Chapter 240: Time to get to work. (2/2)

On the outside, he encountered a rather floppy ruby wolf Agni was forced to re for its owner at a super forced to re

“I’ll see you in a week then Mr Wayland, please contact h the usual means if any proble at the large ta overdray leash into his hands Agni wasto move fro like a little kid Agni, after we’ll out of the city I’ll remove that muzzle”

“Awoo!”

After hereht had already fallen on the city and so Armand, Lobelia, and Elodia were both safe froe Yet, one person fro that it had happened to a person frouild, it could have happened anywhere

‘Is this a coincidence or part of their protocol?’

Jasper was part of the guild and this made him think of the one in Reeka There he witnessed a secret passage that probably went to the cult's secret lair There was a chance that the saht already be here If the cult possessed a strategy of creating underground lairs, infecting thieves that created a foothold in developing cities would be part of the course

Albrook’s dungeon could have been enough reason to invest in the takeover Many adventurers wandered through this place and would be perfect hosts for their monsters Roland was unsure what the cult's true purpose was or as the deciding feature of the city they took over

There was a possibility that they started out whenever a pro, nothing was set in stone It would bethis ti was foruild are a good smoke screen for the cult, it wouldn’t be a problem to falsify an identity there and build uild of thieves would defend their assets They would bribe the officials or use assassination to protect the underground black market This would allow any cultists to have a safe haven without the need to spend any resources Even without a h more conventional means ‘Even if that’s true and they are here, they will probably hide in the shadows for a while They ht even retreat to areas that are dominated by theh concentration of paladins in the area it would be unwise for the cultists to continue with their usual antics Everyone had becouild that a member was confirmed to be afflicted by an abyssal larvae He wouldn’t be surprised if the guild master turned the tunnels upside down to search for a potential culprit

“Woof!”

His conteni Both of theates but the ruby as stillweakly afterward Soon Agni was freed of the dreaded contraption that was placed on his snout This was all signaled by a large sneeze he perfor around, I’ni bolted away as if he had spent years in wolf prison Fro held in Roland’s hand It was quickly placed in a spatial bag so that Agni could calone did he slowly trot back to his one”

“Awroof!”

After sni was back to his old self His tail started swinging around as the two finally headed back to the workshop Thanks to this distraction Roland’s mind went back to the problem at hand, he needed to create a device that would bathe a sy He had been at the church before and could somewhat ascertain the a there

“It feels like I’ve been gone for months…”

Not even a full month had passed since he had left Albrook He wanted to do nothing o to sleep for at least a week but thanks to the cult and the city lord, it was impossible The nap that he took on the shi+p and at the port toould need to be enough

“She’s been keeping the place clean”

A s face The whole house was spotless, not a speck of dust could be seen and there was even food inside his runic refrigerator After going through rab some leftover stew Thanks to the runic stove it wasn’t hard to warm it up and then feast on it

It only took hiretfully even if he wanted to toss hi off, there wasthe quick ni to run rampant in the backyard he descended to his workshop

“Everything seee metal door slid open after he was identified On the inside, he was greeted by the sound of ole and prepared to blast anyone that was not allowed to get into his workshop

“That reetting e battle and was only left with scrap metal This mission was part of his rank-up test so he received no rewards to cover his losses It was an all-around net loss and one If he wasn’t withholding inforeon mine he would have probably filed a co around the place to check if Bernir didn’t cause any unwanted explosions All of his s eventful seeood condition and he could start working whenever he decided to

“First I need to draw up the sche his work Roland was sure to give his enhanced radar system a look A whole kilo signal extending equips would be detected by this syste to use his own uest showed up he would be inforround workshop was soundproof anyone outside would not be aware of their position being discovered There were several ways this system could detect any intruders and it includedthe pen around the large piece of parchment Within a couple ofrune up on the board Next to it, he placed the more coainst evil chaotic beings like the ones the cultists used

“This Talisman of Faith can wait for later…”

He didn’t want to risk getting a headache right the , he focused on the mace and the orb Both of these items were in possession of divine runes but both worked differently When he activated the orb it started to give up a warlow that was able to slowly mend small wounds like shallow cuts

There didn’t see this iteiven mana it just activated and the secondary power source that was on the inside took care of the second part of the equation Only with the help of the empyrean crystal that was on the inside could this artifact function

Then there was the largerspecial and it was also able to activate the spell effect when he injected his h, there was no ey This weapon had a liet drained the es and I already used up one…”

This was an ingenious way of retaining clients The person getting this weapon would be forced to visit the church to supply es It was a constant stream of revenue that would never dry up until the weapon broke down for other reasons

‘Perhaps I should make a deal with the Sister… would she be fine with a seventy-thirty split?’

While thinking about a brand neay of earning money he placed theevil creatures was a bitrune Noith both of the sche the much time he could already spot a lot of similarities to other runes The spell effect on the y After striking sos, similar to a small explosion from an explosion rune

‘The only probley that must be directly injected into the runic structure froe or aa test, Roland was convinced that he could create a working rune like this This could only be achieved by substituting the divine energy with regular mana, the effect would probably be a similar small explosion of blue mana instead of the radiant divine one that this mace was filled with

‘Is there a way to eo the eether?’

This was his true purpose for decrypting these runes but he was not that versed in the types of ies that floated around this world Thus for the tiht on hold There was no time to waste here, the enore his lack of understanding in that part of the project

sigh

“I guess I should et overrun by tentacle monsters…”

The difficult part of this project was not actually co the runes to forh to only use up the faintest of divine energy Even though the crystals could be provided by the church, it was a finite resource Tweaking the area of effect spell to be enough to have the infected exhibit clear symptoms would be the hard part