[Step one: Reach Bone Isnd.]
[Step two: Find the pirate hideout.]
[Step three: Bring the trident baen Vilge]
[Optional: Kill 20 Pirates]
[Hint: Don’t uimate the captain.]
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[Evaluation: SSS]
[Receive 400EXP]
[Receive 2 gold s]
[Choose oem reward]
[Receive: Recipe: Basic bait for coastal fish]
[The old man’s life shall oday!]
Everyohe notifications with glee. At the end a choice between three green-magic items rovided, based on the pyer’s css.
Liam found it difficult to decide, as two of them were quite useful. But ultimately, he loo upgrade his on, not satisfied with falling far behind Quickstep in damage.
[Heirim’s Crimson SwordCategory: Magic
Level requirement: 5
Attack Damage: 11-14
Attack Speed: 0,7
Effect 1: Every attack has a 5% ce to add oack of bleed onto the target.
Effect 2: Deal an additional 3%(PDMG) damage against bleeding targets.
The proud work of Heirim, bcksmith at Lomen Vilge.]
Onriel said goodbye, returning to her hut as well, leaving the party to discuss happily.
“I got new boots!”
“This quest was so generous! Let’s try talking to Onriel again.”
“Don’t harass the young maiden, friend, she implored us to visit after a while!”
“A pity.”
At this moment Liam addressed the others.
“Ok guys, it’s getting te. I’m off.”
“But the server is still online for another half an hour?”
“Yeah, but there isn’t much left to do.”
Cye pouted, looking at Liam.
“Are we pying tomorrow, expert?”
“Sure.”
“Then what are we doing?”
“I don’t care.”
“ we… try the dungeon?”, asked Balm tentatively, the sparkle in her eyes betraying her desire.
o her Cye nodded heavily as well. The two girls were eager to gather achievements.
Iure when they opeheir guild and showed off their achievements, strong pyers would beg to be accepted.
Liam was surprised that those two were the most eager. But the other party members appeared ied as well.
“Sure, we try. But first we should do some preparations. Maybe advance by a level and search for a healing spell.”
“Oh, will the dungeon be difficult?”
“Probably.”
As the questions gradually stopped, Liam was ready to go. However, Cye held him bace more, urging him to expihing about fishing in the game.
Only after a few minutes was he able shake of the blond woman and finally log off.
Liam took a deep breath, moving his numb body, as he found himself ba the martial dojo.
“Another day passed…”
The young ma a few mio calm down, rexing his brain.
Afterwards he returned home swiftly, happy to meet Serena again.
The siblings and Merida shared a hearty meal, discussierday’s chaos.
“I’m gd no one came to make trouble in the ic today.”, stated Merida.
“But there were sooo many patients!”, excimed Serena, l her voice as she tinued:
“Some were even brought by the army!”
“Oh, some of the criminals from yesterday?”
“Yes. Many of them were just normal citizens, but with the sole on they suddenly went crazy!
I don’t uand them. Now the army took their soles away. Who knows if they ever return to aboul. They lost so much!”
Liam eyed his little sister, finding a hint of longing in her eyes.
“You know about aboul?”
“Ahh, just a little…”
Merida rolled her eyes.
“Your sister has spent every free minute reading about the game. I doubt if even some pyers know as much as her.”
“Ah…”
Serena’s ears reddened, revealing her embarrassment. Liam couldn’t help but pet her head, smiling at his cute sister.
“Would you like to py as well? You are barely within the age limit.”
“Oh, no, no!”
Serena waved her hands in denial, but her eyes clearly told otherwise.
Merida let out a sigh.
“I have already looked into it, but soles are difficult to get at the moment. Let’s talk again in a few days.”
Liam turned his head in shock.
“No! Merida, you don’t have to buy a sole! I will take care of it!”
“You? From what money? Just obediently pay rent for you and your sister.”
Liam felt touched, not quite sure why Merida was willing to do so much for them. Could she really be this lonely?
But whatever it was, Liam didn’t want to push her generosity too far.
“Don’t worry, Merida. I will find a way soon.”
“If you say so. But don’t you dare do something dangerous!”
***
Meanwhile in Silva’s vish bedroom. The young woman was sitting cross-legged on her bed, absentmindedly scrolling through the tablet before her.
To the side thia rawled on an inviting, fortable armchair, her blond hair almost hanging to the ground. She stared at her best friend, swaying her head.
“Silva?”
“Siiilvaa?”
Silva reacted, looking at thia bnkly.
“Yeah?”
“What’s up with you today? You even died in the game!”
“Ah I’m… I don’t know.”
“e one, you tell your bestest friend!”
Silva sighed, gazing at the ceiling.
“We had a family dinner yesterday.”
“Ouh, with that uncle of yours? Did he make things difficult for you again?”
“No, that’s not it. Yesterday we had a videocall with great-grandfather. He talked about the succession…
…He pced a lot of importan Fate of aboul.”
“Hey, isn’t this great? We should be among the top pyers!”
“Right… but do you remember the pyer from the server annouoday?”
“Sure. Star… Gazer?”
“Yes. That’s my cousin.”
“Weah, that sly dumbass!”, thia showed obvious disgust on her face thinking about the man.
“Yes. With su annou under his belt, he has taken the first step.”
“Pff, he was only a few seds faster! This shows nothing!”
“I don’t know…”
Silver Bde was clearly distressed, ing thia. The young ondered before ing up with an idea.
“If that guy get server annous, we definitely too! We already proved it once, let’s just repeat our feat!”
“The first dungeon? I thought about it as well, but I don’t know if we do it.”
“Have some faith! We have an expert oeam!”
“I don’t know. It somehow feels wrong. I feel like I’m using Mirage and the others for my gains.”
“Easy! Just separate personal retionship and business! You hire the party in the name of your pany.”
Silver Bde blinked her eyes, looking at Cye strangely.
“I didn’t think you could e up with su idea.”
“Hey! What do you mean?”
The room fell silent for a few seds.
“Ok maybe I didn’t e up with it. panies have been doing this for years in ames.”
“Oh? And how would you know this clearly?”
“Ehm maybe… I have been pying before.”
thia smiled awkwardly as she expined herself to her best friend.
It turned out that before thia’s family moved to Fva Star two years ago, she was an avid gamer.
But because gaming on Falva Star, located at the edge of the federation, wasn’t big, and because her family didn’t like it, thia did her best to hide her past and adapt to local s.
But a year ago wheureen the young woman couldn’t hold baymore a with amer friends she secretly got to know online.
Silva had some flig emotions but was gd that thia trusted her enough to ‘e ’.
***
Elsewhere on Falva Star, in a city called Five Lake City. o one of the serena natural kes was a rge plex, the city’s college.
Within one of the dorms four youths sat together, happily mung on surprisingly healthy instant meals.
Oher corpulent young man, a pile of boxes stacked oable before him, talked happily about his time in Fate of aboul.
“I tell you, this pirate captain was so fierce! We almost f*cked up, but luckily Mirage had a poison with him.
“Is this mirage really this good?”
“Yeah, he always looks fident, as if nothing in the game could stump him.”
“Wow.”
One of the young men, of smaller stature but with impressive muscles below his tank top, looked enviously at the fatty.
“Damn. Are you going to the duomorrow?”
“Of course! Just wait for the annou!”
“Hey, Dom, do you think you talk to your party and take me along?”
“Well, I don’t know hoeople we need. I try.”
Suddenly a tall man sittio the chubby Dom spoke up.
“Kel have my spot.”
“What?!”
Dom stared at shock at his friend, who was Sun’s Knight in the game.
“Yeah, I don’t feel like I keep up. I might rather trate on my studies.”
“But didn’t we all agree that we want to make a living through games? Why do you want to study now?”
“Well, it’s just not that easy. I’d rather take the stable route. And it’s not like I will stop gamiirely.”
“Well, ok…”