The Insider System

Chapter 332: Real Robbery

As he was walking in Lake had to say this place was very nice. Every surface sparkled with countless jewels and when he said it was the surface he meant it. He wasn't sure why they had chosen to encrust the entire shop but they had and it made him wonder if maybe jewels weren't very valuable here.

The stuff you could buy looked nice as well once he got over looking at the floors and walls. Now all he needed to do was come into contact with as much stuff as he could before he caused a commotion. As he walked around and touched stuff Lake was able to tell all the really good items weren't out here where anyone could touch them but he didn't think he looked like someone they would let hold the stuff in the counters.

He was just wearing plain clothes and it was obvious to anyone who looked at him that he didn't have anything to hold money in like a bag or purse. This would cause the people behind the counter to turn him away if he was to ask to hold the nice stuff. This gave him an idea of what he should do to get the people here in the shop to call the guards.

There were a few obvious guards that belonged to the shop so if he did something small they would probably just handle it and the guards from the castle wouldn't come out here to chase him. So not only would he have to smash the case to get at the nice things inside he would have to get violent with the guards to draw bigger fish here.

He didn't want to kill them though because a murder was a bit too far in his opinion because he felt the guards would get their best guys on it to catch him while a small attempted robbery wasn't worth their time.

That would probably change once he called all the items he had touched because a thief who had taken so much was worth catching but by then he would have already robbed the castle so they would probably be after him anyway.

He didn't think they would chase him all the way back to the Holy Domain though so it wouldn't matter to him because he was too fast for them to catch him. As he walked up to the counter Lake could tell they were ignoring him like he expected so he just went right into the robbery.

Smacking down with his hand the glass in front of him was busted right away but his hand was stopped before it made it to items by some type of barrier he was unable to see. It made sense that they had something like this that activated when the glass shattered but he wished he had been able to at least touch something before the fight with the guards. "Stop right there!"

Hearing the guards give him an order to surrender he turned around and smacked the first guard on the top of their helmet. "Arrg." Once the guard had fallen he turned and slowly ran away. If he sped away this would probably be the end of it so he wanted to go just fast enough to be chased.

Like this a lot of people would see him being chased and eventually word should get to the real guards even if the people in the shop didn't report him. "Stop running!" The guard who was the closest to him continued to yell as they made their way around the city and After about ten minutes Lake finally saw what he wanted.

Guards wearing the same armor as the ones that had been on the walls of the castle were finally pushing their way through the crowds towards him. He didn't know if these were actually guards that had just come out of the castle or not but the clothes were right so that was all that mattered to him.

Now all he needed to do was get one of them alone long enough to change into their clothes and harvest their core. He would also need time to hide the body once he had taken everything he needed from it so they didn't know there had been a murder but that would come after he got one alone.

Stopping in place, Lake made it look like he was giving up by putting his hands up and let all the guards get close to him. Once they were all gathered around he was about to start taking them out when the one in front said. "Why did you run if you're just going to give up?"

Lake was happy to hear his acting was so good but he didn't have any plans of actually giving up. "I'm not surrendering." When his words were processed by the people around him around half of them took out their weapons and pointed them at him. "Stop with your games and follow us to the dungeon."

"Dungeon, where's that?" Lake couldn't lie to himself, he was actually interested in being put into a dungeon just to see what it was like but he knew this was a terrible idea. There was a good chance there would be some type of formation or something that would make it really hard to get out unless he went all out and used one of his most dangerous skills.

"It's underground now, move, we'll tell you where to turn?" Lake could tell they weren't taking him seriously because he didn't have a weapon and he went along with it because once they got somewhere less crowded he could knock them all out without worrying about people seeing how he did it.

There was no way to make it not weird that they all lost to an unarmed thief but as long as they didn't see how they would probably guess there had been other criminals that came to help him fight off the guards. As they got closer to wherever it was they were taking him like he expected the roads got less and less populated and before long it was only them.

He didn't waste much time once that happened because he didn't know when they would get to this dungeon. Going much faster than he had earlier, Lake knocked all the people around him out by smacking their helmets being careful not to kill them because like he said he didn't want the people who investigated murders to be after him.

"Bang." He hit them all fast enough that it sounded like one hit and once he was sure they were all out he grabbed the one he had hit last and dragged them into the alley. He had to kill one to get the core so he might as well pick the one he hit last since they would have had the best chance of seeing what happened just now.

The others were more likely to be confused since he had moved too fast for them to really see him. Once he had their armor off he quickly put it on and used their knife to get their core. This made a mess but it didn't take too long for him to use their core and turn into them. Next he had to hide the body and thankfully he was fast enough that he could just transport it into some garbage nearby.

By the time it started to stink he was sure he would have already left the town and since it was now an item he could just call it to him while he ran to dump it into an area where animals would eat it. With all that done he ran back to the group of unconscious guards and started to shake them to get them up.

One of them had to wake up first so once they saw his dented helmet they would think he just happened to be the one and they would have no reason to think he was a fake. After a while one of the other guards finally regained consciousness and quickly started to ask questions. "What happened?"

Since he was the only one who seemed to get back up after being attacked he was able to spin the story easily. "We were ambushed. I'm guessing by the friends of the guy that we were taking to the dungeon." Lake could tell they guy believed him and it wasn't too long that they turned their attention to the others.

"Don't worry they're all alive. I already looked." Some time had passed since they had all been knocked out so it was fine to say he had already had time to check the pulse of everyone here. "Help me wake a few more of them up so we can go back to the barracks to get healed. With just a few more we'll be able to carry everyone back."

Lake would have loved to ask where the barracks were since his goal was to get inside the castle but it would be weird if he didn't know so he just crouched down and started to shake the next person. He had tried to keep the blows from killing anyone but it was impossible to hurt everyone the same amount since some of them would be stronger than the others so it might take a while to get enough of them awake to carry the others.