Guild Master Blackfrost smiled softly, seeing Alex slowly calm himself after the news he received.
"I'm sure you will do fine," the man said. "You are young enough that people will go out of their way to give you approval in just a few decades or so. There is no reason to be in a hurry anyway. Just go at your own pace."
Alex calmed down fully and thanked the old man.
The Guild master nodded toward Alex and took away the dark fog that surrounded them. "I will be leaving now. Let us meet again in the future."
He turned around and left.
He walked out of the store, making his way back toward the guild. And even as he did so, something about the interaction with Alex bugged him. There was something there that he had instinctively understood to be weird, but it wasn't coming to him fully.
'Whatever,' he thought. 'I'm sure the kid is not lying to me. He has enough potential that the Blue Silk sect would obviously go out of their way to—'
