Chapter 10: Master Mitto

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The entire front wall to the Grey Wing guild hall falls apart as a single boy covered in a bright yellow light flies before a group of wizards.

The sun seems to make the boy shine like gold as he floats in the air with his hands behind his back like some sort of god. His passive aggressive smile, the contempt and arrogance in his eyes, every part of his expression combines to form the appearance of an overbearing maniac.

After a few second of looking around at the different wizards in the guild Nix's eyes land on an old man. Unlike the other wizards he doesn't have a hesitant or frightened face, just a cold stern frown that shows his displeasure of his guild being destroyed.

"I suppose you're Mitto old man?"

Mitto rises from his seat with his left hand firmly placed in his robe as little roots start to sprout from his feet.

"I am Mitto, the guild master of Grey Wing. I don't believe I've slighted you to earn such disrespect, why don't we talk this over young man?"

Nix's smile became even harsher after hearing the old man's words.

"You really do live up to your nickname, the Wooden Statue. I can't believe such a pacifist could have led an entire guild against Broken Spirit."

Mitto pulled out a cane from inside his robe and slammed it on the ground, making the room smell like dew and cut grass. Large vines quickly grew on the last three remaining walls along with dark red fruits that gave off their own magic signature.

After his somewhat anticlimactic display of strength Mitto eyed the young boy as he tried to think of why anyone would attack Grey Wing.

Grey Wing had little enemies, only Broken Spirit had fought with them in the past so the only thing Mitto could think of was that Broken Spirit had gone back on their promise.

As for how they would do that without going against the law of the magic council? There was a very simple way, by hiring a mercenary to take out the guild master and any other authority in the guild before swiping all of the territories, wealth, resources, and members from the ruined guild.

This had happened many times since the creation of Fiore until now. Although there was some risk as an investigation would be made, as long as Broken Spirit was deemed to have no involvement in the attack there would be no repercussions.

'But why would Broken Spirit hire a young boy? It doesn't make any sense?'

Mitto was very confused, in all the previous cases of these very situations, the mercenary being hired was the most crucial part of the scheme. The mercenary couldn't have any past involvement with Broken Spirit in order to avoid suspicion but the mercenary also had to be strong enough to kill Mitto.

Was a boy appearing to be only 14 years of age really capable of killing a guild master? The obvious answer is no, therefore there must be something else at play that could pose a threat to Mitto and the rest of the guild.

Sure enough, Mitto was completely right.

Just after ten seconds of a prolonged stare down between Mitto and Nix a loud hissing sound came from the back of the guild hall.

"I apologize Mitto but I've found a new master."

Mitto quickly turned around and caught the view of Adam throwing multiple gas canisters around the guild hall.

"What? Adam?"

The gas canisters exploded as the wizards within the guild tried their best to evade or nullify the gas that rapidly engulfed the room.

"Wind Magic: Temporal Lift!"

A hefty fat woman lifted up a ridiculously large staff and swept a great burst of wind, but despite her best efforts the gas didn't move much, simply sinking back down to the ground after rising a few feet.

"Master Mitto the gas is being enhanced by multiple caster type magic!"

Master Mitto threw away his cane and pushed his hands against the ground after seeing the gas spread to the entire guild in a few seconds.

"Ah, master Mitto don't you think you should take care of your enemy first?"

A yellow flash of light blitzed past Mitto with tremendous speed. With his entire body up in the air behind Mitto Nix brought his fingers down to the back of the old man's neck with a frightening smile.

"Light Magic: Crushing Opposition."

Densely packed light formed at Nix's fingers as he touched the old man who had completely froze.

"Goodbye Mitto."

Light rushed into Mitto's head with incredible force, pushing it's way through his skin, skull and finally his brain. Mitto's head than exploded in a bright red mess before his body fell over on its knees.

Everyone paused as they looked at what had just happened, all of the wizards of Grey Wing stood in shock, even Adam had a solemn face as he looked at the broken body of his previous master.

"Huh."

Nix turned over Mitto's dead body and stared at it for a few seconds before smiling deviously. A strange device poked out of his right eye as he stood up and looked around the room.

"Oh?"

Nix's smile grew as he carefully scanned the entire room.

"You're the guild hall itself?"

A deep resounding voice came booming from the walls, "You have deep insight for being so young."

"You overpraise me Mitto, I always use cheats whenever I do something difficult."

"Is that thing in your eye one of those 'cheats' young man?"

"Of course," Nix carefully caressed his special scanner, "This little device is my pride and joy."

"I would be willing to purchase such a device if you have more of these contraptions, given of course that you don't attack my guild ever again."

Nix clicked his teeth with a sorry, "You see Mitto, I don't plan on cooperating. I am not some hired assassin from Broken Spirit nor am I an arms dealer."

The gas suddenly became even denser as wizards dropped like flies to the ground, panting and clutching at the throats as the gas invaded their bodies.

Soon, the wizards became hysterical, laughing at the pain all the while harming their fellow guild members and even themselves with anything they had in hand.

People pulled out their own hair, stabbed themselves, and bit others. The only one not affected was Adam who had already put on a mask and ran out of the building.

"I'm not just after your money or your head Mitto, I want everything to this guild's name, it's territory, it's buildings, and it's people."

Two small rings of light formed around each of Nix's limbs including both of his legs and arms.

"Light Magic: Light Augmentation!"