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Bab 58: Against Gods

"Why would you want to help us?" I asked with suspicion.

"Can we sit down? Look, we will drop our weapons over here," Kal pointed to a spot on the ground where the men started to put their weapons down in piles. "We don't want trouble, the exact opposite. Since you have already had a visit with Dyster it was important for us to talk with you before you got to the city."

"Fine, but I am sending the girls back to bed, but I don't need them to kill you all," I said, gesturing to the logs we had rolled up.

"Hey, you don't have to tell us twice, we already know about you. Red Legion Guild is big talk in Healia so we naturally heard about you, and you completing the first dungeon! Very impressive, and not long before Jester completed the one here and earned his item," Kal explained.

There were three logs rolled in a triangle around the fire, so Lesha, Tim, and I were the ones that put our back to the tent. Tim still straddled the log to watch the tents just in case.

"Item?" I asked curiously.

"I will let him tell you about that, he doesn't share information freely, but that doesn't mean he is a bad guy. We all get a bad name because we do the jobs that no one else will, but we don't kill without purpose. Jester wants to give you a place while you're in the city, but he has his reasons. He wants to kill Dyster, and all the rest of the Gods by extension," Kal explained as we all sat around the fire.

Now that was interesting, and it also lined up with what I was planning to do at some point anyway. This Jester sounded experienced, but was he just a crime boss that wanted to overthrow the Gods because it was inconvenient, or was it something else?

"What reason would Jester have for wanting to kill Dyster besides making his life easier as a crime boss?" I asked, but then all the men started to laugh, except for Kal, and then they all soon quieted.

"Jester is no crime boss, hell he doesn't even like killing and we don't do anything that doesn't need to be done because of him. Jester was a normal adventure that was a soldier before that, a good and solid man, never did wrong. One day, he had gone to the dungeon after kissing his pregnant wife goodbye. Dyster was having a bad day and one of his natural disasters caused the house that Jester's wife was in and five others on the block to collapse. Jester returned home to find his wife and unborn child dead."

Lesha gripped my hand tight as Kal told the story, and I could feel her start to shake at the end. I slipped my arm around her, but he wasn't finished.

"Jester spent the rest of his time from that point forward; only coming out to buy food rations with the spoils he earned. It took him three months of grinding until he was finally able to push through and claim the core for himself. After that he came to our guild and killed the current master, not a big loss, Teim was a cold-blooded killer that would kill anyone if he was paid. The rest is history, or at least the last 2 months," Kal finished and leaned back on the log.

"What about Giayadel's followers, and the women?" I asked.

I would hunt them down in my spare time if I had to. After hearing yet another story of callus Gods, I was starting to feel less reserved about killing them. I already had a sense of what Dyster was like with the way his temper had spiked when I challenged him, so the story was not hard to believe.

"Jester will still help you deal with them, we know about it and we have been slowly making them disappear, but Giaydel just sends more. The men we kill are all wearing some type of mask that makes them look handsome when they are just hired thugs with silver tongues. Jester is working on plans to deal with them, but they are still in the works, for now, we need more information."

"So then what do we do with the rings and Belt Knifer? How do we give them back?" I asked.

This was a far better deal than what Dyster had offered, but then Dyster wasn't that likely to help with a plan for his own execution. Losing the rings would be unfortunate, but we could get more in the city, we would just have to get some more gold…

"Here, Jester told me to give these to me if you asked. He said that meant you understood what he was trying to do and would be willing to listen. I will take the rings back and then Jester will deliver them back to Dyster because he will not be happy that you refused him. Plus, Jester loves to take any chance to get under Dyster's skin," Kal said with a laugh and walked over to hand me a handful of rings.

"What about my Knifer?" Tim asked a bit reluctantly, but Kal was already pulling a small rectangular box with wrist straps.

Tim's eyes lit up and he looked at Kal with big eyes.

"Jester knows about you too, and the Belt Knifer is good, and we can get you some, but this is what you need. This is the" Kal tried to say, but Tim cut him off.

"Air Knife, are you serious? Isn't this a tool only allowed to be used by members of your Guild?" Tim asked, not grabbing for the weapon yet.

"Yes it is, but Jester has decided that since we will be working together it would be fine for you to borrow one for now, but I'll need the pair of Belt Knifers you got on. Dyster tends to get a bit upset when he gets stood up on a deal," Kal said with a smile.

Tim took his belts off and handed them over, trading for the Air Knife. This was not how I had expected this meeting to go, but I was relieved. And now I was more on track with my main goal, ridding the world of the invading Gods!


Bab 59: Platinum And Waystones

Kal and the rest of the men sat around the fire with us and told us some about Dyster and how to find them when we got into town. Kal pointed to a man with an eye patch on the same side as Tim.

"This is Hershal, he will meet you at the edge of the city, but since we will be here for a couple hours still, Tim you should go for a walk with him to the beach. We already took care of the group that was set to jump you at night. Just to make sure no one else tries to have fun with you, we will hang around," Kal said.

"K? You alright here?" Tim asked.

"Of course, go ahead."

Tim got up and walked to the beach with Hershal.

"I am sure the boys will have a lot to talk about, I know Tim, and about the eye. Herschel did the same, but Hershal had a master who helped him kill the beast and then trained to hone the eye. Tim hasn't, and killed it all, so, when you get to the city, I hope you don't mind Hershal tagging along every once in and awhile."

"I don't think it would be that bad, but how will that work with my guild experience? Also, I won't commit to anything until I have spoken to Jester. From what you have told me he sounds like a good person working with what he has, but these are just words."

"Fair enough, but if things go well sounds like you won't mind. Be good for the boy to have a mentor, and it won't affect your experience," Kal said.

"Boy? Are you talking about Corbit?" I was confused.

"You haven't asked him, have you? Tim's only seventeen. Two years ago he killed the Celaphite and then joined the war. The eye can give you deadly power but like all power in this world, It comes with a price. You lose about fifteen to twenty years of your life."

"What would make someone want to do that?" Lesha asked with a worried look.

"That miss is none of my business, and only yours if he wants it to be. I can tell you as much as I did because I could have been talking about Hershal. Well, except for that age, that was just me putting my nose where it doesn't belong, haha, but you should know. I knew his parents, but that's another one of those not my stories to tell," Kal said, going quiet.

Lesha squeezed my hand, but I was still shocked. It didn't matter, he was a member, just like Corbit. On the plus side, Mei had grown up, kind of. The Red Legion was starting to look more like an orphanage with each new day.

Though, maybe that is what a guild was, or should be. Maybe not an orphanage, but a place that the adventuring outcast and even the ones that had homes could come. They could know that they had the support of their friends and peers.

The ribbons were a big part of the appeal now, but having people going in without experience wasn't good. The same thing was true of a party that has no concern for them will just end up getting them killed anyway. If they can't work for a week then the guild has to pay for that, and most would just kick them out.

"Thank you for letting me know, and yes, if everything goes well, I will have no problem with Hershal tagging along."

"That's good to hear," came a raspy voice from the shore.

I turn to see Tim and Hershal coming back from the water. I wonder just how old he was, he looked to be in his forties but sounded like he was nearly sixty. I turned back and the men were all getting up and going over to pick up their weapons.

"Pleasure meeting you K. Jester and I look forward to seeing you when you get back."

Kal smiled at me and then pulled a medallion out, identical to Dyster's. Healia had said something about it.

"What is that?" I asked Kal as his men were gathering around.

"As much as we don't like to admit it, we have sworn devotion to Dyster for this and this reason alone. The Waystone is one of the most useful tools for an adventure, but you have to be pledged to a god to use one. Once you're in the city I will help you get one if you have the cash. They aren't cheap, so you might have to dig up some Gem Hearts or go grind the dungeon to afford one."

"How much would it cost? I did bring some gold…" I was cut off with a number that made me choke on my words.

"Eighty-Five Platinum, haha. Now if you had eighty-five thousand gold pieces with you that would be pretty crazy. Plus, being in Healia your whole life, you have probably only heard of them."

Kal dug into his pocket and pulled out a coin that was a flat silver color and it didn't really shine. He flipped the coins to me, and I caught it easily, making him smile.

"Keep it. Consider it a pre partnership bonus or something. Nice catch by the way, when you get to the city I will show you some tricks about being a tank," Kal said with a smile.

"Wait, you're a tank? Where is your shield?" I asked as the last of the men gathered around Kal.

"Ha, girl! Not all tanks like shields!"

And with that, Kal whispered something and winked out of existence, along with the rest of the men. I turned to Lesha, she was starting to look sleepy, but the dawn was starting to lighten the sky. It would be time to go soon.

"What do you think?" I asked her.

"Just like you said, they seem good, but most people try to put on a show. Though, if it was a show, they are pretty good actors, but they are killers. Who knows until we talk with Jester. I am just glad that we don't have to be indebted to Dyster, and so will Gloria."

That was true and she would also be excited about the plan to kill Dyster. It was now time to get everyone up and back on the road.


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