Chapter 144: The Start of Week Five (1/2)

Arthur was quickly thrust into the endless white rooout button and escape the virtual world

His body was shocked awake shortly after, and he spent a short period of ti his body to adapt to the real world once ht before the capsule opened, revealing the outside world

Arthur slipped out of theroo their wake up procedures too

Hethe developers ere sitting around while coan funnelling into the roo their way to hi started shortly after

"Well, starting off Theis that wave three is going to be starting next session" The developer started speaking "The third group of players, ti was sroup of players really was the only thing interesting about that briefing, but then ca, the leaderboard

"Starting off at fifth place, at level five with one soul, Nora" The developer spoke, which surprised Arthur's group so the top five

"At fourth place, at level five with one soul, Zankoku" The developer continued, Zankoku got his own congratulations but nobody was that surprised "At third place, yet another level five, but this tiot a pretty solid experience advantage" Arthur re above Acai so well?"

"Honestly, I just gether shoulders "It sort of just turned out this way"

"Oh, that uess" Arthur nodded as he turned his attention back to the developer who just started reading out Maria's score

"At second place, at level five with two souls, sobnny" The developer spoke, which got Maria her own round of applause, although they kneas co "And finally, at first place, the first level six with three souls, Merlin"

"How do you level up so fast compared to everyone else?" Maria asked "You should have twice the experience requireives?"

"Honestly, there's no real secret to it It's just big quests" Arthur responded "I get a lot ofa questline with very high experience rewards"

"I wouldn't recouild quests for experience, but they're very good for money" Arthur continued "I find that unique quests, or quests that involve soive a lot ht That s us to the end of this session We hope you have a great week and are looking forward to seeing you all next week" The developer concluded the roup will be here in a coupleas soon as possible"

Arthur's group began talking as theytheive the et better quests out of NPCs He also briefly covered stacking quests and otherefficiency, but these sorts of things were obvious to anyone who had played an roup eventually went their separate ways, Arthur walked over to Donovan's car and entered the passenger seat, greeting him as he put his seat belt on

The two had a brief conversation on the drive hoht up, reain

The drive eventually came to a stop as they arrived home, Arthur thanked Donovan and h his usual routine before dinner, where he heard school mentioned once more

After dinner heready for bed, he was visited by Anna

She suggested that they do soestion andand that he didn't really have a say in the reed as he finished off his nightly routine, when he was done, Anna seemed to have vanished back to her roohed as he ju on his bedside table that Doctor Hudson gave him

"I would have preferred the power to skip forward in ti up the book on his bedside table Arthur read until he found hi asleep

Later in the week, he was forcibly dragged out to go shopping with Anna, he picked up some essential supplies for school, and then waited around as Anna ran around the confectionery aisles again