Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 98: Ch-98 Friendly Introduction

"Younglings these days are too suicidal to go around taking on missions beyond their ability."

A handsome youth with black hair and black eyes appeared out of the shadows, making his presence known.

William had basically given up on wearing a mask at this point since basically everyone already knew what his second identity looked like.

And besides, it's not like this is his real face, so it should be fine.

William had come here to hunt the blue petal green dear for his first mission.

For anyone else, it would have been really time-consuming and tedious to find a single dear who was an expert in hiding.

But thanks to his [mana sense] and [stealth], hunting a mere dear was like child's play.

When he was about to leave and submit the dear to get his merit points, he sensed a battle going on and came to see it.

And he was surprised to find fellow adventurers in the forest; it seems like there were more than one mission issued in this forest.

After observing for a little bit, it seems like they were trying to capture the monsters alive.

He originally didn't plan to interfere, but when he saw the young girl about to get seriously injured, he had no choice but to interfere, or else it would've weighed on his conscience.

But he didn't want to kill steal, and brew enmity with random adventurers, and they seemed to be trying to capture the monsters alive, so he just used an ice spell.

'What the fuck' was the collective thought of all Jasmine, Max, and Raya.

Which makes sense considering some random, extremely handsome guy appeared out of thin air and took care of multiple B-rank monsters without killing them in less than a second, a task all three of them had been struggling with.

"E-edgez Lord?" Jasmine asked in confusion.

"Yep, that's the name I go by," William replied.

All three of them gasped in shock upon hearing his confirmation.

They had briefly seen his face when his face mask broke in his fight, but back then it was covered in blood, and he had a crazy expression on his face.

But seeing his face up close and without it being covered in blood, he was extremely handsome; his face was only second to Michael Harrions himself with his eyes revealed.

And as for his strength, it didn't really need any introduction; they had all already seen it, but still, seeing his magic up close was much different than seeing it from afar.

He was truly someone worthy of being an A rank.

Max had seen some A-ranked adventurers in the past, and Edge Lord was much stronger than them.

'Ahh, I'm gawking too much.' Max realised his mistake and decided to introduce himself.

"Hi, I'm Max Welk. I'm a B-rank adventurer, and thanks for saving my party member Jasmine; we really appreciate it."

Taking the lead from their leader Jasmine and Raya also introduced themselves.

"My name is Jasmine Verona, and I'm a B-rank adventurer. Thanks for saving me."

"H-hi, my name is Raya Kelter. It's a p-pleasure meeting you."

Raya had her head down, wasn't able to look William in the eye, and stuttered a little.

(AN:Someone call 911.)

[Being popular with the ladies is the tragic fate of us divine aspect users] Zephyr said in a sad voice, as if talking about some sort of great burden that he and William were forced to bear inside Williams minds.

William completely ignored Zephyr's attempt at humour. He didn't want to admit it, but he was kind of funny, and William didn't want to admit it, so he moved on with a smile as he introduced himself, completely ignoring Raya's obvious crush.

"John Sinners, but I'm more popularly known as Edge Lord, so feel free to refer to me as that, and don't worry, I just did what anyone else would've done."

He said as he held out his hand and shaken Max's hand to show good faith.

Once the introductions were out of the way, William moved on to the main topic he had wanted to talk about.

"You guys should be careful of the missions you take; if not for my timely intervention, Jasmine might have gotten fatally hurt."

William scolded as he looked at the three adventurers, who had their heads held down in shame, recognising that they had allowed their greed to almost get them killed.

William felt bad for them seeing their expressions, so he decided to go easy on them since they were all still pretty young, fired by the spirit of youth, and had an adventurous heart that sawked thrills and adrenaline.

"It's fine, you guys are still young; it's fine to make mistakes, and since you're still safe, it must mean you guys are lucky, and luck is a skill after all, so I would say you guys have some good talent."

"Also, what kind of adventurer doesn't have greed?"

"Just make sure to not test your luck too much and instead slowly gain experience and skills by doing missions that are around your level."

Max and Raya thought it was funny considering that, excluding Jasmine, Edge Lord was the youngest person here.

But for some reason, they didn't feel like they could rebuke him even if they tried, as he seemed to be filled with life advice and knowledge for them to learn from.

Which made sense considering William had 30 years worth of memories of his past life.

While he himself didn't try to confuse his two identities and tried to keep William Verhein as a separate person compared to Naoya Zingar,.

30 years worth of memories inside your brain are bound to affect your personality, regardless of whether you want them or not.

But it seems his words were perfect for the situation, as they had managed to both lighten the mood of his fellow guildmates and even call them out for their mistake without coming off as rude.

In fact, Williams words left such a big impression on Max that his next words even shocked William.

"Thanks, man. I really needed that, and if you don't mind, how about teaming up for this one mission I had in mind?"