“Will, stop acting this hostile to any new one!” Lilith hit him with her elbow, showing how better her rtion with Will than John.


    “It’s just weird how humans didn’t cope with all this,” she said and I nodded for her to continue, “I mean… Just look at this? Isn’t this like any game popr in our time before this sh*it happened?”


    I realised from her words who they were. “So you are all gamers?” I asked and the three nodded.


    “We came here to y in apetition,” John exined, “all of us are either yers or fans of popr games. So when the apocalypse came, we found it easy to live through what happened.”


    “People are just retard! They missed the chance to train over the apocalypse years before it happened,” Will snorted, said in his usual aggressive tone, “if they didn’t mock us back then, saw us as nerds with everything we did, then they might have a better chance in surviving.”


    “Not all the people mean this, Will!” John seemed to not be on good terms with Will, and I could tell why.


    “Will is right,” Lilith nodded, as she took the side of Will in this argument, “I was mocked many times thanks to my cosy. See now? If not for my hard working hours in making these outfits before, how could I even use any gears or adapt to any of this? They just missed their chance, and we were ready for it.”


    “So you fought and survived using the game info only?” I jumped over this debate. After all I wasn’t literally someone from their time. I couldn’t rte to any of what these three said.


    “Of course!” Lilith said in confidence, “we yed games for most of our lives. These games always had harsh scenarios and poor environments where people had to survive using many skills and abilities.”


    “ying games saved my life,” Will admitted, “saved all of our lives.”


    “Good,” I decided to close this meaningless talk, “I want you to go down there and do what I did to you with them,” I threw mypass again towards Lilith, as she seemed like their acting leader.


    “You…” Will was the one to object, yet Lilith said, interrupting his words:


    “We will scan them,” she paused before adding, “can I have this marvel?”


    “It’s yours,” I still had many stored in my inventory.


    “What about me?” Will asked, despite showing zero interest before in mypass.


    “Your force will have only this piece as a gift,” I said before adding, “it’s sold in the market. You can work hard and pay for its price with your own money.”


    “Humph, stingy,” John muttered but his voice wasn’t that low to not be caught by my ears.


    “Just don’t think yourselves this special because your survived so far,” I shrugged, pouring cold buckets of water over their heads without mercy as I added:


    “You didn’t do the world a great favour by staying alive. If you were like me, having such a mighty force behind you, then you might be enough to speak to me as my equal. Butpared to me, you are still noobs in any game you y.”


    “And you?” Will asked with a tone of mockery.


    “A veteran,” I replied before taking out my ive once again, “if you aren’t convinced, then I wee any fight anytime. But I have to warn you…”


    I paused as the eyes of Will and John shed with desire to fight, “I only fight life and death battles, not the kind of time wasting friendly sparring fights.”


    The shining in their eyes instantly dimmed when they heard myst words. “We will descend then,” Lilith said, putting an end to this experience of them.


    “Ah, I forgot to tell you this,” before they would descend from my chariot using the rope, I stopped them as I added, “the ones who join me will have to sign a loyalty binding contract.”


    “All of us?!” John was surprised.


    “That’s absurd!” Will objected in his usual aggressive way.


    “If you don’t want to, then I can’t help you at all,” I shook my head, acting all helpless here, “after all this city is mine. If you don’t n to join my forces on my terms, then prepare to leave as fast as possible.”


    “You…” even Lilith seemed surprised with my attitude. But I turned around, raising my fist in the air as I said, ending this debate before it even began:


    “Go down there and think about it. You have half a day before my real forcese here. And a piece of warning…”


    I walked towards my big ballista, caressing it like I was treating a pet or something, “my forces are muchrger, far stronger, more experienced than the noobs yers like yourselves.”


    “You…”


    “Don’t say it again!”


    “Stop it!” Lilith shouted, stopping the other two from turning this situation into a disastrous one, “we will discuss it among ourselves, and give you the answer.”


    “Cool.”


    I watched them descend whileughing inside myself at them. I knew they wouldn’t ept such a thing if I showed any mercy.


    They had to know this world wasn’t a free meal to anyone. If they wanted to join me, then they had to pay the appropriate price for it. After all this was my only way to guarantee my safety.


    “yers… Hmm…” but from the second interaction with the yermunity, I started to grow much interested in them. I never read anything remarkable about gamers before in any records of my time.


    Yet from what I saw so far, either from Leo’s actions or theirs here, I could tell how special thismunity was.


    “Like a hidden gem in the dirt… I just need to work a little harder and gather them from all over the world,” my eyes shone brightly when I thought about that.


    If I had no way to get to thatmunity, I still had Leo. he stayed with me long enough to gain my trust. That boy, he was a real yboy. Jumping over from one beauty to another.