Roan then turned to Aria, who was smiling, and said, "Tell the guild master thanks for me."
"Okay, sir," Aria said while trying to maintain a poker face.
"Damn, Aria, you look so cute right now. Sigh, I really want to eat you on the spot." Roan walked toward his room with a wide smile on his face.
Aria stood there with a red face.
Roan walked to his room and entered the gaming pod.
Grave login back to the game. He opened his eyes to find himself in Gazzi city.
In the city, if you log out of the game, you will be back to the resurrection point when you log back in. There were inns and other facilities that help players to gain a little exp even when they logged out, but those things were not much helpful in Grave eyes.
He walked toward the Abyss guild hall. Just outside the guild hall, he found the branch manager standing there with a few guards.
The branch manager looked at him and run toward him. "Sir, you came. I had the player assembled since the morning. You came in so late-"
Grave said, "I was doing a guild task."
The branch manager stopped nagging, "Sir, follow me. I will lead you to the area where players were."
Grave nodded his head and walked behind him. They walked to the barracks near the outer wall of the city.
"Sir, there is this barrack that every official guild with some power in a city gets." Grave nodded his head and looked at the barrack, which just looked like a huge storage container. Both of them enter the barrack from the gate. Grave looked around to see many guild players present there.
"Bastards, stop wasting time and get your ass assembled here." the branch manager shouted.
Guild members quietly assembled.
Grave looked at the branch manager and asked, "how many players are present here?"
"There are 1500 players, sir."
"Did you even call the elite 500 players?"
The branch manager looked down and said, "no sir, recently there is a huge rise in player population in the city and many of them join our guild. I also called all those new players. Hope sir do not have any problem with them."
Grave stared at the branch manager, then just nodded his head. "Yeah, it doesn't matter to me."
Grave did not waste any time and walked in front of all the players.
All the players looked at him and started whispering among themselves.
"Wait, is he the Sword thrower?"
"He really joined the guild."
"But why is he standing in front?"
"Idiot. I think he is the big player that the branch manager talked about."
"Buy why he got a higher position than us. I think most of us here are high level than him."
"Didn't you hear that story?"
"What are you talking about?"
"He bought that position for a silver promotion token of promotion."
"Oh, so he is just a rich bastard."
"Well, lucky him. But what the fck he need do with us?"
"Maybe he is making a special team or something."
"Shit, we wasted our time for this loser."
The branch manager shouted at them with a smile on his face. "Bastard, stop it. Do you want me to throw you out of the guild?."
Grave moved his hand and motioned the branch manager to stop speaking.
Grave looked at the players and said, "Good morning, guys. You may know me from the very famous incident that happened recently in one of the beginner villages."
Everyone nodded their head and one of them shouted from the back.
"Are you talking about the incident where you act like a coward and steal others' benefits?"
"hahaha," many players started laughing.
Grave looked at them. "haha, well, it looks like you guys do not want to listen much. Let's go straight to the main purpose of this meeting. This meeting was to select some of you for my team. So if you do not want to join my team, then please walked to the side." He motioned to his right.
Around 500 people walked out to the right side. The branch manager secretly laughed at this. "Sir, they are all the top power full players that are only a little low from the elites level. So you need to understand their ego problem.."
Grave nodded his head and turned to them. "Assholes, if you do not want to join my team then get the fck out of my site and leave the barrack don't stand here wasting my time."
Everyone had their eyes wide in shock.
Many of them started protesting, "How can you disrespect us?"
"Yeah, how can a nobody like you say those things to us?"
Grave looked at them like he was looking at idiots. "This is Abyss guild, not some charity, so get out of my site, otherwise I could do a worse thing to you."
Nobody dares to say anything to him. They did not know how much authority Grave had in the guild and everyone was smart enough to not offend the unknown.
They were all aware of the hardship of the Abyss guild. All the 500 players walked out.
There was silence in the barrack.
Grave looked at the remaining 1000 and said, "Good. Now I have fewer people to select from. 2nd Question: who here is pursuing money? Come to my right. And if you are someone who plays for fame and to become elite? Then come to my left. "
There was a slight hesitation in many eyes. Slowly, everyone started moving toward the left side.
Grave said at his time, "Remember, don't do sheep following. Instead, choose what you actually believe. If money is important to you, then go toward that side. I don't want a situation where you starve because of me."
A few of the people started walking toward the right side. Slowly, many gather their courage and went to the right side.