180 My Heart is Bleeding (1/2)
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Shin walked out of the Sun-Moon Church with confused expression on his face. Earlier, when he tried to look for Archbishop Ronald, the high-priest assigned to take care of him said that the Archbishop went to the main branch of the Sun-Moon Church in 'Divine Empire' to recuperate.
'This is a big trouble then. If Archbishop Ronald is not here, then I don't have anyone that I can trust in the Church especially that I don't know who are the real traitors yet,' muttered Shin to himself as walked out of the entrance gate of the church, where a lot of players with priest and paladin related are coming in and out of it.
Then Shin brushed off those thoughts at the back of his heads almost immediately. It was not his nature to think about a problem that needed to be solved for the future. What he needed to be thinking now was the current situation on his hands, and good thing that even if he didn't managed to meet with Archbishop Ronald; he was still able to get the information about the identities of the other recommended group.
And while walking on the street, Shin brushed past a hooded player wearing a gray-colored cloak with a pair of longswords hanging on each side of his waist. He suddenly halted his steps for a brief moment when he felt something unusual when brushing passed with that person. Then he almost immediately resumed walking forward and knitted his brows when that feeling suddenly disappeared.
He tilted his head a little to the side while mumbling to himself. ”It must only be my imagination.”
Then Shin walk further and further. What he didn't know was the hooded player experienced the feeling as him. The player turned his head to the side as if he was looking over his shoulder even if his view was being blocked by the hood of the cloak that he was currently wearing. And after a sight pause on that player's steps, the person continue walking forward while muttering. ”That couldn't be the case. It is the same feeling but definitely a different person.”
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Shin arrived at the Heavenly Resto-Bar once again and walked straight to the VIP Room no.1. And when he entered the room for another time, the same rowdy atmosphere greeted him. But this time, Lawless was not present on the room as well as Faker.
He took a random seat and asked Morgan. ”Where are Brother Lawless and Faker?”
Morgan smiled bitterly at Shin and said. ”They said they are going to visit the Hand of Midas Trading Firm to see if they can ask some assistance from them.”
The expression on Shin's face suddenly turned weird after hearing that and said. ”I hope that Big Sis will not ask them some unreasonable demands. She is always taking advantage on the deal whenever she got the upper-hand.”
”So how was your visit on the Church end up to? Did you get anything useful?” said by Ravier sitting across Shin.
”So who are they? I hope they are quite decent players, because if they are not, we are in trouble clearing this quest,” said Ravier.
Shin shrugged his shoulders and said. ”I'm sure either. But from what the information that I got, that group belongs to the Wing's Alliance, it's just I'm not sure if they are going to pass for a decent group in your standards.”
”Oh! From Wing's Alliance, Huh? If that was the case then those guys must be a part of their experts groups. I guess they should have some skills at the very least. Have you managed to get who is the quest initiator?” asked Ravier once again.
Shin put his right hand on his chin while thinking for a moment before saying. ”I guess he is called S.Tigris. Hmm… And I feel that this name sounds familiar.”
”That was because he was the guy who you rejected to talk with when we first met.” Then Lawless entered the room with Faker coming in tow.
And after taking his seat, Lawless immediately added with a little sign of envy on his face. ”If it was really that guy, then they should really have a descent team. That guy had a really good right-hand man after all.”
Then he continued once again after a slight pause. ”His team is good enough to be compared to some of the famous Adventurer Teams in the past. It's just I'm not sure if his team is still intact, especially that he was a part of the Wing's Alliance now. But either way, it is still not going to be enough for this quest even if we teamed up with them.”
”So what happened to your visit on the firm?” asked Shin
Lawless scratched his right cheek and said awkwardly. ”Well, that was the problem too. Your Big Sis is currently not present on the Firm for she have some matters to attend on the Real World. And according to the manager of the firm, she might even take some time to come online once again.”
”As for the deal that we are going to offer, the manager said that she doesn't have the authority to decide about that and she needed to wait for your Big Sis to come back online once again. What's more, they are going to become super busy now because of the sudden burst of member applications.”
”Because of the battle prowess shown by the three chiefs of the Trading Firm on the recent war, a lot of the Lifestyle Players are now swarming towards the firm and asking to be taken under them. There are even a bunch of Intermediate Ranks mixed in the groups.”
'That was pretty much predicted by Big Sis, I guess. Based on her personality, I'm pretty sure about it. And she will never get a deal that she will not profit from after all,' thought Shin on himself before saying to Lawless. ”So what is the next plan?”
Then Lawless said after a moment of thinking. ”Let's contact the other team first and see how it will end up. At the same time, I'll look for the old friends of mine to ask them if they have some free time to come over. And I kind of remember that some of them have a deep grudge with Immortal.”
”Let's dismiss for now and let me and Faker handle about it for a moment. You can do whatever you want for the time being, but don't wonder around too much 'cause I will get back to you immediately after everything was settled with them.”