CH473

<Meeting’s about to start. Do whatever you need to and don’t make me regret this.>

“Relax, I’ll give you the finer details in a few days so for now go fulfill your godly duties.”

With his god giving him the heads up, Ben put down what he’d been working on in the shop and stepped through his new gate, bringing his clones along for the ride as he came out the other end in Thera’s old room at her family home.

When they’d visited only the day before she’d made sure to tell her mother and aunt about it, neither of them could leave something like that there without providing any sort of heads up and it was already showing its worth in letting him travel as he passed by the various staff doing their work before leaving to make his way to a proper gate to get through the network and arrive at his real destination, the magic towers.

He was going to make his way to the library eventually to do a bit of research but had a different target first which led him through some unfamiliar streets. In his time there, he’d explored only a little but had a good enough idea of the city that it didn’t take too long to find his main target, their branch of the adventurer’s guild.

Going there was the first step in what was sure to come off a slightly insane plan to help Thera so he put on a confident look and let himself inside, taking it all in as he did.

Despite it being less relevant than the Stonewall branch, what with the city being in a fairly safe location given its importance with no long stretches of woods where monsters of any sort could hide, the building was far bigger than the one he was used to dealing with, along with having a tidier interior to go with it.

It seemed it wasn’t uncommon for the people of the city to act as adventurers by taking advantage of the gate network they had, letting them go to hunt or gather out in the wilds for whatever they needed either as a way to earn some extra pocket money or else train their skills. Just looking around it was clear enough that the vast majority there were mages which made sense given the city he was in.

But that’s not what I’m here for.

He ignored the crowd taking their quests as he waited in line to get to the counter to talk to one of the staff, his card already out and at the ready.

“Well, you aren’t a familiar face,” The employee told him, giving off a friendly atmosphere. “From out of town or just looking to register? I can talk you through the process.”

“The first, but I’m not here to take a quest either,” He said, showing the mark that indicated he was rank one and enjoyed the surprised look the reveal had gotten him. “I’m here to make a request and I’m more than happy to pay well to anyone who can meet the conditions for it.”

“Very well, I’ll just need the details and then we can work on the paperwork for it. What exactly are you looking for? I suppose you won’t be seeking any guards so materials perhaps?”

He shook his head. There were plenty of things adventurers could do for requests beyond hunting but what he wanted fell fairly far outside the norm.

“Information.”

And done, all that’s left is to see how this works out.

His request had left the staff member stunned and he needed to do his best to try and make things seem a bit less significant than they actually were, with all there was left being to come back in a week and hope that nobody interfered.

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If there really was some important meeting going on then he was hopeful enough that nobody in the heavens had decided to skip out to watch him instead but he was sure he’d hear soon enough from Myriad if he was wrong, but that also left one more variable that had his eyes on him.