I managed to enchant three more books before it was time to meet with Froggy, and fortunately, when I got there he was still waiting for me.
"Oh good, you finally arrived, here's the potion, and I got some info from some of the servants here. The guards will finish their last training session of the day in about an hour. So you can follow him while invisible. I'll give you two just in case."
He gave me the potions, and I quickly tanked him before we left the room. He went to his history lesson while I was about to get some 'sleep'.
The guard as always was following me, luckily he didn't try to stop me when I went to talk with Froggy.
Once I arrived at my room, I stopped and turned to him.
"I'm going to get some sleep, so unless someone important is looking for me, don't wake me up."
The guard with a bored expression nodded his head in understanding.
With that, I closed the door behind me, put some pillows under the blanket, and in the secret tunnel I went.
Just to be sure, I drink a potion since it would last for a few hours anyway.
It was still in the middle of the day outside, so there would be a lot of risks if I suddenly made a hole in the hallways, so I'd go to a place where I knew for sure that nobody was there.
Froggy's room.
And as I suspected, nobody was there once I was in it.
I quietly opened the door and saw some people walking along from time to time. So after some good timing, I snuck out of the room while nobody saw me.
Even though I was invisible, I didn't want to take the risk of being comfortable, I got in too much trouble recently for me not to learn that lesson.
With quiet steps I walked along the hallways, sometimes guards patrolled so I had to stop moving and wait for them to pass me, I didn't want my particles to be seen again.
While the process was slow, I finally arrived at the training area again, where I could see the previous guards that laughed at Froggy training hard, while my target was in front of everyone watching intensely.
I watched for a while, and I had to say that it was pretty entreating, in this world I don't have access to the internet so I'm suffering from the lack of entertainment at my fingertips, or the lack of fingers in general.
But after half an hour of watching people fight, I didn't even realize how time flew by.
"OK, that's enough for today! Go take a shower and resume your duties."
The people stopped, and you could see their shoulders starting to relax, some of them started to leave while others were kept by Omar to point out their mistakes while also giving pointers.
Nobody looked angry or ashamed, which means his word was respected by others.
After about ten more minutes, everyone left, leaving only Omar who was cleaning anything left behind by the others.
Such a responsible man, truly a role model.
After one last look around the place, the target finally left, and I quietly tried to follow him. We passed through a small hallway then we went outside, where I could see a separate building. It must be the guard's dormitories, it looks a lot smaller than I imagined.
Omar went inside and I quickly followed him, only to see him entering the last room on the left.
There were 10 doors to his room, how did he move so fast?
It didn't matter, I finally knew his room, so tonight I can give him the book.
Just to be sure I'll wait to see if he has the whole room to himself.
I waited and waited, and waited for another half an hour. This won't work the only movement that I saw was the guards that were leaving to do their shifts. Does he not have any more work for today?
Frustrated, I left the building and decided to sneak to his window, maybe I could see why he hadn't left yet.
Every window looked the same, but the fact that his room was the last one greatly helped. And once I got to his window I finally got the answer to my burning question.
The man didn't come out, because he was sleeping.
"Of course, he wouldn't come out anytime soon."
I whispered to myself in frustration.
At least it wasn't for nothing, I can see that he lives alone, so that would be much easier to give him the package.
With that out of the way, I decided to start the tunnel now, so I don't have to check where I am constantly.
The tunnel would start from one block below the bed and continue until it connected to wherever tunnel I already dug.
After an hour of confusion and frustration, the new tunnel was connected with the others.
"Finally I can finish this ongoing mission, hopefully, Froggy will decipher the code as soon as possible. I don't want to be hunted by my mistakes anymore."
With that, I went to my room next, sat on the bed, and finally relaxed.
"Ok, that's enough of a break, time to get back to enchanting. Tomorrow I'll do second levels in enchantments, so I can't give up."
And for the rest of the day, I continued to enchant until my next level. It was harder to do it this time since I was still tired from mining, but it was finally done.
Level 4 Enchanting skill, from what I read, this is the place where you truly start to make money. If you manage to get a copy for a level 2 enchanting, that alone can make you from a normal villager to a small Nobel.
The Books are not cheap to make here in the desert, so every enchantment counts, that's why a higher enchantment costs more than it normally should.
Yes, you can use two lower levels of enchants to get a higher one, but for that, you need more books and XP, without growing in skill, and the higher the level is, the bigger the costs are.
"Well, if I want to start a business in one of the other kingdoms, I'm sure I'll be welcomed with open arms, and rich beyond my dreams."
With a smile, I let my imagination run wild while I got into my room and finally my bed. The sun was already on its way down, but it would take a while until everyone fell asleep.
So I decided to sleep for a few hours to get back my strength and finally finished this delivery.
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The night was at its full strength, darkness was all around the world with only the rich cities having lights on their streets.
Some people were sleeping while others worked in the shadows.
I break the dirt block above me, letting me see the stars in the sky, I scanned the area around me before claiming up to the ground.
While a guard's job is to guard an important place or person, there's no such thing at their dormitories, the only noise I heard was of the wind and snoring guards.
I looked over the window to see if my target was also sleeping, someone was in the bed which was what I wanted to see, I went back to the tunnel and carefully broke the wooden block under the bed.
My heart started to beat faster, I kept expecting something to go wrong but the block disappeared and nothing happened.
Good, now on to the final step, sliding the book from under the bed in the middle of the room.
In this world, there's no such thing as an item despawning, so I don't have to worry if it stays on the floor all night, it's not going to be gone when it is found, and with this, there's as little risk for me as possible.
So I threw the book away which slid two blocks away from me.
Finally, it was done, I could go back and get some well-deserved rest, but something felt wrong. It was over, but it was too easy, then it hit me, I couldn't hear the rhythmic sound of a sleeping person, the room was in silence.
I panicked, I quickly covered the hole and got back into the tunnel, not only that, I kept placing blocks covering all the progress that I'd made that day, finally I arrived at the tunnel system, and ran to my room. I couldn't cover all the tunnels that I did, but I did cover the ones that could lead to me being the culprit.
Now deep breaths and relax, deep breaths and relax.
"I don't think I'll be able to fall asleep tonight."
POV: Omar
My day started early, as usual, I did my morning exercise followed by some running. Finally, the sun started to appear which meant that everyone else would wake up soon, but someone needed extra help to do that.
So I jogged to the palace, where I went straight to a room while greeting the people that I met. I didn't even bother knocking on the door, just let myself in and saw what I expected.
A pale man sleeping comfortably on his bed.
"Sir Hero, it's time to wake up!"
As always, no movement from the covers, with a sigh I got closer to him and dragged him off the bed. He hit the floor hard but that finally woke him up.
He looked around confused before landing his eyes on me.
"Good morning sir! Time for some training."
I didn't forget to put a smile, which he didn't appreciate, he opened his mouth to argue but gave up.
We've been doing this for weeks, so he knows the 'ritual'.
"Ok, I'll be there as soon as I get some to eat."
I just nodded my head and went to the training area to wait for him.
Not too long after, he arrived as well, we started with some exercises to get him warmed up and then did some sparing with the other guards.
It didn't last for too long, since the guards didn't feel like they could grow with someone who doesn't want to learn the art of the swords, so instead I gave them a break and switched with me to have as a sparing partner.
His face of horror was priceless, but it had to be done, the Sultan himself requested that I train him, so his investment wouldn't die so easily.
But there's only so much you can force someone to learn, especially if they don't want to. It painted me to even make him suffer like this, but it had to be done.
While we were spared I saw that the princess visited us, so I had to stop the practice.
Once Froggy found out the reason she was here, with strength I didn't know he had run up to them.
I was also behind him, only at a slower pace.
Froggy looked happy, to finally see someone that suffers the same as him. I looked at the man that was with the princess.
His looks were unique which I'm sure didn't help him with being liked by the other servents. I don't know how someone can live with such a small nose, I would've given up in shame a long time ago.
And it didn't help that one of the orders from the higher-ups, was to keep them separated as often as possible, it wasn't a rule, more of a suggestion which some people took as a rule, and the Sultan didn't bother to fix it.
After I let Froggy have his long-deserved break, I got back to training with the guards after I spoke a little with the princess, she was doing a favor so she didn't stay long.
After a few hours of training, we were done for the day, so we got back to our rooms, but I felt like I was being followed.
The training that woman put me through, sharpened my senses, but nowhere near enough as good as her. I swear she has the senses of an Enderman, which are abnormal for a human.
I was almost at the dormitories, I could hear steps in the grass, but no one was behind me. This made me more suspicious but I continued like I didn't feel them.
In my room I lay in bed like I was sleeping, the best time to attack someone is when they're vulnerable, and if I can't see the enemy I'll make them come to me instead.
Minutes passed, hours passed but there was nothing. Maybe they didn't want me?
I couldn't stay all day in bed, so I got up and resumed my day while being more vigilant.
But night came and nothing happened.
"Did I imagine all that?"
I shook my head and went to sleep. I'll deal with it tomorrow.
Time passed and suddenly I heard a block breaking and my bed slightly vibrating, that woke me up quickly, but I didn't move a muscle, just waited with my sword ready to come out any second.
The block was finally broken, and then I heard some sliding on the floor, it was too light to be a person, so I didn't move. Then a block was placed followed by silence.
After a few minutes with nothing happening, I finally got up.
"Is that it?"
I looked on the floor where there was only one book. I picked it up, looked over it, and started reading it.
The more I read the bigger my eyes got, and finally on the last page was a signature, something that nobody can forge.
"Hahaha! She didn't die, after all, I knew that monster wouldn't fall at the hands of those pillagers."
The book informed me about the prince, about the pillagers and about the invisible man, who was most likely the one following me this morning.
But most importantly, it informed me that my boss is alive. She's alive waiting to get out and have her revenge.
And I only need to beat up a few guards tomorrow so they won't arrive at her prison.