Finally Trevor has been involving me in the planning of this heist of his. If you can call single sided conversations as conversations. He is basically telling me the plans that he has made as formality. This formality is not even meant to respect me. The only reason that I know anything is because my security clearance is lower than his and he wants to tell everybody what he has learnt. More people can read my logs than his.
The annoying thing about that is that both Andrew and Jacob now know more about this mission than me. They have been helping the man in all of this, gathering information for him. The man has been keeping the two of them quite busy.
Well to get to business, the very first thing that I had understood is why the hell the inn was so easy to breach. The damn place does not even have a quarter of the forces of the blood heart gang and none of the four remaining captains were stationed there. The base is essentially like one big scarecrow protecting something for the bloodfire gang. Anybody would find nothing of value at the inn, other than a few prisoners. Granted it is these prisoners that is causing half their problems right now.
Even Trevor and the organisation do not seem to know what it is that they are protecting. All they know it is something that is very important to the bastards and they have been quite careful in that things protection. Trevor thinks that it has something to do with how the gang has managed to destroy the barrier of the outer keep.
He can't say for certain, but they must have that thing ready somewhere. This weapon of theirs must be at the guard house or it must be in their crownship.
All they know about the thing inside the guard house is that it is some kind of a statue, covered in odd etchings that are definitely not formation markings. It was acquired from some kind of an old elven ruin. That is all we know about it.
If rumours are to be believed it is the statue of an elven god, with traces of divinity on it. Naturally these are rumours, otherwise the clergy of most gods would destroy this fort for such a blasphemy. Though knowing that the other side is funded by vampires is blasphemy enough for most clergies.
This could also be one of the gods of the vampires. If that is the case, it is better to be very careful. They are supposed to be very powerful, but equally lazy. All in all, it would be wise not to mess with that statue. Regardless of whose it is, dealing with the gods is a messy business always.
Anyways, regardless of what it is they have a constant force of soldiers protecting it, and at least one of the captains is always near it. As for where the other captains are, trevor thinks that all of them are presently inside the inner keep. We have not found any traces of them at least in the outer keep.
All the forces that they had stationed at the inn have also been directed here. That reminds me, the organisation has managed to get quite the profit due to the prison break. It is almost as if they have been given wings the way that they have been smuggling people out of the city. So they have finally stopped irritating trevor and by extension me.
Leaving all of that aside, whatever treasure that they are protecting is not the goal of our mission. Instead our goal is in the room right next to the treasury, where they would be guarding such a precious thing. The guard house of the mayfire castle is a simple structure considering all things. It is built up of the same kind of rock as the walls of this fort. That makes it quite indestructible and quite resistant to assaults.
The only benefit is that the building is not peppered with as many traps as the walls of the fort. If that was the case, there is no way that we would be able to sneak into the place. The guards of this place must be majorly non mages. They are more than likely to set of these traps themselves if they were placed here.
Other than that, the entire thing is a box, refreshingly simple compared to other such buildings. The treasury and the accounting room is near the northern side of the building. Our Target is right in the accounting room. It is the accounting books of the guards containing all of the business deals made by the guards of this fort.
Such information will be quite useful to the organisation as they can do quite a bit with this knowledge. For example, if they were to find out which blacksmith (there must be many) manages the creation, maintenance and repair of the guard's weapons. Killing that blacksmith would cause them to stumble for a bit. This would prove quite useful if say they were going on a large scale search operation for the organisation and they suddenly find their favourite blacksmith unable to sharpen their weapons.
That is why no blacksmith would go about boasting about this fact in the first place. They can also predict the actions of the guards based on the orders given to said blacksmith. For example, a increase in weapons ordered would mean that the guards are about to become more active, which would be a cue to the organization to calm things a bit. Maybe take a vacation.
All of that is just from the blacksmiths. The record books would contain even more than that. Masons, architects, apothecaries and so much more. I would not be surprised if the organisation would be able to predict every single move of the enemy, at least for a while.
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And all of this is considering the fact that the guards would be angels, without a hint of corruption. The organisation would be able to control quite a significant chunk of the guards simply by threatening the more corrupted folk of the guardhouse. Then they would just need to ask the soldier for all this information frankly.
If the organisation makes full use of this information, they would be able to keep the guards of this place under their thumb. With how scared trevor is of them, they should be able to pull of something like this.
I can see why the organisation has been so persistent in finding these books. It would certainly give them quite the edge in this city. It would be enough to make them solidly grounded in this fort, I tell you. With how much they have spent in building this sewer base of theirs, solidly grounded is something that they would love to be.
Well, wanting it and getting it are two different things. The place is pretty heavily guarded, and that is even before considering all the extra people that would be standing guard in that area. Firstly, sneaking up to the building is itself going to be a significant problem.
Surrounding the guard house is a moat, which won't be doing much against an enemy charge but is certainly going to make sneaking into the place very hard. If we were to be detected en route, we would be converted into pincushions with the number of arrows they will shoot at us. (Oh yeah, the guardhouse also has all the weapons of the guards in the place. While swords and such things are not a problem, the bows and arrows are going to be a problem.)
Even if we got into the building, there is the issue of patrols. The treasury is right next to the accounting room and the place is quite consistently patrolled by the captain of the bloodfire gang stationed there. If we are not able to keep them occupied then we have failed.
While I can certainly hold them off, that would lead to the the third hurdle in this matter we will not be able to manage and that would be the formations guarding the books. It won't be anything heavyweight like the grimoire, but it is still going to be a challenge, especially since I have to do it so quietly.
Also, trevor certainly would not be able to open this formation. If he did, such formations are designed to destroy what is inside it if somebody were to be a bit rough with it.
As for how we are going to manage this thing, I have no idea. All of the planning I have left to trevor and the man is even less forthcoming about his plans than I am. Let's just say, I will discover what is about to occur at the same time as you.
I just hope that this time our stealth will actually end up working. The thing is stealth has not worked for me even once in this mission. The first time that it was screwed up was the fight with the demon. Granted, I still think that was something of a success. At least it created the misunderstanding that I was of the court. Even the second time, trevor was more than confident that my stealth would fail. To be frank, things went exactly as he planned. The damn bastard even planned my random route to the inn.
Now the man assures me that stealth will not fail us and I certainly hope that it does not. I don't think that I will survive another fight here especially with a captain.
I might have fought a captain, but that was when the person had sacrificed quite a bit of his reserves for a summoning ritual. Even if the person controlling it was an higher noble, they simply did not have enough mana to fight properly. If she had a full mana reserve, I don't think that the fight would be so easy.
Even with so many benefits the lady basically managed to own me. The only reason that I managed to beat her was the burial ground. This time whatever captain is here will have way more mana than me. Of that you can be sure.
I am saying all this not even considering the fact that I will have to deal with those grunts as well. They must certainly be a part of the forces there as well. This is not going to be an easy fight.
Even with the boost that I got from completing the second slab, that is not a fight I am going to be winning. Oh by the way, I have finally started working on my third foundation slab.
As for my physical condition. I am about as fine as I can be. there is a patch work of wounds all over my body, most of them in the final stages of healing.
Quite a few of them are about to scar, it looks like. Well, I am not too worried about that though. Right now my only worry is my ankle. It has healed, but the damn thing is still paining. The pain is not particularly intense.
It is a small stinging sensation, which I can ignore almost all the time. The problem is that the wound is supposed to be fully healed and it is not supposed to hurt.
The only reason that this might be an issue is if my ankle has not set properly in the healing process. If that has happen, the only way that I can set it properly is to rebreak my ankle and heal it again.
The process is about as pretty as it sounds. I have seen troop captains in the legion cringe in fear at having to do something like this. For now though, I will leave it as I have a mission to complete. Screw it, I am done recording. I have managed to work myself into a panic again.