"Sir is it okey, if the royal guards arrest him."
"But we will not get the money and moreover he will be released out of prison soon."
"Do you think the royal guards will only arrest him or put him in prison. I had arranged the most vicious, deadly & corrupted guards to kill him."
"Now he has a bounty, of over 950k gold coins on him."
"They will kill him & have the money. Our lord is so wise..."
The ass licking, foolish officials of the battle arena praised the owner of his deeds in order to get some promotions & benefits.
"Muhahaha."
The devilish laugh of the arena owner echoed through the hallway of his office.
***
On the other hand, while I was travelling back to "Pyaasa" I had no idea what evil intentions were been formed behind my back.
Around 10 royal guards surrounded me and showed me a royal decree of arrest.
I asked them what was my crime?
"You have illegitimate money with you. Around 950k gold coins which you have robbed. And for that reason you are being arrested."
They surely were royal guards with best of weapons, armours & clothes. But, the thing is only the owner of the battle arena knew the exact amount of money I had on me. Apart from him, no one else knew that. So, this must be his doing...
"Before, you arrest me. I have a small wish."
The guards scoffed at me and said,
"If you ask to let you go, we can't do that? If you have some other wish you can speak."
"After being arrested, I don't know when I'll be free. Before going to jail, I wan't to have the finest bottle of wine from "Pyaasa"."
The guards spoke among themselves and then one senior guard spoke,
"Just one bottle, not more than that."
"Sure, you guys can join too. We'll have all one cup from that bottle and in a minute or so, the task will be complete."
"Let's go."
***
Rehmat saw me coming with the royal guards, he was smart enough to maintain a poker face.
I ordered one of the finest wine bottle. Opened it and took a mouthful of wine, while activating one of my skill, "Venom King".
"Ahh.. this wine is great."
"Pour a cup of wine to the royal guards first."
The idiot guards never doubted a thing.
After having some sips, they started to choke. The motor functions of the body stopped working. Their face turned red, saliva was dripping from their moth, the tounge came out due to lack of oxygen. Slowly one at a time, the organs started to fail & the restless bodies of all those men struggled for some more; the bodies stayed still lifeless.
➖Ping➖
[Skill (Venom King) effect over. 24 hrs cool down initiated]
[Earned 873 exp + 217 soul points for killing a royal swordsman]
[Earned 793 exp + 199 soul points...]
[Earned...]
[Level up]
[New skill learnt]
[Death Rage]
(25% more penetration capacity for any weapon. Duration: 2 minutes. Cool down: 6 hrs.)
While i was checking out my new skill points & all, Rehmat was scared for this incident that has happened in his bar.
He was totally startled, I eased him up.
"Rehmat."
He was in deep thought, so I called him again.
"Rehmat..."
"Ye..Yes."
"Don't worry, I have a solution."
I told him about Kalidas & how I got to know him. He thought for a while and said there's someone like that guy here too. He wen't out fast & asked two of the employee's to stack the bodies inside the storage room.
Most of the peoples were dead drunk inside the bar. Hence, they couldn't differentiate between dead people & the one's that are passed out.
It was a huge reason & that's why the killing could be kep't low profile.
Before Rehmat came back; used my assessment skill again on the dead bodies.
Got hold of some gold, silver & copper coins. A pair of gold teeth, some white stones of unknown origin and a gold nugget. Plus, their body armours, swords, daggers, shields.
These white stones are new stuff; introduced. As, I level up, more new stuffs are getting introduced to me. It was like any other game.
The higher you go, the more interesting the game becomes.
An average looking man came, with Rehmat. I didn't gave him much time to do his initial hi, hello. Wen't straight into business...
He checked out the weapons & armour's to evaluate their value. This man was also like Kalidas; was unhinged by the point that these were dead royal swordsmen.
An estimation of 5 gold coins & 30 silver coins were made by that fellow. If Revati was here, she would have negotiated for a higher price.
It sounds weird negotiating prices for dead bodies & their belongings but she would have done it eagerly; only for my sake.
I gave 10 gold coins for the wine and all the troubles Rehmat faced.
"Sir, the wine is only 1 gold coin & you paid me at day one for these kind of services."
"I know but still keep it. You had to handle these bodies and wen't through trouble only for me."
The dealer was getting impatient listening to us talking.
"Is there anything else that you wan't to sell, or should I leave?"
"Wait there are something's that I wan't to sell."
A total of 32k gold coins were earned for:
8x gold teeths
3x gold ring &
a gold nugget.
Totalling my net worth around 989k gold. Holy shit, I would reach the 1 million target soon! I was so happy inside.
The dealer also wen't happy; it was obvious that if I sold these stuffs to an amethyst dealer or auctioned it. It would take more time, but the sell price would be much higher.
But, I was content with what I had got.
Later that night, I started writing a letter for the first time. It was almost dawn & after so many wasted papers I finally wrote my first letter to Revati. Wrote of stuffs that had happened, stuffs going to happen & a segment of the letter filled with missing her; those warm embraces.
I missed smartphones, laptops. Damn these could have made life so easy. I was stuck in time, with a gaming system; how much futuristic could it be for me. As, humans our need and greed are limitless & I was realising it bit by bit.
A system was active at that time for transporting letters. As there was no post master or post office. There was a joint where a group of men would assemble to receive the letters or anything that has to be delivered.
These guys would take some money from both the parties, the one delivering; one that is receiving. They would run at a medium pace throughout the night with a lantern and his sack of letters armed with spears, swords for protection.
Sometimes they would assemble a huge group if they were delivering something important or precious.
I dropped the letter to one the guy & 9k gold coins too, for my beloved.
They were called "runners" & they would run the whole night to reach their destination.
Tonight they will start their journey, hopefully they will reach Revati within 3 to 4 days.
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