Chapter 19
“Sorry! I accidentally released a swarm of flies! They’ll be crashing at your place soon, so handle it!”
With that feeling, I was gathering my insect-slaying gear—a fly swatter—while trudging down the mountain after receiving a commission from a client I’d rather not see.
I wondered why the Apostles were unusually quiet at the foot of the mountain, only to realize the bug swarm mentioned by the client had already arrived.
There was no way they could’ve made it all the way here from the imperial capital, so they must have used a teleport gate…
“Looks like the payment is substantial.”
It wouldn’t be a small amount, that’s for sure, unless there had been a groundbreaking development while I was holed up in the mountains.
As I clicked my tongue at the imperial folks’ careless economic sense, I noticed a guy who seemed to be the head of the knight squad start talking to someone I recognized.
I couldn’t hear their conversation from this distance, but it was the same old routine with the imperial folks—nothing of substance, right?
Glory to the Black Sun, the greatness of the empire, blah blah blah…