Chapter 79
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Na: Chompy (Johra)
Gender: Male
Status: Normal
Race: Human
Class: Warrior/Priest
Rank: H
Level: 43/99
HP: 75/75
MP: 25/105
Attack: 24 ( 3)
Defense: 12 ( 3
Agility: 12
Intelligence: 24
? Unique Skills
[Water Creation LvMax] [Lesser Healing Lv 3] [Magic Chanting Lv 2]
? (Hidden) Unique Skills
[Night Vision Lv1]
? (Hidden) Titles (Active)
[Wizard of the Pit] [Master of Magma Hall] [Guardian of Corruption]
? (Hidden) Titles (Inactive)
[Rat Trapper] [Hit-and-Run] [Savior Lv4] [Coldhearted LvMax] [Dragon Slayer Lv1] [Ant Exterminator Lv14] [Spider’s Bane Lv3] [Giant Killer Lv2] [Scuttles’ Grief LvMax] [Goblin’s Slaughterer Lv6] [Valenor’s Husband]
? (Hidden) Modifications
[Avatar Lv1] [Creation Magic Lv1] [Resurrection Song Lv1]
? (Hidden) Creation Magic
[Hidden Status] [Species Conversion(Human)] [Material Creation Lv5]
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Chulkuk!
The basent of the deserted temple was now nearly full of unconscious Wolf Club mbers. I caught Carline trying frantically escape so I simply knocked her out again.
I tied Ikan to the remaining carbon steel ring on the wall, then grabbed a chair from outside and sat in the middle of the room. There were now 5 Wolf Club mbers and one boss which I had kidnapped.
‘Well, capturing them and holding them here was easy enough, but I guess I’m now responsible for them. How many days can a person survive without water? So far, it has been just one so they should be fine.’
I wondered if they would wake up soon, but it didn’t seem like they were in any hurry.
‘I’ll go check on Darryl, maybe he’s found so tangible evidence we can use on these guys.’
Making sure to securely seal the door, I headed back to the inn. Even if their friends were to sohow know their boss was locked up in there, it wouldn’t be easy for them to co to the rescue because I had secured the door from the inside using Material Creation. If Ikan could guess that Carline was being held here, then perhaps other Wolf Club mbers could as well, so I took the extra precautions.
When I arrived back to my room I was greeted by an enthusiastic Darryl.
“Take a look Johra, it’s a record of regular paynt in gold coins made out to Miriam from one of Wolf club’s subsidiaries. It must be a bribe, we got them hook line and sinker!”
“Great job, we have them now, I have to bring this to mayor right away.”
“Mayor?”
“Yes, this was a request I had received form the mayor himself.”
“Oh, so it was like that.”
He was surprised to know that I had received the quest form the most powerful man in town.
“Why don’t you stay here for a while and keep a low profile, I wouldn’t want you to suffer from the Wolf Club’s retaliation.
Leaving Darryl behind I left to city hall to et the mayor.
Tak!
I placed a silver coin on the reception desk.
“Hello, what can I help you with?”
“I ca to see the mayor.”
“Did you make an appointnt?”
I shook my head.
“Hmm… then I’ll have to ask if he has so ti to see you.”
She whispered to a young attendant nearby who left in a hurry and soon returned.
“Unfortunately the mayor isn’t available at the mont but the deputy mayor is here, would you like to see him instead?”
I didn’t want to speak to others about our secret arrangent, so I politely refused.
“No, this is sothing I need to tell him in person, when is he expected to return?”
“He went to visit Count Volfgang and should only be back tomorrow afternoon”
I nodded back and began heading towards the exit when soone called out to from behind.
“Hey there, you ca to see the mayor”
“Yes?”
“Was there sothing you’d like to pass on to him?”
“Sorry?”
“Oh, well it’s my responsibility to attend to things when he isn’t around so if you had anything to give to him you could just give it to instead.”
“Excuse , who are you?”
“Ah… apologies for not properly introducing myself. I’m the assistant to the deputy mayor, na’s Pillgion.”
“It’s fine, I’ll just return tomorrow.”
“Ah that’s a bit troubleso, you see others may think of as incompetent if I can’t even do this much…”
Despite his polite mannerisms, he sounded nervous and even desperate.
“No thank you, I will give it to Mayor myself.”
His fake smile disappearing in a mont’s notice as he pointed towards and shouted.
“Catch that thief! He’s stolen governnt docunts!”
“What? What? Shit!”
I grabbed him by the throat, but it only made the situation worse. The deputy mayor had a crooked smile as the guards ran to apprehend .
“Damn it, he’s lying! He’s a corrupt official!”
“As if anyone would believe you. Guards! Hand the docunt he has in his hands and throw him in jail.”
My proof I had worked so hard on to find was quickly confiscated as the guards took hold of . Of course I could have chosen to resist with my dagger, but I didn’t want to go against the governnt at this point in ti.
After a day in prison the mayor finally appeared with his guards.
“Oh it was you, you created quite the scene while I was away.”
“Why weren’t you in your office?”
“How was I to know when you were going to pass by?”
He had the guards free and we went to speak in his office.
“So they all got away huh?”
“Yes, but since they are now wanted criminals, they won’t have an easy life anywhere in the kingdom.”
“I guess that’s it then.”
Cling!
He threw a gold coin.
“What is this?”
“Your reward for completing the quest.”
“This was more than what we had agreed on.”
“You are a competent adventurer and I’m sure I can find use for you in the future. I’d like to pay you more, but unfortunately one gold is all I can afford.”
“Don’t worry about the amount, but…..is everything settled?”
He nodded his head and dove back into his pile of docunts
When I went to check the deserted temple, the basent was already empty and everyone had escaped.
“Hmmm so they burnt through.”
“Johra judging by the molten tal it must have been a fla of over 2000 degrees celsius.”
Hearing Lena’s analysis my back broke out into cold sweats. For fire magic, the higher temperature the fla, the stronger the magician. It didn’t want to imagine how powerful Miriam was to be able to lt through my carbon steel restraints.
‘I wonder what would have been the result if we had fought head on.’
Still, it was fortunate for everyone involved that he had skipped out of town. If we were to fight, even if I’d win there would have been many casualties.
Leaving the basent I returned to my inn room and found Darryl asleep in my bed, buried in docunts.
“Darryl”
“I had no idea what was going on when you didn’t return last night. I went to the city hall but you weren’t there and no one told anything so I just ca back and waited for you here.”
I decided to bring him into the loop and explain to him what had happened to in the last couple days.
“Well you’ve succeeded, but now that they’ve escaped, they will get their revenge against you for sure. Miriam is the son of a famous rchant from a neighboring city. Also there are rumours that he has certain underworld connections, and that he’s used them to secure his position as deputy mayor. Now you’ve banished them back to their hotown, you need to be careful.”
“Ah so the deputy mayor was also known as Miriam….”
“Oh you didn’t know? I guess I had never ntioned it.”
I told Darryl that it was fine and that it wasn’t a big deal. We then headed towards the market where everyone seed to be in a much better mood than yesterday, especially the rchants because they no longer had to pay protection money which cut into their profits.
I turned to ask Darryl, “did they manage to locate the little girl who was sold as a slave?”
“Really? I thought that the Wolf Club brought her with them when they escaped.”
“No, through my interrogation I learned that they got so decent money for selling her as slave.”
“Hmm… well she was still quite young so I doubt they would have tried to sell her to a brothel. Our best bet would be to look for her at the slave traders market.
“Slave traders in the city?”
“Right, since there is a demand be it for brothels or working slaves.”
My expression turned ugly as we headed there together. It was still a small city so it didn’t take long for us to arrive at the only place selling slaves.
“Hmm? Oh, you an the girl which was sold by the Wolf Club? She’s been bought already.”
“Where?”
“I’m sorry sir but I can’t give out that information.”
It was expected for the rchant to be tight lipped about his custor’s information. Discretion was a necessity in the slaving business.
“So what should we do uncle Darryl?”
“I don’t know, maybe all we can do is hope that she was sold to a kind owner and leave it at that.”
In my mind I replayed the scene where she stared at with those hateful eyes that fateful night in the dark alley. I had a premonition that if I were to sit back and do nothing it would surely affect the flow of history and create a huge crisis.
I shook my head to clear my thoughts. Looking around I noticed a small group of beggars in an alley nearby.
“Wait for here.”
At the mont I could easily play the role of either a beggar or an adventurer. I was planning to fish out so information from so colleagues of mine.
“Here you go.”
I handed them a few loaves of bread I had bought earlier in the market.
“Are these really for us?”
I nodded encouragingly.
“You are also a beggar no? Are you sure it’s okay?”
They struggled to speak properly as they were stuffing their faces with the bread.
“I’ve already had sothing to eat.”
They were actually three young children between the ages of 9 and 12. Nothing but little kids who had run away from their hos in a nearby small mining town. Their families were most likely going through so tough tis and couldn’t afford to feed so many mouths, so there only way to survive was to try to beg for so coin or food in a larger city. We were able to quickly get along because our ages appeared to be quite similar.
“Here, have so more.”
The young beggars feasted on bread and milk, until they laid back with a satisfied expression.
“I have a question for you guys.”
“We don’t know much about anything.”
“No, I think regarding this I think you might be able to help .”
I described to them the little girl which had been taken and then asked if they had seen or heard about anyone who fit that description.
“About four days ago there was a group of ruffians who sold a young beggar-looking girl to them.”
“That must be her!”
“But I don’t know who she was sold to after because whichever noble bought her arrived in a black carriage and I didn’t get a good look at their family crest.”
From the beginning I didn’t expect this to be an easy endeavour, so I wasn’t ready to give up just yet.
“So in the last days, how many nobles have visited the slavers market?”
“Three?”
“Can you tell anything more?”
“No, it was four!”
I tried to dig through their mories to see if they’d recall anything else which could be useful.
“I got sothing!”
“From those beggars huh?”
I repeated to Darryl everything the beggars had just told , hoping that he could be able to perhaps identify our suspects seeing as he knew the local nobility much better than I did.
“Alright thanks Darryl, I’ll take it from here.”
“Okay, I’ll be at my bakery working on the repairs. Let know if you need any help, she was my assistant afterall.”
I was attempting to track her down by investigating the nobles’ manors one by one and having Lena try to recognize the little girl’s voice. It was now midnight and I was in front of count Sion’s villa when Lena spoke up.
“Found her, she’s tied up in the basent of the building at your 2 o’clock.”
“Really, are you sure she’s tied up?”
“Yes, and I also detected the voice of that official Pillgion which frad you coming from the second floor of that sa building.”
“Oh, can you transmit it to ?”
“Okay, I’ll see what I can do.”
“Count Sion, have you already forgotten how Miriam has helped you over the past few years?”
“Of course not, but this ti things have gone too far. Miriam has already fled to his ho country and Ikan escaped into the mountains. Also what is your relationship with that young slave girl?”
“Miriam has ordered to punish the one who was behind all this, and I’ll be needing your help, count.”
“Ugh… I understand.”
From their conversation I had learned that Miriam was still looking for his pound of flesh, just using another person to get his revenge.
‘I am no pushover though.’
I broke into the manor very cautiously, and took a full 10 minutes before arriving to the basent entrance were the girl was being kept. I used Lena’s infrared vision to take a good look at the situation inside before proceeding.
Ppakak, Kung!
Having broken the lock I, the sight of a beaten and unconscious little girl appeared before , bruises covering the entirety of her body. Taking a look at her status I realized that her HP was almost at zero, had I arrived just a little later she would have been a goner.
“Shit, Lesser Heal!”
After making sure her condition was stable with the help of a few heals, I picked her up and fled the mansion, heading off to et Darryl.
“OMG!”
When we arrived he was still busy with the repairs despite it being late into the night. When he saw carrying the girl and her condition he was shocked, unsure how to react.
“Just fetch her so water, and maybe a cloth the clean her wounds.”
I spoke to him brusquely and he soon snapped out of it, preparing blankets, a wet towel and drinking water.
Phew
“Where did you find her Johra?”
I simply shook my head. I didn’t want to tell him so as to not implicate him in Miriam’s revenge plan.
“I think you should stay out of this one and look after the girl.”
They are looking to hurt , which ans that Darryl who was associated with wouldn’t be spared.”
“Is it sohow connected with a noble?”
I nodded heavily.
“Alright, I’ve got so money which I’ve saved up so I guess we can go hide up in the coal mines.
“I think I should be able to resolve this within three months at the latest.”
“Okay, then let’s et back up at the inn in three months ti.”
He picked up the girl and headed ho to pack his stuff and prepare for an extended trip.
“Hmm…since I no longer have to worry about them targeting soone other than . Ti to play the hunter, afterall offense is the best form of defense.”
Balled my fist as I made up my mind.
‘But first I need to get so sleep, I’m way too tired.’
The fatigue had been piling up as I’d been very busy these last few days without any proper rest. After doubling back a few tis to make sure that I wasn’t being followed, I decided to be a beggar tonight, and sleep in an empty alley facing the guard house.
‘It should be difficult to kidnap soone here.’
I drifted into a deep, blissful sleep while staring at the Autumn stars in the sky.
*——–Translator’s Notes——–*
[Dragon Slayer Lv1] All stats receive a 30% bonus when facing off with a Dragon.
[Ant Exterminator Lv14] Ants fear your very presence.
[Spider’s Bane Lv3] Spiders bear a strong hatred towards you.
[Giant Killer Lv2] 150% damage increase towards Giants.
[Scuttles’ Grief LvMax] Scuttles fear your very presence.
[Goblin’s Slaughterer Lv6] You can frighten off Goblins with a single glare.
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