The World Behind The Arch

Chapter 4

"What do we do now?" Ziz asked.

"Let's flirt with the blacksmith, no, with the blacksmith, better not. Where is the typical slut you can seduce to spend the night?"

"In his house."

"It's one of those games with smart NPCs who get into buildings when it rains?"

"Do you see someone outside?"

"No."

"Well, there you have your answer, let's find an empty house and pick the lock."

Griffith came out of the inn's bathroom, the Innkeeper was waiting for him happily.

"What happens?" The boy asked.

"We have thrown out the people you have told us. Do you want us to do something else?"

"What have been the benefits of today?"

"Discarding vendor payments, provisioning, and employee salaries, about 500 Stallin. Do you want to collect or invest to upgrade the inn?"

"Invest in beds, customers will like it, they will come tired from a long trip and will enjoy the comfort, on the other hand I want you to raise the price of the stay at 5 Stallin."

" That would be 25 Stallin? I think customers will complain."

"Don't worry, they'll pay, after all, we're the only inn in the city."

"We are not, we are the oldest but there are twenty other inns in this city; Also customers could go to another city."

"I'll have to do something, Diana I'm going out, take care of everything around here —he ordered the girl."

Griffith's cell phone began to ring; Griffith picked it up and turned it on, a new mission had started.

[New Mission: Find a Way to Sabotage the Rest of Posadas]

"This mission doesn't give physical reward," thought the boy reading the details of the mission.

Ziz and Garudo were in front of a large two-story house.

"Okay, in the whole city there is not a single empty house and we are getting wet as if we had fallen in a river," Ziz said.

"So what do we do now? We go into a normal house?"

"Yeah, pick the lock on this one."

[New Mission: Find Your Way In]

"Okay, how do I do it? I don't have lock picks."

"What a shitty Thief. Why don't you have lock picks?"

"For the same reason we don't have weapons, this fucking game doesn't give you the basic equipment."

"Well, leave it to me, I'll show you my Assassin Skills."

Ziz punched the window and smashed it causing noise to be heard throughout the area.

"What the hell are you doing!?"

"Don't scream you're going to wake everyone up," he whispered. "Wait here I'll open the door for you right away," He continued entering through the broken window.

The window led to a living room with several shelves full of books, an armchair next to a table and in front of a fireplace; Ziz went to the entrance of the room, and when he tried to open it, he discovered that it was locked.

[Sigh]

Garudo waited at the door, wondering why Ziz was taking so long to open the door.

[Loud noise]

"What's going on? Has he been caught?" He thought, worried about the possibility of getting hypothermia from staying longer in the rain.

[Soft noises ... Loud noise]

Shortly after, Ziz opened the door, the boy looked exhausted and was sweating; Behind him Garudo could see two broken doors.

"What happened?" the boy asked.

"The living room and hall doors were closed, I had to force them with my Assassin Skills." Ziz explained.

"How did you open this door without breaking it?"

"It was open from the beginning."

"We should have checked before we broke a window and two doors."

"And lock the girl in the closet."

"Did you say girl?" Garudo asked to make sure he had heard correctly.

"No," he answered, trying to hide it.

[Incessant pounding]

"Help! Get me out of here!!"

"The cats of this world are very rare."

"Are you sure it's a cat?"

"Yes, it's a pussy," he replied laughing and causing Garudo to laugh at how silly the joke was.

"Do we kill her?" Garudo asked, stopping laughing.

"What!? Why?"

"I don't know, you don't have to leave witnesses."

Ziz walked over to another window and smashed it with another punch.

"What are you doing now?"

"I had an idea, we released the girl and told her that we scared off the man who locked her in the closet."

"Then why did you break the window?"

"That son of a bitch had to escape by somewhere."

"By the door maybe?"

"If you were a Thief, would you walk out the door?"

"Yes! And I'm a Thief!"

"It doesn't matter anymore, the damage has already been done."

"And the girl? Won't she recognize you?"

"No way, I don't think she had time to see my face."

Ziz opened the closet door and the girl jumped on him and started punching him angrily on the floor.

"I think she has seen you."

[New Mission: Opening The Closet] [Optional: Help Ziz] [Optional: Help the girl]

Without thinking twice Garudo pulled the girl off his partner and started kicking him in the stomach while yelling at him.

"Learn to steal, you son of a bitch! Take this! Take this!"

"This ... Will ... Cost ... You, "Ziz said, receiving Garudo's kicks.

"Stop! You're going to kill him!" The girl yelled, pushing Garudo away from Ziz.

"I wish it were that easy," the boy exclaimed, wiping the sweat with his sleeve.

[You Level Up!]

Ziz got up in pain, his face was full of blood and bruises, the girl felt guilty for what she had done and Garudo regretted not having hit him harder.

"Are you okay?" The girl asked.

"Perfectly," he replied before squirting blood from his mouth.

"You're not okay at all! You should lie down," the girl said.

"I'll do that," he said before plummeting to the ground.

"What a blow was just given," Garudo said, laughing out loud.