Capítulo 2: A city of crime. Sail on!
As the mercenaries arrived to the city, a terrible mess was going on, and forth – guards were pursuing some serial killer-thiefs, which made it impossible to continue wandering the capital. Lirien decided to help the guards, in hope for extra money. Therefore a one sided chase begun; as thiefs were jumping high on roofs, Thing spawned right next to them. With swift and ease the running ended with 7 outlaws bound with threads of mana.
Then after a while guards catch up with It, and led them to the commander's office. The elder woman could not believe her eyes, as she looked stunned on the criminals, then on 20 men, Lirien included. "So, You just got thro the city's gate, then as soon as got glimpse of situation pursued these men? Most impressive." Officer said.
"Will we get some reward for settling your problem?" Chieftain asked.
"Of course You do, here, take that humble 450 gold, may it serve your purpose well."
"If you got more problems in the future, we may serve, for a payment of course." She proposed.
After eating some grind meat wraps in some street food pub, scouts observed some odd fellows spying on them. It was a bit unsettling, as the same day the Thing stopped criminals, and Lirien was fearing of some underground organization they probably messed with.
The feeling did not come false; while the leader baited their pursuers into a narrow alley, an ambush was performed. Lirien stroke one with a great slash, splitting the man in two, then proceeded by using the forward force to strike with pommel. Another one fell down. Now only three were left alive, and they realized the tremendous advantage the woman had. One of them ran off, was not attempted to be stopped as the woman did not care. Men stunned by fear were swiftly disposed of one stroke with sword's scabbard, another shot into an eye with longbow. But suddenly another fell from the roofs – was armed in dagger and strange looking pipe of metal. He swung his blade, then aimed at leader's head. But never shot – he got kicked right arc on face, then finished with osato-geri.
After the ambush quite nothing changed – all was going smoothly and well. As the group was assigned to many quests: from beast eradication to chasing criminals. Although that was soon to change due to unrest of the local underworld – got tired of dealing with constant ambushes, so thought a plan, how to dispose of mercenaries once forever. Plan was simple; just kill Lirien, as they thought she was bringing the band together. As dusk veiled city with darkness, they prepared the trap. Many were sitting on the roofs with long metal pipes which stink with sulphur. As Lirien walked on top of the column, a loud bank was heard, and she fell on the ground unconscious. She was quickly bring to the local lazaret, then Thing healed her with It's essence.
As thugs heard of her curation, couldn't believe a word. They considered Shots as certain killer weapon, so were much of surprised hearing of it's failure. But no one was blamed as all were thrieving short due to Lirien's presence.
Next day Furious Doom left the city with sacks full of gold, hoping for a little peace, as the Thing had to sort things out in It's mind. They set a camp in a convenient cave in the limestone rock.
As all was peaceful, and sound, no one was rooting for a sudden change, which of course must have happened.
The stone shattered afore a golem burst of the floor, all got prepared battle stances, as an impending threat was ahead. Golems were fierce mindless living metal, which only followed the will of their masters, as when one died, they were going on rampage. Hard was fight against them, coz usually were made of enchanted steel, so were very difficult to destroy.
Although with collective effort the team managed to severe his arm, at cost of one companion. But as the thing was able to infinitely duplicate til It's mana pool dried, that was not big problem. All was going quite decent til golem exploded into shards, which killed 13 men. The shards formed a storm, decaying everyone on it's way. Thing begun to fear, so used ultimate manasap technique, in hope for severing the essence threads, which kept razors together. A mind vs animate battle begun, as It was trying to severe the connections. As when Thing thought all is lost, all of sudden the threads just broke. The shards fell onto ground lifeless. A total loss was 61 men, so our ethereal needed all night for filling that gap.
As dawn lightened the forest with beauty of it's rays, all band departed the damn place. They marched til twilight fell again. They were heading in direction of the seaside city of Reka, as hoped for transport to the continent of Hiilaquv. Thing decided to go there, coz it wanted to discover It's whereabouts, as he knew he was born on that piece of land. Also it had much greater mana gradient, which made it easier to recuperate from battles there.
As after breaking their camp they departed into last day of running, they hoped to sell some animal skins hunted by the way. Even got an albino panther-like creature fur, which would most likely sell for 4500 gold, as it was such rarity.
After crossing the gate in number of 5 people, with many bags of loot, they headed to the hunters guild. The price of furs overgrown all expectations. Panther went for 7500 gold, and rest for another 5500. They were also greeted with cheers, as no one hunted down such cat in 230 years.
Therefore heading to the docks, they asked for advice in an inn, which resulted in knowledge, which captains to avoid. Also in broken jaw of a lewd fellow which tried to seduce Lirien.
As they boarded on a large barque, waited for the sail to be set, and gone for a journey south – west. All was going quite well till a sea serpent rose from the depths. They shot him with rain of arrows, and javelins, but it didn't bother. The Thing had an idea; she summoned planar creatures for men to ride on, so it appeared that they could fight the monstrocity on it's own field. After few slashes, the sea painted red, and many wounds on serpent's thick scaled skin, it decided to give up on such hard meal.
Everybody cheered as the today's heroes boarded on deck again, captain even granted them an expensive wine, and much grog. So afterwards everybody were a bit drunk, and happy whats however. The rest of sail was peaceful, and they even managed to get darkened skin due to sun exposure, so Lirien looked gorgeous now. Under full sails in the hot sun reflecting in the water, they came close to the continent enough to see it. With speed lowered, they gently docked the barque ashore, then made farewells to each other, promising to never forget band's action.
In the capital city of Rilia, which they were currently in, castle walls stood high, granting shadows in the hot weathers, and even guarding from hurricanes. All was so steep, spiked, and gilded, that the rich aura emanated everywhere.
As they headed to the city gates to set a camp outside, a guard stopped them by:
"Who are Ya? I don't recognize Yerself, plis tolk to the governor, to gein enter." He said.
"We surely will, thanks" Answered Lirien praing that another citizens ton't have such terrible accent...
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