"Are you absolutely sure you can kill me?"
The silence that followed his words was absolute.
Every single adventurer in the guild hall stared at him, their faces frozen in pure shock and disbelief.
They couldn't tell if the kid had completely lost his mind or if he just genuinely didn't understand who he was talking to. Was an unregistered rookie actually challenging a Ranker?
But even with the sheer absurdity of the threat, no one was laughing or rather, they couldn't.
Because beneath the disbelief, everyone in the room could feel the suffocating, heavy weight of the mana bleeding off him. It was a dense, incredibly violent pressure that completely defied his lack of a guild badge, proving that he wasn't just making empty threats.
Even Yenna felt a brief flash of genuine confusion.
'Does he actually think he can beat me?' she thought, her eyes narrowing as she stared into his unblinking eyes.
