Chapter 127 - Let’s Get Ranked (1)

The mistress had been waiting for Ashton the moment he walked out of the courtroom. She was worried about him as it had been a while since he went in. But the moment, he walked out she immediately realised there was something wrong with him.

'Why is he pissed?' The mistress thought to herself before rushing in towards him. But before she could get close enough the knights accompanying him jumped in front.

"What is the meaning of this?" The mistress growled at the knights, "I am his lawful guardian-"

"Not anymore." To her surprise, it was Ashton who interrupted her.

"What did you say?"

"I said, you are not my guardian anymore. So it would be better if you leave." Ashton repeated his words while looking straight into her eyes, "Till I manage to get my powers under control, my guardianship belongs to the kingdom, and effectively to his highness, the king."

The mistress was taken aback by this sudden development, but she wasn't going to let him go without a fight. He belonged to her and her alone. Not to the kingdom or to the king.

"You don't know what you are talking about, this is-"

"This is all for the better. Just like I said." Ashton cut the mistress off once again but this time he nodded at her.

The mistress was quick to take the hint. Ashton was still on her side, but now he was doing things his way.

'This brat... he actually plans on infiltrating the palace on his own? Either he is too brave or too foolish. But looks like he had already made up his mind to do this.'

The mistress was not on board with his plan, but there wasn't anything she could have done to persuade Ashton to do otherwise. The only thing that she could do was to hope whatever the brat had in his mind actually ended up working. Or else her plans of taking over the kingdom would fail hilariously.

"Believe me, Ashton, you will regret this decision you have made today." The Mistress scoffed, "And I'll be laughing right on your face when you do."

"We'll see about that. For now, you should get going." Ashton smirked and waved his hands as if he was shooing away a street dog.

Even though she knew Ashton was acting, the mistress did not take his gesture kindly and swore to 'punish' him thoroughly for doing what he did when he came back to her. Maybe after spending some time apart, Ashton would start missing her for once and enjoy his 'punishment'. Just maybe.

'Looks like phase one was a success.' Ashton thought to himself, 'This bitch really thinks I'm on her side when I'm on... my side. Working for the king is beneficial to me. So I'll work for him, when someone else can benefit me more, I'll jump ships again.'

Ashton did not care about things like loyalty when it came to werewolves. The only thing he cared about was revenge, but now that the king had offered him something even better, he would focus his efforts on that.

Jonathan apparently knows the location of his parents and they are still alive... well, at least Jonathan thinks they are. As long as Ashton helped him clear the swamps, he will get to see them again or at least get to know more about them.

But it would take a lot of time before it becomes reality. He would need to do a lot of things before even thinking about taking on the swamps. As from what he had heard, even the soldiers above level 30 and above die there on a regular basis.

Thus Ashton wanted to get to at least level 50 before stepping foot into the swamps and Jonathan seems to agree with it as well. Ashton was a valuable asset for him. Therefore, Jonathan would rather have Ashton proceed slowly than jump headfirst into danger and lose Ashton.

That being said... there was one more thing that Ashton wanted to do once he was strong enough. Which was to confront the witch of the director for the piece of shit she was. Ashton still had not gotten the complete truth about what the director and his parents had to do with each other.

But one thing was for certain... she had betrayed his parents which ended up with them landing in the mistress's enclosure. The place where his shit show of life began. She would have to pay for whatever she had done. But for now, Ashton could only turn his grudge into anger and use it to fuel himself up.

Also, Ashton had no intention of abiding by the rules Jonathan had presented him with. Especially the rule about not killing high-ranking nobles or simply not killing at all. After all, he had to feed his other genes and killing was the most important part of it.

'For now, let's just focus on getting that class of mine and killing whenever I get the chance to.'

"We are getting late. According to the orders, you need to get registered as an adventurer by the evening." One of the knights escorting Ashton remarked in a very formal tone.

"Let's get going then." Ashton smiled as they headed towards the guild.

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"This is the guild?" Ashton asked with raised eyebrows.

When Ashton had gotten to know about the guild he had imagined it would be some kind of lavish place with lots of high levelled people around. Well, the building in front of him was not in a bad shape but it was certainly below his expectations. So were the people around him. Some of them had not even reached level 10!

"No. This isn't the guild's head office, but the recruitment centre." The knight responded to Ashton's query, "All of these people are here either for the recruitment test or for a revaluation."

"Ah, that makes sense. So what do I need to do?"

"Nothing much. You just have to wait till they call your name and then head inside for the test. Before you ask how they know your name, preparations had already been made since yesterday.. In fact, the first name they will call should be yours."