I just shrugged, part of me ing to this dungeon was to firm that if Renna’s husband’s allies could be of any use when it es to information, the other half was to make potions using the materials here and also gain some other csses.

  I khat I was being a bit reckless, but it was better to show people who I was and see if they could be trusted or not instead of pying that annoying game that takes too much time to measure each other’s iions slowly.

  “I believe that you want to know the people involved in the i on Frostkeep. Am I right?”

  It looked like they had a pretty good informatiowork, despite living inside a byrinth and hiding. Still, the border retty far away from the empire, so I wondered how they khat. Then, I recalled that in the alchemy book, there was a recipe to ge one’s appearaoo. They probably are everywhere using that kind of potion to obtain information that be useful to them.

  “That is right. If you have that kind of information, what would you want in exge for it?”

  “... Hm. I ’t say that we have that kind of information. We do know that elves and humans were w together at that time, though. Their goal was to make Lady Crice return home, and cause some flicts with both sides. My guess is that they wao force both sides to talk about something that I am not familiar with yet. I believe that the mediators are here with the same objective in mind.”

  I felt like sighing. It wasn’t something only a human or two were involved… that would make things a lot harder for me. Heading to the empire now would be a bad call to hunt for those guys, but at least I was a bit satisfied knowing that the empire as a whole was involved in that mess.

  I didn’t know much about the emperor, but if he was allowing this kind of thing to happen where old dies were suffering acts and almost losing their lives, he was either too inpetent, or he was simply a sick bastard.

  “What about the elves involved? They should be those close to her, am I right?”

  The most obvious suspects would be her brother, Cellid Renna. Crice said that her brother wasn’t a liar. Renna didn’t pass that image to me, so perhaps it was Renna… but back then, would she have dohis much?

  “It might sound ve for me to say this, but while those close to her are involved, they also aren’t involved. They had orders to find her and bring her home, but they didn’t say the methods. The problem wasn’t the people involved, but the person they chose. He is ohat be easily bought and he has been hidden i year because he finally chose his real patron.”

  “That guy, huh?”

  I could tell who it was… it was ihe elf leader of that party that we found in the byrinth. He didn’t pass the feeling of being trustworthy in any way. Still, who would he follow if not someone as iial as Arsn?

  “Do you know who his master is?”

  “I didn’t even tell you his name, but it seems that we are talking about the same person… the st time he was seen, he was in the northwestern part of the nd. If they find you, they will certainly try to attack you. It will be better if you make it easy for him tnize you.”

  That made sense… I had grown a lot i three years and back then, I was using a disguise too. Using the same type of clothes and showing the same bow probably will do the triow then, what was this guy going to ask me in exge for all that information?

  “What do I owe you for this knowledge? I have some mana cores, materials from other nds, and I ent items too.”

  “We don’t need any of that. I would just ask you to leave the byrinth immediately.”

  That hit me like a lightning bolt… it kind of hurt. Was my presence really that dangerous or annoying for them? Hearing something like that was even worse than being chased out, somehow.

  “... All right.”

  This was a bit troublesome since I couldn’t get csses and make the camoufge potions, but a deal was a deal. My fame was already a sorry sight, so I couldn’t risk hurting one of the few things of value that I still had, my word.

  “My apologies.”

  “No worries. Let’s go, girl.”

  We turned around and then headed to the exit of the dungeon. While I was a bit hurt, I at least had my pride to sider and not showing that was the best option.

  … …

  “He indeed left… I wonder if he was worried that fighting me wouldn’t be a good call or he was just readily following the part of the deal.”

  The veteran dark elf couldn’t help but think about that while holding his . He just now realized that Regulus didn’t ask their names either. He was either not ied in who they were, or he truly uood that situation since he was someone who was being hunted down as well.

  “Humph, he did the right thing in leaving. I alone would have been able to defeat him.”

  The younger dark elf made the first sigh… it looked like this one o learn the differen strength between people without using identification. In any case, the older dark elf had other things to sider. The half-vampire Regulus seemed sincere enough with his words and as, but one ’t be too used… it was better to be cautious, even more so when this is a matter that determihe safety of his people.

  “Ay.”

  “I am here.”

  A dark-elf suddenly appeared behind the veteran dark elf; she was using a uniform simir to the ones used by the unseen arrows, but it looked like her skills were even above them given that it looked like she materialized out of thin air.

  “Follow him until he reaches the territory and then watch the entrance of the byrinth… I don’t want to believe that Renna would risk our location, but those mediators vinced all the elders to join them. We o be cautious.”

  “Uood.”

  … …

  I left the byrinth two hours ter and the out a sigh when we reached the outside. I thought that I toughened myself enough to let things like that bother me, but it looked like I still could make some improvements in that kind of field.

  I scratched the bay head and then decided to ge my mood, so what if people didn’t want to be reted to me? Even those who were in simir situations? This world isn’t a middle school where bullied kids stick together sihey don’t have friends.

  “Ugh, this brought bae annoying semories… Whatever, I live without friends. We live without friends, right partner?”

  “Awoo?”

  “Et tu, Brute?”

  I put that aside and then checked the map that Renna gave me… northwest of my current position there weren’t many towns, most of the elders preferred to remain close to the tral parts of the Aeloria Dominion si would make it easy to unicate with others. It also would give them some room to move in case of invasions.

  That guy told me to show myself to lure out those who had wronged me before, but now that I think about it, it would give the ehe bush me. I had to prepare for that. Making anic smoke bomb would do the trick, even more so sihe skill is almost reag level ten.

  Magic Smoke Bomb Lv 09: Throw a magic smoke bomb that creates a cloud of obsg smoke, redug the accuracy of enemies within the area and allowing you to reposition or escape. Cost: 30 mana.

  “We didn’t have time to make mystik level up, but you should keep using your skills just in case. We should reach that level soon. Magic Trap is also at level nine… I should work hard to make these skills reach level ten before finding the arget.”

  “Mew, mew, mew!”

  “All right, let’s go.”

  I checked the area once more and firmed that no one came looking for me yet. I also didn’t want to cause trouble for the dark elves. Perhaps I could buy more information from them iure… With that in mind, I decided to use my bike and leave a clear trail for pursuers. While that also seemed retarded, at least it would make me firm soohan ter if Renna and the others would betray me to the empire.

  I wasn’t sure if they would be fortable in selli and showing that they could do that kind of thing in front of Crice, but there were plenty of other ways for them not to do that in front of her.

  Before long, night began to fall and since I wasn’t making much progress with the magic smoke bomb amulet, I decided to camp under a tree and the G hunt dinner while I worked on that project.

  Since I had some experience, I decided to i in my mana regeion… it would be nice if I could get mana servation as well, perhaps that would decrease the cost of keeping my skill active, Tame Beast.

  ‘I could double the experience points of the css by having two pets. They also would give me experience if I leave them in a byrinth, at least on the first se. They won’t die.’

  That seemed like another cheating way to gain experience… I wonder why I didn’t hear much about tamers. Was that hard to pull it off? One just he Beastmaster css and a lot of mana regeion.

  I couldn’t help but notice that perhaps I was feeling lohan usual thanks to what had happened in the byrinth. I at least khat my pets wouldn’t betray or run away from me, not like they had a choi the matter. Thanks to that kind of thought, I only felt worse…

  While I was thinking like that, I suddenly felt the atmosphere in the area ging… I kept w on my amulets, but soon I felt my Enhanced Hearing implement catg the sound of leaves being smashed and brarembling.

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