The Insider System

Chapter 380: The Deal Pt.16

"So you want to be a God but you've turned down every offer that you've received up until this point even though everyone knows the Demon Lord makes more Demigods than any other god." Donny felt like this guy would never understand this point no matter what he said but with nothing else to do he tried to explain his position for the hundredth time.

"Yeah I feel I can do it myself so selling myself to the demon Lord isn't something I wanted to do." He didn't think he could make this any more clear without just saying how much he hated the Demon Lord which he didn't think was a good move in this situation. "Oh you're trying to challenge yourself."

Once again the guy somehow missed the part where he heavily implied he wanted nothing to do with the Demon Lord but as long as it made the guy stop asking the same question in different ways he didn't care. "So what do you think you'll gain doing it all yourself?"

This was a nice change of conversation and it was actually something Donny liked to talk about so he started to explain what he had heard about the different ways of becoming a Demigod. "Well I think there's a problem with gaining divinity before you make it to the sixth circle of formations because that's the minimum level to really understand skill crafting and if you're unable to level your skills correctly you're going to be taken advantage of by strong mortals."

They were rare but there were mortals that were stronger than newer demigods and that wasn't a position he ever wanted to be in. He was also getting close to his goal of being in the six circle already so waiting a few more years wouldn't kill him. "That wont happen if you belong to a faction like ours. No one other than the God of Light and his cronies ever bother us."

Donny was sure that was true but he had always had his eyes on joining the God of Metal if he had to choose which he thought was obvious considering it was the only affinity he used. Sadly the God of Metal wasn't looking for any more subordinates at the moment so that left him with his only option being a loner.

It was really too bad about the Dark Goddess because she hadn't been evil like the Demon Lord and if she was still around he could have used two of his affinities instead of just one and his Intelligence would be a bit higher which would help in his studies. "That's true but joining a group that is constantly fighting doesn't really seem safe as a young inexperienced Demigod."

"You're a member of the Fighters Guild right, it's like the same level of danger you'd be in as a member of our faction." Donny could tell the fact this guy didn't seem to be able to understand him not wanting to have anything to do with the Demon Lord was starting to get in the way of their conversation again and decided it was time for him to take another nap.

"I'm going to sleep now to pass the time." The guy had been talking to him for hours at this point so Donny would rather just pretend to sleep so the guy would leave him alone for a while. His hopes were he would eventually be left alone so he could finally try out the looking stone that was still hidden in his pocket to see if he could gather any information about where he currently was.

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Lake had kind of wasted his first few hours back in the guild putting an order in for new shoes but now that he was done he was heading for the library to read up on a few things he wanted to know more about. His time away had shown him that he needed to look into the other Domains and the Gods that ruled them more than he had up until this point.

He also wanted to look into the time period Laka had been here as the Insider to see if there were any clues to why the Insider seemed to like the Temple of Light more than the Demon Worshipers even though last time Laka seemed to have been on the Demon Worshipers side secretly.

He knew this was going to take a long time though so he was only going to read for a few hours before he headed off to start gathering items for Inner Vault. He was really tired of reading huge books filled with facts at this point so a few hours at a time was really going to be all he could handle in one sitting.

In all reality if he didn't take breaks there was a good chance he would just forget most of what he forced himself to read so this was the most efficient way for him to study up on history. Walking into the library that was closest to his room, Lake saw a face he hadn't seen in a while. "Hello Sam, how are you doing?"

This was Wallace's child and the first person he had ever met in this world all the way back in the corn town he had appeared in. "Lake, I'll be right back." Lake didn't think much of the kid's greeting but he knew Sam had just run off to get his father who had probably been waiting for him to come back to the guild so he just went back to what he had been doing.

Setting Detector to look for books that held information on Laka or Akal Lake saw lots of books around the library light up and realized maybe that was too broad of a setting because all a book would need to be included was a single mention of the names. After a few minutes of thinking about how to make the search more selective, Lake figured he could just specify the amount of the book was dedicated to Akal.

Deciding five percent was a good place to start, he set Detector to see about two thirds of the books that had been glowing stop. This was still a bit much to choose from so he was about to make it ten when he heard someone enter the room in a hurry.

Turning around he saw Wallace who had probably just run all the way here waving at him. "Hello Wallace, how are you?" Lake was sure this was about to be a uniquely unhinged conversation from the look on Wallace's face but decided to greet the man as if he didn't look crazed because he remembered Wallace acting like this in the past.

"I was starting to think you weren't ever going to come back." Lake didn't really understand why Wallace cared what he was doing but he knew he had accidentally helped the man a lot in the past by giving him the idea to make golems that could farm. Wallace was probably hoping that something like that would happen again in the future if they were near each other.

"Well I'm back and plan to stay here most of the time for a while. So I saw the golems outside the city, were you able to find people skilled enough to help you build them faster?" Lake got a fast response as Wallace started to nod vigorously while saying. "Yes I have nine people helping me now, only five of them are members of this guild though so I'm still looking for more permanent help."

Lake could guess that the four that weren't members were probably received in some type of personnel swap with another group but he didn't really care about that enough to ask and confirm his suspicions because he just wanted to get back to what he was doing. "Alright well I'll see you later."

After he said this he tried to walk away but Wallace grabbed his arm before saying. "Actually I was hoping to show you our lab so you know where I am if you ever need anything." Lake didn't think he would ever need to know where Wallace was but he was slightly interested to see the lab so he just nodded even though it was probably going to be a waste of time for him.

"Ok just follow me, it's only a few floors up from here." Lake nodded again but quickly swiped a book off of the shelf when Wallace turned around so he could just head to his room after this and start reading.

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"We're at the gate and are about to pass through." Tiff was a bit surprised by this news because they hadn't been attacked in any way yet but she guessed the Demon Worshipers that were after them realized they wouldn't win in a fight with them if they tried anything.

"That's weird, why didn't they attack us? This was the best opportunity they're ever going to get to kill us all at once." As Tiff listened to what Dawn was saying she started to get a weird feeling about the fact they had just been let escape. Maybe the Demon Worshipers had another reason to let them go with no fight.