Chapter 409: Not My Problem Pt.5

Chapter 409: Not My Problem Pt.5

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The trip to the first place on the map was briefly interrupted when Lucas tapped him on the shoulder and alerted him that they had most likely lost the people watching him. Lake had already assumed this because he couldn't feel anyone looking his way anymore, but he just nodded, not letting Lucas know he had a skill that told him when people were looking his way or thinking about him.

Lake had no plans of hiding things from Lucas because it was too late already, but alerting him of every one of his skills was a bad idea, even if he didn't think the two of them would ever fight. He preferred only to tell Lucas something he could do if it would help them complete some task.

By the end of the day, he was sure Lucas would know about one or two more of his skills, but that was fine as long as he used it when it needed to be and didn't describe just how good the skill was as most of his skills looked like weaker skills people already knew about.

"We're getting close." The first thing they were after today wasn't a journal but an item suspected of being at least level fifty. Taking out his list, Lake used Detector to get the name and told it to Lucas. "Edge Blade is the item we're about to get. It's a sword."

Swords were the most common thing in all the books about items he had read, and while he didn't put many on his list, there were still over four in the Holy Domain. "Okay, how do you want to do this?"

Lake usually didn't kill anyone unless it was necessary because he felt murder was more likely to send some super guard after him, and he was sure Lucas would feel the same, so he said. "I'll go. Just keep your ears peeled because I'll call if I need backup."

With his ability to be quiet and too fast to see, Lake didn't think this would take long, but he changed his tune a bit when he saw the place Detector was saying Edge Blade was. Detector was telling him a random tree was the location of the blade, but when he looked upwards, he didn't see any building the owner could be living in.

"The Unholy zone is behind us now, so take over again." Lake nodded and took the lead position from Lucas before asking. "What do you think the Demon Worshipers were doing that was making the mana in that area more dense?"

"I don't really care, but if you want to know, we'd have to turn around. I know you're a member of the Temple of Light, so I could understand you thinking it's important." At first, Lake was surprised by Lucas being okay with them turning around. Lake then realized Lucas was probably trying to be accommodating in fear that he stop using his skills to help find the journals if he got mad that Lucas didn't care about the Temple.

"No, I don't care either. I just wanted to hear what you thought." Lake had decided to mind his own business until the Insider made him go back to the Temple, so the only reason he had asked was curiosity at what Lucas was thinking. "In that case, my first guess would be that a giant is getting the space ready for a new fort to go up. That location is between the capital and two other big cities, meaning it's a good place to hold if they think the Temple of Light plans to invade at some point."

"I don't think they'll be doing that anytime soon." Lake had almost started to talk about the things the Temple Head had told him before he left but decided Lucas didn't need to know the inner workings of the Temple of Light.

"Hard to say. The gods don't have much time if the Demon Lord continues to make deals like he is. There's over a fifty percent chance they try an attack, but it won't be on the Holy Domain if they decide to do something about the Demon Lord. They'll go after the Dark Domain."

Seeing that it seemed Lucas already had a good grasp on what was going on between the two sides, he guessed it wouldn't have been such a big deal if he had said what he was going to earlier. "Have you ever been to the dark Domain?"

Lake instantly regretted asking this because the answer was clear if you remembered the old Guild master had been Amanda, the one who became the Dark Goddess, but it was too late. "Yes, I've been many times before and after the Demon Lord took control over it."

Thankfully, Lucas took it as an innocent question and didn't react the way Lake had feared to the mention of his friend's Domain. "What's it like?" He had asked this question to the Temple Head of the Metal Temple in the past, but the dwarf hadn't said much other than it was a chaotic place filled with undead monsters.

"It was much nicer before the Demon Lord took over. It's still not that bad as long as you're supposed to be there, but being invited is rare, so I wouldn't recommend ever going." Lake had never thought of going to the Dark Domain and had only asked what Lucas thought of it in case he was one day forced to head there for some reason.

"We're getting close to the next dot. Will you be going to get the journal, or do you want me to handle it again?" Lake knew this was an abrupt change of subject, but the journal was more important than what they were talking about a second ago. "I'll be going as well. I'd like to see who had it to see if I know them for the guild's old days or not."