Ye Yan logged out of the ga and went to the kitchen to eat sothing. He looked around, but there is no sign of his friends. Hu Ling usually takes a bath after log out every day and, as he has a date later today, he will stay in the bathroom for hours before eating his breakfast. He is vain, or stylish as he prefers, and takes more ti to get ready to go out than his mother when she had gone shopping in the past.
When Ye Yan finished his breakfast, he sighed and washed the utensils he used because he understands Hu Ling's temper well enough to know he should have asked the others to not help him with the dishes this ti. After washing everything, he returned to his room to do so exercise.
After his bath, he lay in his bad thinking.
He feels happy, really happy (except for the fact he had to wash the dishes before). There is so long since the last ti he felt like that. After the death of his parents, he felt lost, like sothing was missing, and never finding true satisfaction in the things he did. But now, he feels complete for so reason. When he was playing with his friends challenging the dungeons, he feels right, like it was exactly what he should do. He feels like a weight has been lifted off his chest. The feeling of helplessness and anxiety is gone now. He likes how he is in the ga, fighting and striving to beco strong.
He had the goal of becoming the strongest player in the city before, but now, he feels it is not enough anymore. He has a guild now, it is still small, with only ten mbers, but he wants to expand it, to grow strong together with his friends. He doesn't want to be the number 2 in the Yan Empire, but the number 1, and gain glory to his country when he will visit other places in the future. He wants to make his guild be recognized by everyone, this is his new goal, his ambition.
His mother always told him that when he needs to do sothing, to needs to do the best, not do things to the best of his abilities. If his goal can be reached simply using the best of his abilities, he will not have to exert himself much for him to reach it, but if his goal is sothing considered unreachable, it will force him to break his limits ti and ti again.
He will make his guild into the best one, that is his goal. He just needs to outline strategies to help him achieve it.
While Ye Yan was thinking about the steps he needs to take from now on, Hu Ling was in the kitchen looking at the sink and smiling because Ye Yan had washed the dishes, which he hated to do.
In truth, he didn't mind using the washing machine, but at the ti, Tang Yunfan couldn't pay the sa amount as the others for the rent of the apartnt. Ye Yan hates washing dishes, Qian Zhong is lazy and he doesn't want to do this kind of work, so he ca out with this idea, leaving the house shores to Tang Yunfan for him do not feel bad in paying less than the others. If he tells the truth now that he is paying the sa as them, it would hurt Tang Yunfan's pride, so he prefers to wash the dishes than seeing his friend sad because of this.
Hu Ling might look futile and shallow but he has a good heart and values true friendship very much. Many people try to get close to him but he knows it is only because of interest, which makes him give even more importance to true friendship. No matter what happens, he knows that he can count on his friends. And when they fight like before, it never gets too serious. Ye Yan punched him in the ga because he knows it wouldn't hurt him at all, he never would do such a thing in real life.
Hu Ling smiled and thought about what he should do next to Ye Yan. His objective is to make his friend learn to relax more and be more sociable. He grinned and started to eat his breakfast.
At 6 p.m., Ye Yan logged in the ga again and wait for Spell Bound, so both of them could enter the shop together.
Both of them entered the shop, which now looked different from before. The floor and walls were fixed, the door and the balcony looked new, and they couldn't see a single spider web in the entire shop.
"You ca!" The old man said. "I showed my prototype to one of the rich rchants of the city and he decided to invest in it. I don't need to worry about money and materials anymore. And I could get it thanks to both of you. As a token of gratitude, I will give one copy of my creation to each of you. Here." The old man was smiling from ear to ear while taking the items from his space bag.
"A bicycle!" Ye Yan and Spell Bound said at the sa ti. They never thought it would be a bicycle. They looked at each other and smiled. The day before, they were complaining about the fact they had to walk everywhere. It isn't a mount but it will be very useful.
"Bicycle? Hum, it's a good na. I had nad it a two-welled mount before, but the na bicycle looks better." The old man gave one bicycle to each of them and asked them to help him advertise his invention to their friends. He will start to sell the bicycle tomorrow in the shop for 1 gold. The bicycle is expensive to players at this stage of the ga but it is very useful because it increases the movent speed of players from 100% to 300%. And the decrease of movent speed by excess weight has no effect while the player is riding a bike. Players can only get mounts after level 20, so this increase in speed now is very useful.
Ye Yan put his bike in his space bag and thanked the old man before Spell Bound and he leaves the shop.
They used the communication stone to speak with their friends and agreed to et with them in the Adventurers' Guild near the West Gate.
Ye Yan and Spell Bound mounted on their bicycles and went to the agreed place. Everyone on the streets looks at them with wonder while they passed. This is the first ti the NPCs saw a bicycle and were curious. The players widened their eyes and almost blocked their way to ask where they got the bikes from.
Ye Yan is riding slowly because Spell Bound's movent speed is less than his. That, plus the fact his friend is showing off, waving at people on the street, was making it even slower. So girls, and one guy, waved back at him, which inflated Spell Bound ego even more.
When they arrived at the Adventures' Guild, the others were waiting for them in front of the guild. They looked at them curiously and started to complain.
"Where do you got these bikes from?" Qian Zhong asked a little angrily. He felt abandoned by his friends.
"Why you two didn't tell us about the bikes?" Conan complained like a little bullied wife, making everyone laugh. His behavior and appearance do not match, creating a funny picture.
Spell Bound told them about the shop. They will go there tomorrow and Spell Bound will finance the bikes for them using the money exchange.
They entered the guild and were led upstairs to the room of the sa elf that lectured them before. In his room, they beco extrely well behaved, making a line, shoulder to shoulder, looking at the elf sitting behind his desk.
The elf adjusted his glasses with his right hand and with a serious face, started to speak.
"So you are the group that made a great contribution to our city. I never thought the rioters who provoked disturbances in the guild yesterday would have such achievent." He said seriously.
Ye Yan and his team kept quiet. As the saying goes, Silence is gold.
They waited for the elf manager to say everything before speaking.
"Your help in exterminating the goblins in the White Birch Mountain Forest enabled the city to gain access to the mountain again, so the guild decided to reward you with 20 silver coins, and 1 ring each. In addition, the guild posted your nas in the Hall of Fa, increasing your reputation within the city. Congratulations! But rember, with great power cos great responsibility[1]. You are famous now and beca an example to many people, so act wisely or you might lead others to do wrong things." He emphasized the last part as a reminder of what happened the day before.
System: Your reputation in the City of Ji has increased by 10 points. You gained charisma 1. Your na was written in the Hall of Fa of the City of Ji.
The Hall of Fa shows every great achievent of the players in the ga. Each city has its own Hall of Fa with achievents at the level of city, country, and world. Certain dungeons and quests are only recognized by the city's region, others are big enough to be acknowledged by the country or even the world.
Every team mber received a little silver box with a random ring and was "invited" to leave afterward. The elf manager doesn't have the patience to speak with them for long. They do not even have ti to open the little box.
They left the guild and opened their silver box. Each of them received a different ring that suited their classes. Ye Yan received the Fighter's Ring from the box.
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[Fighter's Ring] (Silver, Ring)
Description: A ring made of silver with no ornant.
STR 5
Critical Chance 5%
Player: Jun Xie
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Ye Yan readily put the ring on, improving his character's strength. The 5% boost in the critical chance will improve his damage a lot.
After putting the ring on, everyone decided to go do their own things. Ye Yan will go to the coast to get the items for his quest, Hu Ling will stay in a VIP room of a restaurant waiting for the players that chose to apply for their guild, and the others will do a guild quest they got in the Adventurer's Guild before they t today.
When Ye Yan was readying himself to leave, he got a system notification.
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