The female Warlock Shirley chatted with them for a while, mostly about recent happenings in Gray Rock Town and some dynamics of the Adventurer's Guild.
After a while, she gracefully stood up, her flaming red hair swaying like fire as she left.
With the door closing again, the invisible pressure in the room seemed to dissipate.
Gauss and Aaliyah simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief, then exchanged a smile.
"Didn't expect to stumble upon an unexpected windfall," Gauss said.
"This time the luck is indeed good; since I became a bronze Adventurer, it's the first time I've encountered such a situation," Aaliyah added.
"First time? Is it that rare?"
"Yes."
This somewhat dashed Gauss's idea of earning a hefty bounty by searching for minions of the evil god.
But on second thought, if evidence of the evil god was everywhere, at 10 Gold Coins each, the Adventurer's Guild would have been plucked bare long ago.
Moreover, the situation itself carries bigger dangers.
