- Chapter Thirteen -

"Good morning everyone." Milo started. "I see some new faces. Can we start with introductions?"

The woman at the other end of the table spoke up. "Let's start with you." She said, giving him one hell of a devilish look.

Milo stood and stared at her for a few seconds before speaking. "I am Milo Glass of Aeroguard, and I am the one who asked you all here for this meeting." He sat back down.

Thor stood up next. "I am Thor of Valhalla." He said, proudly with his fist over his chest.

Parks joked, "I thought Thor was from Asgard?" That got him a very nasty look from Thor as he sat back down, but small chuckles from everyone else. Then Thad stood up.

"I'm Thaddeus…" His baritone voice stopped all lingering laughter. He continued, "and this is Gojira. We're from Withered Iron." He sat back down.

We were next, but none of us stood. That made literally everyone stare at us. "I guess we all stand." I said, so we all stood up.

"We are The Twin Gryphon Alliance." I said, getting strange looks from most of the people in the room. I started pointing everyone out, "This is Cherry Potter, Firefly, Ronin, Pzark Ranger and I'm Phat Zeus." That got a few chuckles.

"The guild leader is the only one that needs to stand during introductions." Milo basically spat out.

Parks spoke up. "We don't need a guild leader, fuckboy."

Milo instantly had the expression as if we all just threw turds at him.

"Thanks anyways." I added with a smile, then we all sat down getting smiles and nods from some of the other guild leaders.

That's when the woman sitting opposite of Milo stood up. "And I…" she stared menacingly at him, "am Freya of The War Maidens." She continued to stand for a few seconds more, staring at Milo, then sat down.

"Let's get down to business then..." Milo said. "My guild thinks we've found the floor one boss room."

Some of the other guild members started whispering to each other.

"Is this anything like the last two times you said that? Or are you 100% sure this time?" Voiced Thad, mentioning that this is the third time Milo thought his guild found the boss room.

"I've already dealt with those in my guild who cried wolf. I can assure you this is the boss room." Milo replied with a slight smile.

I spoke up, "Are you sure it isn't just a quest?" That got a few nods from around the table.

Freya looked at me this time with an evil smile.

Milo scoffed and waved me off. "There are no quests to raid dungeons." He replied.

"We just completed a quest to clear out the monsters from The Red Forest." Freya interrupted. "And I'm sure If they give out quests for that, there might be a quest to clear the dungeon."

Thad suddenly opened his menu to a new message. He read it and instantly smiled. "It seems my friend here is right." He said, pointing his thumb my way.

"How do you know?" Milo asked.

Thad replied, "Because while we were in here talking about it, I had my guys out searching for the quest. And they found it."

"Called it." I said with a smile.

Milo looked angry and defeated…again. Freya couldn't wipe the shit eating grin off her face and Thad began to recite the message he got.

The message says, "You were right. The quest is from the leader of Medai Village. Details say it's going to be a raid sized battle with a raid boss at the end of the dungeon. Suggested Level 13 or higher."

"Sounds like we need a strategy." I said.

Milo looked at me with disgust and said, "There's no point in that. It isn't the floor boss." Then got up, collected his guild mates and walked towards the door. He stopped just short of it and turned around, "I'll be out trying to clear the game while you...inbreds are still in here strategizing." He said the last word like it tasted foul, turned and continued out the door.

"Such a sweet guy." Parks said, then turned to Freya. "I see why you like him so much."