38 Red Rose Merchant Company

Raikou spent the next hour sparring with Ghost. It gave Ghost the chance to understand his weaknesses in battle. Ghost had been improving greatly alongside Raikou. He was currently at the 7th level of Rank 3.

If anyone heard the speed of cultivation for Ghost, they would be in awe. Even the most talented of geniuses can only match or be inferior to such speed of cultivation. It hasn't even been 4 months and he has broken through from the peak of rank 1 to the higher levels of rank 3.

The scene of a man and wolf continously attacking each other didn't go unnoticed by civilians. They had drawn a crowd of 30 people who were amazed by the two.

By the end, both of them were covered in sweat and stopped to clean up and return to the guild.

"Good sparring." Raikou winked at Ghost before saying, "Race me to the river!"

They washed up in the river and waited for Raikou's clothes to dry.

"I need some method to auto clean my clothes." Raikou thought.

He left the idea on the backburner, dressed back up and advanced to the guild.

Once he arrived, he saw two huge wagons each 4 metres in length. There was a fat man with a moustache wearing a top hat. He seemed to be the leader of the people travelling today.

Raikou walked up to them. "Hi, I'm Raikou. I accepted the mission to escort you to AngleLand."

"We've been waiting for you. The other 3 arrived 5 minutes ago." The fat man responded.

Raikou hadn't realised that there would be other people escorting the group. He looked over to see Bri Anne. She was standing next to two men that were staring Raikou down.

"Hey you! You look abit young to be accepting a C rank mission. How can we even trust that you can pull your weight with that pretty boy face." One of the men tried to intimidate Raikou.

"Ah, that's what this is about. You shouldn't feel too bad, because everyone is inferior to me, not just you. I am a beautiful specimen, no need to be sad about it." Raikou 'consoled' the man.

He wasn't wrong. The man was a big ugly brute. He was wearing a black t-shirt and black trousers, the top was on the verge of ripping from his big muscles. His face was plastered with scars and he had no hair on his head. In Raikou's eyes, this man looked like a human ogre.

The 'ogre' was about to attack Raikou, when Bri intervened. "Guys, no need to fight. We're going to have to cooperate on this mission." She pointed at the 'ogre', "This is Hamés and the one over there is Rodriguez. Guys this is Raikou. I met him previously when he needed help registering."

Hames (not doing the accent again) grumbled about kicking my ass and walked back to Rodriguez.

Rodriguez didn't look too different from Hames. Raikou could tell that they were brothers. The only difference was that Rodriguez had hair all the way up to his waist. The hair was untied and unkempt.

Bri pulled on Raikou's arm and brought him to the other two. "I want you to apologise to each other."

Hames listened to Bri for some reason. She was near the peak of rank 3, but him and his brother were both mid level rank 4's. "I'm sorry..." Hames let out an insincere apology.

"I'm also sorry that I am amazing. I apologise that you feel inferior to me." Raikou stirred the pot abit more. He knew that they only moved back because of Bri, so he didn't take their apologies seriously.

Hames was about to pounce again, but Rodriguez grabbed his arm and lightly shook his head.

This didn't go unnoticed by Raikou. It made him more vigilant towards Rodriguez, as it was easier to deal with someone as aggressive as Hames, over someone like Rodriguez who is able to stay calm.

The fat man came up to them and smiled, "We will be leaving now. There will be two of you in each wagon protecting the goods within. We will be transporting these to our main company in AngleLand, which is extremely powerful and influential." He emphasised the last part to ensure that none of them had any designs on attacking the company.

"My name is Gio and I hope we have a safe travel." The fat man tipped his top hat towards them and got into the front wagon.

The brothers followed him, with Raikou and Bri entering the wagon behind.

Once they were in the wagon, Bri began questioning him. "Didn't you just become an adventurer? Why are you taking a C rank mission. Your cultivation is too low. I didn't say it in front of them two, because they would've eaten you up. I don't know how your hiding your energy completely right now though." She didn't stop speaking for a while.

"Well. I could ask you the same. You're also too weak to be taking a C rank mission." When he said this, Bri's eyes widened.

It is well known that you can only see the cultivation of those similar or lower than you. Bri looked at Raikou differently when she heard those words.

She never spoke after that.

"Oh fuck! I left Ghost behind!" Raikou only realised once he got on the wagon.

He immediately jumped out of the wagon to stop everyone.

"Sorry everyone, I left my partner behind." He looked over to see Ghost leisurely walking towards them. He had a rabbit in his mouth.

"Did you forgot about your daddy?" Ghost remarked.

"Bastard, I was going to apologise, but you're so damn arrogant!" Raikou exclaimed.

The brothers poked their heads out of the wagon to see what the problem was. They saw Ghost approaching and their eyes were filled with greed. After all, to adventurers who weren't exactly rich, an ice wolf of the 3rd rank is quite valuable.

Raikou saw the look and crouched to whisper in Ghost's ear, "If you say anymore shit, I will give you to them. Do you see the size of them! They would tear your asshole apart."

Ghost paled at his words and silently entered the wagon.