"Are you sure you can kill me?" Hajin asked without stepping back from her.
Nobody answered him, because the adventurers packed around the counter were still deciding whether the rookie had lost his mind or simply failed to understand who he was standing in front of.
An unregistered newcomer had threatened one of the most dangerous Rankers in the guild, out loud, in the middle of the hall.
Somebody should have laughed at that.
Nobody managed it, since the mana bleeding off him pressed on the room with a weight that made the missing badge on his coat look like a clerical error.
Even Yenna felt something arrive that was not anger.
'Does he honestly believe he can beat me,' she thought, her eyes narrowing on a face that had not blinked once, 'a rookie with no badge, in my own hall.'
She had cleared restricted zones, put down anomalies, then walked out of things that would have unmade ordinary adventurers, so being measured by this one and found small put heat through her.
