God Of Gluttony: Runestones Give Me Unlimited Abilities

7 Blakk Guild HQ

"Who the hell builds a guild HQ in the middle of nowhere?" Alex gritted his teeth as he waded through the thick Vegetation of the village forest where everyone told him that the Blakk Guild had built their HQ. "This is mental..."

It was nighttime, and Alex was barely managing to move through the bushes without tripping or running into something that would end his life.

If he had known that the guild building was so far away, then he would've slept in the village before embarking on the journey the next day, but he hadn't known so here he was, stumbling through the darkness in search of a building that he did not even know what it looked like.

Now that he had awakened, Alex had no reason to ever return to the orphanage, not even to sleep for one second. He never wanted to see that building or the people inside it ever again.

He remembered seeing Flash after the Awakening. His abilities were not active so his hair was its natural colour, but from the haughty smile on his face and the representatives scrambling after him, he assumed that the bully must've awakened a popular and powerful ability.

'Well, good for him. I'm just glad that I'll never get to see him ever again.' Alex thought as he pushed the thought of Flash out of his mind.

However, in the very almost nonexistent chance that Alex might forgive the people at the orphanage for how they treated him, there were two people he would never forgive, and when the time was right, he would make sure that they got their reckoning.

Thinking about the orphanage filled Alex with so much rage that he began to move carelessly and before he knew it, his foot got entangled in a vine, he tried to shake it off but it didn't budge. He was already angry and impatient, so he pulled his leg away in annoyance.

As an awakened, the force his body could exert was different from that of a normal human body and he seemed not to be aware of it because as soon as he pulled his leg away, it came off quite easily but with a flash of grey.

On looking up, he saw that his rash action had accidentally triggered his ability, and he had reduced a good deal of the forest to Ash. In fact, he had destroyed so many trees and vegetation that he could clearly see the Blakk Guild building in the background.

He wasn't exactly sure whether that was the building, but since he was told that it was the only building in this forest, he made a beeline towards it.

He felt a bit bad for destroying most of the trees in this forest, but the damage had already been done. He wasn't sure he could reverse it. All he could do was inform the guild captain about his accident. Hopefully, the man would be able to do something about it.

On getting to the building, he noticed that it didn't look like a guild headquarters — in fact, it didn't even look like something that human beings could live in. It looked like an abandoned building, and Alex would've abandoned it if it wasn't for the logo of a black Raven on the top of the building with the words "Blakk Guild" written under it.

Alex couldn't help but make a mental comparison with this building and the other guild headquarters he had passed in the village.

"Boy, I have the shittiest luck, don't I?" He smiled pitifully,

He walked up to the door and opened it. It was then that he got the shock of his life.

The inside of the building was 360° different from what he had seen on the outside.

"What in the name of Spatial magic is going on here?" Alex muttered to himself in awe.

The interior of the building was large and very clean. He had entered a room that seemed like it was a parlour.

He was about to wonder why the interior of the building was decorated in a residential fashion when he noticed Ken sitting on one of the chairs.

"Welcome, how was the journey?..." Ken asked without turning to face Alex.

Alex noticed that he was intently watching some fish in a pond.

'How was the journey?' Alex repeated in his head. 'This man is talking as if he knew all along that I would come back... but when you think about it, I never really had a choice. He's the only one willing to take a Grey magic ability user.'

"How did you expect it to be?" Alex replied in frustration, "Why did you build your guild in the middle of the woods? I almost couldn't find this place!"

"Why else?" Ken asked rhetorically, "security reasons."

"Security reasons..." Alex repeated, almost chuckling in derision. "Apart from the false illusion, nothing stopped me. I literally waltzed in here."

"You have a lot to learn, young one," Ken chuckled, "did you think you would've found this place if I didn't want you to find it? The forest itself belongs to us. Think about other resources we have at our disposal. Not to brag, but we are the most secure guild headquarters building in this kingdom."

This revelation sent chills down Alex's spine. He could easily have spent the whole night going around in circles looking for a building that even the Vegetation around would not allow him to find.

'Wow... scary,' he thought.

Alex paused for a while, then looked around, "That reminds me, where is everyone? Like the staff and all that?"

"Staff," Ken chuckled, "our guild is very different from other guilds. We don't have staff like the other guild. Our ability users are the staff and we don't even have that many ability users, which is why our guild building is built like a residential building because it is in fact where all of us live and conduct our day-to-day activities. We are more like a family than a guild."

Alex was pleasantly surprised by this information. He was not too sure about the "No staff" part but if everyone here treated each other like family then this would really be a nice place to be. After all, as an orphan, he had a cold upbringing where everyone treated him like trash. Having a guild family would be a nice change of pace.

Suddenly, the front door slammed open, and Alex and Ken spun their heads towards it.