Chapter 363: National Competition (1/2)

After Shadow's escape from there, he started gathering herbs around the place.

He managed to at least find two rare herbs that raise one or two points of one of his stats.

He also found a lot of common herbs that are one of the main ingredients for making health or mana potions.

”Good thing I learned all of this and raised their levels, or I would have died a lot of times or forced to go back because I had ran out of potions”

Shadow was mumbling to himself while brewing a potion, and around him are tens of small bottles filled with either green or blue liquid.

”Dang it, and the problem now is that I'm running out of reusable bottles”

Shadow couldn't help but utter a complaint seeing that his bottles for mana and health potions are on their last straws to be used again.

”I should get an item that has a lot of health regeneration or has lifesteal so that I can reduce the frequent use of potions”

Shadow then started thinking about what monsters have the probability of dropping items with those options.

”Trolls are a given, but I need to go back if I do that, and I'm pretty sure that there's no Ice Trolls around here”

”Hmmm...then there's also the vampires. Well, there are vampires in Sunrise Empire, but will there be vampires here though?”

Shadow really can't think of any monsters other than those two. So it became quite a bit of a problem because those said monsters are located so far away from him.

”I should have asked Moniker for an item with a Lifesteal effect before they left”

Shadow sighed when he just remembered how many items had Moniker had collected which could probably fill up an entire warehouse by now.

”In the end, I'm still not a true gamer”

”Well, I guess it's time to hunt monsters again”

Then Shadow stood up and started walking where his feet could lead him to.

*****

Thanks to many breakthroughs in regards to technology, Mine Tech. Industries became the largest company in the world, and their position as the best company out there became more solidified after the release of Fate Online which boasts over one billion active users around the world.

Because of this, the company created a lot of job opportunities around the world, and the rate of poverty lowered because of the exchange of real cash and items in the game which helped a lot of people, especially to people who only knew how to play games.

There had never been such a large and powerful company in the world that it could rival the influence of a country.

In fact, it's so powerful that countries around the world, especially the Northern Rica Principality are wary of them and don't dare to face them head on as they are afraid that the company might leave the country and relocate their HQ to another country, which would certainly result to unimaginable consequences that might even cause a large protest throughout the country.

This is the reason why the company grew almost unimpeded because no one can resist the urge to go to another reality, called Fate Online!

Just yesterday, the G7, an intergovernmental organization consisting of the most influential governments in the world, sent a request to Mine Tech. Industries.

And it was to invite the best rankers in the world and to once again compete against each other in the largest gaming competiton!

The very first World Cup in the world!

And this time, it's not about sports like football or basketball, but instead a VRMMO game called Fate Online!

Inside a meeting room in MTI Headquarters, in an island just a couple of miles east of Central City, a talk in regards to the game is taking place.

”The opinion of the G7 is as follows. They want users that are in the Top 200 to be invited to the host country where they will compete in raids, pvp or other events that the company can think of. Following that, the host country will shoulder fifty percent of the expenses, but they hope that the company would deal will all the planning and public relations in regards to this”