Chapter 54 Getting the name. (2/2)

Thethe door open He peeked inside the room afterward and announced Roland’s arrival

“Hey, you got a guest!”

Roland just re The rin plastered all over his face

“A guest? Who is it?”

He heard a fano off

“Master, Mr Roland has come to see you”

“Ah, let the boy in”

When he peeked inside the roo in a chair and to the side were soone a bit below the knee

“Manager?”

“Ah, this? That fucker got ood, don’t worry about it, it can be healed later Wounds from Warlocks like that don’t heal that easily, I need to make a special elixir”

The foot looked to be wrapped in soes that had peculiar symbols on the some kind of mystical power

“Is that so… I see that you are packing up, skipping town?”

Roland asked after closing the door behind him He could see that most of the shelves in this room were cleared out and just a few scrolls remained here and there

“I underestimated that bastard “

Roland quickly raised a brow and cut the gnome off before he could continue

“That bastard?”

“There is no reason to hide it fronome took out his old pipe and puffed out soout of that Warlock’s ass right about now”

The gnoe that popped into his head

“About the man responsible… It's the second son of the count, the bastard contacted the blasted Abyssal Cult! The idiot is crazy!

He knew that the noble house that this land belonged to was the House of Dreux, and the noble that resided here was called Louis Dreux

“Louis Dreux? Why would he aim for your life?”

“I’ht for succession You know Louis has an older brother, Armand Armand is the true heir and this land is under his supervision but he had to leave towards the border…”

The gnoave him his best theory Armand the first son had left for the border to aid in the war effort There were sodom and the Hatfordian Empire were involved in but they didn’t escalate into a full-scale war yet

“The idiot tried buying us out a couple of years ago, for an atrocious price If he owned all the businesses in the city he probably could so his way back into his father's heart?”

The gnori

“Unfortunately on’t be able to pin this on hiht them they wouldn’t talk, they would just commit suicide”

Roland had to take a second to process this Apparently, he had gotten himself into the middle of some petty squabble between two noble sons While one ay the other was trying to buy out the city from under him

When the other ca businesses Roland wasn’t really sure about the laws around here but even nobles couldn’t just take over stores without getting the right papers froainst the law of the land and needed to have the owners sell their property The only way to go around this was if the owner died without an heir Then the noble would get ownershi+p of whatever that person owned

The noble by killing the current owners wanted to get the stores for free That or get them from their next of kin that would probably sell it instantly after seeing their deaths The abyssal cult's involveh everyone kneho the perpetrator ith no hard proof it would be i on a noble

“Don’t worry kid, you can coet you a nice workshop there, you did save ed the subject after everything was clear He and his people were leaving, even though the assassination had failed there was still danger Most of the council was dead and their business associates probably knehy

Every one would either sell what they had or leave, the noble in question would probably get h for him to take this city over before his brother returned was unknown

“Yes about that…”

Roland didn’t beat around the bush for ot his answer to his question and no that nobles were involved He quickly pulled out his contract and placed it on the table before speaking out

“I will be leaving but not with you, now give noh his nostrils and looked at the piece of parchht so…, you sure you won’t reconsider? You’ll need a better workshop in the future, this is so I can provide you with The capital is a lot safer than wherever you are planning to go, you should think it over again”

Roland just shook his head while declining the gno around people that attracted tier 3 ht about it but I’d rather try things nome pointed to the side with his pipe, on one shelf there was a lone bag and next to it a book

“Figured you’d say that The money is in there with a little bonus for your troubles Should cover the healing fees”

Roland reeted by quite a bit of golden coins 150 s was a book This was a skill book and had the ‘Mana Reinforcee in it He had asked the company to procure it before this whole fiasco happened

“150… that’s 50 above the contract sum and this book…”

“Just take it, most of it canoold pouch into one of his spatial bags along with the skill book

“So, don’t think you’ll tell me where you are headed?”

Roland just blankly stared at the gnome as if that was a stupid question to ask He didn’t really have a deep connection with this man but he did at least pay him well

“I’d rather not…”

“I don’t knohat you are running away from kid…but take care of yourself, if you’re ever in the capital be sure to find ood deal Just say that Marlo Grimboodle sent ya”

“Marlo?”

Roland looked at the gno, his pipe was placed to the side while he grasped one of his crutches

“The one and only, don’t be spreading my name to just anyone!”

Roland finally had his otten et to the train station This journey would take longer than before as he would be traveling a lot farther than last tiht take Marlo up on his offer