The day and night passed without any problems as they went around to check the city's sights. The last ti he was here, the city was built, so a lot had changed since then.
There were quite a few stores preparing food in the way you would expect it in a thed city like that.
They had sohow created even sake, which wasn't available in the ga, but since you could get the materials to make one, it wasn't an impossible task.
Soryn seed to be excited to taste these different kinds of food that he wasn't familiar with.
He seed to like pork for so reason, Aanum noticed.
Fortunately, food wasn't too expensive, at least for Aanum's budget, so they got to taste quite a bit of food.
They even had a few drinks, especially Aanum, since a lot had happened lately, and this was one of the rare instances he just wanted to relax.
But it seems fate didn't like to let him.
He raised his left hand next to the left side of his head and caught an arrow heading towards him.
They were next to a window, and the arrow ca through it from outside.
He looked outside as there seed to be a battle between so Players.
It seed to be two against one, as the party of two were two male rogues that Anum's eyes told him that they were level 51 and 53 as well they were an Assassin and a Thief as their class.
The third one was a female human, quite tall, and had a bow drawn and shooting the dagger-wielding rogues.
When Aanum used his Eagle Eyes on her, he couldn't see any of her information, not even her na.
That was sothing that never happened to him in the past. Even when he used it on Divine Equipnt, he was getting at least their na.
The arrow seed she wasn't aid at him but was one of the arrows she shot towards the Rogues, but they avoided it.
He could tell that she had good aim, but her speed was too slow, giving her target enough ti to avoid before making the shot.
So Players have gathered around to watch the fight, but nothing else.
This was an official duel that the three players have decided to start, even if it was two against one.
The female kept trying to hit them with her bow even though she had a blade at her side.
"It seems those Blessed Ones have tricked her in a fight of no possible way of winning."[Soryn]
He had noticed Aanum's attention be drawn to the fight outside and the strange behavior of the female one.
"Indeed. But she seems not one to give up easily." [Aanum]
Aanum was confident of reading soone's body language, and he hadn't seen the female bow user seem to have thoughts of drawing her blade; she seed focused on the battle with what she could use.
He knew that they probably had set the duel for each to use specific weapons, which was one of the options, but in these kinds of situations, most people would show at most minor signs of using sothing else if they were in a bad case.
He could respect that, but he could tell that this was an unfair fight.
Those two were having so quite rare equipnt, while the bow of hers was a little more potent than a normal one. Even if she got the chance to hit them, she would deal no damage.
They were just playing with her, as one would play with their food before devouring it.
The female was physically fit and didn't seem tired of running to keep her distance from them, but she was near that point.
The two rogues seed to have grown tired of playing as they charged one front the front of her and one from behind her.
She was ready to sidestep, but she was stopped by a trap she hadn't noticed they had put. It was a sticky substance that clued her food on the ground, but she was able to force it to get unstuck, but they were already at her.
As their daggers had almost reached her to hit four stones, one for each of the arms of those two individuals, throwing off their attack enough to miss their target.
The female seed quick to react as she punched those two and threw them down to the ground.
She jumped back and shoot at them with arrows as fast as she could, and they turned into particles.
Little did she know that she didn't deal any damage to them, but the stones that hit them weren't regular ones.
It was a secret skill of Soryn that he learned back to the Air Spire.
He had helped her after Aanum said that they should.
As for the System's duel, it was just letting the winner be known but didn't really care if the winner was the one taking the kill. But most Players were against disrupting a duel.
Aanum got outside and headed towards the female while the crowd gathered was going back to their business.
She seed to catch her breath. She didn't notice Aanum until he threw in front of her the arrow of hers, which almost hit him.
"This belongs to you. Isn't it?" [Aanum]
She looked towards him and picked up her arrow.
It looked like hers, but she was using typical arrows, so she couldn't be certain.
"It almost hit my head. You better watch where you aim and where they will go if they get dodged." [Aanum]
"Ooooh... I see. My bad."[Female bow user]
She just smiled at it as nothing wrong had happened in the end.
She looked down on Aanum as she was a little taller than him.
"Anything else I can help you with? Just letting you know I already have a boyfriend."[Female bow user]
Aanum didn't know how to respond to that.
Did he actually look like one that was trying to flirt at this ti?
"*cough**cough*.... well, I just saw your battle and was wondering..." [Aanum]
He stopped at that point as he noticed sothing.
She seed to have a symbol in one of her pockets that he just noticed.
The head of a wolf, the sa symbol of the Whip Masters Guild.
But she didn't seem to be a Tar to Aanum, and they were in a different kingdom.
Most of the ti, Guilds were focused on one Kingdom, but it wasn't rare to have mbers or branches to others.
The pause of him speaking and staring at her didn't help the female's opinion for Aanum's reason to talk with her.
So she just turned and started walking away.
"You are one of the Whip Masters?"[Aanum]
When she heard that, she seed to have frozen in place.
"I have seen that symbol and know it is theirs. So you are one of them?" [Aanum]
She said sothing that one usually wouldn't be able to hear, but Aanum's PERCEPTION could.
"You aren't one of them anymore."[Female bow user]
She seed to have said that to herself.
After she took a big breath, she turned towards Aanum.
"Who are you?"[Female bow user]
"You can call Shingi. I get you aren't on friendly terms with them. I am not either, so why don't we help each other?"[Aanum]
She seed surprised by what she heard.
"If you knew their power, you wouldn't suggest sothing like that."[Female bow user]
It seed to Aanum that she had quite so past with them, so she was soone he could use at his benefit.
"Well, Master Whip is dead for a while. Don't you think it is a good ti to ss with them?"[Aanum]
"What do you an?!?"[Female bow user]
Aanum just told her to follow the inn to speak privately and to et his friend.
She seed sowhat reluctant, but after Shingi described Master Whip and his wolf, she seed to trust him a little more.
They got a private room for him, Soryn, and Marcy, the female bow user's in-ga na, to discuss.
Shingi went over how in Carda, one of his students encounters the Master Whip's Guild and all the encounters he had with them. Then he described the deal for the Mine and what happened there. He didn't tell who Anna was but just described her as one good at planning plans to get rid of people like that.
Marcy seed to be impressed by his story. She was also surprised that the Guildmaster of that Guild to have a fate like that.
"So what do you say. Are you going to join us? I can tell you don't like them."[Aanum]
Marcy chuckled at that.
"Not liking them is an understatent. I just want them to be put down. But it isn't as easy as you think. They have many sources and know many dangerous people." [Marcy]
"You seem to know them a bit more than just heard rumors for them. Care to share that knowledge with us?"[Soryn]
Even if this didn't have to do with him, he promised to help Aanum as he promised to help him.
"Well, they are providing tas beast and monsters on many people at the West and the North Kingdom and have heard the plan to expand at rest too. They also provide for the ones exploring the Tower, and those alone seem to bring quite a bit of protection and sources to them."[Marcy]
Soryn looked towards Aanum as they had so talk for the Drak Guild, and he had ntioned that they seed to control the expedition of the Tower.
"Are those people of the Tower consider them important asset?" [Aanum]
Marcy seed to be confused about the question.
"I... i don't know much, like most people, about those people. But they are dangerous n, and they probably don't like for one to ss with their business. Not sure if they are going to grant them any protection or sothing, though."[Marcy]
'It seems like things are more complicated than we thought.'[Aanum]
He still didn't know the extent of the power of the dark Guild or what its source was, so he wasn't planning on facing them or drawing them towards him.
But he had to deal with that annoying Guild sohow.
He had to get back and report to Anna as soon as possible.
After so persuasion, Marcy agreed to follow them and at least hear the plan theirs, but she wasn't promising to be part of it yet.
He told her where to et them tomorrow in the Bamboo Field and even gave her so tips about her bow techniques. He wasn't an expert with the bow but had done so research for most of the ga's weapons.
After that, he headed to his room that Soryn had paid for.
He disabled his SPECTATOR MODE, and he was back to his NPC body.
Getting outside the room, he found only Karemon.
He told him that he would head out and be back soon but first asked if anything happened while he was away.
It seed that all was the sa as before.
He cast INVISIBILITY and headed toward the shop.
It took him a little more ti as he noticed a few Players of the Guild that were on watch to have mana of their own and not just of their Player aura, so he decided to avoid them just in case they had a way to detect him.
He made it in the shop and found Anna and Volig.
They told him that no Players had made any orders, and not even the townspeople had many any either.
Shingi told them about the individuals he had found and was bringing with him and the latest information he learned.
Anna seed to share its disturbing thoughts, but she didn't plan on giving up. She assured Shingi that she would have finished the plan by the ti he was in town as Aanum.
Shingi said his goodbyes as he returned to the mayor's office and the room they gave him there.
He once more was Aanum, and this ti he tried to rest for the rest of the night.
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