The Chronicle of Heroes ~ Of Fiends and Shadows

[Aaronock]

Twice in the past month some strange requests were left by an anonymous poster upon the mission bulletin board in the town's center. Everyone knew it was a place one could make requests for items in exchange for zeny. King Ernst sent a private message for Ezekiel, asking the master rogue to look more closely into the matter. His majesty's advisors had suspicions, and it was up to the rogue to dig up some sort of info to return to them. The message also contained some ancient styled runes for him to use to fulfill one of the missions on the board for a potential clue.

What made Ezekiel all too happy to fill the obligation was that he could keep the money from the poster. Surprisingly, after completing the task, a note was left a few days later thanking him for the ingredients, and they'd be put to good use. He couldn’t put a face with the handwriting for now, but after giving the paper a good look, he would deliver it to a messenger for the king and his crew to deal with.

Then a few weeks later, the requests for items came yet again! This time Ezekiel was given materials again to complete one of the missions by the King. Again, the rogue turned them over without fuss. That’s where things should have ended. But Ezekiel’s greed was great, even if all he had to do was one of the requests to confirm their suspicions – and that it was truly indeed the same fellow posting for the strange mix of objects...

This mattered little to the rogue as he dug through his storage left securely with the Kafra agent stationed at Prontera's center (conveniently next to the bulletin board). After a long search through the various hoard of items that had seemingly accumulated there the past few years, he produced what was necessary. Then, his hands fulfilled several more requests. Guilt didn't even cross the master rogue's mind as the zeny was dispensed, after all, if it was not himself, then someone else would have fulfilled the missions. At least in the end it was now his zeny, and not some other scumbag's instead.