Chapter 138: Intercepting the traffickers - III (2/2)

• Intelligence = 7 (+7 Base, +0 title, +0 Soul, +0 Equip, +0 Bonus)

• Wisdom = 8 (+7 Base, +1 title, +0 Soul, +0 Equip, +0 Bonus)

• Charisma = 9 (+7 Base, +1 title, +0 Soul, +0 Equip, +1 Bonus)

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"And ru at his constitution "I have so many different bonuses for my dexterity, and all it takes is one soul to matchto hirass rustle behind hi it was either the wind or a boar, until his body started feeling nervous

Merlin drew his weapon and turned around quickly, only to find that Bell Ladrona, thea few ot to stop doing that, you're gonna give a guy a heart attack" Merlin lowered his weapon while exhaling

Bell s it to Merlin before i off back towards the city

Before Merlin opened the letter, he quickly checked his inventory to see if everything was there, and fortunately it seemed Bell had kept his promise

He eventually opened the letter, and read its contents

The letter spoke of a shi+p to be shi+pped early thatthe clover insignia But thepiece of information he found was that the intended recipient was someone he was familiar with, and he was apparently even a repeat custouess he really is scu soh with his desires earlier "Well, that would have probably fallen on Callisto or the other rangers had I actually done it, I'd need to approach it sht slaves before, was the kid that got killed even his biological son?" Merlin wondered out loud, "Is he conspiring against Callisto?"

Merlin pulled his sharp hunters knife out of his inventory as he iant wild boar for as much material as he could

About twenty minutes passed and Merlin had obtained ashis best to skin it while also using his vines to fight off any of the boars that spawned nearby and started attacking him

「You have couild to receive your rewards」

The boar gave hih hide on the creature, he would still have to kill a few more boars and hope for the best

Twenty or so minutes had passed, and Merlin had finally killed the last boar he needed At this point, it see the rise, as he didn't have to resuht to see well

「You have couild to receive your rewards」

Merlin turned towards the bridge, noticing that there wasn't any wagons co his way yet

"I probably don't have time to turn in the quests, huh?" Heif they left while I was in the city, lets just do it later"

Merlin reached into his inventory, pulling out the porcelain owlthe cloak's hood over his head

He hly teninto the forest This would put hih away from the city that nobody should see as about to happen

Due to the tenwith the ht, it was unlikely that they wouldn't see hie at them His next idea was that he should pick off asin

"I guess I should cripple the horses to stop theht to himself as he pulled his bow and a quiver of arrows fro his hand on each of the arrows, but then he remembered that he had an overabundance of yew in his inventory

Since it seeloves, aoff the red fleshy skins fro the seeds Because the fruit part of the berries were safe to eat, he threw them towards a nearby squirrel

Merlin crushed the yewthis paste to the tips of his arrows before putting his arrows back into his quiver

He cast cleanse on his pestle andthe leftover yew paste to peel fro into the air and vanishi+ng

'Such a convenient spell' He thought once again

He eventually threw his equip hold of his bow once more

Like usual, Merlin could feel his heart beating faster, as his body was full of exciteside the anxiety he always felt before an assassination

Although this wasbandits than a proper assassination, the reason assassination was soon to cos, he heard several wagons being pulled down the road a fair distance away

Merlin grabbed one of his poisoned arrows and nocked it on his bow as he crouched down behind a large shrub for soons continued down the road, Merlin could now see three of theons had six arside the within the covered wagons there would be a total of nine people to kill, including the drivers