Grandeur Fantasia

Chapter 26 ~ Spoils of War

"...Guild master, don't you think she might be lying to you?"

"Oh, I've already asked her if she's lying. She swore on Leon's name so didn't doubt her further."

"Well, if she went that far then it should be fine."

"Of course! I would never do something that ruins Leon's name!"

Vyra said with a proud face as she puffed her modest chest forward.

"Thank you, Vyra. I'm really happy you feel that way."

"E-Eh! Ye-Yes, I'm happy too, Leon..."

The proud girl immediately shrink and her face flushed pink after Leon thanked her. Everyone there knew that her face was that of a maiden in love, but they also knew the person in question would be oblivious to it.

"Then, the reason for you alone to be promoted to rank A. I'm sure you know, right Leon?"

"...WE defeated the behemoth Mr. Gera, not me."

Everybody in the room looked at Leon as he put an emphasis on 'we'. They know the fact that Leon was the one who contributed the most to the fight. In fact, Lily, Mia and Rafael's contribution were almost negligible.

"Guild ranks are determined by the guild's evaluation of their strength. You understand what that means right?"

Leon and Gera stared at each other for a while, trying to stand their ground. In the end, Leon caved in first since there weren't enough demerits to make him fight the guild master more than this.

"...I understand. However, please make the rumors about the one who defeat the behemoth as our party and Silver Fang instead of just me."

This way, the achievement of killing the behemoth would protect them as well.

"I have no control over rumors. But I will spread the news just like you said."

"Thank you very much."

"Though the title [Dark Hero] is already rampant among the citizen of Lingenia."

"..."

Ignoring Leon who sighed at the fact that it may be too late for him to not stand out by himself, Gera continued to talk.

"Oh, and could I ask you to be on standby here for about 2 and a half weeks? I will be heading towards the royal capital in two days after sorting things out here. It would take a week to go to the royal capital and 2 days for the meeting usually. Is that okay?"

Leon looked around to his friends and they all nodded.

"I understand. Then we will be resting in the meantime."

"Thank you for your understanding. Another thing, since all of you will be promoted to rank B, I would like to ask you on a party name. Have you thought of one?"

"Yes, we were told that you might ask for that by Crea so we have thought about it. We will go by the name [Crimson Lightning]."

"Crimson Lightning. Great name you pick there. I assume you got that idea from one of Leon's ability?"

Everyone of them smiled awkwardly, having their thought process for naming their party found out.

"Okay! I'll do the paperworks for that later along with you guy's promotion. By the way Leon, did you retrieve the magic stone from the behemoth?"

"What is a magic stone?"

"Eh?"

The room became silent for a moment.