The Insider System

Chapter 387: The Deal Pt.23

Having failed to find anything in the two other libraries, Lake headed for the last resort which was Lucas' office. Lucas had loads of books so thinking he might have something about the Demon Lord there made plenty of sense and hopefully this book about the Demon Lord would mention how Akal had come to work for him.

Stepping into the room, Lake saw Lucas was still working even though everyone else had gone home for the day and had to wonder if maybe the man was like him and had something like high stats or a skill that affected the man's ability to sleep. It didn't really matter but if Lucas was this busy with never taking time to sleep the amount of work the Guild Leader must have to do in a single day must be soul crushing.

"Are you going out again?" Lake guessed Lucas thought he was looking at him because he hadn't wanted Lucas to see him walking through to leave but that wasn't the case so he just shook his head and said. "I'm just passing time until work starts by looking around for a book that could answer some of my questions about the Demon Lord. So far everything I've found has been from the perspective of onlooking mortals so you can't take the information as the absolute truth."

Lake had already found that nothing inside the room was currently glowing so he wasn't surprised when Lucas said. "Well good luck. The gods try to keep what goes on between them as much as possible unless there's a reason to let the mortals know. Any book that held the information you're looking for has probably been destroyed so the information wouldn't spread too much."

When Lucas got done saying that his search wouldn't be easy Lake decided to just give up for now because the Insider clearly didn't want him to know either and he finally realized there was probably a good reason. If this ever changed he was sure it would let him know what he needed to when it came to its past dealings with the Demon Lord.

Lake was about to say bye to Lucas to go back to his room when he noticed the bookshelf that held the journals of Amanda which still held only a few books. He saw them every time he walked through the office but now that the war seemed to be pretty much over for the Alchemist Guild, going out to gather the other volumes was a good way to make Lucas happy with him.

Keeping someone who was aware of his secrets happy was obviously a good thing so even if it took some of his item gathering time from him it would be worth it. "I also wanted to ask if you would want to go after some more of the journals when you're not so busy."

Having Lucas come with him was a great way to force the man to answer some of his questions so even if it was only for a few of the journals that he would get for the guild it would be a useful use of a trip. "I'll probably have some time off tomorrow but only a few hours, do you think that would be enough to get one?"

Thinking about it, Lake nodded and said. "If we don't take a cart and just run there we'll be fine. What time do you want me to be here to leave?" After a few seconds of looking through some papers on his desk Lucas said. "Just come and see me after you get done with working with Doul tomorrow and I'll try to be ready to go."

Lake nodded and wondered if he would even need to go to work tomorrow with how easy the test Doul wanted his help with was. He kind of felt he would be able to get it done today soon after he arrived at the Master Lab. "Alright I'll see you later then." Lake was sure he would see Lucas again today so he didn't say tomorrow even though that was when they had just made plans for.

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Seeing the gate back to the Holy Domain again so soon felt very weird to Tiff but she had known when coming through it yesterday that the future was uncertain so it wasn't that much of a surprise. The fact she was alone was though because in all the possibilities she had thought of yesterday she hadn't pictured being sent out alone to hunt down a giant as even a vague possibility.

She wasn't really feeling scared either so that was weirding her out as well. She had always known the kind of confidence you could get from receiving a Legendary skill because it had happened to her when she was still stealing to feed herself while on the run from the Demon Worshipers when she was little but she guessed getting multiple in a few hours had an even greater effect.

She felt even better than she had when she had first received the Legendary job which made sense because she hadn't really gotten any real benefits right away with how the God of Light wanted her to get the dagger back before he gave her any new skills for whatever reason.

"Stop." Hearing the person at the gate call out to her it took Tiff a second to realize she was being stopped because she had her Temple ring off of her finger to hide who she was. Quickly flashing the ring to the guard Tiff was let through with no more words exchanged.

As she walked through Tiff was unable to keep herself from taking a look at the sky because even though she knew no one would recognize her as a Demigod or a Holy mage now with her new skills she was just used to every time she walked through this gate so exposed the Demon Lord sent assassins from the sky to kill her.

After a few seconds of nothing happening she knew the new skills worked like the God of Light hoped they would and was able to continue on her way towards a small town that would take her around a day to get to. The information she received had said this town should be where one of the younger and weaker giants was currently living and if this information was right this giant would be her first victim.

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Donny had been about to try again at using the looking stone to find what was stopping him from using magic when he heard something for the first time in hours. It sounded like someone moving towards him and it had come from just a few feet away so he instantly hit the looking stone by covering it with his hand.

"You want some food?" Donny was a bit hungry but he felt taking food right now was a bad idea because it might involve using the hand that held the stone. "Not right now."

"Oh are you afraid I'll poison you?" Donny knew that was ridiculous because he was already completely under their control but pretending to not trust the food was a good way to get out of eating it so he said. "I think it's possible that you're trying to knock me out again without having to come inside."

Donny was sure he was in some type of cage even though he couldn't move very far from where he was chained up. "Well I was going to come in and feed you so there's no benefit of trying to knock you out with your food." Hearing he wasn't going to be using his hands to eat Donny stopped trying to get them to leave and said. "Alright then go ahead and come in."

Donnys hand was big enough to completely cover the looking stone but it was still pretty obvious that he was holding something so when he heard something that sounded like a door opening he made sure his shackles were blocking his hands from sight.

As the guy got close enough to him that he was able to make out a silhouette Donny tried to get a look at whatever it was he was about to be fed but before he was able to see anything he saw the man's hand start to head towards his mouth with what was most likely a fork.

As the food made it into his mouth Donny was able to tell that it was meat which he was happy about until he remembered the rumor that undead liked to eat human meat no matter if they were mindless or not. It seemed this thought had made him start to struggle enough that the man thought there was something wrong. "Oh did I push the food too far into your mouth?"

Donny was unable to speak because of the meat that was in his mouth that he refused to chew until the fork was pulled back and he was able to spit it out. "What are you feeding me?" Donny continued to spit out the rest of the meat juice that was in his mouth as he waited for the answer.

"It's meat. Why does it taste weird?" Donny hadn't really let himself think about the taste because of what he thought it might be but that didn't matter. "No, I want to know what type of meat."

"Oh I see. It's just something we hunted while traveling." Hearing this answer Donny got over his fear of eating the food and opened his mouth for the next bite pretending he hadn't just spit the first all over the place.