Evolution: A Warlock’s Rise To Power

The clerk walked back out of the room.

"Hey, Ellin. What was that noise?"

One of the other clerks asked as Ellin(Nolan) walked out of the woodworking room with a staff in hand.

"Someone made a staff and forgot it, it must have fallen over. It's weird though."

"Yeah, that looks exactly like your staff." The clerk said to Ellin.

"Yeah that's what's weird. I looked around and didn't see anything else."

"Ha, ha, you know they say imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Looks like you might have an admirer."

"Be careful on your way home tonight." The third clerk said. "There are a lot of weirdos out there."

"Well go put it with the others. I will mark it down as your sale since your admirer doesn't want to reveal himself." The second clerk said with a chuckle.

"Why can't I find a free staff?" The third clerk mumbled to himself as Nolan opened the door and entered storage room.

"Don't think he is lucky. We both know what kind of contractors we have been serving today."

Nolan ignored them as his eyes sparkled while he looked around in the storeroom. There were 2 barrels with over 100 staves inside. On one side of the room he found a rack containing several types of rare and precious wood. He then laid his eyes on several thousand types of staff cores. Unfortunately, each one was unique and would take up a slot in his bag.

Quick as he could, Nolan stored the staves and wood before filling up the remaining space in his bag with staff cores, before stepping out of the room and closing the door behind him.

"Have you guys seen my locket? I can't find it." Nolan asked the other clerks.

"Nope, I haven't seen it."

"Hmm, maybe it fell out of my pocket when I was picking up the staff. Let me go check the woodworking room." Nolan said without waiting for a reply and almost sprinting to the room with the dead clerks' body.

Right as he shut the door, he heard one of the other clerks cursing and yelling. He probably opened the storeroom door. Nolan used ethereal step to jump out of the building. Shadow form broke his fall and he deactivated advanced disguise before strolling out of the alleyway.

[You have successfully stolen a value of over 150 gold. You are now eligible for your next thief mission. You will not gain any new abilities until your mission has been completed.]

Nolan happily whistled as he headed for a teleporter. He needed to go dump his loot in the vault before taking his mission.

***

Nolan entered his rouges organization and headed to the front counter as several cloaked figures eyed him. There were five clerks working and each had a long line except for one. Nolan went to the available clerk since no one else was going to.

"Here to see Kelis Jander, is here available?" Nolan asked.

"Depends." The clerk said without looking up.

"It's time for my mission." Nolan clarified.

The clerk still didn't look up but raised his hand and rubbed his fingers together signaling he wanted money.

Nolan understood why nobody was willing to go to this clerk. He reached in his pocket and with a bit of magic, he took out a gold coin and set it on the counter and pulled back his hand.

"Third door on the right." The clerk said while picking up the coin. Nolan turned around and took a few steps before the clerk called out to him again. "Hey you, wait. This isn't real."

Nolan slowly turned around. "Did some one say it was? I thought you were motioning that you wanted something to play with. You know us rouges need to maintain good hand dexterity. If you wanted money you should have used words, its less confusing that way." He said while rolling a coin across the back of his knuckles before walking to the third door on the right.

As Nolan knocked on the door, he could hear several of the rouges snickering at the clerk who got scammed.

*Knock* *knock* *knock*

"What do you want?" A voice came from inside.