The bait was simple.
We act as complete novices.
Yeah, that was the plan. The best way to lure them was to make them believe that we were a couple of young masters who came out to learn and experience the world.
They already believe that we are weak and newbies to this whole thing. So, making them believe that won’t be a problem. As long as they are dumbasses, they will act as soon as they see a chance.
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The problem would be if there are any clever ones in the group.
I mean, no matter where young masters would usually go out with guards. These guards wouldn’t always be visible. There are many times that families assign secret guards to protect their young.
If those adventurers knew that fact, then they might not act, not before they were sure that there were no secret guards protecting us. So, we need to show them that not only we are weak but also that there are no guards protecting us.
It would be troublesome but it can be achieved through simple acting, something I am good at as I have been lying to everyone since I was a child.
Well, if I say it like that, that looks bad but every lie I spoke was to protect myself, never to harm others. So, I don’t think what I did was wrong but I can’t exactly say whether that was right. It would fall in the grey area.
Whether one sees that as right or wrong depends on how one sees it. Experience tales with freewebnovel
Anyway, I need to put on my best actor’s face and should tell the twins to do the same. It would be best if we could eliminate these rats as soon as possible.
We can hunt calmly now and also later on.
I can sense more than ten people following us. As long as we can get rid of them, everyone would understand what happened but none would ever speak about that.
They would also be wary enough to not cause any trouble for us while we stay in the city or outside the city while hunting.
Also, I don’t want the guild to label us as criminals and hunt us. So, though this is a burdensome thing, we have to do it. As long as they attack us first, then we would be in the clear.
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(Third PoV)
"Boss, are you sure that these newbies have something on them that’s worth this effort?" one of the lackeys asked their boss.
Instead of going on questing or killing some monsters that would yield them some gold, they had been wasting their time since morning on these three newbies that walked into the guild this morning.
Their attire attracted everyone present in the guild.
Though they have seen people with such quality attires but not on newbies who are alone on their own. So, many had thoughts about attacking them while they took a quest to complete.
Attacking them inside the city would be disastrous to them as the guards would kill them if one was brazen enough to do that. If the guards fail, the guild might do so.
Attacking other adventurers is an act that the guild doesn’t condone and it is considered taboo but that is something that happens every once in a while. As long as there was no evidence of the act, everything was good.
So, acts like these would only happen in the wild, never in the city.
Even if they leave any evidence, the wild would destroy that within a few days. So all acts of such taboo things would only occur outside, never inside.
After the three newbies took on an F-rank task and left the guild, others followed them. There were at least ten that went out after Magnus and the twins left the guild.
All of them are not together but have the same idea.
They followed the three out of the guild, then out of the city. They understood that the three were directly going to the quest area.
The group that the lackey belongs to only have five members but he knows there are others. So, once a fight breaks out for who should get what, as lackeys, there is no way that they would gain any profits from this fight.
Moreover, these wealthy kids might be weak but they were sure that they should have something that could protect them in emergencies. if those kids use that, then as the weakest of the bunch, they would die before their leader.
Profits would go to the leader, while losses go to them. This was something no one can accept. If not for the fact that they were dependent on the leader all their lives and abandoning now would definitely cause their lives to be lost. So they could only reluctantly follow him.
They watched as those kids hunted the rabbits one by one. It can be said for some wealthy young masters they were not bad. Though they were injured a lot, with the help of some health potions they got quite a haul.
There are three of them and they took the same quest. It means they have to submit at least fifteen rabbits before it can be recorded that the quest was completed.
They have already hunted ten of those rabbits. Five more to go and that would be enough for them to complete the quests. So, there is a high chance that they will return as soon as they get those five rabbits.
If they were thinking of attacking, then they have to do so before the collection of those five rabbits is completed.
If they don’t attack the three newbies now, then the chance would be gone. It would just be a waste of time. This made him impatient as their leader didn’t take any action even though he saw many chances to take those three down.
The burly leader spoke, "I know that they are worth the effort but something feels wrong here and I can’t pinpoint what that is".
Though he is a bad person, the man is an experienced adventurer. Those three acted well but his experienced instincts are screaming to leave and not act against them. This is why he waited so long.
Moreover, there are others and if he was caught in a bind, then others would take advantage of that and take all the profits for themselves.