Chapter 6: Exclusivity…?

Handers intonation was weird in his words, as if he knew we would accept his offer. Neither of the other two knew how to continue this conversation, so it fell for me to. "Well, it depends on what and why, this IS the first time someone asked us specifically to hunt something." He looked over me in an uncanny manner for a few seconds, relapsing into his previous persona after.

"Well you see, I'm young, and people think they can walk all over me. So I thought that if I worked with people my age it would be easier, second, your group has not seen failure in ant hunt of yours, and that is less common then it should be, way to many reckless people think they can take something without some kind of plan. Also your kill never have pieces of external debris that would lower the price they have. As if you can move them without touching them, even if they should have some marks related to the extraction of tools and assortments." He said as he looked over all of us, with a thousand volt smile that did not reach his eyes, I had forgotten for a second, he is rich, he can probably bribe people so that they tell such things for him. It scared me that he had done his research, but my face was not moving, a technique that I had to learn before, no emotions were revealed. "And you see, it piqued my curiosity on how you hunt, and there is a score that I absolutely want, but I can't go myself." He said as he faked clearing his nonexistent tears.

But even if he thought he had something to force us to do something, he didn't, maybe some other rich person would come to us, with a better offer, he knew that, so trying to be fast was key to his plan, many others would be interested in a rising group of hunters that never failed. Many fall for the scheme, becoming over time the exclusive hunter of a rich person, but not officially in the position, and receiving much less then they should. "As I said, it depends, there are things that even with planning, cannot be hunted at a lower level." He did not know our levels, such things were considered secret by all, even my companions did not know that I only had Hauler as my class at that time. And since your first class always becomes a title it is not weird to have The Hauler as a title.

The facade fell, but only briefly. "Well, yes, I can see that wits are not all one must have, but I do believe that this one is of your level, as it is similar to your last hunts. A big fire serpent, I do believe you would know what they are?" The request was much more simple then I first thought, and that made me much more sure that he requested that he had a one on one, the room we were was not shabby, normally used by people much more higher in the guild then us, and he would normally have sent an aid, I was wrong, he wants something else. But what will be harder to figure out. "And you see, I will even give you some better arms. You can even choose, I do not need it right now, so you would be able to request something more personally made, as long as it does not go over the limit." Apparently silence was the answer, he blurted that out when the silence dragged to long.

Looking over the others I could see a glint in their eyes, and I could feel the same in my eyes. "Okay." We said in unison. after that was just some talk over the deadline and the amount of money we could use to request different arms, we were restricted by the amount of money, so I could see Stone asking for many items. Me I already knew what I wanted. Zuckar would ask for a shield, most likely.

"Farewell." Jim said as he left the room, according to police we could stay for 2 more hours, that was introduced since some missions were secret and because many higher ranked asked for it, and for some reason it was not exclusive for them. We knew that what he requested us was a bit out of our range, but not by much, and only because of the fire, it was not a tunneler, and for some reason stayed really close to water.

"I do believe all of us know what they will get, since he did not say that anything he would pay for would be retrieved we should not think only of the mission he asked of us." Zuckar's words were obvious, at least for me, Stone seemed to be in his own world, the amount of money we could use was big. "I have already decided to get a new shield, my previous one was about to fall apart, especially after the tiger. Do any of you know someone to do it?" Stone was the one to raise his hands.

An answer I should have expected came from him."My father!!"