The Insider System

Chapter 340: Supplies

Chapter 340: Supplies

Rigbis had gone first and broken down everything that had happened so far to the guards leaving very little as far as Donny knew. The Guards hadn't reacted to anything that was said no matter how crazy and this made Donny think they were in for a story now that the guards turn was here.

"We weren't in the city when the attack started and while we figured it was bad we didn't know just how bad until the God of Metal told us to escape as fast as we could and what was happening a few days ago." Donny would have loved to know what they had been out doing but he could guess it was the Oracle's normal duties which were related to metal detection so he didn't stop them to ask.

"Once we got our orders to run from where we had been laying low it didn't take long for the first attackers to show up. We were in the air so we had a good chance of getting away under normal circumstances but it seems the Demon Worshipers came prepared because we were shot down almost right away. I don't know if we were just unlucky but it felt like they were after the Oracle's life to us with how prepared they were for us."

Donny had already thought the Oracle would be one of the Demon Worshipers so this kind of confirmed his suspicions but the guards had already said the Oracle was safe so it took the edge off for him as he listened to this. This was how he wanted it because being on the edge of your seat was really only nice when there were no odds for you or the people you cared about.

"We were also hit with a few curses during the fall but after we landed we were able to fight them off and hide in the mountains until some trustworthy people found us and took the oracle out of the mountains."

Donny was able to sense this was the end of the story and had to say it felt kind of underwhelming but he was pretty sure they were getting a very incomplete version of everything they had gone through but he didn't blame them for wanting to keep their secrets because there were things Rigbis had left out as well.

"Is there anything else that we can know or is this really everything you can share?" Rigbis was obviously as let down as Donny was but they were just going to have to deal with it because the guard who had been telling the story up until now said. "We weren't in the city like we said so we aren't up to date on what has happened."

This sounded like an excuse but everyone knew they would share if it really became necessary to do so and they were all fine with leaving it at that. "There isn't anything else that's really important to mention but we were hoping to ask how you're doing on supplies." The guard had said this matter was unimportant but this was incorrect because they were still without food and the water they were drinking was coming from small streams on the mountain that were questionable as far as drinking from them went.

"We're in a bad place as far as food goes but we have a source of water that's big enough for us and whoever comes to the fortress from now on. It does need to be purified just in case though." Once Rigbis was done saying this two of the guards stood and one of them said. "We can help with the water problem."

Rigbis didn't waste any time in pointing at one of his subordinates and saying. "Show them to the water." After that the three people who had just been assigned to the water left the room and Donny saw this as his chance to finally volunteer for the mission to find food. "Sir, if we're about to send people to get food I would like to go."

He had originally wanted to lead this mission but with these guards here there were probably multiple of them that were more suited for this role so he just said he wanted to go. As soon as he got done saying this and took his seat again another person from the guards stood and said. "I can make it to the Earth Domain in just a few hours so a round trip will take about a day. I'm sure they'll let us have some supplies once they see my armor."

It seemed the guard that had been taking the leadership role up until now was fine with the others splitting off from the main group because he said nothing to stop this guard that could move fast from leaving.

"Are you able to take others with you or can you only move at this speed alone?" Hearing Rigbis' question Donny realized his involvement heavily factored on the guards answer so he stared at the man and waited for the answer to this question. "I can bring as many people as you like. It will probably help with moving the supplies so I would like around ten people at the least to accompany me."

As the guard said this he gave him a look and Donny knew he had a good chance of getting to go as long as Rigbis didn't stop him. "Alright Donny help him find nine more people to go with you two." Upon hearing this Donny stood while giving Keel a brief nod. Receiving a quick no when Keel shook his head in return Donny took the guard with him and went towards where the other mages had chosen rooms.

Even if they were only able to get one or two people who could use magic to go with them it would help them a lot. He especially wanted to ask Fendis because if the two of them worked together they could make another platform that could move things like food over the mountains if they were attacked and something terrible happened to the guard.

It wasn't a nice thought but not planning for emergencies was stupid and could cause everyone here to starve when they failed to bring anything back. To keep that from happening he planned to get as many people who could move large quantities of food through the mountains to go with him as possible.

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"Finally." Lake had been running for most of the day at this point and he had almost given up on going to another town before he left the Earth Domain. That was no longer necessary though because the town the arrow had been pointing him towards was finally on the horizon.

When he had told it to bring him to the closest town in the Earth Domain that he had never been to he really only thought it would take him an hour at most but it seemed the Earth domain was much more spread out when compared to the Holy Domain.

There it really only took a few minutes to find a new farming town if he ran as hard as he could but he guessed the lack of nice rockless dirt here kept them from farming everywhere. That or they were farming a different crop that couldn't be seen on the surface like they did in the Metal Domain.

Once he made it inside of the city he wasted no time in setting Detector to look for a Thieves Guild branch and started to walk around the city. He could use the Magic compass to make this faster but he felt like scoping this place out was something he could do at the same time as look for the Thieves Guild.

After a while he made it to the center of the city and stopped someone to ask. "Is that the Temple?" Getting a nod, Lake stopped thinking about robbing this city like he had the last one and put his full attention on finding a place to sell the items he had touched in the last town. After a bit more walking he found himself in the lass nice part of town and like he expected a building started to glow.

Heading towards it, Lake decided it was fine if he just wore his clothes in because no one was really looking at him. Getting to the door Lake knocked and when he was told to come in he walked inside to see a room very similar to the jewelry store he had pretended to rob. The only big difference was the type of person that was behind the counter.

Lake didn't think it would be possible for someone to even look vaguely more criminal than this man did. "What do you have for me?" Lake decided to start with the small things from Jillings and started to pretend to pull item after item out of his bag using Retrieval. Before long there was a small mountain of shiny objects on the counter so Lake stopped here and let the man get to work appraising everything.