Chapter 268 - SSS Class

"Wow, I must say. That was very mature of you. I didn't expect that from you seeing as you were willing to throw down with me, the guild leader," said the guild leader to which Julius just looked ashamed of himself.

"It's alright, there's no reason for you to be so down. Tell me, what is it that happened which caused you to be so upset in the first place? The first impression you left on us made it seem like you were joyous a lot of the time so seeing you so quiet and sad was rather surprising," said the guild leader to which Julius just a stayed silent for a bit before finally opening his mouth so that he could speak and give the guild leader a reply just as he had wanted.

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"I see then," said the guild leader once Julius had finished telling him the events that had transpired with the gang leader which he had killed. Although the guild leader didn't understand why the simple act of murder seemed to bother Julius that much specially considering the look in his eyes which were those of someone who killed regularly, the guild leader tried to sympathize with Julius and simply took in the information which he was informed of.

"It's alright Julius. You're not at fault. It was just an event which can be classified as being at the wrong place at the wrong time. If you had been sent off to a mission which didn't involve so much emotional baggage, this wouldn't have happened. Even so, it's not to say that this was not a valuable experience as it clearly was since it allowed you to grow as a person. You now understand that there are those with tales which make you feel nothing but utter pity for them but even so, you still can't help them. The only way you could have helped that man was by bringing his life to a close. That was the best thing you or anyone for that fact could have done in that situation. Do not be distraught about what happened, instead be glad that you were able to bring a positive end to a story which should have ended quite a while ago," said the guild leader to which Julius simply smiled before getting up from the bed as his body was ready to move again after all that resting. Even the guild leader could hear all those bones in Julius' body crack as he stretched so that he could move around freely like he once did.

"For some reason I feel quite empty. Like I'm missing something. I felt something right before I passed out. Something which made me feel whole. What was it?" Julius asked himself as he tried to remember what gave him that feeling in his chest. He wanted to experience that feeling once again. He wanted to be whole once more.

As if it was a flash of lightning, a single thought came to Julius' head and he gasped as if he had seen a ghost as he remembered the source of all the power he had felt flowing inside his body.

"The blade," Julius said out loud as he remembered that the source of all his new found power was the blade which he had stolen from the old man in a far away city. For some odd reason, the moment before he passed out, there was a certain connection made between Julius and his blade. They had become one as Julius was able to make full use of the blade and unleash its true power which allows him to do all sorts of things. Even so, he was not accustomed to the blade and he was also not prepared to wield just a mighty weapon which caused the battle to end in Julius getting knocked out. However, now that his life was no king in danger, Julius got up in search of his blade as he wanted to explore that power, he needed to see for himself if he could do more with his power which he received from his blade.

However no matter how hard he seemed to look around, he just couldn't find the blade. It was nowhere to be seen which was when the guild leader realised what Julius was looking for and let out a smirk.

"You don't happen to be looking for this, do you?" the guild leader asked with a sinister smirk as he held the blade in front of Julius.

"Why do you have that blade?" Julius asked with a rather confused face as he didn't understand what was going on. He simply thought that the guild leader had it to simply give back Julius and didn't understand that the guild leader planned on using the blade as leverage against Julius.

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"So are you going to give me my blade back?" Julius asked in a rather clam tone which caused the guild leader to let out a laugh as he finally understood that Julius didn't have a clue what was taking place.

"Julius, just to clarify, I'm holding your blade hostage and I have a proposal for you. If you want your blade back, you better accept it. Or else, you'll never see your blade ever again," said the guild leader as he tried to sound threatening to Julius.

"I refuse," said Julius as if he didn't even care what the guild leader had to say. This left the guild leader shocked as he didn't understand why Julius would refuse an offer before even hearing what it was in the first place.

"Huh? But why? I didn't even get to tell you what I wanted," said the guild leader to which Julius simply let out a bored sigh.

"Look, if I were to agree to you conditions, you would simply use my blade as leverage all the time to turn me into your slave. The moment I refuse anything, you could bring my blade into the argument and force me to do as you wished. Personally I would prefer not to be controlled like a toy so do with the blade as you wish, I'll simply get another blade," said Julius to which the guild leader couldn't even let out a single word as an interaction had never backfired on him so hard.

"Please, come on. Just hear me out. Just let me tell you about it then you can decide. Actually I'll just tell you before you can refuse," said the guild leader as he didn't want his opportunity to escape.

"Look, let me train you. What I saw there can only be achieved by a handful of people. This being the ones I have in the S class of my guild. You see, I thought you were a good for nothing idiot who was useless however time and time again you managed to prove me wrong. So Julius what do you say, would you like me to train you so that you can achieve the state you were in right before you were knocked out?" the guild leader asked which managed to catch Julius' attention and he responded to the request of the guild leader.

"You know what, sure. But only under one condition. I want my blade back so that I know you would use it to threaten me," said Julius to which the guild leader nodded and handed the blade back to Julius.

"Okay, let's get right to it then. There's no better time than the present to start so let's get going right now," said the guild leader to which Julius didn't seem to care about the circumstances and just prepared his brain to memorise every single word that would come out of the guild leader's mouth.

"First of all, the state you managed to achieve with your blade is a complete link. It's basically when you and your blade have your intentions allied. Nothing but your common goal exists. You see, it is due to this that almost no one can use it and even those that manage to use this technique can only do it in a near death scenario. This is because a blade's only ever ambition is to kill. When a human is living normally, they have many things to think about such as what they'll eat later on in the day. What they'll do to spend their time. They think about their friends as well as their families however when a human is at death's door, they forget anything and everything. Their only goal is to survive. That being to kill their enemy before their enemy can do that to them which is when the goals of the two things interact and become one," said the guild leader as he began to explain the technique Julius had unconsciously made use of.

"You see, this is the very thing which allows the single man in SSS to surpass everyone in S that needed to be SS created to show the difference in class between them. That man can use this technique at all times.. That's what makes him so dangerous," said the guild leader.