"So only a few more hours before you reach your past self with me at the same level?" Emma asked even though she already knew the answer to her own question.
She was just trying to pass some time since the dropping was supposed to be 10 minutes before midnight.
In exchange for the slaves, both men and women, the guards as well as the members of the Pyramid organization would receive gold coins.
This meant that if the people coming to pick up the drops were near the duo's level, they were in for a real treat.
Currently, they just had to spend one hour somehow before they would have to go outside the city.
"I heard there's a sandstorm coming tonight. I wonder if we will be safe." Zack and Emma heard an NPC speak to another as both of them were passing the road.
"A sandstorm is going to make our work difficult…" Zack muttered as the two of them suddenly took a cut and entered an alley.
After taking many more cuts, they reached the entrance of the sewer once again.
Hidden beside the door was a letterbox where other members of the pyramid society would drop letters telling the location of the drop-off.
After carefully prying a piece of metal away, Zack took out a black envelope. Inside the envelope was a letter of the same color as the duo read it together.
'To TTZ,
The location of the drop-off will be changed due to the sandstorm. The new time is three hours before midnight.
Bring all the slaves by then.
ZZT'
Zack and Emma exchanged a glance as they opened their status to see that only ten minutes were left until the time of the drop-off.
After flipping the card, Zack saw that the member called ZZT had written that they had to meet him exactly five and a half kilometers away from the city.
The duo immediately dashed towards the city entrance to see new guards standing there.
But Zack and Emma didn't have the time to wait for them as Zack raised his hands and whistled.
Daedalus and Icarus immediately swooped down and lifted the duo onto their backs.
'Anything urgent? You look as though you haven't pooped for a week.' Daedalus said jokingly as Zack rolled his eyes.
'We have to find a few guys around 5 and a half kilometers away. You can leave us 500 meters away from the place and we will do the rest of the stuff ourselves.'
'You got it.'
The twin eagles then sped up and became eagle rockets. In the blink of an eye, Zack and Emma had covered 500 kilometers.
[ Damage has been dealt due to traveling too fast. ]
[ HP: 1023 / 3060 ]
Zack and Emma's vision suddenly turned blurry as they stared at the two eagles with judging expressions.
'Well, at least you reach the place in time.' Icarus chuckled a little before he and his brother flew away.
Zack then opened his inventory with a sigh before he handed Emma a pill.
[ Medium-level regeneration pill (25% purity): Can restore up to 25% health and regenerate a finger or a toe for players below level 30 ]
Zack had bought the pill at the stalls and it had cost him 50 silver coins per pill.
However, he wasn't worried about such things since he had enough money that he was not using anywhere.
[ HP: 1788 / 3060 ]
Zack's blurry vision soon vanished as he sighed and cursed the eagles inside his heart.
The sandstorm still hadn't arrived so the duo could clearly see five people in black hoods standing 500 meters away.
They had two vulture-like creatures with them which Zack and Emma were able to identify by using inspect.
[ Scorgo Vulture (level 25): A vulture that evolved from its base form after eating the flesh of a human, a fish, and a bear. ]
The vulture was something that both Zack and Emma could handle however, the one they were worried about were the owners.
Their inspect didn't work on the five people so they decided to go in blind.
After all, the quest would still be counted as completed even if they just heard a few words and escaped.
While they were a hundred meters away from the group, the two eagles started making strange noises. However, Zack and Emma had changed into the clothes that the members of the pyramid society had been wearing in the sewer.
"Where are the slaves?" The person standing in the middle of the group asked as he pulled his hood even lower.
Due to the design of the clothes, it was extremely hard to tell who was a male and who was a female and how they looked.
"Someone… interfered with our work," Zack muttered in the same voice as the leader of the members he and Emma had fought in the sewers.
[ Voice changed (low level): Can make your voice sound the exact same as another person for five minutes.
- Requires the person's blood and a strand of their hair. ]
It had cost him fifty gold coins to buy such an object but in the end, he will make the money back.
"Did someone from the capital got dispatched here? Damn that duke…" The leader muttered before he paused and looked and stared at Zack.
"Tell me what happened in detail."
Zack then started telling him everything that he had done to the guards but just from their point of view. He excluded the part where almost half of them died while the rest were sent to the capital.
All five of the people listened to the man spoke again.
"I will relay this on to the higher-ups. Till then, you will have to go ahead and stay in the city."
"Yes sir." Zack then turned around and was about to leave with Mia when suddenly, he felt a tingling sensation spreading through his back.
Emma felt the same thing except for one second earlier as both of them rolled to the side.
"I knew something was wrong from the moment I saw those eagles but calling me sir was what made it clear to me," The temperature started to drop down as the man continued to speak. "You are an impostor."
"Well, at least you realized it," Zack muttered as he threw the hood off his face and stared at the icicle spikes emerging from the place where he had been standing a few minutes ago.
If he and Emma had moved just a second later, they would have received heavy damage from the spikes.
Though they had regenerated some health, it was still below 75%.
"Now, tell me, what did you do them." The man raised his right hand in Zack's direction as he saw the ice trailing along with his fingers.
His five comrades also sprang into action as notifications appeared in front of Zack.
[ Inspect skill is now usable. ]
[ Jacques Clouseau (level 31) ]
[ Pengu (level 29) ]
[ Kikar (level 29) ]
[ Bali (level 29 ) ]
[ Romelia (level 29) ]
Now, Zack and Emma had the level information in front of them.
It had only been four days since Zack and Emma's power reset yet in these days, they had realized how used they had gotten to be at the top.
But now, they knew better.
[ The chain quest: Slave Trading has been completed.
Rewards received ]
A powerful aura emerged from Zack and Emma's bodies as they reached the same level as the subordinates.
It was time for them to freely use their powers.
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