What Do You Mean There Are Other Transmigrators In My Harem Fantasy?

Chapter 761: Meeting Her Contact

I went back to report to the Guild about what happened and everyone there had the same look of dread on their faces.

The news I gave them was definitely not a good one and it suggested something pretty bad.

The mask that I had broken might have been a cursed item that controls a person to act against their will. That means those masked persons that we encountered might not have even been the same person but multiple different people who were controlled by more masks.

We could be dealing with a whole group of them here and these people were just innocent people that got entangled in it, which meant that we should avoid killing them if possible.

Well... That is if I can help it of course... Since... You know... There's magic to revive people in this World anyway. Just that it's preferable to not subject them to death if we could help it.

Still, the problem also comes with the fact that the masks seemed to transform the affected people's abilities to match the controller, which was a pretty big deal since one was already quite strong by themselves. What would happen if he manages to possess an entire town?

Now I was suspecting that he might have attacked all these people to test out his strength against different opponents and maybe even scope out potential recruits that he could make use of.

That still leaves a number of questions though, like why didn't he just take the slaves if he was looking for recruits and why didn't he just capture everyone he defeated anyway.

Also, why was the first one I encountered changed into a Shadow Summon?

Could it be... That was the real Off-Worlder himself? Or was he just trying to save one of his puppets from death by substituting it with a Shadow Summon?

Then again, there was another swordswoman who cut him down and his body disappeared right? Maybe there's a function that switches them out for Shadow Summons when they 'die'?

So many questions...

Without another lead to follow, I left the Guild shortly afterwards to look for Linette. Hopefully she would have some news for me from her contacts about this.

I made sure to put on a cloak with a hood to hide my face since that Razzle Dazzle Rex guy... Fuck, I'm just going to call him Rex... Anyway, I'm wearing this since that Rex guy already knows my face so it's better to hide it.

I didn't even stand out since there were also others like me who also wore cloaks walking along the street.

No, they aren't the puppets of that Rex guy because they weren't wearing masks. Those are cloaks meant for travelling through the desert to shield them from the sands.

Even though this town may be within the borders of Lehcarouc Kingdom, it was still located along the edge of the desert and still subject to harsh desert winds.

As I approached the inn where I was supposed to meet Linette, I found her wagons in the midst of pulling up to the inn.

Seems like I came just in time.

I went to the inn as the wagoneers began to guide their Dune Bison to pull the vehicles into the inn's wagon lot. The only exception was Linette's carriage as it stopped just outside of the building to allow the merchant to disembark from her carriage.

She didn't notice me since I was wearing my cloak and went inside the inn on her own, leaving her carriage driver to park the carriage with the other wagons.

The Mercenaries Linette hired were also staying in the same inn and while most of them followed Linette into the inn, a few of them went with the wagons presumably to escort them.

I strolled towards the inn, walking past the carriage before looking at the building in front of me.

"I had her wait near the inn's counter so she should be--"

The door suddenly opened and a cloaked person was shoved in by Heather and Bev.

"Leader, we caught the guy that's been stalking us."

"I am not a stalker!" The cloaked person protested.

Heather scowled, "Like hell you aren't. You've been following us for a good long while haven't you? Ever since we were at the market until the inn."

"That's because I was called to meet up with Linette!"

Ah, this person's actually talking coherently so they must not be related to the brainrot guy.

"I'm guessing you're the contact that Linette was supposed to meet with to ask about something?" I assumed.

The cloaked person reached up and pulled back their hood, revealing themselves to be a rather young female Mahun with grey hair, "Yeah, that's right. She sent a message asking me to meet with her and to be discreet. Are you her guards or something?"

Meela nodded, "We are. And may I just say that you were being anything but discreet."

"Tsk. Give me a break. I'm a merchant, not a rogue. I wasn't sure if Linette wanted me to keep quiet about our meeting from you girls so I had to keep my distance, ok? Where is she?"

"I'm here."

We turned to see Linette standing behind us, the merchant nodding at the newcomer in greeting.

"Greia, it's good to see that you are well."

"And you too, Linette. You wanted to meet me?"

"Yes, in private. Miss Aster, she is the one I wanted you to meet, would you be joining us?"

I nodded, "Of course. And I think it would be a good idea for Meela to join us as well as this might concern all of you."

Linette tilted her head slightly but did not protest, "I see. In that case, would my room be sufficient?"

Greia frowned, "If this is important... Is it sound proof?"

"Do you take me for an amateur, Greia? Of course it is."

"Then that would be sufficient."

Alright then, guess we're going there.

Hopefully there's more information that this woman could give me about Rex.