In a way, I was in a good mood, especially since I had gotten rid of all the troublesome matters.
I knew that soon, the news that Roland had left the Northlands would spread, and people would come looking for me.
But whether or not they would be able to find me would depend on my mood.
"Heloise's face-changing mask is easy to use, cheap, and can even help you grow taller."
Recently, I discovered that Heloise's abilities were becoming more and more useful … Cough, the silly cat was baring her teeth again, so I had to be careful.
Since I was here to gather information, I would go sightseeing at several places every once in a while.
The local thieves' guilds, adventurers' guilds, and merchant guilds would all be well-informed (those who weren't well-informed had all died). They would also have first-hand information, which would be quite useful.
Those who didn't understand information gathering would often think that information gathering was about gathering information from all directions. As long as one had enough money and enough intelligence agents, one would be able to know everything.
But actually, this was an extremely amateurish way of thinking.
Snakes had their own paths, and rats had their own paths. Every profession and every profession required different information.
The intelligence agents of the Thieves Guild were all beggars and thieves. They lived at the bottom of society and collected a lot of information, ranging from the increase in the price of food to a certain noble lord marrying the Eleventh. However, due to the large amount of information, after being sorted out, there was only information related to power, money, and power struggles. Moreover, the source of the information was limited to the city, and it was limited to only one city.
If one wanted to find a certain person in a certain city and investigate their background, it would be best to contact the thieves' guilds. This was a long-term and stable source of income for the thieves' guilds.
But if one wanted to search for treasures, one would have to be careful that the thieves' guilds would take advantage of the thieves' guilds. It would be impossible to give these greedy thieves any information that involved important benefits.
Meanwhile, the adventurers' guilds were the exact opposite. Apart from a small number of professional spies, most of their information came from adventurers who actively or passively submitted information. Although most of the information was unreliable, the adventurers' guilds had a wide range of locations. In some areas where few people visited, the adventurers' guilds were the only source of information.
Information about magical beasts, ruins in the wilderness, sightings in remote areas, and so on could all be found by the adventurers. However, the adventurers' guilds' information had the same problem as the thieves' guilds. There was too much information, too much information, and it was difficult to tell the truth from the lies. Since the adventurers' guilds' intelligence agents weren't professional enough, their situation was far worse than the thieves' guilds'.
However, the adventurers' guilds had a good reputation, and could often hire skilled helpers.
Half of the Merchant Guild's information came from buying information. The Thieves' Guild and the Adventurer's Association were their sources of information. The other half came from collecting and organizing information from a massive amount of sources.
Most of their information sources were related to money. The information of the information sources were related to money. The information about the information sources, such as the information of the information about of information sources.
This sounded unreliable, but due to the power of gold coins, the adventurers' information sources were incredibly wide. They even had professional analysts. In fact, the major merchant guilds were even capable of actively interfering with the development of industries and influencing the progress of the war. They had the most complete information analysis. Actually, information sources were the most valuable.
For a product, from the weather, manpower, industrial information, and public security required for its production, to the safety of the region and war zones involved in its transportation, to the greed of the local nobles and the level of taxation, to the average wages, living standards, and the trend of purchasing desire of the buyers, a true great merchant would definitely be a top-notch information collector and organizer.
As for the nobles' and royalty's information sources, they weren't reliable at all. Their information sources were directly related to personal abilities and family history. The strong ones were ridiculously strong, while the weak ones would only be discovered when there was a rebellion.
The nobles' information sources were usually related to war, politics, and the nobles' families. They lacked basic sources, so they were actually the most unreliable. I couldn't be bothered to look for them, so I directly asked the Northlands Mist Alliance to use diplomatic channels to exchange information. If there was any information related to Cavendish, they could just directly send it to me.
It just so happened that the nobles' information sources were all on top of their heads. Even though the information wasn't anything special, they treated it like a treasure. It was incredibly difficult to communicate with them, which made it even more difficult for me to do anything.
Unlike ordinary adventurers, in my eyes, the most important information source would be the merchant guilds, followed by the thieves' guilds and adventurers' associations. The most important source would be the omnipotent royal spies from the legends.
But along the way, I obtained …
"A Legend-ranked golden-armored Knight is riding an iron horse with a black cat as he gallops through the wilderness. His greatsword is thirsting for demon blood … Haha, Roland, how does it feel to become a Legend-ranked demon hunter? A greatsword knight? "
What was going on here!? Why did I become the important information source when I was the one looking for information …?
Looking for Cavendish directly would definitely be impossible. Even if I put my face on the wanted list, I would only be able to find Roland in the end …
However, Cavendish was the Abyss Prince. His subordinates were either demons or evil cultists. And these evil cultists weren't devils that were skilled at hiding themselves. Impatient demons and crazy evil cultists would definitely cause some trouble in the mortal plane.
No matter what Cavendish wanted to do right now, he definitely wouldn't be able to avoid the mortal plane.
And since I knew that he would send either demons or evil cultists, then all I needed to do was focus on the evil cultists and demons.
Alright, I knew that this wasn't reliable, but there was no harm in trying as much as possible before I reached the Mage Country. Perhaps I would obtain additional information.
"Yep, the hero saved the damsel in distress seven times, destroyed the evil cult's altar three times, and killed off a dozen demon warlocks. Oh, mighty demon hunter Knight, 'You are undefeatable. Why is your sword so yellow? Is it because it has been stained with the demons' sulfur blood? '"
"… I just think that those idiotic traveling poets need to improve on their basic qualities. Demons' blood isn't yellow. Also, there's no hero saving the damsel in distress. There's only the hero saving the damsel in distress four times, the grandmother once, and the naughty child twice. Tsk, even the demons' sacrifices these days don't have anything new to offer. "
Since I had obtained information on demons and evil cultists, I naturally had to investigate them.
When I stumbled upon an evil cult's altar or a demon warlock's evil sacrifice, I wanted to say something like "I'm sorry, I found the wrong person," but nobody would believe me.
Not only that, demon warlocks had recently become much more powerful, but their sense of beauty had also greatly decreased. At the very least, the demon warlocks we killed back in the day were all young women as sacrifices.
"Think about your luck. Do you think it's even your turn to save a beautiful woman? You should be satisfied that an auntie saved you. "
"Silly cat, shut up."
The final result … was that I went on a killing spree. Not only did I obtain many Justice Points, I even obtained the hilarious title of "Selfless Golden-Armored Demon Hunter Knight" … Wasn't that Garen? Next time I jumped out of the bushes, I should shout "Demacia" to fit the occasion.
Not only that, since I was a free demon hunter, I would immediately leave after killing a demon. Not only that, the demon hunters were all difficult opponents that ordinary adventurers wouldn't be able to deal with. Not only that, I was able to insta-kill all the demon hunters. This hilarious title of mine became famous quite quickly. Bards who had nothing better to do were already starting to scam others for money.
Of course, there were also benefits to this. Previously, I had to spend money to buy information, and I had to be interrogated here and there. In the end, I would often have to resort to violence. But now, information would be delivered to me whenever I arrived at a certain location. I was afraid that there would still be demon hunters remaining after my "free helper" left. Another problem was that I would have to distinguish which information was a malicious attempt to eliminate my competitors.
"Forget it, you're the Mist Alliance's top spy. It's already good enough that no one came looking for you."
That's right, I had collected information on geography, warfare, business, nobles, and so on. All of them were the rarest first-hand information. It was likely that by the time I had some free time, I would be able to directly create a new map of the Donglan Principality.
Not only that, all of this information was the most up-to-date information on the Holy War, as well as the geographical information on all the places that the Mist Alliance had passed on their way south … As for me, I didn't have any intentions of leading an army south, at least not right now.
And now, I arrived at a place called Abundant Valley City. An unexpected piece of information from the thieves' guild caught my attention.
"A former Holy Maiden accidentally fell from grace and became pregnant with a demon fetus. She even corrupted into a witch? What sort of plot is this? "
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