Standoff and Protection!

(A/N: Bonus Chapter).

Silrat entered the Guilds Association building with a skip in his step. There were many things he wanted to look into following his investigation of the what the plan with the Premium Age Royale was.

He was hoping he could take advantage of the Association's information sources once again as they were rather accurate and efficient, at the exclusive level at least.

As he walked through the foyer, he suddenly stopped.

Something within him started to burn.

"Hmm," at first he murmured.

"Ngghhh!" then he grunted.

Something hidden deep within him was reacting viciously to an external influence he couldn't understand!

"What's going... on?!" Silrat cried.

In the next instant, he madly screamed without care as the agonising pain of his soul getting ruptured was too much to bear, a piece of it bursting out of his body violently and flying off into the distance!

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