The Demon King's Paladin Part 2. All Out War.

Chapter 374. Guild Leader Alexis

" Don't you think that you could've done that a bit better still?"

" No, you've seen how the people and even the Adventurers in the Guild Hall reacted, didn't you? I needed to grant them some good will, with my word and the fact that they're already here... Well, it shouldn't take long for the gossip to leave our doors. More than that Jessie, why didn't you tell us that you'd begin training the new Hero? We'd would've held a decent going away party if we'd known."

" That's the exact reason why. I'd rather just leave, if I'd let you guys give me a party, I'd be too sloshed to catch my carriage out of Phoenix Tail."

" Come on Jessie, you remember what we say don't we? A missed carriage means a good party!"

" Maybe for most things, but when it's a request from Royalty, we really don't have a choice to be on time or tardy, do we?"

" It's never stopped me from partying though?"

" And that's one of the reasons why King Roman has that attitude when it comes to dealing with the Guild Headquarters in Whitestone."

" Ah those stuck-up old farts couldn't even find a bar let alone find anything worth drinking in one!"

Jessie just shook his head as Ms. Alexis shook her head, after she introduced herself, she asked us to follow her to her office. We did as she asked, and we all ended up sitting on 1 of 3 couches in her office. The office looked to be about the size of a classroom from my world. It was a simple room, there wasn't much to look at besides the big desk that seemed to be made out of fine wood and steel. It sat at the north side of the room, with the windows directly behind it allowing the sunlight to illuminate the room. In front of the desk were 3 large couches, each couch seemed capable of holding around 5 people, more than enough for our group of 6. Alexis was sitting at her desk while Jessie sat opposite of her on the center couch, they were going back and forth as the rest of us tried to get a read on Alexis. She seems... Somewhat different than her initial introduction would lead us to believe. She was quite rowdy, a bit tomboyish... Perhaps that's from the fact that she used to be an Adventurer in the past? At least that's my best guess, considering she's also the Guild Leader here in Phoenix Tail. She currently seemed to be enjoying the conversation she's begun to have with Jessie. It was like 2 old friends meeting each other after a long while being apart.

" Now then, I guess we should start talking about why you're here. Point blank Jessie, we don't know how many Demons are to the west of us. All we know is that it's more than 10. The reports that I've been given seems to imply that they have a base camp somewhere around 40 miles to the west somewhere in the forest."

" Is it true that they took our multiple B-rank Parties and 1 A-Rank?"

" Yes and no, the reports didn't mention the fact that the Parties were attacked at night. It was a surprise assault. One of the survivors was actually caught while they were bathing, they ran from the stream that they were washing in till they made it back here to Phoenix Tail."

" That's sounds terrible."

Lucy said the first thing that came to our minds after hearing that. To think someone would be forced to run through the night naked... It sounds truly awful. While it may have happened last month, we're still in the northern part of Gaia, the nights are quite cold, even in the summer.

" Yes, it was, worse was when only 5 survivors in all came back after him. All women, all told to leave by Party Leaders. They described no less than 15 specific individual Demons with different features."

" Why were such things kept from the report?"

Jessie asked a question that I was wondering as well. This sounds like information that we could use. To know more about the enemy could be the difference between victory and defeat. But Ms. Alexis quickly answered the question in a much more serious tone than what she'd been using since we've stepped into the office.