More sewers!

After visiting various inns, the group decides to rent a room in the inn that seems cheapest. Since there wasn't a room for three people, we opted for one for two, in the end the double bed, three people can fit in it, but they have to fit together. Sanryu spends a total of sixty silver coins, for everyone it is three, both food and accommodation, for two days.

And at this moment the trio divides, Lurue goes up to the room, not being interested in human cities, and having nothing else to do, she begins to sleep, but not out of necessity, since the gods do not need to sleep, but out of pure boredom .

Fenrya decides to take a tour of the city, just to see how it is structured and if there is anything interesting to see, obviously all done with a certain discretion.

And finally Sanryu, who walks the streets of Strath, looking for an armorer, so he can buy some equipment. 'I have one hundred and ten silver coins left...I hope that's enough.' Sanryu looks inside his bag, full of silver coins, thanks to Fenrya, he has greatly increased the quantity of coins.

After traveling for about half an hour, Sanryu spots a gunsmith's sign above a shop and immediately prepares to enter his entrance. "Good morning, is anyone there?" As she enters the shop, Sanryu doesn't see anyone at the shopkeeper's counter, she wonders if anyone is there.

"Here I am, good morning to you, how can I help you?" An adult, around forty years old, emerges from a room behind the counter, where most likely some goods are stored inside.

"Hello, here I would like to know if there are two-handed swords available, made of steel, and light leather armor. However, I have a maximum budget of sixty silver coins." Sanryu immediately specifies how many coins she can spend.

"Mhhhh sixty silvers you say." The shopkeeper thinks about what he can sell to the boy, also observing the items he has in the shop. "Are you by any chance an adventurer, boy? And you just started?" The shopkeeper starts walking towards a part of the store, asking Sanryu a question.

"Erhm yes, not even a month." Sanryu responds, as she watches the shopkeeper walk around the store.

"This is simple leather armor, for the coins you asked me to spend, this is the best I can offer you." The light armor is almost identical to the previous one, so there isn't much difference. "But for the greatsword, we have this." The shopkeeper places a steel broadsword on the counter, the handle is black on the guard. "This is all I can sell you, my boy, it's not high quality, but it's not that bad either...even if it's not the best steel you could ask for." Sanryu can't expect too much with only sixty silvers, after all he knows that some adventurers spend hundreds of gold coins to purchase their entire arsenal.

"That's fine, here you go, thank you very much. Have a nice day!" Sanryu doesn't think about it too much, he pays for all this equipment, and then says goodbye to the shopkeeper, and leaves the shop. 'This stuff is better than going into battle naked.' Sanryu places his greatsword inside the sheath, and begins walking. 'And now? What do I do? There is no possibility of accepting other missions and I don't know this city, am I returning from Lurue?' Sanryu is thinking of returning to the inn, since he has nothing to do.

"Sanryu!" While the boy is in doubt about what to do, he is called by a figure in a headdress.

"Fenrya, are you still wandering around town?" Sanryu asks Fenrya if he is still wandering around Strath.

"Yes, or rather, I was wandering around...but while I was observing this city, I glimpsed a mysterious scene." Fenrya reveals to Sanryu that she saw a particular scene.

"What kind of scene?" The boy asks, starting to get curious about the matter.

"Well while I was in the neighborhood of what appears to be the homes of civilian municipalities, some hooded men stunned and kidnapped a commoner woman. I became curious and decided to follow them, in the middle of the dark alleys, and after some time following them, I since they entered the sewers." Fenrya reveals what he saw.

"Ehhh?! Why are there always sewers in the midst of certain circumstances? I'm haunted." Sanryu can't believe something is happening, especially he can't believe it's happening in the sewers.

"The sewers are the safest place to hide if you want to act without raising an eye, I can say this from experience." Fenrya has some experience in this field.

"I know Fenrya, I was just being sarcastic." Sanryu was only joking. "So what do you say? Let's go and have a look? We have nothing to do anyway." Sanryu suggests to the female tabaxi that they go and check.

"It was my intention to do so...this city is a bore." Fenrya willingly accepts Sanryu's proposal, and so the two set off towards these sewers.

After some time walking, the duo arrives at the entrance of these sewers, and taking a look around, to accept that there is no one watching, they enter the sewers. "Ugh! I didn't miss this stench." Sanryu is already starting to be overwhelmed by the strong stench of these sewers. "How can you resist, Fenrya, I assume that with your super developed sense of smell, you smell this smell more." Sanryu can't believe the tranquility shown by the tabaxi girl.

"I got used to it quickly, after all I had to resist for the sake of the mission." Fenrya seems like a soldier trained in everything. "But that's enough, let's follow their tracks." Fenrya doesn't intend to waste any more time, she's starting to see if there are any traces around these sewers.

"Where do we start? I don't know how to follow tracks in the sewers." Sanryu doesn't know how to follow tracks in these eerie places.

"Before I left, I got close enough to smell them, and even though it's complicated down here with all this stench, I can still detect the trace they carry with them." Fenrya has prepared herself, and thanks to her developed sense of smell, she guides Sanryu through these sewers.

"I hope there are no skaven, even the wolfrats would be a nuisance." Sanryu doesn't want to meet rats for a while.

"I don't think the skaven have arrived here yet, but as for wolfrats, I think there are some, but not as many as in Deria." Fenrya reassures Sanryu on the issue of the skaven, but as for the wolfrats, the boy will deal with it.

"If there isn't a guild hall here, the city guards will probably take care of it, or if the problem becomes unmanageable, they'll send a mission request to the nearest guild, which in that case was Deria, but not anymore." Sanryu I assume that the city guards are controlling the number of wolfrats, since there are no adventurers in these parts, oh at least not as many as there were in Deria.

"Mh? Here, this way, I think we're almost there." Fenrya stops Sanryu, she and she warns him that they are most likely close to their goal.

The duo comes out of an alley and sees those two men, with the kidnapped woman, it seems as if they are waiting for something. "Let's not get caught." Sanryu and Fenrya hide, trying to make little noise.

"When the hell are they coming? We've been here too long already." One of the two men appears to be complaining.

"Calm down, we should be almost there." The other man appears to be calmer than the other.

And just like the man said, the wall next to them begins to look strange, as if it were rippling, and suddenly, that part of the wall disappears, revealing a hidden corridor.

"It's about time, let's go!" The irascible man, grabs the woman with a hood on her head, is the door like a sack of potatoes, while the other man, walks to follow.

"What the hell is that? Illusion magic?" It's the first time for Sanryu, he's never seen magic like this.

"Most likely yes, let's go follow them." Fenrya is not surprised by the magic, she encourages the boy to follow the two men, before the wall reappears.

The two prepare to follow the duo of men, going after them. After entering that corridor, the wall reappears behind them. "Let's see if what I think is correct." Sanryu holds out his hand towards the wall, it's just as he thought, his hand goes through the wall. "At least we weren't locked inside."

The duo walks into this dark corridor, lit little or not at all by the candles hanging on the sides of the walls. Shortly after walking in the middle of this corridor, the two emerge into another tunnel, which is most likely still part of the sewers, but there is something unpleasant in this area. Cells are positioned in these tunnels, and inside them there are people trapped.

"We brought another one." The man throws the woman to the ground, causing her to cry out. "Open a cell and throw her in." A third man opens a cell, throws the woman inside, and then closes the padlock again.

"Now that we have kidnapped another sacrificial victim, we can enjoy a little rest." The men walk away, leaving Sanryu and Fenrya alone.

"Sacrificial victims? What the hell is going on underneath this city?" Sanryu, once he has checked that the men have left, comes out into the open, with Fernya following him.

"Where I come from there are rumors of monstrous creatures that are worshiped by members of every mortal race, we call them demons." Fenrya looks at the people locked in the cells, all curled up with terror covering their faces. "Sometimes these demons require payment for their favors, such as mortal souls." Sanryu is no longer relieved to hear all this.

The duo checks each cell, even trying to break these iron bars, but without success, as they sense that a strange magic strengthens these materials.

"There's something strengthening these bars, otherwise I would have already torn them to pieces. Hey, you! Do you know what's happening down here?" Fenrya tries to talk to the prisoners, but to no avail. No one responds to Fenrya's voice, they are all too scared.

"Is there anyone...?" But a faint voice resonates from one of the cells, attracting the two towards it.

"An armed woman? That kind of armor...she's a paladin!" The duo arrives at the cell where the voice comes from, and in that cell there is a single person, unlike the others where there are five to eight people locked in a single cell.

Sanryu recognizes that type of armor, only paladins wear armor so decorated with divinity coats of arms.

"Please... help me..." The woman calls for help, she seems very shaken she is weakened. What will the duo decide to do about it?