Gideon had a brow raised when the man named Vincent introduce himself. It was the same man that he had bumped into before.
"Hello." Gideon gave a simple greeting, though his guard was up.
"I was wondering, were you the one that killed these beasts?" Vincent asked to which Gideon nodded.
"Interesting." Vincent said before he suddenly smiled.
"Well in that case, would you like to join our guild?" Hearing this, Gideon was a bit stunned.
"The percentage taken out of anything you sell to us will be lower that what the adventurer guild, not only that, but you will also be given free accomodations as well as your own vehicle to get around, there will also be a few small benefits as well." Hearing this, Gideon eased up a bit and thought about the proposal. There were definitely more benefits that what the adventurer guild offered, moreover, he would be making more money when he sold something. However.
"Am I being tied down by any rules?" Gideon asked. Although he was tempted, he still likes his freedom more than anything else, so if he was restrained, he would decline.
"Rest assured, that is not the case. You'll be very free and would only need to accept a mission once a month so that you can stay within the guild, otherwise, you're free to do whatever." Hearing this, Gideon's eyes gleamed.
"I accept." Upon hearing the answer, Vincent's smile widened.
"Great, now I just need to test something." Immediately he said that, his fist became a blur and in an instant, it was in front of Gideon's face.
Gideon's eyes constricted as Hades and Frey appeared in his hands. And in a brief moment, he activated poison aura and became a beam of green light and in the next moment, his dagger was pressed firmly against Vincent's throat.
All of this happened in less than a second and when everyone had realized what happened, the fight had already ended.
Sweat dripped down Vincent's face as he looked at the dagger pressed on his throat. His fist was still outstretched as he was afraid that if he moved, Gideon would attack.
"What's the big idea?" Gideon asked with killing intent laced in his voice. His demeanor had completely changed as the people in the room felt like they were being stared down by a predator.
"Hey, that's enough." Betty who was at the side tugged at Gideon's clothes while the other crimson dragon members drew their weapons.
"He, you really exceeded my expectations. I don't actually mean any harm, I just wanted to test you." Vincent said while slowly retracting his fist.
Gideon narrowed his eyes before slowly retracting his daggers and storing them.
"Don't try that again." Gideon said sternly before pulling Betty towards the elevator.
"Remember to come back so that you can have the guild inputted into your card." Vincent reminded but Gideon's just stared at him as the elevator door closed.
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Phew
Gideon let out a breath as he stepped out of the building, not after Betty gave him her number though.
'Time to go on a shopping spree.' Gideon put the matter of the crimson dragon guild at the back of his head as he had bigger things to do. Destroy the economy.
He got on a taxi that took him to the nearest mall and it was bustling with people.
Gideon went through the entrance and saw a large variety of stores selling gadgets all the way to potions and equipment.
Gideon walked around and very quickly found a clothing store that looked quite successful, its name was Blessed Threads.
"Hello sir, how may I help you today?" The store clerk asked politely.
"I'm looking for something casual and the something that's easy to move in, preferably black or dark green." Hearing his request, the clerk nodded.
"Alright then, follow me." She stepped from behind the counter and led Gideon to the many rows of clothes that ranged form suits to casual wear and so on.
She took her time and helped Gideon select what he wanted and what would look good on him.
Eventually, he settled for some dark green t-shirts, shorts and pants as well as dark green sportswear and a black sweat suit. He also got a black face mask to replace his self made one.
However, he saw quite a bit of clothes that were of interest to him. So after some thought, he basically bought all of them, and they were in the hundreds.
Gideon payed the slightly shocked woman with his adventurers card which apparently doubled as a credit card and went on his way.
'Still don't see how women can spend hours doing this.' Gideon thought before he went to a restaurant.
He quickly ordered food made from high quality beast meat as he needed stronger nourishment and he sat down to eat.
As he ate, he looked at the tv inside the restaurant and saw that they were talking about the beast tide.
{DREADED BEAST TIDE ABRUPTLY ENDS AS MYSTERIOUS POISON MAGE ENDS IT IN MINUTES}
Seeing this, Gideon felt like face palming himself. He completely disregarded the fact that stopping the beast tide by himself would attract a lot of attention. He just did it because he was there.
'Welp, not much I can do about it now is there.' Gideon shook his head before returning to his food.
"Another piece of news, it's said that the daughter of Lloyd Kingston, Victoria Kingston was caught in the military base by her father after the tide had ended." Gideon's head snapped towards the tv when the news person gave the announcement.
In the screen, you could see a regal middle aged looking man, Gideon's father carrying a little girl in his hands before a pair of wings formed from blue electricity appeared on his back and he took of into the air quickly disappearing from the scene.
Gideon felt like a fire had erupted within him as he unconsciously let his aura leak out causing everyone near him to loose their breaths suddenly.
'I will make you pay.'
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"WHAT ON EARTH DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING!?!" Lloyd's voice boomed throughout the room as he furiously scolded his daughter.
"I- I wanted to see what it was like, so that I would know how strong I would need to become." Victoria had her head down as she said this.
Lloyd rubbed the bridge of his nose as he heard this and looked at Victoria intently.
"Victoria, do you know the consequences of your actions? You've become a matter of discussion and not in a good way. What would your mother do if she was here" Upon hearing the mention of her mother, Victoria shivered, she didn't want to think about it.
"Now go back to your room and meditate, you need to go to school tomorrow." Lloyd dismissed her and she went straight to her bedroom.
'I will train and get stronger no matter what.' Victoria thought firmly as she entered a deep state of meditation.