Tang Shaoyang was sitting across Sera, the girl's eyes never left the Dire Wolf King on the side of her. The guide could no longer maintain her sweet smile with the massive corpse next to her. What was left in her eyes was awe and admiration as she kept taking a secret glance at the man.
In one day, not only he completed two quests but also took down a bounty beast, 'How can he still be unknown despite his strength?' The girl was wondering how could such a strong man remain hidden.
The silence continued while Tang Shaoyang was enjoying the food prepared by his guide. As for his party members, they were in another. The reason he was here with Sera alone was that the Guild Master, the leader of the Adventurer Guild wanted to meet him.
Bam!
Suddenly the door opened hard and slammed into the wall. A man in his fifties with a gray thick beard rushed in. The dazed off Sera was startled and immediately stood up while Tang Shaoyang furrowed his brows.
He was about to scold the man who entered the room rudely but stopped when he heard Sera addressed the old man, "Good Afternoon, Guild Master~"
The old man however ignored the greeting when he spotted the massive corpse. He approached the Dire Wolf King's dead body. He stroked the smooth black fur and realized it received no external damage.
Surprised by the perfect condition of the Dire Wolf King, he opened the jaw. He was checking whether the Dire Wolf King died due to poison. The tongue was red-pink, normal. He opened the closed eyes, and it was also normal.
'Poison is not used to kill the Dire Wolf King, interesting,' the old man then stroked the wolf, from the head down to the neck. His hand stopped for a while when he reached the forehead. The skill received damage, but it was not the one that caused the wolf to die.
"Fair enough," the old man nodded his head, "Get him the bounty of the Dire Wolf King!" His order was directed to Sera who was immediately going to get the money.
"This old man's Carlos Artura, a retired Sky-Emerald Adventurer, and also The Guild Master of the Waskin Guild Adventurer," the old man introduced himself in front of the man.
He was telling his past to see the man's reaction. There was no reaction from the man, even the tiniest change of his expression. It was straight calm as if Sky-Emerald Rank was nothing or maybe he did not care about the rank. Carlos did not know, the man was hard to read.
Sky-Emerald was only a level below the Diamond Rank, the highest rank of Waskin's adventurer in history.
"Tang, Wood Rank Adventure," Tang Shaoyang made it short. The old man let out a sigh and sat down, he looked straight to the man, "Are you native of Waskin?" He changed the topic.
"No," again, Tang's answer was short one word. However, Carlos did give up, "Then may I know where you come from?"
"Do I have to tell you that to get the bounty?" Tang Shaoyang asked the old man, "That's not necessary, let's say it's just this old man's curiosity," the old man smiled.
"Then I am not going to tell you anything about my background," Tang Shaoyang replied bluntly.
'He's the type that hard to talk with, but he's for sure has a secret since he does not want to tell where he came from,' Carlos rubbed his beard, 'Not the type who love to chit chat as well, and not the type that would like to suck at someone with higher status as well,' the old man was analyzing Tang.
'The straightforward type huh!?' Carlos nodded his head, "Then may I know how you killed the Dire Wolf King? Just take this as an old man's curiosity."
"I knocked the wolf down and twisted the neck," Tang Shaoyang answered with a single sentence.