Chapter 110: Join My Guild!
"Jason! Over here! Jason!"
The silence was suddenly broken as a girl standing at the side of the street yelled out to Jason with a wide smile on her face! The girl had never spoken to Jason in her life before now, but the mere fact that Jason was now a celebrity was enough reason for the girl to let go of all her home training as she tried to get Jason’s attention! This desperate action was enough to make everyone else snap out of their daze, and it wasn’t long before more and more people were calling out to Jason!
"Hey, Jason!"
"Jason! Over here!"
The students were trying their best to get Jason’s attention as they hurried towards the gates, but Jason just ignored them all and kept moving. Jason already expected something like this since he knew that regular humans treated superhumans like celebrities. But he wasn’t interested in greeting anyone because he didn’t know any of them.
PIII!
PIII!!
There were various cars moving along the street both behind and in front of Jason, and one of the cars behind him suddenly let out a loud honk to draw Jason’s attention. Jason turned around and noticed the car trying to overtake him. Jason moved to the side to allow the car to go forward, and as it passed, Jason glanced into the car and saw Jared giving him a nasty look from behind the wheel. Jared was the D Rank superhuman that Jason met in the SMD building when he went to sell his Magic crystals, and the interaction they had then must’ve left a very bad impression on Jared! Jared looked like he was trying his best not to brake-check Jason’s bike and make him crash!
Jason turned away to ignore Jared, and Jared grit his teeth in annoyance before he stepped on the pedal and sped off! Jason watched him go calmly and shook his head. Jason could probably overtake him if he wanted to, but Jason wasn’t a child who would start a street race over something this petty. Jared was just pissed that Jason wasn’t interested in becoming one of his posse. Jared was the unspoken leader of all the superhumans in the school since he used to be the strongest one there, but now that Jason was also a superhuman and stronger than Jared, Jared felt threatened that his throne would be taken away.
It was just too bad that Jason didn’t care at all about some petty school throne. What was more pathetic than naming yourself the king of a fucking high school?
Jason made his way into the school building and he swerved his bike towards the parking lot on one side. He parked the bike beside a purple Porsche and he glanced to the side as a tall, beautiful girl emerged from the Porsche. The girl had long blonde hair and a thin figure that would look more suitable on a model than a high school student. She had long legs that went on forever, and she was wearing long black socks that stopped just a few centimeters before her school skirt, leaving a glimpse of her pale thigh exposed.
This girl was named Griselda and she was one of the richest students in the school. She wasn’t a superhuman, but everyone in Riverdale High knew not to mess with her because of the amount of connections her father had in the superhuman world. Her father was one of the executive members of the Superhuman Management Department that was in charge of giving Gate contracts to various guilds, so every single superhuman in the city knew not to mess with him or his family or they would never get a contract!
Once Griselda got out of her car, she noticed Jason looking at her and she pulled down her sunglasses to give him a sly glance. Jason raised a brow at her and she only smiled at him before she slammed her door shut and began to come over.
"Jason Marc in the flesh. I didn’t think I’d see you around these parts ever again. Awakening as a superhuman and clearing a Red gate all on your first day has made you into quite the celebrity. I wouldn’t have been surprised if you decided to drop out."
Griselda held out her hand to Jason and Jason took it in a soft handshake. Griselda calmly grabbed his hand with both of hers and came closer to whisper to him.
"So tell me. Are the rumors true? You really awakened as an A-Rank?"
Jason hesitated for a moment before he finally nodded. Jason was surprised by this entire interaction because he had never seen Griselda walk up to anyone like this before. She didn’t even walk up to the other superhumans in the school for a conversation. The only way to talk to her was if you went up to her yourself. He didn’t think she would go out of her way to talk to him like this.
Griselda smiled wider when he nodded and she leaned forward. There was a look of excitement in her eyes that made Jason feel slightly uncomfortable, but he decided not to pull away and hear what she had to say.
"I’m sure there are thousands of guilds vying for you to join them. I did some research with my father’s department and I saw that no less than fifty-five guilds all over the world had asked for your contact information and assessment results in one way or another. You’ll be the most famous man in the world after your assessment. Have you given any thought to which one you’d like to join yet?"
Jason shrugged while slowly pulling his hand away from her hold. This was one of the strangest conversations he had ever had and Jason decided he just wanted to leave.
"I haven’t really given any thought to all that. I don’t plan on joining any guilds for now, so I’ll think more about it when I’m done with the assessment. If you’ll excuse me."
Griselda’s face almost seemed to light up once she heard that Jason hadn’t decided on which guild to join and she came so close that Jason had to lean back to see her properly! Did this girl not know the meaning of personal space!?
"I’d like you to join my guild."
Jason blinked in surprise and then he frowned. What the fuck did she just say?
"What do you mean? But you aren’t..."
"I know what you’re about to say but it doesn’t matter. I am a legal citizen of this country so I have every right to create a guild. I looked this up and I’m certain of it. I plan to be the first-ever leader of a guild who is a regular human, and I believe you’d be a perfect addition to my guild."
Jason couldn’t help the look of pure disbelief on his face! What the fuck was this girl going on about? Did she think it was a walk in the park to be the leader of a guild? There was a reason why the leader of a guild was always the strongest member of that guild. It’s because people actually die inside of Gates! If you can’t trust your leader to get you out of a bad spot when you’re facing a powerful monster, then there is no way you’d follow them! Why in the world did she think anyone would follow a powerless leader?
Jason slowly got off his bike and locked it up. He looked over at Griselda and saw that she was still giving him a look of anticipation and he decided it would be best to burst her bubble now before she tried to do anything too dangerous.
Jason’s first words made Griselda’s smile die a brutal death.
"You should give up on your dreams."