7 Just a Small Chat

"Hey, have you heard?"

In the streets some shady tall well built men were discussing several matters by the alley where darkness enveloped the surroundings.

"What is it?"

"There's a witch and a brat carrying the blood of a Champion."

"Didn't those ancient fellows go extinct?"

"Yeah but I overheard some chatter that there was a blinding flash of light so bright and pure that it was comparable to an actual Champion."

"Are you sure that light didn't go right into your head and mess with yer' noggin?"

"I'm not brain dead yet, besides didn't your wife go to the plaza?"

"Agh, who knows what that hag spouts? She keeps nagging me about praising this Water Pope or something and how that red haired kid is an ominous sign of the past."

"I guess your head isn't too rotten nowadays, but I bet if we catch those two brats we'll fet-"

Flicking a piece of stone, I bashed one of the fellows unconscious and covered the other's eyes with a hand.

With a flashing blinding light fully concentrated in a cone to the man's eyes, it immediately robbed him of his consciousness as well.

"Ambush success, alright! Player Alias is still in the game and has acquired Thug's loot! Found 10 silver coins! A short jagged dagger! Alongside, what the? A night-club discount and half off?! Player Alias keeps this discount secretly in his pocket!"

Checking the surroundings, I haul the unconscious men deeper into the alley. I didn't need to worry about hurting these scum.

They were at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to morale compared to yours truly. Murder, thievery, bribery, woah these guys certainly are absolute scum aren't they? Well I knew that, a long while ago but pulling out tonight's kill order from the pocket of these men certainly helped alleviate my guilt of doing this.

Alongside the frontal guild called 'Advent', there was an underground market and held dirty jobs that were available, this was handled by an unofficial guild called 'Hyefner'. A couple years ago, I've already investigated this matter, it turns out that Advent had connections to Hyefner, though they were very slim, there was not way that an underground market would be so big in the capital without any wanted or investigations against them.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if the so called Guild Head of Advent was also the Head of Hyefner, yep, that's usually how these plots turn out. Always have to prepare for the worst outcome.

Back to the matter at hand. I tied the two men up and jolted them awake, although the other one won't be able to see anything in awhile.

"W-What? A brat? This kid!"

"Wide awake and still alive? I know you were sent to kill not only me but also a girl." I showed them the kill order and they seemed to panic more.

"You're just a child! How are you able to wield that much power?! You must be a spawn of the Corruption!" Seemingly hysterical, the man struggled around while the other one... Well, the other one still won't be moving in a bit. Perhaps I put a bit too much particles into that one attack and dislodged something important in his head?

"Tell me more about this... Corruption and about the one who sent you. Otherwise you wanna end up like that brain rotten guy you kept insulting?" I glanced at the other man, he was fuming saliva at his mouth and only the whites of his eyes could be seen. I think he's gone retarded, literally.

"As expected of being one of those evil Disciples of Light! You don't care about others and murder them indiscriminately!" The man looked straight at me.

"Says the guy who wastes his life away from night club to night club and carries out not-so-honest jobs."

"Better than serving that vile Goddess!"

Something cracked.

"Oh my. It seems you're missing a leg."

A scream echoed and it chilled the air.

"No-one will be able to hear you babble your mouth, there's no-one within a screaming distance ya know?" Alongside being able to manipulate Light particles, I had the innate ability of 'Search', it allowed me to be conscious of beings within a thirty meter distance as long as they did not possess particles which were purer, denser or had a much higher capacity than mine.

"Let's have a small chat, eh?"