59 Shopping (1/2)

The trio along with Aquilia made their way to the market district that was located towards the center of Verreaux. It only took about ten minutes to reach even with the increase of people flooding into the city because of the break.

In the market they sold a variety of things whether that be from stores or the stalls located all over the street. Sagar wasn't sure what the girls were wanting to get as they just said that they wanted to go shopping so he let they lead him around, plus they were significantly more familiar with the place as they had lived in Verreaux for most of their lives. While they were leading Sagar carried Aquilia on his shoulders giving her a good view of the entire area.

As they were walking through the hordes of people in the area, Sagar asked, ”So, where are we going first?”, Aquilia raised her hand as if she was wanting to ask the same question.

Umbra was the one to respond to his question, ”Well, how about we go to a tailor shop?”

Talia agreed with Umbra's suggestion and they both quickly started to walk towards the direction that Sagar assumed the tailor shop was in. Sagar was kind of scared that they would want to go to some clothing place first but he couldn't say it was out of his expectations. While there were plenty of things you could by around here, it wasn't something that would entice such excitement from these two.

While Sagar was following the two he accidentally bumped into someone, which normally would have happened quite often in this crowded area but Sagar was being careful about where he walked. He quickly apologized and went on his way, while the person he bumped into did the same. The person he bumped into made his way from the main area of the market into a random alley, where there was another figure waiting for him there.

”What have you come here to report?”, the figure that was waiting in the alley asked the person who had just arrived.

”Boss, I located the one who took out the group we had hired a couple months back. The ones that were completely wiped out.”

The Boss' face twitched a little hearing his subordinates report. Their organization hires multiple bandit groups to go out and bring people back to them for a price. For the most part these endeavors are successful but sometimes the groups that they hire either get killed by the imperial army or by some other factor. If say someone they hired got wiped out by the imperial army there wasn't really anything that the organization could do except to accept their losses. On the other hand if they were wiped out by some outside factor then they would send out people to deal with the one who got in the way of their business.

He and his subordinate were part of that squad sent out to investigate this sort of thing. Even though it took several months not only to get a report about the incident but also to travel over here as well, they had their methods to figure out what exactly wiped out said group. They were also quite lucky as well because usually any sort of energy that was used during the fight would be pretty nonexistent after a couple of months, but whatever energy was used lingered far after the fact. It was some form of elemental energy they had never seen before but regardless they managed to gather a little from the site and put it within a special crystal they had.

It was one that only the investigation squads would hold onto and they would use it to trace whoever the energy originated from or at least whoever had a similar form of energy. Normally they would have to narrow down some targets that have similar energy to the one within the crystal but they didn't need to do so this time around because of the unique nature of this energy.