Chapter 143: Unexpectedly Important

Chapter 143: Unexpectedly Important

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Tiff was returning to the city much faster than she had left it because she was moving at her own speed which was much higher than that of the scouts she had been following. She was also moving in a straight line because there was no longer a giant she had to avoid in the middle of the city.

Getting to the city Tiff made herself invisible and dashed over the first wall then headed towards the Alchemist guild hoping Jon would actually be there. She was pretty sure he lived there full time and now wasn't exactly a time someone would want to be out and about so she hoped once she got close enough and turned off her invisibility he would see her no problem and come give her the dagger like he said he would.

Getting outside the Alchemist guilds barrier Tiff headed towards where she had been watching the Alchemist guild the other day because it was the closest she could get to her mark when she had still been tracking Jon. She had spent most of a day sitting here the other day waiting for him to come out of the guild so she could ambush him but it wasn't a good hiding place if you weren't invisible because she was literally standing on the roof of a huge building.

Turning off her invisibility and making herself as visible as possible Tiff just hoped Jon was actually watching the fight and took a second to look down at the city because she was sure most people would be looking straight up into the sky now. Looking up into the sky herself now that she had time she saw that the temple had given up on the trying to hide how many of them there was plan because at a glance she saw 11 dots of golden light that were members of the 23 and there were also attacks coming from the ground that was giving away even more of them.

Actually the temple had probably just been unable to get the others under control before they all rushed out to help however was in the sky and almost been killed. The other members had most likely all reacted like she would have if she had had her dagger which was instantly joining the fight before she received her orders.

In the time it would have taken for the new orders to come down, whoever was up there fighting all alone could have died. She was sure the temple was going to be mad at them all later for this but the fact that one of the three swords hadn't been killed would probably lessen how mad they were and if they were lucky the temple would agree with their decision.

As she watched she had to say it seemed the 23 hadn't all rushed out so their exact number was still hidden which was what the temple wanted at most only 17 of them seemed involved at the moment which was close to the two of them per one giant rule the temple had set for this fight.

As she watched the current balance of this battle Tiff had to say it seemed it was under control. She could tell the 23 were having a hard time actually getting their attacks to land but that was also true for the giants and with there being more of them that meant even if only 10% of their attacks were landing it was slowly whittling down the giants.

The most likely thing to happen was actually her getting noticed by some of the Alchemist guilds guards and it causing an awkward interaction between the Temple and them. She could just picture the Alchemist guild asking the Temple why they had sent a person to wave at them the whole battle.

And she now had something more important to do anyway. The giant that had died in this battle wasn't a normal monster. It had some Divinity in it, even if it was just a small amount. That meant the goal of this battle had just changed to what she had been trained for harvesting the kills they got.

She was the perfect person for this job because any corpse that had divinity in it became a target for every person that was around. All you had to do to harvest the divinity was get your hands on the core, so it because a true treasure even if you didn't have plans to use it on yourself and she was the best of the 23 for this job because she was the least effective of them in battle and the sneakiest so she could harvest the giants core and the other giants wouldn't even realize she had done it if she did a good job so in their efforts to reclaim the divinity that had come from the Demon Lord they would open themselves up to more attacks.

If they were lucky this would lead to another giant dying in the ensuing fight over the devine core. There was one problem though her stealth wouldn't work on something like one of those giants without her dagger not with how high their stats were they would literally be able to see not only her but the ability itself.

She hadn't seen it herself but people or things that had Perception over 100 had what people called God Eyes this wasn't a skill just the effect of perception getting to the next level. This gave them the ability to see things like skills given from jobs when they were activated if the person they were observing wasn't divine themselves.

That meant she wouldn't be able to be sneaky this time but she was still pretty sure she could be the first to the body. It was falling and all the people in the sky were chasing it while fighting and the fact that they were fighting made them too slow to be the first to it. So it was between everyone on the ground and she was very fast with her Agility at 130 with all her skills that affected her speed activated.

Racing towards where she thought the giant would Land Tiff beat it to the spot with her being faster than something could fall. As soon as the giant landed on the ground sending up a huge amount of dust Tiff ran towards the body with her sorry excuse of a dagger to start the harvest. Using imbue to coat the dagger with Holy mana, Tiff started to dig into the giant's chest in the search of the core.

Because of the dust she didn't know how much time she had till the others would be here or if she was the only person currently trying to dig into the giants body but with her use of the holy element she was the only person here who wouldn't be digging through the flesh of a demigod with nothing but her brute strength.

Quickly getting into the rib cage Tiff saw what she was there for and remembering what she had been taught in preparation of this process Tiff made sure to grab the glowing rust colored core with covered skin. She wasn't really in danger if she didn't do this but a divine core wasn't really something you should spend long periods of time in contact with as a mortal.

Now that she had it she didn't waste any time in going to the one place she had truly been trying to avoid until the other members of the 23 returned, the temple. With something like this in her hands she was in more danger out here than at the temple because she didn't believe for one second the giants wouldn't be after her now that she had it and even if they did give up on retrieving the core in her hands and decided to retreat she wasn't going to risk a look over her shoulder to look.