—4E, 201, Last Seed, 29th, 15:00—

"If you want to find a job, maybe there will be one outside the city, hiss~" The proprietress of the Honey and Poet Inn, the Argonian Kilva, said to Palasos: "If you are in the city, even if you have any needs, you can't entrust it to outsiders without the permission of the Black Thorn Family, hiss~"

"Okay, I see." Wearing a wide cloak over his ebony armor, Parassos looked like an adventurer, thanked him and walked out of the inn.

Rift Valley City is located in the forest on the shore of Lake Henrich, the largest lake in the southeast of Skyrim Province, and the location makes the city's fishing and mead brewing industry extremely developed, and even a river around the city has been introduced in the city to facilitate the fishermen living in the city to go out.

However, the good thing is that they only care about the sales of Black Thorn Mead and the control of the city, although they support the Storm Cloak, they don't care much about Ulfric's Nord supremacy, and Rift is located at the junction of Sylodil, Skyrim and Morrowind, so there are various races in the city, not only Wurmians like the innkeeper, but even tigermen who are discriminated against in other cities can enter Rift City.

Although there are many residents in the city who are dissatisfied with the Black Thorn Family, most of them only pay lip service to them and do not dare to put them into action, and those guards who don't know whether to obey the lord more or the Black Thorn Family more naturally will not pay attention to them.

The only one who has actually taken action is the reason why the princess came to the Rift - the Thieves' Guild.

Just from the fact that Baron Ericourt of Dugu City was a member of the Thieves' Guild, you can guess how large this organization used to be, and there is naturally no possibility of peaceful coexistence between the Guild of Thieves and the Black Thorn Family of the Rich People.

However, in the past ten years, the Thieves Guild has inexplicably declined, coupled with the new head of the Black Thorn Family, Marwen Black Thorn is skillful, and the Thieves Guild has been completely suppressed, and even had to negotiate with it in order to survive and accept some very harsh conditions.

Palacos has no doubt that he has been targeted by the Thieves Guild since entering Rift City, but because of his luxurious equipment and sophisticated behavior, he looks like an experienced adventurer, and ordinary thieves do not dare to act without permission, if his actions are judged to be a threat to the Black Thorn Family, it is completely impossible to think so leisurely.

"Boss? What do you have here? "Many people say that what I sell is garbage, but I think it's all treasures~Please see~"

Like an ordinary adventurer, Parasos stayed for one night and went directly to the general store "Pawn Shrimp" in the city that collects everything and sells everything, and he prepared some trophies that are completely flawless, even if the thieves guild then sneaks into the store to check what he sells, it will only conclude that he is an adventurer who has come from afar, has good strength, and wants to find something to do, so that he may have a chance to break into the interior of this organization.

After coming all the way from Dugu City to the Rift Valley and talking to the leader of the Blade Warriors, Palasos realized that he had guessed the purpose of Her Royal Highness the Princess, of course, it was not the completely implausible reason she revealed that "I want to be a baron and have no money, so I went to join the Thieves' Guild to make money", her purpose must be to master the connections and strength of the Thieves' Guild to "whitewash a peripheral member and make him a Baron of Dugu City", and then use them to quell the rebellion in Skyrim Province.

But how could such a thing be done by the princess herself? The princess of the dignified empire turned out to be a thief, and this matter does not need to be passed on to Dugu City, and the newly known Delphine can kill and cut himself down, so let him do it himself, "The adventurer who is strong but lacks money, sells some important travel goods, and just looks glamorous on the surface" has been shaped through his various actions, and it won't take long for someone from the Thieves Guild to come to contact and solicit.

But speaking of which, where did Princess Emilia run again?

——15:30——

"Can you see me?"

“…… Well. ”

On the roof of a cargo ship in the heart of Lake Hollich west of Rift City, Emilia is staring at a young woman in dark leather armor, wearing a hood, and carrying an orc-style longbow on her back.

The leather armor was strange, as if there were no pockets, and there were hidden pockets everywhere, and the shoulders were diagonally stripped under a belt of arms that concealed all kinds of weapons, at least in appearance, this outfit was more suitable for stealth than Emilia's pure white fleece skirt that almost covered her face.

"You may seem a little strange, but I guess you're a colleague." The young woman pondered for a moment, then decided to give up on investigating the cause of the failure of the stealth on both sides, and got straight to the point: "I'm going to sink this ship, what about you?" ”

“…… I'm going to kill those dryads. Emilia pointed in the direction of the warehouse underneath her feet.

"Dryad, ha~ that idiot." The woman in leather armor held her forehead: "Others said that they could sell him a boatload of fir wood at a low price, and then a merchant in the city who collected fir wood at a high price approached him, so he didn't suspect that there was a problem?" ”

“…… The sap of the dryads, with the addition of moon sugar, can make Skuma," Emilia continued: "Contraband. ”

"I didn't expect us two stalkers to plot the actions of the enforcers here," the woman looked at Amilia, "Could it be that you are Bryenchov's new apprentice?" It doesn't look like it, could it be that she was hired by that old woman from Ma Wen? ”

“…… Who are they? Emilia tilted her head.

"I didn't want to say it, I thought those cedars had a problem and planned to sink the ship, but if it was a dormant tree spirit, it would be useless to just sink to the bottom of the lake," the leather-armored woman took out a delicate dagger from her waist, "Let me help you...... Hey? ”

The dagger fell back into its sheath and shivered, refusing to come out even if she tried to pull it out.

"Hmm...... Who are you the messenger of the Holy Spirit? Frightened the dagger made by some unlucky demon god," the leather-armored woman shrugged, and after a few more attempts, she couldn't pull it out before pulling it out instead. "Don't worry, I have a way to support you." ”

“…… Well. Emilia pulled out an ordinary iron dagger, much more shabby than the one she had hidden, and slashed silently around her body, causing a large hole to be cut in the roof of the cargo ship, causing her to fall straight down.

Rustle - Buzz -

Perhaps feeling that his life was threatened, the "cedar trees", which had not moved even though they had been carried back and forth by the dock workers, stood up one after another, and struck Emilia with their barely formed arms, but were stopped by arrows coming from above.

"Behind the torso that attacks them, there's an organ called the 'erect root' at the back of a human's heart, and when cut off, the dryad will die directly," the leather-clad woman's voice came from above the hollow, "and that thing is valuable." ”

“…… Not. "Emilia, who was supposed to make all the enemy halves in half, temporarily changed her tactics as usual, and the dagger narrowly slashed through the body of the dryad, directly cutting off the "upright roots" on its back like a branch that had not grown, and the dryad fell to the ground in an instant. The other dryads increased their attack frequency as if in a rage.

"Well done!" The leather-armored woman said as she remotely supported, "If you are not hired by Black Thorn and have nothing to do with the Storm Cloak, I can call the shots and invite you to join the Thieves' Guild, and you can start directly from the top, so you don't have to do some petty thief work." ”

“…… Thank you. Emilia nodded casually, continuing to wield her dagger to dodge the dryad's attacks and wait for an opportunity to fight back.

"Shouldn't you be surprised at such times and ask who you are? It's boring. After the leather armored woman increased the frequency of her attacks, and after killing all the remaining tree spirits, she looked at the owner of the ship, who had already swam away because she had noticed the movement in the warehouse, and said to Emilia, who was searching for the upright root, "My name is Safir Malloy. ”

“…… I'm Amir. Princess Septin replied, and after a pause, added, "Nice to meet you, Sapphire." ”

"Come on, Amir, I'm definitely more skilled than you in sinking a ship," Safir beckoned to Amir, who was studying the bottom deck of the ship, "hurry up and taunt Shad's idiot." ”

“…… Who is Shad? Instead of returning from the same "way", Emilia jumped straight to the top of the cabin, where a hole was opened out of thin air.

"I am a fool who has taken care of me in my father's life, but I am too stupid, not only has I lost all my family money, but I have also lost all the money I have funded to repay my kindness, and now I can only live as a helper in the stables, but I always want to get rich overnight and borrow money everywhere." Safir finished speaking without pause, and then shot an arrow through the bottom of the ship.

“…… He should be honest about raising horses. Emilia said after following Safir onto another cargo ship bound for the Rift.

"Very good~You completely passed the test~" Safir looked happy: "I would recommend you to Uncle Delvin." ”

“…… Unseen. Emilia tilted her head.

"Hmm...... Don't want your identity exposed? I'll figure it out~" After the cargo ship docked in the port, Safir took Emilia off the cargo ship, and neither the owner nor the stevedore saw the two of them at all.

——16:00——

"Shad! Hurry up and pay it back! ”

Glancing in the direction from which the voice came from, a young woman in strange leather armor was yelling at a decadent man who looked like a groom, as if it was a common debt collection event in the Rifts, and withdrew his gaze and continued to think about where the princess might run to play and how she could join the Thieves' Guild.