"Forgive my late introduction. My name is Yves Lurey Crea. I am the guild master of the Imperial capital branch Adventurer's Guild. It is nice to finally meet you.
The red-haired women bowed slightly with an elegance that rivalled even high nobilities.
"Thank you for the invitation, Miss Yves. My name is Leon.
"I heard about you from Ellen. I was quite surprised at first, after all, it was the first time she came to me for help for something."
I looked at Ellen gratefully. "Right, she helped me a lot."
Not joking if it weren't for her probably would have to go for a lengthy process for verification.
Of course, I can just hypnotise and be done with it.
Yves then narrowed her eyes. "Speaking about that, Ellen where were you yesterday night?"
Girl, you need to look at Ellen while asking about it instead of looking at me.
Ellen just snorted at her. "It's none of your business."
"You are my sister it's of course my business. I don't want to make any mistakes."
Hello? Miss Yves, I am sitting in front of you, you know.
Ellen was also enraged by her behaviour and shouted. "Sister!! I am an adult and can make my own choices."
Yves wrinkled her brows and spoke nothing.
I can only shake my head wryly, family problems. But I heard important information just now.
"Huh, Lurey Crea, Ellen you never told me you came from a noble house."
"It's just a small noble house nothing special." Yves replied instead.
Where have I heard about it yea right I remember!
"Wait! isn't that Lurey Crea family from Boread region."
Boread Region is a poor place in the far south of the empire. It's a cursed place filled with beasts, barbarians, and demons. Few humans live there, and the people in charge of that place die every few years.
Yves was astonished and Ellen was equally shocked.
"H-How do you know."
"How can I not know that was the biggest failure of the Arcadian Empire, Lurey Crea the ruling family there was erased completely in a catastrophe. About 50years ago the whole Boread Region got ravaged by the beasts leaving no one alive. Even now nobody dares to go there aimlessly, yet Empire isn't able to control the situation there entirely. I listened there was a pair of girls who only managed to survive, fortunately, to think that these two were you and Ellen."
Yves was stunned by the amount of information l said. " I thought empire hidden the news of that incident."
I nodded at her. " Don't forget I am twice as old as you, incidents like this can't escape my ears."
Just flexing, honestly, it's only because the Quentin house is currently in charge of the Boread region.
Yves also believed my excuse and nodded.
"By the way, fate sure is scary isn't, you should know about the explosion in Imperial Family Carriage."
I nodded. Is it going there now?.
Ellen didn't understand why her sister asked something unrelated, what can I say Ellen sister sure is an old fox. It's good I didn't bring Lena or I would have to erase few people memories today.
"There were two victims in it from Quentin House of the Empire, they were a pair of siblings named Leon and Lena."
As expected. But you are too young girl if you want to play with me like this.
"Is it, life sure is unpredictable my sister name is also Lena, we would have saved them if we arrived here a few days early." I feigned an obvious faked surprised expression.
Yves smiled bitterly and shook her head. "You won't be able to, it wasn't an attack. Someone put explosives inside the carriage and blasted it."
"... Insider huh, if it's like that The Capital sure is going to get busy."
Yves nodded in agreement. She is now sure that this man is not related to Quentin family siblings in any way.
"Miss Yves I think there is no need for you to talk around like this."
Yves giggled. "Ehehehe~ So you realized."
I nodded completely unfazed by her charming voice. "I am thankful for your help. But I don't think the dignified guild master will invite me just for a chit-chat even if I am your sister's friend."
"Right it's because I need to go on an important assignment from Guild." I motioned her to continue. "Ellen will going as well along with you there will be three more SS-rank adventures and 3 other S- rank adventures."
"This is interesting what can take a team like this?"
Yves paused briefly before speaking. "We need you to explore the outer layer of Cursed forest."
Fuck, so that's it, instantly a realisation hit me. I furrowed my brows at Ellen.
Yves mistook my actions and spoke hurriedly. "Don't worry there will be rewards, we can negotiate o-."
"So that's why you were there!." I interrupted her in between and spoke towards Ellen.
"What do mean?." Yves looked at Me and Ellen in confusion.
Ellen expression changed.
"...She didn't told you!? she almost died a few days ago inside the Cursed forest, if it weren't for me she would be dead."
Yves's face paled, she fumed in anger and yelled. "Ellen what were you thinking while going in the Cursed forest alone, did you lost your mind!?"
I can understand her, Ellen would really have died if not for me.
Ellen got scared by Yves and said in a guilty conscience. "I-I know, I wouldn't do it again."
"What do you know? You know nothing! How can you do such a reckless thing?"
"Ahem, Okay, Miss Yves you should stop there. She is already scared you need to behave yourself." I put my hand around Ellen's shoulder to calm her.
Yves also noticed Ellen abnormality, she was frightened and had tears in her eyes.
Ellen is a strong woman normally. But anyone would be frightened after experiencing chased to death by monsters.
Yves also settled down, organising her thoughts she looked at me gratefully.
"Thanks for saving my sister Sir Leon we would always be indebted to you and I am sorry for my previous conduct, I kinda lost myself there, you know she is my only family left what would I do if I lost her."
I just waved my hand at her. It's not like I gained nothing from it.
Soon Ellen calmed down but there was a deathly silence in the room with no one speaking.
"Miss Yves about then mission can you explain." I take the lead and broke the silence.
Yves smiled apologetically at me and started explaining. " Right about the mission. In the outer layer of the Cursed forest, we suspect an evolved beast is present, we need you guys to go inside and investigate it, if found, exterminate it all along."
Evolved beasts are the Cursed monsters which retain their logical reasoning and intelligence but although it's rare, it isn't enough for organising a mission like this.
I stared at Yves suspiciously. She was unfazed by it just calmy observing me.
"What are the details about this beast."
"From our reports, it's probably a peak Demigod or a Pseudo-God level."
I put on a grave expression. So here's the catch Pseudo-god if it's true then it's is nothing but sending all of us to death.
Psuedo-God rank, people with this rank can never be seen, they always live excluded without interfering. The number of people will this rank I don't think will exceed 5 in this world they are extremely strong people who surpassed Demigod rank.
Heroes are different from Pseudo-God, heroes can exert the strength of God level but only temporarily, heroes have the protection of the world so they are extremely hard to kill, other than that they also die normally after completing their lifespan like mortals.
Becoming a God is impossible but Pseudo God is different it increases your lifetime to the 1000 year's plus other than Gods no one will be able to defeat you.
That's why in the Treaty of the Gods, Gods were prohibited to use divinity on any mortal being with exception to Pseudo god-level.
I thought for a while and asked. "What is the chance of it being Pseudo-God rank."
Yves hesitated before replying. "From the reports, we got from scouts chances are 50 per cent."
... It's a Death mission.