As Lilly surveyed the board up and down looking for anything interesting when a request suddenly caught her eye 

Please kill slave trader Johan and release all of the slaves he has held captured 

Difficulty rank: Silver

Reward: 10 gold coins 

Time limit: 5 days 

Eying the request she turned to Kai "How come no ones taken that one yet? it seems to have quite a high pay compared to others of its rank." Kai looked the request she indicated too "oh the slave trader quest huh, in truth it's just because freeing the slaves is hard work, killing the guards can be arranged but unless you time it well you may get caught while trying to pick the lock to let the slaves escape." 

Lilly nodded while thinking carefully, with her ability to go unnoticed as wells her lockpicking skills she may just be able to pull it off, however could she be bothered? In truth she still had a good lot of treasure taken from the treasurey so she didn't really need to work but she did want to try and help clear some of the corruption.

Deciding on her next course of action Lilly tore the request of the board and passed it to Kai "I'll take it." Kai just let out a crooked smile "I had a feeling you would." walking back into the shop Lilly sat down on a bar stool and faced Kai "pass me your guild card a second." said Kai, passing him the card she watched as he muttered a few words under his breath before the paper disappeared. 

Smiling Kai handed the card back to Lilly who noted the number of requests had increased to 1. "Can you show me where this slave trader lives?" she asked Kai who shook his head "sorry but no, someone has to hold down the fort, I'd get Noir to take you if I were you." nodding Lilly turned to the bar stool where Noir was casually talking to Gin.

"Noir can you show me where I can find slave trader Johan?" Noir looked at her in surprise "So you chose Johan for your first request that's gonna be hard." Lilly smiled "It'll be fine, but anyway can you show me now, I want to be done by the end of the day." Noir laughed "you do know have five days to gather information and complete this request, right?"

Lilly smiled mischievously "Who cares, I want to be done quickly, and besides I have more than enough experience to pull this off smoothly." Noir shivers at the look on Lilly's face "r..right anyway just let me change into my disguise, then we'll go." Lilly shook her head "nope no disguises you bring less attention in civilian clothes."

Noir looked at her worriedly "Oy Oy are you sure this is gonna be ok?" "Of course," Lilly smiled "besides by the end of the day anyone important who may have seen you will be dead anyway." Noir once again let out a small shiver and then brought his emotions under control and nodded. 

"Ok then lets go now." Lilly smiled pleased and gestured for Noir to go first. Stepping outside the bar Lilly followed Noir through a labyrinth of twists and turns before finally they arrived at a large warehouse "Well this is the place," said Noir Lilly nodded "Thanks for your help, by the way can you give me a basic description of Johan. Iv just realised I have no clue what he looks like." 

Noir stared at her in exasperation "you took a request without even knowing what the target your aiming to assassinate looks like?" Lilly nodded "yup that sounds about right." Noir burst into laughter "God that's stupid but oh well, Johan is a man about my height with medium build, blond hair and a cross shaped scar on his left cheek. Make sure you aim to kill because he's an ex adventurer and a good one at that which is another reason no one accepted the request till now." 

Lilly nodded "Thanks for the info, I'll be careful." Noir smiled and walked off back in the direction of the bar. Taking a deep breath Lilly worsened her posture and put on a distressed and nervous expression. Preparations complete she went up to the the warehouse and knocked on the door. 

Almost immediately the door swung open and a large muscled man walked out "Yes?" he sneered at her "he..hello I'm the apothecaries apprentice, I was asked here by a mi..mister Johan to help one of the more valuable slaves who was apparently not feeling well." 

The guard took one look at her mousy face and nervous demeanor and designated her to not be a threat "sure come in, but if you mess up mister Johan ain't gonna be happy." Lilly nodded and let the guard show her inside, as soon as she stepped into the warehouse she knew she had to do something and fast. 

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The warehouse was filled with two large cages, the one on the left was filled with men and the one on the right women. In both cages the ones who looked the strongest were bound with handcuffs. Although Lilly may have been an assassin she still had some basic human decency and this was far beyond what she considerd decent. 

Lilly turned to face the guard "Where is Mister Johan, he said he Wanted to meet me before I started to discuss price." the guard nodded and gestured towards a door at the back of the warehouse "The bosses office is through that door." Lilly smiled sweetly at him "Thank you." and without further a word she slit his throat. 

The slaves in the cages stared at Lilly in shock as the tall man fell to the floor silently and she put a finger on her lips gesturing for them to be quiet. Wiping the the blood from the guard off her dagger she once again concealed the dagger within her sleave taking the keys from the guards dead body she silently gave them to one of the slaves with free hands in the women's cage seeing as it was closer "Stay silent until after I'm done." 

Smiling Lilly walked up to the bosses office before knocking on the door."come in." came a voice on the other side of the door. Assuming her meek personna once more Lilly walked through the door to find the man she assumed to be Johan. The man looked up "Who are you are you here to buy a slave?" 

Lilly shook her head "A..are you mister Johan, I..I was went here from the apothecary about a sick slave." Johan nodded and looked confused "I am Johan but I didn't hire anyone about a sick slave."  Lilly shook her head and tried to look remorseful "maybe there was a mistake, I..I'm terribly sorry to have bothered you mister Johan." 

Giving a short bow Lilly turned like she was about leave praying that he'd taken the bait "Now, now." said Johan "You've taken up part of my valuable time, how are you going to repay me?" Lilly feigned cowering hoping he would get a little bit closer while Johan sneered "maybe you'll become a slave yourself...." Johan was about to say more when the knife slit his throat.

As Johan fell to the floor his face the picture of surprise Lilly straightened up and smiled "well that wasn't to bad now was it?" searching Johan office she found a small pile if gold which she happily took as well as a set of keys. Taking the keys she walked out the office to adress the slaves within the cages who were all staring at her in amazement. 

"Hello to everyone held in the cages my name is Arachne and I have been sent by the assassins guild to kill Johan and free you all." the slaves looked at her in amazement before a young boy near the front of one of the cages burst into tears "can..I...go..home..and..see...my..family. again?" Lilly smiled gently "of course you can." taking the keys she had found in Johan office she opened both cages and freed the slaves within.

"Now that everyone's out I highly suggest you leave as quickly as possible in case any reinforcements come." the slaves nodded some of them still crying as they ran out the door as fast as they could go. Of course this was an excuse, if there were any reinforcements they would have come already however Lilly needed to get rid of everyone for a minute.

Turning around Lilly walked back into the office, while in there earlier something had bothered her with the layout of the room there was something wrong with the floor meaning that there should be cellar or something similar in the room, that meant either there had been a cellar and it had been filled in, or there was a secret passage leading into the cellar. Searching behind all the shelves and cupboards on the room Lilly was just about to get up and leave before she noticed a small button on the underside of one of the bookshelves.

Quickly pressing the small button Lilly saw several floorboards move away leaving a flight if stairs descending down into the darkness. Cautiously stepping down the stairs Lilly could hear breathing noises as she reached the bottom of the stairs meaning that meant there was someone down there. 

Peering through the gloom Lilly let our a gasp of surprise, at the bottom of the staircase was a large black cage like the ones upstairs only much sturdier looking, the surprise however came from the young man within the cage. The one with the two black horns on top of his head, the demon. Lilly grinned, things were about to get interesting.