The Guardian System: The strongest Summoner's quest to save his family Chapter 418 418: A Summoner in a Market Town (1)

Reidar moved through the streets of Sweetwater with his head low and his hood pulled forward.

The town was crowded. Refugees, hunters, and rchants filled the streets. It was loud. People shouted prices, argued over food rations, and called out for party mbers to settle bets with violence.

The perk Stealthy Presence was working wonders. No one had noticed Reidar yet. The perk reduced the attention he attracted from other survivors, but it wasn't perfect.

It didn't make him invisible, but it made him uninteresting. To the people he passed, he was just another background detail.

It made people less likely to notice him, not invisible, and if soone looked at his face, they would still see the floating natag above his head.

But he couldn't rely on the perk alone.

He adjusted his hood, pulling it lower. The real danger wasn't being seen; it was being identified. If anyone focused on him for too long, his na tag might pop up.

—[Reidar Miller—Level 557]—

If a mber of the Church saw that, the alarm would sound instantly. The entire garrison would descend on him. He could kill them, of course. He could summon the Vorathid Sky-Hunters and turn the town into a slaughterhouse in minutes.

But that would ruin the plan. He needed information, and to get that, everything had to go on as usual. A massacre would just ruin everything.

When a patrol of Church guards marched down the center of the street, Reidar stepped into an alleyway and waited for them to pass.

The church mbers he passed in the streets were dangerous, but they weren't the ones he worried about. Church mbers were obvious; he could see them coming, and they wore their affiliation like a badge. No, the real danger was the average survivor who might see his natag and talk about it later.