Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
Several young men were sitting flat on the ground, one of them was clearly beaten up, his face swollen. A middle-aged man was sitting on a chair at the center of the room, he was wearing a leather jacket made of some unknown creatureâs hide as well as various small tokens on his body. A long scar ran across his face, but it didnât make him appear ferocious.
The middle-aged man sat there smiling, juggling a pebble with one hand while staring down at the young men.
This was the scene Noah saw as he entered the hideout of the pickpockets. He took a short glance at the disguised middle-aged man and spoke: âIf Iâm not wrong, this would be our first meeting, Mr. Chris Modo. How unexpected to see you in Reystromiaâ
âYou know of me?â the middle-aged man found that a bit unexpected, as he carefully observed the young man in front of him, he was naturally able to see Noahâs true age, which shocked him even more.
âYou can call me Noahâ he pulled a chair over and sat across the middle-aged man, speaking with a somber attitude: âI should probably spend some time telling my subordinates about your old stories. Sakriâs writing was quite decent, I particularly enjoyed the snow mountain escort storyâ
âI still remember it fondlyâ the middle-aged man grinned as he spoke, his expression shifted slightly.
Chris Modo, the continent-wide famous adventurer, the miraculous immortal man. The tales of his legendary adventures were compiled and written into a book by his friend Sakri, for most young men of the world, he was their life-long idol.
Killing the wyvern that threatened a village; destroying an organization that used human corpses to research evil rituals; helping settle the internal strife of Lika Kingdom; and many many more, these tales over the years have forged the legendary reputation of Chris Modo.
The tokens he carried on himself were the memento of his adventures, like the fang of the terrifying wyvern; like that medallion given to him by the Chairman of the Mystical Research Society; like the ring representing his eternal friendship with the Lika Kingdom that allowed him to conscript a squadron of the Lika Kingdomâs army when necessary.
The snow mountain escort that Noah mentioned was also one of Chrisâ legendary tales. At the time, he escorted the eldest son of a Count back to his country to inherit his peerage, going through a series of dangerous events on the way. Despite Chris taking a wound on his face during that time, he still managed to escort that eldest son of a Count to his destination safely. The scar on his face right now was the âtokenâ he kept from that adventure.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
âNow then, for what occasion did Mr. Chris come to Reya?â Noah asked with interest, he was truly interested to know in what way that sinnerâs wife, Isabella, was special.
âI accepted a request to find a certain woman, according to the clues I have, she came here over 10 years ago and has never left ever sinceâ Chris amiably told him.
âThen excuse my rudeness, but would you care to describe that woman a bit more clearly?â Noah appeared even more interested.
âHow unfortunate, Mr. Noah, I can only reveal the most basic info. That womanâs name is Isabella, she should be 29 years old this year, a believer of the Church of Divine Graceâ while speaking, Chris observed the expressions on Noahâs groupâs faces, then grinned.
âYou know where she is, donât you?â Chris spoke with a slightly more serious tone: âTell me where she is, I can pay youâ
Noahâs expression was perfectly maintained, but his other peers were unable to conceal their emotions in front of an experienced veteran.
âIsabella came into Reya over 10 years ago. At the time, the great Negary had yet to descend upon us, the village only had so many people. You can easily ask any of the older villagers to know about herâ
âSo why did you purposefully call us out here?â Noah asked doubtfully. As a veteran adventurer, he didnât believe for a single second that Lars would be able to pick his pocket.
So it was obvious. Chris purposefully revealed that he had money to attract the pickpocketâs attention, then followed him back to this hideout, he clearly needed the pickpocketsâ help for something other than simply looking for a person.
âI really canât underestimate youâ Chris threw the pebble in his hand away and spoke with a solemn tone: âOf course, I was able to find out where Isabella was, and I know that she has a daughter called Nalaâ
âBut it isnât easy to bring her anywhere. People are monitoring me constantly, so randomly going to meet her would only expose my goalâ Chris squinted his eyes, clearly displaying the scar on his face: âSo I want you to help me arrange a secret meeting with her, sheâs needed somewhere elseâ
âCan you trust us so easily?â Noah shook his head.
âCall it the basic sense of trust between peopleâ Chris pulled a small pouch full of money out from his chest, placed it down and walked out: âThis is a deposit. Please hurry and arrange a good time for me, careful not to tell the entire town about itâ
Looking at Chrisâ back as he left, Noah said nothing. Instead, he was considering Chrisâ words, there were both truth and lies within what he said, so it was best to not believe everything, but he couldnât brush it all off as lies either.
As for his goal, that part was pure bullshit. Why would a legendary adventurer need the help of some local thugs to secretly meet with a woman? The thing he called âtrustâ was also nothing but baseless lies.
âArrange it, treat it like normal businessâ Noah ordered.
At the same time, Wang Yuan was silently hovering in front of Isabella, naturally, she couldnât see Wang Yuan.
Considering the situation between the two countries, he could faintly understand the reason why that âlegendary adventurerâ came to find Isabella.
Isabella came from the Interkam Kingdomâs Tagula family, as a branch of the royal family, they also carried the âDragonâs bloodlineâ. During the kingdomâs internal strife several years ago, the current Interkam King, Seth the First, had most of the relatives who could threaten him killed, among which included the royal branch Tagula family.
As the eldest daughter of the Tagula family, Isabella ran away to what was at the time, still a small Cauchy village to take refuge and met the love of her life, Jacob.
Currently, due to the internal strife from several years ago as well as other reasons, the Interkam Kingdom was becoming weaker day by day. As the war with the Royas Kingdom slowly became inevitable, there were fewer and fewer people who supported Seth the First, but because of how actively Seth the First killed his competitors back then, there werenât too many people left qualified to take the throne.
If one really stretched it, as the eldest daughter of the Tagula family, Isabella certainly did have the qualifications to become the Interkam Kingdomâs Empress.
But there were still a lot of puzzling factors here, Isabella certainly had the qualifications, but she wasnât the only one. No matter how cruel Seth was, he couldnât have completely wiped out the royal family bloodline, that would only push himself into a corner.
âIt isnât strange for someone to look for Isabella at this point in time, but it certainly is strange that Chris was the one who cameâ because of how far down the line of succession Isabella was, the fact that Chris came here was abnormal.
âThere must be information that I donât know aboutâ Wang Yuan glanced at the little girl who just returned and began to formulate his plans, thinking of how to use this to his advantage.