Son of the Olden Days

The main street buried under the snow finally came to an end, from the muddy dirt road into the gravel pavement paved by small irregular stones.

From here, it is the true North District of Gray Screen Town, where the rich gather here, and various guilds are also entrenched here.

They took pains to draw a clear line from the poor in all aspects, wealth, strength, conversation, dress, or repaired a cleaner road.

But in the eyes of some people who have really seen the world, there is not much behind the brilliance that has been piled up with force and wealth. These forces are after all the forces in the countryside, and the rich are just the rich in the countryside.

After the famine, the North District was relatively deserted. There were few pedestrians on the street and the atmosphere was tense. From time to time, some guys who hid their faces in their hoods pretended to be mysterious and hurried through the streets.

Most of the people gathered around the tavern, which was brightly lit and still noisy and audible.

Three or four seemingly strong hobos are sitting at the entrance of the tavern waiting for the leftovers. Under the light under the low eaves, a few burly men in mercenary costumes are making fun of soliciting prostitutes.

Their makeup with the smell of cheap perfume is still glamorous, reminiscent of harmonious old times.

The poor will not approach the North District rashly, because they know that their fate is not in their hands when stepping into this area, and hiding in the slums will have the opportunity to fight with other poor people.

If it is not necessary, no one in the North District will go to the slums to wander around. As for the cruelty and ugliness that are happening in the dark, does it matter as long as I am still bathed in the light?

When the thin figure of Shuggs appeared on the streets of the North District, the eyes of the people on the whole street had a focus almost at the same time, not directly observing, but quietly scanning over with the corner of the eye.

After seeing Shuggs's face clearly, those implied vigilant eyes continued to return to the free state.

Nowadays, most of the people in the North District know each other. This kind of understanding does not refer to the friendship between each other, but I have seen you vaguely, and probably know your identity and what forces behind it.

The invisible shelter of the Thieves Guild is still useful, so even if Shuggs is just a small trash fish outside the guild, no one will deliberately make things difficult for him.

Caused the misunderstanding of the Thieves Guild, or gave the other party some excuses to make a move, and the gains outweighed the losses.

In the buildings with different patterns on both sides of the street, there are sometimes dim lights showing through, cutting the darkness of the whole street into messy pieces.

Shuggs silently walked across the border of light and shadow, and the expression on his face turned bright and dark.

He walks very slowly, in fact he has been thinking along the way.

Shuggs didn't like this involuntary deepness. He actually hoped that his world could be simpler, but there was no way, because the things he had to do next were dangerous. If a certain step is missed or not considered, there may be no tomorrow.

After turning a few lanes and forks, Shuggs stopped in front of a low house.

This house has no door emblems, flags, or any conspicuous places, and its shabby appearance looks more like a barn or wood house of a wealthy man, but it is indeed the residence of the Thieves Guild in Gray Screen.

The thick and mottled domed wooden door closed silently, revealing its attitude towards visitors.

Shaking the snowflakes on his body, Shuggs leaned forward and knocked on the door with three long, two short and one light rhythms.

After a while, the door creaked and cracked a gap, revealing a rugged face full of anger and beard. He glanced down at Shuggs as if looking down, and disappeared behind the door.

Shuggs raised his hand to push the crack of the door wide, and then the whole person got into the room.

Slowly pressing the door panel with his back, Shuggs has roughly scanned the environment in the house.

Everything in the empty house is still dilapidated as before, and at first glance it may make people suspect that they have come to a stable or the like.

Some hay and firewood were piled along the wall, and there was a small round table and two low stools in the corner, but nothing else.

At the moment there is a fire in the middle of the house, and two low stools have been moved to the side of the fire, with Sam and White sitting on them respectively.

Sam is the brawny man who opened the door for Shuggs just now. No one knows why this grumpy man who has a black bear-like physique in his middle age would choose a job like a thief that requires extremely high physical flexibility.

He seems to be angry all his life. As for the source of anger, maybe he had a bad childhood, or maybe his woman gave him a hat, who knows.

On the other side sat White, who was in stark contrast with Sam.

He was as thin as a toothpick, his sickly pale complexion resembled an anorex who had eaten too much rotten vegetable leaves, and his cold eyes always reminded him of a poisonous snake hiding in the grass waiting for something.

White is a young man, but the greasy, sloppy shawl hair and messy stubble cover his actual age well.

Obviously these two men are here to guard the main gate today.

They had just joined the Thieves Guild shortly before the plague, and belonged to the outer trainees like Shuggs, and Shuggs was even older than them in terms of qualifications.

The thieves’ guild has three daily positions.

One of them is a regular rotation, and at the end of each weekend, a certain guild member will be responsible for cleaning the guild.

The remaining two positions are relatively important and need to be guarded at all times.

The door of the storage room where the guild’s supplies are piled up is usually guarded by an official thief, while the main entrance is led by an official thief and a trainee thief.

But in such a cold day, the official thieves must have gone for a drink for fun, so at the moment there were only two new trainees, Sam and White, sitting by the fire in a daze at the main entrance.

This winter, the daily selection of guards is no longer a rigid appointment.

In view of the current tight food shortage situation in Gray Screen Town, any trainee member can participate in the daily duty through voluntary registration this winter, and can mix in the corresponding ration for the day after the event.

The official thieves have a fixed amount of food distributed every day, so the guild's move is mainly to appease the hearts of the trainee members.

Reluctantly, the number of positions is limited. Recently, the trainee members are often caught in a situation of scrambling for errands.

From time to time, Shuggs also joins the scramble.

Although Thor's food support made him unnecessary to order leftovers, Shuggs never intended to expose the back road, so he still silently played his original role in the guild.

In fact, even if there is no incentive for food shortages, people who want to be promoted to official thieves will always seize every opportunity.

After all, in addition to some personal contributions that can be seen from the outside, the assessment and observation of the guild's apprentice members is nothing but daily trivial matters.

As for teaching you to be a man, it is never the obligation of the guild.

Anyway, those who can use it at the end will absorb it, and those who can't use it will get out.

The current membership structure of the Thieves Guild from top to bottom is the president, vice president, deacon, then five official thieves, and five trainees.

The admission of new members and some important decisions of the guild are determined by the chairman. The vice chairman assists in supplementing and manages the promotion of trainee members. The deacon is mainly responsible for the guild’s diplomacy, the transmission of instructions, and the acceptance of various entrusted tasks from the outside world.

Originally, the number of official thieves and trainee thieves in the guild was seven, but when a gray commission was completed not long ago, the guild sent a mission team from the dark wilderness, and the formal and trainee members lost two of them.

Under normal circumstances, if a full member dies in a mission or a fight between forces, the guild will collect the body for you, and will also ask for funeral expenses for you, although the money has nothing to do with you.

If you cause trouble outside, as long as it is profitable, the thieves will temporarily unite to help you, let your enemies know what a group of thieves exist.

In short, becoming an official thieves means better treatment, means participating in guild missions and learning high-end combat skills, but also means that you are truly included in the protection of the organization.

However, the number of official members of the Thieves Guild has been rated to fluctuate between five and eight. Even if someone died not long ago, according to the past organization, the existing five trainee members, including Shuggs, are not May all become official thieves.

So the competition among the five trainees has evolved into inexplicable hostility among each other in daily life.

In this kind of intrigue competition, Shuggs does not have any advantage, on the contrary, it is somewhat difficult.

The lack of attention to age is the main reason, and it's useless to talk about seniority. The guild will definitely not pay attention to seniority ranking among a group of trainees.

The adult world is far more disgusting and complicated than Shuggs imagined, and the vice-chairman chain who is responsible for the promotion of trainee members has always had a deep prejudice against Shuggs.

Even if you finally succeeded in taking off the apprentice hat in the future, the formal thieves will definitely not get along with each other in harmony, but that is another level of struggle.

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