Chapter 178: This could have been an email
Prince of Stars tapped his foot impatiently underneath the table, as the eting he was forced to attend ticked over into its second hour. Along with forcing all of the guild mbers to spawn in Rowdan, claiming it as their official city, a few mbers of the teams managent had also made characters and entered the ga.
Naturally they had paid to be carried through the Gatekeepers Trial, so they could be here now lecturing the professionals on their performance when the Dragon event happened, despite the fact that so of them weren’t even online at the ti.
Golden Princes mbership was spread across the world, operating in different ti zones. So of their core mbers, who were the mbers of the actual professional E-sports team rather than just guild mbers, had been fast asleep whilst others had been out grinding, unable to return.
In fact the Vice-Captain had been leading so of their newer guild mbers through a rather long dungeon when the Dragon had been attacking. Thus why it was most Prince of Stars himself leading the charge with what mbers he had on hand, and his ’Queen’ LusciousLox.
Just at the thought of her, Prince of Stars shuddered in disgust and cast an irritated look her way. She was lounging in her chair, clearly not paying attention as she twirled her hair in her fingers and spent most of her ti staring at Prince of Stars.
The mont he looked at her, her lecherous smile widened. She twiddled her fingers in a cutesy wave, before blowing him a kiss that made Prince of Stars imdiately activate his Providence Armour around his body.
A few of the other mbers glanced at them, naturally noticing their antics, before letting out sighs of their own. This was becoming increasingly common, and they didn’t exactly enjoy her being here either, but they were at least thankful they were not the object of her obsession.
The only people that enjoyed LusciousLox’s presence was the managent, who were too absorbed in their very important lecture to notice, and the Vice-Captain, who was one of her biggest simps... I an, most loyal and dedicated fans.
It was partially because of him that she was her, and while he loved having the chance to be close to her, it made him spend most of his days filled with impotent jealousy as he felt that ’his girl’ was being stolen from him, and kept muttering sothing about ’Enteear’ as if it was so kind of spell he was casting.
Because having an obsessive stalker wasn’t bad enough, of course the guild also had to have an unwanted, incredibly awkward love triangle, or perhaps more accurately an obsession centipede. Which was a disgusting thought, admittedly, but that made it all the more accurate.
’This eting is only happening because of YOU! Can’t you at least pretend to pay attention?! If you had just followed orders, I wouldn’t be here and I wouldn’t be having issues with Ray.’
Prince of Stars shouted in his mind, glaring daggers at Lox as he dismissed his armour, now that the threat was gone. Although, as much as he was berating Lox, he didn’t have much room to talk as he was constantly checking his ssages.
He had spent the first hour of the eting debating over the contents of that ssage. He had considered, and typed out, so many different tones and drafts, but deleted them all as they all felt horrible.
Too worried that it sounded overly protective, too aloof that it sounded like he didn’t care. Too obsessive, too close, too distant, too neglectful.
No matter what he tried, they all sounded wrong. In the end he had only sent the ssage as he did as a way to buy ti and would hope that Ray would understand him. When he finally got her reply, he nearly shot up in his chair with joy.
But ever the professional, he kept his cool and, in a very cool manner, imdiately opened up the ssage before the notification sound had even finished playing. Super cool.
{Ok.}
Yes, She understood him! Why did he ever spend so long doubting his words, when she knew him well enough to know what he ant. If she didn’t, she probably would have asked questions.
But that kind of answer was short, sweet and showed she needed no more answers.
The bouncing of his foot finally stopped, and a contented smile spread across his lips as he relaxed in his chair, coasting through the next hour of the eting which consisted on a drawn out, overly explained lesson on the importance of teamwork.
Truly fascinating stuff.
Once that was finally over, Prince of Stars rushed out of the eting room and headed into the dorm room of the guild house. He imdiately entered his room, slamming the door closed and logged out after asking the Brownies for a favour, just like Belladonna had shown her with Sebbie.
It was thankful that the guild house already ca with Brownie statues, from the NPC tenants it used to previously house.
His head had barely hit the pillow for a second before the Brownie serving in the guild house had to get to work. Its attention having been drawn by the crazed eye peering through the keyhole of the door.
LusciousLox yelped and fell backwards, clutching at her eye as it felt like soone had stabbed sothing sharp into it. Tears welled up in her good eye, as she cursed the world and wondered what she had done so wrong to constantly deserve such horrible treatnt. If only her magic could work for real, such things would never happen to her again!
Whimpering softly to herself, she rose to her feet, planted a tender and loving kiss on the door before finally moving away whilst clutching her eye.
***
Percy pulled the Neural Crown from his head with a groan and stood up from the chair he had been playing in, whilst Valerie laid in the bed across from him. It had only been a few hours, which was nothing compared to his usual session tis, but already he was feeling stiff.
He stretched a few tis, cracking his joints and letting out a few grunts as he worked out the knots built up in his muscles before casting a wicked look back at his chair.
Sure, it was expensive and was a designer brand, but my god it was uncomfortable. He couldn’t have been the first one to think of that, right?
A slight grumble of his stomach lured him out of the room, as he figured he had ti for snacks before Valerie woke up. However as he opened the door, he found himself face to face with the constantly smiling magazine cut out of Jinu.
The Robotic assistant tilted its head, causing the blankly staring eyes to shift to the side slightly, before it promptly straightened up, turned on its heel and walked off down the corridor.
All Percy could do was stare at its retreating back in confusion.
’What the hell was that about?’
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