I looked over towards the office as they were chatting and couldn't hear a word, probably sound prodded. As I lost interest I suddenly started to hear what they were saying, it was probably because of my Sense stat being so high.
"It's unprecedented Mr. Burnham, we honestly have no ideas about what to do with the opening." said the man in the suit whilst looking incredibly flustered. "Has anything come out, or have you sent anyone in yet?" said the Mayor with a grave look on his face, "No sir everything seems stable now but we need to find a solution soon or we don't know what will happen!" the man in the suit exclaimed. Mr. Burnham sat in contemplation for a moment then suddenly looked up to see me staring at him through the glass, I smiled awkwardly before looking away and started listening to Natalia who had been chatting away to herself about this and that.
Mr. Burnham suddenly stood up from his study and walked out of the room towards me. I looked up at him, stood, and shook his hand. "Hello Mr. Burnham, its good to see you again." I said with a tight grip on his hand. "Yes it is Ezekiel and please call me Andy. I have a question for you," he said whilst looking at me seriously, "What is it?" I asked feigning ignorance.
A sudden Ray of light appeared from Andy's hand and entered my body, a message popped up
[You are under the effects of (Truth) you will have to answer truthfully to anything you are asked. You have atkeast 3x higher INT than the caster, anything you ask them will be under the effects of truth. You have 3 questions]
"You heard what I said didn't you?" Andy said "Yes" I answered and a green tick sign appeared in the air. The mayor smiled and then continued, however he tried to speak but no words came out. 'Now its my turn' I thought before asking a question "How many of these gates have you found?" I asked whilst the mayor looked at me perplexed "2" he answered forcefully trying to resist the truth, a green tick appeared in the air.
The mayor looked at me in disdain then asked "How high is your INT stat?" he didn't mean it to be a question under truth but it counted so he lost one of his questions as I answered "My INT is at 25 plus the 3 from my equipment" I answered. The mayor turned red in exasperation as the green tick appeared in the air.
"Where are these gates that you have found?" I asked and the mayor tried his hardest not to answer, so much so that he nearly popped from exasperation before he answered. "One is at the Arndale inside of Gr€ggs, and the other is in a steelworking factory about half a mile North from here." he said with an incredibly red face, I was surprised that he hadn't passed out from all of the grunting he was doing.
"What is the purpose of the gates?" he asked after thinking hard for about 3 minutes straight. "To my knowledge the 'Gates' are the dungeons that we all got a message about, they are here to make us stronger." I answered before a green tick appeared and I could speak again, I didn't really have anything else to say so I decided to go for a power play instead.
"Will we be able to keep friendly relations in the future Mr. Burnham?" I asked in an attempt to psych him out, I wouldn't kill him if he said no as his daughter, wife and associates were all stood and sat around us. I would however threaten him into thinking I would if he didn't answer correctly.
"Yes Ezekiel, with your power at the minute I doubt I would be able to do anything against you so I think that we can have friendly relations, even being close friends is not out of the picture." he answered and a green tick appeared above him. I was surprised that he caved so easily but happy that I didn't have to threaten to kill him in front of his wife and daughter, especially considering I liked his daughter as well.
I stood up from my seated position as the spell lifted and stuck my hand out to Andy. He stood and shook it before giving an awkward smile and heading towards his affice with me and his men in tow.
We talked for about 20 minutes about whether or not they would join our guild until finally settling that they would make their own guild but we would be in a close knit relationship in which we would essentially have each other's back. Andy didn't have a CommLink as he had no real way to make money until now so we left it at that for now and after agreeing with one final thing.
Me and my group would be the first to enter both dungeons and then the mayor can take his group in.
I made this a part of the deal as during the talk we had I got a call on my CommLink from Mike, he said that they had made it to the boss room but they couldn't enter as there was a notice that said we had already killed the monster and it wouldn't spawn again for 2 days. I told him to go to the Arndale and that me and the Mayor would meet him there.
We walked down to the ground floor which was now guarded with a gate instead of being completely blocked off. I was surprised to see a carriage drawn by two bikes waiting outside of the gate.
Two burly men sat on the bikes in sports gear, they looked quite intimidating. I got into the carriage with the mayor, Rose and one bodyguard whilst two more bodyguards sat on the seat where the driver would usually sit.
The carriage had been modified to drive on and off the road, it had large land-rover tires equipped with a hand brake system that the people sat in the driver's seat would operate.
We arrived at the Arndale rather quickly due to the speed of the cyclists, making us and the others get there at almost the same time.
I got off the carriage comiting the design to memory as I might build one later then I entered the Arndale with my team and Andy.