Chapter 138: Back In The Guild Pt.1

Chapter 138: Back In The Guild Pt.1

Getting tired of waiting, Lake turned around and headed inside. He was sure he wasn't the only one making this decision either with the sun starting to come up. He was annoyed but it wasn't that big of a deal to wait 10 hours for something that never ended up happening. Looking at his servants he said. "I'm going to sleep now, feel free to do the same."

He was sure they would set up a rotation so there would always be someone out there who would wake the rest of them up so he didn't even bother giving them the order. Lucas had told everyone about the giant yesterday while he had been out getting his new stuff from the Blacksmiths guild so everyone was anticipating the fight that was going to happen and that included his servants. The source of this content is N0veII_bIn

Walking to his bedroom area Lake stared at his old satchel that was sitting on his table as he got into bed. He had ended up keeping the dagger so it was going to bother him every time he saw it until he found a good place to hide it.

He wasn't too afraid of Tiffany telling anyone about him or the fact that she found the dagger because he was sure she didn't want to get rid of her only chance at getting away but he had no way of knowing if other people could use the same method she had used to track him down.

As he closed his eyes he assured himself that she would cover for him and that he wouldn't be hearing from them anytime soon so he could stop thinking about it and just go to sleep.

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Opening his eyes naturally after getting as much as he wanted, Lake guessed the fight had never kicked off. It was a good thing because it gave him another day to do what he wanted after work. "Work." Lake couldn't help become less happy as he remembered there was stuff he had to do but became slightly less aggrieved as he remembered where he was doing it.

There was always something interesting going on in the master lab so even if his repetitive work had become annoying and boring he could keep himself busy by looking at what other people were working on. Getting up and going to get his bag, Lake realized he was going to have to wear his chest piece if he wanted to take his bag everywhere like he usually did.

Lake shrugged, it wasn't that hard to get it on so there was no point in focusing on the one bad thing about this new bag. Plus you never knew when you would accidentally get stabbed so being safe was never a bad thing. Once he had his armor on, Lake walked towards the door only to be stopped by one of his servants coming down from their room.

Right after lake walked into the room with all the packed items lake saw people that were working getting things into carts. It seemed the guild was still conducting business while they could but he wast here to watch this so he looked at one of the people that had just brought some stuff here and followed them out of the room.

Entering a hallway he had never seen before Lake saw it kept going for what seemed to be a mile and there were countless doorways that had people walking in and out of them carrying what he assumed were ingredients to make whatever potion was being made in that particular room.

Wanting to see if everyone of these doorways led to a lab, Lake started to look through the doors as he walked down the hallway. He quickly found that most of these rooms were being used for storage or empty and only a small minority were actually labs, he also saw a few rooms that had plants growing in them but there weren't that many.

He wondered if these were plants that didn't keep very well after being harvested so they were growing them near to where they would be used. He thought that would probably be something they did but he guessed it could be that these plants were used often and were easy enough to grow that they just did it here so they would always be on hand.

Getting further down the halfway Lake started to see closed doors and looking further down the hallway he saw past this point there were guards actually guarding the rest of the hallway. Lake wasn't afraid of the guards though so he just walked over to them and asked. "Am I allowed to pass?" And held up his badge to show them who he was.

"Yes sir." Lake nodded and walked past. Since the doors were closed he went up to the first one and opened it. Stepping inside Lake saw something he hadn't seen in a while: Alchemists his age. Well that wasn't exactly true because of Millie but he never saw her do any Alchemy and she was more of a chef in his opinion because all she did was cook food.

Walking in Lake was only able to take one step before someone stopped him. "Are you the new guy?" Lake was about to say no because he was sure saying yes would lead to work but the Insider stopped him. It wanted him to say yes for some reason and he guessed the reason was pretty obvious when you took its name into account.

"Yes." Lake didn't give any more information because when you were answering a yes or no question with a lie all the extra stuff you wanted to add to make it more believable actually did the opposite. "You're kind of early." Lake just shrugged, being early wasn't a bad thing so he didn't see a reason to make an excuse.

The only thing he really needed to worry about was the fact the actual new person could be here at any moment, but that was fine, his lie wasn't malicious so he could just act like it was a joke when they got here. "Ok well you'll be replacing Dena when her shift is over so you can just spectate until it's time for you to take over."

Lake nodded and went to where the man was pointing, when he got there he looked at the woman he guessed was the Dena he would be watching until whoever he was pretending to be got here. Lake couldn't fathom what the insider wanted from him in this situation. All this lie had done was make it so he could stand here quietly until the person got here which was just a waste of time as far as he could tell.

Lake focused on what Dena was doing. He might as well finish what he had been doing in the first place when he came in here, which was seeing what normal members did all day. He guessed this was the best chance he could ever hope for to get insider knowledge without them knowing he was from the spire.