Heaven's Greatest Professor

Gale and Dawn quickly moved to find Jenni and intercept the men who were supposedly taking her to safety. Even though they hadn't reached her yet, Gale could already hear their conversation through his Void sense.

"Ma'am, you have to listen to us," said the lanky fella, pulling her arm. "We are not here to harm you. We are junior members of the Illustrious Spirit Hunter Guild. We are here to rescue you."

"Yes, the guild master has urged us to care about your safety as our foremost duty," the other guy followed, sounding equally earnest.

"I can take care of myself, thank you," Jenni replied, clenching her teeth. She freed her arm, but the other guy clutched it just as easily. She glared at them. "Did you not hear me?"

"Ma'am, please, we need you to be considerate of the situation..."

"And I need you to fuck off from my sight," Jenni shouted, freeing herself once more. She took a fighting stance, even though she was aware she was by no means a match for both of them.

The two guys exchanged glances as a look of understanding flashed between them. They nodded and were about to try something very questionable when an arm clasped their shoulders.

"Gentlemen, can I help you with something?" Gale asked.

"With all due respect, Sir, this is nothing to do with you... if you let us—"

"Finally," Jenni shouted and hurried to hide behind him. "If you were late by a few more minutes, these two would have taken me to some lonely alleyway and forced their way with me..."

"Ma'am, we'll never..." the lanky fella looked thunderstruck.

"The guild master will kill us if we try anything stupid—"

"Don't worry, she just has quite a wild imagination," Gale cut them short.

"Easy for you to say," Jenni peeked from behind him, "Nobody has forced themselves on you yet."

"Ma'am, we are only here to take you to safety," said the lanky fella.

"That's what they all say," Jenni sneered.

Gale shook his head. "You guys can rest assured and tell your guild master that she's safe with me."

"Yeah, now leave the fuck off," Jenni barked at them.

The two guys exchanged another look. "We can't actually do that," said the lanky fella. "It's the guild master's order, furthermore, you have no idea about the situation."

"This is no normal dungeon break," the other guy said conspiratorially.

"What is the grade of the dungeon that broke?" Gale asked, feeling the chaos exposure rising in the air each moment.

"That is the issue... there was no way to know... It was an undefined dungeon."

"Undefined dungeon?" Jenni peeked again. "As in you guys didn't find it in time, or couldn't measure its grade?"

The lanky guy exchanged a look with his partner. "Probably both..."

"Huh, what are the odds," Jenni sighed. "The chance of an undefined dungeon appearing is one out of four hundred... Looks like even the gods above do not want me to meet your guild master." She looked up with a regretful look, "Sorry, Father, I tried..."

"Ma'am, you do not have to worry," said the lanky fella, falling for her sarcasm. "As the guild master gave us the duty, we'll do everything to make sure of your safety..."

She clicked her tongue. "This guy doesn't know when to quit," Jenni said. She turned to Gale. "Can you do that trick on them, and make them shit their pants and leave us alone?"

Both of the guys were of Silver rank and seemed to have some capability that the guild master had given them the big responsibility. While they discounted Gale at first glance, their look changed as the air around him shifted to a more baleful one.

"Sir, we are just doing what we are told."

"No need to make it ugly..."

The baleful air vanished, and the invisible weight was lifted off their shoulders. They hadn't yet sighed in relief when the smiling face of Gale greeted them.

"Come with us," he said as he crept out with Dawn and Jenni in tow.

The junior members of the Spirit Hunter guild had no other choice but to follow.

"Where are we going?" Jenni asked, not sounding nervous at all.

"Outside."

"Why?" cried the lanky fella.

"There's a dungeon break," Gale told him, as though he was asking a dumb question.

"But why are you going out during a dungeon break?" cried the other guy.

"Obviously to help people in danger," Gale snorted. "Perhaps I gave you two too much credit... Now, if you do not want to help us, you can leave."

They did not leave, while Gale guided the way, sensing where all the chaotic essence was coming from. There were more enforcers working right now, as they were guiding the common people on the other side of the city, opposite to the dungeon break, in contrast to them.

"It feels like something weird is going on around here," Dawn said for the first time.

"The dimension laws are in a mess," Gale acknowledged. "That's probably what you sensed."

"Not just that..." Dawn muttered. "It feels... it feels..."

"What?" Jenni raised an eyebrow.

"Familiar... I cannot describe it, but I feel like—"

Her words were cut short as a thick blanket of darkness covered everything around them in a split second.

Jenni cried. "What!? What just happened?"

The junior Spirit Hunter guild members were crying too, embracing each other. "Mommy! Someone help us..."

"I don't want to die a virgin..."

More cries of people followed as the darkness did not recede.

"Shut up," Gale glared at them and spread his Void Sense in his surroundings.

"This feels like a dungeon," Jenni was the first to say. "We are in a dungeon?"

"That's very close to being the truth, but not the complete truth," Gale said. "We are still in the city of Myrin... and from what I'm sensing, it appears the city is in the process of turning into a dungeon."

"Mommy!!!"