Mythran's Master Of All

Ren was taken to the guardhouse and then to the Armory out back. “Do you have any weapons on you?” The captain asked and Ren nodded.

“Okay, hand them over. They'll be stored here in the Armory until this gets resolved.

“Why are you doing this?” Ren asked.

“I have to. You said that you were at the scene and found the body. No other suspects are here.”

Ren sighed. “I told you, he was an adventurer! We fought. I won. His body...”

“Faded away, I heard you the first time. Mitchell wasn't an adventurer, he was a shop owner and has been here for years.” The captain said. “His body didn't fade away.”

Ren sighed again. “I figured as much. The story Mitchell, the fake one, told me... it had hurt, but I knew it wasn't true. I came to Mitchell's shop to see if anything was wrong.”

The captain made a 'give me' gesture and Ren took out the crude iron dagger he'd been given with the starting items. The captain nodded, opened a cabinet, and put the dagger inside.

“I hope there's lots of room in there.” Ren said then started handing over the 28 small iron daggers he'd repaired and enchanted, leftovers from the Aurora Expedition after he'd given one each to everyone there.

The captain's eyes widened as he put the 29th dagger into the cabinet. “You... you've been carrying these this whole time?” Ren nodded and tried to pass over a wooden shield.

The captain shook his head. “I'm only required to take weapons.”

Ren put the shield back into inventory and then handed over the 2 short swords, the 2 longswords, and the 2 battleaxes he'd made from the first batch of crude steel.

The captain looked at the contents of the cabinet. “Anything else?”

“Well... I do have another short sword, but it's low quality.” Ren said.

“That doesn't matter. Hand it over.” The captain said.

“But I got it from the fake Mitchell.” Ren said. “Did Mitchell even own a sword?”

The captain shook his head. “For the moment, I need to secure it.”

Ren sighed and handed it over. The captain locked the cabinet and then the Armory. He turned to Ren and frowned. “I know you're a blacksmith, and can use the tools to pretty much do anything with metal... so I want you to promise me you won't use your tools to escape... or I will have to take them.”

Ren nodded.

“Your word?” The captain said.

“I won't try to escape.” Ren said.

“Weston, take Ren to the cell.”

“Wait, what?” Ren said as Weston took his arm and tried to drag Ren away and he didn't budge. “I need to leave soon! I'm an Adventurer. I can't be locked up in a cell! Put me in a room or something!”

It was the captain's turn to sigh. “I'm sorry Ren. Until we can get one of Lord Eric's mages in here to verify your story, you'll have to stay here in the cell.”

“But...but... but...” Ren stammered and reluctantly went with Weston who'd been trying his best to push Ren along. They went to the mansion and through the back door, down a small staircase, and to a room with metal bars making up the majority of the front wall, and metal bars covering the window. Teepo hopped onto the soldiers shoulder just as Ren was put into the 15 foot square cell.

“You have got to be kidding me!” Ren said as he was locked in with 3 other people. “You can't leave me in here like this! I'm innocent!”

“I'll see what I can find out.” Teepo said.

Thanks, Teepo. Be careful.

The soldier left the room and shut the door.

“Yeah, that's not gonna work.” A voice said from behind him.

Ren turned around and saw a man leaning in the corner and another man trying to creep around the edge of the cell on the other side.

“All of us are innocent in here.” The man said and laughed.

“But... but I really am!” Ren said.

“Like that matters.”

The other man was pretty close to Ren now, not realizing that Ren could clearly see him in the near darkness of the cell. When the man was close enough to touch, Ren turned to face him and raised his fists.

“Just try it.” Ren said.

The guy had a shocked look on his face and backed away.

“Ha! You saw him coming, didn't you?” The leaning man said.

Ren half-turned back to the leaning man and keep both of them in view.

“Of course he did. He's an elfling, you idiot.” The woman that sat on the bench said. “He can see you when you're that close to him.”

Ren could see everything as if it was daytime, actually... but didn't correct her. There's no point in giving away his secrets.

“Nice.” The leaning man said. “We could use a boy with that talent.”

Ren scowled and took a step forward. The Dire Wolf Hooded Cloak's given ability Aura touched the 3 people.

“Ooooo...” The woman said. “Do you feel that? It kinda tingles.” The woman purred. “Oh... a little more, please.” She said and rubbed her tummy. “Mmmm.”

Ren felt that she was mocking him and concentrated, pushing his willpower into the ability to create as much fear as possible. He'd never done that before. Normally, Ren just left the Aura on by default.