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| Tracking the Thieves [SC0406] |
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- Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild
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- Prerequisite: Forest Ranger
- Follow the trail of the thieves.
- Locate and scout the thieves' hideout.
- Do not get spotted.
| A group of thieves have been terrorizing the countryside again.
We need somebody to locate their hideout.
How good are your tracking skills?
Please be covert, or else the thieves will move their camp. |
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She felt bad about the wagon. She felt like having deceived the merchant guild, with her submitting driving the wagon quest. She still intended to deliver them intact, of course. But for then, she made herself and the wagon as bait. At least, she declined the horse when the merchant guild offered. Instead, she transformed herself into one with its shape in front of him, saying that she intended to pull it herself. The merchant guild employee seem to accept her reasoning, and let her carry it.
The second part of the disguise for this arrangement was someone to drive it. To sell it, she needed it to give the illusion that she died if the thieves decided to attack her. First thing first, she bought a dress for her, costing her her 90G. After that, she constructed her body by using ice, made of a woman and a horse, connected by the horse rein.
If they look closely, they'll find that something was strange with either the horse or the girl's joint. Hopefully, traveling in the night would make it less visible. She had no other solution at this. Though, she couldn't do anything with that as in the ice form, her body was rigid and impossible to move, except by making it using doll-like parts like this. She was thankful for the doll maker she encountered in the past to give her the idea of constructing her body like this. As for the color, she was able to get the color of pure white for her girl and horse skin, and blue for the girl's hair and iris by refracting the light in a certain way with the ice particles in her subspace. Consequently, if her connection to the horse were cut, the horse would burst out as her subspace were no longer there holding the ice.
Her disguise complete, she set off from the city after night came.
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"Look here, men." The man said with a grin. "A girl traveling alone... in the middle of the night. Are you adventurer, girlie?"
She nodded slightly. Looking at her surrounding, she could count twelve of them, riding on their horses.
"Oh... I see. Say, you're going to Asteria village, right? Let's say that, if you do something for us, we'll let you go with your life intact. How about it?"
She kept her silence. seeing that, the man continued.
"Well... why do you keep silent? It is just a yes or no question. Here's my offer. You can entertain us for the night, and we'll let you go. The other is that we'll kill you here and now. So, which one do you choose?"
It was tempting. She could just follow the man to their base and pretend that she'd do what the man asked. But after she undressed, they would obviously saw her. Thus, she persist in her first plan. She moved the reins and the girl's hand. Then, she made the horse body in a running motion. She had to lead them to the river first.
Charging through the thieves encirclement, she increased her speed. She broke through them.
"After her!" that person yelled.
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she made a good time on the riverbank. she estimated that the thieves would arrive one minute from now. For that moment, she made a noise on the water to make the illusion of her escaping with the horse, and then compacted her body. Then, she hide herself and her clothes in the wagon.
After a moment passed, the first of the thieves came.
"Boss, we lost her! She seem to escape with the horse!" The guy reported.
"Tch... At least we got the wagon. Alright men, bring it to our camp! Klein, check inside if the woman would sneak inside."
"Roger that, boss!"
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In the end, she and the wagon arrived at their camp. The next thing she needed to do was to find out where the items were stored, getting the layout of this place, and then waiting until most of them sleep. She attached herself to one of the supply in the wagon, as it was carried out. The grunts then brought it to some kind of building, which she supposed was the storage of this camp.
Next, she sneaked out of the place, and take an aerial view of the place. Buildings made of wood filled the camp. She saw that the building in that place was arranged in a circle, with two gate leading to the north and south. The number of building was seven. With one of them being the storage at the south.
It was circled by a kind of wall made of wood logs.
Then, she waited.
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The thieves that was vigorous at night was then sleeping in the day. The sunlight made it harder to sneak, but since she was inside of one of the building, she began her next step.
At this time, she had to suffocate a lot of them, leaving some for bandit subjugation quest. She put water inside of their airways and let them drown. She must ensure that no one was screaming when she killed them. From one bed to another, she put the water through their mouth and nose, and encase their head inside of a water.
After that, she continued to the next building.
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Her task was not bandit subjugation, but just tracking them all. As she got to the final house, she changed her modus opperandi. Some of them she stilll killed them by suffocating them. Then after, she had less than five, she broke her stealth. It did not matter at that moment. The first of the remaining five she let alive. It was the leader of yesterday's team who captured her.
Instead of killing them, she first cut their leg and hands. The first one screamed, waking up the others. Then, she entered a fight with them as her opponent.
By cutting their legs, she could prevent them from escaping. Thus, they won't be able to change their hideout. As she was able to cut them all, the battle ends. The next thing to do was to return back to the city to report and then back here to continue to deliver her packages.
She returned.
