The Adventures of Rose Hood

Chapter 19: The Mythic Threat

I headed back to the guild to pick up a few requests and there I saw someone who made me feel immediate fear from his presence alone.

"What are you doing here, Climond?"

Mammon walked out of the office and walked over to the terrifying man.

"Mammon, I heard that Saliad was killed in a tournament. I wanted to meet the one who did it."

"That's no reason for you to release your aura in my guild hall."

"Sorry, I just wanted to spook whoever it is."

"Succeeded there."

They turned and saw me.

"You killed Saliad?"

"Yep."

"Hah, the idiot was killed by a catkin of all things? I knew he was too weak to be put in S class."

"Saliad was definitely strong. I am just stronger."

Climond released his aura directly aiming at me. It was strong enough that even Mammon started sweating, but my fear was gone from his blatant disrespect of someone strong.

I released mine back. It was on par with his.

He looked at me with an odd fascination.

"A hottie and a powerful fighter. Wanna join my party?"

I then noticed that he was a dragonkin. As they were close to dragons, they were feared, but they were treated as actual people, due to their closer resemblance to humans.

"No thank you."

"Ah come on. I betcha I could treat you well."

He glanced to my chest making me feel gross.

"I already refused."

"Tell ya what, we duel. I win, you join. You win, I leave you alone."

"I'm not an idiot. An S rank challenging a B rank is lunacy."

"Not when said B rank is responsible for another S ranks death."

As expected, he was intelligent as well as strong.

"Fair, but I still declined so move off."

The adventurers around me looked at me as though I'd lost my mind. Few even talked back to an S rank, and I was telling him to mess off.

"Fun, then how about som-"

"I said no. Now if you'll excuse me, I came to get some requests solved."

"What if I hel-"

"Don't need it."

He was getting ticked off.

"Listen here, girl. I made a wonderful offer; you should be thankful."

"And yet I'm not. How odd."

He struck at me. Foolish move. I caught his blade with my bare hand. He released powerful magic, and I matched it not even looking at him.

I started laughing.

"You were making fun of Saliad, but the only thing you have is an aura that scares those it catches off guard."

The Dragonkin started sweating as I showed absolute superiority.

"So, you going to leave, or should I add a second S rank to my list."

Climond glared at me before leaving in a huff.