The silver haired maverick was now outside the gates of Era, a report in his hand that had been drafted up by one Lieutenant Marwin. In it, he detailed and recounted the various rumors that were popular around these parts. For example, he wrote of ghost sightings deep in the forest, which some believed to actually genuinely be specters, while others attributed it to animals. Another popular rumor, of course, was that zombies liked to roam around the large forest late at night, and lately it has even been given a twist in the fact that these zombie sightings were directly related to a new and happening ''guild'', or cult as Lieutenant Marwin put it, in some way or form. Apparently, the good Lieutenant was under the suspicion that these cultists were practitioners of black magic, in particular necromancy which was pretty much frowned upon by most magical societies. Still they were just rumors and that is exactly how Houren perceived them to be. Besides, if such cults did actually hold rituals in the forest late night then someone would have discovered them way before he could have had a chance to. And even if they did exist somewhere out there in the forest late at night, Houren would probably never find them if the appropriate authorities had been unable to. That didn't really matter to Houren though; his job for today was simply to confirm whether Lieutenant Marwin's reports were true or not, if it turned out that they weren't, it wasn't as though they wouldn't pay him. In the end, it was impossible for Houren to conjure cultists out of thin air, and he was going to get his money regardless of whether the threat that the Rune Knights seemed to fear was real or fictional.
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