I open the door to my room and instantly fall to my bed.
*Why did I do that?* I mutter as I look at the wooden ceiling. In my past life helping others was something I didn't do. Maybe it is because I'm much stronger or some other subconscious feeling that I need to help people.
*Knock-
*Knock-
A light knocking can be heard from the silent room as my head turns towards a wooden door. I lazily get out of the bed as I open the door to see the receptionist looking at me with a shy expression on her face.
*Can I help with something?* I ask as my dark abyss sound echoes through the lounge.
the woman wakes up from her daze from my dark sound as she tries to muster everything she has to say.
"Ah! Thank you for helping me with those guys Mister. I'm sorry for bothering you this late!"
*It's fine but did you come all this way to just thank me?*
"I wanna ask you. Are you part of the mercenary guild and what is your rank?"
*Mercenary guild?* I ask confused.
"You don't know what is Mercenary guild?!" the woman raises her voice as she looks at me in disbelief.
*I'm not around here, Miss Kristine if I'm correct.*
"Yeah. I'm glad you know my name, Mister."
*Just call me Reaper. Could you tell me what is a mercenary guild and where can I find it.*
"The mercenary guild is not far away. I can take you there tomorrow as payment for you helping me."
*Then I will gladly accept the offer Miss Kristine.* I say while looking at her eyes which makes her face go a little shy.
"Great! I will not bother you anymore. I hope you sleep well."
"Good night!" She says as she walks away.
I close the door and jump to my bed again. I slowly close my eyes. as I can finally sleep.
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Next morning I wake up in my room as I see body in mirror in all it's glory.
*Hmm...* I start to realize. Yes, I am a Reaper but what about my actual body.
I take my hood off and my skull mask is covering my head all around. After a while for looking, I see behind my head an unlocking mechanism that allows me to open the skull.
*Click-
The skull opens from behind my head as I take it out of my face. My eyes look in shock at my head.
Nothing. I feel my head is attached to my neck but to the outside my head is invisible. I quickly look around as I but my skull mask on to my face and pull the hood far down as possible.
That explains why I am not hungry.
I haven't felt hungry in this body which should be explained by the no head thing but why do I then need to sleep? I think about this later now I need to go to the Mercenary Guild. I go downstairs as Kristine is waiting for me in the lobby."
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*Let's go.*
"Sure!"
We start walking on the main street as many people are full of energy for a new day, buying groceries out of wooden street shops.
I see something is wrong while walking as I see Kristine's face little red as she is holding my hand.
*Ahem. Kristine, why are you holding my hand?*
"Uhm... You are walking too fast. Yes. You are walking too fast so when I hold your hand I can keep up with your pace. That's right!"
She tries to argue while looking away from me embarrassed.
*You know that I can slow down the pace...*
She looks at me a little angry which looks kinda attractive.
*Fine.* I say as we continue to travel through the stone streets.
Our walk falls short as we arrive at the Mercenary Guild. The Guild House is at least twice the size of Kristine's Inn with a huge logo of shield slashed by a sword hanging from the roof. The atmosphere that the house has shown that its been standing there for a long time and it still holds the glory of the Guild.
When we arrive at the entrance, the whole place is full of people who look like warriors with big muscles and iron armor around surrounding their bodies. Many people have a massive sword on their waist or a hood low with a huge crystal staff on their hand. Many 40-year-old men have scars on their face that shows the tiger in their eyes from all the battles they had all these years.
When I walked in with Kristine, all conversation stops while they watch my weird outfit. They all looked at me with a scary look on their face which makes Kristine tighten her arms around my hand as I look forward to the main desk.
I walk to the receptionist which is a blond woman who looks charming with her 20-year-old body combined with a beautiful curvy waist. Her dress looks fancy as she has a long smoke pipe on her mouth.
"How can I help you?" the woman asks with an alluring voice as she freezes when she hears my answer to her question.
*I would like to register as a Mercenary.* I say which makes the Mercenaries around look at me even more while still keeping the death stare.
"Sure! Registration costs 2 gold coins!" she says professionally.
I put my hand to the void inside my cape as I take out gold coins like it is nothing.
I drop it into the table as it was worth nothing. the woman quickly takes the coins as I continue asking more questions.
*Do I need to take some kind of test?*
"Yes! We have a Magic training champer that has a battle simulation that makes enemies around for you to kill. Normally we would schedule a time but now the champer has nobody so I think we can take the test today right now! I go ask the Guild master if it's okay to use the champer now!"
The woman says as she runs away from the desk. It took a couple of minutes until the came back with a black card that had runes on it with a circle like a pattern.
"I got permission from the Guild Master! This way please!" she happily says as I start to follow her.
*Can't you stay here?* I say while looking Kristine who is still holding my arms
She instantly replies in a matter of seconds combined with her kid like act she is having.
"No."
*Fine. Can she come with me?* I ask the woman as she permits Kristine to go with me.
The test took almost a half an hour as I got myself a C-rank Mercenary card. I walked back to the Inn with a good mood while Kristine was still in shock with her mouth open for a long time.
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Guild Master Erik perspective:
Guild Master!
GUILD MASTER!
I have been busy a while because of Miralda's evil group gold Salazar has been making havoc across the town. It would not normally be my duty to not even bother with these punks but from the king's orders, I need to investigate if any of Mercenary has a relationship with this group. But my office door suddenly blasts opens as Laura runs inside.
"Guild master our guild finally have one!"
"What do we have?" I ask confused as my mood turns into happiness as I hear Laura's answer.
"Wizard!" she shouts while making jumping around in joy.
Wizards are very rare for the fact that they can use their bodies to turn into actual magic. Magic is condensed normally into object and magicians are the one that needs to chant a spell but a wizard doesn't need to chant and can turn their bodies into magic energy. The Kingdom of Escanor has about 100 magicians and that is a huge number for rarity and now our Mercenary guild has one which is very good for our reputation.
"What is his element?!" I ask happily waiting for water or fire. Both of them are very powerful and earth and wind are good too but very hard to master.
"Uhm... Darkness?"
"What?! But there are only four elements you can use!" I shout as my loud sound echoes through to the hallway outside.
"And all I can say from the simulation that I witnessed in the champer is..."
"He is a monster."