Chapter 54 Getting the name. (1/2)

A tall youth alking towards a certain destination He earing a long coat and hiding a lot of spatial bags that were hanging around his belt He glanced around the city that he had spent years in and was getting slightly nostalgic

This was the city where his blacks career took off He had learned all the basics here and he did it on his own It was also where he finally learned to use and create runes After all these years Roland was feeling like he was finally getting how they actually worked He could even combine various schematics to create new spells

He would now need to postpone his future research and get out of this city It was getting too dangerous and he didn’t trust the co skills he would have died along with them

From his point of view, Zilyana had failed er was at fault too for not getting soic of that caliber

It looked like they got lazy after years of stability, the business was boo e by killing almost all of the council members

The whole city was now in disarray Almost all of the businesses lost their owners in one day The person that caused this would probably show the it was a est one there would be a big hole in the city's finances

The perpetrator could be the sole survivor that hadn’t been attacked during the nome was proven innocent as he had almost kicked the bucket

The next option was that it was a third party eitherit for another reason There were cult members involved in this assassination and where they were demons weren’t far off

The man was an Abyssal Warlock, a person thatMost of the ti their soul or by perfor some kind of ritual In this ritual, other people's lives would be used as payment

The woman that ith him was similar She was an abyssal class holder but closer to the rouge route She see the tih the shoulder

Roland continued walking while trying to figure out the true perpetrator The reason for this attack seemed obvious as a lot ofaler would have this answer

This whole predicament reminded him about the first city he had to leave There he also left at aresources He then stumbled around with so so his runic scrolls at the auction house

‘A city with an auction house is a must…’

He already knew that his scrolls would sell, be it at a regular store or an auction house Without an establishn another contract This was so that he wanted to avoid this tiood deal without revealing his special class either Trusting so that he wasn’t willing to do

Roland had a map with some notes There were a couple of cities that he had researched soer than others

He wanted one thatan auction house where he could buy and sell iteeon, this was the most i personal strength was paramount in this world He just needed to look at the two assassins They could just enter the city, kill people, and then get aithout anyone being able to stop the that wasn’t often seen in this world he was in

Most people that had battle classes ended their journey at tier 2 Crafting professions could go higher as it was easier to constantly produce ite profession had were also lower The lack of battle skills was anotherclasses

With lower stats received and fewer skills, they wouldn’t even be able to defeat a tier 2 veteran You could see this ive ence and dexterity The other physical stats were almost nonexistent and it hardly increased his vitality

This was the case withprofessions besides a blacksth and endurance to produce iteet er numbers in the rest

Roland felt like he needed to increase all of his battle-related skills before his advancement into tier 2 Luckily his runic blacksh they looked to be stats for a stationary tank with high th, endurance, and willpower but with low agility Roland felt like he would have to either then the things he was good at So either increase his agility with soic power

This he would decide after seeing his tier 2 class options He knew that there were some hybrid classes out there but if he could nab one was unknown

‘Dungeon, Auction house, relatively new city… would be nice if I could get so that he needed was a place to stay He couldn’t just live in an inn again as the need for repairing and crafting new equipment would be there His class was reliant on it and he didn’t think switching to a ive him as much flexibility He would still need toout his blacksmith class

Roland didn’t think that he would be able to research information about the land he could buy here Not like he could pull up an internet page with the inforuild that sold things like that The info wouldn’t be fresh though and when he arrived the house could be already sold He would probably have to risk the journey and hope for the best

‘Maybe I should try going someplace owned by the Aristocats instead of the royalists this tiht as he was close to arriving in Hightohere the er lived

There were two dom, the aristocrats and the royalists The former consisted of the most influential nobles of the country The latter were part of the royal fa and the nobles sworn to them

There were also many smaller factions sprinkled here and there but they didn’t possess as much power These two factions wereout slightly

Roland was someone from a noble house himself He had studied the basics of how this country worked His own house of Arden was part of the royalists His father had recently achieved the title of baron after a successful cadom had less than stellar relationshi+ps with

The city of Edelgard was further into the country and closer to the royalists The owner of it wasn’t directly connected to his father but maybe the other faction ran their cities better The noble that was responsible here certainly didn’t give a damn about his citizens

When the first assassination atteuards were really late to arrive He was also taken into custody without having the option of explaining himself

‘If I take all of that into consideration there is just one place I can go to…’

He looked at theand looked down at the south part of the kingdoe island there, it was ruled by a Marquess that was part of the aristocrat faction

That wasn’t the eon that had risen recently

Things like new dungeons appeared from time to time No one knew exactly how they caeon core People theorized that if the eon core would coeon core could appear anywhere, down in a lake, buried deep underground, or even in the sky Where the dungeon core appeared would eon looked and what kind of monsters appeared in it

This peculiar one that he illing to risk going towards appeared in a volcanic region The spot he would be going was rich in minerals, the monsters were fire types or rocky ones

The closest settlee before this occurred Now apparently people were flocking to it, quickly building up the infrastructure If he hurried he too could end up nabbing himself a part in this

Before that could happen he needed to get out of here For that, he also needed a lot of funds and the broken contract that he was bringing with him would be for that

He finally stood in front of the gnome’s supposed house The nuave the door a couple of knocks

“Who is it?”

The door didn’t open but he could hear a woh which they looked at him

“My naer…”

Roland felt strange for not knowing the gno to run away fro?

“Ahyes, wait a minute”

The s unlocked The person on the other side revealed herself to him The wo a maid uniform similar to the ones that the maids back at the Arden estate used to wear

“Please followyou”

Roland nodded, at least the working staff weren’t calling the gnoe and reminded him of old victorian era brick houses The inside was quite spacious and he could see other people working There was a butler looking at so up so to stay here forup When Roland arrived upstairs he saw anotheras Zilyana’s He was standing next to a partly opened door and he looked to be guarding it

“This is Mr Roland, he wishes to see the master”

“Well, if it isn’t the fabled ot closer he could see that so with this man He looked quite relaxed and the odor of alcohol was quite strong

“Fabled craftsive out his secret to other people? That shouldn’t be the case as it was stated in the contract There were other ways of getting information out, this was one ain proved the limitations of contracts to hiuest”