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Chapter 08: Haul
Again when the sun went down, a hooded figure left the archery, merging even sooner with the dark.
*Now where to start*
Neuron sneaked around, and went to the first house he visited the last night, but with more confidence than before. Luckily for him the window where he wanted to sneak in was open, well no one expects a robber to enter a house this way, because the façade was really smooth, and so the owner of the flat could let the window open without worrying, well till Neuron came that is.
He then readied his bow, Neuron got permission from Brairan to take it with him beforehand, nocked a barbed arrow on the string, and shot it straight at the gable of the house, when Neuron heard the sound of impact he hid behind the tree hoping that no one had noticed it, because he thought it was even louder than in the archery.
When Fifteen minutes went past and nothing happened he decided that it was save, went beneath the spot where the arrow struck., There he tried to materialize the two threads he needed to climb, but only one thread was formed, because he ran out of mana for the second, but he didn`t bother because he made many balls of thread beforehand, for if he ever run low on mana, After the second one was materialized, Neuron began climbing, well literally pulling himself up, what still counted as climbing, because in the game climbing is referred as going straight up a wall, tree or whatever, what he basically was doing, minus the effort though.
He entered the room, which was apparently the kitchen, and slowly made his way around, he even entered the bedchamber of the owner, who was snoring loudly, deciding to give him a little scare.
For that purpose he took a calligraphy set, he saw lying on the table inside his bedchamber and used it to scribble on his face. All went well, till he had to go out. He tried removing the arrow like he had done in the archery but failed to stay perpendicular in mid air, because when he removed the arrow a little spin was given to him every time, it didn`t matter in the archery, because the ceiling was quite lower, all of this caused him to meet the ground in a way he didn`t enjoy.
After he got up, Neuron left the yard hobbling and swearing
*That went rather well*
Now he went sneaking around town looking for a house that was marked with red on his map, which had the same properties as the one he successfully broke in.
It was a rather hard task, because the houses where located in different parts of the town, and out of fright he never cancelled the stealth skill like yesterday, where he only scouted the houses, and thus only activated stealth near them. But that gave him also time to make more balls with his thread, which he made in every free minute he had, because out of experience with other games he knew, that you can never have too much mana potions, especially if your most used skill is a mana drainer.
When he finally found a house with an open window, it was one of those with guards.
*Damn my luck, it had to be one of those*
Making his way around it he looked for a way to enter the yard, but the wall surrounding it didn`t provide any footholds
*Man I`m the lowest equipped thief ever, next time, I have to ask Warnton to make me a hook*
Neuron couldn`t find a way to enter the yard, this was until he saw a tree standing in the middle of it, but from his position he couldn`t get a good angle to shoot at it. Consequently he had to climb a house near the wall. There he was now standing on the ceiling and shot the arrow right at the tree, this time he was happy about the sound the arrow made, because it meant that it was stuck deep inside one of the branches, his worry that the arrow may pass harmlessly between them cleared.
Before climbing down the house, he had to make the connection there, because of the skills limitation to only connect in a straight line, which used two balls.
Then he waited that the guard which was patrolling around the wall came by, and disappeared. While he sneaked around, he noticed them to patrol around the wall every half an hour.
*If I could only connect the other end to the ceiling, then I could slide across that yard*
But he couldn`t so he had to go down, but this time he didn`t remove the arrow, and left it stuck with two threats hanging down.
*I`m going to remove it later, I don`t want to fall down and alert the guards*
Now he used the threads to climb over the wall, and got safely inside the yard. Of course he observed the entire part of the yard beforehand he could see from the roof beforehand, but there were no guards around, it appeared, that the owners where quite paranoid, only allowing guards outside their property. But of course Neuron was happy about that, one thing less to worry, because his stealth skill was at the low side, making him detectable if someone cared to give a closer look at the part where he stood inside a shadow.
After safely entering the yard he made his way to the open window and shot another arrow, repeating everything again, this time he hid even longer, to be on the safe side.
The room to which the window lead to, was a bedroom, with a little girl sleeping in a bed that seemed way to huge for her little body. Not to wake her up, he went on tiptoes to the door, that lead to a large hallway with precious things aligned alongside it on pedestals, shelves and showcases.
*Whew, that looks like some mighty valuable stuff*
Now began the most enjoyable part of breaking inside the house of another person, the sneaking around and pocketing everything one could lay his hands on. Neuron didn`t even bother to identify them, everything of interest landed in his backpack.
Soon he got a message
* You are overloaded
Movement speed is decreased by 10%
*Crap*
After being lighter he made his way back to the room where the girl was sleeping, then he paused with one foot on the window board. Because he suddenly got an idea, well it wasn`t a smart one, but he didn’t care.
He took out the calligraphy set he stole from that guy on witch`s face he scribbled and got to work.
While scribbling his (From now on) Signature on the walls, floor, well everywhere he could reach, he got rather absorbed in his tusk when
* New skill: Scribbling
*Ok, do I need that?*
…….
*No!*
“Delete” he whispered
* The skill scribbling has been deleted; you can gain it another time, if you repeat the task.
*Well, how am I going repeat that* he thought while turning around and looking at the Masterpiece he had created.
What he actually painted on the walls while his tongue was sticking out, a sign of great effort was a scribble he had made in school.
When he was bored and had nothing else to do, he invented this
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After being satisfied with his work of art he left the room through the window, but before he put his backpack down, because he didn`t want to fall, alerting everyone.
Then Neuron was climbing up to where the arrow was stuck, and removed it. But he learned from his mistakes and thus fastened some threads around the beam beforehand.
*I can`t believe how stupid I am not doing this on the flat where I broke in before, even if I had managed to land on my feet it would have hurt, damn I`m seeing this only as a game, this will surely lead to many deaths, if I don`t change my way of thinking*
When he reached the ground he cancelled the skill, thus not leaving any evidence behind, he even climbed the tree and removed that arrow too.
Now came a difficult part, that is leaving the ground, at least he thought of it being difficult, but the wall was designed to keep robbers outside.
Soon after he saw a shed, that was build near the wall, where most likely the gardener kept his tools, he climbed it and looked over to the wall
*It`s rather far*
Neuron bent his knees, drawing all his strength to them, and jumped off, he flew over the wall, and landed safely in the street, after landing he performed a roll, just like in the movies he liked, not bothering for the popup Message that appeared, because he had to quickly leave the place.
When he got some distance between himself and the house, but not before removing the last arrow, to do that he pulled on the two strings with all his might.
At the second try the arrow finally came loose and just missed his head by a few millimeters.
Then placing himself in a shadowy corner he opened the message log and read the system message he ignored earlier.
* Jump: Beginner1
Enables you to jump higher and further
Decreases the damage from falling
Makes you able to endure strong impacts with your feet
Mana cost: 200
*Ok, could be useful, at least more so than scribbling*
Content with the loot and skill he gained that night Neuron went back to the archery, logging out, and catching up on his overdue sleep time, even though the sun was high up indicating that it was midday.
But Alex woke up after only 4 hours of sleep, he was too curious, what gossip is currently going around in Gaber
So he logged back in, but not before eating something, Alex believed that he could play better on a not so empty stomach, and he was too accustomed to that, to change it, even if the game is Virtual reality. Well the real reason is, that he doesn`t have to go to fetch something to eat so fast.
Brairan came over to him, as soon as he saw Neuron.
He had a bright grin on his face, and before Neuron could ask…
“Yesterday someone broke in Arded`s apartment, apparently nothing was stolen, but the intruder scribbled on his face, man how I would have liked to see it”
Neuron could only ask “Who is Arded”
“He is the Landlord of my flat, and an annoying prick”
With that said, he walked of while whistling a happy tune
*Good that he`s so happy, now to see what news Kylar has*
“Hey you free now?”
“Yes?”
“I just logged back in, and wanted to hear what news you had”
*His tone is too cheerful, something is wrong*
“Well apparently someone broke in the mansion of the Ribanild family, and stole many precious things…
…
…
“THAT WAS YOU WASN`T IT?!”
When Kylar began shouting Neuron covered his ears out of Reflex, but to no avail, because the whispers where received directly inside the brain, and not with the ears. Luckily Unicorn Corporation regarded whispers as a private conversation, so no one could hear a thing.
“Please don`t shout so much”
“I`M SHOUTING AS LOUD AS I WISH!, wait, you don`t know who this family is?”
“No, please enlighten me”
“Good, so what do you know about this town?”
“That it`s called Gaber”
~Siiiiiiigh~
*Ok, so he knows nothing*
“Good, this city is part of a bigger Kingdom, well that Kingdom was once really big, but that is now history, well the ruler of this Kingdom is a little boy, who hasn`t even grown his hair down there, and apparently he is being manipulated for a struggle for power inside the capital, thus no one is paying attention to a rural place like this, and so three families have gained the power to rule over this city. Those are called Liagen, Aterar and the Ribanild.”
“Uh, oh,”
“That’s all you say after that, man I`m worried you know, if you ever get caught, they will shun you from this city, and then I`m alone fighting all those OVERPOWERED RABBITS” His tone growing louder while speaking and in the end he was shouting once again.
“Hey, don´t be afraid, my stealth skill is now level two, almost level three”
“That doesn`t say much” he said in a whiny tone
“Then what about my assurance that I`ll never be caught?”
“Isn`t worth anything”
“Good, I get it,
~silence~
“Did you hear about the graffiti I smeared on their wall” ~big grin~
“Yeah, I even saw a poster of it, it was hilarious, and do you know how you are called now?”
“Nope, I logged out after I was done, and just logged in”
“Well you know, they call you the smiling Chinese, ~pfftkekeahaha
“Well that’s khuhu good”
And now with all the tension gone they laughed
“So, I have to go, don´t go breaking in another of those houses, each other house is fine but not those”
“A moment, how do you know so much?”
“I talked with the instructor, he grew friendly with me really quick, I wonder why?”
“Well good, now by” said Neuron knowingly
*Good to know about those big shots* he thought while a really evil grin was showing on his face
Brairan was looking at him during his silent conversation
*what is he doing now, I see him speaking, but to whom, and why can`t I hear anything? Now he is laughing really hard, I wonder what happened*
Then he noticed the evil grin, and counting two and two together he came to four.
*Freya, the tailor is screwed, I don`t want to be his enemy*
Naturally Brairan had heard about the robbery, but till now he couldn`t think of Neuron doing it, that was after he showed his expression of course
When he finished grinning Neuron went to Warnton.
“Could you make me a hook?”
“What for?”
“To climb walls” was the playful answer
“Yeah, can do it, but do you intend on doing with it?” Warnton wasn`t an idiot, so he also figured out what Neuron did in the night, he didn`t want to make his hands dirty.
Neuron being on the bold side told him everything.
“Well, I want to get back at the tailor, reducing some of the wealth of those so called three families, and also pocketing something for myself”
“And if you get caught?” This was said partly about worry for himself, worry about Neuron, but mostly he was worried to not having something to do, and going back to his old and boring life
“Don´t worry, they won`t catch me”
“You sound rather convinced”
“Yeah, I have ways of breaking in that no one else has” REPLACE grin
“Yup, that you surely do”
“And could you also tell me where the tailor lives”
“Yeah, give me your map” he replied marking a house with a bright yellow color.
*Now how to pass the time, till I can go out gaining some more loot*
End of Chapter 08
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