People took the guild as a form of grand impact. But it wasn't true. The guild only accepted tasks related to dark spirit masters, clearing monster lairs, and defending any place against monster outbreak only.
Impacts accepted many tasks actually, varying between escorting merchants in their travel, up to even building cities or work as mercenaries. To the Fox guild, they only cared about dark spirit masters and monsters, nothing else.
As for the items they produced, they were well known all over the world. They were new, different from any other item sold anywhere else. On top of that, they had their strengths, in a way or another.
"It's me who should ask this question to you," that young man smiled, and for a reason it felt like they were eyed by a ferocious beast.
"We might be merchants coming here to purchase the products of the guild, why suspect us then?" the leader didn't directly answer the question, and instead tried to see through this young man he accidentally met.
"Well, if you are like what you claim, then you should be travelling with caravans, lots of guards."
"Our carriages are our rings," the leader didn't give up, feeling a bit amused by this talk, "and these aren't enough to be called guards?"
"No, they don't look like any guard in my eyes," the young man paused, moving his eyes around the one hundred faces in front of him, "they look more like disciples, and you are their master."
"Good eyes," the leader of this team didn't hide it anymore, laughed shortly before adding, "we came from far away, travelled a long distance just to meet with your guild's founder and leader."
"Is that so?" the young man didn't seem surprised by this, "let's go then. I'll take you inside."
The young man didn't halt his tracks and walked towards the front. Unlike the general situation here, he didn't go directly towards the huge gate that was shut, headed instead towards a side street.
"This…" one of the team members said in doubt.
"Believe me, it's easier and much calmer to go through this way," the young man smiled, as if he was also getting amused from meeting them, "if we went through the front gate, things would grow a bit hectic there."
"Sounds like you are someone known in this place," the girl who argued before about William's spirit power grade said. And others couldn't help but wait in anticipation for this youth's response.
"Everyone in the Black Tails team is someone famous," he reached towards a side alley, where things were quiet and calm, "follow me, and make sure to not touch anything that I didn't. Or else… Don't put it on me if you lose anyone on your team."
His tone was calm, and his voice looked normal, but to the ones who heard him, it seemed quite scary for an unknown reason. They looked at each other while that youth touched the grand wall of the Fox guild. And with his touch, muffled sounds came, announcing the movements of many gears inside.
"A metal engineering spirit element… The one who made this hidden path is really special!" the leader instantly recognised this mechanism of entry and spotted the one behind it.
*Crack!*
A door that didn't seem to exist there slid down to the ground, opening a hole enough for five people to walk side by side through.
"Anyone from the Black Tails team of our guild is quite special," the youth paused, waiting for the door to finally fall to the ground, revealing a dimly lit tunnel behind, "follow me. And don't forget, don't touch anything."
"No need to keep telling this to us, we aren't kids!" the young man who argued with the hot girl before said. For a reason, he didn't like the youth whom they accidentally met. And without knowing it, a will to fight and compare himself with this youth erupted in his heart, erupted fiercely that he couldn't control it.
"You say you are a strong spirit master then," driven by his desire to impress the hot girl in the team, that young man said in an arrogant way.
"And?" the youth who kept walking forward through such a deep tunnel said without even sparing this young man a glance.
"I want to test how strong you are."
"For real!" the youth rolled his eyes, "have you travelled all the way here only to have such a death wish?"
"You…" the young man never expected such a response from that youth, "don't be full of yourself! I'm a dark gold grade spirit master, one who is stronger than you for sure."
"And?" the youth seemed to not take any of what this reckless young man was saying to heart, "who said spirit power is the sole factor in determining who is stronger than the other? How childish of you!"
"I challenge you to fight me then, do you dare?!" that young man got hyped up, bringing himself a fierce glare from the leader of his team, and many others in the team as well.
"Ahem, sorry about that but our Lawrence here is a bit tired," the leader cleared his throat, trying to save this situation from getting any worse.
"Master! He is nothing! No one in his age can possibly get to dark gold grade! Let me fight him, let me show everyone here how strong and capable we are!"
"Shut the hell up!" the leader got fed up with this reckless and short-tempered young man. Anything that was related to Sofia, the young lady in the team, would drive Lawrence mad!
"But…"
"I said shut up!" the leader shouted in impatience, while the look on his face promised Lawrence a severe punishment later on.
The last thing this master would want was for a conflict of some sort to start up between his group and the Fox guild. If Lawrence failed, then it'd look pretty bad later on, and might even affect the decision of William about the request they came here for.
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