Chapter 83: The Interrogation

Chapter 83: The Interrogation

Lake could feel the guy's body jerk as he woke up. Lake had clearly startled him so Lake made sure his hand was tight over the guy's mouth. When the guy went to struggle Lake pushed the knife down slightly so the guy would get the situation he was in.

During all that Lake had heard the guy make a few sounds, so he knew his Mute skill wasn't able to take care of the sounds others made, even if he was the reason they made them. Lake had never really thought it would work, so he just went with the other way of making someone shut up.

Whispering, Lake said. "..." Then Lake turned Mute off and said. "I'm just going to ask you a few questions then I'll leave." Lake waited for the guy to nod before he started to move his hand away.

When the guy didn't scream, Lake decided to be nice until the guy tried to lie to him. "Hello sorry about this, I just need some info about the alley you left earlier." The guy clearly had been expecting some higher stakes because he looked dumbfounded by what Lake had just asked for. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

There must have been a better reason someone would attack this guy. Maybe he knew something important about something, but Lake didn't care about all that, he just wanted to know about the alley. "I just went to sell some stuff I brought from my village."

This at least confirmed there was a store in the alley but Lake wanted to know why this guy would choose such a weird place to sell his stuff. Surely there were places less grimy. "Why'd you go there instead of a normal store?"

The guy took too long to answer, so Lake assumed whatever he was about to say was going to have some details missing, if it wasn't just a flat out lie. "I don't know it was just the first place I saw." This was a lie so Lake got serious and started to push the knife down.

"Stop, please Stop!" Lake did stop, but not because he was told to. He still needed more answers. "Just tell me the truth." Lake wondered what could be worth lying about in a situation like this. He was literally about to cut this guy's head off.

The guy nodded but still gave Lake something. A piece of gold, Lake guessed this was for the ring, and left while putting it in his satchel. Lake didn't want to join yet, because he wasn't sure how his identity would work if they had something similar to the scroll he had signed when he joined the Alchemist guild.

It had known his name after he touched it so it had somehow read his stats, and Lake wasn't sure if his Impersonate skill would be able to fool something like that. The last thing Lake needed was a badge from the thieves guild with his actual name on it. Lake thought it would be better if he killed a member and stole their identity badge and all.

He could just pretend to be them for a while using Play The Part, and get all the info he needed to know to be a member. Once he was outside Lake couldn't help but think he had been too cautious, none of the things he had been expecting to happen had. The guy didn't even ask him how he found the place.

Lake thought it might have been his demeanor that had won the guy over. Lake knew he wasn't the only person who could read other people because he was pretty sure it was a side effect of having high Perception, and that guy would have high Perception from being an Appraiser because it gave 5 per level.

Lake had also noticed he couldn't really read the guy behind the counter too well and he was pretty sure it had something to do with shopkeepers having high Charisma. Charisma made people better in social situations, so it made sense to Lake that having a lot of it made it harder for people to read you.

Looking up Lake saw the sky was starting to brighten meaning it was the day the feast was originally going to be held. Lake was sure it had been postponed because of the war starting up again so he didn't need to go back to the guild today if he didn't want to but he was starting to get tired again.

At the moment he felt how you did when you drank coffee instead of going to bed, plenty of energy but still tired. It was mainly his legs, they didn't really want to walk anymore, and it made sense with all the running he had done today.

Lake didn't really see any other option but to go back to the guild to get some sleep. He had originally wanted to stay out here for a few days before going back, but with him not being able to find a room to rent, he had nowhere to sleep but the guild.

Walking towards the guild Lake felt a number of eyes snap towards him. Not wanting to give it away, Lake continued to walk. Lake knew if he started to run at least one of the people that had been here spying on the guild would want to catch him before he could get inside.

Lake wondered if these were the same people from this morning. If they were, he was surprised they were still here, but it would explain why he was drawing so much attention if they remembered him. They clearly knew he wasn't just some guy walking down the street with nothing to do with the guild. Lake just hoped none of them tried to stop him.