The Insider System

Chapter 375: The Deal Pt.11

Chapter 375: The Deal Pt.11

After another hour or so Lake stopped holding back so much and moved quicker than he should out of impatience and was able to arrive at the capitol much earlier than he would have. On the way into the city Lake stopped for a few minutes to inspect the fields around the city that had somehow in the last few days all been cleared and filled with new crops and golems while he changed what he was wearing.

He had only been gone for a few days so this made him think the Alchemist guild had been preparing for this rollout for a while and whatever they had been waiting for had happened. It was a good thing because it meant they were probably also going to be opening restaurants soon which would make it so he could get good food in more places than just the guild.

Running into the city, Lake saw the Temple and wondered if maybe the Temple Head was there even if Tiff wasn't and decided to use Detector to see. When the arrow didn't light up when pointed at the Temple and instead pointed off into the distance he knew there was probably no one inside he should pass the dagger to and continued towards the Alchemist Guild.

Once his check was done and he was let inside he wasted no time and rode the elevator up to the spire and walked into Lucas' office to see he had company. This happened pretty often so it wasn't that surprising but the amount of different people that were here was kind of crazy. Not wanting to get involved, Lake headed towards the stars but stopped when he saw black robes near Lucas' desk.

He hadn't seen them right away but them being here was a real surprise until he remembered Lucas saying on multiple occasions that they did business with everyone including the Demon Worshipers. This was when Lake realized that he didn't see anyone from the Temple of Light and he couldn't help but wonder if maybe this was a really bad sign.

There was no way around the fact that he had already become a member of the Temple of Light and if something bad had been done to them there was a good chance that he would also be affected. While having this thought Lake noticed a lot of people had started to look at him having noticed him staring at them and this included Lucas.

He really didn't want to get involved in case he was right about the Temple of Light so he just acted like he had been waiting for Lucas to look at him so he could wave hello. Once Lucas waved back he continued up the stairs even though he knew a lot of the people in Lucas' office probably hadn't lost interest in who he was.

Casting Fly Lake quickly made it to one of the libraries and used Detector to look for books that held information on famous items. He eventually found a part of one of the shelves that held around twenty books and not wanting to have to read more than one of them he just grabbed the biggest and started writing down items that he felt were possibly good matches for him.

After doing this for about an hour he had a list of over fifty items and thinking it was probably enough for now he was about to get up when he remembered Detector could be useful to him in this situation as well. Setting it to look for the page that held information on the closest item to him now Lake turned until the glowing page was in front of him.

It ended up being a page that held a sword called Destimond. Reading the page Lake stopped before getting too far into it because he decided even if it wasn't a great match for him the fact it was really close made it worth going to get. With something to do on the way Lake got up and started the process of getting ready to leave.

He really only had two things he wanted to do so it shouldn't take too long. After he had filled his bag with food he went back to the elevator to see if Joy was still under the effects of the loyalty curse that made it impossible for her to have a normal conversation.

Once he made it to the basement where the dungeon was, Lake set Detector to look for Joy because like usual he couldn't tell which one she was. When none of them lit up he guessed she wasn't here and decided he would just try again next time he was here.

If there was some kind of peace deal that had been struck and the war was over he would probably stop spending time at the Temple and come back to the guild and use it as his base again. It was a much better living environment and if the Insider didn't say anything to stop him he would much rather be here.

Of course he wasn't just going to abandon the Temple though because he was sure they would have plenty of things for him to do which would give him an excuse to go out and steal stuff. As he walked out of the gate of the Guild Lake set Detector to look for an arrow that was pointing at the sword Destimond.

A few moments later he had his direction and started running but it didn't take him long to realize just how close this sword was because as he passed the Blacksmith guild the direction the sword was in completely flipped. He had been wanting to go to the Blacksmiths guild to unlock the job for a while but right now wasn't a good time to get wrapped up in another guild so he set retrieving Destimond for after he figured out what was going on with the Temple.

Once he had the arrow telling him where Tiff was again he quickly started running out of the city wishing he had taken the time to get a map while he was inside the guild because it could probably tell him where he might end up but even without it he kind of remembered the last map he had seen and knew the Light Domain was near the Holy Domain and with them being the Temple of Light there was a good chance that was where they would be.

He guessed he would only know once he got there though so went ahead and started the journey going much faster than he should to minimize how long it took him to get there. After Lake got a few hours out of the city he saw a group of carts moving down a road that he recognized as belonging to the Temple of Light.

As he got close enough he switched Detector's setting to leave out the arrow and just set it to look for Tiff. Once he did that he saw a person in one of the carts start to glow and was about to head towards it to let them know he had returned with the dagger but realized it was still inside Inner Vault which was hiding its aura.

If he just took it out now all of them would notice how it just showed up all of a sudden out of nowhere which was something he didn't want because Tiff had told him just how hard it was to hide Holy attributed people and items and he didn't want them to think he was Jon again after all this time because that was something he could do.

Sadly this wasn't something he had a choice in any longer because in the next moment the door of the cart came open and the Temple Head came flying towards him. "Lake I was starting to get worried you were caught up in what happened in the Metal Domain and had died."

"Are you talking about the arm?" Seeing the Temple Head start to nod, Lake told the truth on where he had been when that happened because for whatever reason when she had said she had been worried about him it had been a lie. "No, I was in the Earth Domain because the one with the dagger was there."

"Did you fail?" Lake was slightly tempted to lie here but just said. "No, I have it in a pocket space skill to keep anyone from noticing it. Do you want me to get it out now?"

"Might as well were already being chased and Tiff will be able to put it to good use if we're attacked." Hearing that, Lake opened Inner Vault and pulled out the dagger. "What do you think of my new skill?"

"That depends, how many items can it hold?" Hearing this question Lake knew his way of talking down the skill had worked. "Only ten but that's still pretty good because I can keep heavy things within instead of having to carry them around."

"Ten's pretty low but you're right about storage skills being useful no matter what. Alright let's get this dagger to Tiff she's been after it for weeks now. We can catch each other up on what's happened after that." Having successfully hidden the part of Inner Vault that was good, Lake was happy because it meant he would be able to use it in front of the Temple head without her asking about it.