[[System : 5 missed Audio calls
Details : Emperor Wolf (5) ]]
''Oh, he called.''
During the battle between Hideki and his gang, Sato had muted his System notification alert and status so as not to get distracted. It then became unavoidable that he would miss a lot of calls and messages but even so, it''s better to be safe than sorry.
[[System : Iing Audio call.
Caller ID : Emperor Wolf
ept/Decline ]]
''Speak of the devil.''
[[System : Audio call epted]]
"Hey. Where have you been? I''ve been standing here for a couple of minutes now."
"Oh? You''re already at Grnyx? Give me a few minutes; give or take 5 minutes. I''ll be there soon."
"What about Hideki? Are you guys already done?" Fudo asked, a little surprised at Sato''s nonchnt behaviour.
"Oh him? Don''t worry about it. Hideki won''t be bothering us for awhile now."
"Haha. I knew you could handle it. But you should have dyed a bit. I wanted to get a piece of him."
"Enough. All you know how to do is to hang a bell around a cat''s neck[1]. We talk when I get there. Later."
[[System : Audio call terminated]]
With that, Sato began hurrying back to Town.
Due to the fact that they wanted to find a spot that would be quite far from the guards, Hideki and Sato had gone about 300 metres away from the West gate, into the forest bordering it. As Sato was running back to town, he recollected his experience and earnings from the battle.
''It seems that using the Lotus sword art at this point of the game is quite difficult. My stamina can onlyst for 3 strikes. Lotus sword art is actually my weakest sword art. With that in mind, performing a single strike of the other sword arts might leave me finished. I guess I''d leave them for myst minute trump cards. *sigh* I really need to level up quickly that way I should be able to use the other techniques.''
The Lotus sword art was a sword art made by a sword sage who had secluded himself from civilization. Rumour had it that he created the technique after staring at blooming in a pond. The sword art consisted of 15 moves, reminiscent of the 15 petals of a lotus flower[2]. It had 4 defensive maneuvers, 9 direct attacking strikes and 2 counter-attacking moves.
It didn''t take long for Sato arrive back inside town. Seeing Fudo''s pudgy figure waving at him from a distance, Sato approached him.
"Why did you call me here?" Fudo asked while staring at the building with the title ''Grynx Merchandise''.
"Are you blind or what? We came here for shopping." Sato inly stated.
"...shopping?" Fudo asked in bewilderment. "Are you taking me out?"
Sato''s face twitched "...One more word and you might take a trip to your respawn point?"
"Hahaha." Fudoughed awkwardly while scratching his head.
"In case you don''t know we need supplies if we aim on exploring that tunnel plus I n on getting used to my subss for now so I need materials. It would be dumb to have a subss and not familiarise yourself with it. It''s best we do it now we have the money before we forget. Once we are done, we would head over to the city Town Centre andplete that mission." Sato rified.
"That''s true. I also need materials."
"By the way, what''s up with everybody? On my way here, every yer seemed to be talking about something. I didn''t here them clearly but it seems to be rted with the forums or so. I didn''t check it cause I was in a hurry." Sato added.
"Oh? You didn''t get the System notification?" Fudo faced Sato with confusion.
"Nope. I muted all my alerts. Lemme chec-"
"Don''t stress yourself; just check the forums." Fudo interrupted.
"Okay."
In Infinite Realm, the official forum tform is divided into 2 slides; the editor''s and the yers'' forums[3]. The editor''s forum serves to inform yers of any new additions, features and releases into the game. In other words, it works as a bulletin board for official announcements made by the game''s producers. The yers'' forum serves a s amunication tform for Infinite Realm gamers. Here they can post their achievements, advertisements and info on any event be it a mission, quest or even a battle.
Moving his focus towards the System panel, Sato erged it[4] and clicked on the forums icon. What appeared in front of him was a site that was filled with various topics and discussions with the headline news in bold; "SHOCKING DISCOVERY AT A MANSION !". Below it were a bunch of other write-ups and posts all simr or rted to it all with exhrating and rousing headers like "IMPORTANT : MISSION GOES WRONG WITH MULTITUDES SLAUGHTERED !" or "RIVERDALE IN CRISIS : CLICK TO FIND OUT WHY". Clicking on the topmost post which was the initial one, Sato read it and as he went on, his eyebrows kept rising and rising.
"Hehehe. With that, we might not need to go to the tunnel again." Fudo looked at Sato.
Sato sighed "Better them than us. Who would have known that such a crisis was looming underneath that mansion."
The supposed shocking discovery was actually about the aftermath of the ghost mansion mission Sato and Fudo had encountered. Apparently, Sato and Fudo weren''t the only one who epted the mission. Even though they found outter with the arrival of Sind, they were still shocked to find out that a total of 7 guilds and 12 adventurer guilds did the same, with even a top 2nd tier guild like East Crow doing the same.
From the information Sato gathered from the forums, he learnt that the various guilds and parties had arrived at the Ghost mansion in time to witness a startling change ur. A multitude of wild goblins had already upied the ce, turning it into a levelling map. The various powers not willing to go back empty handed began to start levelling, exterminating the masses of monsters close-by.
All seemed to be going quite well for them until they sensed a huge amount of dark mana sprout forth from the ground, eradicating most of the yers. Even the goblins weren''t spared as the dark mana was unable to differentiate between friend or foe but this was just the beginning. Later on, the surviving yers who were just about to retreat, imed that the dark mana coagted and formed a humanoid creature who went on to lead the entire goblin horde. That was when the true bloodbath began, despite their numbers, the yer army was outnumbered 1 to 15. They stood no chance against the army and even if they did, the creature of dark mana was on another league; ughtering at least 5 yers with each step he took. Bloodshed, carnage, decimation, genocide; none of these words were an understatement of what had urred.
Such carnage and destruction was unanticipated for current yers as the game had just begun. As a result, the Heaven system paid them no attention even though some of them were frustrated at their ''unfair'' death,.
Sato spected that the various guilds and parties had arrived at the Ghost Mansion around a few minutes after he and Fudo had left. As such, the yer army had encountered arge mob of unearthed goblins.
However, that wasn''t the only trending news. Another post had described the previous event but it also added an alert given to all resident yers in towns under ck Rock city''s jurisdiction .
[[ System Notification :
The Goblin''s Invasive Retribution : Mission Package
A yer has just discovered the goblin hideout, Gnorka. Hold down the fort and stop the goblin''s from further conquering morends.
The mission begins in X hour(s).
Rewards : Based on performance.
Failure Penalty : Destruction of the nearest Town
Loss of 2 levels with reduction of experience gained by 30% for 2 weeks
Rtionship level with human forces at [Dislike] ]]
AN :
[1] Discussing something that''s impossible.
[2] Lotus flowers may have more or less but this is my world. So we go with 15.
[3] Think of it like how the official webnovel app has different pages like the library, featured, e.t.c. But in this case, there are 2 such pages.
[4] The system panel is usually small; around 7 * 7 inches.. By the way, only Fudo can see his System panel unless he wills it.