Chapter 498: Hints (2)
The moment Ethan read the first line of the letter, he couldn’t hide the surprise that flickered in his eyes. He steadied himself, suppressing the initial shock, and continued reading, wondering if this “Blackwood family assassin Lily” might be a lead to the Lilith he was so desperately searching for.
“...?”
The further he read, however, the more his thoughts spun with bewilderment and disbelief.
The contents were too serious to be dismissed.
“E-rank adventurer... Goblin King...?”
The letter detailed an incident in which three F-rank adventurers, including an individual named “Assassin Lily,” had unexpectedly encountered a Goblin King during a promotion test. What followed was a lengthy apology: the Goblin King incident occurred due to insufficient research by the adventurer’s guild, and they assured him it would never happen again.
Along with the apology, the letter included additional compensation from the territory’s goblin king reward funds, pleading for leniency. Just knowing that Lilith was active in Ironhold under the alias “Assassin Lily” was surprising enough, but the fact that she had nearly lost her life in the process filled Ethan with a simmering anger.
“These damned idiots.”
“...”
Unable to contain his anger at the thought of the danger they’d put Lilith in, Ethan seethed, while Dietmeyer, his head butler, kept a cautious silence by his side.
Imagining what punishment he might extract from the Ironhold guild master, Ethan soon calmed himself. After all, he wasn’t yet certain if the “Assassin Lily” in question was truly her.
“‘Lily’ is a common enough name. It could very well be some woman posing as a member of the Blackwood family who just happened to have that name.”