Chapter 367: The Deal Pt.3

Chapter 367: The Deal Pt.3

Lake didn't get very far from town before he summoned the treasure he had hidden in the forest. After the first appeared the worry he had been feeling while he had been here quickly disappeared when he saw the barrier and items inside still intact which meant no one had been able to find it in the hours it had been hidden.

He guessed they had all assumed because of the speed he had been moving that there was no way the chunks of building would have been hidden so close to town and missed it but there was also the possibility he had just done a good job in picking the spot. Either way now that he knew they were still fine he could worry about finding a good place to sell everything.

He knew it would probably be for the best if he did it before going back to the Holy Domain because the last he had heard the Thieves guild there had vacated the Domain because of the war but he didn't know if any towns between here and there would have a big enough guild office or enough gold to be able to handle the amount of stuff he had to sell.

Figuring using the magic compass was his best option, Lake set it to look for an arrow that was pointing at the closest Thieves Guild branch that could afford to buy his loot. Once he had his answer he was about to start running when he realized it was probably pointing at the city he had stolen it all from to begin with and redid the setting to exclude Keldon. The source of this content is N0veII_bIn

After he did that the arrow changed where it was pointing so he knew he had been right to fix this problem before he ran to a town he didn't want to go back to just yet. Setting out in the new direction Lake started to wonder where he would end up while hoping it didn't add too much time to how long it would take him to get back to the Temple.

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Donny had already known the lights they had been seeing in the sky were above the Metal Domain but now that they were spending in the direction of them he started to wonder what it was they were going to find when they arrived. There was a real chance that by the time they finally got back the people they were trying to feed would either be gone or had already found another food source.

The only real way this could be good news was if the Demon Worshipers were about to lose something. Before Donny was able to say any of what he was thinking the guard spoke up. "It shows the God of Metal hasn't been forced into a corner."

This was a good way to look at it if you wanted to see it as good news so Donny was happy that the guard shared his perspective about this with the rest of them. All of them had been wondering why there hadn't been any help from above this entire time and now that it was finally here their chances of winning had just gone up by a lot.

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As Lake was running he felt something from the Insider and stopped to see if it had something to say. Getting the sense it was telling him to turn around, Lake remembered the sky from earlier and realized he hadn't looked once since beginning his journey to find a place to sell his loot.

He was currently in the middle of some trees so he had to move up into the sky a bit to get a good look. After he got into the sky he didn't even understand what he was looking at. It looked like there was something like a pillar coming from the sky. It didn't take long for him to guess it had to be something one of the gods was doing but he would have to get a lot closer to know for sure.

He didn't really have time for that but he did plan to take a look every hour or so from now on to see what happened. He was about to get back to running when the Insider made him stop again. Guessing it wanted him to keep watching, Lake stayed in place and kept his eye on the pillar until he saw it move.

Seeing how it had bent Lake was able to figure out he was actually looking at an arm and couldn't believe the size. He had known the gods were much bigger than them but to be able to see an arm from this far away meant they were absolutely massive.

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After a while they all watched the arm slowly start to rise back into the sky and disappear back into the cloud which quickly closed. The cloud didn't disappear though and just kept swirling in the sky next to all the others. "Do you think it's over?"

Donny did for about a second and had been about to answer Fendis' question but never got the chance because a new and obviously ominous cloud started to swirl right next to the gray one that belonged to the God of Metal. "That's the Demon Lord, right?" The rust colored cloud was well known to a lot of people so Donny wasn't surprised when someone who had probably never seen it was able to identify it right away.