Chapter 18 - 18

The actual robes and tokens will be distributed after the combat assessment.

Before leaving, abhay checked the levels of the other candidates to get a general idea.

The average level of these was 4 to 6.

'There's nothing to worry about. I can handle any of then with ease. Now I can focus on other plans. '

Abhay left and headed toward the black market. It was the only place left on the list.

It wasn't nighttime yet but he have plans for the night so he'll have to visit right now.

***

Inside the inn abhay stayed when he first came to the town, there were three men eating.

They were the part of the bandit group.

More than that, they were also the spies of the finance minister. They were amongst the ones he used to initiate the bandit war.

One of them also happened to be the husband of the innkeeper.

They were here to meet the finance minister to report. The carriage was found very close to their hideout so the finacne minister was suspicious of them.

Not these guys but the other bandits.

Because abhay blew up their hideout, they had to move to a different location that was advantageous as the city guards were actually searching for clues in that area.

Their hideout would have been found out and that would've been a problem.

After eating they all left for the meeting.

After they left, the newly hired waitress of the inn made an excuse and left as well.

She was one of abhay's spies.

Abhay used memory alter on the innkeeper and removed the part when he came here with tama.

He then told Bob to get someone to work as a spy here as the information about the bandit group might come in handy.

***

Abhay was strolling in a street full of vendors.

The black market wasn't a whole market but rather one street.

The street was a long one and it comprised of about hundred or so stalls on each side.

Abhay looked around every stall to find anything useful but to no avail.

All the items he saw were trash.

After he had crossed more than half of the street/ stalls he saw a young boy sitting on a carpet with a few items.

What grabbed his attention was not the items but the boy himself.

Name: dev

Age: 12

Class: none

Realm: none

Special physique: blood devourer

Level:0

Str: 3

Phy:2

MP:0

Sta:20

Skills:

Blood refining(lv 1)

Blood compression (lv 1)

'A special physique?

And some skills I am unaware of?

This kid's worth nurturing. I've read books about this continent and there's no mention of a special physique. '

Abhay talked to him for a bit and then decided to recruit him.

He first used hypnosis on him and then memory steal.

This kid id an orphan and no one will find out if he go missing. After checking all the stalls, he didn't found anything.

He took dev with him to his hideout.

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Name: Abhay

Age: 17

Class: manipulator

Realm: advanced

Level:10

Str:22

Phy:22

MP:26

Sta:32

FP: 150

Hypnosis(lv5)

Memory steal(lv5)

Memory alter(lv5)

Telepathy(lv5)

Luck (level 2) (passive attribute not a skill)

Treasure thief(lv1)