Anti Hero with a Symbiote System

The Black Knight and The Clown

. The ladies were found wearing long golden gowns, corsets, and full-length cloaks. These cloaks were fastened at the shoulder using a broach and were trimmed with expensive fur. Almost all the ladies wore a hat with one or more colorful feathers and had a folding fan to fan themselves.

The gentleman accompanying these noble ladies wore silky vests beneath long coats and linen braises. Some noblemen and ladies were escorted by armored soldiers.

”Noble district. Looks pretty but corrupt to the core in any city ” Margoth commented,

Draven ignored Margoth as well as the gazes of the so-called nobles. They stared at Draven and Sarah as though they were some kind of party animals because of their robes.

Sarah avoided making direct eye contact with the nobles but she scanned her surroundings for escape routes and hiding spots as a habit. Thanks to the maple trees on the side of the streets, the sun was not as hot as when they entered the city.

Several cool beverage stalls stood on either side of the street with sellers wearing wide grins on their faces. For some reason, they seemed to be ignoring Draven and Sarah.

After climbing the upward slope, the narrow hill street opened up to another city square. No protest was happening in this city square. The buildings were built in a circle and in the center of the town square stood a towering statue of a bearded man holding a hammer.

The alleys between the buildings connected the town square to other parts of the noble district. Each alley had armored guards patrolling one end to another constantly like clockwork.

Dravens destination was the tallest building among all the buildings in the square. It was an imposing snow-white multistoried marble building that towers over the neighboring buildings. A set of white stairs led up to a set of burnished golden doors. Two soldiers flanked the doors in the armor of scarlet and gold.

Regardless of Draven and Sarahs rather eye-raising robes, the soldiers did not halt them. Draven pushed open the glass doors to let Sarah enter first and then, he followed her behind to be welcomed by a vast spacious hall.

Several comfy sofas were spread chaotically for the customers to rest and enjoy the captivating paintings hanging on the walls. A marble counter with a girl in golden robes standing behind could be seen at the end of the hall.

Draven carried the sack filled with weapons he confiscated from his fallen enemies to the counter.

”Welcome dear customers, I am Lulu. How may I be of service to you? ” The girl greeted them with an ear-to-ear grin.

”Need to sell these ” Draven opened up the sack dropping everything inside onto the counter.

Soon the empty marble counter was filled with several daggers, a broken bow, a silver ring, and a few golden trinkets.

”My dear sir, I can give you two ethereal for these seven daggers. The bow seemed to be made of good quality camoban, it will fetch you another two ethereal. Silver ring, fifteen and golden trinkets, the best price I can give you is thirty-five ethereals. Dear sir will get minus our cut four ethereals, fifty ethereals ”

”Deal ”

”Wonderful ” the girl grinned as she trained as though she had made the sale of her life. The girl put the items into a wooden box before taking out a golden parchment from under the counter.

She then quickly scribbled the list of items, their price, and their condition.

”Dear Sir, please write your name in here ” Lulu pointed at the bottom of the parchment and handed over the quill to him,

”John, ” Draven wrote the most generic name on the parchment,

The girl then took the parchment and went to the back through the red oak door.

”We are at least nine thousand and nine hundred and fifty ethereals short to buy the equipment I need ” Sarah whispered to him while Lulu was collecting the ethereals from the back,

”I know. This is just to buy new clothes for you ”

”Oh ” Sarah seemed surprised but when she looked down at the ragged clothes she was wearing, it made sense for him to buy her new clothes.

”Well take a quest from the guild and on our way out, well buy something for you in the commoner district ”

”I want something to eat! ” Margoths ghostly figure emerged over Dravens shoulder,

”If you don disappear, we can eat whatever they serve in labs ”

”Dear Sir ” Lulu came back carrying a leather pouch just in time to see Margoths figure disappear. If he was one second late, Lulu would have seen Margoth which would have immediately drawn the attention of UFH in the best-case scenario, in the worst-case scenario, he would have ended up in some sick torture chamber of a supervillain and tortured every day for information about Margoths origins.

She poured down the coins from the leather pouch and arranged the coins into five stacks of ten coins. Draven knew the reputation of GoldenEye hence he didn waste his time counting the coins.

”All good ”

Lulu put all the coins back into the pouch,

”Anything else I can help you sir with? ”

”No thank you ” Draven took the pouch and made his way out of GoldenEye.

The adventurer guild was located a couple of buildings away from the GoldenEye. The adventurer guild paled in comparison with the GoldenEye. It was a three-story building with a large sign hanging above the oak door.

Although the building was not as big as GoldenEye, it was far livelier than the GoldenEye. Draven could hear the chitter-chatter of people coming from inside and when he opened the oak door, he saw countless men and women all carrying some kind of weapon. Among them, a few momentarily stopped their discussion to look at Draven and Sarah before going back to what they were doing.

”Hey, I heard youve been trying to get the Layne family gala gig. Any luck? ”

”Only gig I was able to get is the graveyard cleanup ”

”Eww, I heard the zombie face made quite a mess there ”

”Is it true Frankie went crazy and joined the circus? ”

”No way thats true. Frankie is crazy about the Black Knight, he wouldn get into the water with the clown in million years ”

”I don know man. The clown can brainwash people, weve seen good men do crazy shit for him ”

Draven listened to the conversations around him and realized most of them were about the infamous supervillain who goes by the name The Clown.

To be honest, Draven was surprised that the Clown was still alive and kicking. The old Draven would have opted for throwing the clown into a mental asylum or a prison. The current Draven however knew better than letting someone like the clown live.

At this point in time, Draven had no idea that he was going to meet the circus very soon.

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