Chapter 140: Assassinate the Assassin (1/2)

As Merlin finished giving out instructions to the kidnapped victims, some of which seeroup eventually begandown the road towards Macedonia

As they made it out of the forest, Merlin received a notification telling him he had completed the requirements for the quest

「You have co the traffickers", rewards have been delivered」

"Alright, works for uess that counts as getting away undetected,around to all the wagons, freeing the horses that were still alive before resting his hand on one of the wagons and chanting a spel

「Skill ⟪Ignite⟫ Activated」

He continued to the other wagons, waiting for ignite's ten second cooldown before casting it again and again on the other two carts

"Alright lets get out of here before the guards show up" Heinto the forest

Merlin took off his war the out his old apprentice black cloak

Once he was dressed, he slipped through the forest, only to end up in the rolling hills a little distance away fro ers for about tendown the road Merlin continued slashi+ng at the boars, not paying the guards any attention, and they just continued down the road without giving hiuardshis way down the road and into the city

The guards at the gate seeh he wasn't sure if that was just a shi+ft change or souards and the kids

He quickly uild and stepped inside He walked over to the friendly receptionist, who greeted him with a smile

"Hi there! Have you completed the tasks already?" She asked

"Yes, I'd like to turn the the three quest sheets out of his inventory and handing them over to her

"Excellent Lets see here" Shebehind a door into another rooe basket "Please unload all the meat in this basket here, and all the skins in that collection basket over there"

She pointed over to the basket that he had previously unloaded a ton of goblin ears into, fortunately it seeularly

Merlin did as he was instructed, unloading one hundred kilograms of wild boar meat into the one basket, and forty meters of boar hide in the other

The receptionist see unloaded as she messed around with coins in her hand

"So in total that'll be one hundred and twenty silver, would you old coins?" She asked

"No, not at all" Merlin said

He watched as she threw the large handful of silver back into a hefty drawstring bag, only to pull out a s the the gold coins towards Merlin

"Not a proble out of the

He weaved into the crowd as usual,his way over towards the slus as he uild, and believed that he was fine Once he was confident, he slipped down the alleyway and made his way into the run down tavern

"Welco her head up fro her way towards the cellar before Merlin could even say anything

Merlin gave her a wave as he followed her down into the cellar, he walked through the door into the thieves guild

As usual the elf was sitting around in his favourite spot Merlin approached hih the tables that seemed to be more barren than usual

"Hey boss, that one is all done, what next?" He said as he sat down besides hi, don't you ever sleep?" The elf turned and asked him

"Well, this body doesn't require it, so no" Merlin answered, "It shouldn't be that unusual, you don't really sleep either, do you?"

"No, I suppose you're right" Heback towards his drink

"You're drinking that this early in the et tired of it?" Merlin asked

"Yeah" The elf muttered softly, which Merlin barely picked up on

A few moments passed before the elf asked the bartender to pour another glass of the same whiskey, just a tiny alass that the elf usually had

As the elf received the drink, he pushed the glass to Merlin