The Rise Of Calamity

When I and Olivia had gotten into the open, I felt like every faze had dropped on us, some more intense than the others, but out of all the stares, there were 5 that were the most powerful, while 3 others did not lack in the intensity of the stares. However, as someone who was used to getting stares no matter how fierce they were for over 30 years.

These stares were nothing compared to those.

I quickly glanced over the 5 strongest guilds while narrowing my eyes at some and scoffing at others. I couldn't help but think back to the sign that was at the front of the hall when I had come in, making me realize that we had probably come at one of the best times we could have come.

Apparently, according to the sign, every fortnight on a Friday, they would hold this guild recruitment ceremony where lots of new adventurers would come from different places within the kingdom to join a specific guild or at least try out for it.

The guilds I was looking at right now were called

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Reaper (Elite)

Thunder Dragon (SS)

Discarded Devils (S)

Broken Crusaders (Elite)

The Pheonix Feathers (SSS)

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Of course, on the sides were the three Alchemy, forgemastering, and merchant guilds. They were well known for being popular among the non-fighters. They usually as the mercenary guilds for protection, as many of them have to travel a lot, if that is from city to city for trade, or to find herbs in the wild instead of having to buy them for the sky-high prices merchants would put them on for.

Forgemasters on the other hand are split into different groups. They are split between Blacksmith and runesmiths. While open can take on one of those professions, only experts are usually able to take on both and be effective in them at the same time. While they might seem basic on the surface level, one would need to be an expert purifier of metals to become a proficient blacksmith and must have immense accuracy and concentration to become a runesmith.

Anyway, right now none of that was any of my business and my only objective was to join a Guild and get this whole thing over and done with so I can finally buy a house in this shitty city.

'Uhm... Olivia' I finally spoke while glancing at her slightly.

'Yeah?'

'I think you should go and join whatever guild you want to join' I spoke with a stoic expression under my mask.

'Nope! Not happening! I am not going to take my eyes off you' She shouted back, making me smile lightly

'Olivia... I know you care for me and you think of me as something like a little sister, but I think for now we should split up a little. While yes, we are a good team together, the same argument can be used against us' I took another glance at all the booths

'What are you saying?' Olivia was completely furious.

'I am not abandoning you if that is what you are thinking. I would never do that to Olivia. But for now, I think we should split up. We cover for each other's weaknesses too easily and we have been sparring with each other for the last 2 years so sparring anymore will not help our case. I know all your moves, and trying to change them is a gradual process. Eventually, we would reach a stalemate where we cannot benefit each other by sparring and we have to split up for a bit so when we do spar again, we gain some experience. That is why I am asking that we work in different guilds, so we can find the weaknesses in ourselves that we could not find while we were together I replied nonchalantly.

'S-so... This is the last time I'll see you?' She asked with a little hesitance

'...'

'Is it?'

'We are most likely going to live together. That is of course unless they give us our own apartments. only accept it if it's free.' I sighed with a shake of my head.

'Alright. But uhm... I don't know where to go...' She rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly.

'Just chose the one that gives you the best feeling.' I swiftly patted the back of Olivia, forcing her to walk forwards and eventually walk to one of the booths that had quite a line. However, she found herself not having to wait as a person from the Pheonix guild walked up to her with a small bow before pointing Olivia in the direction of an opening within the back of the booth.

I averted m attention to the Pheonix guild, a guild that consisted of only women, and turned towards the other guilds. From the information I could gather, the Pheonix guild only took females in, while the Thunder Dragons took only males. I could see a fierce rivalry between the two of them, making me sigh in disappointment and worry for Olivia. I was not about to join any of them, because one, I was also a female in this world so joining the Thunder Dragons was simply not a possibility while fighting the in the Pheonix guild was also prohibited since Olivia is probably going to choose to go with them since she does not like men.

I glanced down at my card with all my information before noticing something weird. There was a certain point on the card that I felt I had a small connection to, so I decided to flood it with mana, making my name and the letters around become brighter in color before being erased off the card.

-Choose Adventurer Name-

Seeing those words I began to ponder.

'What do I want my Adventurer name to be? I already tried my old name, Atlas, while using anything like "Golden demon" would immediately make the people around me suspicious since they know that person to be a little girl in the forest who killed "Passerbys" In cold blood apparently even though it was all of them who had attacked me first.

'How about Lilith, like the queen of hell? The mother of all demons? Pretty good name if I ask myself, right analysis?'

[Logically speaking, no one knows the name Lilith on this world so whatever kind of fear you want it to bring to people's souls when they hear it will be all on you.]

'Oh well. I'm still choosing Lilith though.' I had a slight grin on my face while walking towards the booth of the Reapers guild.

'They focus on the assassination, silent movement, tracking, and scouting... The person who owns this guild has an affinity to darkness and so do most of the higher-ups within the guild, like the man right in front of me.' I stared into the eyes of the man as if I was staring right into his soul. He could constantly feel a looming threat of death the moment we made eye contact, but it was brief and he knew he was strong enough to defeat me, in this form anyway.

"Hello, newcomer. Have you come to join the reapers guild?" He asked with a gentle smile that hid all his killing intent.

"Well, right now I am scouting if you do not mind of course. I want to find out which guild here is the best for me and the two rivalry loves over there had already been crossed off the list." II pointed my thumb behind me.

"Oh really? It seems that you had chosen to talk to us first. May I ask why?" He asked back in a weary tone while stroking his clean-shaven chin and staring daggers at me with his void-like eyes.

"Not much of a queue here for an Elite Guild. 1 out 20 in the entire empire, yet here you are without a single person" I mocked sheepishly as if I had no idea what I was saying or doing.

"oh? Well, the line is on the other side, but I kind of wanted to talk to you. Can I see your ID card please?" He lifted his arm and opened his palm wide.

"Here" I shrugged and gave it to him

"Hmm?" He looked at the name that just said Lilith, making him look at me weirdly before asking "Is this your real name?"

"That is none of your business" I replied stoically

"It kind of is my bus-"

"Don't make me repeat myself" My killing intent was forged from a mysterious power and the hundreds that I had killed before blew outwards. I did not know why my Killing intent was so strong even from the day I was born, but I could only guess it had something to do with my past life.

They say killing intent is created and carved out of the hundreds of battles one gets into, but the mind was forged out of something else, something I could not explain.

But if I were to guess, I would have to say that dying might have done something to me. It might have increased my proficiency with the natural rule or element of death, therefore increasing my affinity to death and making me have a stronger feeling towards killing someone.

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