54 Returning Home (1/2)

The group made their way back to their inn 10,000 gold coins richer among the sounds of fighting across the dark alleys along the way.Even though the town was pretty safe during the day, at night it was a completely different animal.

The Underground Arena was located in the Ghetto part of town and the people that were walking those streets knew what they were getting into.

This time the sounds came from an alley that was a few feet away from the group and when they passed in front of it, Rahz saw the captain of the guard standing against the wall using a dagger to clean his nails.

The captain nodded to the group and said, ” We have been tracking this gang of thugs for quite a while and finally managed to subdue them”.

The group heard the captain and couldn't help but look into the alley as they slowly moved along.Some Barbarians eyes opened wide and some faces Grimace, while others smile at what they saw.

Inside the alley there were two guards for each thug, in the forefront two guards were kicking their victim with gusto on the head while on the opposite side there were a pair of guards holding another thug against the wall while a third guard stabbed none stop.

Further down the alley there were other guards elbow dropping another unresponsive body and more guards checking for survivors and stabbing until satisfied.If people listen carefully they could make out muffle sounds and grunts among the laughter of the guards.If there was a music theme for the scene it would have been perfect.

Rahz looked at the situation and said ”Thank you for your hard work captain is not easy keeping the streets safe”.

The Captain snorted and kept on cleaning his nails while the group moved along.

Elune couldn't take the naivety anymore and said to Rahz, ” You realized those were thugs sent by the arena management to kill you right?”

”Why would they do that I won fair and square”

Elune slap her forehead and said, ”Are you really so stupid? people will try to kill you for the 10,000 gold coins in that pouch, you think they won't kill you if they lost that amount or even more”

Rahz wasn't stupid, he realize that the Mayor knew something might happen and sent the captain to make sure everything was O.K.Rahz also understood that 'the nail that sticks out gets hammered' and it was easy for people to overlook a country bumpkin that seem naive in nature.

Rahz was part High Elf and the wisdom and intelligence pertaining to that race were pretty high only second to the Erudites that tried to stay away from mundane affairs.Rahz was not a full blooded high elf but with every level he gained there was a boost in that area as well.

Oblivious to what was happening to his hired thugs, the announcer made his way towards the VIP room where his boss was waiting for him.The announcer was pretty nervous and as he walked up the stairs he was trying to come up with a good excuse that could save his life.Unfortunately,he never had a chance to begin with.

When the announcer was about to reach the top of the stairs, a dagger went through the back of his neck and out his throat while a very sexy voice whispered into his ear ”You knew the rules, you mess up and this is the price”.If the Helgahvall group heard that sexy voice, they would not hesitate to associated it with the body of that sexy hostess that helped them out the first day they came to watch the show.

The hostess left the scene and two other shadows appeared and took the corpse away while a couple of maids passed by to clean the halls.

The following morning the group woke up early and loaded up a bigger cart than the one they brought into the town but it was still not a problem for the two bears to pull it.

The attitude of the town had done a complete 180 and now there was not a single person who didn't want to befriend them, the Kobold Man was the undefeated Division Champion and he had won it by defeating an opponent two levels above him.

This time the same guards that called them country bumpkins when they came in and couldn't wait for them to move, now said hello and put forward amiable faces.Rahz look at all this with apathy, he was able to see first hand that in the realm of Elysian people respected what they perceived as strong and he couldn't stand them.

The way back was still filled with bandits but this time they had weird attitudes, some were friendly while others exuded killing intent the moment they saw the group.