After he woke up, Ilun in his embrace, he received a message from the Crown Prince, asking if he is not busy. Ryker thought of his schedule before sending his answer.
As he was about to head to the bathroom to clean up, another message come in. He grumpily check it before having her eyes wide open.
"The King, Grand Duke and his aunt want to meet me?" he said suspiciously. If it was anyone else, he would have call them a liar before cutting of any connection with them.
However, the person at the end of the line is the Crown Prince, so he would not lie about such thing. He pondered over why he would gain the attention of the three people before coming to the conclusion.
"Do he have to tell them of my exploit?" he grumbled. After all, unless they knew of what he is capable of, even if the Crown Prince told them about him, they will not be as interested.
He thought about the pros and cons of accepting the invite.
Pros, he might be able to gain favor from the two most powerful and influential people in the entire kingdom. He had already the third most powerful and influential in the form of the Guild Branch Leader. Having the first and second place holder will help him immensely if he manage to gain favor.
Another pros is that, he might learn new information of the greater world. While he knew the very basic, the king of Birak Kingdom should know more, or so he assume.
Cons, he will reveal himself to the two most powerful people, who can easily extinguish his life if they so wish it. While he could use his Remnant Power, he has no plan of doing it if he could help it.
Other than that, it's more of possibilities, one that he can only confirm by meeting the three person. In the end, he decided to accept it. While meeting the noble family will be risky, it is safer than rejecting the invite.
If the King is petty, he might find chances to obstruct him and make his life a living torment as long as he remained inside the capital city, something he planned on doing until a few more weeks.
The other man went silent before sending him the date. He quickly tell the other side that he had read it before saying his farewell.
After the messaging, he began to make way to the bathroom when he felt arms wrapping around his torso, with a very soft breast pressing his back.
"I want to take a bath with you," well, he could not reject her now, could he?
-x-
"I understand why you accept, but you should know how troublesome it is for me," Lariz grumbled before looking at the blonde in front of her, his aunt Collete.
"He accepted and would come in 2 more weeks, when uncle and father are no longer busy," he told her, to which the woman nodded and take a sip out of her cup.
After she was done, she smiled at him, "Don't worry, my brothers and I only want to see who could get such a compliment from you,"
He muttered, before drinking the tea. At least, the other side will be more prepared. Of course, just in case, he will make sure the servants at the mansion will help him prepare for the meeting.
-x-
After Ryker was done with breakfast, he wondered whether he should go to the Adventure Guild or to the Craftsman Alliance. After all, with his current strength, as long as he practice more, he should be able to reach Tier 9 on all his profession in 10 more weeks or so.
Of course, it could be longer but he decide to be optimistic for now. After all, aside from Alchemy and Formation Making, which are at Tier 8, the rest are at Tier 7.
"I'll visit the Adventure Guild first and take one easy mission before going to the Craftsman Alliancce," he muttered.
At that moment, he bump into Natali. Thankfully, his fast reflex allow him to caught the servant, oreventing her from failing. Yet, for some reason, the platinum blonde servant blushed as she realized they were close, before jumping out of his hold and blathering nonsense before leaving.
"What is that all about?"
-x-
"Arrghh! Why do I act like a fool?!" Natali exclaimed. She was sitting on the floor, her legs folded as she buried her face into her knees, feeling great embarrassment from her action.
"Calm down, he should not know of what I did. Even if he realize there is a monitoring item inside the room, he would not be able to tell who watch it," she said to herself.
After convincing herself, she stoof up before going back to the kitchen with the remaining dignity that remain, which is still in tatters from the fact she watched the two people he currently serving doing it like animals.
"Noooo! I can't go meet them," her spiralling thought prevent her from thinking anything to distract her, making it so she was trapped in the realm of guilt and want.
-x-
As he entered the guild building, he spot Catherine, who was searching for something. He quickly realize something is him, when the black haired woman walked towards him.
"Seriously, how did someone like him get Miss Catherine to rush towards him?!"
"I know right, in fact, Miss Catherine is looking for someone. That must be him then,"
"Waahh, so lucky. I want to have Miss Catherine looking for me,"
"With your face. You will be lucky she did not puke after seeing it,"
"At least I don't look like burnt dung,"
His overseer smiled at him, making him jump slightly from how he heard bumping- oh, it just some people fainting from her smile.
Then again, he could understand why. His overseer is beautiful, with her short black hair and her bright blue eyes, her small lips and creamy skin, it is no surprise she had so many admirers.
However, he push such thought as the woman addressed him. "Mister Ryker, are you planning to take missions today?"
"Not today. I will browse for it though. Looking for any easy one. After all, I already did the more dangerous stuff and want to take it easy for this week," he told her.
"Understandable. Come to my room so we can talk more about it," as he was about to follow her, a large man blocked his path.