32 Chapter 32 - The Legendary Teammate (1/2)

The people inside the Amethyst Rebirth's guild house gazed oddly at the three that just entered the conference room together. Everyone had the same thought, Why have these three arrived together?

The guild members clearly got along well with one another as it did not take long for Luo Luo and June's Rain to blend into the crowd and exchange pleasantries with them. Gu Fei felt out of place as he stood there by himself. July was the only one who specially approached and welcomed him, ”Come on over!”

Gu Fei nodded. One of the reasons he came here with Luo Luo and June's Rain was because he had received a message from July as well when Luo Luo mentioned that ”There's a message from Xiaoqi” earlier.

Otherwise, he would not even bother showing up here no matter how much June's Rain pestered him.

A room full of women was undoubtedly a spectacular sight to behold. Gu Fei thought that this might be the only chance in his lifetime to be alone with so many women inside the same room, unless he barged into a female restroom by mistake.

In all honesty, Gu Fei felt quite awkward with the current situation and slightly regretted coming here. He distanced himself from them and sat down near a window, absentmindedly looking outside from time to time.

July regarded the people inside the room by the side and clapped her hands to get their attention, ”Everyone online is actually here. It's amazing that so many of you came considering I have only called once.”

”Sis Xiaoqi, what kind of guild quest did you get?” an excited voice could be heard saying this. Gu Fei knew that the speaker was June's Rain without even looking. Now that he knew she was a woman, he thought her voice was rather girly. Strange. Why didn't it sound girly at all when I wasn't aware of her gender?

”Oh, it's nothing too difficult, but it's still our first guild quest,” July replied.

The quests in Parallel World were different from the quests in some MMOs, which were categorized into different levels or clearly classified according to the degree of difficulty. In this game, players would only find out how difficult a quest was after they accepted and explored it for themselves. A quest was something the players would always need to explore on their own. Fortunately, it was the Information Age; people would always share their findings on the forums whenever they did a quest. Hence, the current trend for players was to search through the forums' quests section for relevant information whenever they received an unfamiliar quest before carrying on with it.

July had immediately looked for the relevant information online after receiving the guild quest. She believed that this particular quest would not be a problem for Amethyst Rebirth, considering that a lot of newly established small guilds, with similar or fewer number of members to them, were able to complete it.

Although June's Rain was a quest fanatic, her forte actually lay in individual quests. She had never paid attention to group activities like guild quests before. As a result, she kept on asking stuff after July stated the quest's name.

[Retrieval of the Stolen Treasure Chest]

The quest had a very typical story behind it. Basically, it stated that a treasure chest that had gone missing resurfaced somewhere else, and it was now up to the players to recover it.

July pulled out the regional map that she had prepared from the start and spread it out on the table. She started to brief everyone on the details, ”I've checked it online. The treasure chest might be in one of these seven locations,” July pointed each of the seven areas that had been marked on the map.

”These places are quite far apart,” Luo Luo said.

July nodded and said, ”Other players suggested separating the guild members into smaller groups to find the exact spot of the treasure chest before gathering everyone again to act together. That's what I have in mind as well. Among the guilds that had completed the same quest, there was a guild that succeeded with only six participating members. As for us right now...” July turned around to confirm their number, ”There're fourteen of us, so I believe this won't be a big deal.”

Gu Fei remained seated and did not join the circle of ladies to look at the map. When he heard July saying how it was possible to succeed with just six people, he was about to say, ”I'll be leaving, then!” But July resumed her speech, ”There're fourteen of us, so let's divide ourselves into seven groups with two people each. Just enough for searching at the seven different places.”

All the ladies nodded in agreement, and Gu Fei had to swallow back his words.

”Let's start forming the groups.” Everyone could not help but to turn their eyes toward Gu Fei after hearing July's words. Frankly speaking, the female players around did not actually discriminate against the male players. Still, it was not acceptable for them to have Gu Fei in their guild when it was decided from the beginning that it would be an all-female guild. Now that they were about to be divided into groups, it was only normal that nobody wanted to be paired with a stranger like Gu Fei.

Of course, July knew well what everyone had in mind. However, it was not worthwhile to delve into such minor matter right now, so she asked Gu Fei instead, ”Miles, who do you wish to be paired with?”

When Gu Fei heard that they would be divided into groups, he had expected himself to be kicked around like a ball. He was even slyly wondering who would be the unlucky one to be paired with him. He never thought that July would be so considerate toward him to actually give him a chance to choose one among all the thirteen ladies!

Gu Fei checked everyone swiftly and stopped when his eyes reached June's Rain. He smiled and said, ”I'll form a group with Xiaoyu1!”

”Why – Why me?!” June's Rain bellowed.

”Cause we're brothers!” Gu Fei laughed.

June's Rain was left speechless, and the others looked on with puzzled expressions. Luo Luo was the only one smirking. For a moment, the whole room echoed with laughter as Luo Luo squeezed herself into the crowd and whispered something to all of them.

”Very well, you two will be heading here,” July pointed randomly at a spot on the map.