Chapter 138: State Your Price

"Our Leader doesn’t just meet with anyone." The Vice Guild Leader sneered, puffing out his chest.

​"Oh. Oh. Oh... What an incredibly arrogant little brat."

​The very next moment, Juanita released a fraction of her suppressed SSS-Rank aura. The sheer, physical weight of her pressure smashed right into the Vice Guild Leader, sending not only him, but every single Awakened in the cavernous hall crashing violently face-first into the cold floor!

​BOOM!

​"This?!! What... SSS-RANK!!" The Vice Guild Leader gasped in utter horror, his lungs struggling to expand against the crushing gravity as he stared up at Juanita in absolute shock.

​"What?! That’s an SSS-RANK Awakened?!!"

​"My god! I can’t even properly detect her rank..." The D-Rank lady choked out, coughing as she wiped a drop of blood off her trembling lips. She couldn’t even force her knees to straighten under the oppressive weight.

​"Only C-Rank and above can easily gauge someone’s rank through aura fluctuations... This lady deliberately concealed her true presence when she walked in." The man beside her grunted, his knuckles turning white as he forced himself up onto all fours.

​"Hey! Tobias, this lady is ridiculously strong! Why on earth is she here?!"

​Tobias slowly pushed himself up, his head swimming with dizziness from the sudden impact of the aura blast.

​"This guild must have offended her... She must be here to completely raze the place and get back at them," he muttered, his confidence completely shattered.

​"What?! If that’s truly the case, we’re all going to end up dead! An SSS-Rank isn’t an existence nobody like us can ever afford to offend!" one of his female teammates shrieked, her face turning bone-white.

​"I say we run... Yes, that’s the only way out of this!" The muscular knight in their squad quickly scrambled up, completely abandoning his teammates, and sprinted toward Juanita—only to drop heavily onto both knees right before her feet.

​"Senior!! Please, spare me! I have absolutely nothing to do with these people! I’m not even a registered member of this guild, I’m only here to exchange my dungeon loot!" he yelled frantically, sweating absolute buckets as his forehead touched the floor.

​"Oh?" Juanita tilted her head to the side, her emerald eyes glowing with amused disdain.

​"You coward!! How dare you!" The Vice Guild Leader yelled in pure rage, raising a trembling finger at the kneeling knight. "You are a B-Rank Awakened! When you signed with us, the Guild gave you a premium contract stipulating that whatever loot you sell to us gets a fifty percent bonus payout! Not only that, we grant you five free dungeon keys every single week! Now you’re shamelessly turning your back on us the second we’re in trouble!!"

​"Who gives a fuck about your pathetic contract?!" The knight snapped back, turning his head to glare furiously at the Vice Guild Leader still on the ground.

"Do you have any idea what actual B-Rank Awakened receive from Top 50 Guilds?! You should be fucking grateful I even stepped foot in this dump! And second of all—do you honestly think your little contract is worth fighting an SSS-Rank for?!!"

​"What a complete bother." Juanita sighed deeply, rolling her eyes as she tapped her cheek lazily with the flat side of her dark steel dagger. "If the Boss hadn’t explicitly commanded us not to use unnecessary violence, a good half of you would be corpses already."

​She flicked her wrist, pointing the tip of her lethal blade directly at the Vice Guild Leader’s eyes. "Starting with you..."

​Juanita paused mid-sentence, her gaze drifting past the terrified men toward the exchange counter. Her eyes locked onto the young receptionist, who was trembling like a leaf behind the desk.

​"Wow... Absolute perfection."

​Ignoring the pleading knight grovelling on the floor, Juanita instantly vanished from her spot—reappearing in the span of a single heartbeat directly on top of the wooden exchange counter, sitting cross-legged as she stared down at the clerk with a sultry, predatory smile.

​"Wow, you are so remarkably beautiful," Juanita purred softly. She reached out her pale hand, gently catching the trembling lady’s jaw between her fingers and tilting her head up so those terrified, dark eyes stared straight into her glowing green ones.

​"What do you say, beautiful? Would you like to come spend the night with me? Don’t worry, all my girlfriends live an exceptionally luxurious life. One million dollars per night—What do you say?" Juanita asked, slowly running her tongue over her lips.

​"One... One million dollars?!"

​The clerk froze, utterly stunned. Hailing from a poor family in the outskirts, she had never even seen such an astronomical sum of money in her entire life. Would she really trade a single night of her life for that kind of generational wealth?

​She blinked continuously, her mind completely short-circuiting under the intense pressure and sudden proposition.

​"You... Are... Are you a lesbian?" She asked in a meek, barely audible whisper.

​"Is there something wrong with that? I simply adore beautiful women more than anything else in this world..." Juanita murmured softly, leaning down to pull the clerk’s blushing face closer, preparing to capture her lips right in front of the dumbfounded guild members.

​"You might be an SSS-Rank powerhouse, but you severely lack basic manners! How dare you come into my domain and harass my staff?!" a sharp, commanding voice boomed from the entrance.

​"Oh?"

​Juanita paused inches from the clerk’s lips, slowly looking over her shoulder toward the double doors. A tall, formidable woman clad in full plate armor was marching inside, a heavy longsword resting against her hip and her core energy flaring with A-Rank intensity.

​"Ah, you must finally be the actual Guild Leader." Juanita noted, her eyes lazily scanning the newcomer before turning back to the blushing clerk beneath her.

"Wait for me, baby girl... Don’t worry, I never force my girlfriends into anything. They always submit to me completely out of their own free will." She said with a dazzling, wicked smile.

Juanita turned back around, shifting her weight to sit comfortably on the edge of the counter desk, while the young clerk’s face flushed a deep, burning crimson, her mind still frantically spinning around the promise of one million dollars.

​"Why are you making a scene in my guild?!" The Guild Leader demanded, her hand resting firmly on the hilt of her sheath as her eyes locked onto the intruder.

​"Hmm... Nah. You definitely aren’t my type." Juanita shook her head, inspecting the Guild Leader’s armored frame with a critical eye. "Your body is way too bulked up, built like a brick mountain. Tsk, I really don’t like women like that."

​Juanita’s casual critique left the surrounding members even more bewildered, while the Guild Leader herself stood completely speechless, her face twitching in sheer disbelief.

​"You insolent...!!"

​"Alright, alright! Forget about all those unnecessary details." Juanita waved her hand dismissively, effortlessly cutting off the woman’s rising anger.

​"My Boss personally assigned me a very specific directive today."

​Juanita lazily flicked her slender fingers. A spatial ripple tore open the air beside her, and a official, leather-bound file emerged, floating gracefully across the hall until it landed squarely in the Guild Leader’s armored hands.

​The Guild Leader caught it instinctively, her brows furrowing as she looked down at the cover.

​"Hand over your entire guild, all territory rights, and every registered member under your roster." Juanita stated casually, resting her chin in her palm as a terrifying smirk stretched across her face. "And oh, go ahead and state your price."

​"....?!!"