Inside the Boozt Merchant Guild, there were rock gardens and flowing water. The environment was elegant and luxurious, and the cobblestone corridors ran through the entire building. Along the way, they occasionally saw guards wielding longswords and javelins pass by. It looked like the Guild's security was quite tight.
Han Shuo had already inquired about the Boozt Merchant Guild when he'd been in Balthazar City. He knew that the Guild's main business was trading. Simply put, they used the Boozt Merchant Guild's trading strongholds to cover the entire Empire, purchasing supplies and materials from various regions, and then selling them to other regions where they were in short supply, earning the difference in price.
This batch of weapons and ingredients from the town of Drol would surely be handled properly if they were handed over to the Boozt Merchant Guild. Therefore, Han Shuo had absolutely found the right person to look for Fabian.
After passing through three corridors and walking for a few minutes, just as Han Shuo was thinking that the Boozt Merchant Guild was indeed quite large, the young miss of the Boozt Merchant Guild stopped in front of a loft.
"Farmar, go call Fabian over. Jaise, you guard the door. Mm, you're Brian, right? Come with me. " The girl stood in front of the loft and looked left and right a few times, giving instructions to the two strong warriors following behind her.
Han Shuo didn't waste any words and nodded, directly following the girl inside. The floor was covered with a soft carpet, and a few priceless paintings hung on the surrounding walls. The interior of the room was richly decorated. There was a very spacious hall in the middle, with a circular table in the center and a few chairs around it.
After the girl entered the room, she found a chair and sat down. She then furrowed her brow and didn't say a word, as if she was thinking about something. A few strands of brown hair fell on her fair and smooth forehead, contrasting with her furrowed brow and beautiful face. She seemed to have lost a few traces of the cold arrogance she'd just had, and had gained a few traces of worry.
She didn't greet Han Shuo, and Han Shuo didn't stand on ceremony either. He twisted a chair around and sat down, nonchalantly surveying the decorations around the hall, occasionally glancing at her a few times.
After a short while, that fatty Fabian had already walked in with a fawning smile. He closed the door and quickly walked in, bowing to the girl. "It's wonderful that Miss Phoebe has returned safely!"
"Mm, this person is looking for you and says that he wants to do business with you. I just so happened to be looking for you to discuss some things, so I brought him here." Phoebe nodded and said to Fabian.
"Heh heh, so it's Brian. It was all thanks to you that I was able to escape from the vicious hands of those Forest Troll in the Dark Forest last time. I thought I'd never see you again. Who would've thought that you'd come looking for me just a few days after I returned to the Empire? What business do you plan on doing this time?" Fabian had a professional smile on his face as he asked Han Shuo enthusiastically.
"I have a batch of resources that came from a rather shady source. I wonder if you're willing to purchase them?" Han Shuo hadn't planned on saying much when he saw that Phoebe was right next to him, but then he thought that even Fabian seemed to be under Phoebe's control. It looked like there wasn't anything to hide, so he got straight to the point.
"Heh heh, that's absolutely not a problem. Anything that comes into our Guild's hands will become clean. Don't worry!" Fabian turned his head to glance at Phoebe in the distance and suddenly smiled at Han Shuo when he saw Phoebe nod slightly.
Since this was the case, Han Shuo didn't need to be secretive anymore. He released a wisp of mental strength and took out the thirteen bags from his space ring, placing them in the room. He then said, "These are the items. Take a look and see how much they're worth?"
Phoebe had been sitting there coldly. Her bright eyes swept sharply over when she saw Han Shuo take out the items one by one. She suddenly opened her mouth and said, "These items should be from the town of Drol. Look at the bags, they should be the tools used by the orc wolf riders to plunder. Did you take them from the hands of the orc wolf riders?"
Looking at Phoebe with surprise, Han Shuo thought to himself that this girl's eyes were quite sharp. She'd guessed the ins and outs of the matter with just a glance. She was the miss of the Boozt Merchant Guild alright. Nodding, Han Shuo didn't hide anything and smiled faintly, "That's right, I took these items from the hands of the orc wolf riders."
When Han Shuo's words fell, the eyes of Phoebe, who'd been completely indifferent to Han Shuo, suddenly lit up. She stared fixedly at Han Shuo and sized him up, then opened her mouth to ask in surprise, "You're saying that you took these items from the orc wolf riders all by yourself?"
"Miss, Brian is an extremely powerful mage swordsman. He alone drove away all the Forest Troll that surrounded me," Fabian immediately explained to Phoebe when he saw that Phoebe seemed to doubt Han Shuo's strength.
When she heard Fabian's words, Phoebe seemed to be even more surprised. Her sharp eyes roamed over Han Shuo's body. Even Han Shuo felt his heart clench when she looked at him like this, as if some secret was about to be seen through.
Coughing lightly, Han Shuo laughed dryly, "I didn't take these items from the orc wolf riders all by myself, but I'm in charge of these items now. I think you should take stock of them and tell me a suitable price so we can hurry up and finish our business."
"Alright, Fabian, make an inventory of these things." Phoebe nodded as she spoke and looked a bit oddly at Han Shuo, as if she hadn't expected that Han Shuo would honestly admit that he hadn't taken them by himself.
An exceedingly faint sound suddenly fell into Han Shuo's ears at this moment. It was like the sound of a longsword slowly being unsheathed. Han Shuo's heart jumped and his expression changed slightly. He lifted his head to look at the dark rooftop and said with a cold face, "Who's on the rooftop?"
Phoebe and Fabian's faces immediately changed drastically when they heard these words. However, before they could react, three crossbow bolts had already flown towards the three of them from the rooftop with a sharp whistle.
Han Shuo was enraged. He'd thought that Fabian and Phoebe were trying to murder him for his money, but when he saw that the three crossbow bolts had been shot at the three of them, he knew that this wasn't the case.
Just from the sharp whistle of the three crossbow bolts, one could tell that both the strength and speed of the bolts were astonishing. It was obvious that they were the work of an experienced expert. At this critical juncture, Han Shuo's expression was surprisingly calm. His body moved to the side and he quickly dodged the crossbow bolt aimed at him. His right hand had already taken out a dagger and he fiercely slashed at the other crossbow bolt aimed at Fabian.
With a crack, the crossbow bolt aimed at Fabian broke. Han Shuo's right hand, which was holding the dagger, suddenly went numb under the tremendous impact, and his entire right arm suddenly ached. This made Han Shuo understand that the impact of this crossbow bolt was indeed incomparably ferocious. If an ordinary person had used a dagger to collide with it, their entire right arm would likely have been shattered.
Dong!
Phoebe's face was full of panic as she suddenly dashed towards Han Shuo. The chair that she'd been sitting on had already been pierced through by the crossbow bolt. The crossbow bolt had penetrated the chair and nailed itself directly onto the carpet. The carpet was already solid ground, so one could imagine just how terrifying the force of this bolt was.
"There's an assassin, there's an assassin!" At this moment, Fabian suddenly screamed and pushed Han Shuo with even more force, pushing Han Shuo towards Phoebe. He cried out urgently, "Brian, hurry and save my miss. If you save my miss, I'll give you an extra five hundred gold coins. I beg of you."
It looked like Fabian already knew that Han Shuo wasn't the kind of person who would play the hero and save the damsel in distress. At this critical moment, he first thought of using gold coins to bribe Han Shuo.
Just as Fabian's screams rang out, three crisp creaks sounded from the roof. Three pitch-black figures suddenly appeared. Three longswords sparkling with dark green light were already looming over Phoebe and Han Shuo's heads. The bone-piercing chill made Han Shuo feel as if his skin and flesh had been cut by the blades.
Dark green fighting aura, these were three senior swordsmen!
Han Shuo understood his strength. In a real fight, even one senior swordsman would have a hard time dealing with him. Three senior swordsmen would only lead to death. Judging from the three's intentions, it was obvious that they were planning on killing everyone in the room. Even if Han Shuo ignored them now, he'd still be hard-pressed to escape misfortune. The only way out was to stall for time until reinforcements arrived.
Magical yuan circulated rapidly as Han Shuo's body suddenly moved. Phoebe was already in front of him at this moment. Han Shuo reached out and grabbed Phoebe's right hand, pulling her into his arms. The body holding Phoebe abruptly toppled to the side and tumbled underneath the round table in the hall.
Violent crackling sounds suddenly sounded from the top of the round table. The sturdy round table shattered into pieces above Han Shuo's head in an instant. Three sharp blades stabbed directly at Han Shuo and Phoebe after they'd shattered the round table.
Han Shuo's necromancy incantation had already been completed at this moment. The Little Skull wielding the bone dagger also materialized in midair and charged directly at one of the assassins. Under the table, Han Shuo raised his left hand and the crossbow bolt in his sleeve suddenly shot at another assassin.
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