บท 47: Know Your Enemy
"Are you certain it is alright for me to be out righ-" Souriceau tried to complain but only got shushed instantly as him and Axio sat down at the very back row available.
"It has been months already, they already gave up on your sorry ass, now only speak to say something that matters" rubbing his fur-beard, the wretch watched as two men in armor made an appearance, one on each side.
Axiolypito and his unwilling accomplice were both here to watch the yearly event of Rolo, which, despite the two guys in armor wrestling with one anothe, wasn't a simple tournament of people against people.
This was a city of dungeons and adventurers, so of course, the tournament was for the various guilds to demonstrate how good they were at slaying monsters.
It wasn't anything too grand, but it was always a good occasion for guilds to show their best in hopes of impressing newbie adventurers into joining them.
As such, Axio and Souriceau shouldn't have much to be doing here, however, the members of Otrera weren't exactly easy to observe or follow around, so this was the wretch's best occasion to see them in action and he had also brought Souriceau since he already knew most of the core members and what they were capable of.
He could give some information on each of them.
"Oh! See that lady with long ears and pitch black skin?" spoke Souriceau in a low tone as he strained his eyes while pointing at a woman of small stature and with snow white hair, in stark contrast to everything else about her.
"Dark elf?"
"Shadow elf actually... She's a trained assassin converted adventurer, not only can she turn into a shadow and merge with them, she can actually create shadows by herself, which can take shape and all, she's quick to vanish and stab people straight through the top of their heads" he kept on speaking under his breath as if she was going to hear him.
"I was even told that she could converse with all sorts of shadow, whether it is from an inanimate object or not, if that's true, she could know everything about us, she only needs to ask the right shadows" he looked down at his feet fearfully, making the wretch roll his eyes.
"You are terrified of just one of them and you really thought you could get all with some third rate explosives? That knife-eared one can turn into a shadow too, she never would have been flattened by the explosion or debris anyways" he shook his head as he leaned into his seat.
He wasn't worried about getting assassinated, the only problem was that he didn't have a good way to actually kill her, he himself couldn't dream of it and his spawned creatures couldn't either, the shadow elf wasn't an opponent that could be overwhelmed easily since she could flee to safety at any time.
He doubted his current plan could keep her stuck but it was no matter, he too could run away whenever he wanted and all that mattered was that their was as much death as possible.
"Snap out of it and go on about to the others that arrived" he snapped his fingers in front of Souriceau's face to pull him out of his fearful trance.
"At once! Hum, the one in the puffy robe over there, with crystals growing on her face and the way oversized hat, that's the oldest of the main team, Kop, she's from a species with high affinity for crystal magic, her magic his fairly brittle but insanely sharp... She also as some tricks with it, due to her superb affinity, she was able to develop difficult spells with more simplicity than others..."
"I only know a single of those, which is that she create crystals formations and by covering herself in crystals, she can sort of teleport to another of those formations, after that, the two that are used shatter, although, she can go through that whole process real quick, you might see her do it today too" he put a hand on the back of his head.
"The big one in heavy armor is Aterre, she's fairly straightforward, I believe she has giant blood going through her veins, explaining her impressive size and strength, she is pretty much immovable and when she charges, most things either have the choice to dodge or get thrown to the ground" seeing that Axio had nothing to say, he continued.
"Lastly of the main team, Elta..." he stopped for a moment.
"My mother's favorite, her spiritual daughter if you will, she is the most dangerous in my opinion, she has some sort of supernatural affinity for swordmanship, she is especially deadly with her saber and what I can only assume is sword magic, thanks to this element, she can coat her blade with many other elements easily thanks to it" he informed the wretch before quickly going over some other members that weren't as important.
Apart from those four, most of the adventurers didn't remain for extensive periods of time, those four were the successors of Souriceau's mother but still, his knowledge of every single of the members showed that despite his meek attitude and cowardness, he was still planning to blow Otrera up every single day.
He never had any intentions of getting over his grudge, unable to take revenge on his mother since she had died unceremoniously from a nondescript illness, he moved on to what mattered the most to her, this guild.
"You are lucky your petty ambitions align well with my needs, enjoy your moment, it won't last" after receiving all the information he could have asked for, the little tournament was about to end and so, he got up and left, leaving the wanted man to fend for himself.
Truthfully, after hearing all of their feats and such, the wretch started to doubt whether or not his preparations would work out, he had assumed that after the old silver knight was a high point hardly reachable for those worms beneath him.
However, it seemed like there were many more that could pose a problem, he honestly doubted that collapsing rocks would kill any of them and if they weren't that harmed, then he didn't dare to hope the monster Defy would send would be able to take care off all of them.
As he was reconsidering this whole thing, silence the weak Souriceau and use the explosive to another end, a voice spoke to him in his mind, coming from his trusted purple crystal.
"This plan is out of reach for the current you, so just leave it to me, I shall fight, it has been a while" much different from the unending whispers, this one was composed and as hard as steel, completely resolute and confident.
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