The Guildmaster

The crowd finally reacted after they saw Terroriser suddenly enter the arena and walk leisurely towards the winner's spoils with Nogla as he spun his Frying Pan in his hands. It was now they became aware that he won, cheers erupted.

Thinking about it now, it was a 1 vs 4 fight. Aside from that, it was a group of Experienced Adventurers against a Beginner who had registered almost a week ago. Well, this beginner adventurer completed an F-rank Dungeon recently in a matter of days, killing an E-rank boss and a peak-staged Rank 4 in the process.

If you thought about it normally, the winner of the fight was obvious. However, the actual result was the rookie shutting out the four veteran Adventurers in a clean sweep.

Of course, there were various reasons why Nogla won, half the watchers were convinced that he and Brian were strong and they deserved their promotion to E-rank while the other half were unbelieving thinking that they used some cheat to take care of the other two at the rear thus destabilizing the formation established by the four.

'The little guy has some skill, even his skills using any tools like a shovel are quite impressive, fast, and some John Rick moves. No wonder he and his friend could jump from G to E after only a week. Sigh, I gotta work hard and get promoted soon, or else these young fellows will overtake me.'

A D-rank Adventurer with white robe and silver hair Mage said before glancing at the two let out a high five as if trying to memorize them that they may soon be at the same rank as him or above him. Even though it was the first time he saw those two, the D-rank Mage had the feeling that those peculiar weirdos were special, part of a group destined to do great things and cause destruction. 

Well he was sure that his assumption was not wrong especially after seeing their rate of progress is unbelievably large with his special eye to see.

Shaking his head he turned and left.

Sophia observed the two as they were going toward the winner's spoils with a smile, she cursed them for not being patient. Just after finishing the four, he went towards the rewards without waiting for her to announce who was the victor.

Sighing, she announced, "The duel comes to an end with Nogla being the winner. As both parties agreed upon, everything except their weapons and what the four are wearing will be given to the winner."

Saying this she waved her hand the four placed almost every Item in their Dimensional Storage added on top of other rewards except for their weapons and wearables.

Nogla and Terroriser, looking at the rewards, firstly, Terroriser re-quipped the [Totem of Undying] right on the Shulker Box he placed, inside it dozens of others [Totem of Undying], anyone that sees it were baffled.

After placing in it, Brian then goes to the next Items, while Nogla put a Dimensional Pouch where the 10,000 Euros packed back next, he took it that the other four had bet and stored it into the Inventory.

After dealing with him, Brian went to Nogla, "So Nogla, with your little victory, what would you do now, especially with our rewards?"

Nogla then replied with a smile, "Our rewards? Idiot, you mean my rewards? I will spend most of it on all the drinks for tonight! Not just us but the whole guild!" 

Hearing this, many of the people present begin to feel excited.

"Another party? Did you do that already a few days ago?"

"Nah man, you know it's tiring dealing with games, uploading videos on a site that has so many restrictions, families, childrens, so many responsibilities, for once I just wanted to have a 'Me Time'."

"I understand, bro."

"That's why I see you as my brother, you majestic bastard."

"Agreed, you piece of shit."

Both males gripped their hands like brothers and for the past hours till evening, a large party erupts in the Guild.

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(Few Hours Later)

In the evening, the huge party that was happening continued. While this was happening, the receptionist Sophia went to the Teleportation platform, waving her hands and smiled at the adventurers as they waved her back before she vanished.

As she was on the third floor of the building, her smiling look earlier, stopped, and glared at the large door that reaches five meters in height.

Behind this door must be the Guildmaster.

She moved forward, receiving a slight bow from the servants, she nodded in response before pushing open the heavy door with little effort and the harpy entered the room.

The room was a bit big, there was a big table in the middle of the room with lots of papers stacked on top of it. Sitting in a big chair on the other side of the table was a man, he seemed to be in his middle fifty, had very brown hair that made him almost bald, dark skinned, and deep yellow eyes. 

It is the Guildmaster of the Adventurer branch Brian and Nogla was on.

He looked at Sophia before continuing to flip through the pages of the book he was reading.

"Good Evening, Guildmaster Christ Tallbalz Hazel." Sophia greeted him.

"Sit down." He ordered, Sophia sat across from him while the Guildmaster continued to scan the documents in his hand for a moment before finally putting his gaze on the demi-human.

"Such a fine and a loud night, ey?" The Guild master says after stopping flipping through his book.

Chris lifted his head and stared at Sophia as though he was scrutinizing her, immediately a powerful pressure descended on Sophia, she had troubles breathing, she almost flinch for a split second, nevertheless, she refused to yield, squinting her eyes slightly to endured the pressure albeit with a difficulty, after some time that seemed like an eternity the pressure she was feeling disappeared like a breeze, she was able to breathe normally again like a bird finally roam free from the escapable cage.

Chris smiled seeing Sophia whose back was drenched in sweat.

"Not bad. I apologize for that."

"No need, Guildmaster, you only did that to check if I have become strong for the past months. Testing me with your Intimidation Skill, even though you didn't use 10% of your Rank 8 power, the might of a Grandmaster Realm expert."

Chris chuckles, "Haha, thanks for that small compliment, baby bird."

"Don't call me that please, I'm not your little girl back then, I'm already 31 years old, I've already become a woman from the guy who won at the duel today even though he has absolutely no clue about that time."

"Okay good to note, I'm gonna deal with him later." He said, you could see a slight twitch in one of his eyelids.

"That aside, you have called me all of a sudden, it seems that you have something to report. Go ahead and report it."

Chris nodded at her and began to explain, "What I'm about to report is about I got a message from the Count on Kalren City earlier today, it's-"

Sophia stopped Chris and continued, "Oh? You are talking about that city located 110 kilometers southeast from us, near the Forest of Death? I've already heard about the recent anomalous event about many types of monsters and magic beasts starting to work together and attack adventurers and hunters over there, the death toll is estimated to be 11 adventurers and 60 Count Liam's men, totallying 71 deaths for the past few days."

Chris sighed in irritation, "How unfortunate this is, these dumbasses and their businesses should've had the chance to eradicate the entire forest and its population long ago, I knew I feared this day would happen."

Suddenly, the temperature in the room dropped to several degrees. Sophia could feel Ice cold killing intent that sent a shiver down anyone's spine. It was as though everything became Antarctica.

Seeing this, Sophia knew what he was mad about as the Guildmaster knew something about the people that canceled the Kingdom or the members of the World Leadership Conference an attempt to wipe the Forest of Death off the map because of businesses and fortune.

With that, it increases the numbers of magic beasts all over the continent at an extremely fast rate because some manage to escape the barrier around the forest to the outside world, roaming and populating more of its offspring. 

For the past 50 years, this causes mass deaths mostly travelers and villages because of this single agreement decades ago.

And for the Guildmaster has his hatred towards who started all these, getting mad for, is something none of our concerns right now.

Back at the Guildmaster's office that the atmosphere is still cold and the pressure is quite heavy, though Sophia would tremble in fear by the Guildmaster, she was already trained to resist these things.

In the next moment, Sophia with a bit of nervousness slowly opened her mouth.

"I get that, Guildmaster."

Finally, Chris concealed his killing intent and acted as though he hadn't done anything. 

"Right, in the next day, you need to announced the entire Guild to support the city from the monsters and beasts, only E to A Ranks could be allowed in this quest."

"Understood, Guildmaster." Sophia nodded and stood up and was about to leave, but not before long when she recalled something. "Oh, it kinda reminds of something about another matter, did you know the reports about a criminal organization that manages to base one of the dungeons we hold?"

Chris looks at Sophia, and heaves a sigh, "I know, that son of a bitch of a half-blooded brother of mine is behind it."

"Yeah, it's a shame those two fellows literally leave no survivors and we can't even learn more about your brother's motives, however there is this girl they saved, according to Secsual Bond, the girl was locked up in their cells, she doesn't know about them either but she did heard your brother's words says she's gonna be a test subject, we concluded that they might put her on some experiment or something."

"Never knew step bro wants to play Doctor."

"Yeah, if not for Mr. Brian and Nogla, then her fate might be worse."

Hearing the two names, the Guildmaster recall something, "Oh right, these nutsacks, forgot about their promotion, having killed fifty Rank 2 and 3 experts alone is quite impressive, including killing my brother who is only one step away from Master Realm and a former member of the Church of the Rising Sun."

He nodded in admiration for the two and continued, "Being a member of that Church also lets him learn several special techniques that could even injure early-staged Grandmaster Realm experts, making him a more powerful and formidable force that something only several Master Realms or Rank 6 experts could easily beat him. Defeating him makes me convince to promote them to become E-rank adventurers right away."

"So, will they take the test?"

"It's their decision, but the test will be next day afternoon, and the quest to Kalren City will be early in the morning, I think I will add another party in the quest, with them now promoted to E-rank Adventurer, they will he allowed into it, you know, it's better to add two more people, right? I think things will might get very interesting once they are added."

"I couldn't help but agree with you, Guildmaster."