Chapter 131: Errands Pt.2

Chapter 131: Errands Pt.2

After a few steps Lake could clearly hear someone following behind him and it seemed they might have a way to actually move faster than him even if it was a little loud. This meant he needed to rush the heal. Getting his potion out, Lake just poured some into his mouth, and got ready to intercept whatever attack had to be heading towards his back at the moment.

Spinning Lake just swung his knife out towards where he heard the footsteps, which was literally right behind him. He hadn't expected this attack to actually land and it didn't, but it had been more of a defensive thing just to keep them from being able to stab him again. "Listen, I understand why I'm being attacked at the moment, but I didn't do what you think I did. I've been set up to make the Temple attack the Alchemist guild."

This was clearly a lie but depending on who it was actually attacking him it might make them pause. Not being stabbed, Lake continued. "I'm Lucas's right hand man, why would I take a dagger I can't even use then keep it on me?"

Lake didn't know this line would have probably worked if they were actually able to track the dagger.

Sadly Tiff was tracking the Thieves guild badge and had actually been wondering why no one at the Temple had been able to track the dagger at all. It didn't make any sense because the place they kept the dagger normally was specially designed to hide the aura of the Holy Weapons, something that shouldn't be possible for the person who had stolen it.

This was one of the reasons she had suspected the Temple was lying about the theft in the first place, but this thief had just kind of said they had the Dagger on them and thought that was how she was tracking them. This meant they had something she cared more about than the Dagger itself, a way to hide it.

This had always been one of the biggest problems with her plan to go on the run, the fact that she would be tracked constantly by both the Temple and the Demon Lord's forces. It was a good thing this person was a thief because it meant she could probably hire them if she had the money the other thieves had said they would give her if she killed this thief.

It would be easy to lie to them, she just needed to offer to work with this thief to screw over the other ones; it was something every thief understood. Undoing her invisibility Tiff said. "Would you like to work for me for a while?"

Lake saw a woman appear right next to him which instantly confirmed what he had been thinking about the identity of who was attacking him. Not only just the fact that they were with the temple either this was the woman he had seen looking up at him the other day while he had been inspecting the city.

Not missing this chance Lake instantly marked her in case this was just a trick, and the fight wasn't actually over. "What do you mean work for you?" Lake was fine working for the Temple as long as he didn't end up in the middle of a war zone, the way he saw it this might just be easy money. The source of this content is N0veII_bIn

It would also probably help with the fact he was now definitely caught for stealing the Dagger unless he somehow killed everyone who was watching them at the moment. Any of them could be this woman's backup. He was sure if he tried to silence them they would all scatter making it impossible for him to get them all, or know if he had killed the right ones.

Picking her words carefully Tiff said. "I was told by the Temple to find the Dagger, so I started where anyone who was looking for something that was stolen would, the thieves guild. I didn't need their help but I figured you'd be there and while I was looking around to see if they knew anything about you I got an interesting offer. 100,000 to kill you, and a better, less finicky way to track you."

Tiff thought this sounded believable but what she didn't know was Lake could tell when people were lying and he wasn't happy. He did plan to keep this fact to himself though and play along because he could tell where this was going, he was going to get part of this 100,000, and he planned to make sure he got all of it but he needed to actually pay attention to what she said so he knew which parts weren't true.

"I don't believe they have any intention to actually pay me though but I have some information that I can use to blackmail them into giving me it, and I'm sure they will be more than happy to play along if they think you're actually dead. Once I have the money I'll hire you to hide us from the Demon Lord."

Lake stopped her here because he didn't know what made her think he could do something like that. He wasn't going to say he couldn't because she would probably lose interest in working with him but he was pretty sure he could get more information without directly asking what she wanted. "You said us, how many, and who are they?"

This made it sound like what she wanted from him had limits so he hoped she would explain her plan he had been added to in her mind already. "I don't know but there wont be more than four others and there's a good chance it could be only me." This didn't really give him anything he didn't already know so he asked. "And how long do you want my services?"

"How expensive is your time?" Lake didn't have a number set because he couldn't even do what she wanted from him so he said. "Lucas pays me a thousand a day and that's when what he has me doing is safe." Lake stopped here because he knew he had made his point. If she didn't say something he liked he was done here.

"As Long as your skill or whatever you use to hide stuff is good enough, what I want from you, will be safe." This was what he wanted all along or at least enough that he could put it together. The dagger that he was hiding on his person, she couldn't tell he had it and she wanted to do what he did to it on her and he guessed her family that she would be bringing with her. There was a problem though he didn't think he could store people using Booster Bag

"Who are you running from, and what are you trying to hide from them, that they will be using to find you?" Lake thought this sounded like something someone who could actually do this would ask, but truthfully he just wanted to know to see if it was actually safe or not to work with her.

"We'll be hiding from the Demon Worshipers the Demon Lord sends after Holy Magic users like us and for what you'll be hiding the Aura anything that interacts with Holy Mana gives off like you're doing with the dagger right now." Lake nodded and said. "We've probably already spent more time than we should have talking, but I have one more question. Why are you running?"

It didn't make sense to him that she would want to leave the Temple when everyone knew the Temple was the only place that could keep people like her safe. "We're going to lose, at least the city. I personally think we'll win the war, but me and my friends won't be alive to see it."

Lake had been right to ask the way she looked right now told him everything he needed to know about her, and at this point he was pretty sure it would be easy to take the money after they had it because he was dealing with someone who didn't have any other options than to trust him when he said he would help her.

It was too bad she had offered him money before asking for help because he needed the money bad enough that he was willing to go through this elaborate plan to get it. If she had just said she needed help he would have just said no and she wouldn't be about to get screwed over by him.

She would have never done that though because she thought he was just a normal thief who always wanted money, so that was how she opened the dialogue between them. It was a lesson in not showing your cards too early even if you think it's your only option. Looking at her, Lake said. "How are you going to convince them I'm dead?"