We didn’t go back to the pastry shop.
That was too much of a risk even if Kire didn't decide to come after us. There would definitely be an investigation after everything calmed down and if it looked like we had been working with the pastry shop or Trixie, it could get really bad for the Banos and even worse for Trixie.
Once we were a few blocks away, we stopped the Chaser so Garlin and Lair could get out. With four guards driving around in an unmarked vehicle, we had a much lower chance of looking suspicious than with all six of us in the Chaser.
“Split up and get back to Tine.” Sipher looked at the two demihumans as he stood up. “We still have a demonstration to do and…” He turned to Garlin. “I know you don’t want to miss it.”
Garlin took four CBs out of his own and handed them to each of us. I took mine and watched as Sipher swapped his out.
The Anubis nodded at us, then took off in a different direction than Lair had run.
“What are you doing?” I put my hand on Sipher’s arm as the bandit started to sit in the driver’s seat.
“I’m wearing the uniform with the lowest rank.” He flipped open his visor so his red eyes could stare me down. “Gall, you need to get up here with me.” He held the gaze for a few more moments before sitting down.
I was glad that I was wearing a helmet, so he didn’t see my smirk. It was impossible to lose a staring contest when you were wearing a helmet and the other person wasn’t . They couldn’t tell if they’d won, and there was no way to prove that the one in the helmet had lost.
Gall climbed into the passenger’s seat and Nyssa scooted over.
“I know a guy who can get us out of the city.” Sipher took off towards the docks.
Thankfully, we didn’t have to go through one of the wall layers that the larger cities had. Most of the time they were just there so that if there was a monster attack, people could get behind another layer or two or walls that would slow the monsters down enough that help could arrive and drive the monsters back. But in times like this, where there was a prison break in the outer layer, the gates were firmly closed and the guards weren’t letting anyone move through the districts.
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Sipher drove through the back streets of the city for over an hour, then parked the Chaser in front of a store that looked like a log cabin with a giant dog statue in front of it.The name written with sticks across the front of the building was ‘HILL DOG’. I had no idea what type of business it was since I’d never heard of it.
Sipher got out of the vehicle and we had to hurry to catch up with him.
The inside was filled with crystals that had been cut into different shapes and figures. Cutting a crystal from the Dungeon like that ruined the ability to draw materials out of it as well as depriving it of the ability to produce the energy that everything we used ran on. I touched one of the crystals and saw that while the crystal itself had lost its value, it had retained where it had come from. This place was for people who wanted to display trophies of things that they’d beaten. Most of the crystals I saw were common floor monsters, but there were a few behind the glass counter that were rare spawns and one that was a named monster.
“I knew you lot would be here bothering me again! For the last time! I! DO! NOT! WORK! WITH! CRIMINALS!” A brown-haired, green-eyed, ebony man came out of the back of the store. He was taller than me and had to be over three hundred pounds of almost all muscle. He was wearing an orange long sleeved shirt and overalls with oil stained on them. The CB on his wrist marked him as either an Adventurer or a Mundane with a lot of All.
Sipher took off his helmet. “That’s a shame. Thought you were better than that.”
“SIPHER!” The walking mountain clasped hands with the bandit. “I thought you were dead!”
“Not yet.” Sipher motion between us. “Guyle Leon, I’d like you to meet my rescuers, Gall Zeb of the Bronze Cobras and his…” He waved at the two of us. “Heirs.” He clapped Guyle on the shoulder. “Guyle here is the best acquisitions man I’ve ever met.”
“Flattery!” Guyle laughed. “That means you want something and don’t have any All!”
“Oh, I’ve got the All.” The golden man smirked. “I just need it done fast.”
The tall man eyed each of us, then turned to Sipher. “A million each to get you out of the city. Half each to make the uniforms disappear.”
That was expensive for a Tier Five and extreme for a Tier Four.
“Done!” Sipher pulled six coins out of his CB and put them on the counter.
Guyle swept up the coins, then motioned towards the door to the back of the shop. “Move your Chaser behind the store and we’ll get you on the first boat out of here.”
Sipher threw me the keys and followed after his friend.
I waited until all four of them had gone to the back to go out to the Chaser. After everything that had happened, I was ready to get out of this city. The whole Kire situation was still weighing on me. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do about it, but that wasn’t going to stop me from trying to think of something. I couldn’t let that God-Killer get any more power.