"your early today Alex, accepting another quest already?" Rose in the counter,seems suprise its only been quarter of the day has pass since Alex got back from a mission and now his taking one again,
"yes" Alex answered without a change in his face, because its to early in the morning there no one walking inside the guild ,expect for a old man that has just posted a mission on the quest board
"that merchant didnt cause any trouble to you rigth?" Rose said as she sort out the file in here desk
"he did sent an assasin"Alex sign inwardly
"ahhh... sorry for dragging you into this its just that, theres no one in the guild i can depend on" Rose said while looking down apologitically, even thougth this guild is well known, a small branch like this in a small town didnt have any B or A class hunters or adventurers
all of B class and higher has move to the main branch located in the city of southern monian empire, to sum it up the C class hunters are the strongest there is ,in this small establishment
"you have help me this much, think of it as a payback for your work" Alex sigh inwardly this is the second time Rose use him as a shield, the first one is a noble man from an established family in the town, he sent assasins to secretly kill Alex but fail miserably, the next day he suddenly "vanish", that fat merchant migth "vanish" as well but not today
"hahaha, i know Alex will understand me "after hearing Alex words Rose drastically change her expression from gloomy to cheerful
"so about the job...where is my employer?" Alex asked while scanning the place
"there he is" Rose was pointing on an old man thats has a long white beard wearing a scholarly robe looking like an old philosopher
"ok" saying nothing more than that Alex proceed toward the table where the old man is sitting
"who are you!?" the old man seems have a bad temper
"im a hunter who accepted your request" Alex answered there no change in his expression ignoring the angry tone from the man
"where is your party, I don't think you can last a minute in a figth with a class C monster with that physics of yours" the old man angrily lashes, Alex body is not skinny at all, but also not too muscular as well, his body was after all is build for figthing with guns,
"im a C class hunter ,i alone is enough " Alex said calmly
"i will not gamble my life on a self proclaimed expert! where is the guild master i demand an explanation!!!" the old man yelled angrily
"Mr Robert please calm down, the guild master is in the main branch ,so his not here ,but even Alex does not look like it, his one of the best hunter in Kalbanis town he has solo accepted a total of 399 quest without any failing one's" Rose left her place to calm the raging oldman good thing they are the only people in this small guild this morning
"ow...is that so? ,well then shall we have a spar i dont want to waste my gold to a man that can't even protect himself " the old man palms ignited with red flames and stared directly towards Alex
"Mr Robert please calm down you dont have to do this" Rose pleaded
"its alrigth Miss Rose, i should atleast prove my strength" Alex said without a hint of being frightened or any change in his expression
"i like your guts boy , pull your weapon" the old man grins ligthly
Alex pulled one of his gun from his holster without saying anything and started to aim at the old man
"do you think that little toy of yours can match against me.... burn for me, ^flame arrow^" the old man throws fire arrow heading towards Alex body
"ahhh" Rose yelled in fright but thankfully Alex manage to dodge in time, the flame arrow hit a table smashing and burning it to dust
Alex take this time for a counter , using only one of his gun, he shot the old man aiming to his shoulders
*bang*
" ^flame shield^ hahaha..is that what all you've got?" the old man used a barrier as at the same time as Alex started to shoot, , the bullet create a small dent but unable to penetrate the old mans barrier
seeing this Alex raise his eyebrows , pulling another gun he begin shooting more rapidly while dodging the oldman fire arrows
*ba-bang**ba-bang**ba-bang**ba-bang**ba-bang* Alex didn't stop firing his gun even though it can't penetrate the barrier ,
every time the man fires an fire arrow alex always manage to dodge it then firing for atleast 10 times before the old man fires another one
Rose on the sides has already forgot to breath
"you can't run forever on a figth boy" the old man continued his insult but after the 30th bullet was shot his face suddenly turned grim, a bullet has successfully found its way to the mans left shoulders dyeing his white clothes red
Seeing this Alex stopped shooting, looking at the old man without any hint of joy seen in his cold face
Rose on the corner finally sigh in relief, his looking at Alex with sparking eyes
"i admit defeat " the old man didn't know what to say if that bullet hit his vitals he will be a dead man rigth now, looking af his barrier, he found a small hole near his shoulder 'so this is his plan'
casting a barrier consume atleast a quarter of his mana, and all of the barriers can't be mended after release, only by recasting the barrier will it be perfect again, so if the old man recast his barrier he will be left with half of his mana for attacking
but judging from Alex performance ,its about time before the old man losses all of his mana and become a sitting duck
looking at the small bloody hole on his shoulder the old man understood that the young man in front of him is not simple at all, hitting the same spot of the barrier while fighting a moving target is very hard thing to achieve, except if that man is a natural born marksman
"say young man what is your full name" the oldman asked this tone is not angry anymore, as he put his hand on his shoulder and use a low level heal,the bullet was pushed away by the flesh and dropped to the ground and the wound on his shoulder is healed
"Alexander Warwick" Alex answered without asking for the reason because the old mans flame art felt familiar to him, he didn't know what this feeling
"ha ha ha" the old man started to laugh maniacally
"is there some thing wrong with my name?" Alex asked coldly
"no...thats not it, do you know anything about a gunslinger?" the old man ask while smiling