Flicking her wrist Lilith detachedly watched as yet another city guardsmen rounded the corner and had his trachea meet the open sky. The guardsmen then decided to lay down with his fellow coworkers and watch as the hooded figure ducked into a nearby alleyway.

“Well that's just swell ain’t it” Lilith muttered checking her pockets for any more throw needles, sadly she only had five left. Hugging the wall she watched as two guards hustled on by, most likely wondering what was the commotion.

Casually walking out of the alley and down the path they came from she made it her trip without any more incidents. Pressing her back to the door she scanned the street before seeing herself in, locking it behind her of course.

Spinning around she came face to face against the captain of the guard. Well he was actually across the room behind his desk, but as soon as he looked up it was game over.

White mist flowed in coating everything, completely absorbing everything in sight and just as it came in it quickly receded revealing the drooling face of her younger brother.

“HElrOo!”

“Hi Mántis.” Lilith cord pulled out a rag and wiped away the saliva.

“Thank you for helping train. I promise as soon as this heist is over we can go find a mind cleric to help you.” Lilith mummed softly while making Mántis’s cot, tucking the corners in just as he liked.

Reflecting back on the day when they heard that the new game ‘Eternium’ could balance brain chemistry. Her Parents had paid through the nose to get Mántis and her in one of the pods. Which was kind of Ironic now that everyone was getting them for free now.

Sure it was nice to know that she was able to see her parents again, just when she asked the ranger guilds to start a search, in which she was told in no uncertain terms that they already were being swarmed by similar demands and that she would simply have to wait.

“I need to go out for a bit, Mántis, but I promise you I’ll be right back.” Already closing the door behind her, whereupon and almost immediately bumping into the guild master.

“Oh hey, Headshot!” She said, already throwing on her serious voice.

“Lilith, what a surprise! I was just on my way to see how our resident soothsayer is doing, when I bumped into my up and coming needle monk! So tell me has he said anything regarding any of us? After all, I would hate it if we had to ‘relocate’ him to a different room.” Headshot taunted. It had been a nightmare just getting Mántis out of their old room at the inn.

“He hasn’t been able to since you keep on coming down here every single day, unless you want to change that?”

“Well you kind of put me in a hard place Lilith. I need to know if the heist is going to go off without a hitch and you would like to have a quiet place for Mántis. Not to mention the small fact that we have been getting slammed by the city with investigations and being called treasonous. For not being able to pay our taxes on time.” Headshot spoke, pulling out a knife and began fidgeting with it.

“After all, I didn’t reform this guild, from the ground up, just so that it could be taken down again. Abyss they might eventually get off of their overweight buts and come down here to arrest me again. Do you know what it's like to be in jail in this world Lilith, DO YA! So I SAY again Lilith has our resident soothsayer got any fortunes recently?” Headshot groulded practically leaning over her heaving as he let his frustration pour out Slamming the dagger into the right by her head.

“No, he hasn't yet.” She replied weakly bowing her head. She waited for a reply. Looking at Headshot and his goons were gone. With her path now clear she once again headed out of the guild. Making her way out of a side alley and ensuring that there were no guards around heaved a barrel over the manhole she crawled out of.

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Walking through the streets of Eternium was always a pleasure since there were so many people from different walks of life, which really meant so many different trinkets and coins from all walks of life. Wherever she went people's pockets always felt a bit lighter. She of course got one or two coins from each person, but even then in a crowd as thick as this one a few quickly began to pile up.

Knocking twice on her favorite oak door she walked into ‘Missmatched Miscreants’ purchasing a small stuffed teddy bear and a new kite of sewing needles. Claiming that she was trying to pick up a sewing skill for a quest she needed. Though they each knew without saying that the sewing needles were not in fact for sewing and the ‘teddy bear’ was actually code for ‘their guards tailing me and I’d like to use the back door if at all possible’. Heading to her next thing on her shopping list she picked up bread, milk, bread again, flour, thirty feet of rope, another piece of bread this time the one with the poison for the heist, and finally a new bag to hold it all which could not immediately be traced by them specifically.

Dropping the bag into the sewer she waited to see if any monsters were lurking about. Thankfully none were, at that moment, landing with a sloop she began traversing the underground high way for reforged hardcore’s guild. Which was also referred to by most of the sewers.

Having picked up the now somewhat solid bag, she began to review the master plan. Step one draw the city guards away from their barracks. Step two sneak into said barracks and replace or poison their food and drink, reason being the guards won’t notice the change in food after a chaotic day. Step three after most of the guards have been taken out Hardcore come back into the light wanting to ‘atone’ for there crimes. When in reality they become the new city guards.

In all honesty Lilith just kind of felt like a face in the crowd, in this grand scheme of things. Her job was simply to go in and swap food around. Of course she felt bad about it, but they were just digital entities; they wouldn’t really die, they were just code. Plus according to her sources some clerics had a spell to bring fellow npcs back from the dead so it wasn’t really wrong, was it?

Taking her second left turn surprised both her and a small band of adventures. Staring at each other they waited for the other to move. Glancing her new adversaries up and down eventually, her gaze came to land on the crest of the mages college. Good, this would make her job a whole lot easier.

“Hello gents, I appear that I have lost my way, could you possibly point me in the direction of your upcoming funeral?” She remarked watching as their faces turned from relieved to confused then to worry as their heavily armed company dropped silently to the ground. His body was already sinking below the murky depths.

The mage's college often sends new recruits down into the sewers to train them in relative safety. That was until travelers came to this world.

Winding back Lilith hucked another needle as the fourth figure who turned tail and was partly down the hall missing completely. Oh well she did need to train her tracking skills. Mapping out the sewers in her head she wouldn’t be able to make it back to the college in time, right?

“WEAK ACID SPRAY!” yelled one of the mages coating her in an extremely weak acidic mist. Turning to them she swung her cloak dispursting the weak spell. Reaching into her boot, she would make sure they didn't suffer too much.

Striking the green robed mage first caused a spark, slashing it twice more also had a similar effect. Thankfully on the fifth slash the mage’s magical armor broke allowing her a nice shallow cut across the forearms. Grabbing a wrist of the mage brought it down and around his back pressing him against the moist moss cover wall.

“Aquatic bolt!” Shouted the blue robed mage launching a gloob of water at the menacing rogue. Watching quietly as she sliced it in two with an ordinary dagger. Turning her attention back to the pinned mage she got a face full of an acidic mist, pain bloomed where the mist touched her skin. Snapping her mouth and eyes shut, she backed off changing targets charging at the now terrified water mage. Already wiping the drops of acid from her face, guess she’d be visiting their resident cleric after this.

One! Two! Three! Three slashes the mage’s armor was broken and on her fifth stroke she got a face full of clean water which is quite refreshing actually. Sadly they were on opposite sides. Stepping back she narrowly avoided yet another acid spray allowing the burning cloud to attack her previous target.

Throwing her elbow into the green mage’s sternum interrupting his apology. Bringing her hand up she promptly gave him a bloody nose before swinging it down in the other direction. Getting a very manly ‘EEEP’ in response. Twisting around she grabbed reach over the green mage’s shoulder grabbing the back of his robes Lilith pulled him forward and over her knee.

“Mages, pff, just won’t go down easily” She said slamming her dagger into his chest. Looking up she met the eyes of a water mage, smiling she leapt at him and was finally able to put his weak heart to rest.

Whipping off her blade she was finally able to begin tracking down the one that got away.