Tec Mage Chapter Twenty Nine: Bad Day To Be The Boss

Atlas was travelling to the city on a cart pulled by one of his horses, it was filled with items such as fish men meat for Betty the restaurant owner, sacks of repaired armour and freshly minted swords for the city watch (police force) and enchanted bags for Noah the mage, with Atlas was Forge who was resting and sleeping on Atlas shoulders and wrapped gently around his neck, Mary who was driving the cart, Dracken who was walking beside the cart keeping his eyes peeled for danger and with him was 5 gnolls with black hoods covering their faces

Atlas had chosen 5 gnolls to come with him, the city and the people that lived there would have to be slowly introduced to the gnolls, the panic that 200+ gnolls turning up at the city gates would undoubtedly cause a misunderstanding and so these 5 gnolls were chosen as the bridge between species 

The gnolls wore hoods that covered there face because they were still classified as monsters and if anyone saw there wolf faces the NPC would panic and the players may hunt and kill the gnolls

Coming to the giant city gates Atlas asked Mary to stop the cart, jumping off the cart Atlas beckoned one of the guards to him, a short conversation was held between Atlas and the guard, as soon as both were finished talking the guard saluted and briskly walked away

Back on the cart Mary looked at Atlas, she knew that Atlas had connections with the city watch and didn't need to ask what had happen, only why were they waiting out side the gates

"There is a law that all monsters entering the city have to be tamed, there are some ways around this like if a boar is captured for meat they are allowed in if the creature is bound in a cage" explained Atlas "I learnt about this law completely after the incident with the Dwarf, if you bring in live stock that is potentially dangers to the citizens then money has to be held by the city watch encase of damages such as injury's and property damages, in other words compensation and the city watch must be informed other wise the law is broken and a hefty fine and a little prison time is the punishment"

Mary nodded her head, to her it made sense, live stock lasted longer than butchered meat but the city still needed to be protected with gold

"The money will be returned after we leave but the gnolls are different, I don't want to bind them or put them in cages so I'm going to ask for a favour" explained Atlas

At this point Mary saw a gruff looking man walking towards them, he was wearing a city watch uniform but unlike the rest of the guards his rank was lieutenant

Atlas walked towards him with an out stretched hand, with a hand shake Atlas greeted the man, Mary had heard from Dracken who had dealing with this lieutenant that Atlas had helped this man get promoted and established the forensic section in the city watch 

"How is the city watch doing" asked Atlas

"Good, really good, the watch has been granted more money because of our success and more people have been trained and joined the watch" answered lieutenant Borin

"What about Private Ash" asked Atlas

"Not a private any more, he has been promoted to corporal and is part of the forensic section, he's doing well, he even has two privates under him from the alchemy guild" answered lieutenant Borin

Mary noted that with hard work and putting your services out for people to use you could gain a lot of support from useful and important people, Atlas had support from the mage guild from one of their masters, the training hall instructor who had connections with lots of useful people and the city watch and this was the people that Mary knew of, at this point Mary felt a lot of pride in Atlas and as she was his apprentice she also felt it in her self

Mary started to lose interest, much of the talking between the two was small talk that was until Atlas handed over a small wooden box

"I want to bring in 5 gnolls in town, I hope this will be enough" said Atlas

lieutenant Borin opened the box to reveal 10 gems, each uncut gem was worth 200 gold and if cut and treated correctly would be worth more, lieutenant Borin closed the lid of the box and gave Atlas a receipt for the gems

"There is a problem with the gnolls being free and not bound" said lieutenant Borin

"Could you have some privates from the city watch escort them around, I will pay the wage for the time used" Atlas suggested this mostly for the safety of the gnolls, even if they were discovered the privates would protect them

"No, that wouldn't do, the city pays our salary" said lieutenant Borin 

"How about a donation of 50 gold to go into a retirement fund" said Atlas

A retirement fund wasn't new to the people of the watch but as they were employed by the city and didn't fight monster out in the wild they received a lot less money than the army, they only had enough for rent and to look after them self and family's

lieutenant Borin received the small pouch of money from the hand of Atlas, now that he was a lieutenant he needed to look after his comrades, thinking more about it if he put this money in a bank then the interest would grow with time, Atlas hadn't let him down before so he decided to take a new and possible bigger chance and start a fund for the family's of dead city watch and a retirement fund for the living

"Maybe if the people of the watch all paid a couple of silver a month then it will start to grow and the interest will look after you all" suggested Atlas

Lieutenant Borin nodded and waved the cart Mary was diving in and station a private to each of the gnolls for protection

With the group in side the city Atlas delegated jobs to Mary and Dracken

"Mary, you go and drop off the armour and weapons to the city watch and make sure they sign a  receipt , if they want any other things like new weapons and such then take orders from them" said Atlas

"Yes" answered Mary

"Dracken, you go and deliver the enchanted bags to the mage guild but only give them to Noah" asked Atlas

"Mmmmm" nodded Dracken 

"I'm going to deliver the fish men to the restaurant but first" Atlas beckoned the gnolls over "you are the first of you clan to be here, I think the first thing you should do is go to a crafting guild and learn a profession, some thing in construction or maybe tailoring, it's up to you,  after all  you will have to make your own way and you should chose for you self"

The gnolls looked worried, the city was nothing that they had experienced before and Atlas was putting them in the deep end, Atlas handed 50 gold a piece for tools and training "Don't worry, if anything goes wrong ask for help from the privates, they are there to protect you" explain Atlas

With gold in there possession the gnolls looked at each other and then started to fumble towards there individually private locations, there nervousness was showing as they shuffled there feet and looked around, Atlas watched as they slowly walked out of view, Atlas was a little nervous for them but they were quick learners and adapted fast, it was all part of surviving in the wild, those that were slow to adapt died and the gnolls were survivors

Atlas quickly dropped off his goods to the restaurant and picked up 200 gold from the owner, Mary had taken the cart because there was more to carry and so Atlas walked to his burnt down shop, when he got there instead of burnt wood and a collapsed roof he had found only the stone that consisted of the first floor walls, all the burnt wood had been taken away and used for god knows what, what was in it's place was wooden huts 

The homeless had taken over this space and had made a couple of huts, the huts weren't 

any thing special just wooden planks resting against the stone walls to produce a triangle, with the stone walls protecting them from wind all the wood needed to do was keep them dry from the rain

A little head appeared from one of the huts, a little girl with a dirty smudged face spotted Atlas who was standing in the door way

Running towards Atlas the little girl grabbed Atlas hand and pulled him towards the huts

"Don't worry your safe here, we don't discriminate here" said the little girl

Atlas didn't know what to think

"Daddy will get you some planks and you can make your own hut, in the mean time you can stay with us" said the little girl as she pulled Atlas towards her hut

Atlas finally realised what was happening, the little girl thought he was homeless and was making an effort in helping him make his own hut, the little girl sat Atlas down on the floor and offered him some stale bread and water

The water that was offered to Atlas was filthy and the bread was the starter bread that all freedmen start off with except it had mould on it, Atlas pinched off the mould from the bread, was this a joke food that the little girl expected him to eat, looking up Atlas instantly thought it wasn't, the hungry eyes of the girl was staring at the bread like it was the best food in the world

Atlas offered the bread back to the little girl but before she could take it Atlas withdrew his hand, it was obvious that the little girl wanted the bread and Atlas could hear the growling of the little girls stomach

"We can do better than this" Atlas had tested the little girl to see if she would take the bread and eat it, he had thought it was a joke aimed at him but now he felt guilty after seeing the hunger in her eyes, she truly was hungry and wanted the bread, reaching in to his bag Atlas pulled out a loaf of soft fluffy white bread that had raisins in it, he had baked this bread fresh today, cooking for the gnolls Atlas always made too much, it was difficult to judge what 200+ gnolls would eat, even though the gnolls could cook for them self their cooking skills were in the early beginner levels but Atlas cooking skill was in the late intermediate and so they naturally preferred Atlas cooking, preparing and cooking for so many for so long had made Atlas cooking skill the highest level skill he possessed 

With the raisin bread Atlas brought out some butter and a jar of forest fruit jam, the little girl mouth was wet with drool and her eyes was as big as saucers, ripping the bread and putting the butter and jam on top Atlas handed the little girl the food

While the little girl tucked in to the food Atlas had a look at the water they were drinking

"Why was it so dirty" thought Atlas, there was free clean water that anyone can use in the city centre, pouring the water away Atlas cleaned the wooden cup and filled the cup with juice from his flask and offered it to the little girl, Atlas in real life had trained as a plumber as well in other things but this meant he knew the importance of clean water and the diseases you could get from dirty water

As the little girl started to drink a big clattering noise as if wood was falling over happen out side, it sounded like one of the huts had fallen over or that was what Atlas thought until a gabbling noise of many people was heard out side

"Hahaha, these worms, I knew they wouldn't of moved so far"

"Yes boss, I knew something was up when they didn't get any fresh water from the fountain"

"This place is quite nice, too good for trash like them"

"Yes boss, it's going to cost them a lot of rent money, hehe"

Atlas started to understand, the reason they were drinking dirty water, it was because of these people would claim some money from them just to drink clean water, it also sounded like they were extorting money out of them and calling it rent, Atlas was going to go out side but the little girl held on to him, she had her finger to her lips and was shaking her head from side to side

Atlas was sure the little girl was trying to protect him, she was still and ridged but she wasn't scared, it seemed this happen a lot and she was use to it

"Come on out you worms, it's time to pay your rent"

The little girl gestured to Atlas to stay in the hut as she moved out of the hut

"I'm coming" said the little girl "daddy isn't here at the moment, I hope i will be able to help" she was half bowing to the group

"OHHH look what we have here, it's the little worm"

Atlas couldn't properly see the group of punks though the wooden planks but he could tell there was about three of them, Atlas thought how brave the little girl was just to face these thugs

"I don't know, if you clean her up boss wouldn't she be kinda cute and worth something"

"How about it little girl, if you come with us you can wear good clothes, eat good food and your father want have to pay rent"

Atlas felt sick, using a person family against them, it was more likely they would do terrible things to her and still collect money from her father, they thought they could do all this just because they were homeless and considered unseen, Atlas guessed that the city watch didn't even know about things like this and nobody would care if they went missing

"Let go, you creep" Atlas recognized the little girls voice

"You can't want to stay here in this little crap hole"

Atlas greatly dislike what he was hearing and was about to act when the hut fell on top of him, one of the thugs had kicked the planks over not realizing anyone was in the hut

"There, your home is gone and your coming with us now"

"No, NOOOO, GET OFF ME" the little girl was struggling and screaming

"Hahaaa, just shut up, no one coming to he..!"

The person called boss was staring at the wood pile that was the little girls hut, movement was coming from it and it was becoming more violent, the boss was about to say something when Atlas slowly emerged from the planks

The boss was surprised, he wasn't called boss for nothing, he could see that Atlas wasn't a normal weak man but something else, the boss was looking at Atlas gear, size and the warped aura around him, Atlas gear was all uniquely made and he had his Avatar of fire skill activated making the air around him distort 

Now Atlas could see the group better he noted their appearance, the one holding the little girl by the arm was called boss, he was a big slightly over weight man with cheap leather armour, the one who had kicked the hut over was a skinny slightly hunch weasel man, even his face had a rat look, at this time he was smiling at his boss, that was until he turned to look at what his boss was looking at, his toothy smile was wiped away as he witness Atlas before his eyes

The weasel guy being surprised didn't like it and pulled a small knife and trusted forwards to stab Atlas, the speed the weasel guy stabbed at Atlas was faster than a normal person but Atlas was watching how slow he was, Atlas had a greater speed stat and his Perceptual Chronometer skill slowed the perception of time

As the weasel man  got closer to Atlas the little girl gasped, with a thump the weasel man was flung back landing beside his boss

Atlas had caught the knife between his clawed gauntlets and at the same time punched the weasel man squarely in the face using his own power and the forward motion of the weasel man

Atlas now held the knife of his attacker, the boss was amazed but held on to the little girl

"Look it was just a misunderstanding, how about we leave and forget this whole thing" the boss was inching ever closer to the exit

"Aren't you forgetting something" said Atlas

The boss hadn't let go of the little girl but instead had pulled her closer and was using her as a shield, bending over he picked her up and pulled a knife like the one Atlas was now holding to her waist

"Just stay where you are and everything will be fine" said the boss

Atlas lifted his hand to protest

"No, I said stay where you are" the boss brought the knife closer to the little girls waist

Atlas only gestured to the bosses feet, looking down the boss found earth in the shape of hands had pinned his feet to the floor

"What's going on.." before the boss could finish talking his legs was pulled apart and the slightly fat boss crotch hit the floor with his legs doing a perfect splits and letting go of the little girl, she ran forwards and stood beside Atlas

"Ohhhhww" the pain was great but the boss had some resistance towards it 

"GET HIM" he pointed at Atlas with his free hand the one not cupping his privates

With the Weasel man on the floor out cold there was hesitation in the other two people, it turned out there was four and not three like Atlas guessed

"I SAID GET HIM" shouted the boss

With an order from their boss the other two thugs took a step forwards with knifes drawn

"WAIT, WAIT" the boss was screaming in a higher pitch voice "BACK OFF, I SAID BACK OFF"

The two thugs just looked at each other and then took slow steps backwards away from Atlas

"AWWWW... DROP...AWHHHH DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND KICK THEM AWAY" ordered the boss in a higher pitch voice than before

The two thugs did as they were told

"GOOD, AS YOU CAN SEE WE CAN BE FRIENDS" squealed the boss

Atlas wasn't fooled, if it wasn't for the fact that Atlas had a third clay hand spell grabbing on to the boss crotch and pushing him up higher he would be less co-operative, with the bosses legs pinned down, the third clay hand was gradually crushing his meat as it pushed the boss up

Atlas eased up on his spell, the boss was let down

"Now you know every thing about me is better than you, speed, strength, magic" Atlas released the boss, Atlas was looking at the boss, his age wasn't much older than Mary and Dracken 

"This place is protected by me, if i see you here again i won't be able to control my self" when Atlas finished his words he raised the 3rd clay hand higher to create a little pain

"I GET IT, I GET IT" squealed the boss

Being released the boss wobbled to his feet and ordered his men to pick up the weasel man, the boss made his way to the exit walking like a crab while holding his meat

Just as they were about to leave a great earth hand erupted from the ground and blocked the door way out

"Waaaaa" the boos and his men was confessed

"Before you leave you need to pay rent" Atlas wasn't smiling but he did of a little twinkly in his eye

When the exit was unblocked four men ran out almost completely naked, they only had there underwear on, Atlas had taken everything from them and given the clothes, armour and weapons to the homeless people to sell

"AND DON'T COME BACK" the little girl was shaking her closed fist at the boss and men while standing in the door way

The little girl was happy, not only had she eaten and drunk some thing tasty but now the homeless people had there own place with out being disturbed or that what she thought

"Thanks mister, but I'm confused, your so strong why would you need to stay here" the little girl had some street smarts, she saw people but not the whole, she couldn't see that Atlas was well off with money due to his armour, she didn't have that much experience with gear and couldn't distinguish between expensive and cheap only from clean and dirty

"I own this land" said Atlas

The change on the smiling face of the little girl changed instantly to tears in her eyes, she dropped to her knees, she buried her face in Atlas legs

"Please don't make us leave, we don't have anywhere to go" the little girl was begging to stay

Atlas looked at the sky, he needed this area to start up his shop for the future of his apprentices but this didn't mean his heart wasn't hurting from the pain the little girl was suffering

"I can't allow this place to stay as it is" Atlas looked down on to the little girls face 

"Pleaseeee" that was the only thing the little girl could say

Atlas felt like a villain, the little girl didn't even cry when she was used as a shield but she was full of tears now

Atlas went on his knees and placed his hands on her shoulders "i can't give you anything, you have to earn it with your own two hands"

The girl was in tears but now she was shaking

Atlas quickly carried on talking "I'm planing to make a big building and there will be plenty of work, if you work for me i can offer meals and a place to stay during the work, you won't be paid but i will offer you a room in the building rent free for..... 6 months so you can get back on your feet"     

"Really" asked the girl as she wiped the tears away

"Yes but only one room per family here" said Atlas

"That's more than enough" the little girl held out her hand to complete the deal

Atlas shook the tiny little hand "Deal"

"What's going on here" said Forge, he had been sleeping on Atlas shoulders, to Forge this was the safest place to sleep and would often sleep his deepest sleeps there

"AHHG, your scarf is talking" the little girl stood on her toes in both surprise and to get a better look

"Let me introduce to you one of my apprentices" said Atlas 

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The man known as boss was in the ally way slums cuddling his crotch with some stolen ice he had his grunts steal from a meat store, having nothing to buy the expensive ice he naturally had it stolen 

"I'M GOING TO KILL HIM" shouted the boss at his minions 

"mmummb" the weasel man had a broken nose and his speech was unclear 

"WHAT" the boss was in no mood

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"We don't have anything to fight with boss, we could go to the city watch and ask for help" explained the weasel man

The boss raised his hand to hit the weasel man's face but stopped "what do you expect will happen, oh yes we tried to mug and kidnap a little girl but someone stopped us and striped us of all our belongings" the boss had said the last bit with sarcasm

Just then a man wearing complete set of black leather armour walk by 

"God will provide" the boss rubbed his hand as he looked at the man in black leather with an evil grin

"But boss, he looks armed and tough" the weasel man was still shaken up from the punch he received to the face

"We'll take him by surprise, one person per leg and hand" explained the boss

If the boss was thinking clearly he might of noticed that the man in black leather had a steel net hanging at his waist, steel was used for weapons in the 50th level and the boss and grunts were only level 20, level 20 was a slightly higher level than a normal person but in a group of 4 level 20 with good planing could take down a level 50, greed had blinded the boss and his grunts were just following his lead

Slowly and carefully the group of 4 naked men made there way to the black leathered man, each one grabbed a single arm or leg holding it down

"What, oh not you guys again" the man in black leather was in fact Dracken, his ability's was far above the naked peoples and he had dealt with them before, when he first fought them he was a low level and had to use tricks, magic and physical attacks to beat them but now he was in his 80s level wise and had good weapons and armour

Understanding who they had caught the boss face dropped, after being beaten the first time by Dracken it took weeks for the boss to get over it and even now he was a bit jumpy, this was the main reason he and his group had started to collect money from the weak and homeless

"Why are you guys naked" asked Dracken 

The boss pulled him self together, his face changed from surprised to a snarl 

"Never mind that, just give us every thing you have and you may survive" the boss was bluffing, even though there was 4 of them hanging on to Dracken none of them dared to release him, it was a stalemate they couldn't attack but Dracken couldn't move

"Don't you remember the last time i beat you" said Dracken

"Hehehe, we're not the same as before" snarled the weasel man

Dracken looked at all four of them, all he had in his heart was pity and anger, these men were famous in the slums for just making peoples life hard, bullying, protection rackets, extortion any little way of making easy money that fed of the misery of others they did it, Dracken released how he felt, the pity he felt was turned in to some thing else

"Don't touch me, you are filth" Dracken was now sneering at them

"What did you say" the boss couldn't believe what he had heard, normal people would bow and grovel to him and even though he had been beaten by Dracken before the boss and his minions had raised their levels

"This is your final warning, if you don't remove your dirty hands from me you will regret it" said Dracken

"Don't listen to him boss, he can't do anything" said the weasel man

"Boss, boss"

"What is it" the boss was annoyed all ready and took it out on one of his men  

"My fingers and arms are numb"

"Mine two"

"Now you mention it, so is mine, boss?" said the weasel man

The boss also was feeling the same effect but they were all committed to the attack

"Just give us the money" demanded the boss

Dracken was a mage but apart from magic he relied on speed, his strength wasn't bad, the weight of a person was to much for him to lift but he was able to move his hands thanks to his spell static force

Static force was an electrical spell, it built up a current in the body gradually getting stronger the longer it stayed in the body, anyone touching the user would receive a shock, the punks that had a hold of Dracken was starting to feel the effects but they knew that to release Dracken would end up with them in trouble

Dracken was a very quite person, he had said his piece and now there was no more for him to say but this didn't mean he wouldn't take no action, with each second that went by the spell he was using became stronger

a group of people was surrounding Dracken and the four naked thiefs, it wasn't unusual  to see some one getting mugged in the slums but 4 semi naked people trying to hold down a single person was new to the people

"GET LOST" shouted the boss to the increasing crowd, his reputation was notorious and normal people who had surrounded him had felt  his wrath at one time or another

At this point the boss had regretted his choice in grabbing Dracken, his hands were weakening and Dracken was sometimes able to shake lose only to be quickly grabbed by the holders

The crowd knew of the boss and his temper but seeing his weakened and funny situation boosted their spirits

"YOU CAN DO IT LAD"

The crowed started to yell encouragement 

"BEAT HIM"

"WIN AND I'LL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT IN MY SHOP"

"SHOW HIM WE CAN'T BE WALKED OVER"

The hopes of the people were placed on Dracken to win, they had enough of the group of bully's extorting money from them

With yells and cheering all around them the boss face was going white, they won most of there fights and gained money from the people by out numbering them when they were alone but now he was out numbered, just as he was thinking this one of his grunts tumbled, Dracken left arm was free and he quickly elbowed the holder in the throat, with his free hand Dracken pulled a steel knife from his chest belt and sliced at the arms of the men holding down his legs, at this point the boss had let go of Dracken's arm and fled by pushing people out the way

With their boss gone the weasel man and his two company's fell to the floor clutching their injury's

"Please forgive us, we only did what we were told"

Dracken had heard what these people did for a living, every now and again his information network would turn up some of what they did

"lies, lies, they are as bad as their leader" the crowed had risen there voices

With an angry crowed facing them the weasel man got to his feet as quickly as he could and made a run for it, the weasel man had invest a lot of points in to speed but his speed wasn't a match for Dracken who had stat boosts from training, items and levelling up

With a smooth movement Dracken hooked a metal wire on to his knife and threw it right though the weasel man's leg, falling to the floor the weasel man fell and skidded to a stop

Dracken pulled the weasel man towards himself, screaming at the top of his lungs the weasel man clutched at his bleeding leg with one hand and to avoid any more pain he used his unhurt leg and arm to hop towards Dracken like a strange mix of a crab and kangaroo, the other two muggers just looked at each other not daring to move encase they got the same treatment

The crowed cheered at the misery of the weasel man, if it was possible the crowed hated the weasel man more than the boss, every nasty thing the boss did the weasel man was there encouraging the boss along, not only that the weasel man would do his own spiteful things on his own like demanding money from locals who passed him on the street, he would claim that they had stood on his shoes and now ruined them, for a little dirt on his shoes that no one was responsible for and could be cleaned off with one wipe of a cloth he would bully  them until they gave up and handed over their hard earned money

When the weasel man had rejoined the other two Dracken dropped a rope made out of steel at their legs

"Tie them up and send them to the city watch, "say that Dracken sends them" Dracken said all of this to the crowed

Without hesitation the crowed swarmed the trio and tied them up, all Dracken could hear from the trio was painful screams as the crowed wasn't gentle and Dracken could see that some of the crowed were punching them as they tied the trio up

Dracken was about to carry on with his plans to visit the orphanage where he grew up in when he was confronted by a small balding man with glasses

"Ummm, sorry to disturb you sir but can i talk with you, please" this little man was almost bent over trying to bow low enough to Dracken

"Yes go ahead" Dracken was interested in what this man wanted to say, his odd  bowing and calling him sir interested Dracken 

"Umm i don't now what to say and how to say it so please allow this humble man talk straight and to the point" said the bold little man 

Dracken nodded, he liked a straight forward talking people, he didn't like suck ups and new if he heard things like compliments before a confession was started they were after some thing that he him self wouldn't want to give up

"In short i work for you" the little bold man explained to Dracken "and i haven't been paid for over a month... no one has"

Dracken was a man of few words, instead he looked at the bold man to make sure he wasn't lying, the bold man was sweating and dabbing his brow with a cloth, Dracken couldn't tell if he was lying or just nervous that Dracken was staring at him

"I don't know what you mean" Dracken employed many people in his information network but only his 4 captain new that he was behind the whole thing

"I work in the department of missions and information leading to said missions, but because i work with others we have come to the conclusion who is really behind the network" explained the bold man

Dracken new it was only a matter of time until he was found out, after all even though he owned the network didn't mean the employed couldn't use it for them selfs to find out who owned it

"Fine, yes i am responsible for the network" Dracken didn't see any point in denying it

"Ah good" the little bold man was dabbing his forehead again "I'm glad that i so happen to find you but your network is falling apart, with no one being paid your employees are thinking about leaving" said the little man

"Explain" asked Dracken

The information network had done their home work and before leaving they had gain all the knowledge involving why they hadn't been paid

"It's the captains sir, they have been keeping all the money to them selfs, they forward the profits to you and keep the money that would be used to pay the employees, a homeless man said he heard that they were going to ruin your information network and start there own with the money that they had stolen from the employees"

Dracken had been away from the city looking after the gnolls, even though he checked the status of the network with messages from birds he still didn't know about his captains, this was because he had received the messages from the captains, all four of them had pooled together to block any info about them selfs from leaking to Dracken

Dracken raised his fist in the air, in his mind he cursed his captains "damn them, trying to take what's mine and stealing from hard working employees

"I'm sorry, please don't hurt me" the little bold man had his arms over his head, he thought Dracken was about to hit him

Placing his hand on the bold man's shoulder Dracken spook in a quite and cold voice "i won't hurt you, what you did was right in informing me, tell me everything about the captains like where are they know"

Dracken walked of with the bold man, someone was going to pay and it was most likely going to be the captains 

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The boss had left the slums, it was no longer safe there, as a single person who was hated he could easy be over powered by a group of a normal powerful people, at this point of time he had no weapon or armour and his small group of lackeys had been caught and possibly killed, he was alone and powerless with no friends and hated enemies all around him

Just then a wagon pulled up beside the city watch building, the bosses eyes bulged at the context of the wagon, bags and bags of newly repaired armour with the city watch badge on it, greed hit the boss, the armour was useless to him, no one would buy it, it could only be used as material and be remelted to form new items but it was the other sacks that held his attention, fresh new steel weapons without the city watch insignia, theses could sell really well, even stolen the boss could gain 50 gold per weapon, with that kind of money he could equip him self with the best armour and weapons for his level and reform a bigger gang to completely take over the slums

With greed and stupidity the boss rushed over to grab one of the weapon bags, if he was thinking clearer he wouldn't of tried to steal right beside the city watch but due to being desperate he did so

Just as his hand closed over the bag a different hand slapped it away, it was the owner, grabbing his own hand the boss rubbed it, the person who had slapped his hand was the driver of the wagon, it was a girl with long think red hair she was wearing a simple leather set of armour

"What the hell is wrong with you" she was justifiable not happy with the attempt to steal from her

The boss looked her up and down, it was clear to the boss that she had made the weapons, in his mind he eased up, a crafter was weaker in a fight than a normal person

"PISS OFF" the boss used his most gruff voice to try to scare away the crafter

"Are you crazy" she said

looking directly at the girl the boss reached behind him to grab at the sack, grabbing a fist full of what felt like hair the boss tugged only to release after the red haired girl took a step forwards

"Why are you naked" she asked

"Never mind that, do you want to die, do you value your weapons more than your life" the boss was completely bluffing, no weapons and no armour, all he could do was bluff, he was also looking down on crafters thinking them weak

"I'm not worrying about my life or weapons but i do worry about yours" said the red haired girl 

"WHAT?" the boss couldn't understand the girls reasoning

Behind him something stood up on the wagon blocking out the light in it's shadow, it started to breath down the neck of the boss, the breath was heavy and felt viscous, scared stiff the boss slowly turned around on the spot like he was on a turn wheel, what was in his sight scared him so much that he wet him self, a giant muzzle of sharp teeth was directly in front of him, so close to his face that the boss couldn't see anything else, slowly the teeth parted revealing hot breath and tongue, the bosses face was now in the mouth, the opened mouth slowly closed and the boss could feel the teeth on his cheeks 

"That's enough, Midnight stop" the red haired girl ordered

Quickly the mouth let go of the boss to reveal a big black wolf waging his tail and licking it's muzzle, shaking the boss dropped to the floor on his knees splashing his knees with his own piss

This red hair girl name was Mary, the boss had the misfortune to run in to Atlas and his apprentices one after the other, Mary walked over and picked him up, he no longer tried to fight back, the boss was a natural coward, he could only gain money by out numbering his opponents, he never went out of the city to raise his level and when facing the black wolf for the first time it broke him

The boss was handed over to the city watch and placed in a holding cell, after this long eventful day the boss was no more, he would never be the same, the teeth and muzzle would haunt his dreams, later his minions would join him, they were all black and blue with lumps and bruises and teeth missing, their history of being gangsters would finish today, later after they completed the prison sentences the weasel man got a job working as a massager, his speed was ideal for the job, the other two minions would open a shop selling fried food and the boss was never the same, the boss became a shut in too afraid to come out due to all his wrongs of the normal people and the dreams of a big black mouth chasing him

"This city is crazy" thought Mary

Walking back to the wagon Mary met up with Midnight

"Good job, good job" Mary stroked the back of Midnight and he tried to lick her hand, Mary had placed Midnight in the wagon to look after her items as she dropped them off at the city watch

"Stay and guard" ordered Mary

Mary went in the back door of the city watch with sacks of items, this was where the quartermaster for the city watch worked

The room where the quartermaster worked was big, it had to be, this was where all weapons and armour was kept after the people of the city watch shifts ended, the room was spilt in to two a wall with bars separated a bigger part of the room, sitting at a desk right at the bars was the quartermaster

This was the first time Mary had delivered weapons and armour to the city watch "excuse me"

The quartermaster looked up from his paperwork "Yes" 

The quartermaster looked annoyed and ready to attack someone, apart from being angry looking Mary noted how clean and crisp he looked, not a hair out of place and each piece of cloth ironed and pressed so sharp that it looked like you could cut your self on him 

"An order, repaired amour and new weapons for the city watch" Mary handed over the sacks of items

With out saying anything the quartermaster pulled the bags though the gap and started to examine them

"Take a seat while i check the items" the quartermaster gestured behind Mary

Mary sat down quietly and waited, each armour the quartermaster checked only took him a couple of seconds, the quartermaster was identifying the items but only reading the durability of each item, he also checked the insignia badge on each one of the armour, the quartermaster didn't even look at the added defence the armour had gained from the polishing skill, it would seem that he knew that it was only a buff on an item that would fade with use and time, none the less this mildly annoyed Mary, with the help of Atlas they had polished all the armour so that it would gain an increase in defence but that was being ignored, all that extra hard work was being dismissed, at least Mary was able to increase the skill quite a bit 

It didn't take long to go though the armour and now it was the weapons turn, pulling out a sword from the bag the quartermaster checked it, Atlas, Dracken and Mary had made a gladius type sword for easy usage, the blade was thicker but shorter, this was so it wouldn't break even if a club hit it and a longer sword wasn't needed because a spear would be even better, each sword was enchanted with cold, Atlas had decided that a police force didn't need fire enchantments which would cause burning status on the enemy but instead went with ice enchantments which would slow the enemy and make it easier for the city watch to catch the enemy

As the quartermaster finished checking each sword he would place them on the table in front of him side by side, Mary understand what he was doing, in a police force all the weapons had to be uniformed and be precisely the same shape and size, this was because the individually police person was just borrowing the weapons from the city and when they handed them over at the end of their shift to the quartermaster they wouldn't necessarily get the same weapon back, each weapon had to be the same so the city watch people wouldn't feel weird and lower their combat potential

"All right, everything looks good" the quartermaster pulled a piece of paper towards him and started to write

"This is a recite for the swords and a promise note for your work" explained the quartermaster

A promise note was like a check, when dealing with the city in any business a promise note would be exchanged for goods delivered, this was to stop any one from stealing from the city

"Where is my stamp" the quartermaster was looking for his seal, without the seal the promise note was just another piece of paper

Mary got her feet and looked though the bars that separated the quartermaster from her self

"Is that it" Mary was pointing at the other table about 4 meters away from the bars

The quartermaster looked over his shoulder at the table, with a deep sigh he pushed him self off the chair using the table and started to hop to the stamp

Mary's eyes almost popped from surprise, she had seen all kinds of things before in her short life but she had never seen a one legged man before, with potions or magic healing as long as you were alive it could be replaced but before her was a man with only one leg and by the way he quickly got around Mary was sure he had been this way for a long time 

End Of Chapter Twenty Nine

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Merry xmas to all and happy birthday to my fanfic, it has almost been a year since i started to write

This chapter is a set up for the next chapter and that is why there is three different cliffhangers (sorry)

i was going to only write about Atlas but people wanted to know what was going on with the apprentices so i included them and made a quest for them as well (for the next chapter)

i'm not to sure what to do with Kevein but i'm sure i could think of some thing, if you have suggestions then leave them below this message so that every one can read them and play with the ideas 

Enjoy