"Planning to attack the front, huh?" Robert repeated what William had told him.
William and Violet had arrived, and they had told him everything that their informant had told them.
"Yes, the front, so if we push everyone to the back, it would allow us to reduce casualties,"
William stated.
Robert’s calm face soon shifted to a frown.
"William, I’d expect you of all people not to be this trusting of people," he spoke with a certain subtle rage in his eyes.
William was taken aback. He looked at Robert, confused.
"Guild Master, what do you an?"
William asked.
"Have you thought about the fact that this might be a trap and when we send people to the back for safety, the attack cos from behind?
Your informant, whom you have refused to identify, might be driving us to our deaths, William," Robert said.
William’s mouth opened. He tried to say sothing, but he realized that the logic was sound and there was no way that he could argue it without revealing who the informant was.
"Guild Master Robert, you have known for so long, and you know that I am worthy of trust."
"Well, I thought I did, William." He said as he leaned back into the chair. "Do you know what causes the greatest changes in a man?"
He asked and then glanced at William.
"What?" William asked.
"Greed, William. Greed," Robert said, his eyes turning to slits.
"William, when you ca to this town, I offered you a place to stay. I knew about your origins, and yet I never said a word.
I knew about the fact that you were the fourth son of the House of Crimson." His gaze then shifted to Violet.
"I also knew about you, Violet. I knew about your affiliation with the Blood Moon Cult, one of the most notorious organizations that has existed in the kingdom."
William and Violet were stunned at this point and could not understand what Robert was getting at.
Violet, on the other hand, could already sense that sothing was deeply wrong here. She had begun silently casting a spell that could provide help if anything went wrong. She could tell from the way that Robert spoke.
"The both of you are two people from prominent pasts, and I sheltered you and never asked anything from you, only that you stay alive and be trustworthy.
I thought you were that, well until now." When he arrived at this point, he rose to his feet.
William was stunned. He looked at Robert.
"Guild Master, there is no way we would lie to you," William said.
"Is that so? Then answer just my one question. Who is this informant? This will be the last ti I ask," Robert spoke with all seriousness.
William froze when he heard the question. He still was not willing to give up the identity of Kael; it was not the kind of man that he was.
"I see," Robert muttered. "William, I am deeply sorry."
The mont those words left his mouth, the chairs that the both of them were seated on suddenly glowed with runic patterns, and imdiately after, straps made of light wrapped around them and tied them to the chairs, rendering them immobile."
William and Violet were visibly shocked. They struggled and pulled on the chairs, trying to break free, but their strength did next to nothing.
"Forget about escaping it. That chair was enchanted by a six-star mage who mastered runes," Robert said, a soft smile plastered on his lips.
"Robert, what the hell are you doing?" William yelled.
"Showing his true colors," Violet muttered, but they both heard.
"The guild master was never your friend, William. He is a businessman, and he jumps on opportunities to rise and gather for himself." She said and then looked at the guild master.
"I’ve always wondered why a six-star warrior would be the guild master for a town such as Raven Town, small and at the edge of the kingdom.
Finally, it makes sense. You are here because you can control what happens here, the ins and outs and information and everything else.
You know where every adventurer has gone for their adventure and more. The sa way you knew that William and I would head to the dungeon after losing two of our mbers. We were weaker, a good ti to inform the Blood Moon Cult that I was there." She looked him dead in the eye.
William stared at Violet, and then at Robert. His mind refused to accept what was happening right now.
"This cannot be true, Robert. Tell it is not," William yelled.
"Haha." Clap, clap, clap. "I always knew that beyond that flimsy, slutty witch that everyone knew.
So tell , what gave it away? Was my acting not good enough?" He asked.
"When the attackers had co in the forest, they used one of my master’s recipes, the exploding crystal. My master made that as a free-ti experint, and she had never handed it to them. I was the only one who knew about it.
When I ca to this town, you once saw make one and got interested in it, so I gave one to you and said if you could reverse engineer it, it was yours to make.
I forgot about it for a very long ti, until the attackers used it. At first, I did not think it was you, but then I walked into your office with William hours ago when we first reported the issue, and I saw it there, a sample of one of the exploding crystals.
You managed to reverse engineer it, and when you did, you sold it off to the very people I would loathe seeing it with." She finished her explanation, and even though her face seed calm, she was raging inside.
"WOW, you are good, Violet. Even I would not think that was all it took for you to discover what had happened.
You are indeed as smart as Belezer said you are."
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