Klaus decided not to imdiately ntion Charles' comnt about her not liking him at first. He wanted to approach the subject more subtly, so he started with sothing more neutral.
"Charles called earlier. He's quite satisfied with our work so far in Niflheim and said there's a mission next week"
Hollie smiled slightly. "That's good to hear."
"You already knew, didn't you?" Klaus asked.
"Yes, of course I did, but it's cute that you think I didn't."
Klaus smiled and started to take off his jacket. "I'm enjoying working with you, Hollie. I feel like we're making good progress on these missions."
"I'm enjoying our partnership too," agreed Hollie.
"However, Charles ntioned sothing curious. He said that you didn't like before we t. Do you rember that?"
Hollie's expression changed slightly as she looked at the papers, as if she was surprised by the question. She looked back and took a deep breath before answering. "Yes, I rember. It was well before I started working here, even when you were a novice.
Charles was already chard by your performance at the ti, but I was suspicious of your data, I thought you were cheating or abusing bugs, because you were apparently a nobody."
Klaus nodded, understanding the situation better. "It's understandable, I did abuse the attributes and levels bug without aning to. If I were you, I wouldn't have liked either."
"But you kept proving to and Charles that it was lucky that the bug happened to you, because you protected the main human city several tis, and seeing soone else protecting the world you worked so hard to take care of was gratifying, both for and for Charles." Hollie smiled, looking more relaxed. "Now, I'm happy to be working with you. I'm sure we'll do a lot for Rise Online."
Klaus felt a mixture of emotions when he heard Hollie's words. On the one hand, there was a sense of relief at having cleared up the misunderstanding from the past and having won her and Charles' trust. On the other hand, a pang of guilt hit him as he rembered the bug he had taken advantage of in the ga.
He had never told anyone about it, and now he wondered if he should have been more transparent from the start. Either way, there was no going back.
"I understand," said Klaus, trying to keep the conversation light. "I'm glad to know that I was able to prove my worth over ti. And I'm also glad that we have this partnership now."
Hollie agreed, smiling genuinely. "Yes, it's good to work together for the good of the ga. And about what Charles ntioned, don't worry too much about it. It's all in the past now."
Klaus also nodded in agreent, feeling more relaxed. He knew he needed to focus on the present and the mission ahead.
After a few minutes of chatting about their day, they headed for the deep imrsion room, where the capsule was waiting.
Upon entering the capsule, Klaus felt a sense of lightness and familiarity. He had been through this process several tis before, but it was still fascinating every ti the imrsion began. The lights slowly went out, plunging him into the darkness that preceded the entry into Rise Online.
When Kaizen opened his eyes again, he expected to find himself in the dark shed where Valthorn said they would be safe until nightfall. However, his vision was greeted by sothing totally unexpected: he was in a prison cell, with bars and his hands tied back with handcuffs.
The dim light filtering through the bars revealed dark and dingy details of his surroundings, which were clearly a dungeon with cavernous walls.
Next to him, Kaizen noticed the presence of another player. It was Andrew.
Andrew was already awake and looked at Kaizen, clearly perplexed by the situation.
"Look who finally woke up," said Andrew.
"What's going on?" asked Kaizen, his voice filled with confusion.
Andrew nodded. "I don't know, I woke up and I was here too. The others aren't here and no ssage has appeared apart from the one in front of you." He pointed with his chin.
Then Kaizen looked ahead and saw a screen floating near the lock of the cell.
[You are under indefinite arrest.]
Below the large ssage, there was a question mark, characteristic for finding out more information, so Kaizen got up from the floor, easily broke the handcuffs and touched this icon.
[If you're under arrest, it ans you've committed a cri or legal violation. Rember: violations can be interpreted in their own way depending on where you are.
The ti sentence usually varies between a few hours and a day, but if it's more than that or indeterminate, it ans you may have been sentenced to death. To get rid of your sentence, you can use tricks such as argunt, bribery or even escape, although all these options are impossible in...]
Kaizen threw the ssage to his right, closing the text window.
Andrew shook his head, trying to process the situation. "That doesn't make sense. Could it be so kind of mission event? It was a secure area, so it was possible to log out, right? Nothing should happen while we're gone."
Kaizen tried to concentrate, his mind still trying to adjust to the unexpected turn of events. "I have no idea. We're certainly still in Niflheim, but sothing has changed. I don't know if the ga processes changes to safe areas even when we're out of the ga, but maybe that could be possible, because Alina and Og'tharoz were still in the shed."
"What if we tried talking to the others via chat?" Andrew had the idea and opened his system.
After scrolling through the list of friends, he found Xisrith online at the bottom of the list, but the one to talk to in chat wasn't there and when he tried to click on "Location" his system screen suddenly closed. A ssage appeared shortly afterwards.
[This player could not be traced. He may be on an active mission, inside a dungeon, with a concealnt item or trapped].
So Andrew looked at Kaizen and nodded, indicating that it was no use.
Kaizen sighed with resignation. "Looks like we'll have to find them on our own then."
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