Sneak in the night

At the market where passersby stopped by the stalls to buy things, Lize entered a guild shop where adventurers took on quests to earn money. She walked over to the front desk who greeted her there.

"Welcome to the Guild, can you show me your pass?"- Reception

Lize took out a leather pouch with her passport inside, and handed it to the reception, she look around and whispered.

"Then when will lilies bloom? I want to go pick them"- Lize

The reception's hand stopped, he looked up at Lize and nodded. His hand reached down to put something on Lize's passport and gave it to her.

"Good luck on the mission"- Reception

"Sure, I'll use the back door"- Lize

"Please feel free"- Reception

After Lize went out quietly, a few shadows followed her to the back door. When they came out, there was no sign of anyone, and when they found it strange, they tried to find it. But then stopped, turned to look at each other, something wasn't right.

*Drip Drip*

The sound of liquid flowing to the ground, their bodies suddenly dripped with thick red liquid.

They seem to have figured it out, but it's too late.

Their whole bodies were severed into parts, and Lize jumped down from above and cut the thin wires from her hands. The door opened and the one who stepped out was the guild receptionist.

"Clean it up there, if they have anything of value on them, take it" - Lize

"I see, Lady Lize. Before you go, I want to give this to you."- Reception

The man handed her a scroll of parchment, imprinted with the wax seal of a six-petal lily. It was the watcher's seal, they brought her news. The information that the watchers collect is very important, it also affects the country.

Lize opened the parchment scroll to see its contents, then frowned. She then used her fire elemental power to burn the parchment scroll.

"Tell hunters and assassins quickly, prepare for a new mission. The content of the quest is to pick rotten flowers from the roots. Little by little" - Lize

"I see, Lady Lize. What about the incident from the border?"- Reception

"Send some merchants to bring the refugees to the garden, be absolutely careful. I heard those crows are lurking everywhere, if you come across a single crow...kill it immediately, understand. right?" - Lize

The receptionist put his hand on his left chest and bowed respectfully.

Currently the academy is on holiday so Lize has more time to do her own work, Orien is on vacation but still has to study a lot of advanced lessons so she can't meet Lize. That was fine, because she didn't want that little lady to be in danger.

Now her next job, was to find that damn dragon. Thanks to joining the temporary Guild, along with the elaborately forged passport, she did so to create a fake alibi with a false identity. Because if anyone wants to find him, that person doesn't even exist.

Thanks to her ability to fly with the element of wind, she reached the cave where there was a huge source of energy, and no exception was the king's knights also prowling. Ever since he became king, he was always afraid of being able to kill at any time, so he did not stop searching for the most ancient and powerful creature.

That is "Dragon".

When someone owns the dragon egg, they will get the contract that the dragon bestows, the dragon's absolute protection.

But the dragon species has gradually become extinct, so the quantity is extremely scarce, the value of a dragon egg is priceless.

Lize took out a small piece of paper from her passport and she threw it in front of it, the slip of paper showed its true form as a black shadow, then it moved into a person wearing a black robe. She stepped closer to observe.

"Not bad, looks like my alchemists did a great job creating such a detailed clay doll" - Lize

The purpose she needed such a doll was to distract the other knights, so she could sneak inside very easily.

However, she was a little worried about that dragon, it was originally the dragon of the entity Paradox, a powerful ancient dragon with the most terrible power, it can be considered as the god of dragons.

"Is this okay?"

"I don't know, but the poet's people can't help but know what to do"

There were voices of two people inside, Lize hid behind a rock when she saw the guards chatting with each other, as if they didn't know what was going on outside. But the people of the church, that's another matter. The church had always been worshipers of other entities opposed to the Paradox entity, so they could be considered as her enemies. Lize can take action against the knights but the people of the church can't, thus attracting the attention of the others.

She pulled out a small knife from her sleeve.

"Haa….so sleepy, why do we have to work this late at night?"

"I heard that dragon eggs will hatch at midnight tonight, so the king ordered it to be done immediately."

"So what do the people of the church have to do with this?"

"You're so stupid, the people of the church are always elements that contain great power. At midnight, it takes a huge amount of power to bloom."

"So it is, hey it's late anyway, have some wine? I brought some"

As soon as he turned his back to his companion, there was no reply.

"Hey, do you have a drink?"

Still no response, he turned around and was immediately stabbed by a knife in the neck. A single stab killed him.

Lize dragged the corpses into a hole and then covered the rock, brushing her hands as she continued inside, she saw a figure approaching, Lize waited when the shadow approached she would jump out.

Slowly, the shadow was getting bigger, closer and closer, Lize gripped the knife in her hand. The footsteps got closer, when she saw the toes, Lize jumped out and pressed the other person down and raised the knife in front of her.

*Thump*

This is surprising.

It was not a grown man or woman, but a child.

It's Etham.

Surprised for a moment, Lize jumped away from the child and turned the other way, pinching the bridge of her nose and sighing.

<Why does it have to be that kid out of everyone?>- Treachery

<You ask me now I don't know how to answer>- Lize

<Shall we eliminate it too?>- Sloth

<Have you lost your mind? It's just a kid!>- Lize

While Lize was still struggling with her mind, Etham stepped closer, realizing it was the mysterious woman he had met that day.

"Miss Alter? Is that you?"- Etham

Hearing her nickname, Lize turned towards the child.

"Is it that kid? What a coincidence that we met again? Are you in a dark place like this?" - Lize

"Actually.....I was sent here by order of the pope on a mission, I didn't expect to see you here!"- Etham

"Then can you tell me what that quest is? Maybe I can help"- Lize

"Miss Alter is a pro? Well then let me go tell the guards"- Etham

"There's no need, I've seen them before. They said they were too tired and needed to go to sleep to regain their strength" - Lize

"Really? Then let's go, I can feel something in there" - Etham

Lize quickly grabbed Etham's back so that the child would forget about the question, there is no way she would let a child like Etham witness what she just did.