The Labyrinth Kingdom

Chaptre 48. First Mission

At the north gate of the city of Bacau

There are two gates through which people can enter the city of Bacau, the first being the east gate which leads to another city.

Usually this gate is passed by traders and travelers from other cities who want to visit or leave the city of Bacau.

While the other is the gate in the northern part of the city, this gate faces directly into the large forest of Lamas.

This gate is mostly passed by villagers or caravans who want to enter the city.

In addition, adventurers and warriors who want to explore the lamas forest will pass through this gate as well.

It has been more than a month since this gate was filled with passersby.

Perhaps due to the recently discovered labyrinth, many adventurers were vying to enter the forest in search of luck.

Not only adventurers who benefit from the appearance of the labyrinth, villagers who are on the edge of the forest also benefit from this.

The number of wild animals and bandits roaming the forest edge is decreasing due to the presence of adventurers.

Thanks to this, villagers can freely enter the forest in search of fruits or medicinal plants that can be sold.

Although the benefits obtained from selling forest products are not much, money is still money, no matter how small the nominal.

Thanks to the appearance of this labyrinth, the lives of the villagers became a little better. They wish this could go on forever.

Who knows what will happen in the future.

{ket: try asking Author, he may know.}

Every day, there would be many people queuing up to enter the city, the gatekeepers would usually carefully inspect them one by one to make sure there were no enemies among them.

However, influential wealthy merchants, nobles, as well as knights who had the permission of the city lord could enter freely.

"Wait a minute... "

However, there was a Knight who was stopped by the gatekeeper at the moment.

"Hmm...!?"

The knight looked puzzled, as normally he would not be held back when he wanted to enter the city.

The reason he was stopped was because the gatekeeper wanted to convey the orders of the expeditionary general, Rick.

"Thank you for your hard work. I have a message from Captain Rick who's waiting for your report. He asked you to face him as soon as you returned. " The guard reported.

"...., all right, I get it. " He gave a short answer and continued on his way.

He walked towards the Bacau town barracks.

Seeing the knight leave just like that, the gatekeeper spoke to himself.

"Are... I thought he would make one or two sarcastic comments.usually he wouldn't be happy to hear anything related to general Rick, it was rare to see him agree to his orders so easily."

This was a strange thing, but he did not bother to think about it too deeply, as he did not have much free time to think about such things.

There were a lot of queues of people he had to check, he was very busy at the moment.

Before those people started making a fuss, he returned to his job as quickly as possible.

"Oi... You, don't cut the queue, get back in your line"

He shouted at the adventurers who were trying to break through anrian.

"Tchh. "the adventurer clicked his tongue because he was caught.

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After successfully entering the city, he began to dig back into the memories of the person he was imitating.

{pasar in the southern part of the city is where civilians shop and peddle their merchandise. Beside the market, there was a Bar that adventurers usually used to gather.

Guild Adventures, inns, street vendors, drugstores and the offices of government officials were in the central square of the city.

as for craftsmen such as, forges, tailors, Pharmacists, sculptors and others are on the north side of the city.

The elite zone is on the western side of the city, where it is usually filled by wealthy merchants, nobles and government officials.

The barracks, where the soldiers gathered, were located beside the elite Zone. It aims to secure the area from unrest.

Then the eastern part of the city is a place to live for civilians.

Not far from there was a derelict slum, where homeless and beggars lived. }

While roughly recalling the layout of the city, he began surveying the city.

His current appearance was exactly the same as that of the expeditionary aide general, Rick.

His voice, his gestures and even the way he acted were also copied perfectly. However, since the aide had been dead for a long time, some important memories were already lost.

For example, as before, when he interacted with the gatekeeper.

{Sial! Looks like I made some mistakes earlier,... should have been then I greeted him and slightly swore!}

He cursed in his mind. This was an insult to him calling himself a master impersonator.

Unlike golems that only obey orders from their creators, Doppelgangers are intelligent creatures.

They have a broad knowledge, free personality and can take unilateral decisions as long as it does not violate the orders of their masters.

Moreover, all Doppelgangers were proud of their disguise skills. He's also one of them.

That was why, he was unhappy with the flawed transformation he was currently undergoing.

{Quiet... You must calm Liramus, Focus on the mission. After all, this is only a temporary disguise, my mission now is to approach the next target with this form, then make the transformation once again. Hmmmm... Right, it's not hard, I just need to change once again.}

He walked towards the barracks while comforting himself.

On the way, he was initially worried about meeting this body acquaintance.

But it seemed like his luck was doing well today, as he had not met any of those people.

On his way to the barracks, he noticed the surrounding area. There were a lot of people passing by on the street, but most of the people he met were looking at him cynically and annoyed.

{..... ?}

Doppelgangers were puzzled by this, he tried to examine the memories the body had in order to figure out why, but he found nothing.

{While!!! What exactly happened here?}

He saw some people whispering while occasionally looking at him.

out of curiosity, the Doppelgangers focused their hearing to hear what they were talking about.

"looking from the armor he was wearing, he should have been Rick's henchmen. Tch... A bunch of leeches"

"Really... Is correct... Last time I saw them bully pedestrians who accidentally nudged them"

"I also saw him, the man seemed to have broken a bone and some of his ribs were fractured from being ganged on by them"

"Cihh... A bunch of trash, they only dare to oppress civilians. When meeting with the officials, they would desperately lick it"

"Ahhhhh... Earlier I also heard that they blackmailed a peasant family for accidentally smearing the Armor they were wearing with mud"

"it's their own fault for going to the sawa with full gear."

"the family is really pathetic, they are told to take responsibility for mistakes they did not commit. Some of their cattle were taken by force, even the daughter of the farmer was almost taken as well"

"Ehhh... Did ya? "

"Of course, but fortunately, General Hector passed through the place. Out of fear, those people abandoned their intentions and preferred to leave"

"That... Truly a bunch of trash, a landscape destroyer"

"they call themselves soldiers, but their work only oppresses civilians"

"Cui-hhh..."

Doppelgangers felt his ears getting hot, since earlier he only heard the ridicule and mockery of the people around him.

They did not personally hate him, but they hated the arbitrary behavior of the expedition using their position to do bad things.

He turned to look at the mothers who were gossiping about him, but they turned their faces and walked away.

{ket: whispers of mothers who are huddled more spicy than the samyang I ate before. }

In fact, they not only hated the expedition, but other troops as well, especially the patrols led by Jasper.

The citizens hated them to the crown, it was because they were the worst oppressors of civilians.

They wanted to fight, but were afraid because Jasper was the son of the ruler of this city. They might even be accused of being rebels if they dared to fight back.

{Interesting, instead of respect and admiration, these people seem to put their hatred of officers first…. Truly, peaceful place.}

The doppelganger decided to ignore those people and accelerate his pace towards the warrior barracks.

He wanted to quickly make a transformation, he could not stand the deformed body he had.