Editing Rune Soldier Louie:Volume1 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 2 – Thieves===

It was the mid-afternoon, the little thief Merrill was just done gathering intelligence.

“That darn broker, I can’t believe he tried to sell me second hand information!”

Merrill cursed under her breath angrily, it seems the information broker had sold the same information to other people.

Generally, when adventurers need to find information they head to an “adventuring shop”. This is how the adventuring industry works, the information brokers find information and they sell it to adventurers, usually to the highest bidder. However, most of the time the information is only sold to one person.

Merrill then headed back to their hideout on the outskirts of the city, she wanted to discuss buying the information with the others.

They discussed it for a while, but decided that they’ll work it out tomorrow. The girls stayed at the cottage while Louie went back to the magician’s guild.

“That woman……”

Louie went back to his room, he took off his clothes and inspected the scars on his body.

There was cuts, abrasions, and numerous bruises. He was annoyed by this, but the average person would probably die of fright.

Fortunately, Louie isn’t an average person. Even if he couldn’t stand these injuries, he would still be able to dominate the alley in Joy Street.

Louie skilfully treated the numerous wounds on his body. Originally, the warrior priest of Mylee offered to heal him with her healing magic, but Louie said he could ''handle it himself''.

He had no reason not to refuse treatment from the warrior priestess Melissa. However, Melissa isn’t fully confident in her abilities, especially when it comes to attending to her hero.

This is most likely due to her doubting herself, she tried three times in a row practicing her healing magic, but every time it ended in failure.

Luckily for Louie, he choose the rather primitive way of healing himself.

He was pretty good at tending to his wounds, mostly because he was always fighting. One time he was stabbed in the stomach, he tended to his wounds and went to class the next day as usual.

“You’ve come back?”

When he was almost finished tending to his wounds, the door suddenly opened, it was Ila.

The door was opened by his friend from the same class, Ila.

“Why are you wearing no clothes?”

Ila saw him naked, but she wasn’t really bothered by this.

She approached him, only to find his body covered in scars.

Because she reads books excessively, her eyesight has declined, so her vision is always blurry.

“Does it hurt?”

Ila stretched out her hand, and touched his wounds.

“Of course it hurts, since you touched it!”

“Oh, is that right?”

Ila smiled happily.

“Anyway, you should put on some clothes. You can’t remain naked in front of a lady.”

“A lady shouldn’t recklessly enter a room with a naked man.”

“You’re missing the point, Louie.”

Just as Ila responded, she pulled something out of her hand bag.

“What’s that?”

It was a two pieces of transparent crystal being held with metal strips, it looked more like a pair of glasses than a magical treasure.

“Oh, it’s a magical treasure.”

Ila said diligently.

She specializes in “endow magic”. This type of magic makes objects produce magical effects.

For a woman such as Ila, this magical treasure will probably be used as a research subject.

“It obviously has two lenses, why don’t you call it four eyes?”

“Because the glasses contain four kinds of magic.”

Louie looked at it more closely, Ila looked very pleased.

“It has the ability to improve the wearer’s vision. You know, my eyesight is very bad, so this thing will help me out a lot.”

Then, she sang an ancient mantra.

The lens on the glasses turned black.

“When the colour of the lens changes, it has a different effect on your vision. For example, I could see people naked with these……”

“Don’t get any funny ideas.”

Louie protested, he didn’t like the idea of someone watching him while he was naked.

“You know, you could sell them and make some money.”

If she wanted to sell it, she wouldn’t have a problem, since her father owns __, one of the largest businesses in the Kingdom of Ohfun. Though she would never do that, since she doesn’t have any money problems.

Also, Louie’s father is the court magician of the Kingdom, and a teacher at the Magicians Guild at the same time, money isn’t a problem for him either.

To learn magic at the Magicians Guild you have to pay a sizeable fee, most of the students come from wealthy families.

Ila smiled, then she sang another incantation.

This time, the colour of the lens changed from black to red.

“This colour gives you night vision, the night practically becomes clear as day……”

“What’s the fourth magic?”

This time, Ila remained silent.

Then, she took off the glasses.

“I can’t use the last kind of magic. It’s the evil eye……”

“The evil eye?”

Louie stood up.

“That’s dangerous, you must bring it to the ''Forbidden treasure storehouse'' right now!”

Louie exclaimed.

Most people fear magicians and the power they could hold. Furthermore, if magicians were left to exist in the world, people fear they would resurrect the ancient magical kingdom and rule once again.

Thus, magical artefact deemed too powerful is stored in the library among the forbidden treasures, to prevent them being used for illicit purposes, the room is always sealed.

Ila held up the pair of glasses, it may be deemed to dangerous because of the evil eye, if she let her teachers know this, she would probably be expelled from the magicians guild.

“You’re too loud.”

A flirtatious smile appeared on Ila’s face, as she moved her fingers along Louie’s lips to keep his mouth shut.

“Suffice to say, the fourth magic contained within the glasses must not be used.”

Ila once again put on the glasses, and became signing another mantra.

Louie’s body became stiff as he watched Ila, he had never heard of this mantra before, he also didn’t know if she was actually activing the fourth type of magic.

However, the glasses returned to their original transparent look.

“I won’t use the evil eye. However, you better not make me angry or I’ll……”

Behind the lens of the glasses, for an instant, Louie thought the saw a pair of evil eyes.

“Scare you to death……”

Louie put a hand on his chest, his whole body was covered in sweat.

“Oh, I heard you became an adventurer.”

Ila suddenly changed the topic, and leaned forward towards Louie.

Because her eyesight has always been so bad, she always leans closer to people when she talks to them, this is a habit of hers. But now she has the magical glasses, after getting a good look at Louie, she leaned backwards.

“Oh, these are pretty good.”

After she carefully measured the distance between herself and Louie, Ila revealed a satisfied smile.

Her expression was like a joyful girl. Even though Louie was much larger than her, she was actually 20 years old, 2 years older than Louie.

“You know, you can always find good companions.”

Ila said to herself, while holding her right hand out.

“Huh?”

“All you have to do is ask. Even though I’m not the type of person who’d search ruins, but when it comes to relics, I’m really interested in what magical treasure could be inside.”

“I don’t think I’m in any position to be arguing about anything with my travelling companions. It’s also really dangerous to search ruins, it’ll be too much for you.”

“Yeah, death is a possibility, but you do get paid for whatever treasure you find, especially when it comes to magical treasures. You know, the magician’s guild separates magical treasures into two different categories, powerful treasures that are sealed in the library of forbidden treasures……”

Ila began to dream, she wanted to manage the library of forbidden treasures in the future. To her, that place was like heaven.

“Alright! I’ll do my best.”

Even though Louie wasn’t fully confident, he wanted to try his best.

“I’ll also be on the lookout for anything interesting.”

“Yeah, it would be great if you find something.”

Ila smiled at him, then left the room.

“I can’t wait……”

After Ila left the room, a wry smile appeared on Louie’s face.

Ever since both of them had entered the magician’s guild, Louie and Ila treated each other like brother and sister, that’s why she can come in and out of Louie’s room at will.

However, compared to the three women, Ila was like a little girl.

Genie, Melissa, Merrill, and little Merrill, Louie didn’t know why, but he didn’t know why they didn’t want him to journey with them.

“Who cares what they think, I’ll show them.”

Louie murmured, he then sat down at the table.

In front of him was a book given to him by his father Carwes, he started flicking through the pages.

“I’m looking forward to using some magic……”

Louie said to himself, as he closed the book of magic.

“Anyway, this should be enough.”

With his fists and hands, he left the room with a smile.