  “Because I forgot, I remembered it just now,” Ken replied.

  “What should I even say?” Andrew couldn’t think of anything to reply to Ken.

  “Let’s go now,” Ken told him.

  “It seems like Harkey and Galen are enjoying their time speaking. I think we should go there by ourselves,” he added.

  “No problem,” Andrew muttered.

  “I promised to meet one of my friends here, and I will be back soon,” Ken stood up and told others.

  “Who is he? We will also come to meet him,” Harkey asked, curious.

  “Ja...Je…Jacob, he is my childhood friend,” Ken replied, nervous after being asked the name.

  Ken then waved and left the house.

  Andrew stood up and said, “It’s dangerous to leave him alone; he might get into trouble. I would go along with him”.

  He waited for no replies as he waved and left the house.

  “Huh,” a sigh of relief for Andrew.

  Ken was waiting for him at the entrance.

  “Who is Jacob?” Andrew asked Ken.

  “Just a name I made up,” Ken said, grinning.

  “They totally believed in you. Do you know the location where Lorien’s house is?” Andrew asked.

  “He doesn’t know, we should find out is the line he would say. Andrew crafted an answer to his question.

  “I don’t know, we should find out,” Ken replied, laughing.

  “Spot on, but that is of no use,” Andrew thought.

  They started walking in a random direction to find Lorien’s house. Their walk continued for 10 minutes.

  “So, how are we going to find his house?” Andrew asked Ken.

  “We should walk in a direction where Lorien shows up, and then when we meet him, we can go to his house,” Ken transferred his picturized idea.

  “But how can we know the direction where Lorien shows up?” Andrew asked, angry.

  “He would show up in the direction that we are walking,” Ken replied, remaining cool.

  “How is he this confident?” Andrew wondered.

  “How are you sure that we would meet him?” he asked.

  “I believe in Luck,” he answered, laughing.

  “I shouldn’t have come with you,” Andrew regrets not staying.

  Another 5 minutes passed as both walked in a random direction, but Ken’s belief turned out to be true as Lorien saw Ken walking in the opposite direction.

  He approached Ken.

  “Ken, he is running towards you,” Andrew told him, suspecting.

  “He is Lorien, see I told you we would meet him,” Ken muttered.

  “How is this possible? We walked in a random direction, but we met him somehow, maybe he is right about believing in luck,” Andrew thought as he was surprised.

  “Hey, Lorien, we were searching for you,” Ken said after meeting him.

  “Ken, I didn’t think I would meet you today,” Lorien replied.

  Then they started discussing the traitor, village connection.

  Lorien took both to his home and introduced them to his parents.

  They were discussing various strategies to identify the traitor, but none satisfied them, as all had some risks.

  Before they realised it was already 1:15 pm.

  Lorien’s mother prepared lunch for both Ken and Andrew. At first, they refused, but eventually they ate their lunch there.

  “It’s already time, we should join our friends,” Ken said.

  “We will meet again someday,” Ken and Andrew said before leaving the house.

  “We didn’t get a lot of information,” Ken said, disappointed.

  “Yeah, I hoped for more,” Andrew also expressed his disappointment.

  More of the crowd’s noise came out all of a sudden. It was in a nearby street. Both Ken and Andrew ran towards them to see what was happening.

  It was Knight’s arrival that gathered the crowd.

  “Who is he? Is he the knight that they told?” Ken asked Andrew.

  “Yes, he is Alcidor, he is the most balanced Knight,” Andrew told him.

  After a few minutes,

  More people started gathering there.

  “There they are,” Both Galen and Harkey saw Ken and Andrew near the knight.

  They came towards them.

  “Are there any concerns in this village?” The knight asked the villagers.

  Everyone standing there remained quiet except one, the obvious one.

  “There is a problem lying here, more—” Ken started explaining to the knight.

  “Who is he?” one villager thought.

  “Why is he involved in our issues?” another thought.

  Everyone present was angry at Ken as they thought that this would somehow get leaked and their lives would be in danger.

  “Just as I thought, when he says he has a plan, I know this would happen,” Andrew once again guesses Ken’s move right.

  “I guess that’s fine, revealing to a knight,” Galen told Harkey.