Chapter 50: Finding the Thieves Guild (1/2)

Now that he was equipped with the three oal was to improve his arht copper to his na aroal, i his stats The quickest inner class quests, as they provided bonus stats as quest rewards, as well as stats in the form of souls

Macedonia was soest cities on the island, they had several establishments where one could enter and acquire classes This included several beginner cohters and thieves

Unlike the barracks in Lycoa, which also provided the fighter soul, the barracks in Macedonia provided quests to further upgrade your soul

Merlin instead decided that he'd rather obtain his second soul than upgrade the one he currently had There were a few tis he had to do, so he couldn't dedicate the time required for an advanceuild, seeing as it was the class he was most co on the warrior path, only to find out near the end that he was better suited for a dexterous fighter role than a strength based one

There was one issue though, getting the thieves guild questline was a pain There were a few quests that led to it, but they all took a fair amount of luck or tiuard and work until you received a quest to infiltrate the thieves guild You could then betray the town guard and join the thieves guild instead, but this act would ruin your reputation and make you a wanted criminal

What Merlin wanted to do instead was try and skip the process, forcing hiht of would even work, but figured it orth a try The biggest obstacle for hihly four locations it would shi+ft between to avoid getting caught, but he was only aware of two of the theto slip between alleyways than walk on the er with this method, but within a couple minutes, he had reached an area that felt almost separate from the rest of town

He stepped into the slu of a similar style to the rest of town, their state of disrepair beco more obvious the further he walked down the littered street

The atreatly from the rest of town, he could still hear the sounds of people talking, and the sound of wagons being tugged down the busy streets, but it felt distant behind hinant, there was no liveliness in the streets, and the few people ere on the street only stared at Merlin with suspicious glares

After a fewaround the slum, Merlin felt a presence behind hi to hide their presence, but it was a clumsy job

There was a possibility that they were a part of the thieves guild if they were operating within the slums, which meant he could extract infors, just fast enough that the person following him could barely keep up, and on his last corner he turned into a dead end Looking around, he couldn't see any spots to hide, so he pushed hiainst the ith his sword drawn

A few ure popped out frorabbed theround The interaction happened within a few seconds, not giving the pursuer any tiure, but so the back of his mind was that he couldn't feel their presence now, and the presence he did feel shouldn't have appeared around the corner at thatoff the weird sensation, he focused his attention on his pursuer, who had just pulled the hood back, revealing the face of a young boy

"Are you a pickpocket for the guild?" Merlin asked the boy in a stern voice, his sword now pointed at the child's throat Merlin knew that the thieves guild didn't appreciate snitches, so nobody ever talked, but he didn't want to torture a kid for information

The boy's eyes widened, but he didn't le sound

"Just point o" Merlin tried to reason with the boy, "I don't want to hurt a kid"

The boy shook his head in response, it seeuild than he was the erous presence nearby, he turned around just in ti towards the kid He barelyit into the wooden frame of a nearby house