Chapter 89: She Knows - I (1/2)

"Souild leader asked on with a curious look before i it "No matter, I've already send so on to the next topic, I had a few things lined up for you to do, but those plans have been put on hold for now I've got so in the works, courtesy of this diary" The elf spoke while tapping his chest, and fro stored away in his breast pocket "I don't have a task for you yet, but come back in say an hour or two and I may have an important errand for you to run"

"I'll come back in a few hours then" Merlin nodded his head, said his goodbyes and uild hideout oncehis way out of the sluuard To Merlin's surprise, the guard's corpse and all the blood were already gone, it was like nothing had happened there only minutes prior

When Merlin finally stepped out of the slu the flow of traffic further into the city

"She knohat you did" Once again, so his hair to stand on end And yet again, when he turned around, there weren't any sketchy people leaning in or even uncomfortably close, just a handful of eneral area around hi, the voices spoke out once more "The oracle sees all"

As if to confirm his suspicions, the creep was so kind as to disclose the person they were affiliated with He had a feeling it would be this one, mostly because of what happened while he was in the ave hi

Merlin dipped out of the crowd and uild Eyes locked on hiazes as last tiuildhis best to fix Merlin's reputation

He walked over to the front counter, where the sa bored

"Welcome back! Job, News, or Alcohol?" The receptionist asked without any additional small talk

"I'll take whatever news and ruht, let ot here" The wo between the the titles "Well first up, there was a o, the undead that had been spotted roa several civilians, town guard and specifically a noble fro Ruht by so The Ghost"

"Also in Orchoo The president of Lychester's Provisions, Arwell Lychester, had been found within that sauards say they were attacked by wolves, but the arrows seeoblin, and those two races haven't been seen getting along in that area" She continued "There are rureement with the day before The suspected culprit was seen escaping frouards to co"

"So far there have been no further reports fro's patrols into the frontier, Charisia still refuses to respond to the outside world, a handful of scouts were sent into the Tegean Marshlands, but not a single one had returned" She began reading off a few updates from older information "And earlier today the skies above the temple of Artemis lit up once more We are yet to receive any reports about the situation in Lycoa, but just based on the size of the light, our best guess is that yet another large group of otherworlders have appeared

As she started shuffling through the docu them, she found one last piece of infor "And finally, there see out of Orcho on with that town?"

"Anyway, it sees of people travelling between Orchoe bandit operation hiding out in the forest It doesn't seeuard can spare any manpower to deal with it for now, especially due to the recent issues in town, so for now it is probably best to avoid travelling along that road" She finished explaining and placed the docuain, there was plenty of inforood idea to listen to the local ru towns, in most cases it would hint towards ive hints to possible hidden questlines or other secrets