Elliot walked towards the gates of what seemed like an inner city and this time he wasn't greeted by the same sight, the number of guards around this gates was 10 times those in front of the first one, 20 soldiers holding either swords or spears were standing in two rows on a short brick bridge.
On top of it being highly guarded the gates were also closed so Elliot had to find another way in, he looked at the walls surrounding the inner city and they were just as high as the ones surrounding the whole city.
'Between 15 and 20 meters high... I could climb them if they weren't this smooth. I need to wait for an opportunity to go in through this gate or find a secret entrance, the best possibility are the sewers, I doubt they are being guarded 24/7'
Elliot thought about it for awhile and guessed he could ask around, as long as he hid his face it shouldn't be an issue and so he walked to what seemed like the poor neighborhood. That was the place where it was less likely that he would find soldiers, after walking around for awhile he saw a bar.
'This is it I guess ? In games it is in this sort of establishment that they usually sell informations. Let's hope it isn't different here.'
Still wearing the hooded cape Elliot walked inside of a broken down bar, scary people were seating on every table and even tho it was still early in the day the place was full of drunk people, each table had a half naked girl assigned to it and it gave off a very gross vibe, it looked more like a brothel than a bar.
Elliot went to the counter and before he was able to ask his question the bartender said
"What would you like to order ?"
"Informations, is there a way to go in the inner city without going through the main gate ?"
"Of course there is, it'll be 5 silver coins."
The man extended his hand but then Elliot realized he didn't have any money...
He had been suddenly thrown into this world's civilization but he wasn't even aware that humans lived here before that ! When the bartender started getting impatient a loud voice shook the whole establishment
"HEY BABY HERE I COME !"
A tall and muscular middle aged man around 40 years old with long braided dark hair and a scarred face walked in followed by 4 guys who looked as arrogant as he did.
"Cain, bring her."
The bartender's face suddenly became sullen but he still gave an ugly smile towards the man and said
"Of course please wait a minute."
Elliot looked at the scene unfold and when the bartender left towards the back of the store he started thinking about how to make money and he walked out of the shop.
For an hour Elliot walked aimlessly around the city when suddenly something caught his attention, on a huge building there was a paper stuck with the drawing of someone he had seen before !
[ Daunt the ripper
Wanted dead or alive
Reward 10 gold coins !]
On top of this text there was the drawing of the man who had walked in the bar arrogantly, Elliot thought for a second and decided this was it !
He walked back inside the bad where the man was sitting with his feet on the table full of food and a cute young woman was sitting on his lap.
'This man is living a fun life haha, it won't last long tho.'
Elliot walked behind him, grabbed his long hair and pulled him down to the ground. The man got so surprised that he pulled down the table and the young lady together with him on an attempt to not fall.
Elliot grabbed the young lady's waist and didn't allow her to fall, although she worked in this kind of establishment he didn't have any problem with it and still treated her respectfully, he knew that everyone had their circumstances.
He put her down and told her to leave because the man's friends had already stood up and pulled out their weapons.
"You fucking asshole what was that for ?!"
Elliot didn't answer them and kneeled onto the guy's chest and cut his breath, he wasn't scared of the guy's friends because he could feel that they were weak.
'This must be another effect of the intelligence stat, similar to the perception I've been developing recently.'
"Your name is Daunt ?"
The man was suffocating and couldn't say a single word, he wanted to answer that was him but Elliot was putting an immense weight on this thoracic cage, so much that he felt his lungs being completely squeezed!
One of Daunt's friends rushed towards Elliot suddenly and tried stabbing his throat was sent flying a few meters away with a single push.
Everybody in the bar who had stayed silent because of the shocking situation suddenly started cheering, as this wasn't any kind of bar they were all used to seeing fights here and enjoyed it the most. It was the most amount of fun they had in their boring lives ! They all survived through underhanded means such as stealing, blackmailing or even killing and so none of them was scared by this scene, it was the opposite : they loved it.
"What do you want ?!"
Another one of Daunt's friends shouted at Elliot, they were having a great time with his friends when a guy suddenly came and created chaos but he was also too scared to attack Elliot after seeing his friend being flown away with one hit.
"You didn't answer me, are you or are you not Daunt the ripper ?"
Elliot ignored the screams of the guy's friends once again and asked him the same question, as he couldn't speak because he had no air left in his lungs the man weakly nodded his head, he was starting to lose consciousness.
"You would have suffered less if you answered straight away."
Elliot stood up and took the guy with him, everybody in the bar didn't understand what kind of situation this was, usually fights broke and ended inside the bar and it was the first time they saw someone being pulled out like this.
"Do you think he's a bounty hunter ?"
"Yeah there is no doubt about it, he asked Daunt's name so he must have seen the wanted poster or have been sent by that Theo merchant."
"Daunt really provoked someone he shouldn't have."
Elliot picked up his 10 gold coins after dropping the guy to the militia and went back to the bar, this time he would be able to go inside the inner city.