Chapter 295 - 20: A Party For Three (2/2)

”Heh, glad you're enjoying it then. I'll take it you'll continue to party with me, or do you want to go on your own adventure? We have more room to spare now.”

”Nuh uh! I don't want to do solo play in this world unlike Sister Chelsea. She can slay all the gods she wants to her hearts content. I'm going to stick with you! Besides, you're going to be partying with that Tabula guy right?”

'Why did Belle bring up god slaying all of a sudden? Well, no matter. It is true I'll be partying up with that guy', Nao sent a retort to himself. He then nodded his head in approval and continued to talk.

”That's right. Tabula said he watched our fight from afar. Hopefully he himself caught up to where we are. Might be hard for him since he's a crafter.”

”Even then, crafters should have many weapons and items at their disposal right? So their stats should align like that too. He should be quite nimble with high strength.”

”Hmm, similar to a rogue class then? That is if Tabula didn't go the magic route. Guess we'll find out when we meet him in game. Just don't be shocked when you see him okay? We're all Heteromorphics.”

”I know that...but still, Brain Eater sounds like a really disgusting class. I mean who in their bright minds would like to eat brains all day long?”

Seeing Isabella say that as she stuck our her tongue, Nao's expression became deadpanned. He could only shake that off with a sigh.

”I'm just not going to say anything more than that, let's head to our chairs. Our goal is to reach the max level in the game before they announce the World Champion tournament. So we got to focus on grinding and clearing out Helheim. Once we're in charge of Helheim we'll be able to participate.”

”Okay! That sounds really fun! Let's go kick some more monster ass!”

Fires started to light up in Isabella's eyes. Her blood started to pump and with a burst of energy, she grabbed a hold of Nao's hand and dashed toward the Dark Room. Nao couldn't help but chuckle seeing Isabella's anticipation. He decided to just go with the flow.

In no time at all did they arrive back in their chairs. With a 'Psssh', he connected the helmet to the back of his neck. 'I know its super chunni ever time I say it, but let's say it. Link start!', Nao shouted inside his mind.

A weird feeling encompassed his nerves before his vision went black. It was then replaced by the virtual world hub. He saw Yggdrasil's black page with golden letters. Yet his sight halted and shifted. They then landed on a branded video service program which was off to the side.

Nao's eyes landed on it and entered his own thoughts for a moment. 'Do they seriously have Twitch in the twenty second century? Guess it was a popular enough platform to last over a hundred years. It even went through an upgrade too, seeing its called Twitch 2.0 now...

That's pretty neat in itself. Since I'm no longer bound by the duties of a salaryman, I can start trying out what I want to do. Unfortunately in my past life, I was planning to livestream Rebirth. But now I have that opportunity again! I'm going to inform Tabula of this of course. If he isn't against it I'll start setting up my channel.

I know the whole point of the New World is to have no lingering attachments to this current Earth before the transfer happens, so I'll just be doing this for fun to pass the time. Can't help but get excited just thinking about it', Nao said happily.

'But first lets meet up with Tabula.', Nao said, concluding his thoughts.

He then tapped the Yggdrasil screen, and soon found himself and Isabella's succubus avatar near the end of the Bridge if the Damned. Isabella took notice of him and spammed the smiley emote. Nao did a wave and located his friends list. He saw him and Isabella sitting at Lvl16.

A third green highlighted name found its way to the active names. Of course it read as Tabula Smaragdina. Nao saw his level, which was Lv15. If he could raise his eyebrows, he would have. He was only one level less than the two of them!

On top of that, Nao saw a radius meter next to his name, signaling how far away he was. Turns out he was actually nearby and appeared to be hiding in one of the nearby ice crevices.

As to why that was, he saw other players past the Bridge of the Damned now and into the next area. The two were able to locate Tabula hiding away. Tabula greeted the two with a warm voice. Sure enough Isabella found Tabula's avatar really disgusting but she kept it to herself.

After forming a party if three, Nao decided to ask Tabula what happened to him. A guilty emote soon escaped from his avatar as he started to explain the situation.

Apparently Tabula played the fiddle with a few of the Trinity members, who already started to branch out in the nine realms. With an intent to join Trinity, Tabula piggybacked the starter dungeon. He only provided the party he was in with minimal support, and once they cleared it, Tabula ditched them and hightailed it out of there.

Seeing this betrayal of sorts, it affected Trinity's image. The few players got extremely mad and tried to PK him, but Tabula outran them and hid away, until now that is. Nao ended up shaking his head hearing the full story, but still welcomed Tabula into the group.

Sure enough Nao saw Tabula was a hoarder. He had loads of items and data crystals from the starter dungeon. But the three had a new goal in mind and that was the next area.

Nao had a good look beyond the Bridge of the Damned. Besides the eerie green winds and grey dense cloud blocking off the skies and the sides around him, he saw what appeared to be an endless stretch of land. On top of this lend were destroyed graves, crypts and death hills.

The moment the three took their steps into this place, Nao received a system notification.

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”Anyone up for some grave robbing?”, Nao retorted, seeing this system message appear on his screen.