Twelve

~Starry Sky Mercenaries Hall~

Sylvia walked inside the huge Hall. It was weekend, and the outcome of people in the hall was very huge.

She doesn't recognize anyone from the guild, so she was at loss of what to do. There were so many people standing together in group, and Sylvia couldn't say whether they were from the Tyron guild or the other ones.

“Sylvia!” Out of the dense crowd, Sylvia heard her name being called.

Sylvia turned around and looked towards the source of the sound. There, a very pretty lady was jumping up, whilst waving her hand trying to get her position known. “Sylvia, over here.”

Hearing such a recognizable voice, Sylvia knew that might be Miley, and stepped forward towards their direction.

Miley was standing beside a very cute guy dressed in the uniformed mercenary combat suit. Although he was cute, those cute face couldn't hide the hint of sharpness in his eyes.

With a little bit of obstruction from the crowd, Sylvia finally gets to their side.

“I told you I'll recognized her right away.” Miley nudged hardly at the cute guy beside her and showed a happy expression at Sylvia. “Sylvia.” Miley lunged straightforward and swept Sylvia into her embrace.

Miley was a little bit taller than Sylvia so she was able to hug the other party comfortably.

Sylvia who was suddenly hug froze at the spot; all the cells in her body instinctively active for attack. This was the reaction she'd cultivated in the apocalypse, in case of being stab in the back by someone. Sylvia sighed in her heart. She still couldn't let her guard down in front of strangers.

Miley also notice her predicament and let go, smiling embarrassing to herself. “I was too eager now. Don't mind my silly behavior. I'm usually calm than you imagine.”

Sylvia smiled and greeted. “Hello.”

The cute guy who was standing at the side spoke. “Hello. My name's is Milo.”

“Ahh, hello.”

“You're also surprised right.” Miley saw Sylvia surprised expression and smiled teasingly looking at Milo. “His appearance doesn't quite match the way he spoke in the group chat, right.”

Sylvia smiled, but did not respond directly. At the same moment, a skinny silhouette walked into the hall and headed towards the three directions. “You guys are already here. Ah, you must be Sylvia. Hello Sylvia, my name's Walker.” Walker smiled extending his right hand for a shake.

“Hello.” Sylvia took it.

“Wah, we're really having a new girl in the guild. Congratulations, Vice president.” Walker laughed out.

“Get off in front of me.” Miley kick her right leg towards Walker, but the other party dodge the kick.

“Haha, I know you best, Vice president.” Walker laughed. “Oh Milo, you're here. I almost didn't see you.”

With how big he is, how can you not see him? Milo turned his head away, directly ignoring Walker.

“Haha.” Walker laughed awkwardly and stepped to the side.

The others members also arrived little by little. They all saw their new member, Sylvia.

“Okay everyone.” Tyron stood in front, facing the team. “This is our new member, Sylvia. Although you might have introduced yourself to her, we should have another official introduction.”

With Tyron's build, he was surely meant to be the guild leader. Tyron was a very built person and the aura of a team leader radiate from him.

He was don in the khaki combat suit, which hung onto his body flexing all the muscles he had accumulated from all those years of training. He had a good-looking face but the silly grin on his face whenever he looks at Miley ruined his total appearance.

At a glance, one could already surmise that Tyron had a thing for Miley. Which is one of the reasons why he had no chance to go against Miley whenever she bullies the other group members.

“I'll go first.” Walker raised his hand.

“Okay, go on.” Tyron motion for Walker to go on.

“Hmm hmm.” Walker clears his throat. “Hello, Sylvia. My name is Walker.”

“I'm Milo.” Milo soft voice rang out.

“Little sister, I'm Jose.” Jose a blonde hair guy who was among those that weren't online in the guild chat yesterday introduced himself.

“I'm Atlas.”

“Call me Kai.”

“Gael is my name.”

“Ryker”

“I'm Miley.”

“I'm Tyron. The guild leader.” The nine of them all introduced.

“Hello everyone. My name is Sylvia. A fifteen years old high school student from Hermes academy. I look forward to working together with you all.” Sylvia fully introduced herself. “Here, I brought you all some snacks.” Sylvia took off her bag from her back and opened the zipper, reaching into it. She took out the cookies Susu made for her to give to the team members when cooking this morning. Sylvia opened the box of cookies and stretch it forward. “You can have some.”

“Ah, what's this.” Walker looked into the box curiously.

Sylvia explained. “These are cookies and can be eaten.” She took a cookie from the box taking a bite out of it as demonstration. “They're sweet. You can have some.”

“Oh, okay.” Walker took his and had a bite. “Hmmm.” Walker widened his eyes. “This is so good.”

The others also reached out to take some cookies and ate. Their eyes were also filled with surprised when they ate.

“This is so good.” Miley beamed, finishing eating the cookie in her hand. Seeing that there were still more in the box, Miley reached out again for another cookie.

“The last time I tasted the HAGO nutrient solution, I thought it tasted heavenly but this is much better than it.” Atlas spoke out his mind.

One by one, the cookies in the box disappear slowly remaining one cookie lying temptingly inside the box.

“It's mine.” Walker suddenly lunged forward.

“What's yours.” Miley drag him back with his clothes.

“I'm going to eat it.” Atlas reached out for the last cookie, but was kicked in the leg and tripped on the floor. “Aww. Who's it?” Atlas turned his head around and saw Jose, the perpetrator, smiling at him. “It's you.”

“I counted earlier when you were eating and saw that you ate more than us.” Jose stretched his leg to walk over Atlas who was lying on the floor.

“Damm.” Atlas suddenly clutched onto Jose leg and trip him over, his hands tightly holding to the other party leg. “If I don't eat it, you aren’t going to eat it either.”

“F*ck. Let go of me.” Jose struggle to get out of Atlas hold.

Gael, Ryker and Kai were also having staring battle among themselves on who will have the last cookies.

“Okay, everyone stop. You should stop embarrassing our guild. Can't you see that everyone is starring at us.” Tryon said trying to make them stop. “I'll eat the cookie--”

“I'll take it.” Milo who was closer to Sylvia reached out for the last cookie and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing slowly. “Done.”

Except for Sylvia, everything that just happened was in a slow moving motion in front of the other team members.

“I'll fucking kill you, Milo!” No one knows the one who shouted. Their stunned brain suddenly seemed to wake up.

“Hey Milo!” Miley left walker who was in her clutches and lunged straightforward at Milo. The others with their brain already woken up, followed suit ready to beat the hell out of Milo.

How could Milo stand there and let them hit him. The other party took to his heels and ran out of the mercenary’s hall.

“You stop there. I promise I won't kill you.”

“If you dare stop, I'll hack you to pieces.”

“Hey, Milo!”

The other mercenary’s guild members in the hall watched in amusement as the well-known Tyron guild embarrassed themselves without care for their reputation.

Tyron saw that the situation was out of hand and turned to Sylvia with face flushed from embarrassment.

“I... sorry you'd to see that.” Tyron tried to laugh to ease the situation but his laugh comes out as an awkward one. “Let's go get you some equipment. You'll need them when we go out of the safety line to fight beast. Also, you don't need to use backpack. All mercenaries are entitled to a space ring once you've joined the guild.” Tyron showed Sylvia the ring on his index finger. “This is a space ring. It's where our spoils are put after the battle.”

Sylvia this time showed a surprise on her face. There were space users in the apocalypse. However, they were rare and terms as treasures in the apocalypse. A place where food could be kept without being seen or noticed by anyone was a very great deal in the apocalypse.

Sylvia shouldn't have been surprised since she wasn't new to space pouch. What really surprised her was the fact that this world technology could produce a jaw breaking thing as space ring.

Tyron saw that Sylvia was hooked when he spoke about the space ring and decided explain further. “The space ring isn't spread out to the public and can only be used by mercenaries. There are some people who go through the black market to have a space ring but once they are caught, they would be subject to the empire law. Therefore, only mercenaries are legally entitled to use space ring. Let's go get you yours.” Tyron led Sylvia forward to where they were going to collect the materials, leaving behind the others team members who were causing havoc among themselves.

When the group finally resolved their situation, Sylvia was already wearing the uniform combat suit for mercenaries, with a space ring on her index finger. The weapons which were use for fighting were already put in the space along with her backpack.

“You're done.” Tyron looked at the group whose face were all blue and black except for Milo's who was the perpetrator of all the fight. “I guess you all couldn't land a hit on him.”

“Boss, I think Milo is now stronger than you. The seven of us couldn't land a hit on him. He even finds ways to retaliate against us. Look, my mouth bled because of his punch.” Walker pointed to his bruised mouth.

“You guys shouldn't have fought.” Sylvia voice rang out. “If you like eating cookies, I can bring it every day.”

“Really.” Miley eyes lit up but she suddenly thought of something. “Won't it take your time?”

“Not at all. I will only be coming during the weekend so it's just two days in a week.” Sylvia smile lightly at Miley who was showing concern for her.

“Thanks so much. I'll show you to my place when we're back from the mission in the evening.” Miley was excited.

Sylvia had to turned Miley request down. “Sorry, but I'll have to go back. My younger brother will be back at home by evening so I'll have to turn you down.”

“You've a younger brother. That's cool. You can bring him along with you. Don't worry, I'll follow you home and take you two with me.” Miley said.

Hearing Miley say that, Sylvia couldn't refuse anymore and nodded. “Okay.”

Tyron clapped loudly putting everyone attention on him. “Our task today is easy. We'll be going to the D class sliver wolves lair today to introduced our new member to the beast world.”

“The sliver wolves move in pack and are somehow hard to hunt alone. But with us there, Sylvia will be safe.” Miley liked Tyron plan.

“So today, we'll be using it as training to get Sylvia adapt to the beast world.” Tyron announced. “Ryker, go get the car. And Miley, you can put Sylvia through on the information on each beast. I'll go to the counter to write out our today's task.”

“Okay.” Ryker left to pick up the car.

“Let's go over there, Sylvia. I'll tell you on everything you should know.” Miley led Sylvia towards an empty seat in the hall.

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