Chapter 39 Into the sewers. (1/2)

There was quite a coht, a loud explosion was heard froh to wake up the people living there The guards arrived at the scene quite late as always They were expecting to find soistered alchereeted by a dead burglar's body

Next to this body was a youth dressed in a dark robe There was also a tied-up person on the ground in front of the warehouse One of the asout of it It looked like souards could see that the two people on the ground had the usual rogue esthetic The one that was alive was tied up really well and had a rag shoved into his burned ood, one of his ar were also ripped apart and also burnt as if he was getting roasted on a fire

“Took you long enough, these two tried robbing me”

The youth moved his hood down frolooot here first looked at each other and then at the supposed thieves

“We’ll need you to co…”

It was about 2 aathered here This world didn’t have souards that were responsible for the order Even though Roland was the person that was almost killed, there was no evidence for it yet They needed to take hi with the witnesses

Roland gave out a sigh, he was already tired and now he needed to go with these two idiots He didn’t want to get in trouble so he just nodded Going against the city guards was considered a felony, it was better to get this over with Froht in the brig as he didn’t think they would really question hi’ process was carried out by higher officials but these tere just co profanities under his nose someone else arrived at the scene of the cri to the shadows The guards couldn’t even see as the person sneaked into the building The intruder blended into the shadows as if they were a part of it

There was no one else inside The figure of the person eed from the shadows, it looked like a cloud of pitch-black sure of a wo black cloth armor that covered all of her body that was quite curvaceous

She was standing in the roo happened, the blood was still fresh She could tell that someone used a similar skill that she performed just now She could feel the darkness element in the air which piqued her interest

“Did the boy use one of his scrolls?”

Her face was covered by a uish look as the attackers had The only thing that could be seen under her hood were her bright silver eyes She started quickly going through the warehouse, with her enhanced skills she could tell through where the thieves came inside She could also tell uard

The woman faded back into the shadows and left soon afterward While traveling through the night her stats were enhanced which let her reach her destination fast The place she was going towards was the richest district in this town called Hightown

Froant It was built with grey stones and had yellow pine wood decorations Tall, large s allowed enough light to enter the home and had been added to the house in a very syarden outside of it The roof was high, triangular, and was covered with brown roof tiles One small chi out frohtly opened and a di out fro ability made her way inside Theoff froure of a person, this person was sitting at a desk and looking through some parchments

“Zilyana is that you? Told you not to sneak up on me like that, you can use the door like a nornome that Rolan worked sounded in the residence The woed frohtly different froolden hair was now pure white and her skin color was dark brown This was the usual appearance that a moon elf possessed

“But it’s er stopped writing, he fixed his glasses and pushed the stack of papers to the side before asking

“Did you find anything?”

He was curious as his ‘assistant’ rarely returned in themust have happened

“PerhapsIt’s a bit cono for her to continue

“There was a small incident in Southtown”

“In Southtown? We don’t really have er interrupted Zilyana, his store mostly operated in the better parts of the city He had soht out in the slums but only because it was cheap Its cheapness ste conditions there were

“Stop interrupting and let me finish!+ It’s about the kid, you know your favorite scribe”

“Roland? Did sonome rubbed his chin, when this woman was involved death wasn’t far away It wasn’t really far fetched if the boy got involved with her

“No, not hih someone did die by his hand…”

Zilyana started describing the situation That Roland had slain a tier 2 thief and captured another one that was close to a high level steel adventurer She also gave the info about hi some spells similar to her skills This part wasn’t nome as Roland had even asked him to supply hi part was that the child that wasn’t even 13 years of age could take out a tier 2 rogue

“dano over his eyebroas clearly visible

“First someone tries to undermine my business and now this”

He paused for ato his moon elf assistant

“Do you knoho is responsible, you said that one of the thieves survived? Do you knoho they are?”

Zilyana s

“They were clearly a party froue was probably the leader Haven’t been there in a while, should I pay them a visit?”

The woer shi+ver slightly as he knehat she was asking hiht for a moment and nodded, he needed to show that he and his employees couldn’t be trifled with The people fro but he had his own connections and he wasn’t afraid of the consequences

“Take Ziron with you, if they don’t give you the information, you knohat to do…”

“What about the kid?”