24 - The City of Foss and the assassin

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Another announcement about finding something on your own.

I wonder what makes them decide if they heard it or not. I'm afraid that Mr. Visor might have some kind of lie detector effect. I wonder if he knows our thoughts. It is said that he corrects the details of the scenery with his memory.

Is this the reason why the privacy policy in the user's manual (Torisetsu) explains that even employees cannot see personal data other than game data?

Roy and his friends were successfully defeated & I received an e-mail from each of them thanking me for the meal, so I send my congratulations back to them. Peter and Shin were there, so I sent them a greeting e-mail as well.

Now, let's find a stall that serves breakfast.

We leave the inn after getting information on places that are open in the morning and that sell tableware.

The town looks a little more remote than the fast town, perhaps because there are no large stores for players, or perhaps because there are no players in the fast town, which used to be full of players day and night. In the morning air, only the inhabitants of this world come and go.

Is that it, the open-air bath, will it be reserved after the first defeat of the boss?

For the first time, I want to be a part of the attack team.

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Let's sublimate our desire for hot springs by replacing it with fluff.

As soon as I called him, he told me.

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White on my left shoulder asks. It's a nice touch.

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I called you before breakfast. Since we have a time limit, let's go shopping for tableware first.

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White hunches over his shoulder.

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White seemed to have something to say, but he kept silent without saying anything. We have no choice but to go to the workshop area with the conversation stopped. I won't stop stroking him, though.

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<<< Hmmm? >>

White opened his mouth and started navigating. I decide to follow him without asking any questions. I follow the directions he gives me several times.

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At the end of the road was a large workshop with colorful tableware. It was overflowing with color, and frankly not to my taste. I leave the workshop with White, who has fallen silent again.

I sit down on a bench under a big tree, move White to my lap, and make a cup of berry tea.

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<<< Hmm. But there was never a time when an elf's place was taken by a man.

The woman did not have the character to take an apprentice either, he says, and begins to drink tea as if he has regained his composure. It seems that the woman was making ceramics. The time when the elves are replaced is the time when the white is sealed.

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A beautiful sound when you flip it is porcelain.

I was so sentimental about the past that I was scolded when I reminded him of the white.

I took a sandwich out of my luggage and made another cup of tea for White, and we ate. When White returned and I was alone, I sat there for a while looking at the street.

I got myself together and went around the workshop. I picked out six ceramic tumbler-like cups for beer for the party, one with a blackish unglazed inside and a bluish glazed outside, and another six with the same design but orange-ish.

It seems that the party is for six people, so they are basically sold as single items, tripods, and hexapods.

Next is a tea set, a set of white porcelain with a fine blue pattern near the rim. Then a tea set, a set of white porcelain with a fine blue pattern near the rim, and a couple of cups only. No coffee cups!

I can use the same tea cups as before, but this is just for my taste.

I'm sorry, do you know of any old porcelain stores?"

As I pay the bill, I ask him if I can't get a good deal.

"The best ones are at auctions. But I'm sure you can find some half-used ones at thrift stores. Old dishes, old clothes, etc. for the less affluent. It's not very safe, so be careful.

A good-natured lady showed me the place with caution.

We came to the antique street, buying more food on the way. In the real world, I would never go near a place where it is not safe. Many of the goods here seem to have been bought from somewhere and put out without being cared for, and besides daily necessities, there are many daggers.

Are those daggers for Thief?　The atmosphere is more like that of a stall in Fast, which is said to be not so safe. The difference may be the presence or absence of players. The people you see here look tired and downcast with their clothes in shades that seem to have faded from their original colors. The absence of players' colorful hair and clothes gives the impression of the alley as it is.

The player ducks a couple of pickpocket-like guys, and then looks at the stores. Mr. Sense and Sensibility is very active. He is a man of near maximum height, and unless he wanders into a more deserted alley, he is not likely to get into a fight.

It's early in the morning. They're probably just sleeping.

I look around for a place that sells tableware, avoiding the sales pitches, and I find this, a pale green bowl on a white background. It is a beautiful, if dusty, cup with a white porcelain background and plant leaves painted on the rim and in the center. Unfortunately, there is no saucer which is supposed to be a pair, but I found a small plate with a different design in another store, so I bought it. There are two types of plates, one with ivy pattern and gold borders on the rim and the other with leaf pattern on the four sides surrounded by gold writing-like letters.

Both have a small green rectangle with a white animal mark on the base. I am sure of it, probably. Glad that not only the white one but also the other one had thought enough of it to choose white for the mark, I pay the store more than the amount offered and go to the temple.

It would be a long time before we learned of the scary prices at auctions for this marked tableware.

After purchasing the tableware, we go to the temple to move to the fast as soon as possible. I am curious about the quest that will take place in Fos, but there are some things I have not yet done in Fast.

The temple is smaller than Fast, but it seems to have the same basic functions as the worship hall, the room for changing jobs, and the transition room in between.

Since I was going to use the temple, I decided to enter the worship hall at least for the first time. In one large room, statues of gods are arranged in a circle. The statues themselves are on pedestals, so they are high, but they are only about half the size of me.

I wonder if they sell them in palm-size.

Well, here I am, back in the city of Fast. It's probably too early to go to the used bookstore. Let's go to the North District first, where I've never been, and start filling in the map. I must go to the apothecary's guild.

There are so many things I want to do but I don't want to get on the wagon.

I'm sorry, don't you have a gateway to get around town?

I ask a plump female priestess at the transition gate if there was one.

She replied, "Haha, there is no such thing. This is a gift from God, you know.

Apparently, a new temple was built, a stone plate was installed, and when a few priests performed the prescribed ritual, letters appeared on the plate and the gate was completed.

The stone used for the plate itself is said to be expensive, but if it is a one-way passage from the temple to the plate, it can be made with a simpler ritual, and its sale is said to be a privilege of the temple. Even so, it is said that the price is too high for the general public to afford because of the time and labor involved.

"I've also heard of an alchemical item called a < that can be used to move from outside the city to here, but I haven't heard of one for use in the city.

Oh, I didn't know such a thing was possible.

Wouldn't a horse-drawn carriage be sufficient?

The carriage is no good. I get drunk."

"Oh my goodness, I have the [Intoxication Resistance] skill, but I won't be able to get drunk anymore..."

"Where can I get one?"

"Well, I mean, we give them here as a penalty for bad drinking habits, right?"

You want it?　He looked at me like he couldn't believe it.

In the temple, there is a place where you can pay for an enchantment that lasts for about an hour before an adventure, and there I paid a fee and received the skill to resist drunkenness.

The skill is basically given as a penalty, but sometimes a woman who also suffers from carriage sickness comes to the temple to get it.

It is not a skill used in battle, so it does not cost skill points, but I got a lot of stares from people who looked at me like I was a man who could not get drunk on his own.

I can't drink to begin with!

The enchantment of the temple was not an attribute grant, but a grant that increased physical defense and speed. I think this is the way to go around the temple of healers.

I'm interested in it, but I don't have enough skill points for it. I can't get 3 points for 6 different kinds of skills!

Well, now I should be able to ride the carriage, but I had never been to the northwest section, behind the temple, so I ended up walking. I had never been to the northwestern section, behind the temple, but I ended up walking there.

The houses are more solidly built than those near the stalls on the southwest side, and seem to be of a higher grade than those on the other side. Even so, when you enter a narrow alley, you can see laundry hanging out to dry, giving the area a lived-in feel.

And now I am in the assassin's guild.

Why?

Please don't build this in a residential area!

"I'm not a professional shifu or a secret agent, am I?"

"What about mage assassins?"

Well, there are assassins who are doctors, and there are those who do things that are not suspected of being their official profession. I thought that was a profession that came out in Thief!

The man says it's important that we found this place. Medium height, featureless face, unrecognizable in a crowd.

"And you're supposed to be good with us, right?　Just observing, because this place is covered up so you can't find it."

"I'm not too happy about the chemistry."

What's the use of being good with assassins!

"You're not a Thief, but you have a hint of darkness, without which you can't enter this place even if you knew it existed.

Darkness, yes. Not only dark, but also blessed. Maybe the blessing makes it absurdly easy to find.

I thought it was a hideout restaurant because there were a lot of unspecified people coming and going, so I went in there copying the guys before me. It's strange to knock three times, kick the door with your toe twice, and knock once more.

It's not Verna's blessing, I'm sorry.

"So, as long as you don't break the rules, you're one of us. There are five rules: don't reveal the location of the guild, don't reveal who the assassin is, don't reveal the assassin's skill, don't accept assassination jobs without permission, and don't reveal the details of the request. It's easy, isn't it?"

You don't have veto power?

"Can't I use my skills and have people find out about it?"

"As long as you don't tell them what your skills are, what they can do, and don't try to sell out your friends, you'll be fine. I don't recommend you to tell people that you are an assassin.

"What about when the Adventurers' Guild asks you to take down bandits?"

That's not assassination.

"Yes, I do."

That's why I became an assassin.

The number of assassins has increased in the occupation column. No, three if you include production.

As Peter said, the penalty for breaking the rules is that you can never be an assassin again, you lose the skills you gained by being an assassin, and the location of the guild changes so that you can't enter the guild building even if you find it. Basically, it seems to be okay if your actions reveal that you are an assassin, as long as you don't talk.

I got the skill [Concealment] in a hurry when I saw it. It seems that the skills related to assassins and assassins will not appear on the guild card when I show it to people, and if the level of the other person's animal demon appraisal is low, it will not appear on the appraisal result.

If the level of the appraise is more than 10 than the concealment, it will be visible, but I guess it is still OK since I have appraised many things and I am currently at the 5th level.

By the way, when I appraise the man in front of me, only his name and his occupation as an armorer are shown.

"How do you raise the level of [concealment]?　If there is a way to raise [appraisal], doesn't that mean we have to actively raise [concealment] as well, or else it will be seen sooner or later?"

"Yes, a lot of idiots get caught just waiting for it to go up naturally."

He grinned and told us how to improve our skills. Basically, he said, it is something that is applied all the time just by taking it, but it is also possible to apply it consciously.

He also laughed at me when I tried to put it on my guild card, saying that it is something you put on other people.

He told me that some assassin skills are derived from acquired skills, while others can be released by doing "work.　He immediately invited me to join him.

"Don't worry. This guild is not so much a legitimate guild, but we don't take jobs without an intermediary from the Knights or the Adventurers' Guild. There are guilds in other cities that are indiscriminate and will do anything as long as they get paid.

I'm afraid of the second half. I'm glad I didn't go into the wrong place in Foss.

I take the offer because I am told that there is no penalty if I don't disclose the offer. It was a request from the thieves' guild to assassinate a bandit who had broken the code and killed in the city. It seems that the guild of thieves in this town is a legitimate guild that basically focuses on dungeon exploration and the like.

The question is whether I am capable of killing people in this real world, even if it is a virtual world.

I'm sure I can. If I can't kill them, I'll be pissed off at the first rabbit. It might be because of the effect that it turns into light and disperses. There will be humanoid enemies in the future, and there may be player-player combat, or perhaps there already is such a function, but I just choose not to accept it.

Emotionally, I can't kill innocent residents who don't know anything, but if they are murderers too, that's a different story. At that point, my thoughts switch to the game. If I kill, I must be prepared to be killed.

The consumption of concealment is E! I'm going to continue to play hide and seek while I'm doing the animal demon analysis.

We have to turn up the light of our magic. Unlike other magic, the number of magic available for darkness has increased to 1, 3, 5,. I thought that the number would increase with odd numbers, but when darkness reached 7, it learned nothing, and when it reached 2, it learned no more magic, so I guess that light increases in the same way as darkness. Darkness is good because it has shadow, but I have a fear that light magic will not increase unless I keep improving it steadily.

M!? I have to take medicine as soon as possible.

As I leave the assassin's guild, I realize that I failed to ask if we assassins can talk about our skills with other assassins. Peter must have taken it.

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Occupation

Assassin

Skills

Sickness Resistance] [Concealment

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Homura Lv.22

Rank D

Occupation Mage Swordsman, Pharmacist (Assassin)

H!?　　605

M!?　　778

STR 34

VIT 22

INT 43

MID 16

DEX 15

AGI 22

LUK 14

N!?C!?　Galahad] [-]

Title

■General

[Interactionist] [Power to Turn] [Mystery Revealer] [Mystery Revealer]

Blessings of the Gods

[Val's Blessing] [Verna's Blessing

■Slayer type

Lizard Slayer

Skill (1s!?)

■Magic and Magic

Wood magic Lv.3] [Fire magic Lv.5] [Earth magic Lv.3

Gold Magic Lv.4] [Water Magic Lv.3] [☆ Wind Magic Lv.3

Light Magic Lv.2] [☆Dark Magic Lv.8

Swordsmanship

[Swordsmanship Lv.9] [Slash

Sword Lv.1

Summoning

White Lv.1

Spirit Art

Spirit of Water [Rufa Lv.2

Talent system

Physical Arts]

■ Production

Mixing Lv.1] [Alchemy Mixing Lv.1] [Cooking Lv.6

Collecting

Collecting

■ Appraisal and concealment

Tool medicine appraisal Lv.3] [Plant food appraisal Lv.4

Animal and Demon Appraisal Lv.4] [Skill Appraisal Lv.2

Weapons and Armor Appraisal Lv.2

Presence Detection Lv.3] [Presence Dilution Lv.3] [Concealment Lv.1

Enhancement

Arm Strength Lv.2] [Intellect Lv.4] [Spirit Lv.2

Improved dexterity Lv.2] [Improved agility Lv.2

Swordsmanship enhanced Lv.3】 【Magic enhanced Lv.2

Resistance

Sickness Resistance]

Other

H!? Natural recovery] [M! Natural recovery] [Night vision] [Map] [Telepathy

Equipment change