The Insider System

Chapter 395: The Deal Pt.31

Hearing Someone start to come into his cage again Donny quickly hid his looking stone and pretended to sleep since he had already been laying down. A few seconds later someone smacked something near him and said quite loudly. "We're getting close so we're going to need to get you out of there before too much longer. Don't try anything or we'll have to knock you out again."

Donny guessed they were hoping by telling him in advance he wouldn't try to fight them when they entered the cage but they were wrong. If they were almost there there was a good chance fighting was his last hope of escaping. "Did you hear me?"

"Yes." After Donny said that he had heard them he heard a sound that sounded like they had left again and he quickly went back to using the looking stone. Usually he would have waited till he was sure they had left but he was out of time and them catching him with the looking stone and taking it really wouldn't matter anymore since there was no doubt in his mind someone would notice it when they got to wherever he would be meeting the Demon Lord.

There was probably going to be some intense search or something before all his belongings would be taken from him so there was nothing he could use to try and harm anyone important because that was how you treated prisoners.

He also really didn't care too much about the looking stone anymore because it was useless to someone like him with so little time. He was really only still using it because it was the only way he could see anything at the moment and it was helping to pass the time while he could pretend he was trying to find a way out of this.

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After a while Lake had put together the fact this person had a ring for thieves with them digging and had come to the conclusion this must be some plan to rob the home they were digging under. This was then confirmed when he had used Detector to look for thieves and the person with the ring had lit up.

Lake had then gone off to get a few guards using his Light ring to show that he was someone that could be trusted. "I was passing through town and noticed that there seems to be someone trying to tunnel into a house. I believe that having a few guards with me will improve my chances of stopping this. Would you be willing to come with me?"

Lake had used the guards to his advantage when he had taken the Credglin and while the guy had gotten away he was sure the people in the house that was being targeted would let him in if he had guards with him so this was worth his time. It was also a good deed so there was no need for him to do anything suspicious to get the ring from the person in the tunnel.

"Of course, lead the way." Being followed through town by three guards, Lake quickly brought them to where the thief was and said. "This is the place." Knocking on the door, Lake gave the person who answered it a similar speech to the one he had given the guards and was quickly let in before being brought to the basement.

After getting permission he brought down the wall that separated him from the thief and grabbed them when they had tried to run. He and the guards didn't let any time pass and all ganged up on the man until he had been rendered unconscious. Lake didn't think beating the man up had been entirely necessary but there were people around so it was the responsible thing to do because none of them knew what the guy was capable of and being asleep made him less dangerous.

Lake had also made sure to touch the ring while he had picked the man up off the ground and handed him over to the guards. "Thank you for helping us. I'm sure he was after the inheritance."

Lake could tell if he let the homeowner continue he would have to stay for a while and listen to a long story about his family or something but he was still in a hurry so he said. "I'm sorry I'm on business for the Temple. I have already spent too much time on this and must leave."

"Oh yes of course, let me show you to the door then." Once he was back out onto the street Lake summoned the ring and once he was out of town took out the Credglin and put it inside Inner Vault to see what would happen.

Lv.53 Ring of Silence

+35 Agility

+26 Dexterity

+1 Mute Chain Effect

Lake had already noticed how Inner Vault seemed to cater the bonuses he gained to some of his other skills when he had put the poison inside and it had made the effect work with Poison Taster. This meant getting things that he normally wouldn't need still had a purpose since they could improve the skill that made them redundant.

"Lets see, what time is it?" Looking up into the sky he saw the sun was now almost right above him. Thai meant about half the day was now gone and that he should start heading back but he wanted to see if maybe he could make another stop on the way so he took out his list and had it highlight the name of the closest thing in the Holy Domain.

Seeing the name that started to glow was near the top of the list, Lake knew he was going to take the time to go and get it because the first things he had added to the list were from before he had lowered his standards to pad the number and were all good items that were around level 50.

Dark Lord's Chain Estimated Lv.50

Lake also liked the fact the name was a bit edgy or at least sounded that way because it would always be funny to him whenever he thought about the item or saw it on the list of things in Inner Vault. In reality the Dark Lord's Chain was just a set of fancy chainmail that was crafted for a noble of some kind long before Dark magic had been corrupted by the Demon Lord. Getting an arrow spinning, Lake set up magic compass and started running back to the Holy Domain.

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Tiff had made much better time than expected. She guessed getting her first real stat increase in years had made her miscalculate how much faster she would be now. It was a good thing though cause she had also used way more mana than she had meant to so she had to stop to take a rest before she could finish the last bit.

After finding a place to sit she took out some water and her map and started double checking where she was. She had studied the layout of the Holy Domain years ago when she was still in training so she always knew landmarks she passed but this trip had mostly taken her through random forests and past small villages so keeping her location straight in her head had been harder than it would have been otherwise.

She was still going the right way though so all she was worried about was how close she was. After going over everything she had passed so far on the way she settled on her being only two hours away which meant the whole trip in total had been around half a day. She guessed this meant she was actually twice as fast as she thought she was.

It also meant enough time had passed that normally she would have to start worrying about Demon Worshipers having noticed signs that she was around and finding a place to hide for a few days would have become her top priority but those days were over for her now.

"I wonder if I'll get another skill for this mission." It was possible the God of Light had said something about this already but she had a hard time listening for most of the meeting because of her mission being kind of nerve racking and the two new skills he had been given a few minutes after hearing her mission.

Both of those things had distracted her enough that she felt the God of Light could kind of tell she wasn't listening and had ended the meeting in more of a hurry than he had planned, tired of trying to tell her things she wasn't hearing. It was possible she was just over thinking things though since he had already been in a hurry.

After a while Tiff realized a lot of time had passed since she had sat down and looked to see her mana was already almost filled to the max. Putting her map back into her bag she stood up and started running again.