Clang Clang Clang
Clang Clang Clang
Loud sounds echoed from within an empty mine in the depths of the forests. A single man was standing amidst several scattered corpses of green-skinned goblins.
However, he paid no heed to these corpses. He simply stepped on them and continued hitting the mining pick monotonously on the node of tallic ore in front of him.
Seconds passed. Minutes passed. Hours passed. And yet the young man's actions did not change at all.
Targeting the three different nodes in front of him, he kept mining one after the other without taking a single break.
And weirdly, the ores he was mining were nothing special. They were just common iron ores.
In between this, one or two goblins also attacked him every now and then, respawning directly at the spot where he was standing.
But it took the young man rely seconds to cleanly finish them and then he was back to monotonously mining the nodes.
[Ding. 50 Experience points gained]
[Ding. 50 Experience points gained]
Liam cleared the notifications, kicking aside the last two goblins.
He didn't bother to pick up this loot which was mainly loin cloth and rusty weapons so the bodies remained longer than usual on the ground.
Just as he once again began mining, another notification popped up.
[Ding. Incoming call from Rey. Do you wish to answer? Y/N]
"Hmmm." Liam didn't pause his movents and continued working on the node. Nevertheless, he muttered "Yes."
"Hi bro! Congrats on the server announcents! You are aweso!" Rey's cheerful voice rang and Liam shook his head helplessly.
"Thanks. Anything else?"
"Ahh… Alright. I will get to the point. Alex wants to et with you. Can you tell your location please?"
"Huh? Why?" Liam was surprised. He was sure that the woman hated his guts considering the way she had treated him all throughout their dungeon run.
"Ahh… so this is weird but she won't tell . She says that she will only talk to you."
"Hmm…" Liam paused for a mont, only the clanging sounds resounding in the silence. "Fine. Ask her to call then."
"Alright. Thanks, bro. Tell when you are free so we can party again! Bye."
A beep sounded and Rey ended the call quickly as if he was afraid that he would be blocked if he continued disturbing him.
A couple of seconds later, Liam checked the friend requests and among the hundreds that he had received, he saw Alex's na in the most recent request.
"Accept." He muttered and the next second the call arrived.
"Hello. Is this Liam?" A hesitant voice ca through.
"Mhm. Who else would it be?"
Alex ignored the condescending remark and pressed on. "Where are you? I want to et you in person right now."
"Not possible." The imdiate blunt reply ca out.
"What? Why?"
Considering the way n usually treated her, she half expected him to fawn over her as soon as he heard her voice and that she wanted to et him, but this turn of events surprised her.
"Because I am in the middle of sothing." Liam indifferently replied. The other side suddenly beca silent, and he shrugged and continued his work.
A few more seconds of silence ensued and he was about to end the call when Alex quickly asked again. "Then when will you be free? I will wait. This is urgent and I… It will be worth your while. Can we et?"
"Hmmm?" There was a sense of urgency in her voice that piqued Liam's interest. Besides, he was not going to lose much by talking to her for a few seconds.
"Alright. We can et tomorrow. I will be in Yleka city. We can et up at the local inn around noon."
"Ok thanks. You will not regret this." Alex felt relieved and quickly cut the call, but she only realized what had happened after everything was over.
She had thanked him and she had also blurted out that he wouldn't regret it. How humiliating! She was furious.
"What happened Alex? Are you alright? What did Liam say? What did you ask him?" Rey walked over to her and asked as he was extrely curious.
He also didn't know why his sister had suddenly decided to be serious about this ga.
"Nothing. I have sothing to do. I will be back later." Alex turned around to hide her face and hurriedly threw out so vague words.
She then quickly ran out of there, leaving behind the very confused guy.
"Well, whatever the quest was we could have done it together? Why is she running away like this?" The guy scratched his head in confusion.
Because of the leaderboard, there was a sudden hype about leveling faster so Rey quickly forgot about Alex and focused on what he was doing.
anwhile… Liam as well continued busily mining. His schedule was fully packed for the next 24 hours and he didn't think about anything else.
[Ding: Your Mining skill proficiency has increased to Interdiate Level]
Normally, it was hard to increase mining skill proficiency just by mining common ores like iron, not to ntion inefficient.
But Liam had already sunk more than 24 hours of ga ti into this and he wasn't planning on stopping for the next 24 hours as well.
After all, unlike others, his main concern was neither bringing his level up on the leaderboard nor amassing any sort of wealth.
Those things were only going to beco irrelevant in the future, while the thing that he was targeting would still accompany him.
Liam grinned in excitent. Tomorrow was extrely crucial and all his future plans heavily relied on it.
And if he sohow managed to beco successful, then he would have taken the second step forward.
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