Chapter 1207 An Impromptu Meeting (2)

Chapter 1207 An Impromptu Meeting (2)

"I apologize for taking longer than usual to arrive." Although the man outwardly showed confidence as he made his way to where the two were, that immediately turned into slight guilt once he began to look at Braum with an apologetic smile.

"It's fine," replied Braum with a slight nod, understanding the plight of the man before them. "After all, even I took a while to get here the first time."

"I'll have to do more research on routes to faraway places like these later on." Nodding in agreement to his words, the man soon shifted his gaze towards the young man beside Braum, his eyes lighting up the moment he noticed the latter's silver irises.

"You would be Valyr, I presume?" asked the man, his tone containing slight excitement.

"That would be me." Valyr nodded in response, slightly surprised that the man leading the Zeihardt clan's supportive faction was more amiable than he initially thought.

Earlier when Braum arrived at his shop for the meeting in advance, the man decided to give Valyr a slight briefing of the supportive faction's leader in detail, giving the young man a heads-up of sorts as to what man he'd be talking to later on.

From what Braum told him, Valyr imagined the leader of the supportive faction to be a calm and collected personality, forgoing the need for emotion in order to make sure all of his moves were done so with the greatest benefit in mind.

With that, the two briefly discussed whether or not the young man should use one of his alternate identities. After all, doing the meeting in his original appearance was basically giving the Zeihardt clan his current whereabouts.

Then again, even though Braum listed down a number of similar reasons to persuade him to make use of a different appearance, Valyr remained adamant in using his original appearance, telling the man that it was inevitable for him to show his true face sooner or later.

"Plus, doing so would bring me one step closer to completing the plan I have," said Valyr, reminding Braum of the conversation they had the last time he arrived at the village.

Fortunately, that was more than enough to convince Braum not to try and persuade the young man any further, which allowed the current situation to happen.

'The supportive faction's leader forgoes the need for emotion... but it really doesn't seem like it?' Continuing to look at the man in front of him in silence, Valyr briefly thought back to the conversation he had with Braum earlier.

"Pardon?" Unsurprisingly, Sullivan looked a bit confused after hearing the question. "Am I wrong in hearing that you're asking me for my usual whereabouts?"

"That would be the question I'm asking, yes." Valyr nodded, only to notice greater confusion on the man's face in response.

Fortunately, the young man soon realized how weird it was for a question like that to be the first question he asked.

So, he clarified himself. "I'm asking this in the off chance I decide on planning a meeting with you in the future. After all, it would be somewhat rude if you were the one who always had to adjust to my whereabouts."

"I... see," replied Sullivan after a bit of silence, faintly nodding as Valyr's words gradually began to make sense to him. "Well, I don't usually go outside the clan that much... the answer you'd be looking for would be the Zeihardt Royal Clan estate, I guess?"

Ding!

Hearing a couple of notifications go off in his mind after the man replied to his question, Valyr felt a bit of smile creep up onto his lips.

Stifling this smile before it could appear, the young man decided to ask a similar question to the one he just threw out, thinking that now was the best opportunity to finish the one quest he'd gotten almost a year ago.

"Now for my second question," said Valyr, thanking the man for his earlier response. "Would you happen to know the usual whereabouts of the leader of the rebel faction?"

As those words left his mouth, the young man thought about how he'd be able to smoothly proceed to the actual conversation he wanted to have with Sullivan after the latter answered his current question.

Though, unlike the slight uncertainty Sullivan showed him in his first question, the man now began to look at him with suspicion.

"Although I don't mind answering your question..."

"Could you perhaps enlighten me as to why you would need such information?"