Chapter 407: Threading the Needle (I)

Back in the temple compound, the probationary priest Jasmine brought lunch and waited for Charles in the dining room.

As he ate on the food prepared by the temple and looked down at the ranking newspaper produced by the Adventurers' Guild, Charles carefully sifted through the top 100 Wanderer players on the rank and equipment rating lists.

Wanderers are the most likely class to join the Shadow Thieves' Guild, so instead of searching for a needle in a haystack in Waterdeep for the Shadow Thieves' Guild's native members, it's better to start with the player. The Shadow Thieves Guild is indispensable for players to develop in Waterdeep, and the more outstanding the neutral and evil camp wanderers, the more likely they are to be selected by the Shadow Thieves Guild.

"The two lists add up to a total of 13 wanderers, no more, no less."

The common basic classes are more than ten, and the number of wanderer players in Waterdeep City can reach 13, which is a relatively reasonable data, and if it is close to 20 people, it can only be popular classes such as warriors and mages.

The charr started as the No. 1 loiter player in the overall rankings.

ID name 'Senbon Sakura'.

Gender: Female.

Faith none.

Belong to a guild without a guild.

Level lv15, 11th place on the level list, and 10th place on the equipment rating list.

"Female loiterers?" Faith is not an issue, most of the aboriginal wanderers do not believe in gods, and the player is in a similar situation, but he was a little surprised by the gender of the charr, and he didn't expect that the first wanderer in the Waterdeep region was actually a female player.

Read on.

The ID name of the string of "Night Moons" made Charles frown.

This is an acquaintance, lv15, and both are eighteenth on both lists. The key is not ranking information. Charles always felt like he had seen this ID during the battle last night. I simply didn't farm monsters today. Last night's message was not overwritten, he summoned the message bar, and immediately found the text message he wanted.

"Your sword slash attack deals 88 slash damage to [Night Moon] (Wanderer)."

"Force 20 Shock Damage."

"Triggers the 'Electric Explosion' effect."

"[Night Moon] (Wanderer) is dead!"

The details of last night's battle Charles still remembers vividly, when he killed two Wanderer players in seconds, and he didn't expect one of them to be 'Night Moon'.

"I can see the battle information, and he can see it."

"Since he knows exactly that I'm coming to Waterdeep, there must be a follow-up if he wants to retaliate, so it's better to start from this point. Defeat the first Shadow Thief Stronghold. ”

Charles looked at the materials on the table, a playful smile on his lips.

It seems that after lunch, I can't continue to hide in the temple to rest and read. If you want to go shopping, make sure that 'Night Moon' can find him for revenge. However, he alone will definitely not be able to exterminate the Shadow Thief stronghold, he needs helpers, the 'Gray Palm' organization and the 'Watcher' organization are both powerful helps, these people obey the orders of the lord, if they know the specific location of the Shadow Thief stronghold, they will definitely send troops to encircle and suppress it.

The first step in the plan. It was to dig out the coordinates of the Shadow Thief's stronghold from the Night Moon.

The Shadow Thieves themselves are experts at tracking and infiltrating, trying to find out the location of their stronghold through someone. Conventional methods certainly won't work, but now the charr has a preliminary idea.

First, he needs a 'Watching' spell scroll.

The effect of 'Surveillance' is to establish a magical connection to a single item for a permanent duration, and as soon as the item is disturbed, the Charr will be able to immediately learn about it, and can further use the 'Item Locatoring' to know the specific coordinates of the item.

Charles is not worried about the 'surveillance' and 'object locating' being interfered with. If the target he wants to spy on is a mage, it may be detected and hidden, but the wanderer is not that sensitive to arcane, the Shadow Thief Guild is scattered in the large and small strongholds of Waterdeep, and there is no strong magic to protect the enchantment, because the existence of the enchantment itself is a loophole.

Although Waterdeep City does not have a huge barrier built on the basis of the 'Lost Lock' device like Silvermoon City, the Black Rod and his mage wife, as well as the Grey Palm and the 'Warden' under their hands, can easily find the enchantment of the different factions in the city, unless the Shadow Thief Guild is hiding in a certain half-plane.

The 'Surveillance' Five-Ring Scroll Charles already has it. This was obtained during the purchase of sweeps in the new city of Mystrono, and as for the 'Item Locator' priest class, it is automatically mastered when it reaches lv9, and Charles only needs to record 1 when updating the spell slot tomorrow morning.

"Unfortunately, if it weren't for the vigilance of the Shadow Thief, it might have been quicker to ......use a biolocation technique," Charles said darkly.

The first step is fine, 'Surveillance' needs to be used with items. What kind of item would make that Shadow Thief player fit into his backpack and act as a coordinate locator?

Equip. Especially the best outfit, Charles believes that players will not let go of the truth when they see it, and he has plans for this.

Half an hour later, he appeared at a trading house relatively close to the temple area.

"Open the Transaction Lines panel."

Instead of going to the stall to search, it is better to go to the trading house quickly. Charr opens the filter function, sets the quality to blue, and the type of equipment is not limited, and starts the search.

Swish.

The equipment information on the home page flooded into view. Charles only looked at the first page, and without blinking an eye, spent more than 3,000 gold coins, and selected one ring ornament suitable for wanderers.

"+2 agility, the best ring with arachnism and energy shield, I'm afraid you won't be fooled." Charles took the ring out of his backpack and tossed it away, the smile on his lips growing brighter.

Ready.

Just wait for the prey to take the bait.

Destroy the first stronghold, and there will be a second. Before that, he was going to the top of the deepwater mountain to find Scarlett. Paladin, ask him to help negotiate with the 'Watchers'.

……

"You say you already have a solution?"

Personal room in Deepwater Castle, Scarlett. Paladin stood behind the bench and looked up at the priest in surprise.

On the test bench was an autopsied monster corpse, with horns and hooves, looking like a demon. Scarlett took off her blood-stained gloves and walked to the door of the lab, where Charles stood.

Charles nodded, looking at the female mage in lab clothes and paying attention to the settings of the private laboratory.

Deepwater Keep is no ordinary place, as it serves as the headquarters of the City Guard and the 'Watchmen' organization, and only members of the High Standing can have such a well-equipped private space.

"Paladin?" Charles thought of the female mage's last name and had a vague guess.

Scarlett sat down in a chair with her legs crossed, and Charles sat across from her, using her magic pager to bring hot tea, taking small sips and pricking up her ears to listen to Charles's story.

"Are you sure?"

"That wanderer must be a member of the Shadow Thieves' Guild?"

"I'm sure." Charles stared slightly, "There was a Grey Palm Enforcer there last night, he was a Hero-level Frost Giant. ”

"You ran into the Ruthless?" Scarlett's face was cloudy for a while, and after thinking for a while, she said in a deep voice: "Since Master Adrian asked me to help you, I choose to believe you this time." ”

"Tell me, what do you want me and the 'Watcher' to do?"

"It's actually quite simple......" (To be continued.) )