Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 260

Chapter 260: Honorary Elder
Emma was sitting on a couch, her eyes distant as her mind thought about many things, and her left foot’s heel tapping on the cold stone floor out of stress, without her even noticing.

When a few seconds later, an elegantly dressed man covered in a white mask and a white apron came out of the adjacent room, the tapping of the woman’s foot stopped, and she almost immediately stood up.

She stared into the man’s eyes for a few seconds before asking:

“How did it go?”

The old man nonchalantly took everything that didn’t belong to his suit off his body and then answered:

“Of course, it went well, do you think I would ever be able to mess up on something so easy?”

Emma however, wasn’t focused on this reply, she immediately asked another question:

“How much does he have?”

The old man who was already distracted turned his face toward the young woman once again, and then brought his hand to his chin, rubbing it against his barely-sticking-out white beard to help him think…

“I’d say… maybe a month.

The damage done to his body would only be problematic if he woke up.

While he’s asleep, if we can supply him with the needed nutrients, then his body will be just fine.”

“One month huh?…”

Emma also began thinking…

“Let’s hope he had a clean schedule”

….

A few hours later, inside a building in Milan, an old man was sitting in his office.

“Gianfranco…

We understand what happened wasn’t what you hoped would happen.

But you cannot lead a whole squad of the most important defenders of our country and bring them into the eye of the enemy territory…

Not to mention, two of your team members died, and seven civilians were also found lifeless after the horde passed, some of them have yet to be identified because of the damage done to their bodies by the monsters.…

It’s time for you… to retire and hand your position to someone else….

As a form of respect for you, we have decided to allow you to become an honorary leader of the association”

Honorary leader, a status many wish for, but few can obtain…

Just being awakened is considered a rare talent, but even amongst those who have awakened, not even one percent have reached the notorious S-rank.

Those who go even beyond those ranks are true monsters, who don’t abide by the normal laws of the world…

And yet, there are some who obtain even more special recognition from the association…

Those people are the world-famous awakened…

The honorary leaders.

The association isn’t a simple government-controlled organization, but it also isn’t a privately owned company, the best way to define it would be to refer to it by calling it a Guild.

Actually, it isn’t just one guild… nine guilds had initially founded the association, and less than half a year after the disaster, the Association had already consolidated its place as the most powerful force on the planet.

The initial name, A.A. or Awakened Association, changed when governments all over the world began viewing them in a positive light, as a means to control the awakened and prevent them from running wild.

At the time, the association became the current A.M.A. in other words, Awakened Management Association.

It still wasn’t under the government, but they now had a tight bond, making it extremely important for it not to take in any criminals or malicious people.

Because of that, the association stopped expanding so much to the higher ranks but instead continued to recruit lower-ranking employees as much as they could.

That was the reason why for the previous nine years, the nine association leaders had almost never been changed or dethroned.

But still, someone had to be the voice for the awakened, someone had to hold a power that could contest and face off against the nine leaders in case they ever decided to go astray.

And that role befell the honorary leaders, there were less than a hundred of them known to the public, and every single one of them could be placed in the top thousand of living awakened.

While the public knew relatively little about all these people, and their true power, some of them also boasted incredible fame.

However…

The old man wasn’t sad nor depressed, he didn’t even show any relief when hearing about his newly acquired position… more than anything…

He looked pissed.

A cold and firm reply came back to the elegantly dressed man who was conveying the message:

“I don’t need that title, go and give it to another kid like you always do, that’s what it is for anyway right? To let kids like them play as they want, what would an old man like me do with that worthless title?”

The man remained shocked and baffled…

He had just seen someone refuse the highest position one could hope for just because he didn’t feel like it…

He wanted to insist on telling him he was given orders to bring him back, but the old man’s eyes, which weren’t even watching him, felt like they could rip someone apart just by watching them….

It was the first time in a while that the old Gianfranco had felt something like that…

It was a feeling that made his blood boil and his nerves enlarge…

He was enraged.

‘Where do you think you’re going to run…

Money Maven?’

His deep thoughts completely enveloped him… he was readying to smack the shit out of that woman the next time they came across each other…

The woman he was thinking about was already boarding a plane headed to Greece.

Accompanying her was the old man with an elegant look and a little stretcher which was carried on the plane by two assistants.

The plane was about to take off, and the two of them had already begun arguing.

“Did you have to come personally?…

You could have sent one of your goons, there wasn’t any reason to come here yourself”

Emma was utterly annoyed by the attitude of the old man.

But without any regard for that annoyment, the old butler fixed his glasses and then commented:

“My lady, I’m doing this for you, I would never entrust such an important mission to someone else, especially if it involves someone who has your personal attachment.

So please, allow me to accompany you on this journey, I will also be very useful to you”

“I don’t care! Get off the plane”

Emma’s cold response broke the old man’s heart, but he continued:

“Oh… since that’s the case…”

Emma couldn’t believe he was about to give up.

“… then I will see you at the landing spot, I’ll take another jet”

The old man quickly made his way down the aircraft and boarded another one, meaning he had already planned for this to happen, which got even more on the woman’s nerves.

“Sigh~”

She loudly exhaled, tired and worried.

“This whole thing… wasn’t supposed to happen”

Emma couldn’t help but be concerned about Hans’s condition, and also about her interaction with the person they were about to meet… someone whose temper was well-known for being quite difficult to tame.

“Whatever…”

Even if she didn’t show it, much less say it, she was glad to have someone like the old butler by her side, after all… what was about to happen was unknown to her…

A few hours later, the sun could almost be spotted rising in the distance.

As Emma got off the plane, a bit of wind caressed her face, and a familiar old man waited for her at the bottom of the staircase.

He was bowing with an arm behind his back and the other touching his opposite shoulder.

“Welcome to Greece my lady”

The old butler greeted.

“How did you even get here before me?

My plane took off first”

At that question, the old man simply smiled, which prompted that he had no intention of revealing anything.

“Sigh… whatever.

What matters the most is that we are now here, it’s been a few years since I last visited…”

The ethereal aura surrounding Emma thickened as she watched in the far distance as the golden rays of the sun began painting the lands.

For the butler, who was watching her from below, her face wasn’t anything short of a masterpiece.

He was stunned by her, but soon, a warm smile appeared on his face as he said:

“It is beautiful, right? This is one of my favorite countries when it comes to its lighting, but you should see the sunset”

“Mph”

A little chuckle was released from the woman’s sealed lips.

“Well… apart from these little beautiful things, have you found the target?”

“Of course my lady, we have located the target, she should be waking up in about forty minutes if we account for her sleep schedule, which means we don’t have a lot of time”

“Let’s get going then shall we? To meet the honorary leader of the association, and the only official SS-rank priest in the entire world…

Eleni Christou”