Erza Scarlet

With the ashes of the man slowly scattering within the secret base, the room was left with John and the other captured people in their cells.

The mecha kneeled in place as the red highlights on its body started to recede back into its body like a tide.

Then the mecha opened up and John rolled out of the suit along with a burst of steam, if one looked closely one would see that John was red all over with steam coming out of his body.

John instantly woke up once he was ejected from the mecha as he rolled around the floor while shouting.

"Hot!Hot!"

Then he took out a bucket of water prepared for such occasions from his space and splashed it all over himself, only then did he show a satisfied expression.

"Ah, it's really the right choice to prepare this bucket of cold water in case I need to go use overdrive when using the mecha."

"Now then, let's free all the prisoners here."

After saying that he released all his puppets and released all the prisoners here and collected all the machines inside the cells, cuz he'll never know when he needed to use that thing.

When he was done pointing out the direction of the exit to the prisoners, John walked to the destroyed coffin in the middle, in the place where the parts of the coffin are is a floor tile different from the other tiles.

"A second secret door? Or entrance?" John raised an eyebrow in interest when he saw this tile, this guy could really not think of any other place to hide something.

But then again, that man is guarding this place, so who could ever find this different floor tile except for those stronger than the old man, which can only be S-rank mages.

But how could S-rank mages ever be interested in a guild like a ghoul spirit where the risks are great and the reward-risk ratio does not even equal?

He had the ghost ripper rip the tile out of the floor and a book appeared in John's sight, a book the size of a textbook.

A black cover and red letters form the cover of the book, and the red letters form the eerie word 'Suffering' on the cover.

"Suffering?" John muttered and then he opened the book as he was curious as to why the book would have a title like that.

But, then he was surprised to see that it was a method to extract negative emotions from everything and use it to temper different things, like the man he just fought.

He used the negative emotions to temper his body to tremendous heights that if John didn't notice his weakness then he would have stayed here forever.

"Another skill to add to my collection of dark skills, with all my skill set so far, I have gone further and deeper into becoming a dark mage."

"I hope that I don't receive any more of these skills or else I will be heading head first into the Eren Yeager rabbit hole." John sighed thinking of all the skills he had.

"The matters regarding Ghoul Spirit's destruction should have reached senior Ornn's ear, let's quickly leave this place and wait to receive my reward at Crocus."

Then after saying goodbye to Ishikki, John quickly set off to return to Crocus to get his rewards from Old Man Ornn.

And just like that 2 years quickly passed like a flowing river, after waiting for two weeks to receive the claws he requested from Ornn, John and the others quickly returned to Magnolia.

To his shock, the claws he receive were on the S-rank level, which meant it was on the same level as the claws of a real ghost ripper.

That means he can have a whole 101 ghost ripper puppets when he grows up, just thinking of that scene alone filled him with joy.

Although at that time he would have a more advanced puppet to use as a trump card, with 101 S-ranks by his side, who does he need to fear?

At that time he can even wage war upon a country itself, and with the first step done, he can finally bring the whole world into his palm.

Cough*

Wrong script, let's not go full Eren Yeager with the whole world as his enemy, currently John is sitting inside the guild resting after a tiring task.

Cana is on a job along with the Ur and her disciples, so John is bored sitting at the bar table drinking tea, quite a weird sight when all the others are drinking beer.

"You should start drinking, John, you are already old enough, so stop drinking tea in the guild hall it looks so out of place." Macao advised and took a big gulp of his stein and let out a satisfied sigh.

"It's because I have a more refined taste than you, Macao, and you sure your wife wouldn't notice that you've been drinking once you returned home?" John mocked Macao, as the married man stiffened up with a wry smile.

That's right, Macao got married last year and his wife is still the same one in the cannon, Enno, it started when Enno danced on the table tops and John heard Macao muttering to himself.

"I must take this woman back home."

Anyway, they married over a not so grandeur wedding where John gifted them a charm that can be used to protect themselves.

Just as he was thinking of those things, the doors to the guild hall busted open, and a small redhead entered through it.

She was wearing a patched-up blue one-piece dress, a satchel on her back, and a white eye patch on her right eye.

She looked around first and then started to walk towards the bar table since she saw John sitting there, maybe she would be comfortable with someone her age.

"You, where's the guild master?" She asked in a firm voice than a child's usual cheery one, John just smiled and pointed to Makarov downing a stein of beer.

The girl nodded and went to go to Makarove while John thought to himself, 'So Erza's finally here, huh? I guess it won't be long before a pink head will arrive at the guild then.'

Meanwhile, a concerned look flashed quickly in Makarov's eyes as he look at Erza and the way she acted.

'Another one with an untold story.'

"Don't worry child, you won't be hurt again since you've joined our guild, we're one big family here." Makarov comforted with a gentle smile and rubbed Erza's head, but she instinctively retreated back from his palm.

Makarov's palm stopped in the air as he smiled helplessly, he retracted his hand as he stood up on the bar table and shouted.

"Listen up you brats! We have a new member here, say hello to our new member of the family, Erza!"

Loud cheers echoed throughout the entire hall as everyone welcomed the new member to their large family, Erza was overwhelmed by the shouting, as she didn't know that someone would be so happy for her.

Makarov smiled seeing this scene then looked at Erza's astonished eyes and smiled. " See everyone here welcomes you, in this guild we're one big family, so you don't ever have to feel alone again."

"Follow me, let's get you all fixed up." Makarov said as he jumped down from the table and walked to the table with the small Erza following him, to Porlyusica John assumed.