Chapter 7: The first day was madness!
After Alex left the bathroom, he beca too sleepy.
He still talked a little about the ga with his parents, then headed straight to his bed. But of course, as the young man in the modern era, Alex extended his hand for the phone.
Before sleeping, he would check popular social dia accounts and ssage his girlfriend.
It was now crucial for Alex to keep himself in touch with Olivia.
“Ugh…” Alex squinted his eyes from the bright screen.
He then saw countless ssages piled up in his notifications. Most of them ca from his friends, who had been feeling betrayed throughout the whole day.
Alex would play with them during his first day, but due to known reasons, things had changed significantly. He was in a special zone that needed his attention. Alex also had two girls to spend ti with within that black castle.
Two more girls were also around, fighting monsters, as he thought.
‘Honestly… Is it okay for to tell them my nickna?’ Alex pondered inwardly as he stared at the phone with narrowed eyes.
Knowing about Elias Deathwill’s past, Alex believed that this surna was known in the Avander World.
If his friends carelessly mumbled out his nickna around peculiar NPCs, they would danger themselves with quests against him.
Alex scratched his hair, ‘The ga this real; would NPCs just accept refusal? They would force them to tell all they knew about … It kinda goes against the player’s safety, though…’
Alex fought against skeletons on his first day, which left him with profound experience. But his eting with dullahan kid and her mother was much more influential.
He felt like he was in another world, not the ga.
Sara and Celia were too real. Their reactions were genuine, and no way their answers to his actions were scripted.
That was why Alex didn’t think he was overthinking.
There was a high chance enemy NPCs would use his friends to find him and Deathwill’s Castle.
Alex didn’t want to endanger his new friends, so he typed on his phone.
[Alex: I logged in late, then I found a hidden quest. Sorry, but I will be playing alone for a while.]
Alex and his friends had a group chat.
Everyone reacted to his ssage with emojis with stars in their eyes, showing their excitent. Even his girlfriend, Olivia, was happy for Alex. In the ga, this real, epic quest could lead him to the greater heights, and she supported him genuinely.
Seeing their excitent and jealousy was a nice and amusing thing, but Olivia’s support ward him the most.
He sent her a private ssage and asked about her ga ti, then revealed a little secret about his ‘hidden quest’.
[Alex: I was in contact with exciting NPCs. I couldn’t tell who was more alive, you know?]
[Olivia: Our experience with martial artists was the worst!]
[Alex: What happened?]
In Olivia’s case, the martial artists were too sward. Not only them, but even beginner grounds lacked monsters. Players fought against each other frequently, swinging their weapons wherever they could.
It was chaos from the start.
Then, each beginner city had a limited amount of martial artists and other NPCs who could give class quests.
Queues were overwhelming and long, and at so point, NPCs were so fed up with players that they wouldn’t even talk with them. They would send their quests to players with red and scrunched faces.
So of those NPCs had scars and other terrifying faces. For the group of young ladies, this experience was far from the best one.
As the lady who chose spear as her primary weapon, Olivia stood at the helm of her group. She had a heated argunt with her martial artist NPC.
Nothing good ca out of this quarrel, and the ladies were sent to fight monsters without any tips and clues.
And as the world was crowded no end, they fought more with players than monsters… So white knights appeared to protect them and use this situation to gain their favor. But they didn’t know how valiant Olivia and her friends could get!
Then, they tead up with Alex’s friends, and they moved en masse to secure as many monsters as possible.
[Alex: What level are you?]
Alex was flabbergasted.
But he was even more eager to check videos from the first day as all events sounded too chaotic. In school, he would backread their group’s chat logs to get an even better view of his friends’ gaplay.
Olivia’s reply shocked him deeper.
[Olivia: We are just level three…]
They played for the whole day, yet their levels were around five. His good buddy was lucky enough to level up to level six… Other than that, everyone else was much weaker.
However, fighting against players must have been a unique experience as well.
Alex cheered his girlfriend and left a few lovely voice ssages for her to sleep to.
[Olivia: You won’t tell your nickna?]
[Alex: Hidden Quest requires to stay silent.]
[Olivia: What! Do you have an assassin class quest or sothing?]
[Alex: Haha! Better, you know?]
No more ssages followed after that.
But a few minutes later, Alex received a long voice ssage.
‘I want to see you…’ Olivia’s voice touched his heart.
Even though it had been just a few days without them seeing each other, they were used to seeing each other every day. And as she was abroad, Olivia genuinely planned to pester and cling to him for as long as she could.
Of course, Alex wouldn’t oppose it as he knew how spoiled Olivia could get at tis.
They have been a couple for a few years now.
He smiled at her ssage, then sent a heart emote before closing his eyes.
He no longer could keep up; drowsiness took him away.
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“Madness…” Alex whispered as he watched the videos from the first day.
For his breakfast, he had cereal as usual. He always ate his breakfast in a few minutes, but he spent much more this ti. He kept staring at the screen, forgetting to move his spoon.
But the wave of players pushing against each other and fighting for monsters left Alex beyond shocked.
He was slack-jawed, and he didn’t even finish his breakfast before going to school!
“I am so fucking lucky, am I not?” Alex whispered.
Unfortunately, his mother heard him!
“ALEX!”
Alex waved his hand, shook his head, closed the doors, then headed to school with a peculiar expression.
He was luckier than he thought.
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