Just Another Beginning After the End | TBATE

The Tower of Infinity (1)

[1 year later]

A year passed since the princess left.

I hadn't really felt her absence during that time as I was busy with missions and training. While I continued training my original skills, I began delving into assassination abilities.

As I continued doing missions, I realized how powerful and useful an assassin was.

Without needing to cause any collateral damage, I could sweep through an entire dungeon unnoticed, as though I were a ghost.

I could execute fear and other strategies to decimate an entire camp.

For example, I could sneak through a goblin dungeon and silence the hobgoblin (the dungeon boss), sending the entire dungeon into a fearful frenzy. Make some spooky noises, kill a well-placed goblin or two, and soon enough, the whole population is killing each other.

Then again, there's always the option of burning a poisonous concoction of various plants and letting the noxious fumes fill the caverns. Most of them will die, but a few stragglers always make it out. It's fun to watch them struggle with the poison before I finally kill them.

...

Aya's rubbing off me, isn't she?

Anyways...

"...Are you sure we're heading in the right direction?"

"I... don't actually know."

Currently, Alea, Aya, and I were at Xyrus City again, and we were looking for...

"The Adventurer's Guild should be right here."

"Well, I honestly don't think that 'John's Kicks and Giggles' is a gathering place for mercenaries."

"I know that."

"And I know the issue."

"You do?"

"Yup."

Aya seemed oddly confident, which kind of pissed me off since I had guided us almost perfectly with the map.

"The map's upside down."

"..."

I turned away.

"..."

"..."

The looks were starting to hurt a little.

"... It's also the wrong way up. The ink bleeds, remember?"

"..."

"..."

I turned away further.

"...Give it."

Alea put her hand out, and I obediently put it back into her hand with an expression like that of a scolded child.

"Jeez, how is it you can't even use a map?"

"...Alea?"

"Hm?"

"...The map's 90 degrees to the right."

"..."

**

After way more wandering than I care to admit, we finally arrived at the Adventurer's Guildhall. I could only be glad we left early, or else we would be late, and that would be bad.

Especially since this was a matter of international importance.

"You think Bladeheart will be here?"

"Bladeheart? Why her?"

"Alea knows..."

Aya then started gossiping with Alea behind me as I pushed open the doors. Then, I was immediately bombarded with the salty stench of body odor and other mysterious aromas.