Reborn as A Snake! (3.) [ONGOING]

(2). - Quiet Life [II].

          After leaving the Guildmasters Office, I wasted no more time in the Adventuring Guilds building and immediately hit the streets to begin my mission for today. The streets were overcrowded as hell, just like before, which would have made it an absolute nightmare to look for this single sketchy individual within the sea of normal citizens of Horga. Luckily, I did not need to just aimlessly venture into the crowd and look for a needle.

Instead, I immediately found a backalley behind some shops near the Adventuring Guilds building and with agile movements, climbed my way up onto the buildings roof, before pulling my scarf up a bit, covering my mouth and nose, before pulling up the hood of my jacket on my head, hiding all my hair under the hood and most of my face with the scarf.

After that, I began to rush over the roof and leapt off of it, landing myself on a different buildings roof, which was much, much higher than the one I had been on just moments prior.

The best way to look for a certain individual for me, was to scout the entire city from above - aka the rooftops and if I spot the individual I am to target, I can then tail them from the roofs as well, until they make their way in an area or a building where I can get the jump on them with as little eyes around as possible.

I crouched down upon this taller roof, before throwing my gaze down at the crowded streets, activating my Epic Skill 'Perception Null' to start scanning the crowd for even a small amount of traces of my target.

Towards the western gates of the city, there was nothing but smithers and their apprentices, towards the eastern gates there was nothing but people shopping in the market. That left the southern gates, which were the ones the target had originally entered the city through when they came to Horga. Scanning through the sea of people like a hawk searching for its next meal, I eventually managed to spot the individual I could confidently say was my target.

A manly figure, under a thick, deep dark red cloak and a hood to cover his head, heading down the street while under the cover of the overhangs of the building to the side of him - probably in an attempt to hide himself from anyone who may be watching from above.

Clever — but not clever enough to avoid my eyes.

As soon as I spotted him, I immediately began tracking him, standing back up and leaping from my current roof to the next one — quickly and agilely making my way over to the rooftops closest to the target. I used a very simple water spell to cushion my footsteps and hide them as I leapt from building to building, eventually reaching a rooftop directly above the man.

I once again activated 'Perception Null' and spotted him through the roof, moving forward, before taking a turn into a side alleyway in-between the building I was stood on and another building next to it. Deciding to not confront him yet, I continued to tail the man, watching him carefully with my 'Perception Null'.

The man moved deeper and deeper into the side alleyway, before stopping and looking around - as if checking if anyone was around. After ensuring that no one was around, he pressed something on a wall, most likely a button, which caused a small hidden staircase to open — leading down into a dimly lit underground area, which seemed to lead underneath the building next to the one I was standing ontop of.

Once he descended down the stairs, the hidden entrance to them closed back up. Immediately afterwards, I deactivated my skill before rushing off of the roof, landing softly in the alleyway, before walking over to where the man had pressed something on the wall.

Placing my left hand onto the wall, I ran it across the wall, touching it very carefully and meaningfully, before feeling a slight bump - one of the bricks used in the buildings construction sticking out.