24. Warrior
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“master! Are you going to stay like this until right before departure!?”
Vice guild master Millain of the World Tree. Before inspecting the cradle, she eagerly urged her master.
“still…”
Eloa, the master of the World Tree, was not happy with the current situation.
The cradle is regarded as the second most important facility in each country after the sanctuary where the holy stone is stored.
The cradle is operated completely independent of external interests and power structures, and has a special character that even the royal family cannot easily interfere with it.
In other words, the situation like today where the door of the cradle is forcibly opened due to external pressure can be seen as an unprecedented and humiliating situation for a cradle.
“…Wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t go? I’m not even going to see the dean for the rest of my life…”
“Oh really! Again, that sound!”
When Millaine shouted, Elroa flinched and shrugged her shoulders. Millaine was almost relieved of her anger at Master’s soft and cute appearance, but then frowned again.
“Boss mob killer, boss mob killer! As ever, the next few decades of the Coalition will revolve around him. How lucky we are that such an apostle was born from the cradle of Skeletonia, and that we are the strongest guild in this country!”
“I know, I know…”
“No matter what!”
Millane leaned forward and slammed the table with both palms.
“U.S! I have to bring them!”
“…”
Eloa couldn’t open his mouth any longer. Because Millain’s words were absolutely right.
Miller is not selfish. Even if there was a limit to losing Chuck with the dean, the boss monster killer was a treasure that must be preoccupied. Her way of thinking, who was in charge of most of the guild’s operations, was extremely reasonable and right for the guild. Eloa himself knew that well.
Millaine also wanted to respect the Master’s opinion, but this time it was too big a deal. Millain decided to go hard this time.
“Let’s go quickly, even though I’m wearing all my armor, I talk a lot!”
“Ah Okay…”
Millaine dragged Elroa by the wrist and led her by force. Even though Elroa’s abilities were pitiful compared to Millain’s, she was dragged out powerlessly.
Rather than a guild master and assistant master, it was a relationship that looked more like a sister and a younger sister. It was as if Elroa was being dragged around by her younger sister, Milane, who had a strong personality.
However, the moment she left the master’s room, Elroa’s momentum completely changed. The weight of the air surrounding her changed.
The guild master of the World Tree, exuding 100 years of experience and charisma. This was the figure of Eloa that everyone knew.
In reality, he was a weak elf who still couldn’t forget someone who had died 100 years ago.
Only a few knew the true nature of Eloah.
The two got on a dazzling carriage, being escorted by guards and a coachman.
Eloa leaned back on the soft chair. When they were left alone with Millaine again, she loosened her hardened face and stretched her body out.
“Ah… I don’t know how to look at the dean’s face, really…”
“You have to eat heartily. The dean, that person should understand with reason.”
Although he was constantly frowning, Millaine didn’t hate seeing Eloa like this. Rather, because of this human appearance, haven’t you been supporting her like an older sister?
“strength! strength! The future of our guild depends on this matter! Even for the guild members! strength!”
Millaine took out the cold chocolate from the frozen magic storage inside the wagon and put it into Eloa’s drooping mouth. Elroa made a weak face, but opened her mouth like a chick and munched on the chocolate.
Millaine sat down next to Elroa, read through the data for this day, and stuffed chocolate into her mouth.
It was like an older sister forcibly feeding her younger elementary school student who was drunk early in the morning to school. Of course, Elroa was over 80 years old, but that was the case anyway.
Because Yoram prevented information leakage as much as possible, there was not much information given. At most, the boss monster killer was the current chief.
Eloah leaned on Millaine’s shoulder and ate chocolate and tea while listening to the briefing. Even if it seemed like this, her head was already running tight with the calculations for this incident. Because the master position of the strongest guild wasn’t earned by beating the bullet.
And when the carriage stopped for a moment, a gruff voice came from outside the window hidden by the curtains.
“Hey, old lady.”
Elloa, who had been eating the chocolate peacefully, frowned. Her long ears pricked up.
An unwelcome voice that forcibly intervened in this incident.
The coachman’s voice came from the speaker.
[master. The kingdom warrior borrowed from the wagon next door…]
“I know…”
[…Yes.]
The discerning coachman quickly recognized the master’s timid voice and lowered the microphone.
“Whoa…”
the curtain opens
“It’s been a while.”
The man on the other side waved his hand.
He grinned, creating deep wrinkles in the skin of his face as thick as the skin of a tiger. The rough face, full of scars, resembled the shape of a tiger exposing its fangs.
An uninvited guest on this visit. It was Heineken, the hero of the Billen Kingdom.
“…Yes.”
Eloah responded indifferently with a polite, expressionless face. She did not hide her displeasure.
“Gpggg. I was hated.”
But as if he didn’t care too much, he waved his hand at Millaine, who could be seen over Elroa. Millaine responded by sticking her tongue out.
Although there is a bloody competition over the recruitment conditions of the boss monster killer, most of them expected the victory of the World Tree.
However, in such an atmosphere, the situation was reversed when Heineken, a warrior from a neighboring country, intervened.
Eloa grasped the two figures he could see through Heineken and frowned. Among them was the finance minister of the Kingdom of Billen.
‘Rumors circulated that he came directly from the royal family of Billen…’
It got really dangerous. No matter how much the world tree was a dinosaur guild, it was nothing compared to a nation.
What if Heineken’s guild puts the royal family’s wealth on its back in this recruiting competition? As a world tree, it will be very difficult.
‘How the hell did he find out…’
At the kingdom level, each guild leader was summoned and all gaps for information to escape were blocked. Nevertheless, the author picked up like a ghost and intervened in this place.
The information power of the Billen Kingdom was unparalleled on the continent. The royal family of Billen was strangely obsessed with information power, but it is said that every year, they pour an inefficient amount of wealth into information power.
Backed by such intelligence, Heineken’s guild, the greatest warrior in the kingdom of Billen. Thanks to this, Heineken used to be called a talent hunter, along with its greed for talent.
Normally, he is a reliable ally fighting against the demon king army, but in this case, he was a very tricky enemy.
Eloa closed the curtains with a stroke. They went back to back several times on the battlefield anyway, so there was no need to be formal.
“Gpgggg.”
Heineken laughed with a scratching sound, like a tiger growling. It was a relaxed appearance with a corner to believe in.
Before long, the two wagons arrived at the cradle side by side. In front of the cradle, dazzling wagons had already gathered. All the guilds that are said to be the best in this country are from here. and.
“Open the door!!”
The door to the cradle, which had been firmly closed until now, opened.
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“This is the cradle…”
“Ah, Master must be the first cradle?”
Elloa looked around for the first time in her life, forgetting her body language, in a place she would never see again. Millaine watched with a smile on her lips, thinking that Master was cute.
“Wow… fuck, I’m back in the cradle…”
“Don’t look around. It’s tacky.”
The earthling guild members who had followed Heineken to assist were scolding.
Earthlings who are malicious sellers in the talent market. For him, the cradle was a place where the pain of bullying was buried.
The fact that he had come back from such a successful place kept tickling his sense of superiority from his ugly sense of inferiority.
“If you tell us where you want, we will guide you.”
The inspection team decided to observe the classes of the cadets first. Even though the inspection is only in name, you should pretend to do it anyway.
Naturally, the inspection team requested to observe the boss monster killer’s class. However, the instructor in charge of the guidance refused, saying that he could not tell who the boss monster killer was for the sake of the cadet’s privacy. He was an instructor closer to the dean’s line than the guild.
However, the inspection team did not go so smoothly.
“Look.”
“Yes, yes, yes!!”
The hero Heineken slipped into a deserted place and threateningly placed his arm around the clumsy-looking assistant instructor. The thickness of his arm was slightly exaggerated, the size of the instructor’s head.
“Because I got lost. Which class is the cadet, the head of the cradle now?”
He cast a shadow over the instructor’s face and asked with a bizarre face like a tiger laughing.
“That, that, won, xiksang… individual…”
“yes?”
“yes!?”
There was no way a new instructor or something like that could dare to handle the spirit of a hero called the White Tiger of Billen.
In the end, Heineken led the inspection team toward a martial arts class, and the guild masters silently moved on even though they clicked their tongues at his ungentlemanly methods.
They soon arrived at martial arts class, where they could see the cadets practicing on their own.