Every two o'clock in the afternoon, the villagers, townspeople, guards, and other locals gather around the obelisk, sending their quests and missions for the players or the adventurers. The ssages sent will beco notification windows that the gars can open and accept or reject. These non-player characters can send their requests every twenty-four hours in the ga.
The mass missions addressed by the non-player characters will end around four o'clock. Since the quests had a limited and imdiate duration, many NPC did not want to wait for the players to accomplish the job in the evening.
The ga coordinator posted these on the holographic bulletin board at the tower. Anyone could view the information there on the wall.
As I discerned the floating screen before , I knew I needed to do sothing soon.
"Let us say in for the night," I suggested, while offering my hand to the little girl by my side.
Match was still a child at heart and in size. She knew nothing about the system and the world, but was not ignorant of the matter. Her eyes glistened as we spoke about the topic while staring at the obelisk in front of us.
The girl wanted to explore the reasons behind the horde by having around. After hearing my invitation, the little girl reached out her hand and latched onto mine.
With a smile painted on her face, Match and I travelled across the town, finding an inn that we could stay in for the night. As we looked around, we noticed the prices were all the sa.
Each of the houses offered three silver coins per night. Within three months and a few spared days, the innkeepers will send us off on the streets, considering if we stayed in the infrastructure.
I glanced at my tattered pouch and counted the two golden coins the dragonewt gave from before. One gold coin had an equivalent exchange of one hundred silver coins, and five hundred bronze coins for a silver coin. That currency had been with us since the ti I rembered.
These coins were enough to secure us a place for months and the als that we would eat. However, I never planned on living the habitual life again.
A hint of tears slid from my side, thinking of the dark future ahead of us.
I can rember the mory still fresh inside my mind. The warm, drooping blood exploding from Clentine and eventually splashing on the face. So of the tallic taste resurfaced from my tongue every ti I reminisced about the crimson liquid entering my mouth. Her wails beca a ghost inside my head, thinking about how I could not save my sister despite having a chance.
My hands quivered at the thought as it repeated the events all over again.
I wanted answers and would seek revenge for the creators behind the monster hunt announcent. With all these doleful events happening to , I thought to myself about a sche. Those people involved in the ga world surrounding will pay for their lives.
But there was no ans of communicating with them. Although I had a system, the settings refused to link with the ga developers.
According to the automated voice talking to , players had this setting to send a ssage to the creators. It was a quick task that made these gars feel relieved since they had ans of sending and sharing bugs from the ga. Players can send these glitches to the ga master for fixing.
But I did not understand the aning of bugs and glitches that the system ntioned.
[There should be a red protruding button on the upper side you can press at the screen] the machine-like voice reverberates through my earlobes, instructing about the features of the system. [You will see a title, like a na.]
When I looked around, I saw nothing but air floating before . I reached out for the open space and tried tapping the upper part direction, yet nothing happened.
For the last ti, I peered my eyes wide open and noticed minuscule texts written on the left side of the board. The word NPC or non-playable character appeared on the lines.
It still labelled as an NPC, not a player.
Our legs grew tired from walking around the plaza, so I proposed staying inside an inn within our vicinity. It was the first lounge we found and cheaper among the rest.
We entered inside and noticed the tranquil atmosphere surrounding the desk. Everywhere we looked, we greeted the mousy wall made of wood. The scent of alcohol and nature mixing from the bar alard us as we glanced beside.
"Welco to the Wolf Bound Inn! How can I help you?" A young girl with grey fur covering her body addressed us. Match and I took a step back after seeing her cheery deanour catching us off guard.
The woman had a petite body with a round chest enough to captivate my eyes. She wore a hazel-coloured uniform, pairing it with the designs of the tavern. The girl also had pointed ears that represented her like a cat. Her distinguishable paws and a tail wagged back and forth from her rear as he resud conversing with . Behind her was a room that looked similar to a kitchen. With all the smokes coming from the inside, I knew they were cooking up a storm.
With a broadened smile, I responded. "Can I pay in advance? We plan on staying here for two days."
"Two days it is!"
The innkeeper nodded and gave a logbook and a feather pen. "Please place your na here, how many people will stay, and the nights you will request."
I took the note from her hands and flickered the cover open. As soon as I found the blank sheet, I listed my na using the ink provided in a container with two people resenting the unit. After finishing and affiliating my signature, I returned the pad to the keeper and provided her with ten silver coins.
They charged five silver coins per night since this was no shabby inn for financially challenged adventurers.
"I am surprised that you can read." The desk lady appended, but imdiately retracted what she ntioned. "I did not an you were both stupid! It just surprised to see villagers learning how to write and read these days."
The lady received my sum and, in return, gave a key to the room. A faint laugh and beam escaped from her face as the lady stretched with her hands on the stairs. Her face flushed bright red after recalling what she brought up earlier. But after I held her hand, the woman finally felt calr.
"I understand," I stated.
We concluded our talk and resud going the steps leading upstairs. After turning to our right, the two of us located the number of our room.
Match was the first one to enter inside. I stepped on my foot afterwards and tidied the dust on the floor by kicking them outdoors. With the cloud forming near the gates, I closed the door and slamd my body on the bed.
Match already laid herself on the mattress while glaring at the ceiling above us. I matched her view and stared into nothingness as the atmosphere between us pulled our arms closer to one another.
But the little girl destroyed the silence as she wailed a thousand tears. Every cry she produced shattered a shard inside my heart, as if reminding the lonely kid inside of .
The next thing I knew, my arms wrapped around hers and sensed her warm touch and pulsating body.
Match hugged tighter, not letting any chances of letting go. She continued raining down her salty tears behind and beca invulnerable like a child. Within a few monts, she reverted into reality while caressing my back.
"I miss my sister." The youngster confessed as she fought back the teardrop sliding from her sockets.
"Your sister loves you. Rember that."
"How do you know?"
"Because I do,"
I stared into her eyes and claid my sentence. Determined to tell her what she needed to hear, I shifted beside her as I watched her cry with all the weight descending her to the ground.
"My sister died from an adventurer. I saw the knights running in our direction, but a bear was chasing behind us. The soldiers that ca to protect us fired their sharp weapons to the sky, towards us."
"And then what happened?" I urged her to continue her story.
"She pushed away from harm, but it ended up killing her. Her body refused to wake up no matter how hard I shook her; my sister was dead in my arms all because of ."
Marth braced once again with the teardrops finally overwhelming her emotions. I rembered what my mother said to when I was still her age. She would always tell to release everything dwelling inside of .
I did the sa to Match and let her finish the pain trapping her inside.
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