Chapter 164 - Nyx’s Interest
Draven and Nyx’s reactions were exactly as Bell had expected. Any ordinary person who saw something this unreasonable would suspect the same thing.
"You don’t need to find it strange. A useless guy like Mark can get into this place because he has a ’good’ master."
Bell also didn’t dare say for sure that Nexus was a good master because Nexus’s way of teaching his disciple was far too abstract for him.
"Master?"
Draven and Nyx frowned at the same time. The moment they heard Bell’s reminder, they immediately thought that there must be some extremely powerful figure behind Mark.
But how strong did someone have to be to forcefully crush the decades-old rules of the American Hunter Academy into the ground?
An S-rank alone wouldn’t be enough. The three of them enjoyed many privileges after enrolling, but it still wasn’t enough to mess with the rules.
A person with only the strength of an E-rank hunter like Mark appearing in this place was openly lowering the academy’s status.
Being openly pointed at and discussed by the three of them as if he were some strange object made Mark’s mouth twitch. If the three of them weren’t all S-rank hunters, he would have already rolled up his sleeves and started fighting.
Now, even though Mark was holding a spear that couldn’t be destroyed, there was still nothing he could do. With Mark’s current strength, if he fought any one of them with a spear, the result wouldn’t be any different from him holding a toothpick.
"Hey, who exactly is your master? If he’s free, you can invite him to my Gold Guild as a guest. Don’t let my young appearance fool you. I kicked the old guildmaster’s ass and became the current guildmaster, so I have full authority to make decisions."
Sensing a huge opportunity, Draven immediately came over and put his arm around Mark’s shoulder as if the two of them had been close friends for years.
As an S-rank hunter, pretending to be friendly with someone as weak as Mark was something Draven was extremely good at, which showed that he was already very familiar with these kinds of tricks.
"Wait, haven’t we never met before?"
Mark was startled and tried to dodge, but there was no way he could escape an S-rank hunter. Even though Draven wasn’t using much strength, that strength was enough to leave Mark with no way to escape.
"Isn’t everyone a stranger at first? Meeting means we’re destined to cross paths. I’m very curious about your master. Can you reveal a little information? I won’t let your effort go to waste."
As he spoke, Draven stuffed a gold bar into Mark’s pocket. His movements were so professional and fast that Mark didn’t have time to react.
Now that the gold was already in his pocket, what should he do? Return it? Returning it would mean disrespecting an S-rank hunter. Not returning it wasn’t a problem either because Nexus had never cared about this kind of trivial thing.
And so, for the first time in his life, Mark learned that it was actually possible to make money like this. It was even simpler than picking money up off the ground because Mark didn’t even need to move his hand.
"Hmph, isn’t playing these little power-building games all day annoying?"
Nyx pouted in boredom and pulled down her sleep mask because there was nothing worth taking a close look at anymore. She was indeed curious about Nexus, but she also found Draven’s habit of trying to recruit anyone valuable he met very annoying.
"Don’t waste your effort. If Nexus doesn’t want to meet you, you won’t be able to catch up with him no matter how hard you chase."
Seeing Draven messing around with those pointless tricks, Bell spoke up to keep him from wasting his time. The two weren’t friends either, but if Bell felt like helping, then he would help.
"Huh? Judging by the way you’re talking, you must know him pretty well, right?"
Draven glanced at Bell. Bell was the future of the Wolf Guild, so Draven knew Bell’s thoughts would be similar to his own.
Bell’s current attitude made one thing clear: Bell knew Nexus but had failed to recruit him. Besides that, there was another piece of information in Bell’s words, which was that Nexus had extremely fast speed.
It wasn’t just Draven. Nyx understood it too. Their brains obviously weren’t just for decoration. The list of hunters at S-rank or above ran through their minds, but they couldn’t find anyone who fit.
In that case, Nexus wasn’t a hunter. If he wasn’t a hunter, then Nexus was... There were many possibilities the two of them came up with. Although none of them could be proven, they knew that no matter what the answer was, it would be enough to shake the world.
"Of course. Don’t even think about recruiting him. It’s useless. As for how to meet Nexus, I don’t know either. But I can reveal a little bit."
"What?"
The two of them both listened carefully. For Bell to say something like this, it must be fairly important news.
"He once told me he wanted to come here to become a student, so he should be somewhere nearby right now. Once we officially start school, you might even end up in the same class as him."
Although he was talking about Nexus, Bell thought of Lailah instead. Nexus’s path was completely useless to him, and even if he could help, it could never be as much as Lailah could.
Besides, Lailah wasn’t crazy, at least. With Nexus’s weird personality right now, Bell was also quite reluctant to interact with him.
"So there really is such an interesting character coming here as a student? This school year looks like it’s going to be even more interesting than I expected."
Draven grinned. He didn’t expect that coming here would give him a chance to meet a mysterious person with strength at least equal to an SS-rank or even higher.
"I think he’ll have some way of increasing his strength that’s different from what I know. If that’s true, then I should learn from him. Being limited to the highest level is really boring."
Nyx still couldn’t imagine what Nexus looked like, but her impression of Nexus had already improved.
The three S-rank hunters chatted so naturally that they completely treated the tiny F-rank Mark like he was air.