The next morning I woke up there was a total ruckus, the minute I opened my eyes, men jumping around with a beer in hand, food on everyone's table, and everyone chanting,"Skinwalker! Skinwalker! Skinwalker!" mad these people were I thought, trying to get up ask them what on living hell is going on here Breatha came from behind him threw her arm over my neck, gave a big smile and said "Well hot dang it boy! you really did it, I didn't think your body could handle that much pressure, and I have to apologise about talking about your parents like that I didn't grow without a family either, so I know how to feels, I didn't want you to feel bad Skinwalker and about the chanting we are happy that we finally have someone new in the guild so we are celebrating the occasion *Spilling almost the whole jug of beer on top me* Oh Oops! sorry about that kid, you might have to wash up now someone spilled beer on top you." she was so drunk that even after she apologised for the beer spill, she said that someone else spilled it and that I needed to wash up, the arm she had over me was a little too heavy for me I needed to escape from there as soon as possible and I could see the night was still young so I could still meet Val on the way to my inn, not wanting to stay any longer and ordered a few jugs of beer and swiftly got of there, now since I was outside all I needed to find where the shop was again, all that I remember was that it wasn't so welcoming and it was close to his inn, before I went anywhere I went behind the guild, it had a place you could wash your cloths and yourself and entering the 'Bathhouse' the lady who worked there asked to keep the cloths in a basket and by the time I come back from washing it would be cleaned, without much thought I went and cleaned myself from all that beer stink and surely enough it was like new I hadn't seen such clean cloths for a while and the bath proved to be excellent as well, I asked the kind lady if how much did I own her, she ever so gently told me it was free since Breatha was the cause of this and that she is her favorite custumer and she wouldn't be able to take money from me, she was super sweet I couldn't believe that the people in this world would be so welcoming, but know it was time to go and meet the old man and give him his booze once and for all, one fact about the Capital was that it never fell short of people, whenever I saw the streets no matter the time it was always a crowd, and so I had to travel through the depths of the crowd with beer in my hand without dropping it, it proved to be worthy challenge.
I got through easier than I thought I would, there was it again that strange light in the ally way, yet this is not the same light seen by him just a day ago, it seemed strange but he wasn't going to let that stop him, as he kept on going on into the alleyway he saw Val sleeping inside of his shop, he grew closer and asked quietly if he was till awake or not, the thought of throwing water on him crossed is mind but he didn't want to be rude to the man that helped him a lot to kill the Plant-Vex and helping me to register, if it was Lai I wouldn't even hesitate to throw water on her but that's a different point, as I was about sit on one of the benches and relax for a bit, "Oh mister Skinwalker you are back? I didn't think you would come back for payment, that's what the last human did anyways." As I handed him his beers he didn't stop for a second to chug them one by one, soon enough he had drunk all of the jugs in mere moments, I spoke while resting for a bit on the benches "Well I am not that last human Val I just came here for your payment, and call me Kai its much easier on the mouth, well I must be going now because I am hungry and when I am hungry never mess around with me that's all I am saying, well I am going now goodbye." Just then he grabbed my arm and told me to wait for a moment, I was willing to wait for a while and if I had chose not to stay, it wouldn't have changed the outcome at all because with the amount of strength he put to keep me in place was immeasurable, it had seemed that I was the only one stuck being weak and being level 2.
He let go off me soon enough and I said "What is Val I am all ears, just you know make it quick okay? as I just said hunger is the worst feeling for me." Val just simply came towards with a slow pace and asked for my dagger, I was hesitant as it cost a lot of money just to buy that tiny dagger but I had no choice in the matter, I handed him the dagger all of a sudden bunch of streams of light began to burst out of the dagger, due to all the shiny the dagger was in I had to cover my eyes to not damage them, the light disappeared with a loud sound following it, as I slowly opened my eyes I saw the dagger in a new shape, it seemed a bit longer and the damages with the Plant-Vex had been repaired, I was in shock taking the longer dagger which now is now qualified to be called a short sword, Val spoke with a broken voice "Thank you Skinwalker for visiting me in my last moments, from now on that sword has my life in it do as you want with it and never hesitant to attack and don't have the fear of breaking it, whenever it breaks and is in pieces it shall repair and become stronger, your will lies in that sword a mans sword is his very life * Parts of Val start becoming more transparent* whenever you feel like you can't fight just shout on top of your voice 'Valkadis' this is my gift from me to you for visiting me and bringing me my last drink and also for such a fun time yes, we only met yesterday yet it was still something I am glad happened , now I have talked long enough its about time I met my wife again and I will sure tell her about you * Placing his hand on Kai's hand * , I beg of you to protect the people around you and never take them for granted." soon his whole body had disappeared even the shop he used to work in had vanished only some piece of paper remained, I stood there without a thought, a tear went across my cheek for some reason, "You can't just give me your life old man, some people just don't know when to quit *Placing the short sword in its cast on my hip* I am getting out of here with that piece of paper." I walked to the piece of paper picked it up and put it in my side pocket and I thought I would read it later.
I walked out of the ally way with hopes of thinking of a new plan and a new course of action as I had nothing to do as far as now, only logical thing I could do is go to the inn and see what the piece of paper had on it and head out for a quest later, and so that's what I did I started to walk towards my inn to see what the piece of paper had inside of it, but I guess the guild had other plans, "Mister Skinwalker may I ask you to come with me we have a quest that needs doing and you still lack expertise so you are totally the man for the job." Miss Pres. of receptionist came from the crowd too drag me too the guild without my permission, yet I couldn't do anything because it really hasn't in my rule book to say no to beautiful young women, Big Breatha doesn't really fit in that description, sooner or later I was in front of the guild with hopes of getting a easy job, entering inside I saw the place was empty no living being in sight expect of the sleepy receptionist, The Pre. guided me towards the 'Quest Board' were we can select quest according to you rank, it seemed simple enough to understand, and before I spoke the Pres. suddenly spoke, " Would you care to kindly look at your card Skinwalker, *Kai taking his card out of his coats sleeve* as you con see on your card you are currently rank 'Rookie' and you are only allowed to take quests one rank above you or your own rank *Takes out a quest from the board* and sometimes the guild would give you a quest on there choosing, you can either take it or you can decline our offer but this may lead us to not trust you as much as we do now." she told me this while handing me the quest paper, it had written 'Defeat 20 wolves by sunrise tomorrow Reward - 20 Silver coins and one barrel of booze' , I looked her right in her eyes and asked her that do I even have a choice in this matter, she just nodded while saying the most immersive no that I ever heard, I snatched the paper out of her hand went to the front desk and told the sleepy receptionist to assign me this quest right this second, she got up slowly and took the paper and didn't even look at it just stamped it with the stamp 'Assign' and told me to go and have fun, she still got to my nerves but I didn't want to do anything crazy, so I just took the paper waved it in front of the Pres. and went on my mary way with anger, "Do you think he will be able to do it President? he doesn't seem fit for it." "You don't know anything darling, Plant-Vex is no normal abomination you know brute strange wouldn't work on it because it will just grow back itself and only if you cut it into a thousand piece only then brute force would do anything and you would have to be a warrior for that, and if you are a mage who can use flame magic, it would just kill you in a blink of a eye due to its super speed leafs that it controls, and even if it was possible to evade the leaves the poison bombs would kill you, so my point that I am getting at is..." the conversation between The Pres. and the receptionist had when I left the room, the receptionist wondered what the Pres. wanted to say, she gave her a long face waiting for her to complete her sentence, she was hesitant to speak before she said anything else she got a chair and sat there with her hand on her head indirectly denoting that my presence and just the mere thought of me was a headache "He is no normal human , he is the first one who passed the test after the new rules imposed by the higher ups, before this you had to kill a wolf and pass the written test, so I know 20 wolves would be nothing to him." the receptionist thought that if their President had gone mad, but as far as she was concerned she couldn't ruin her sleep for a person she just didn't want to see an another casket for an another year or so, as she didn't want to talk to the public about the death of an another mercenary again as she yawned looking at her collar we could see ' Guild association- Head Speaker ' guess she was always tired because she talks too much.