Mars revived the necklace with the iron tag in it from Alex and wore it around his neck with a proud exposition on his face before a though appeared in his head and he spoke it out loud

"wait... what does a mercenary even do?"

"..."

the whole guild fell silent as Mars's voice wasn't quiet and Alex almost fell over but Mars had an innocent look on his face and continued

"well maybe I should ask the person that recruited me to the guild without telling me anything about it or it's rules?"

"..."

this time the silence turned cold as numerous gazes focused on Alex

"well... Julia I just remembered I have some paperwork to do, so I leave this to you"

Alex showed the work on one of the receptionists and made a tactical retreat up to his office

"that f.u.c.king muscle head..."

Mars turned the receptionist and saw a mature human woman that had a perfect businesses smile while her brown eyes was icy cold, she had short shoulder cut black hair and turned to Mars which made him feel a slight chill before she gave a sigh and the coldness disappeared

"well then, let me tell you about the mercenary guild and its rules"

"okay"

"first off the guild exist to connect people with requests and people who can complete those requests, while protecting both party's from fraud"

"...that makes sense"

"a little over 3000 years ago the guild split up forming the hunters and the mercenary guild to better help with getting the right people for the right jobs"

Mars gave a nod while Julia continued

"the guild have a few rules don't kill random unrelated people, follow the laws of the country you are working in and once one have accepted a request if you can't complete it consequence will follow"

"what kind of consequence?"

Julie's eyes turned cold for a second before she answered

"worst case we hand the party a fault to the country's authorities, on light offences the guild rank will be revoked or lowered"

"I see..."

"the mercenary's guild exists to help the clients with request where people are likely to be the problem such as, escorting, guarding or even long term bodyguards"

"then if the problem is magic beast it's the hunters guild that handles it?"

"that right"

"then what if the problem is both?"

"in that case the client will hire double tags, people that are members of both guilds or just people form both guilds"

"okay..."

"then do you have any questions?"

"hmm... how do one rank up?"

"that's decided by the amount and difficulty of the request one takes, there is also a interview every second rank to check for faults of character"

"okay"

"anymore questions?"

"nope i'm good, thanks Julia"

Julia's businesses smile widen slightly while she gestured to the request board

"please let me know if you find a request you would like to take"

"I will, see you"

Mars said farewell to the Julia and walked over to the baron couple with Victoria in tow

"that's that, i'm a mercenary now"

Mars showed them his iron tag that had a small sword on it with a slightly proud expression on his face

"congratulations Mars"

"thanks Irene"

"then do you have anything else to do?"

"no, nothing at the moment"

"then let's head back, i'm sure Hanna have been looking forwards to meeting you"

Mars, Victoria, the baron couple and their maid Elsa began walking back to the mansion but on the way there Mars detected a well hidden cold gaze that was on him

'feels like a snake... maybe he has something to do with the priest...? meh, whatever'

Mars decide to ignore the gaze and walked back while he talked with the baron couple, where Reimund eagerly asked him to train some of his personal knight and guards which Mars agreed to do next the morning and soon they reached the mansion where Mars and the baron couple went upstairs to Hanna's room

'talking... most be Jean and Hanna'

Mars could hear talking from outside of the room along with laughter and put a slight smile on his face as he opened the door without knocking and walked in like he owned the pleads with the baron couple following after him

"who might you be?"

one the bed sat a young adult girl about 16-18 years old that had long yellow hair like her mother which reached her lower back, both her eyes was yellow although her right eye was a few shades paler then the other which slightly enhanced her charm along with the pale lightning 'tattoo' which spared out over her fair skin form her right hand

"Hanna dear, this is Mars he's the one that healed you"

"oh..."

Hanna looked Mars over and gave a slight frown form confusion before her face clear up and she gave a sweet slime and bowed while still sitting in her bed

"i'm sorry I had expected someone older looking, my name is Hanna Orgrage thank you very much for healing me"

"no problem Hanna, I feel no shame in admitting healing such a lovely young lady such as yourself is my pleasure... and also even if I look like this, i'm probably still the oldest person in this room"

Hanna gave a slightly confused look before her eyes cleared up and she gave a nod before she asked

"you're not human right?"

"nope, well half human, half dragon"

Hanna's eyes sparked

"wow... I have only heard about your kind in cla.s.s, but the professor said half-dragons are extinct... and look more dragon like"

Mars gave a smile and sat down on a chair next to the bed and explained

"well this is my 'human' form, because my dad was human i look like this normally, but if I will it I can transform... like this"

Mars transformed his hand and long sharp claws rapidly grew out from his fingertips before he showed his hand to Hanna which looked on with sparkling eyes

"wow... can I touch them?"

"sure go ahead, just be careful they're sharp"

while Hanna carefully touched Mars's claws Reimund and Irene exchanged a glance and gave a signal to the other servants which left the room along with them

"wow, they are really hard and al---"

"Hanna do you mind if I ask you a question?"

Mars cut off Hanna and looked into her eyes with a serious look on his face which made her a little stunned before she gave a small nod

"you have the same mana attribute of lightning, like your mom right?"

"that's... yes mine is the same as mama"

Mars gave a nod and carefully took a hold off Hanna's right hand and lightly traced where her wound had been with his finger

"these wounds... were caused by lightning right?"

Hanna's smile disappeared from her face and she cast her eyes down while Mars continued

"now if you caused them yourself I have nothing to say about it, but if someone did this to you, then you should tell your parents about it"

Hanna remained silent and tried to pull her hand away but found it impossible to remove it from Mars's grip

"or if you want I can tell them, you just have to give a nod"

Mars kept his grip on Hanna's hand and for a while nothing was said in the room until Hanna let out a small whisper which Mars's ears picked up

"...they can't do anything about it anyway"

Mars gave a caring smile, he didn't know why he cared so much about this but his gut feeling told him that if he let her go now she would die the next time and that would be a waste

"I see... I that case it's even more simple to do something about it"

Mars released her hand and with lightning speed he grabbed her by the neck and lifted Hanna up into the air as he stood up from the chair and looked up at her while she struggled to get free as tears formed in her eyes while she squeezed out a word

"why....?"

Mars gave a ferocious grin as his deep blue eye transformed into blood red vertical slit dragon eyes

"they think your weak, and so do I.... so what are you going to do about it?"

Hanna's eyes lit up and tears began to form in the corner of her eyes before she weakly kicked Mars in the chest

"that's right! THAT'S RIGHT! HAHAHH--"

Mars lightly threw Hanna over into her bed while he laughed like a insane person before he turned to Hanna

"YOU ONLY HAVE TO FIGHT BACK! HAHAH--"

Hanna looked at Mars with wary eyes but soon remembered he had grabbed her with the hand that wasn't transformed until Mars's laughter stopped and he sat down on the chair again and continued with a ferocious smile on his face while his blood red eyes shone with killing intent

"now how you fight back is up to you... but if you want to learn, then i'm willing to teach"