Chapter 20: Yua Nakatomi a.k.a PinkLotus (1/2)
Rudra untied the hostages one by one , the girls hugged each other and cried their hearts out .They thanked Rudra profousely for saving them all. They were all hostages kidnapped by the merchant to be part of his enterouge .... They were forced to act a part as a Merchant's Subordinates and play amicable to the villager's to fool them. They were poisoned with the antidote only given if they fooled everyone in Thol village.
The merchant wanted to poison everyone in the Thol village as a experiment... will the Church be able to cure the infection ? Or will the People die and hence with the spread of this incident people would start questioning the power of Church Of Light.
If the Church cured it, They would at max gain the beleif of a small village like Thol , if they failed he could poison people at the capital creating a crisis for the Church! It was a sinister plot well thought out by the merchant .
When Rudra questioned them about the organisation behind The Merchant they said they didnt know much however one day after leaving Thol village they were all given the antidote to the poison but also a heavy sedative after which they woke up yesterday tied up to this pole .... And the merchant seemed to perform a ritual.
It seemed like a demon summoning ritual!
Whoever was the organisation behind this incident.....It was extremely difficult to deal with if they had information over such ancient rituals as well as a page from Demon's Diary.
Well the main quest line can be solved by those who care , i only did the quest for the rewards with the Church, Thought Rudra ... He genuinely did not wish to care about the bigger picture ... all that mattered to him were his ambitions and thats that.
Well time to go back to the capital.
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( Meanwhile , Nakatomi Corporation )
Mr.Nakatomi was the Billionare CEO of the Nakatomi Corporation and he was the father of Yua Nakatomi a.k.a PinkLotus the Guild leader of Azure Lotus.
” Greetings papa , you summoned me? ”
Mr Nakatomi was a stone cold buisnessman but towards his daughter he was soft , soo soft that he only wanted her happiness and nothing more, not money not power .... only her daughter to be happy.
He never mentioned it but the only reason he kept working and earning billions was for him to fulfill her daughter 's every wish .... He wasn't like this but ever since his wife died in a car crash his daughter had become a focal point in his life.
From the Ruthless buisnessman he became a sole father and that changed him a lot. He helped her create the Azure Lotus hiring professional gamers beleiving that she would be happy with her passion at playing games.
He said ” I have inside news about the game... 4 days from now The auction house will open in the 'Omega' game and the UN have approved of the in game currency of gold coins to be approved as global currency , It will by all means and purposes a real currency ... meaning the in game gold can be converted to any global currency at the stable exchange rate, It will rise and fall like real currency depending on the player base ... demand and supply.”
” Omega will attract a lot of new players now that money can be earned from the game , plus the fact that you can play the game when you are asleep... It is certain that atleast 90% of world population will now enter the game in the coming 6 months ”.
” This is the largest market created yet... worth Trillions of thousands of dollars... much more than any social media or platform ... It is a second reality, every big corporation will enter it for publicity or control or to farm money , the game you played for fun will no longer be just fun , you need to be prepared”.
Yua was stunned silent for a while , she was both impressed by her father's far sightedness and information gathering capabilities and excited about the future possibilities .
” This is a huge sector where lots of money can be made ..... Naturally the Nakatomi Corporation also wants a piece of this pie..... I have decided to inject 500 million dollars into the game for now .... It is your time to shine my daughter ... if you can run your guild well and build a sturdy foundation ... we may loose money for a year or two but we will reap a lot of benefits later ”.
” I know you started this game for fun ... i wont force it on you .... but what do you think ? ”
Yua was naturally extremely happy ... she wanted to join the company and help her father since forever , however her father never let her , saying the buisness world is not for her cute little lotus ... yep PinkLotus was the nickname her father gave her .... And she was embarrassed yet she adopted it whole heartedly.
Now having the opportunity to do something for the company and her father she naturally agreed. Determined to not let her father down.
Mr.Nakatomi smiled .... seeing her daughter soo determined reminded him of himself and his wife ... her determination was just like him in his youth while her cute looks were definitely from her mother.
Sigh , he wished she was here today to see their daughter.
” Okay then , here are some potential players and guilds you can start cooperating with .... There is information on the back about their backings and internal structure's .... meet those you need to meet in real life at our office to discuss collaboration , Meet those who want to talk at their office in game ”.