Chapter 188: Reaching What You Desire
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“Climb faster, Bruce!” Antoine commanded over the mercenary’s strained grunting. “I’m so close to finally reaching him.”
The muscular thug reached for the next protruding stone on the sheer rock wall, the light of the sun reflecting off his glistening bald head as thick beads of sweat ran down to his forehead. Strapped to his back by several ropes was a smaller man, barking orders while contributing with nothing to the climb but extra weight.
“He’s up there, I know it!” the disgraced guildmaster angrily exclaimed. “We can’t let him slip away! Faster!”
“Why don’t you climb yourself if you’re not happy with how fast I’m going?” the merc muttered between grinding teeth.
“Because I’m paying you,” Antoine replied with a caustic hiss.
He had no time or patience to put up with servants talking back. Not when he was so close to reaching his goal. The crab was close, he could feel it in his mustache.
After weeks chasing the creature’s trail all over the continent, the human merchant had finally caught up to him. He could not let him slip between his fingers because a stupid thug was slacking off on the job.
It had been days since a local on some backwater road told them he had recently seen a crab wearing a backpack walking toward the city of Marquessa. Antoine wasted no time heading that way, hot on his trail.