"Whew, that was a tough escape!"
In an alley sowhere between the buildings of the city, a young lady in her early twenties heaved a huge sigh of relief. She was hooded in a white cloak with so kind of yellow lines on it as she leaned her back against the stone wall before wiping out the sweats on her forehead with the back of her slender hand.
Beside her was a humanoid creature resonating to that of a fairy. It had a tiny body with a size of about a little larger than the palm of an adult human. Its green and sowhat transparent wings flapped with a breeze of the wind as it floated just in front of the young lady and as it persuaded anxiously, "Lady Stella we should really go back ho now."
"Huh? What are you saying, we are just taking a stroll here why are you making a fuss over it?" The young lady nad Stella answered in displeasure accompanied by a frown. A mont later, her frown turned into a smile as she continued, "Don't worry Sylva, we're just going to et the one I saw in my dreams."
"But it's still uncertain..." The small creature nad Sylva interjected.
"No more buts." Stella raised her hand and flicked the forehead of the little creature in front of her making it back away a little and hold its forehead with its two little hands. After which, Stella chuckled softly as she continued, "Besides, the 'falling star in the day' that I saw in my dreams had just appeared a little while ago, we need to go in that direction if we want to see the mystery behind my dreams!"
After which was said, Stella was just about to leave the alley but to her shock, sothing she was afraid of, happened right before her eyes. Two n in black suits obstructed her view. She never had expected that she would be found out so fast by them.
"Young lady, please don't make things difficult for us and co with us right now." One of the n in black pleaded.
"No way!" Stella imdiately ran away in the opposite direction. After which, she turned her aningful gaze to her summoned Spirit signaling that she wanted to speed up.
Seeing her stubborn master, Sylva could only sigh deeply as she waved her hand and a green magic circle appeared right in front of Stella's chest. Stella felt very light as she felt that the wind was one with her. She could only smile widely as her speed had boosted twice if not thrice.
In no ti at all, Stella reached the end of the alley and imdiately blended herself with the crowds.
"We have found the young lady!" One of the n in black exclaid as they frenziedly chased after their young lady. In front of him was a hologram screen projection and a map of the entire city was revealed on it. The map was perfectly round in shape just like the many other cities on the Greedland.
Almost all the cities in Greedland were encircled by a towering wall and it was perfectly round in shape. Other than the stone wall, there was also so kind of invisible barrier that was covering the sky of the entire city. And this city was just the sa.
On the map, many small icons of different faces scattered all over signifying the current location of each of them who were chasing their young lady.
Just after a mont the man in black delivered the ssage to everyone, the hologram screen disappeared as the two of them focused their attention on the young lady who had just disappeared from their sight.
"Damn, did we lose her?" Standing at the end of the alley, they looked around the crowds but to their frustrations, they couldn't find their young lady anymore.
"She's still around, let's split up." The other one replied.
"Alright."
With that said, the two separated their ways.
***
"Ugh, if I want to et with the Vessel then what should I give to be accepted as his follower...?" In a certain street, a man was walking with a frown on his face as he seed worried about his current predicant.
Taking a closer look, that man was actually the one from before who seed to know sothing about the 'thing' that fell from the sky a while ago. His ssy brown hair beca even ssier when he halted his steps and frenziedly scratched his hair, seemingly racking his brain to find an answer.
In front of him was a hologram screen. And a graphical representation of many slots projected on it. Above the many slots was a single big word written in white saying, "Inventory".
But what was astonishing about it was that only empty slots could be found on the screen. There were also a couple of zeros at the end of each word under the word 'Inventory';
Copper: 0, Silver: 0, Gold: 0, Gem: 0.
If one would just see it, anyone would definitely believe that he was a complete newbie.
"That damn hidden boss, how could he be so cruel to and steal all my possessions..." Seemingly wanting to cry, the man complained indignantly. He then continued his journey and dismissed the System as the hologram screen vanished right away.
***
"Just who is that young lady?"
Sowhere in a downtown where many stands of all sort of stuff lied down on the ground, people around followed their gazes to the beautiful lady leaving the area. Even if they didn't ask it, they definitely understood that she was a high-level Player or had a frightening background.
Knowing these facts, no one dared to approach her for they were all afraid to incur her wrath.
Instead, they all turned back their gazes to the old man who sold the old book for 2,000 gold as they all had the sa thought floating on their mind. And that was, 'to extort or rob the old man!'
But to their shock, the old man was nowhere to be found anymore. Not even a trace of his stand was left. Not even one of them noticed when and how did that old man leave. It was as if the old man wasn't there in the first place!
"Just what the hell is that old man, he's too good at escaping!" Everyone around thought in unison as they were all starting to fear how frightening the escaping ability of the old man.
***
"So what now old man, or should I call you 'Greed Spirit'?" After the beautiful lady left out the crowds and was now walking in a certain street with few people passing by, she asked silently as if she was talking to herself. Hugging the book in her arms, she then continued, "Do you wish to follow now?"
"Interesting... You seem to know well." A voice of an old man laughed and the voice seed to co from the book that the beautiful lady was carrying in her arms. That voice was surprisingly, the voice of the old man who sold the book to her. "But I'm sorry young lady, you're not qualified to hold my power."
"Oh?" The young lady wasn't too surprised at all as if she already expected sothing like this. She knew that she was a high-level one but if she wanted to attract the attention of a King Level Spirit, there was still a lot of rice she needed to eat.
"So you are also interested in the 'Vessel'." The young lady spoke. It was hard to tell whether she was asking or comnting but the book replied to her,
"Hehe, who knows." The book did not agree or did not deny as well.
But with the tone of his voice, the beautiful lady could only shake her head as she easily noticed the excitent blended on it. As if the Greed Spirit really was craving and wanting to et the 'Vessel' already.
"Did we lose them?!"
Just as the two were talking with each other, a young lady hooded in a white cloak was rushing and running past from behind the beautiful lady. Her voice was filled with worry and relief as if she just escaped so sort of danger.
Beside the young lady was a little creature following her as it flew. A great amount of Wind Energy exuded out from the small creature as if it was naturally leaking out from it.
But of course, most of the people around didn't notice its energy for their level didn't allow them. Only if that creature intentionally revealed its energy, only then a lower level people would be able to feel it. But if that happened, those who were in a lower level would surely tremble in fear.
The beautiful lady followed her gaze to the young lady as she was interested in the matter.
And of course, that young lady was no other than Stella, the one who escaped from the mansion.
She was now running at her normal speed as if exhausted to use the boosting she had done a while ago.
But in all of a sudden, sothing that she would never expect in her life, happened right before her eyes!
Thud!
As she was nearing the crossroad, she didn't expect that there was actually soone stupid enough to pop out from the other road. That being said, she bumped onto him as both of them fell on the ground with herself lying on top of the other party.
With twitching limbs, the other party thought that the world had really gone insane as he blad it for all the misfortunes he was suffering.
And that other party was of course no other than the man from before who was just complaining about his current predicant.
The beautiful lady who was holding the book watched the both of them colliding against each other. Without knowing it, a smile blossod on her lips as her cold personality was nowhere to be found anymore. Sothing like this wouldn't be enough to attract her attention however, she didn't know why, but she felt so kind of intimacy from the both of them.
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