( Planet Hazam )
Planet Hazam was the most breathtakingly beautiful planet that Max had ever been to.
It was an alien kind of beauty, with vibrant blue colour plants and green skinned natives.
It had the most unusual dotted animals too and it was one of the rare planets where gravity was almost similar to that of Earth.
If there was one thing that Max disliked about the planet, it had to be the slightly pungent smell of sulphur in the air, which smelt like rotten eggs.
' Agh, almost felt like home ' Max thought melancholically as he missed Earth slightly after coming to Hazam.
Fortunately, with the mission at hand he did not let that thought linger in his mind for too long as he immediately headed out of the teleportation centre, in search of the nearest tavern.
Max was not an trained assassin, but he was familiar with how one should carry out an assassination mission with his childhood mentor Jhonny English teaching him the basics.
Sir Jhonny would say that the first step to a successful assassination mission was to gather proper information on the target and the best place to gather information was from loose tongued drunks.
Having faith in what Jhonny had taught him, Max headed to the ' Cozy Tavern ' which seemed to be a fairly busy place with what appeared to be a lot of cocky men. A perfect spot for Max to do his work.
" One beer " Max said as he flashed a smile to the green skinned native woman with an E cup bust.
' Damn those jugs are big ' Max thought as he was brought a jug of beer.
" Damn, now I know why this place has so many customers " Max muttered loudly, trying to let the neighbouring customers hear his thoughts loud and clear.
" First time seeing Georgiana? " Asked the man beside him, as Max looked towards him and smiled as he said " Nah, but I do get mesmerised every single time".
The man chuckled, he could relate with Max's words as he said " Amen brother "
Max sipped his beer from under his mask and let the silence hang in the air for a few seconds.
He inspected the man silently and upon confirming that he was a light faction player just like Max, he said slowly " Have you heard the latest rumour my friend? "
The man's interest was piqued as he curiously asked " What rumour? "
Max slid in closer to him, as he scanned the room and then said in a very low voice " The Sun family young master he warms his bed with succubi and dark faction women ".
The man's expression remained the same as he sipped his drink and said " This is all public information my friend, the Su family young master sleeps with 3 different women everyday, even our lovely Georgiana here was forced to warm his bed for a week until he got bored of her and threw her out ".
The man spoke those words with cold disgust as Max received crucial information that the Su youngmaster was a degenerate.
" But isn't that guy very weak? How does he have the capability to subdue such fine women? " Max asked shooting his shot in the air, as he knew that the system would not assign him the mission to kill a target if he was too strong for him to handle.
" Yes he is a tier1 trash, but his guards and henchmen are all tier 3 and above.
Also the Su family is influential, nobody wants to offend them ". The man replied sadly as he longingly threw a glance at the working Georgiana.
Max noticed this and understood that the man loved Georgiana and wanted to be with her, so taking advantage of his weakness Max brought out a pouch filled with 2,000 gold coins and handed it to the man.
" Tip her well today, maybe money will move her my friend". Max said melancholically as he downed his beer.
The man was shocked to see so much wealth be handed to him as suddenly his guard dropped towards Max as he smiled rather brightly and said " Thank You my friend "
" Haha, no issues " Max said as he pretended to ask Georgiana for the bill.
" If you need anything in town, just call for Faran in these parts, I'll come to your aid any day of the week ". The man said as he revealed his identity.
Max paid his bill then tapped on his shoulder and said " I just hope that one day someone rises to cuck that Su bastard for sullying our beloved women ".
Faran said " I do too, actually there was recently a rumour that the Su family young master raped a Dark Elf and now her brother is out for his blood.
The Lass is tier 3 and talented, maybe he can pull it off ".
Max's eyes brightened at this piece of information, this was music to his ears as now he had a rudimentary plan on how he was going to pin the blame on the dark faction for the murder.
It seemed like his trip to the tavern was a success.
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( Meanwhile Sebastian )
Sebastian felt odd in his new body. Every Time he opened his eyes the world just felt enormous compared to his own body as tasks like walking normally alongside a human felt impossible.
He had to basically jog to keep up with a human's leisurely walking pace and to make everything worse his long beard felt itchy nonstop.
" Could you not have found a human body? ". Sebastian asked Gunrir with some spite behind his voice.
" The priest asked me to arrange for a body, so I did, no details were specified as to what body it had to be ". Gunrir the dwarf replied haughtily
" It's common sense is it not? " Sebastian asked, complaining as he realised that his mobility in battle was affected severely because of his short limbs.
" I'm useless in a fight now, what to do now? It's the only thing I ever enjoyed". Sebastian groaned as Gunrir chuckled
" You forge weapons is what you do. You forge weapons that topple empires … ". Gunrir replied with pride under his voice.