<strong>Name;</strong>Ryuuga Raikou<br/><strong>Location;</strong>Everesta - Cemetery<br/><strong>Tagged;</strong>Anyone there<br/><br/>Although he had arrived to the cemetery early, Ryuuga made no attempt to get closer to the wooden platform where the ceremony was to be conducted. Instead, he contented himself to keep himself a safe distance away from it for two reason: 1. There are some rather famous bounty hunters in attendance and 2. He was not an acquaintance of the dead. Sure, considering the event, its likely that the bounty hunters would let him off so not to made a ruckus during the ceremony but he rather not take the chance. Still, he stayed for the ceremony out of respect more than curiosity. He had saw a man in priest robe approached a woman of elven descent and talked with her for a few minutes before the woman seem to send him away with his proverbial tail between his legs. He smirked at the man's retreating figure and though to himself, 'Probably did something to insult the dead or tried to gain profit of the person's fame.' Had it been his own acquaintance that the priest tried to take advantage of, Ryuuga would have killed him on the spot. Greed is one thing that he understood well, his real life job was a solid proof of it but there had to be a limit to it. Stealing from the dead, honourable ones, was unforgivable in his eyes.<br/><br/>He was impressed when the red haired woman had used her power to create a ring of white flame using the people in attendance as conduit, he of course had heard of it as he thought to himself, 'A flame of purification... harmless to humans, strengthen those of of holy property and harmful to demons... it needs real skill and power to create it without support from a skilled cleric. More over, its white in colour which if I remember correctly was one of the type with the highest purification power right under gold and silver. Impressive.'<br/><br/>When the spirits appeared and seemed to paid their respect toward the burning pyre, he knew that a high level necromancer was also in attendance although he couldn't tell who that person was. He put a small grin on the thought, 'A necromancer in a cemetery and not one corpse rise from the grave.... Talk about ironic.' Finally there was the song, he had heard of the song before during his travel around the world. If his memory served correctly, it was a song from the land of north about respect for a fallen warrior, 'I guess its fitting considering the sombre atmosphere....' Finally deciding that he had stayed long enough, he turned around and proceed to walk away when he heard someone wailing in sorrow. He paused in his step and looks behind him to the fallen figure of Eldrith being comforted by several people for a few minutes before turning his head back forward as he walked away, '.... No, not a warrior... a friend.'<br/><br/>He walked back to the town square's billboard and saw that during the time he was gone, several people had posted interest in his quest offer. He scratched his chin as he tried to decide how to approach the interested parties, 'Guess I'll have to test them a bit....' He made his way to the tavern where those people would gather. Once he entered the place, he didn't bother to waste time and spoke in loud voice, 'Everyone who is here for the protection quest come with me.' After speaking, he turned around and walked away without waiting for the others since he knew that they would follow him anyway.<br/><br/>He led the crowd to the spot of the fight with Balor had been, he had chosen the spot because the place was deserted and therefore he shouldn't worry about people interfering. He turned back to the people following him and saw that there were 5 people there, from their clothes he judged their classes, '2 warriors, a knight, a mage and.... a thief... I think.' The last person had a hood covering his face made him unsure of the person's profession but he didn't put much in mind as he speaks again, "Let me tell you now, I don't care about your professions or class. Ability is what I seek and it would speak for itself." He waited for the people to nod their head in agreement before continuing, "The test is easy one.One by one, you fight me. If I deem you pass, you take the job." As he predicted, the people started to talk between themselves and the female mage spoke, "Sorry about this but... are you sure? No offence but a blind man can see you're injured and.... A firebolt could put you out of commission." Ryuuga simply looked at her coldly as he answered, "Do it if you think you can." He turned back to the crowd as a whole and spoke again, "Well? Who's first?"<br/><br/>The knight came forward and brandished his spear in front of him, even from his posture Ryuuga could tell that the man is not an amateur but he kept his cool as he motioned the man to attack. The next moment, no one was sure what happened as the knight suddenly found himself flipped through the air and slammed to the ground on his back. The knight groaned in pain for a few second before his opponent punched his breastplate with enough force to knock him out. Ryuuga stood up from his position and simply said one word, "Next." This time, one of the warrior came forward and tried to use his bigger body size grab him. Unfortunately, Ryuuga isn't in the mood to be playing fair as he dashed forward past the man's defence and drove his elbow into the man's midsection right on the diaphragm, the warrior was unconscious even before he hit the ground.<br/><br/>The next two, the warrior and the female mage found themselves fairing no better than the two that precedes them as even the mage finally found out that it didn't matter how powerful her magic were if it didn't meet their mark after Ryuuga prove that it was possible to evade magic spells. Ryuuga finally turned to the remaining one, "So, shall we get started?"