Chapter 62: Entering Alter Vige
He headed towards the gate where there was no one else but him. He knew in the next few days, this ce would be brimming with yers. He went towards the gate, which was arge semi-circr gate made of one of the glimmering ore that was like a gem.
There was one NPC standing there, doing nothing but looking at the distance with dazed eyes. Bloom went directly to him, as he said in greeting:
"Hi hi mister, may I get a ticket to go to the vige?"
The NPC was jolted awake, as he nced at Bloom for a moment before smiling widely:
"Finally one brave yer will be able to join the first hundred yers to reach the vige. I''m honored to give you the ticket, son. Here, take it, it''s free for you."
Bloom knew this ticket was free for all yers, but it will move him randomly to any vige. This made all the teams done here useless, as they wouldn''t be able to go to the same vige, even if they came here at the same time and used the ticket simultaneously.
"Thanks for your kind words and support mister," Bloom replied with courtesy, as he didn''t forget his past life as one of the NPCs in a game.
The ticket was a small piece of silver paper with the word ''Vige'' written on its surface. He grabbed it from this NPC before hearing the system notification.
"System alert: yer has acquired the ticket to the vige. This is a random ticket and the yer would go to a random vige. if a yer wants to go to a specific ce, he has to pay an extra fee of fifty gold coins to upgrade this ticket into a golden one."
"Oh, is there such a thing as well?" Bloom muttered as he was totally surprised by this offer. He would pay one hundred gold coins if he wanted to move from vige to vige, so spending fifty only here seemed a good bargain to do.
"I want to upgrade this ticket mister to a golden ticket."
The NPC nced briefly at him before smiling warmly to him as he replied:
"Goodd, very goodd, fine give me this and pay fifty gold coins to me for the golden ticket."
Bloom didn''t dy and took out fifty gold coins, handed them all to the NPC with the silver ticket. The NPC then took out one golden ticket, slightlyrger than the silver one. The moment Bloom touched it, another system notification kicked in.
"System alert: yer has acquired the golden ticket to the vige. a yer is needed to state the name of the vige he wanted to move to out loud and the system will move him at once."
Bloom evilly smiled as he was so near to devastate that yer''s quest with this single move.
"Alter vige," he loudly said the name of the vige, and in the next moment, the golden ticket shone brightly before disappearing, and a golden light engulfed him, moving him to the Alter vige.
The moment the light disappeared, Bloom found himself standing in an empty vige square, with a fount made up of a statue of a sword wielder yer with his face representing in a very realistic way the moment of intense fight.
Bloom marveled this statue for a brief moment before sighing in admiration to this extreme elegant art. Just as he was about to set foot to explore this vige, a row of system notifications appear one after another.
"System alert: yer has reached the Alter vige. as one of the first hundred yers reaching the vige in the game, the yer is rewarded one hundred gold coins."
"System alert: yer has reached the vige using a golden ticket. As the fifth yer doing so, the yer is rewarded by the chance to unlock a skill of his basic skill tree."
"System alert: yer has reached the vige stage. As the yer has a secret ss already, the yer has to open and select one mission at least, and make sure to fulfill one mission per week, or else the yer will get punishment applied to his stats."
"System alert: yer has reached the vige. A member of the death shrine was nearby and he sensed his presence. yer will be reminded each time such a thing urs."
"System alert: yer has reached the vige. a member of the life shrine is nearby and he sensed his presence. yer will be reminded each time such a thing urs."
"System alert: yer has reached the vige. A member of an unknown faction has noticed the attention given to the yer by the members of shrine of death and shrine of life. the intentions of this member is unknown. Hostility to yer is currently neutral. yer will be reminded each time such a thing urs."
Bloom stood motionless in his ce, while feeling dazed by all these notifications. What interested him were the ones rted to the shrine of life and shrine of death, and that mysterious party.
"Is there such a thing in the game after being an enemy for one or more shrines?" he muttered to himself, marveling this simple, yet effective, move of the game.
As such he already knew his two targets were currently in the vige, or nearby it. he had to defend the shrine of death convoy and stop the shrine of life elder from attacking it.
"Per history, that yer will first ept the shrine of life quest, but what if I made contact with the two, and started killing them?" Bloom evilly thought about this scenario, as like this the entire quest would be lost, and nothing would happen as a result.
"Bye bye the era of prosperity then," he sneered as he turned his attention towards the reward he got, and the condition he had from his quest.
"So the system is quite generous to grant me one skill for free, that''s something I had to thank the game for. But I''m the fifth to do so? Who are the other four then? And I''m not even in the top twenty yers reaching the vige? that''s absurd!"
He was thinking deeply about the hidden messages rted to him in the system notifications. He thought his level was quite high, and he would end up being in the first twenty yers joining the vige.
This was an unimportant ranking in the game, as the first one thousand yers to the viges, the towns, the cities, and the capitals were recorded in a separate hall of fame ranking.
He wasn''t concerned about the ranking, but he was concerned about the identity of these yers. He felt regret as he couldn''t check the list now, as the ranking wouldn''t be open until yers exceeded level twenty, and all the list would be full with one thousand yers'' names.