Moving quickly, we returned to the house. In the background, I could hear the relentless echo of a hammer down on metal, but no one paid attention as we dove into the home. Finally, we arrived back at the house, and I was pulled inside, and the ladies all sighed with relief. "God, this was such a bad mission to take," Iona said, her voice clearly annoyed.
I noticed quickly that each of them seemed to be agitated, except Naughty, who seemed to have a smile. I could not help but wonder why each of them seemed to be slightly annoyed. No, they seemed frustrated, and I realized it had been a number of days since I had last seen them. It had been over a week, and I could not help but wonder if they had released any of their pent-up stress while I was gone. Naughty Bunny seemed fine, but the rest seemed a little frustrated.
"Alright, what happened while I was away?" I asked, and they all looked at each other and sighed.
"Well," Viccy said, rubbing the back of her neck. "Here is an updated quest for you," she said, looking quite embarrassed. I looked at her, then everyone else, as I waited for the quest she was about to share, and the rest looked a little embarrassed, too.
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Hidden Group Quest: The Sewer Necromancer
On your clean-up of the sewers, you ran into a laboratory of a Necromancer that seems to be raising a larger and larger undead army. After cleaning out the lab and killing all the undead inside, there was a note you found that names an Inn, but you do not know where the Inn is.
Your informant has found the location of the Sewer Inn, but in the process has been captured. They have only found the Sewer Inn's location and have found nothing else.
You have invaded the Sewer Inn with the help of the authorities, who granted you a small amount of time to find your Informant and any clues for the Necromancer.
You have found a clue from a middleman in the Sewer Inn in exchange for being able to escape the Raid from the Guards. The Clue is a dead-drop location that the man uses to drop off ingredients and a pickup location for them.
After reporting this Necromancer to the guild, they have hired you to hunt down this Necromancer and capture them alive or dead.
Rewards: Adventurer's Guild Reputation, ?????, ??????, 100g if captured alive or 75g if brought in dead.
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"So, a week and you all got one clue after all that?" I asked my voice a little incredulously, realizing how much time and effort we put in for this small clue.
Ah, that is why they are all so embarrassed.
Their faces flushed a deep crimson as I called them out for the simple issue, and I sighed. "At least I got a lot of practice with my illusions and finding my limitations," I told them, and the ladies flushed harder, even more, and I sighed and stretched, and they all looked at me with a hungry look.
I felt my face flush as I realized that tonight, I was to enter a den of tigers. I found myself heating at the thought and wondered how they would ravage me and the condition I would be left in.
My lower extremity hardened under the thought.
Then a thought came to me, and I looked at them, "Wait, then what has taken you all so long to do all of this?" I asked, clearly confused.
"You think you can just walk into the guards and be like, 'Hey, the Sewer Inn is here!'" Viccy said her voice mocking with the last question. Viccy looked pained, as did the other ladies, except Fidel.
"Yeah, they gave us a hard time because when we went to the Sewer Inn and tried to do anything, we learned something quickly." Naughty Bunny said.
"What is that?" I asked, wondering why I had to pull each detail out of them.
"Because someone did not invite us," Gloom finally said, her voice annoyed, "It is an Inn with Introduction only. We barely escaped when we told them that our friend told us the place and that they would meet us there. Apparently, that is a common way to prank friends in the Inn, and we named someone who had been there before but was not there at the time. Honestly, I cannot believe Frank was a name they just took," Gloom said, her voice exceedingly annoyed.
"Was it that treacherous?" I asked in surprise.
"It was a place that evaded the Guards for a long time, and the guards were even on the fence about taking down the place," Viccy said with a wry smile, "In the End, the Inspector suddenly changed his mind from refusing outright. Although we have no reason for why their answer changed suddenly." Viccy shrugged, although she looked curious, and I was surprised by the turn of events.
"So you have all been running around collecting intelligence and finding a way to rescue me," I said with a soft smile, and the ladies all nodded.
Iona flushed the hardest, and the look in her eyes turned predatory.
I could feel the flush reaching my neck as I remembered each of them over the days with those lackluster in the Inn. Nothing could compare to these women when it came to size and girth, with the exception of that Dragonic woman, and I opened my mouth to talk about it when I suddenly found myself pinned with lips against mine.
It seems dinner in the game was going to be delayed.