Four days later.
Bang!
The door belonging to the guild master's office opened abruptly and Charles Willer walked in with a smile. He then pulled out a lavish looking chair from his storage ring and sat opposite the guild captain.
"Charles, what can I do for you?" The guild captain said with a smile of his own, a fake one though. The guild captain had thought that Charles had let the issue of Peter go.
After all it had been over a month since Peter died. The guild captain didn't know that Charles had been away.
"Hello to you too Dorian, i am looking for one of your hunters, he goes by the name Zane" Charles said.
Dorian, the guild captain, was surprised. He had thought that Charles was here for David but apparently he was looking for someone else.
"Okay give me a sec" Dorian said.
He then took a stack of papers from his table and opened one before looking through it. Shaking his head he took another one and did the same.
The confusion on Dorian's face only grew the more he searched through his documents.
"Vanessa!!" Dorian suddenly shouted. The shout was so loud and sudden that Charles flinched in surprise.
"Yes sir" a girl ran into the room and stood behind Charles, facing Dorian.
"Are these papers completely up to date?" Dorian asked.
"Yes sir i updated them this morning" Vanessa said.
"Have there been any new hunters registered since that time?" Dorian asked, even though he knew it was a long shot.
"No sir"
"Are you sure?"
"Definitely sir"
"Okay you are excused"
Vanessa nodded slightly and left. Charles was there the whole time so he obviously picked up what was happening.
"Could David had hired this Zane person privately, or is he just a friend of theirs who was hanging around with them?" Charles said, surprising Dorian.
"David?" he asked, he didn't think this issue was about David.
"Yes David" Charles answered.
"What does David have to do with this Zane?" Dorian asked, he was really confused. First he thought that Charles' visit was about David killing Peter.
Then he found out it was actually about someone called Zane, now he is back to thinking it's about David.
"Ohhh you didn't know, Zane is the reason David killed my student. Apparently they were fighting for him." Charles started.
"I knew my student pretty well and i am sure he wouldn't fight against someone like David for something insignificant, so this Zane person must be something special and i want to find him" Charles explained.
"Ohh, okay" Dorian nodded, now understanding what this was all about.
"However it seems David did hire this person privately so I can't help you" Dorian said.
He was really hoping that Charles would just let the issue of David go and search for this Zane person instead.
Charles nodded "Okay i understand, so when can i come back for him?" he asked.
"I thought i just said I can't help you. He isn't part of our guild so-----"
"No i mean David" Charles interrupted.
Dorian sighed, this is what he was afraid of. David was the best hunter in the guild but Charles was also very powerful, both personally and financially.
A fight with the Willer noble family wouldn't end well for the guild. After doing the calculations in his head, Dorian came to the conclusion that it would be easier to recover after losing David that to recover after a fight with the Willer family.
"If you wait a few minutes i can call for him, he is somewhere in the city" Dorian said.
Charles nodded and closed his eyes, Dorian guessed that he was probably Cultivating his element.
Without wasting time, Dorian used the communication device he had in his ring to send a message to David.
He had a good mind to warn David to run but then knew if he did that. The Willer family would made his life a living hell.
The Willer family was the most beloved family for the peasants and normal citizens of Willow city, but for the other noble families and big organizations, it was an uncaring bloodthirsty tyrant.
About thirty minutes later, David walked into the office. "Sir is something wrong?, please don't tell me tomorrow's mission in cancelled" he said, not even acknowledging the person sitting opposite the guild captain.
"David this is Charles Willer, he would like to talk to you" Dorian pointed at Charles, who had just opened his eyes.
"Ohh" David hummed and took a seat on the chair next to Charles before rotating it to face the noble.
David was used to nobles asking to talk to him, that was because as the strongest hunter, he always gets requested to guard some of their carriages if they're transporting something valuable.
"Greetings sir, what can i do for you?" David said to Charles, respectfully.
"I need someone found and brought to me" Charles said.
David was slightly taken aback, this was the first time he got such a request but he wouldn't shy away from a paying job.
"I understand" he nodded.
Charles smiled "From what i can gather he has long white hair, average height, likes wearing white and goes by the name Zane" he said.
Charles, as well as Dorian didn't fail to notice the abrupt change in David's body language. As soon as he heard of the white hair he clenched his fist and his breathing quickened.
"Ohh is that killing intent i feel?, i thought you were friends" Charles chuckled, his curiosity peaking.
Dorian on the other hand was beginning to get hopeful that Charles wouldn't do anything to David. 'Maybe he just wants David to find Zane' he thought.
"He betrayed us" David said through gritted teeth.
"Calm down" Dorian advised David.
"Really?, indulge me" Charles said, his seat reclined and he crossed his arms.
"We hired him because we needed a healer, but later found out that he planned to steal from us" David said.
"Ohh why would you hire an unregistered healer anyway?" Charles asked. If Zane was really a healer, he would be registered in the guild.
"He's a mortal" David revealed. Upon hearing thise words, Charles sat up straight. His interest had been piqued.
"How good is he?" Charles asked. Mortal healers were extremely valuable, and at the moment, the Willer family didn't have it's own healer. Once a family member gets ill or injured, they had to hire one.
If Charles could get this Zane to work for him he would have the chance to nurture his very own Mage healer.
David chuckled "Very good, one of my team members once lost both his legs and Zane made them grow back in less than five minutes" he said.
He also wanted to talk about the time when he killed Peter but he was unconscious when Zane healed him that time so he wasn't sure how long his healing took.
David was of course incensed that he was sort of praising Zane
'That's amazing' Charles and Dorian thought.
"If i may ask sir, how did you find out about Zane in the first place" David asked.
He was curious about this because from their reaction when he told them Zane was a mortal, they didn't know him.
"Ohh my student was killed fighting for him, so i wanted to find out what was so special about this guy" Charles said. David nodded.
"I'm sure you knew my student, his name was Peter" Charles turned serious.
Naturally David knew Peter, as expected he started fearing for his life. It was obvious that Charles knew that he was the one who killed Peter.
'This must be why the guild captain told me to keep that whole thing a secret' David discovered.
"Sir i am----"
"Tell me where Zane is and maybe i will forgive your past transgressions"