Allen learned from the two incidents and created another copy of his sensor to monitor the shrine room while he followed Duster.
The bullies were long gone but he just rewound his recording of the few glimpses he had from them leaving to get their faces on display.
Floating through the bustling streets of this foreign city he saw all manner of creatures interacting in trade theft and idle conversation, he couldn't tell if any were NPCs and it started to rub on him when even shopkeepers didn't go idle when customers left their booths, either the ai got much smoother since he was playing or they were all players.
Combine that with the way Duster said 'ancestor' and Allen had a sinking feeling more time had passed than he fealt comfortable admitting to himself.
Coming to a tall building with ornate dragon etchings covering the entrance and foyer he followed through several gates and guard positions, not even one of them displaying idle routines was strange and discomforting.
Up an elevator and down through another corridor Allen was glad he anchored the sensor to Duster or he would never be able to manually follow through all the twists and turns in the city and building, more like a fortress than apartment complex they finally got to their destination when Duster took a deep breath before a door.
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Inside were guards on each side of the door, Duster walked past them and through a winding corridor reached another door where it listened and sighed before entering.
Opening the door revealed an opulent salon strawn with chairs and soft carpets, Allen gasped inwardly when he saw the whole gang of bullies lounging arround the room, laughing in conversation that stopped when they saw Duster.
"Your'e back" one of the Kobolds spat, "did you break the door of the shrine?", its voice was dripping venom.
"Or climb out a window?" A human girl chimed in.
"Probably summoned Staffson to let her out like last time" a third Kobold intervened "using magic when underaged like a Feral".
"Or an elder", the first Kobold added, "thinking you are better than us cause you got mana" its voice dipped with acid.
Duster stood still, Allen couldn't take it any more, he ramped up the volume for his auditory projector and in a cone leading away from duster he said "shut up", the effect was pretty awesome, the furnitures and characters were all flung away, windows and glassware broke, the doors burst open and guards poured in fully armed and armored surrounding the youngsters in a defensive formation, an ancient looking Kobold walked in and surveyed the damage, it then put its arm on Dusters' shoulder and lead it to another room, when one of the bullies tried to follow the ancient one shook its head and the guards wouldn't let anyone else leave.