Nirra woke up the next morning very early. She dressed herself in her uniform and put a blanket on Mofu while the Vulpen was still sleeping. She then grabbed her rifle and slung it on her shoulder, and she holstered her pistol on her bandolier. She exited the room and hung a message for Ameria and Ellie because the two were still sleeping. It read:
Went out early to check out the Dragon's breath forge. Be back at noon.
-Nirra
After she hung up the message, she went down the stairs and noticed that the lobby was still open. The only difference is that there was a different receptionist who manned the front desk. The lobby still has some people in it, but not as many during the day. They ate their food, which consisted of bread and cheese, while they had bags near their feet. She guesses that they packed their things and woke up early so that they could leave town while the day hadn't started.
She stepped out into the darkness of the night, but the sun was getting ready to peek above the horizon. While walking towards the shopping district via the route Ameria showed them yesterday. The path had no people and gave off an eerie atmosphere. A stark contrast to the activity inside the guild. There were lights inside some buildings, but the only thing that illuminated the path was the moonlight that shone above.
As she walked, she started to get the feeling that she was being followed. She slowly sped up her pace to try and lose the person she felt was following her.
When she heard footsteps grow louder due to her pace, she started to go full-on sprint. The way to get out of this situation is to arrive at the market district, where hopefully some people are there even this early in the morning. The perpetrator would have to back off to not act suspicious, and she might lose them in the possible crowds. As she sprinted under the moonlight, she felt more and more people chasing her.
When she rounded a corner at full speed, she saw four hooded figures that just stood there eerily. Before she could hit them, she let off a shot from her revolver, hitting the one on the far right in the head. The figure slumped down on the cold, hard cobblestone. Nirra used the gap left by the dead figure to get through their roadblock and leapt from the wall to get back to the middle of the path.
She kept running until she saw the lights of the market district within sight. She thought she was going to escape when a wall of wind suddenly rose up from the ground, knocking her back. She grunted as she got back up and faced the dark path behind her.
'If there were three chasing me, three at the roadblock, and one who cast that wind barrier, it should be seven hostiles converging on my position,' She thought as she readied her rifle and fixed a bayonet on it in case she missed a few shots and they got close to her.
In the darkness, she saw the figures of six people. She scanned the rooftops to look for the caster of that wind wall that was blocking her way, but she couldn't find it due to the pitch blackness of the night.
She fired off the first shot, which hit the one in front in the head. Her teeth gritted as she fired off shot after shot, hitting two more in the torso. She continued firing until she ran out of ammo in her magazine. By that time, she will have already killed all six men who were chasing her.
She then remembered there was one more who casted the wind wall that blocked her path. She pulled out the pistol and scanned the nearby buildings, whose lights were starting to come on due to the noise of her firearm.
She then saw something in her peripheral vision, which turned out to be a steel spike. She managed to turn her body just in time; otherwise, the needle would have punctured her skin. She was caught unaware, so she used the butstock of her rifle to push back the hooded figure who attacked her.
The figure grunted in pain as it pulled back into the darkness, but not before getting shot in the thigh by Nirra's revolver. It screamed in pain as it hung over to check the damage made to its thigh, or should Nirra say her, since the scream sounded feminine. Nirra slowly approached the figure with her pistol still pointed at her.
"Why were you chasing me?" Nirra started interrogating the one she shot in the thigh, but the figure did not reply. She gave the figure a little more encouragement by shooting her in the other thigh. Once again, the figure shouted in pain, clutching the thigh that had just been shot.
"The next one is to the head; I'll ask again. Why were you chasing me?" Nirra just pointed the revolver close to her head.
The figure didn't answer again, and just as Nirra was about to pull the trigger, Smoke bombs went off around her, covering both in a thick dust of smoke. Nirra coughed as she exited the smoke, and when she looked back at the last known position of her foe, there was nothing to be found but the steel spike. She reloaded her revolver, and her rifle was prepared for another assault, but it never came.
She walked up to the spike and inspected it; it appeared to have something at the tip that was most likely poison. She stored the spike in her bandolier to present it as evidence that she was attacked to the guildmaster Viceroy later. When she stood back up, she saw that the wind barrier was gone and the path towards the market district was open. When she passed through, the lights of different shops greeted her as she entered the market district and the sun peeking over the horizon casting an orange morning haze on the sky.
Nirra woke up the next morning very early. She dressed herself in her uniform and put a blanket on Mofu while the Vulpen was still sleeping. She then grabbed her rifle and slung it on her shoulder, and she holstered her pistol on her bandolier. She exited the room and hung a message for Ameria and Ellie because the two were still sleeping. It read:
Went out early to check out the Dragon's breath forge. Be back at noon.
-Nirra
After she hung up the message, she went down the stairs and noticed that the lobby was still open. The only difference is that there was a different receptionist who manned the front desk. The lobby still has some people in it, but not as many during the day. They ate their food, which consisted of bread and cheese, while they had bags near their feet. She guesses that they packed their things and woke up early so that they could leave town while the day hadn't started.
She stepped out into the darkness of the night, but the sun was getting ready to peek above the horizon. While walking towards the shopping district via the route Ameria showed them yesterday. The path had no people and gave off an eerie atmosphere. A stark contrast to the activity inside the guild. There were lights inside some buildings, but the only thing that illuminated the path was the moonlight that shone above.
As she walked, she started to get the feeling that she was being followed. She slowly sped up her pace to try and lose the person she felt was following her.
When she heard footsteps grow louder due to her pace, she started to go full-on sprint. The way to get out of this situation is to arrive at the market district, where hopefully some people are there even this early in the morning. The perpetrator would have to back off to not act suspicious, and she might lose them in the possible crowds. As she sprinted under the moonlight, she felt more and more people chasing her.
When she rounded a corner at full speed, she saw four hooded figures that just stood there eerily. Before she could hit them, she let off a shot from her revolver, hitting the one on the far right in the head. The figure slumped down on the cold, hard cobblestone. Nirra used the gap left by the dead figure to get through their roadblock and leapt from the wall to get back to the middle of the path.
She kept running until she saw the lights of the market district within sight. She thought she was going to escape when a wall of wind suddenly rose up from the ground, knocking her back. She grunted as she got back up and faced the dark path behind her.
'If there were three chasing me, three at the roadblock, and one who cast that wind barrier, it should be seven hostiles converging on my position,' She thought as she readied her rifle and fixed a bayonet on it in case she missed a few shots and they got close to her.
In the darkness, she saw the figures of six people. She scanned the rooftops to look for the caster of that wind wall that was blocking her way, but she couldn't find it due to the pitch blackness of the night.
She fired off the first shot, which hit the one in front in the head. Her teeth gritted as she fired off shot after shot, hitting two more in the torso. She continued firing until she ran out of ammo in her magazine. By that time, she will have already killed all six men who were chasing her.
She then remembered there was one more who casted the wind wall that blocked her path. She pulled out the pistol and scanned the nearby buildings, whose lights were starting to come on due to the noise of her firearm.
She then saw something in her peripheral vision, which turned out to be a steel spike. She managed to turn her body just in time; otherwise, the needle would have punctured her skin. She was caught unaware, so she used the butstock of her rifle to push back the hooded figure who attacked her.
The figure grunted in pain as it pulled back into the darkness, but not before getting shot in the thigh by Nirra's revolver. It screamed in pain as it hung over to check the damage made to its thigh, or should Nirra say her, since the scream sounded feminine. Nirra slowly approached the figure with her pistol still pointed at her.
"Why were you chasing me?" Nirra started interrogating the one she shot in the thigh, but the figure did not reply. She gave the figure a little more encouragement by shooting her in the other thigh. Once again, the figure shouted in pain, clutching the thigh that had just been shot.
"The next one is to the head; I'll ask again. Why were you chasing me?" Nirra just pointed the revolver close to her head.
The figure didn't answer again, and just as Nirra was about to pull the trigger, Smoke bombs went off around her, covering both in a thick dust of smoke. Nirra coughed as she exited the smoke, and when she looked back at the last known position of her foe, there was nothing to be found but the steel spike. She reloaded her revolver, and her rifle was prepared for another assault, but it never came.
She walked up to the spike and inspected it; it appeared to have something at the tip that was most likely poison. She stored the spike in her bandolier to present it as evidence that she was attacked to the guildmaster Viceroy later. When she stood back up, she saw that the wind barrier was gone and the path towards the market district was open. When she passed through, the lights of different shops greeted her as she entered the market district and the sun peeking over the horizon casting an orange morning haze on the sky.
