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< Where are you? >
The bald man shouted out the door.
“Hey! Is there anyone out there?”
He called his subordinate and handed him the paper he had just written down, saying:
“This is the information of the person you asked me to find. Find out first!”
The subordinate who received the paper nodded and went out.
“yep!”
The man glanced at the note. Among the information he had given, there was a secret code that only the thieves could understand, written like graffiti.
I couldn’t read the secret language because it was different for each guild, but I knew that such secret language was not used in normal situations.
The man’s suspicions have now become certainty.
‘These kids. It’s obvious they know something.’
As the elder stared at him intently, the bald man rubbed his palms hard and smiled wickedly.
“Please wait a moment, our informant will find out soon.”
But even after waiting for 10 or 20 minutes, the informant did not come.
Instead, others came.
Knock knock.
Alina gently poked the man in the ribs.
She naturally covered her mouth with one hand and spoke very quietly so that only the other person could hear.
‘I hear footsteps outside the door.’
It seemed that the half-elf’s keen hearing had detected the thieves’ presence.
The man nodded slightly.
There were five people outside the door. They were properly trained to hide.
It felt quite familiar to the person.
‘They seem more like assassins than thieves?’
I just asked him to find the goblin mask, but he sent an assassin to stand by…
This is where things get more interesting.
The man looked at the bald man and said.
“Is the original source this late?”
The bald man smiled awkwardly. The man could see a drop of cold sweat running down his shiny forehead.
“That’s right. Did you fall down on your way here or something···.”
A moment later, a thief entered the room and handed the bald man a note.
The bald man’s expression hardened slightly as he read the note. He looked at the old man’s expression and spoke.
“The information you are looking for is located at our guild headquarters.”
“Then tell them to bring it right now.”
“But that···.”
The bald man looked a little embarrassed.
“Because it’s a document that can’t be leaked. If you want to read it, you’ll have to go to our headquarters…”
“To the Thieves Guild Headquarters?”
The place where the group was now was one of the branches of the Thieves’ Guild in the slums.
The location of the Thieves Guild headquarters was hidden, and only a few people knew its location.
‘And once an outsider sets foot there, it’s almost impossible to come back.’
The man knew it, but he nodded calmly as if he knew nothing.
“Really? Then guide me.”
At that moment, the bald man sighed in relief.
‘Whew.’
If the person refused, the note contained an order to capture them along with the guild members waiting outside the door.
The opponent is a wizard who uses fire magic without a spell.
If I had to fight, the burden would have been greater.
But if you take them to the guild headquarters, it’s a different story.
‘Hehe. I don’t know if I’m stupid or if I’m confident in my skills, but… When I get to headquarters, all the gold coins in your pockets are mine.’
The bald man got up from his seat and bowed, hiding his mean intentions.
“Then please follow me. I will take you safely to headquarters.”
A sly smile appeared on the bald man’s lips as he turned around.
And a similar smile appeared on the lips of the man who followed him.
‘If I do well today, I’ll hit the jackpot?’
Thieves Guild Headquarters.
In other words, it was the city’s treasure trove.
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The group of people followed the bald man through an underground passage that was as complex as an anthill.
The middle keeps changing length, and you come out and enter a new underground passage several times.
The man looked at Lily, who was following him closely on his right.
The girl was holding his sleeve tightly with her small hands.
“Kid. Don’t your legs hurt?”
It would have been normal for her to have complained about her sore legs and hunger a long time ago, but Lily nodded with a somewhat dark expression.
“Yeah. It’s okay···.”
Perhaps it was because it brought back memories of past nightmares.
Memories of the goblin mask still haunted the young girl.
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The man asked, tapping his hand on Lily’s head.
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“···A little?”
At the sight of the girl looking up at him with her big eyes, the man smirked as if to say, ‘Then that’s how you are.’
“Just wait.”
The man took out a chocolate bar from his robe pocket.
It was my little one’s favorite chocolate bar, which I brought to give to him whenever he was crying, whining, sick, or weak.
In a word, a secret weapon.
The man opened the chocolate bar, took a bite, and put the rest in Lily’s mouth.
“Mmm. This is delicious. For now, eat this.”
“Chocolate!”
I thought she would eat it all in one bite, but Lily smiled brightly as she ate the chocolate bar little by little.
“Thank you, sir.”
With one hand holding the man’s sleeve and the other holding a delicious chocolate bar, the girl was no longer afraid.
Now it seemed like it would be okay for that scary goblin mask to appear.
Lily muttered, chewing on her chocolate bar.
“It’s really delicious… It’s the best thing I’ve ever eaten.”
It was so delicious that it brought tears to my eyes.
Lily wiped her tears with her sleeve and laughed.
The man saw the sight but turned his head away, pretending not to see it.
“It’s overdone.”
After a while, the group arrived in front of an elevator that was powered by magic.
The bald man who guided the group rubbed his palms and said.
“We’re here. Now, if you take this up, you’ll arrive at headquarters.”
The group took the elevator to arrive at a large mansion.
The interior of the mansion was quite dark.
The windows had shutters so there was no view outside, and although there were lights on throughout the mansion, there were many places that were cast in shadow.
The bald man led the group to one of the rooms in the mansion.
“Come this way.”
In the fairly large room, there was a single tea table.
The bald man who had stepped aside by the door pointed to the tea table with both hands and spoke.
“If you wait there for a moment, someone will come with the information shortly.”
“Tell him to come quickly.”
The man nodded and walked to the table and sat down. Lily and Alina followed him and sat at the table.
At that moment, a bitter smile appeared on the lips of the bald man standing in front of the door.
“Hehe. I got caught.”
At the same time,
Thump thump thump thump!
Centered around the tea table, iron bars popped out from the ceiling and floor simultaneously.
In an instant, three people were locked in a prison cell with a radius of about three meters.
Princess Alina jumped up in surprise.
“What the heck is this!”
Chae-Ang!
She pulled out her sword from within her robe and looked around.
Ssssssssut.
Thieves who had been hiding in the shadows throughout the mansion began to emerge one by one.
They all have a considerable level of stealth ability.
These were the powerful people who showed that this was the headquarters of the Thieves’ Guild.
And from among them, a middle-aged woman adorned all over with gold walked out.
“Are these kids?”
The bald man nodded to the middle-aged woman.
“Yes! Master!”
She was the master of this city’s thieves’ guild, aka Gold Mary.
At that moment, Alina shouted with an angry face.
“You guys! You tricked us! You know my true identity as expected···!”
“identity?”
Goldmary tilted her head. Then she turned to the bald man and said.
“Who is that girl?”
“Yes? I know that too…”
As the two talked calmly, Princess Alina shouted with even more fire in her eyes.
She couldn’t help but associate this whole situation with herself.
“Don’t act like a fool! You set a trap to sell me out to the traitors… Ugh!”
The man sighed, covering Alina’s mouth.
“The child is a bit unstable. Let’s talk about it together.”
However, once you reach the level of master of the Thieves’ Guild, you can piece together countless pieces of information with just a few words.
“no way···.”
Goldmary looked at Alina with an expression of disbelief.
“princess?”
Princess Alina finally realized that this situation had nothing to do with her.
“Oh, you got the wrong person!”
I tried to deny it later, but it was already too late. First of all, the tone of voice was rude.
“Oh my god!”
Gold Mary covered her mouth with both hands. The gold rings on her ten fingers sparkled.
“Oh my! Kids! We hit the jackpot today! What do you mean the princess is the one giving them the information! Let’s take off that mask quickly!”
The word ‘they’ tickled the man’s ears.
The man stepped forward and said.
“Are these the masked men you speak of? Goblins and orcs? How many more are there?”
Instead of answering, Gold Mary looked at the man as if she were looking at a strange creature.
“The man who hangs around with the runaway princess… Who are you?”
According to reports from his subordinates, this young man was the leader of this group.
A man who is presumed to be a high-level fire wizard, but other than that, there is no information about him.
Also a dangerous person who goes around asking for information about ‘them’.
But since she had caught all the fish, Gold Mary was relaxed.
“I’ll ask the questions. You just have to answer the questions I ask.”
For a moment, the man looked dumbfounded.
“I paid for it? Why is the service here so bad?”
Goldmary still snickered at the confident attitude of the man.
“If you’re trying to fool around with your magical powers, give up. There’s a mana seal barrier right where you’re standing.”
Taaak!
As Gold Mary snapped her fingers, a magic seal barrier hidden under the table was activated.
Wooooow!
The moment the barrier was activated, Princess Alina took a deep breath.
“Huh!”
It was as if the mana inside his body had suddenly turned to stone and he didn’t move at all.
The man frowned.
It wasn’t to the point where it was completely unusable, but the danjeon was fluctuating more unstably than usual.
“Really. This isn’t just a small amount of money… Honestly, I didn’t expect this much.”
“Huh. Now do you understand what your situation is?”
Gold Mary stepped forward.
Because there was nothing to fear from a wizard whose mana was sealed.
“Then answer my questions from now on. If you don’t want to get holes drilled in your body.”
As she lightly raised her hand, several thieves standing behind her drew their crossbows and aimed them at the man.
“First question. Why are you looking for the goblin mask?”
“Find it… Wait a minute. Where is this?”
The man delayed answering and took something out of his robe.
A palm-sized, L-shaped metal object that is completely unfamiliar to the people of the Gaia continent.
It was something called a pistol.
It is also an original weapon created by a superhuman with the [Creator] trait.
The model name is Zeus
The great man lifted his golden merry and aimed it at Zeus.
“I found it and decided to do it like this.”
Taang!
The moment the gun fired, Gold Mary fell, clutching her leg.
“Gyaaaah!”
Before the other thieves could react, the man pulled the trigger again and again.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The thieves holding crossbows were the first to fall.
Next, those who tried to throw their daggers and those who were near Gold Mary were shot and fell one by one.
The man, who had used up all his bullets, quickly replaced the magazine. With almost no delay, the gun fired again.
“Ugh!”
“Keuh-euk!”
On the roof, in the shadows, in the closet.
No matter where you hid, you couldn’t avoid the bullets.
In less than a minute, all the thieves in the room fell to the floor.
“Phew-.”
The man blew the barrel of his gun with his mouth like a western gunfighter.
And he said with a grin.
“A gunslinger in a fantasy world. I’ve always wanted to try this.”
Meanwhile, Goldmary was running away, dragging her shot leg.
She screamed hysterically when she was almost out of the room.
“You’re going to be trapped there anyway! Wait! I’ll come back and kill you!”
“You’ve never been locked up?”
The man pulled the sash from his waistband.
Slurp.
The cursed sword radiated an ominous aura.
Even without using mana, it was possible as long as you had a trained body and a sharp sword.
It’s like cutting iron bars.
Crunch-!
The bars that held the three men in prison were cut away, and the man walked out of the prison.
“Wow, that’s ridiculous…”
The man crouched down in front of Gold Mary, whose mouth was wide open as if her jaw would fall off.
“You, you are definitely a wizard···.”
The man smiled brightly at her words.
“I asked you to make my pass a wizard pass. I never said I was a wizard myself.”
The man pressed the barrel of Zeus’ gun against Gold Mary’s forehead.
Kuk···.
The muzzle of the gun was hot against her forehead, but Goldmary began to shiver as if she had the chills.
The man asked her in a soft voice.
“That goblin bastard. Where is he?”
< Where are you? > End
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