VIP Chapter 547: The Tracking Squad
When Will first arrived at the Adventurer’s Guild, he didn’t actually know…
Iaar, Liya, and Treya had each disguised themselves as ordinary—
Adventurer, Beastkin, Number One.
A regular little Mage.
A normal silver-haired Half-elf Adventurer.
After Will walked in, they also secretly infiltrated the Adventurer’s Guild.
And, from positions where they wouldn’t be discovered, they hid to secretly observe Will.
“Hello, I’m here to investigate something… Is this a convenient time?”
“G-Guild Master?! You’re gracing us with your presence… and at this hour. Normally, at this time, you should be… No, whatever you command, we will surely obey!”
“Hmm… When Carver was here, you guys… didn’t fawn over me like this, did you?”
Will actually hated being called Guild Master by the Adventurer’s Guild, as it reminded him of Carver for no reason.
He preferred approaching the Adventurer’s Guild as just an “ordinary Adventurer.”
“You are the Guild Master who inherited the Adventurer’s Guild anew and reformed it greatly. When Mr. Carver first took office, we were all this enthusiastic too.”
Moreover, the Adventurer’s Guild here seemed even more “apprehensive” towards him.
After all, this place was deliberately ignored by the Adventurer’s Guild before, with a slacker guarding it. Now that it was operating again, everyone knew how important this place was to Will, and they didn’t dare to be negligent.
“Alright, alright, stop talking. Hmm… Bring me all the requests from the Request Board. I need to find an important answer from them.”
Iaar sat behind the Request Board, her ears, hidden under her hat, almost peeking out. She slowly pushed her large hat up.
—Huh? He’s asking for all the requests from the start? Is he that anxious? Does he want to find Miss Shuna’s whereabouts using the Request Board?
She thought to herself, her tail betraying her worry. In her haste, she nervously wiped the dust off the floor.
“No problem!”
After the staff member readily agreed, Will stood before the Request Board, looking at each request.
After he took office, he had rebuilt the anonymous Q&A board that he and Shuna had once known.
Not only did it connect faster through fax technology, but it also provided a convenient direct mail tracking service.
Although…
Selfishly, he had a slight ulterior motive of communicating better with Shuna.
But, in a broader sense, he also agreed with this system and wanted to promote it.
“Guild Master, all the requests you posted under the name ‘W’ are here… You must be looking for this answer.”
His subordinate reacted quickly.
Will didn’t want to reveal too much in front of the employees; he just wanted to select from the requests.
But…
This dedicated employee picked out the requests he had previously posted, which were clearly meant for Shuna, and even found the letters.
He even just found the one request Will had made under “W.”
“So, how did you know this request was posted by me?”
Will reacted quickly, scanning the people in work uniforms.
Now, even his sigh would make them nervous.
“Uh… This… This is because we just found out the anonymous person was you, so… naturally, we have to take special care…”
“Forget it. Regarding private matters like this, it is indeed more difficult for me now that I am the Guild Master. Even if you know next time, don’t go out of your way.”
“Yes!”
Liya leaned against the stairwell connecting the second floor to the first floor of the Adventurer’s Guild, right behind the staff counter.
She cautiously poked her head out.
She had used a risky gravity magic to flip through a window to the second floor to hide, and then slowly walked down. If she were discovered now, it would be a huge loss!
—He rarely gets angry at the staff… It must be because Shuna’s whereabouts were leaked, right?!
Will didn’t deliberately find a room. He just found a corner in the Adventurer’s Guild and sat there, opening letters one by one.
Perhaps related to this issue, Will received an unusually large number of letters this time.
He opened all the reply letters.
In the request titled “How to Freeze Flame Undead,” he saw many prank answers like “Open the freezer and put it in.”
“This one… isn’t it either.”
His movements were quick. After opening one, he immediately moved to the next.
He didn’t need to read the content of each letter; he just needed to glance at it to see if it was spam.
“Why, besides Shuna… are there advertisements being inserted too!”
Will was a little angry. He burned the letters that, after being examined with decryption magic, turned out to be real advertisements.
Treya sat in a similar corner, wearing a thick “detective-style Adventurer outfit,” bundling herself up like she was in a bag on a hot summer day.
She had also covered her eyes with sunglasses.
Her eyeballs rolled beneath her sunglasses.
—Will had gone to the Adventurer’s Guild before and found letters using this method. But it seems his harvest today was not ideal. He’s even angry enough to burn letters; is he actually suppressing his rage…?
Will finally scanned through all the letters.
Regrettably…
It was obvious…
There were no letters from Shuna.
There were no scam letters that looked like advertisements but were actually Shuna’s genuine replies.
“Hmm… All the letters are gone, and there really aren’t any? Then we can first deduce that the reason Shuna was discovered was because she wrote a letter.”
Since the regular letters were not “mailed,” they were likely intercepted.
And Shuna’s eyeballs appearing in someone’s hand was probably closely related to this.
But…
If Shuna knew that “exposing her might happen” and still sent letters, they must be very important.
And letters intercepted by the Death Hall as “traitors” were probably related to clearing it.
Therefore, the Death Hall’s “intimidation” itself was also intelligence that Shuna wanted to convey to him.
She wanted…
To tell him that she indeed possessed very important information, very important information that Will absolutely had to obtain.
“No. I should have realized long ago. Since she’s already exposed, she definitely won’t be using this method to transmit information anymore… I need to think of other ways she might communicate…”
Will raised his head and looked at the Adventurer’s Guild, which was becoming quiet as the time grew late.
“However, before that…”
He took a deep breath.
Then…
He first walked to Treya, who was wearing thick clothes, fully kitted out, and wearing sunglasses. He took off her hat and removed her glasses.
“Huh…?”
Next, he nonchalantly walked past the Request Board and lifted Iaar’s tail, which was dragging on the ground and covered in dust.
“Eh?!”
Finally, he stood in front of Liya, who was covering her eyes and pressed tightly against the wall, and flicked her on the forehead.
“So, why did you three follow me? And hide in… well, I guess you’re hiding, in such strange places?”
