Chapter 22 - CHAPTER 22

As soon as Ren entered the room, he saw a man lying on the ground, looking at him weakly. As the smoke cleared a bit, he was finally able to see that man's face. From all the memories he collected so far, he had already seen this man's face many times. His name was Haruki or something, and his ability was something mysterious that no one had a clue about.

As soon as he saw him, Ren became cautious and instantly activated his berserk skill, transforming into that monstrous-looking man. Ren thought that the man before him was very strong, assuming he should be the most powerful person in this guild on this floor.

After experiencing that hooded man's strength, he stopped looking down on others and became serious. He dashed towards him with full speed and held him up by the neck. By then, he realized he was worried for nothing; this man was weak.

"Arkkkk!!!" Haruki cursed as he coughed up some blood.

"Why did you try to kill me, weakling?" Ren asked in his monstrous voice.

Haruki, struggling to breathe, looked at him furiously and weakly threatened, "Y-You won't get away with this."

"Hump, we will see about that later. Now tell me, why did you try to kill me, weakling?" Ren asked in his monstrous voice. But Haruki didn't give a damn; he knew he was going to die anyway. Before his death, he showed his middle finger and bit his own tongue to kill himself.

Seeing that the man before him just committed suicide, Ren felt frustrated; he wanted answers.

"F*ck!!! Why did he kill himself? I still wanted my answer." Ren cursed in his mind, took a deep breath, and murmured, "Sigh, well, let's just try this in my own way." A blue energy appeared in his hand, but then a sudden thought came to his head.

"Wait, since he was also at level 10 before his death. Let's see if he can become my new servant!" Ren muttered and quickly deactivated his extraction ability. Then he placed Haruki's body on the floor and muttered, "AWAKEN!"

Chaos started to come out of his hand and entered his body; the dead body began to vibrate violently. It became like a balloon that would burst if even a little bit more pressure was given.

"Sigh!! I guess this didn't work." Ren looked disappointed as he thought this was another failure.

Just when he thought the body would burst, to his surprise, it didn't burst but made an explosion. His body began to turn normal, and his wounds began to heal by itself.

"What? I can't believe this truly worked?" Ren was now totally shocked to see that Haruki began to rise up. Without wasting any time, he quickly gave his memory back as it was the most necessary thing for him.

"Hmm, it seems after I gave him his memory back, he became a bit confused. He should be thinking about what just happened." Ren thought as he looked at Haruki, who was now in a confused state.

"Hey there, do you remember what happened?" Ren asked curiously.

"Yes Master! I remember everything. I am here at your service. If you need anything, please ask." Haruki said in a respectful tone with a 90-degree bow.

"Hmm, now tell me, why did you want to kill me?" Ren asked as he reverted back to his original face.

"I am sorry, Master, if I have caused you any trouble. It's just my initiate ability is called future sight. That lets me see the future, in exchange for a huge amount of mana."

"There I saw that you completely destroyed my guild and even killed me, so I hired James to assassinate you. But it seems he lost and was killed by you." Haruki said with a bow without any guilt as for him, it was a normal thing to do.

"Sigh, anyway, did you tell anyone of your higher-ups about me?" Ren asked, hoping to avoid any unnecessary troubles.

"No Master, I haven't. At first, I thought that Jake killed you, so I didn't inform anyone. Still, when I rechecked about my future, I found out that nothing changed. Just when I tried to contact the higher-ups to let them know, they didn't answer my call, or I couldn't somehow connect to them." Haruki replied respectfully.

"Hmm, I guess I was lucky that I told Luna to use her ability in advance, or I would have been in serious trouble." Ren muttered as he sighed in relief.

"Alright, since you already have a name, I don't think I need to give you one. Just follow me; I need your help." Ren said casually and started to walk ahead, and Luna and Haruki just followed behind.

As they got out of the room, they saw that the catgirl was still on the ground unconscious.

"Oh, I forgot to ask, who is she? That hooded man said that she was the daughter of some guild leader." Ren asked casually. He then instructed Luna to pick her up, and she did without a complaint.

"Yes Master. Her name is Mia Felicity. She is the daughter of Felicity guild master. Their guild is one rank higher than ours and is also our competitor. Even their guild master is stronger than our guild master."

"So one of the higher-ups kidnapped his daughter when she was on the 10th floor visiting an auction. And sent her to our guild to hide any evidence. Now it's been already a week since that incident."

"No one knows that we kidnapped her and thought that when their guild master would be on a weak mental state, we would take advantage of it and take over their guild. But it seems even that plan failed." Haruki replied with a straight face.

"Hahaha! I guess I am lucky." Ren said as an evil smile appeared on his face.

"So Haruki, tell me how many more days do we have until your higher-ups find out that their branch on the first floor got totally destroyed." Ren asked as he was cooking some plan in his mind.

"Master, in hypothesis, it would need at most 10 hours." Haruki replied with a straight face.

"Oh, shit! I guess I don't have much time." Ren cursed as the plan he was making now needed to be finished fast or he would be in trouble.

**(TO BE CONTINUED)**