Chapter 179: Sneaking around the city. (1/2)

Chapter 179: Sneaking around the city

“Excuse me, could I take a look at that sword there?… hello?”

“Oh, ies, which sword did you want?”

Tolasses One of the uniform that made her look like ahardened leather ar ears which were synonyirl from the beast tribe looked at the short sword that she was handed There was a string attachment at the hilt that she had never seen before in any other store A piece of paper was glued to this string, on it was the description of what this o into this much detail about their wares and a person needed to ask the clerk for a full description

“I see that you have noticed it already, each iteorized and also has a short description, if you decide on a purchase we also include a small instruction irl in the leather armor looked over the weapon and the description On the small piece of paper, it said that this weapon was an Aether Deepsteel shortsword, with a dual runic enchantment

“Yes, you will find a few helpful tips on how to use the enchantiven a token, you can then redeem it for one free repair of the runic enchantirl that looked like an adventurer started looking at the shile the lady behind the counter continued to talk After a e beast that was covered in ge at her The moment she raised the sword in the air the monster continued to stare

“Thank you, I’ll have to think about it…”

The person from the beast tribe bowed her head but it didn’t see this weapon

“Oh, could I interest you in a pamphlet then? It will clue you in on the current prices!”

“Really? Then I shall take one… if it’s free that is”

The girl chuckled while the lady behind the counter nodded and brought over sos of soirl adventurer removed herself from the store, the door that opened up auto that piqued her interest

‘Wayland’s Runic Emporiuirl in leather arlasses off that were in actuality a special high level detection tool Thanks to it she was able to go through the strange runic store Her na this new city called Albrook

Her days were spent scouring the area for potential points of interest for her lord Arthur She went to obvious locations like the dwarven union headquarters and the town hall There she investigated everything hts she visited taverns and even ht district She kneays to make people talk via some special skills that she picked up in her life With a combination of them and alcohol, it wasn’t that hard to make the people talk about the topic that she was interested in

When they lost their inhibitions the information that she received was le, so there were so topics One of them was the town runesmith as somewhat an oddball

The people from the dwarven union and the merchant faction see-lasting feud that notrumors caused Mary quite a headache so she had to see if this runesmith was really the bastard that the dwarven union painted him out to be

Her first run-in with thesolasses that she earing were soe was some kind of jumbled-up mess Besides his level that was close to 120, she couldn’t really pick up anything substantial

The proble skills It told her that the man was not that simple and he should be far over that level, not quite tier 3 but somewhat above what she would expect from a tier 2 runesmith

She could only speculate on the cause but for now, she decided to go back to the lord’s estate The time was up and she needed to make a report to her master As she went back the busy city became apparent to her

While it looked fine on the outside after spending a week in disguise she could see the looood one as the city was already being ravaged by a couple of powerful organizations from within

From her perspective, there were a couple of options that her lord could go with One would be to remain passive and just accept the current power structure His position would probably be secured and the poithin wouldn’t see him as much of a problem

This was the safest route froood hush money With tiainhis pockets with ain soh money was quite shallow in her opinion

All the current rich e while he just received bribes to make it easier for thereedy lot, covering for their ht which could lower his standing in the eyes of the commoners

The other option would be the more combative one where he took athe proposals that could gain hi the trust with the people, he et on the bad side of the current overlords of the city

But Mary didn’t really care either way, if her h h people to set his mother free from her prison Then all of them could just leisurely spend their lives here

Thus she returned to the lord’s h there appeared a bit of a problem

“Halt!”

Mary was still a new face around here and she etaway the uards that they took frouards that were at the entrance saw her as nothing more than someone that was here to cause some trouble

“As I have explained, I’uards weren’t letting her through The replacementfor a week It also didn’t help that she purposely sneaked out during the night without anyone noticing

‘I guess it can’t be helped…’

Without wanting to cause a scene she decided to wait for nightfall Arthur, her lord, was probably busy ork so it would be impossible to reach him at the moment The easiest ould be to wait and sneak back in

Without a proper light systeuards were left with ical lanterns or torches which they used to patrol the premises There were quite a lot of theh blindspots tofor the proper moment she made her way past the wall Her footsteps reht up the three-meter tall obstacle and quickly jumped into some nearby bushes

Mary’s for out through her new set of clothes that she changed into This special gear ht was somewhat of a specialty of the class that she picked up