Chapter 96 - Feeling Like Leftovers (2/2)

It's worth to mention that the Mercenary Guild doesn't stop its members from joining another power, which is to guarantee that they won't decide to leave the mercenary guild because they prefer the other guild, or sect, or whatever.

Krune and Ao were pondering if they should try to see if there is any team in need of members and then join their group, suddenly, they heard someone calling them from behind, in fact, Krune and Ao where so focused on this question that this person had to call the two of them several times until they finally noticed it.

The one who was calling them was none other than Arlan Rosier, which puzzled the two of them greatly, what is this guy doing here?

”You finally can hear me, were you ignoring my voice on purpose?”

Ao and Krune shook their heads.

”It's just that we were thinking if we should join some other team that needs two or more members.”

Arlan immediately put a sad face.

”Is that how much you consider our friendship? Couldn't you have at least thought about me even for a second? Especially you, Ao, that hurts, you know?”

Ao had a weird face.

”I thought you would be joining some of your Divine Swords Sect members, no?”

Krune, Yusa, and Shinja immediately nodded, they also had the same thought.

Arlan then showed a helpless face.

”You see, the Divine Swords Sect had ten slots to distribute for the Martial Gathering, and they have already made two teams of five, so I'm left out.”

Krune and Ao almost fainted; doesn't that mean that they were his last option and a group that he didn't want to join to start with? They couldn't help but feel like they are leftovers.

Arlan saw their disappointed faces and started to laugh.

”Alright, alright, I'm joking, they had indeed called me to join their groups, in fact, most of them immediately reached me straight away, but I was the one to refuse, I believe we have a bigger chance if the three of us make a group instead.”

Everyone except Ao got curious, they thought that it's not like Arlan knows about Krune's real powers, but what they didn't know was that Ao and Arlan had exchanged a few Divine Sense messages during the Mercenary Selection, at that time, Ao had told Arlan that he only had 10% to 20% of chance of beating Krune, and that is only if Krune stayed in his human form, otherwise, he would have no chance at all, of course, Ao hasn't told Arlan which race Krune really is from.

At first, Arlan didn't believe that, but after seeing how fast Krune dodged Roni's attack back in the Abyss Danger Zone, he thought that Krune might at least be as strong as himself, thus, his decision to make a group with Krune and Ao.

Not to mention that if the three of them miraculously get more tokens than any other group, it will mean that each one of them will get two drops of Dragon Essence Liquid! How could that not make someone excited?

Noticing Krune and the others puzzled face with Arlan's choice, Ao sent them a message explaining what they had talked through Divine Sense in the Mercenary Selection, only then did they understand from where Arlan's confidence in this group came from.

Krune already had a good impression about Arlan, and he was also a Sword practitioner, but he was a lot easier going than Ao, and they do have some friendship to speak of.

”Well, if that's the case, then welcome to the group, I guess it will be up to the three of us now, we might not be able to get first place in tokens gathering, but I doubt we will have a problem getting enough to pass the first phase at least, but I would like to say that we are going all out for that Dragon Essence Liquid drops, so you better be prepared to work a lot.”

Arlan was more than happy with that, just like Ao, he is a sword maniac, the more battles to temper his skills, the better!

”Well, External Elder Loni is distributing the blood contracts to the teams, so let's go there.”

They got to the front and received one of the blood contracts, just as they were about to sign it with their three names, they heard another person calling them.

”Hey, how come you forgot me? Let me join your group as well!”

Krune and the others looked back, but their faces were full of confusion, it was a girl, and she did indeed look somewhat familiar, but they just couldn't remember who she was, even Krune was having trouble to bring back that memory.