Chapter 138 - The Mysteries of Kai's Initiation Mission!
A few hours later, Kai snapped open his eyes.
He had canceled the Dentor's form and was now sitting over a boulder. The surroundings slled of ash and sulfur, as a cool sea breeze fought a never-ending battle with the heat. It was impossible to tell that there was an ancient town and castle on the opposite slope of this volcano. Wherever Kai turned his head, he could only see raw, wild nature.
Kai hadn't been idling, waiting for Selene to show up. Though she had made slight of the problem, he knew it would need her an excruciating search, ti, and effort to stumble upon the egg. It was like finding a needle in a haystack. She could chance upon the last egg in the next second, or not even after a week. There was no way to tell.
In the past week, Kai had asked Chaos about the hiring of team mbers.
He pulled up the notification to give it another look.
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[
A Captain of Guard must refer to the following points before asking for a team:
1. The Privilege of requesting team mbers is available once during a Main Mission. The Privilege Fee is divided into two parts. A one-ti Privilege Accessing Fee of 300 Mission Credits and a Privilege Recruitnt Fee, for any request about the mbers' nature
2. Minimum Team mbers: 2, Maximum Team mbers: 4
3. Price/mber: Newbie - 10 MC, 1st floor - 20 MC, 2nd floor - 50 MC, 3rd floor - 100 MC, Party mber - 0 MC
4. The order of team mbers' appearance in the Random World can be stretched up to 1 week
5. The Main Mission Objective of all the mbers from the sa floor must be the sa.
]
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These five points had solved many mysteries for Kai regarding his Initiation Mission.
Moreover, the biggest mystery of his Initiation Mission wasn't so fact or thing, but a person.
Shae, Kai rembered, sneering. I wondered why such a useless Contestant was there along with other monsters.
Now that Kai could see the 1st point, and from the fact that he could dictate the nature of mbers by paying a Recruitnt Fee, he could tell that his old friend, Arlen Silvas, must have specifically asked for a pretty, blond newbie, irrespective of her Stats in that mission.
It seed incredibly stupid and creepy to do so. Not to ntion, Kai had no way to tell if Arlen had even asked for a team or not.
But when Kai recalled the constant annoyance Arlen had shown and his simpering behavior around Shae, he couldn't help but accept this theory with iron certainty.
No wonder, Kai thought, shaking his head. No fucking wonder that he hated
for flirting with her. Who knows how many Mission Credits he must have paid as a Recruitnt Fee to get her on his team? Arlen-oh-Arlen, even I, with all my lust for older won, couldn't have thought of doing so. Tch! Well, that's one mystery solved, I guess.
Another mystery, and of a more personal nature, was the room where Kai had appeared after teleportation. He had always wondered why he never returned to that tiless room in his subsequent missions. The 4th point untangled that mystery for him.
Arlen must have asked for a team two days before my appearance, Kai analyzed. He rembered Arlen had ntioned to him that they had co to the world two days before the Kai and Shae. So, he kept the newbies separated from the experienced Contestants by letting Desmond, Sonia, and Simon teleport into the Random World almost instantaneously, and keeping
and Shae on hold for two days.
It all seed reasonable to him, but he had deciphered more out of his analysis.
If I am right, Kai thought, tapping his finger on the boulder, then I could have stayed in that tiless-room for max two days, as intended by Arlen. But the mont I stepped out of the room, the System compressed the remaining ti. So, I can say that I jumped one and half a day into the future.
Ti Travel... Kai shuddered, thinking of that. Not because he had unknowingly traveled through ti even before entering the Primordial Tower, but because of his intentions of compressing ti at the end of this Main Mission.
By compressing the ti, Kai reflected, his brows sweating, I will jump over that much amount of ti. The Cost! How much the System will fucking cost
for this service?
Kai gulped audibly, and he wondered if the Mission Credits he had stowed would be enough for the task or not. If not for Chaos putting an unimaginable price on this information, then he would have already got the answer to this question.
I would only know the price just before compressing the rest of the ti, Kai thought, nodding to himself, and rubbing the sweat away from falling into his eyes.
Not wasting any ti, Kai used his Privilege, as g must have been waiting for him to do so in the Primordial Tower.
-/Chaos,/- he called out telepathically, deliberating his next words. -/Assign a team of two mbers, both from the 3rd floor, including Party mber, Morning Mist. Their Main Mission Objective would be to assist
in delivering the last egg to Daenerys Targaryen. Keep them on hold for 1 week./-
Kai gave a last nod to his words, and the notification followed.
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[
Checking on Party mber's status...
Status: Available
Assigning a random 3rd-floor Contestant...
Assigning Main Mission...
Main Mission Assigned
Price: 400 Mission Credits
]
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Kai paid the price, not without wincing.
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[
Captain of Guard, Kai Stormborn, your team mbers have arrived in Dragonseed Inn at the western port on Dragonstone.
They will be allowed to co out after 1 week.
In case you are dead, or unavailable to accept their proof letters, their mission would be deed successful with no rewards.
]
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That's quite fast, Kai thought and then sighed.
At first, he wanted to let g appear right now on the island. But now he desired to know if his theory that the System would keep her in a tiless-room for 1 week was true or not.
I just hope that g would guess my intention and won't step out of the room, Kai thought. Because in that case, she would lose this free 1 week ti and would just appear 1 week in the future.
Suddenly, Selene's intangible form slithered out of the ground beside him. She was burned, and her dragon-like white scales were glowing red as if they were of tal, Kai observed. Her eyes were closed, as he had already ordered her to not open her third eye without his permission.
-I need Mana to go on,- she hissed calmly and calculatingly. Then her hisses beca dreamy. -I wonder how far could I have pushed myself before dying in your service, master.-
Kai said nothing. He was waiting for one last hiss. And, yes. There it was, more nacing and vile.
-I want to hunt,- she hissed murderously. -Let's start with that red bitch.-
Kai threw a fish toward her and wondered about the mystery nad Ghost Basilisk.
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