Chapter 60: Sir Redmonds Mansion (1/2)

Merlin began picking through the ruether, but one piece of information confused him

"Lychester's Provisions has lantern oil in stock though" Merlin looked at the bartender with confusion, he wasn't sure why they weren't buying those flasks It wasn't like ame where NPCs would have an infinite supply exclusively for players, everything in-stock could be bought out by NPCs if they wanted to, or even stolen

"Ah, well that's due to an agreeuild and the lord of Orchomenus" The bartender explained "The lord can only buy a certain ae portion is put aside for civilian use The issue is that Sir Reduild's back and purchases et into the town"

"If it's that big of an issue, why hasn't the lord orabout it?" Merlin asked

"Well, there is apparently a great deal of corruption within thetax wherever possible, so the lord has only received news of the stock shortage recently" The bartender continued, "I've heard that there has been ascheduled with the lord of Orchouild in Macedonia, and the leader of the Orchoes to the situation, but I wouldn't count on it"

Merlin thanked the bartender for the infor, the bartender spoke up once , don't ever utter the word vampire in his presence" The bartender warned, "The last person who joked about hie in behaviour was executed"

Merlin nodded to show he understood beforetowards thethe information the bartender provided hiether the ru on the lookout for a noble'sback the bartender's words in his mind, the rumour of the servant as thrown out caused bad memories to surface He was confident he kneho the servant was, and it was also why he was currently feeling guilty again

Shaking away the thought, he started thinking about Sir Redather, Sir Redmond was a typical tyrannical noble who abused his power for personal gain, but see extre hi nocturnal because he feared being defenceless in the dark and even throwing away, or potentially executing, those who even reh the priestess had said Sir Redmond suffered a similar ailment, he didn't know for sure that it was the saside his behaviour alhost was exclusively around Orchoravestone was there This raised another question in Merlin's mind, why didn't Sir Redmond just move to another town or city if this was the case?

Tooany answers, it was at thisnext to thewasn't that it was the only one with a wrought iron fence or large garden, but that every single roos in the area, where they'd have at most one or two lanterns active indoors, or most residential houses where they'd have one lantern or candles for providing light at night, this building had at least eight roo the street, all of which were illuate, there was nobody standing guard and the gate was open, so he just arden that was barely illuhts

There was a large section in the arden that looked as if it had been vandalised The garden soil was displaced, it appeared that several plants had been forcibly ripped out without any care soo The rest of the vandalised patch just had snapped flower ste the plants out gave upparts off instead

As Merlin approached the door, he could hearAnd within a few seconds of knocking, someone had approached the door on the opposite side The door swung open, revealing a wo what looked to be some kind of maid uniform

"Excuse me, do you have an appointment with Sir Redmond?" The maid asked as she inspected Merlin's attire

"hello, sorry to bother you at this ti to come off as friendly as possible, "I had the pleasure of speaking with the priestess not too long ago and she had suggested that I meet Sir Redmond"

"I believe he'd understand if you told hiht-ridden arm to the maid, who looked upon it with a shocked expression

"Please excusethe door and scurrying off

A few minutes later, Merlin heard footsteps behind the door, they progressively got louder until they stopped at the door The door began opening once more, and the maid who he spoke to previously poked her head out frole phrase "Please, co it into his inventory as he stepped into the building, his long white hair was noing freely instead of being shoved behind a hood The sa hiht of stairs, andhallway,how many lit lanterns he had walked past

"Here we are" The maid spoke one last time as she opened the door into what looked to be an office, and just from Merlin's perspective in the hallway, he could already see two lit lanterns within the room