Chapter 58: Planting the Seeds of Chaos (1/2)

Anoise could be heard as a pen was crushed under the developer's heel His foot suddenly slid out fro his body to jolt forwards

Withinthe sound, Arthur's body had involuntarily lunged forward, giving hih time to put his own body in the path of the developer's fall

The three seconds that followed played out exactly the same way up until the point where the developer's head would have ht theand ulti the incident

The projection of thein a pool of his own blood slowly faded away, and the feeling of nausea beca out in a similar fashi+on to the incident with the soccer ball that happened several o, and it was the first tiinal train of though was that it had so to do with the elevated brain activity he experienced after returning to the past, due to it not occurring a second ti to do with it, he was ready to research the pheno their capsules, and the developer who almost hit his head finally received the phone call he was hoping for His anxious expression faded away as he received news that Gaia was disconnected in time

Arthur finally remembered that there was an incident that happened early in the beta stage, the developer had tripped and hit his head, but fortunately it wasn't lethal

Eventually everyone had left their capsules and were led towards the briefing room as usual There wasn't much to talk about this tiestions to leave the beginner village by next session due to the next wave of players that were going to be introduced into the world next week, leaving the playerbase at four hundred players instead of the current two hundred

The player achieve that they weren't given enough time to collect data by the end of the session due to the sudden event The top three on the leaderboard were still h everyone knew the outcome already Merlin was first, as usual, with Typhoeus and sobnny taking the second and third positions respectively

As the briefing came to an end, Arthur and his friends were the last few toAs he approached the exit, he saw a few groups hovering around the entrance, waiting for their rides to arrive One of the people hovering around was Kyle, and upon seeing hi next to the path, an evil thought ran through his oat for a plan he began concocting in his mind as he approached The NPCs didn't seem to like him, and his usual behaviour made him suspicious at the best of tiuys, have you htly louder than usual, and he slowed down his walking speed so that he could give Kyle more chances to overhear him "Have you been to a store called Lychester's Provisions yet?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?" Acai responded, seely confused as to why Arthur raised his voice

"Have you bought any spells froet them cheaper" Arthur stated out loud, at this point he could practically see Kyle's ears twitch "Arwell Lychester seeuy is a coward"

"All I did was accuse hi me, I told him that the utility spells were overpriced" Arthur spoke up once roup conversation he was previously in, and was seely more invested in what Arthur had to say "It turned into a screa back at him louder and threaten to turn hiives in and begs you not to I got three spells for nine silver pieces"

"You should have told us earlier, I wanted to pick up light but it was a gold piece" Acai retorted, he see toroup walked away fro the truth, and instead was baiting Kyle's group into a trap Acai showed his disappointet to watch Kyle's group suffer

The group broke off as they each went their respective ways horeeted Arthur as he approached his car

"You see that Arthur had a large grin plastered on his face

"Not yet" Arthur gave a short response before entering the car, not giving out any more detail

The two drove ho questions due to his sense of curiosity, but Arthur didn't budge, although he did proive him all the details afterwards

They arrived ho earlier than expected, Arthur had more spare time before his sister and father left work He ran up to his roo his co his socialon, he received aif he wanted to play with hireetings as the gaht?" He asked, they usually had a full team of five

"Yeah, the other two have just been playing the new shooter all day" Quinn responded, "Do you have any fills?"

Arthur reht for those that pre-ordered it, Quinn hadn't bought it due to hi warned about New Genesis, and he seemed kind of disappointed, but he'd thank Arthur eventually when the gaht have two actually, hold up" Arthur responded

He tabbed out of the garoup chat "Do you two play Ancient Defence?"