" Maldor! Come here" the teenager shouted and Kayden saw a body that had been sleeping in a hammock on the ceiling fall to the floor with a loud crash. He was a fat man with golden skin. He was only wearing long, baggy shorts. Furthermore, he carried a huge sword on his back. The sword was entirely black, contrasting with the man’s bald head. The fat man didn’t have any hair on his body and had an honest, toothy smile.
"Fight with Kayden" Maldor didn’t wait any longer to take the sword from his back. The mere action caused a wind that would have devastated the environment, but it was easily held by Jhonatan.
Kayden took out his katana and spoke nothing as he conjured circles around him and expanded his domain. Maldor was a physical fighter; His talent was based on light and he began to have his entire body glowing and increasing his strength and speed to a much greater level.
The moment Maldor took the first step, Kayden threw dozens of aura slashes supported by the circles. Furthermore, he placed several clones around him and simulated his mana into them. His mana dominance had reached such a high level that no one in the room could differentiate the clones with their spiritual sense. Only Jhonatan could do it and only because of the semi-divine sense he had.
Kayden’s attacks were extremely strong and launched without any gap between them. Maldor defended with his sword and was pushed back a few dozen meters. He looked at his shaking hands in surprise.
While he was surprised at having his strength tested, Kayden was surprised by the strength of the fatty’s sword. His attacks were really strong and he knew it, but they still didn’t even scratch the sword.
As the fat man began to get up to go against Kayden, the boy was launching dozens more cuts and lightning strikes. He wanted to keep his distance against this opponent and would do everything to make it work.
Normally, a melee mage of equal level to a ranged mage would win, simply because the melee combatant only needed to defend and get closer, while the ranged mage couldn’t even miss a move.
At least that was the idea that Kayden developed in all his years of fighting, but he didn’t have much contact with truly extraordinary people. Most of the time, he ended up surpassing the geniuses within a few years.
The fat man defended everything perfectly with very high strength and speed. Kayden was inferior to himself using all of his body changes, but he was a mixed mage.
He was constantly looking for an opening in Maldor, but the fat man seemed to have eyes in the back of his head and didn’t even miss a movement from Kayden and his clones. Kayden tried to send a clone and it was cut in two by some kind of light.
It was an extremely fast spell and Kayden couldn’t find any hints about how it worked. It didn’t matter how many times he threw his clones against Maldor. Fortunately, his dominance was enough for him to hold off these attacks, but it still took a good toll on his mana reserves.
Area attacks seemed to not affect the fat man. Kayden only managed to draw a measly drop of blood as he overloaded hundreds of attacks and destroyed his circles with the pressure. This took a toll on him and wasn’t very good to do as it left him without circles for quick use. The more time Kayden spent in this fight, the more he understood that he had no real chance of winning at this point.
"I give up" Kayden surprised everyone who was watching, except for a few who were able to follow the fight as it unfolded. The fat man clapped for Kayden.
"You would have lost a fight to the death, but I doubt I could have done that without a high cost, you could probably run." Kayden nodded.
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"He’s Maldor the Fat," Jhonatan explained to Kayden.
"A pleasure to meet you..." the fat man waited for Kayden to respond.
"Kayden Heart."
"Gordo is our fighting leader, a seven-rayed wizard, and considered the strongest in our battalion after me. You will respond to him in clear combat missions. I believe the boy has proven himself, don’t you?" Jhonatan asked for some spiritual senses about them.
"He’s good," Gordo replied.
"Evelyn is our spy and infiltration leader, come here." Kayden saw a woman with purple hair wearing sexy clothes and bright red lipstick appear. Her beauty was simply incomparable.
"You will work with these two for now. They will explain the benefits of each quest and what you can achieve in the guild." With that, Jhonatan disappeared and left the three alone under the spiritual sense of other people.
"Go to work, you idiots ." Fatty clapped his hands which sparkled and shattered any spiritual sense around him. "Kayden, come with me."
The room they were in was a huge leisure space with tables and sofas scattered around, as well as some training points for the residents to have fun. It reminded Kayden a lot of the elite room at his first school.
Gordo took them both to a different environment. They passed through a tunnel and arrived at an empty room, it only had a single huge painting measuring more than 100 meters on one wall. Dozens of papers were glued to this wall. Kayden read some out of the corner of his eye and realized they were missions. The papers were divided into colors and height, the higher the paper, the more intense the color, and the heavier and longer the paper.
"Here is the mission wall. Weak colors are small missions, normal colors are medium missions, and intense colors are high-level missions. You can only take small quests for now. Combat color is red and spy color is purple," Kayden read a few missions.
Most of them were simple and difficult things at the same time. For example, destroying an entire village of people in the fourth realm was a difficult mission, but the method used was free. Fighting a battle for a country’s noble at social events was an easy mission.
"As you can see, it’s very easy to do some missions and just spend a few years here without any problems, but missions are done for the rewards. You are already stronger than the average we collected and have a much greater load of experiences. So you don’t need to keep doing that." Fatty was explaining every detail to Kayden.
"Our database of treasures and resources is in a book that will be delivered to your dorm today. Missions give you points that you can spend on resources. We have access to pretty much anything in this low-level area of the planet." Fatty explained a few other things and then took Kayden to his dorm.
The sleeping area was in an open ravine where some people could be seen floating from one side to the other. In some places, there were closed doors and some were open.
Kayden’s spiritual sense entered and saw that it was just a room with some privacy and mana collection runes, as well as some aimed at productivity and mental relaxation.
"We don’t have any rules in the dorms. The walls are made of a special stone that won’t break even with a strong attack from my sword. Choose one and read the book in a few hours." With that, Gordo and the woman next to him left without saying anything else.
Kayden just went down to one of the doors and started furnishing his room. As much as he didn’t care about the environment he lived in, he also didn’t want to give a bad impression right from the start and a little comfort wouldn’t hurt.
It took about three hours for the book to appear on Kayden’s doorstep. He didn’t know who gave it to him with a knock on the door because when he went to check it was just the book sitting there.
"The Miser’s Way," Kayden muttered the title of the book and began reading it.
"Welcome to the book in which I leave my memories. I am the Miser, the first leader of this guild. If you’re getting this book, it’s because the rules are the same: an exchange of favors in search of benefits, just that and..." By the time Kayden got past the next part he...
He felt an oath being made in his conscience without him even being able to react. It took a few seconds for his heart to calm down. Luckily he was able to see that it was just a silent contract.
"Now we can continue. Sorry about that." Kayden read these words and felt that the Miser was someone very strong and with a very high realm. "Do the missions and get stronger, keep climbing the ranks and when you think you’re strong enough, go to the garden of the crazy and try your luck." That was the last sentence of the book.