Path to Godhood

12. Benevolent beast gone bad [1]

“Oh, the Red Hound, am I right.” The lady who still recognized Daniel muttered under her breath, instantly bringing out a book from her shelf “So, their names and ages.”

     The lady asked with her gaze still fixed on the book.

“Roderick...” Daniel shuttered unable to complete Roderick’s surname

“Roderick Oswald, eighteen years old.” Roderick interrupted realising Daniel shuttering

“Apollo Yason, seventeen years old and a water ganasi.”

     The lady instantly tilted her head toward Apollo whose facial expression was filled with ecstasy.

“Water ganasi?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay..”

     The lady stressed her words turning to her book before jotting down both of their names. After some seconds, she drew out four pairs of green striped armour costume from one of her counter shelves, handing it over to the quadruplets who instantly began to admire it

“Unusually uglier than the other, but rather...”

“Shhh,” The lady interrupted, only leaving Roderick to gulp down his words “Place your palm on this orb individually, please don’t waste my time.”

    She instantly dropped a circular orb on the counter, staring blankly at the quads whose expression began to turn sour

“What’s this for.” Daniel managed to mutter after a brief silence between them

“It’s for knowing each of your guild rank and potential.” The lady answered weakly already getting tired of the continuous questioning and answering “Just start already.”

     Roderick subconsciously pushed himself to the front of the desk, placing both of his palms on the orb which was followed by a small glow that conjured a badge with a bold letter ‘A’ with three stars underneath it.

Apollo who was already dying of curiosity jumped in as the next individual and ended up getting an B rank with five stars.

“Yay.” Apollo gave out a loud cheer unable to contain her excitement “Please mam, could you tell me the ranking order.”

“In descending order, SS-S-X-A-B-D. While the stars are ranked by the individual’s potential as I mentioned earlier.” The lady rolled her eyes with a frustrated face

“Hum, okay.” Apollo muttered in disappointment to her rank compared to that of Roderick before stepping back for Stella who stared anxiously at the orb

“Go on.” The lady shouted at Stella who instantly placed her palms on the orb like the others leaving an A ranked badge with three stars.

“Oh.” The lady answered calmly, drawing a tick mark on Stella’s name “I really thought the red hound was going to be a fraud guild.”

“Well, it definitely isn’t going to be one of those setups.” Daniel replied with a firm brave voice. His fears had entirely disappeared with the help of the others who were proud of their result, so there was definitely no need to get worried.

      Daniel quoted brave thought in his heart leaving his palm to fall freely upon orb which gave out a glow after revealing the X ranked badge with four consecutive glowing stars

“Yay, I did, we all did it, we finally created a guild.”

[Yeah, congratulations you completed your mission so here is your reward]

«Race – Half-elf EXP. 20

 «Companion – Daniel Coleman

 «Stats – Strength – 14

                  Speed – 12

                  Stamina – 12

                  Endurance – 13

                  Agility – 12

                  Charisma – 01

                  HP – 1000

                  Chi – 41

                  Mana – 212

                  Divine – 1%

       The comment from Claudius reminded Daniel of the main reason why he created the guild and just then he could no longer stop himself from smiling.

“Now remember our agreement Daniel, ten gold coin will be deducted from your quest award until complete.” The lady reminded, picking four local metallic sword from the ground and dropped it on the desk leaving the guild to pick theirs randomly “Please be careful with it here, and remember to always wear the outfits when trying to accomplish a quest.”

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“So, what is the best quest to choose from.” Roderick muttered tracing his nail tip through the various quest posters on the hall board

“They all seems easy for an A-levelled and above ranked but the rewards are just too discouraging.”

“Then just do the Benevolent Feng quest, look, thirty gold coin to just catch it.” Apollo retorted with a smile while tapping her finger on poster with drew the diagram of the beast.

    Daniel instantly gave out a frown seeing the beast’s diagram while looked like a tiger, having quadruple tail and two short horn which sprouted out from both corners of its head.

“It kind of look scary.” Stella muttered imagining a scene of herself being devoured by the beast

“Hey, there is a benevolent in it name, just look ‘CAPTURE BENEVOLENT FENG’, and by the way we were only told to capture it.” Apollo explained still keeping her happy face “let’s just go out to the counter and tell the lady that we are going for this quest, by the way she mentioned about returning ten gold coin to her.”

      Apollo explained already making her way towards the counter desk leaving the others no choice but to oblige.

“Hello, we chose the ‘Benevolent Feng’ quest.”

     The lady instantly burst into an uncontrollable laughter upon hearing the words from Apollo

“All these monster race of different brains.” The lady murmured ticking a row of words on her book

“Don’t be racist madam.” Roderick who overheard the comment drew himself closer to the desk, snatching the dirty pen from her hands “We made that decision together.”

“Well,” The lady answered picking a green miniature cage and a page of paper from the counter shelf

“All normal people will know what they are and their uses. Anyways, just try to win the quest if you can and remember, ten coin will be deducted from pay.”

She handed the items to Roderick who in exchange dropped her pen

“Thank you, mam.” Apollo stammered in complete irritation to the lady who continued on her work.

“Don’t get mad or sad alright, there are good and bad people everywhere.”

     Daniel broke the silence between all of them as they headed towards the door

“Me, get sad over petty words, I get a lot of tease back in Oziah.” Apollo forced a smile into her cheeks which instantly fell back into its former blank expression

“But now I’m worried of how we are going to capture benevolent Feng without weapons.”

“Ahh.”

    Daniel and Stella simultaneously exclaimed rushing back to the lady who paid no attention towards them

“Ehn, hello again.” Stella called out to lady who turned her gaze tiredly towards them

“What!!” The frustrated voice of the lad echoed in the room. She instantly closed her eyes compressing all her anger “Are you indirectly telling me to quit this job.”

“Not at all mam, but what about the weapons.”

“Oh, you guys really do depend on that.” The lady pointed toward a certain direction in the hall with almost teary eyes “Give the guard this note and he’ll give you the weapons.”

She jotted down some bunch of words and handed it over to Daniel

“Thank you.” Daniel thanked with a wide smile and hurried towards the direction where he met two muscular and well dressed men standing in front of a steel iron door.

     He instantly handed the note to one of the guard and shifted backwards by few steps while patiently waiting for the guards response.