25 City of Ravens 11 (1/2)

When I got back, Emily was still wired in and ignoring me. It wasn't a problem, as long as she kept working on the symbols.

I didn't waste time and began to condensate my soul. The process didn't change, and the headache still hurt like hell.

After a few hours I was done condensing my soul, and I felt my stomach changing into a black hole as I became hungry as a wolf. It was morning, and after visiting a few restaurants and filling my stomach, I went to sell the leather of the Orthrus.

Back at the apartment, I got ready to leave for the hunting grounds since I had a fight next week increasing my strength was the best choice. With the papers I had from the doctor, I could extend the deadline of the fight at any time.

Before leaving I went to Emily, she again was wired in, with headphones on and typing rapidly on her keyboard. She was wearing a t-shirt and shorts; her hairs were a mess, but that didn't change her beautiful looks.

When I took her headphones off, she got startled and looked at me confused. ”What?” she said.

”How is your work going?”

”Good. I'm on the right track, only a few pieces are missing, and I will be able to translate it, at least partially. And since you are here, I should probably tell you. In elven… no ten days there is an exhibit in the Montreal Museum of Archeology and History. I will need you to go there. Nothing complicated just taking a few pictures of an ancient tablet.”

”Sure. But there is something I need you to do, or at least try to do. Find someone that can get information of Alexander Novakovic. Through 'Unofficial' channels. Can you do that?”

”Hmm… Maybe. Ever since I started working on that text, I picked up a few skills. I can only assure you I will try.”

”That's good enough. Thanks.”

”Not a problem, just don't forget about the exhibit in ten days.”

I wasn't expecting to get many results from Emily, she wasn't a professional, but anything could help and with my time limit.

After doing this, I left for the hunting grounds. The plan was to kill monsters, take their souls, and increase my strength!

I wasn't aiming for any particular monsters, so I ended up killing goblins as they were everywhere. After killing one group and taking all of their souls, which amounted to twelve I sat in between the branches of a tree and began to extract their soul essence.

The process was smooth, and after thirty minutes my soul grew substantially. The growth was tremendous! I was a third of the way to reach the limit! Feeling the power I gained, I went down and search for new pray!

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When Dominque left I put back my headphones and started to search the internet. After what happened last time, before searching for any information about the symbols on Dominique's arm, I learned how to hide myself on the internet.

It took me a bit, but with the help of a few nice people from a forum, I stumbled upon while doing research on the subject I now knew how to make myself invisible on the internet. The whole thing was fun since learning was my passion form young age, only if not form my family…

Either way, I now knew how to do a lot more on the internet but finding information about someone only with their name… that wasn't in my skill set. So I logged on the forum and posted a message, 'Need to find information about Alexander Novakovic. Can anyone help?'

Almost immediately I got a response.

'[] – Can you give more information, there are thousands of them.'

'[£MM902] – nothing certain, most likely he is in Canada, Algonquin town.'

'[ManiaK] – Got one. He is registered in the MCA. He challenged some dude because he stole his girlfriend LOL.'

'[] – he went to some backwater Uni for artists. Nearly failed. From what it looks like he bought his way into the Uni, not the smartest chap.'

'[ONI123] – Check this out! He took a bath in the sewage! Naked!'

'[ManiaK] – Lol.'