Chapter 545 - A Big Sewing Needle (1/2)

Chapter 545: A Big Sewing Needle

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Glen Heights

A day passed quickly. The next morning, the people of Glen Heights woke up as usual. They started up their stoves to make breakfast. Soon, plumes of smoke mixed with the white fog of the mountain air.

Woof, woof! Some dogs barked from town entrance, meaning that strangers had entered again. But the barking quickly died down, which meant that the strangers were ordinary. There wasn’t anything abnormal on the surface.

This seemed to be the case.

At the entrance, an ox-driven cart carried seven or eight foreigners into Glen Heights. There were both men and women with worn clothing and tired faces. They also had some very crude metal weapons at their waists.

This type of group was extremely common in Glen Heights. They were mercenaries who wanted to change their lives. They would enter the southern jungle to try their luck at collecting valuable goods like rare and pretty birds, valuable herbs, furs, and more.

On average, 30 in every 100 mercenaries would die in the jungle. Of the other 70, more than 60 would only make enough to survive. The remaining few would earn much more in comparison. There would also be one lucky guy who could make a fortune.

These mercenaries were dressed poorly. The people and dogs of the village were used to people like them and didn’t even spare them an extra glance.

After entering Glen Heights, the mercenaries got off the cart. They would usually find somewhere in the village to rest, eat a meal, and enter the forest after refreshing themselves.

There was a woman amongst this group; she looked to be around 30 years old. Her features were plain, her body was fat, and her greasy long hair was piled carelessly on her head. She held two axes and wore ragged leather armor. She joked around with the mercenaries, vulgar words streaming out of her mouth.

The woman walked with the mercenaries down the road. When she passed a small building, she glanced over casually and then continued walking.

Everything looked normal.

The small building they’d passed by had a large yard. This was where Ethereal Prince Haromed hid. Link’s group was observing the mercenaries in the yard.

“This is the third group of mercenaries this morning,” Link whispered. “Evelina, do you think that woman looks like Ariel?”

Evelina shook her head without thinking. “No way. Arial is a noble elfin princess. She would never make herself look that ugly. Look at her hair. It looks as disgusting as a piece of turd.”

Celine shook her head too. “I don’t think so either. She’s probably just a regular mercenary.”

“Should we test her?” Eliard asked.

As soon as he finished, Evelina pointed at the female mercenary and uttered, “Go!”

A thumb-sized pebble flew up from the ground and whooshed toward the back of the woman’s head. It was as fast as lightning. If the woman was hit, her head would explode, and she would die.

Half a second later, the pebble had crossed 1000 feet and was at the mercenary’s head, but she was still clueless. She was joking with a man beside her and even reached out to hit him. The man laughed and jumped to the side with a sleazy expression.

In the last instant, Evelina stopped the pebble. By that time, it almost touched the woman’s hair. Without the power’s support, the pebble dropped the ground. Hearing the sound, the woman finally realized something. She turned around in confusion. Seeing that nothing was wrong, she hurried to catch up with her friends.

“A regular person,” Evelina said.

During this entire process, Link didn’t see any sign of pretense either. The woman had acted naturally. She was just a low-class female mercenary.

“Indeed,” Link replied a bit belatedly. He wasn’t suspecting the woman. He just felt that something was wrong, but when he thought carefully, he couldn’t pinpoint it.

After thinking some more, he could only say, “Alright, no need to keep looking. Ariel has most likely already gotten here. We just can’t find her right now… No need to purposely look for her. Let’s just be prepared.”

Ariel was at Level-10 while Link was Level-11. He had the upper hand in terms of power. Paired with Evelina’s help, if they were prepared enough, Ariel wouldn’t be able to change things even if she tried.

The four nodded and returned to the wooden building.

There was a very wide basement in this building with a long-distance portal seal. Link believed that Haromed would most likely come out of that.

Before, they wanted to keep Haromed from escaping, so they only had to guard against a one-sided attack. Now, they also had to guard against Ariel’s sneak attacks from the outside. Thus, they had to add a powerful outer defensive spell too.