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Ch08. The Red Oracle

I was more surprised to know that the Shadow Guild did look like a giant tavern underground, than to know that Quintus supposedly wasn't the scum I knew from ever since I was born.

"I had to rough you up, so you could have a chance at surviving Octavius Blake." Quintus said, as we walked through the guild's hallways.

His voice was all apologetic and brotherly, in a way I only heard two or three times in my whole life.

Rodrick led the way, taking us somewhere I had no idea about, but it seemed that we were going deeper and deeper into the ground.

Even the air felt thinner.

"I'm sorry, but I knew you had something in you, and even though father told me to kill you if you didn't awaken... I knew you had it in you."

"Look," I retorted, feeling a bit sick of his talk "I don't know how I won against you, but do you have any idea of what you're telling me just now?"

He raised a brow.

Quintus knew how to act perplexed when he wanted.

We only shared two features in common, brown eyes and curly, black hair.

But it ended there.

He was a head taller than me, and was more muscular, too.

His pale skin only made him look weirder.

In evil weird.

So much for a confusing older brother.

And Rodrick just listened as we talked.

"Listen. I fucking hated you, and I don't know if there's ever anything you can do to change it."

Quintus' eyes seemed to lose a bit of light there, and it wasn't due to the dancing light of the torches.

But I kept speaking, anyway.

"I mean, do you really expect me to believe that it was all a very well played act? Me? Your brother?"

He fell silent after that, and didn't talk until we arrived at a heavy wooden door in the end of a staircase.

"Before you go in, just know that I get it, okay? I, too, don't know if there's anything I can do for you to forgive me. But at least know that I'm sorry. And I mean it."

"Go in?" I rebuked, ignoring Quintus' plea. "I'm going inside whatever that room is, alone?"

"She doesn't like visitors, sleeping beauty." Rodrick answered, when Quintus was about to say something. "Also, the secrets she's about to tell you are yours, and yours alone..."

Rodrick's face was as solemn as a funeral, and I wondered if I was missing something there.

But I knocked on the door anyway.

And as it opened, I entered to the smoky room.

I was curious about the she that Roderick had mentioned before, but I was also curious to know about the daily quest and the unique quest.

I needed some privacy to do it, but I felt like I wasn't going to get any, so I was about to call anyone, not able to see a in front of my eyes with all that strange smoke.

But then a female voice called out to me first.

"You can check it here, don't worry. We have barriers here that protects us from prying eyes and ears."

I felt goosebumps, even though the voice was soft, almost like the girls my age.

And suddenly, all the smoke started to dissipate.

No, dissipate isn't the right word to what the smoke did.

It was as if the smoke was going back somewhere. And when I was finally able to see, my jaw dropped real low.

It was a girl my age.

She had blue eyes, dark skin, a long, curly red mane, and the freckles on her face were just... Something else.

But what caught my attention the most, was that the smoke that surrounded me was going back to her hand.

As if she was the one controlling it or something like that.

"I... Uh..."

I tried to articulate anything to say, but she spoke before I could think of anything.

"You and I are not so different, you see. I'm also the only one of my kind."

Then my past life came to mind.

A woman with red hair, that belonged to the Shadow Guild.

A woman to whom other guilds, and even the government, would pay insurmountable amounts of money.

Just to hear her speak.

"The Red Oracle..." I heard myself saying, before I could even shut up.

"See?" Her eyes shone with what I could only imagine to be happiness. "You're quite like me, even though we're different. How else you would be able to know about something that only my future self would become?"

There.

She got me, and I didn't even say too much.

I twisted my fingers while looking at her, taking step after step towards her almost ethereal figure.

She had a gleam in her eyes, that made her feel like she wasn't there at all.

It was as if she was staring deep into the void of everything.

"Why am I here?"

"First things first." She retorted, looking straight at me this time. "You needed to check on something, so you better do it quick. It's not nice to leave a lady hanging..."

"Right, I'll keep that in mind."

So I called the system window right away.

NAME: KURT BLAKE

LVL: 02 STAMINA: 142/142

AGE: 16 HP: 110/110

CLASS: Rogue MP: 60/50 

BASIC STATS

Strength: 12 Perception: 16

Dexterity: 23 Intelligence: 11

Agility: 23 Vigor: 26

[DAILY QUEST: THE STRONGER SELF]

[REQUIREMENTS: RUNNING WITH WEIGHTS 10/10KM

  SIT-UPS 50/50

  PUSH-UPS 50/50

  SPARRING 11/10MIN]

[REWARD: ???]

[PENALTY: ???]

[UNIQUE QUEST: FINDERS, KEEPERS]

[REQUIREMENTS: STEAL QUINTUS BLAKE'S GUILD BADGE - Complete]

[ADDITIONAL: SURVIVE 10 MINUTES IN AN UNGEARED FIGHT AGAINST QUINTUS BLAKE; EARN HIS RESPECT - Complete]

[REWARD: UNIQUE SKILL; CLASS UPGRADE]

[ADDITIONAL REWARD: UNIQUE SKILL]

[YOU HAVE UNOPENED REWARDS]

I was taken aback by how much it changed in just one day.

My stamina, HP and MP had increased drastically, from my point of view, and I had leveled up, too.

Not only that, but my strength, dexterity and agility were a bit higher than before.

But my biggest surprise was to see that I completed all of the daily quests and the unique quest.

I couldn't wait to see what kind of reward the system had prepared me for it.

But I could see the Oracle's curious gaze upon me.

She even looked like she could see the same thing I was seeing.

But I was too curious to take it into account, and she said we were safe from prying eyes, too.

So I proceeded to check the unopened rewards.

[DAILY QUEST – REWARD: STAT POINTS X5

  FULL RECOVERY X1

  ARMORY KEY X1]

[ADDITIONAL REWARD: HIDDEN NEST KEY X1]

[UNIQUE QUEST – REWARD: UNIQUE SKILL – STEAL LVL 1

  CLASS UPGRADE – ROGUE]

[ADDITIONAL REWARD: UNIQUE SKILL – PRYING EYES LVL 1]

I didn't know what to say or how to react.

I felt like entering a treasure room, and I didn't even know what a treasure room looked like.

I felt the Oracle's gaze, still upon me.

As I looked at her, she seemed to be looking at my status window, too.

And she was smiling.


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Ch09. Invitation

"Why are you smiling?" I raised a brow, perplexed.

She couldn't be looking at my status window, too, could she?

Even my brother couldn't when we fought, and I used it right to his face.

"You have a curious ability. I only saw it in dreams, but seeing it in person is something completely different."

"Wait." No I was even more perplexed. "You said you saw me, in a dream? How come?"

"Are you done with what you needed to check?"

She was strangely polite, for a sixteen year old girl.

"I think I am, so, why am I here?"

Her eyes became suddenly serious as she asked, straightforward.

"What do you know about the Calamity?"

And as she asked, she got up from the table she was sitting at, walking towards me.

"I know you have otherworldly knowledge, so don't worry. You can speak your mind here, we're free, I already told you that.

The question and her remark took me by surprise, but I composed myself back, and tried to recall both what I learned in school and what I learned from Nikolai and the books I bought from him.

"If I remember it correctly, they said that, centuries ago, an asteroid fell on Earth, unleashing monstrous beasts from what we now call Nests. What about it?"

"So you know that the Calamity was the event that gave birth to the first awakened, yes?"

"Yes, and later on, the awakened who chose to fight against the beasts became the first guild.

"The Shadow Guild." She said, to my surprise.

"What?"

"You heard me. The Shadow Guild was the first guild to ever be assembled, for the sake of the human race."

"But..." I was, again, taken aback. "But they say..."

"That the first guild was Dawn Guild, but it's just biased information, written in history books to make people believe that the Blake family reigns above all. But it wasn't always like that."

The conversation was taking a completely unexpected turn, and I didn't know what to think of it.

I fidgeted with my fingers, not knowing what to reply to that.

"I'm not here to blame you or anything, Kurt Blake." She said, almost as if she could read my mind. "If anything, I need your help. But we're running out of time."

"What do you mean?"

But the answer came in form of a loud knock on the wooden door behind us.

"Your brother, Quintus, and your father, Octavius, are not to be trusted."

Her eyes were deadly serious, as she spoke.

"I already know that, but..."

But she interrupted and went on, in a hurry.

"Much is at stake here, and if you don't get stronger in time, I don't know what they'll be capable of." But as I was ready to say something back, she finished. "Now, it's time for you to get going. See you in school, Kurt."

She winked at me and the door opened, leaving me speechless to a Quintus that touched my shoulder, asking.

"Is everything okay, little brother?"

"Before you go in, just know that I get it, okay? I, too, don't know if there's anything I can do for you to forgive me. But at least know that I'm sorry. And I mean it."

"Your brother, Quintus, and your father, Octavius, are not to be trusted."

Both statements swirled around my head, and somehow, I knew who I could trust.

"Yes, brother." I answered in the most natural tone I could manage to gather. "I'm fine."

It was way too much information all at once, in too much of a short period of time.

The leveling up, the quest rewards, the Shadow Guild, the Red Oracle.

Of course I was fine...

Wait...

Did she say "See you in school"?

***

"Quintus, you go ahead, there are some things I need to discuss with the neophyte."

Quintus looked at Rodrick as if the old man just slapped him in the face, and I can't say I didn't like the scene.

"Yes, I'll get going, then." My brother answered, clearly holding back the anger.

And when he finally left, Rodrick looked at me with curious eyes.

"Did you really knocked the lights out of him?"

I scratched my head, embarrassed.

"Truth be told, even I don't know how I did it. All I know is that when I awakened, I had a similar ability to that of my brother's. We sparred at home, because he wanted to find out my true rank, and I ended up overpowering him in the last second..."

"I would've loved to see that happening!"

Roderick's eyes were gleaming with just the idea of Quintus being defeated.

"But you didn't want me to stay just because of that, am I wrong?"

"You're right. I wanted you to stay a bit longer because I can't show you the whole place just yet. However, I did want to ask you, since you just awakened, and well... Defeated Quintus in a sparring."

"What is it?"

Rodrick gave a nice vibe. He looked like a bald uncle, but I knew he could be fierce in a raid, just by looking at his complexion.

I heard that the Shadow Guild was the only thieves guild in the whole country, but looking at Rodrick, I couldn't think so.

The man was built like a tank, with his brown skin looking like solid iron, and his muscles protruding underneath his shirt.

I didn't want to be enemies with him, that was for sure.

"I want you to join our guild, and I want you to think carefully on it."

Surprise after surprise, shock after shock.

The leader of the Shadow Guild, inviting me in person to join them?

"But... Why? I'm just..."

"An irregular, like Evelynn, the girl you just met."

"An... Irregular?"

Rodrick stared at me as if I had just spoken nonsense.

"Tell me how can a normal wielder, let alone an E-rank, newly awakened, beat the shit out of a fucking A-rank, despite getting all worn out in the aftermath. And I won't even start on you stealing his guild badge, right?"

Both his brows were up, and he couldn't get more expressive than that.

I couldn't say a thing towards his solid statement.

"You have something special, little man. I don't know what, but it doesn't concern me. Just tell me you'll think carefully and keep in contact. I'll prepare a good proposal for you."

Speechless, I just moved my head up and down, thinking about how my life was turning around this time.

"Now, better get going. We don't want Quintus angrier than he already is, even though I'd love to see that."

"You don't seem to like him much, why?"

"Story for another time, kid. Now go, take the elevator right at the end of the hallway, and you'll leave right at the lobby."

half shocked about everything that just happened, I left, and even though I was done with the daily quests, I needed time to think and assimilate all the information.

So I started running in a slow pace.

I had awakened, knocked my brother out, found some questions to think about, met a pretty girl, and even got invited to join a guild!

I was completely done for the day, so I had all the time in the world to just jog back home.

Life was good, finally.


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