Chapter 13: Lawrends Plans Set To Action (1/2)

What greeted Aleshia was a dark and empty room. This scene didn't sit well with Aleshia so she stayed on the windowsill and looked around carefully.

There was only a single table in the center of the room with a candle lit on the top of it. There seems to be a bag of something on the table. Aleshia looked around the room and carefully approached it. What she saw was a piece of paper with a note written on it.

When Aleshia read its contents, she couldn't help but laugh sweetly. Even she herself didn't expect that Lawrend's cowardliness is up to this extent.

Here's the money! Please spare my life!

That was what was written on the note. It showed the extent of Lawrend's fear of death.

Aleshia opened the bag and saw gold in it. By its amount, she could guess that there was 200 gold in it. Aleshia turned towards the exit of this room and smiled. She felt guilty when she was about to kill Lawrend last time so she didn't kill him. It seems that her decision wasn't wrong.

Aleshia left the room through the window with the bag of gold silently. She already got what she came for. If she still insisted on killing Lawrend after he gave her so much gold then her conscience wouldn't be able to take it.

The night quickly passed and Lawrend entered his former room to change the candle. To his surprise, the bag of gold was gone. Lawrend was afraid that Aleshia would come back or some other assassin would come to finish the job so Lawrend left a bag of 200 gold to bribe them. He felt relieved after knowing that it worked.

Lawrend was now staying inside his father's room. The butlers in the mansion were still unaware that there was an assassination attempt towards their Young Master so they were quite confused when Lawrend decided to sleep in his father's room. The butlers didn't object but they still felt it was odd.

Two days later, a man from the adventurer's guild has arrived. He had a huge sword strapped onto his back. There was a bronze adventurer pin pinned on his clothes.

”Good morning, Young Master Lawrend. The adventurer guild has sent me to discuss your Alive Bounty.”

Lawrend and the adventurer sat at a table in the mansion's garden.

”I'm glad. Were there any problems?”

Lawrend asked. It was impossible to put any bounties on any citizens of the Undrasil Kingdom unless they were criminals. If it was the case, Lawrend would be forced to report the incident to the City Guards and have them take on the case.

”None at all. The adventurer guild would like to inform you that they would start posting the notices across the kingdom as long as you set the bounty now.”

The adventurer guild has magical artifacts capable of long-distance communication. In every city, there is guaranteed to be one adventurer guild. All bounties would be posted across all the adventurer guilds in the kingdom using that magical artifact. The guilds would contact each other to post new quests, confirm quests, lookup information about an adventurer, etc.

”Great. Alfred!”

Lawrend called for Alfred. He was the same butler that he came with into the adventurer guild. He was accompanied by three other butlers as they carried with them a big bag full of gold. It made a satisfying thud when it was placed onto the ground.

”How much is that, Young Master Lawrend?”