Being watched all the time

"Basically the Guild have an information network spread across the continent that is used to create intelligence and funds for war. There are other people scattered in some key cities in the other countries capturing any conversation they find relevant and generating reports every day." he said while looking at the papers on the table with a headache expression and massaging the bridge of his nose.

"What about choosing me for such a mission?" Nicola asked.

"Well, someone like you wouldn't go unnoticed." She said taking an object out of her clothes. It was a small pyramid that could fit in the palm of her hand, all made of some kind of glass, and inside it was a perfectly round red jewel that shone and moved, apparently towards Nicola.

"All high-ranking people have one of these. We we call it beacons, inside this pyramid-shaped protection there is a stone called the demon spirit ruby. It was formed after the blood of a primordial demon, which gave rise to all kinds of demons, fell to the ground and infiltrated creating this gemstone that can identify demonic blood from a distance of a few miles. Only the glow indicates the presence of demons, but can you see that it wants to move towards you? " She asked to Nicola.

"What does that mean?"

"It means that the lineage that runs in your blood is the lineage of demonic royalty and the blood trapped within the stone struggles to merge with you. Normally anyone who evoked that impression at the beacon would be eliminated immediately, but unlike a demon's reaction infiltrated you entered my guild branch and lost the perception of the surroundings, looking at the mission board, when I approached you it was to eliminate your life."

Nicola remembered the moment when he first met Rhicina and the stealthy movement she used to approach him without him ever realizing that she was there. Cold sweat ran down his spine as he straightened in his chair and gathered the courage to open his mouth and ask. "Why didn't you follow through on your mission and kill me?"

"Before I went downstairs, I looked at your record and raised all the intelligence behind your life, your years living in the City of Opus being watched and despised by many, and those years doing basic Guild missions, it didn't make sense for you to be a spy or a assassin. But that's not why I spared your life. It was because when you turned to me I saw your eyes, pure and spotless."

"It made me waver and wait to see what you were going to do and against all my expectations. you didn't do anything. No, on the contrary, you did a lot, your blacksmithing and alchemy creations sold on the market were all purchased by the Guild and we did reverse engineering, thus increasing the effectiveness of our army equipment. In a way you helped us a lot and I thank you for that."

"But lastly I consulted the books you borrowed from the library and one of them caught my attention, about the races and clans that exist on the continent, it did not fit your research routine. But I only managed to discover the reason years later, to be honest just recently, with spies infiltrated at dinner at your master's house, you look for your family." She said and Nicola felt like being observed all that time without the least of privacy.

"As a half-breed and with the fame of the demons, you decided to first look for your kitsune relatives. Then after going through a series of checks I sent this report to my superiors who approved your participation on that mission."

"And what would be that mission?" Nicola asked.