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Ten days passed since they arrived in Derath City. As usual, Karnak and Varos started their day by visiting the adventurer’s guild immediately after leaving their inn. Checking for new information before heading out to explore the local cuisine had become their daily routine.
“Welcome, Baron Karnak,” greeted Hans, a polite teenage apprentice working as a guild receptionist. “Are you here to review the requests?”
“Yeah, let’s see if there’s anything worthwhile today.”
Hans handed him a stack of papers with an apologetic expression. “Unfortunately, it’s the same as usual…”
Even as a young apprentice, Hans could tell most of the guild’s leads were garbage.
“No worries. I wasn’t expecting much anyway.”
Karnak calmly took the documents and began skimming through them. As expected, there was nothing useful. Varos peeked over his shoulder before frowning.
“Seriously? A woman ran away after getting beaten by her drunk husband. They’re blaming this on the Shadow of Doom?”
Apparently, the husband had routinely abused his wife. It seemed he was shocked that she had suddenly decided to run away and claimed it as proof she had been corrupted by darkness.
“If she really had gained the power of darkness, she wouldn’t have run away. She’d have torn that bastard apart,” Varos muttered.
“Exactly. Another worthless lead,”...
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