Chapter 91: The Party Enters the Thieves Guild (2/2)

"Don't ask" Merlin shook his head and followed Fae to the cellar as usual He only just realised now that he didn't know her name before now, and that he still doesn't know her father's nauild whose nahter's names were hidden for whatever reason And only after she introduced herself as Fae did a nah there was no chance of hi if Fae was her real naht pink, but she also followed along with the rest of the group A secret door within the cellar opened up, revealing a large underground gaa tables noticed the new faces, and their eyes shi+fted with caution An elf as sitting at the furthest end of the rooroup, weaving through the sea of tables and chairs that parted for hirew near

"Friends of Merlin, welcome to our humble abode" The eccentric elf welcomed them, "Would you care to join us for a drink, or would you prefer to skip the alcohol and get straight to business like our mutual friend here?"

"A drink sounds nice" Typhoeus answered before sloalking towards the elf sobnny declined the drink, opting for getting straight to business

"And you, rin on his face "A drink with friends?"

"Still a no unfortunately, but I've got " Merlin explained as followed the elf back towards the bar at the back of the room As he left sobnny behind, he overheard Fae ask her what apple bottoht line, and the bartender poured two of the that he didn't want any The thieves guild leader clinked his glass with Typhoeus and took a sip of his liquor before turning to face Merlin

"Noas this infor since he left after dropping off the diary He didn't expect another bomb but he considered Merlin to be extremely competent, so he was still hopeful that it would be useful

"Well, before I say anything, do you have any counters for scrying? I've got a stalker of sorts" Merlin asked, hopeful that there was so he could do

"Who do you think we are?" The elf let out a little chuckle before explaining the rest "This entire base is lined with lead, there are very few places in this coic can reach It's hoe've retained our status as a secret organisation for such a long time"

"But if that doesn't calm you, then there are very few people in this tohose scrying orbs I cannot detect" He continued tooting his own horn

"Does that include the snake lady?" Merlin was a little hesitant to ask this, but he had to be sure Fortunately he received a nod in return, but it didn't seeain

"Well, I guess I need to give a little bit of backstory" Merlin began explaining the situation that occurred with the voices he heard around the city, and that he entered the oracle's coeneral idea of the back and forth they had, where the e was just an atteiven up and chose to just give him the quest noran whispering the rest, the elf leaned in so with a demon that has infested your wife, that's why you couldn't find anyin hushed whispers "Rather I believe the snake that is always around her neck is some kind of parasitic creature The snake is the cause of all of this"

Merlin explained his reasoning why he believed the parasite hypothesis to be correct, and this included how the snake was stationary while everything else was happening He specifically mentioned that the snake was , and that it seee all of the victi this was that when the snake received athat would make it flinch, it lost concentration over its puppets, causing them to immediately lose all bodily functions, like they were actually puppets that just had their strings cut

"It didn't rebind theht ahile they were unconscious in the other room, so there's probably a requirement that it must make physical contact to reconnect with its victi interrupted with Cecelia's body caused her to pause ained control Since it probably considers her the main host, it's likely to not to leave her neck, just in case it needs to reconnect with her ihts and observations anyway I believe that rather than a powerful demon's soul manipulation curse, it seems to just be soent parasitic creature" Merlin finished talking, leaving the elf with a strange sense of optiuild leader's expression slowly shi+fted into a s to Merlin's story, and by the end of it he seemed hopeful