Silva made it out of the gate. It was getting late, but the sun wasn’t gone yet. As he walked out, he spotted the guard that had given him a hard ti, and it seed the gates had also rembered his face.
The guard was stunned to see Silva, but Silva didn’t pay any attention to him and walked past. He got to the road and imdiately got a taxi straight for the guild. He had made fifty cores today, with two being from the hobgoblins.
He smiled as he saw them inside his inventory. This was good, his life was about to change.
The taxi pulled up at the guild and he got out. The sa receptionist was there, and when she saw Silva, she gave him a suspicious look.
He didn’t care. He walked to the counter and let out all the cores. She noticed that he didn’t carry them in.
"Does this dude sohow have a spatial artefact or sothing? I’ll have to report this." she thought. She looked down and the mont she saw the cores on the counter, she freaked out, taking a step back.
Sure, it was low-level cores and though plenty, it wasn’t overly outrageous, but fifty goblin cores for an F-ranked was crazy. She could even spot the two hobgoblin cores.
She looked at him, forcing herself to calm down. "Is it from the friend again?" she asked.
"Yes, it was," Silva replied.
She looked at him for a few seconds, didn’t say anything more, and grabbed the cores. She pushed them into a tray.
Silva knew that she doubted him, but he would keep running with that story for now until he couldn’t.
She walked in with the tray, and after so ti she returned with the cash.
"Each one went for a hundred credits, while the other two went for two hundred. That’s five thousand, two hundred credits," she said with a small stack of bills there.
He grabbed it without saying much. He walked out while the receptionist imdiately headed inside. She used the stairs and made it to the guild master.
She knocked on the wooden door a couple of tis and a calm voice ca from inside, allowing her to co in. She unlocked the door and entered the office.
It was a simple office with a large wooden table covered in files and docunts. There was a hologram machine sending images of news and other happenings.
And on the chair behind was a man, a young man no more than thirty. He had a sharp face and eyes, with jet black hair that was laid back.
He looked up from the docunt in his hands and when he saw the receptionist, he dropped the docunt.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Guild master, there is an issue that I feel is unnatural," she said.
He raised a brow, then leaned in, hands clasped together and placed under his chin.
"Go ahead, tell what’s the issue," he said.
She went on to relay the two occasions that Silva had co in. He listened to her and felt that it was weird.
"You said his na was Silva, right?" he asked.
"Yes," she replied.
"There was a Silva on the news about the gate that basically killed everyone that went inside first," the man said. He moved his hand in a certain gesture and the hologram responded. It shook and showed a face of Silva.
"Is this the one?" he asked.
"Yes, that’s him," she replied.
"Hmmm, he just got out of the hospital a few days back, and he is already gathering cores sohow," the man said. He looked up at the receptionist. "I’ll look into it more," he said.
She left the office and imdiately he pulled out a phone and dialed a number. "Get everything there is about the kid called Silva that was found inside the gate."
He put the phone down and a few seconds later, so information ca right into the hologram device.
He imdiately looked through them. "He has no other friends, as expected, that was a lie. But then how did he get his hands on those cores?
Shouldn’t be possible. There might be sothing new with the kid. I’ll have to watch and see," he said and then leaned back into the chair.
"The guild must already have so eyes on him and waiting to see anything unnatural. If they find it themselves, they won’t give the promotion I deserve.
This kid might beco my one and only ticket out of here and into a better position. I should watch him and find out what he has to hide, and how he got these cores," the guild leader said. He looked at the image again with a calm expression.
[.....]
Back in the apartnt, Silva walked in and spotted his sister making so food.
"Welco back, bro," she greeted.
"Hey, Ella," he replied and walked toward her, then placed his hand on the counter, leaving a thousand credits there.
She turned and looked at the money. A look of confusion flashed on her face, she looked up at him.
"What’s this for, bro? Food? Because we have that covered for a while," she said.
"No, it’s not. It’s for you. Take it and do whatever you want. A girl your age should have so money to spend on herself," he said and walked past her.
"Wait, what? You are giving a thousand to spend for myself? That’s too much, bro. That money could be used for sothing else," she said.
"No, it’s for you, the first of many, so enjoy yourself," he said and walked into his room.
She stared at the money for a few seconds, and then finally grabbed it. She was still in disbelief, but this was real. A smile slowly ford on her face as she rushed to finish cooking the food.
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