89 Becoming Gold Rank is Far-Fetched? (1/2)

The trio left the Guild building, and under the lead of Ozul, they headed back to the hotel of the suspicious old couple.

On the way to back, many people recognized them as they whispered in low voices while pointing behind their backs.

However, no matter how low their voices may have been, Raven and Blaze were both Rank-5 Mages and Ozul... well, he had his own unusual ways. So they could easily hear their whispers.

”Hey, aren't they the group who helped Duke Edwin…”

”Yes, I heard that the group was promoted to Gold Rank just today!”

”What is the name of their group, though?...”

. . .

Ozul's ears perked up when he heard a person talking about the name of their group. He only realized now that they had not set up a title or the name for their party of three.

It wasn't necessary, but all the Mercenary groups above Gold Rank had at least one title.

'Again with the names?'- Ozul did not like the idea of having another one of those cheesy titles. He already had enough of them.

'The Feral' and 'The Raven's Shadow' still bothered him whenever he heard them. Thankfully, not many knew about his identity as the famous assassin.

Even Rufus had heard about 'The Feral', but he did not know that Ozul and that ruthless assassin whom he had only heard tales of were the same people.

Just when they were walking back home, Raven asked;

”Why did you not take the test?”- She had been really curious as to why Ozul had suddenly decided not to become a Gold Rank Mercenary.

”Hm? Oh, it was nothing. I'm not even a Fighter, wouldn't me being a Gold Rank Mercenary be too far fetched?”

”Yeah...”- Both Raven and Blaze had wry smiles on their faces. Though his reason did make sense, they could not understand if him being Gold Rank was his promotion or still belittling of his abilities.

Of course, the duo knew that Ozul's power could not even be measured using the usual standards.

Unknown to the duo, Ozul had a completely different reason for not getting himself the promotion. When he had first noticed that Lucy had directed all those annoying shiny emotions towards Blaze, he had an idea.

Since he wanted other people to do everything for him, couldn't he also use them to have one less annoyance?

Ozul had noticed that Blaze also had a near-perfect face. And together with his demeanor, Blaze would make the best leader figure, which would make things easier for Ozul.

Just imagining how much easier things would be when everyone would just annoy Blaze instead of him, Ozul felt happier.

With such thoughts in his mind, Ozul gave a side glance towards Blaze, who suddenly had chills behind his back.

And to be honest, Ozul liked the idea of being the controller while sitting in the shadows. There were many benefits to making Blaze the leader.

Even if people were famous, they still wouldn't reveal their trump card to anyone. And the trio's trump card was Ozul himself.

No one knew how powerful Ozul was right now except for Ozul himself. And he did not plan to reveal his powers either. People can make guesses; it's up to them. However, he would not deliberately go around announcing how powerful he is.

That was an idiotic move, to be honest. He understood that some people of high statuses announced their Rank for their enemy to think twice before making a move against them, but Ozul still found it absurd.

Your enemy would always think twice before attacking you when they don't know how powerful you are. But when you go ahead and announce your 'might' to the world, the enemy just makes a plan which would put you in a sticky situation.

Hence, Ozul did not like to announce how powerful he was in front of every other person he met. It is just like how the wolf wouldn't care about the sheep's opinion.

Ozul did not care if some nobodies had any opinion of him.

Hence Ozul decided to set Blaze as the 'true leader' of the group, which he planned to expand in the future.

It would also be easier to gather more people under him due to the fame that they had right now or would gain in the future.