8th chapter : the orb .

After getting into Granddam. Marco had countered some thieves and realized that almost all the council and the people don’t like the guild he joined, therefore that didn’t make him lose faith in them and as he returned to the antique shop, he scolded Eyezar for this quest job.

“Sigh, he didn’t pay us a lot and on top of that he gave you two, some pieces that he didn't need as if it was a token of gratitude” Marco complained as he was annoyed on his way back home.

“Don’t say that! Still, I’m surprised by what you did!? Have you ever fought with a sword before?” Alice and Carla asked as they looked at Marco.

“nope, I used it for the first time today” he calmly replied while cleaning his glasses.

Alice and Carla weren’t surprised thinking that it was the serment’s spells that gave him such good movement.

“By the way, what were those chains from before?” Carla asked again as she got closer to Marco.

“Those were something I grabbed for my serment” he replied calmly then stopped talking about it as he went ahead.

Carla and Alice looked at each other, curious about what he meant. Ultimately, the sudden surge of strength from a new holder against the so-called veteran ones was the thing that bugged the two of them, it looked like Marco had a fog around his whole existence for a second.

Earlier that day,

“Well, I guess this will not be something that I wanna do, still a job is a job!!”. Emilis said as he was crossing the mountains in another country far from home.

After getting an anonymous quest job to bring some drop an item from a high ranked dungeon, Emilis headed on his own to conquer the quest.

“Since the quest is from an anonymous guy, I guess the council isn’t aware of this. Sighssss!! I never thought that I would do some dark quest jobs just for the money!! man I hate this!!”.

He continued complaining as he was walking on the top of the mountain, several steps after he reached the gate of the dungeon.

“Sigh, here goes nothing!!”.

Emilis said as he jumped into the gate hole that takes to the dungeon boss directly. As soon as he went inside, the gate got closed and Emilis landed safely.

“Sigh, directly in the boss room, that man is skillful when it comes to locating, I gotta pay him next time” Emilis mumbled as he was looking around him to see the boss.

A 15ft tall humanoid, half naked with a pale blue skin and spikes all around his joints, four arms each one holding a one handed axe along with chains surrounding the chest all the way to the back of his legs.

Emilis whistled after seeing that boss standing in front of him. As the whole floor walls started to shine in blue lighting the area and the boss’s roars filled the place, Emilis smiled responding to these screams of rage and in the second that the boss attacked him, Emilis held his arm as if he was playing an octave on the piano creating a barrier and guarding the direct hit.

In a blink of an eye, one of the four arms that attacked Emilis got shattered like glass as the boss took some steps to the back and raged in anger but before he attacked again, Emilis leaped right to his shoulder and gently patted it as if he was playing with him. the boss tried to smash him but the whole half of the boss got shattered the same way as what happened to his arm.

Emilis landed on the ground as the boss fell down.

“Now let’s see, the item meant to be his eye”. Emilis said as he was looking at the monster trying to crawl and flee with his life.

He laughed. “Pfft!!! you feel fear, that’s unusual!! I mean I’ve never meant to hurt you!!” he said as he was walking toward the other half of the boss that got shattered.

“Sigh, luckily I got the eye, and the boss will regenerate if I leave him, mission complete!!” Emilis was still talking to himself as he took the item drop from the boss.

As he was looking for a way to go out, the boss had gotten into his fullest strength, instantly regenerating and getting into volcano-like form with his whole body leaking out lava.

“Man, I thought you feared me!!” Emilis said calmly while looking around him.

He instantly saw the way out and calmly walked to his way out. The boss was in a state of rage as he attacked him directly therefore none of his attacks reached because of that barrier, and as Emilis reached the door he waved at him and snapped his fingers to see the boss melting away and being absorbed by a giant door behind him.

“bye bye!! flammy monster!!” he said while waving to the boss that couldn’t escape the door that looked like a black hole.

Moments after absorbing all the boss, Emilis looked around.

“Hmm, that won’t do, I guess I need to give this place the boss that it needs, after all I do create dungeons myself too” Emilis spoke while rubbing his chin a little bit.

After that he snapped his fingers to see a euro scriptures circle being written in the middle of the boss room as another similar monster emerged from that circle and stood in the middle of the room. Emilis smiled then went on his way leaving a boss higher leveled than the last one as well as taking a few item drops from that dungeon on his way.

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“I’m back!!” Emilis said as he entered from the front door of the restaurant. His trip didn’t take a long time either since he was going on his own, on top of that the small game he had with an Aa rank boss was giving him some enthusiasm to return home.

“Welcome back, you surprisingly came early” Zack greeted him as he was putting the order for the table.

“Welcome back master, any good news?” Marco greeted him too as he was cleaning the dishes, he saw Emilis passing by.

“Not that much, but I got some good drops, we might sell it to get a fortune” he replied calmly while having a smirk on his face.

Alice looked at Marco who stopped moving as soon as he heard the word fortune, she felt a deep fear for a second.

“Master, by fortune how much do you mean?” Marco asked calmly as he stopped working and approached Emilis.

Alice was startled to see these two wandering in their money altitude while having a scary smile on them. She stopped them and told Emilis to go to his office after scolding Marco a little. they got back to work as if that small scene didn’t happen at all though she was still amazed by that reaction.

“Marco! Take the 5th order to its table. they’re waiting!!” Xavier pleaded in the middle of the shift.

He didn’t waste another minute and took the plates.

“Here’s your order, bon appétit!” Marco said as he put down the dishes then heard a familiar voice saying to him.

“Look at you working, and I thought I’m not gonna live to see this moment!! took a pic!!”.

Marco was startled for a brief second as he instantly recognized that voice. He sighed to see Hana eating with her parents.

“Same as for me, having a pic for you in these clothes is a dream come true too” he replied taking pics of her in a white dress as she tried to act elegantly to hide her blush.

“Marco, don’t chat with....Gehee!! What's Hana doing here? I told you not to bring people to our work place” Carla was scolding him with no further explanation while getting startled at first too.

“Yo!! Carla chan!!” Hana replied to Carla with a cheerful smile.

Marco was surprised that they knew each other, after that Carla told him that they’ve met a few times.

“Sigh, I should change the lock, I’m not living alone anymore, going inside like you always do is prohibited from now, next time ring the bell” he said as he flicked her forehead.

“Get back to work and don’t disturb our clients, the Loki’ are one of our dear clients…something wrong?” Alice interrupted their conversation so sudden.

Marco was having a shocked look on his face glaring at Carla.

“You mean what you said?” Marco asked with a straight face.

“First time seeing you surprised, more like shocked to be precise, and if you work here you know what I mean by one of a few old clients” Alice replied after giggling at his state.

Marco sighed and looked aside “well, if it means that you are going to pay, work is work, milady? need anything else” Marco addressed her mother as he bowed after finishing his words.

Hana couldn’t help but to laugh, her parents didn’t mind her as Marco got more furious and caught her forehead with a scary smile after telling her to be quiet.

"ahaha!! really sorry to be disturbing the others this way, you know that Hana chan loves to see you work, with you in red mermaid it’s a pleasure to us Marco kun!” her father pleaded as he patted Hana’s head.

“It’s ok, thanks for the compliment Gullen san, Wellia san too, if you need anything just call me” Marco responded in a well manner which made Alice surprised.

After finishing the work, Marco and Carla went ahead to meet with Hana for a little talk.

“I see, so you’re gonna have him take the item from here, any leads why?” Alex said as she was getting some tables from the way and put them aside while cleaning the place with Xavier and Alice.

“Seems that he wants to be a total secret, I don’t care either” Emilis said as he saw a guy with black clothes standing in the front door.

The guy entered and took a seat.

“Not having the slightest idea who you might be, but using some guy that isn’t on our contract?” Emilis coldly spoke with a serious face.

“I don’t care whether you want it or not, the guilds have no authority to talk about their contractor and you know that very well” the guy in black clothes that seemed to be controlled spoke in a cold way as if he was a monster.

“Sigh, talking right in front of me as if you don’t remember that I can find you wherever your hiding, well, I don’t care either, whether it’s for good deed or evil deed I’ll find you eventually sooner or later, so let’s see, money on the bag , Alex this guy is good” Emilis replied as he laughed a little.

Alex sighed as the controlled guy gave them the money.

“Evil deeds, hmm, I guess even you can’t stand the curiosity about this item’s real bonus effects? indeed I’m planning for evil deeds and I don’t plan on getting stopped by now!!” The controlled guy roared as he swallowed the orb and a dark aura covered him as his whole body melted away.

Alex looked at Emilis who sighed and stood going to his office.

“Aren’t you going to go after this guy!? He could harm us?” Alice and Alex said as they were concerned about what Emilis just did.

“Are you that worried? well, it’s already 6am, that guy planned for everything though he didn’t get the full orb on his hand. I guess he would do good with a fake orb of my creation” Emilis said as he snapped his fingers to bring the real orb into his palm.

“Sigh, you got me worried for a moment, what are you going to do with that?” Xavier exhaled his breaths as he was about to go after that guy.

“What do we do with stuff like these? Since we need money for the training ground installment despite the fact that I can do it alone, I need money. so we can sell these along with the orb” Emilis responded as he showed them a bag full of item drops along with some gold around.

“Ohoho!! That's our master!!” Xavier praised him as he jumped on the gold changing the tense mood. Alice sighed as she went with the plan.

“where do you plan on selling it? I mean we are not welcomed in Granddam or Uduru?” Alice interjected after that.

“or even Mustfit…. ” Alex added.

“not to mention Ariyus….” Xavier stated after that too.

Alice and Alex as well as Xavier said one after another mentioning the names of the big cities around the holders society, as after that gloomy sudden reaction within mentioning the big cities, the fact of being hated by the council struck their mood down to the ground again.

“Well, I don’t have a plan either, Granddam was off limits from the first time, those bastards don’t want to buy something from me in the first place, Uduru is good, or even Ariyus, we aren’t going to establish a shop or something just passing to get how much they could go for it.” Emilis sighed for a second “For the meantime, I’ll have enough money to request the establishment of a training ground, in other words, the one who’s gonna sell these items are you” he pointed at Alice “I’ll leave everything in your hands Alice” with a bit of a calm look.

The four of them looked at Emilis who had a smirk on his face, it wasn’t that fine one either, it was the smirk of some dirty work in mind.

On that aspect, the four of them scolded him a little at how their master does not care a lot about the recent situation. Aside from theirs, they put on light that there’s a new member that they need to maintain a good image in front of him before everything would be ruined.

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