Chapter 106 Conflic (1/2)

”Hmmp!”

Micheal snorted as he flipped backwards, and a flash of swordlight flashed below him while he's in mid air,

.

”What the fuck!? How the hell does this guy evades all of our attacks!? And can someone tell me if the game even have that kind of a skill!?”

A wizard screamed in anger when he saw Michael evading their attacks by back flipping multiple times!

”F*ck! You can fight like that in the game!?”

”That's pretty sick, are those real life skills or those are just some skills of an assassin?”

”But the question is, who the heck is this guy? He just came out alone looking ragged from the Forest of Despair!”

The scene happening is causing a huge ruckus among the onlooking players who got attracted by the angry yelling and shouting of the party battling Michael.

A few minutes later.

”Bastard”

Michael cursed as he kicked the body of the hunter on the ground before it disappeared, before making his way over towards the nearest human settlement that's just a mile away from his location, as he could even the silhouette of the tall walls of the place with how wide the plain he's currently at, but not before picking up his spoils of battle.

He ignored all the people who tried to recruit him after seeing how he easily dispatched a party all by himself, but he was actually wary of them, as he wouldn't be able to take care of them if all of them jumped at him at the same time.

And what he did earlier wasn't easy, and in fact, you need to have a good coordination of your skills, an advantage in both levels and equipment, ones' luck, and how noob your opponents would be.

And everything listed above were all present when he fought the team of players earlier, and it's not like he's the only one who could do something like that, as there were also others who could do what he did, like Genesis and the others, and let's not even forget those veteran experts who's been playing virtual games for many years already.

”Hey! Don't go! Let's talk!” The players yelled from behind him.

Michael also had another reason for ignoring them, and that is because his equipment durability is really low right now, and if gets himself into another fight, then there's a high possibility that he would lose all of his equipment when their durability reaches zero, and he doesn't want for something like that to happen, especially with how high end his equipments are.

”Finally here”

Michael said, breathing hard, while he observed his surroundings, and he could see some words plastered on the tall wall in front of him, and the wall is so high that it's almost as tall a ten story building.

[Stormwind Fortress]

'Another fortress' Michael thought to himself.

The Stormwind Fortress, is a heavily guarded city with a size of twenty football stadium combined together and was built in a wide plain called Kanto Plain in Sunrise Empire, and with different monsters surrounding the place all year round, from goblins, to lone wolves, horned rabbits, even bears could be seen roaming the plains, and of course, there are also those players killing the monsters, and bandits hiding in the mountainous region near the fortress.

In fact, there are actually multiple fortresses built around the borders of the Forest of Despair, it was because the kingdoms and empires near the forest would always suffer from a beast tide every few years, and that's the reason behind the fortresses, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers are stationed all year round, and would only thin out after a beast tide.

Michael then entered the city, along with NPCs, and players alike as they passed through a huge gate, and under the gazes of the soldiers stationed at the gate.

Unlike the soldiers back at Elwynn Fortress who are dressed like Roman Soldiers, the soldiers in Stormwind Fortress are instead donned in armor similar to the ones that the ancient chinese soldiers used to wear during the Warring States Period, and their weapons are mostly spears and along with a sheathed sword on their waist, as they stood erect like their spears, and Michael could certainly feel the aura of ferocity around them, he wouldn't even doubt that they would immediately pounce into someone who looks totally suspicious.

And when their eyes landed on him, they stared at him for a bit, but their focus is mostly directly to his tattered attire, before averting their eyes away.

After all, Michael looks like someone who had just returned from a long war with how tattered he looks right now.

So he immediately made his way to the forge after asking for directions, as he really wanted to get his equipment get repaired badly.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Michael could already hear the sound of metal striking against metal as he slowly got closer to his destination, and a few moments later, he arrived in front of a two story building, and at the entrance of the building is a plaque hanging above the doorway, with an anvil and hammer engraved on it, and the words ”Desmond's Forge” written beside it.

Michael entered the building and what he saw first are not..humans, but small but burly people whose height only reaches over Michael's waist, and there are three of them smithing at the back of the store.

'Dwarves?'

Michael thought in surprise, he heard them before, especially from stories, but mostly from movies.

'So there are dwarves in this world'

He thought as he made his way to the counter, there are also players and NPCs alike in the shop, either getting their items repaired or just window shopping.

It was finally Michael's turn after two minutes, and arrived in front of the counter with a somewhat good looking blonde woman manning the counter.

A few minutes later, Michael came out of the forge looking good as new after getting his equipment repaired.

Michael then headed somewhere, and half an hour later, he arrived inside the outer section of an army barracks inside the fortress city, and unlike Haven City, where players could get quest inside their City Administration, Stormwind and Elwynn Fortress are very different, as the army would be the one issuing the quest, and anyone could apply for one as long as its within their abilities.

He arrived in front of a long wooden board, with many quest pinned on it and currently surrounded by a crowd of players, racing over each other to get the relatively easy quest before the others could get them.

'Slaying a dragon? Are these people nuts?'

Micheal thought that he read it wrong, so he moved forward to get a closer while pushing those on the way without a care if they're even angry, and when he got a closer look, he realized that he was seeing things, and he even thought that the army is crazy enough to issue a quest like this.

[Slay a Dragon]

Kill the Forest Dragon that resides inside the Forest of Despair.

Rewards: 50,000 Gold Coins, Title: Marquis, and pick two items of your choice inside the Empire's Treasury.

Difficulty: SSS

”This people are really crazy!” Michael mumbled in disbelief at their audacity to target that dragon that almost killed him before.

After all, the place where he met that dragon is at least over twenty miles from here, and it took almost a week to reach this fortress, and he doubts that someone would even take this quest right now, especially with how low level the current player base.

He doubts that they could even leave a scratch on it with their flimsy weapons!

Meanwhile, the players around Michael slowly trickled down as they slowly chose the quest that they wanted to take, before making their way towards the officer that records everything around the place.

”What the f*ck man!? I got this first!”

”F*ck you! We all clearly saw that I was just about to take this off when you suddenly butted in!”

Michael looked over, and saw two players verbally arguing with each other, while one of their hands is resting on a quest pinned on the quest board.