Chapter 23 - The Guild (2/2)

Ignoring all this, Nathalia and Luke went to the receptionist.

”Why do we need to do an interview? I've never heard of this procedure.” The elf asked curiously.

”Sorry about this. We take our work very seriously, especially when it comes to newcomers. So we're looking up one by one and rejecting some.”

For Luke, that was bullshit. A city never had too many adventurers, being a profession of high-risk and high reward, many died and many entered every day.

The serious look the half-wolf had scared the receptionist a little, especially now that he'd seen him throw a knife at someone's ear.

”A-anyway, you can follow Eliz, the Guild Master's secretary.” He pointed to a dark-haired woman who was standing on the bottom step of the stairs.

The pair of newbies walked over to her, who gave them a pretty smile as she started to speak. ”Will you come with me, please?”

Luke and Nath just nodded grimly. Both were much more focused and stressed that afternoon than they were in the morning. Especially the half-wolf, who hadn't had such a busy morning like this in a long time.

First, he met Nathalia, The Mansion, discovered that his good friend Shiro was alive and on top of that, he kissed Ayumi. It was such a crazy sequence of events that he would not have been surprised to wake up suddenly in his traditional bed of straw.

After climbing several flights of stairs, Eliz stopped on a floor that had only one door and said: ”Can you guys talk a little loud? Master Zion doesn't listen very well.”

'Nathalia won't fall for this old story, will she?' thought Luke, impressed that the attendant didn't even blink as he lied.

”All right.” Nathalia nodded.

When receptionist Eliz opened the door, a blue-skinned, long-eared elf greeted the half-wolf and Nath with a cheerful smile. He was shirtless and had a very defined body, which was something unusual to see on the elves Luke was used to.

”Let's go in!” Zion said excitedly.

The baffling pair of novices stood still for a few moments before they managed to move again.

'The Master of this Guild is an Ainveldibra?' thought Nathalia. ”Hello, Guild Master!” The girl screamed.

”Why are you screaming?” The elf questioned, confused but still smiling.

”Ehhh, Eliz…” At that moment, the receptionist closed the door while giggling. ”Sigh…” Nathalia huffed, disappointed that she had fallen for such an obvious prank.

The half-wolf held himself back to keep from laughing at her disgusted expression.

”Anyway, do you want to join the guild? Of course, they can! Stroguehers can do anything!” From the blush on the elf's face, he looked like he'd had some drinking.

”Then let's go.” Luke said seriously and turned to open the doorknob.

”No, no, no! I'm kidding!” Zion said desperately, throwing himself on top of his expensive eucalyptus table.

The half-wolf knew more than anyone about free-spending assholes, and while he didn't think Zion was one, he sensed that Zion had some problem he couldn't solve.

”What do you want us to do?” He said, turning to hear the blue elf's proposal.