Bro, I'm not an Undead!

A young man with dark hair that drew in the lights from the chandelier above walked in, his muscular figure which was buried under a thin, low collar linen shirt that seemed to be made from high quality material showing its elegant contours clearly through the fabric.

His ocean blue eyes exuded nothing but confidence as he walked in and stared down Damilla who was outraged by the sudden grand entry which interrupted her statement to Festos.

Confidence and arrogance could almost be scooped up with pails from his face as he was as eerie relaxed, his posture carrying a sense of unbound intensity.

Terian narrowed his eyes as he saw beyond just the unexpected entry of this young man, sensing a well-knotted scheme behind this.

This hypothesis arose from the fact that the young man who had walked in wasn't just any young man, but THE young man who more or less stood as the face of the Guilds Association at the moment.

Tulnas, the leader of the Harem Guild.

Damilla frowned as she turned her head to Silrat. After a few moments, she too had realised that this couldn't be a coincidence.

"What are you doing here, Tulnas?" Terian asked before Damilla could.

He feared that if the woman spoke out of terms with Tulnas whom she didn't know much about because of her recency, which was more biased towards the extravagant Ideal Ark, the Capital service might end up offending the Guilds Association in quite a massively inappropriate fashion or worse.

"Greetings to you too, Terian. This man here.." Tulnas said as he turned to Skullius, raising a brow for a second before continuing, "...is a delayed member of my Guild."

"What?!" Damilla's face scrunched up as she glared at Tulnas.

At this point, it should be mentioned that while she was shocked by this news, a certain Discount Human was gawking and gaping even more at this development.

This guy?!

He was the genius and prodigy that Silrat was talking about?!

The one his plan was centred around?!

But... but...

There were so many questions!

'How is this going to help us?!' Skullius screamed in his mind.

Sure, Skullius had said that he would think about joining the Harem Guild after finishing off some of his own personal stuff, but this wasn't enough of loophole, right?

Right?!

"Isn't that right, Festos Dawn?" Tulnas said with a slight smile to Skullius.

This time, the Discount Human didn't turn to Silrat who maintained his expression.

If this was the only lifeline available, naturally he would draw on it until he reached its end.

"That's right," Skullius responded with a nervous nod.

"That's ridiculous! Do you take us for fools! Do you think such a stu—"

"On the contrary, Damita or whatever your name is," Tulnas cut off Damilla while waving his hands dismissively and dropping himself on one of the comfortable seats in the room, "I have many witnesses who were there on the day that I asked this man to join my Guild. An overwhelming number of witnesses. But please, don't poke me for verification. It's irritating and weird."

Damilla turned red with rage while Skullius' head which had been drooping slowly rose as an excited grin plastered itself on his face.

Seeing that Damilla was being crushed and manipulated into becoming a tomato, Terian took over.

"There's no need for that. Even if it so, and Festos here is a member of your Guild, that only serves to put your entire establishment under investigation as well," Terian said with stern tone.

He knew why Tulnas was so confident and arrogant.

It was because even when the shine of the Ideal Ark came, he still stood out among the locals.

As someone who was born and raised in this region, who grew to stand at the levels of power that rivalled even this old man, he was well respected and loved.

However, this wasn't the bulk of it.

Much of the respect came from the fact that many Energy Formers in the Guilds had been stolen by other cities and even the local Capital service before, but he remained in the city and in this branch of the Guilds Association.

The amount of backing and resources he controlled was also bountiful because of the prosperity of the region that was under the Harem Guild's jurisdiction.

All this in addition to the fact that he was in very good books with the City Lord because of how his portion of the region never had problems like the others, it was basically impossible to touch him.

But...

He was protecting a criminal without much evidence as to why.

This couldn't just be left alone.

"Naturally I'm aware of this and I accept it even though I can easily use the fact that Festos here had no ties to my Guild before now. I fully take on the charges against him over me and my ladies," Tulnas said as his eyes didn't flicker one bit, one of his legs going to rest over the other.

...!

Damilla was out of expressions to make.

She thought that perhaps they could definitely nail this man with the fact that Festos was guilty of some serious crimes but...

A lot of good that did.

She couldn't help but have a bad feeling about this. There was probably an endgame level play coming.

Terian breathed out in frustration. His calm face starting to show exasperated wrinkles.

This was getting more and more complicated by the minute.

Worse yet, Tulnas didn't seem to want to reveal this big ace in the hole bombshell that he definitely had, wanting to be asked about it instead so that he could reveal it in an extravagant manner.

"So then... Will you also accept the punishments that come with genocide and the penalty I assume Silrat will also have to impose on your Guild," Terian spoke as he turned his gaze to Silrat who remained silent while watching the show.

Tulnas scoffed.

"All of that won't be necessary. I'm sure you won't have the time or the gall to continue stressing about that after I eliminate one of the thorns in your ass."

Terian narrowed his eyes and Damilla put aside her rage to listen to this.

Even Skullius almost leaned in to hear this.

This was it!

What made this man so confident.

Tulnas smirked before locking his fingers and speaking in a domineering voice.

"I know how to stop the rapidly emerging Clusters."

...!