Chapter 139 To kill an emperor 1 (1/2)
In the southern part of the empire a character walked into a small town, the character was in one word shady. He carried a staff with a dark magic beast core embedded at the top of the staff and wore a thick brown robe with a hood over his head, walking into the small town the figure walked to a nearby inn and went to book a room for the night
”w-what will it be?”
the hostess was a little intimidated when she saw the face of the figure, his face was bandaged leaving only a thin line that exposed a pair of blue vertical split eyes, the figure put down 10 cel on the counter without asking for the price
”one room for the night”
the hostess quickly took the money
”sure right this way”
the figure followed after the hostess and arrived at a small-very-too-cramped room with a single bed, the room smelled of mold but the figure just gave a nod
”this will do, leave”
”s-sure at once, have a good night”
the figure sat down on the bed and gave a sigh
”this sure is tiring... Victoria you can come out now”
Victoria jumped out of Mars' shadow and began purring as her horns flashed
”I... miss... Chloe...”
”yeah me too... I miss the other girls too of cause”
it had been about a month since the Kel tournament and Mars was slowly moving towards the capital of the empire where he would perform his master plan kill the emperor and hope his bounty disappears in the chaos after the assassination, to make sure he was not harassed by bounty hunters on the way he had disguised himself as a shadow magician and even changed the way he was speaking, there was only one problem he had run out of travel founds after he had given a big portion of his assets to the girls for them to mange in Green river
'what was it called again... something heads, was it 8 heads?'
Mars briefly thought back to the name of the name of the organization he had 'borrowed' his cel from
'maybe I can find another of their lairs..? nah I doubt it.... which means there's only one way to make some money working'
temporally dreading doing actual work Mars laid down on the moldy bed and closed his eyes and patted his stomach, right after Victoria jumped up and laid down on top of him and closed her eyes as the night grew longer...
The next morning Mars' eyes snapped open before he grabbed his staff and pointed it towards the door, Victoria jumped down from his stomach and into his shadow, soon the door opened and the hostess walked in with a bowl of water she was a little surprised Mars was awake much less pointing his staff at her, but being the hostess of a inn she had seen a bit of everything and didn't take his hostility to heart
”I brought you a bowl of hot water”
she simply placed the bowl on the small table and walked back out the room, Mars lowered his staff and Victoria poked her head out of the shadow at Mars' feet as her horns flashed
”she... seems though”
”yeah....”
”well you know the deal, stay in my shadow”
”okay...”
Mars briefly washed up before he left the inn and headed towards the local guild building, the inside was made of the usual suspects 7 parts tough looking men and 3 parts petty receptionists, Mars walked up to the request board but was stopped by a group of tough looking men
”you look shady, too shady to be a proper merc”
Mars gave a mental sigh and raised his staff as he pulled out his silver merc tag and showed it off
”move or you will be moved”
the stare off continued for a few moments until a receptionist walked over and gave one of the tough looking men a kick to the shin
”ouch!”
”Jimmy what have I told you about scaring unfamiliar people!?”
”but baby---”
Jimmy was about to protest but received yet another kick to the shin and swallowed down his words, the receptionist that was a female lesser bunny beastman or in simpler terms a real bunny girl turned to Mars and gave a frown
”you sure are shady looking, what's your story?”
Mars thought for a moment before he spoke
”I'm disfigured, I keep my face banged so people don't lose their lunch”
”....if you say so, so what can I help you with?”
”I'm looking for work”
the bunny girl narrowed her eyes slightly
”what kind of work?”
”any kind that pays and sends me towards the capital”
”hmm.... there was that one request...”
the bunny girl turned around and looked at the request board, eventually pulling down a request
”here look it over”
”sure...”
Mars looked over the request, it was for a caravan said to arrive in a few days that was heading towards the capital, the only weird thing was that the pay was way to good, sitting at 10.000 cel, Mars looked up from the request and looked at the bunny girl and asked
”what's the catch?”
the bunny girl that was a head shorter than Mars gave a evil grin and asked