Chapter 78 - An unexpected job (1/2)

With the quest completed, Shadow quickly made his way past the check post to the gate of the city. There were a couple of guards with halberds and spears at the gate. As soon as he walked past the gate, a couple of notification sounded through the entire White Heart Kingdom.

White Heart Kingdom Region System Announcement: Congratulations to Shadow Tyrant for becoming the first player in the White Heart Kingdom to arrive at a city! Rewarding the title of First Citizen of White Heart City.

White Heart City Reputation +50;

Blackrock Town Reputation +100;

With this done, Shadow quickly gave Rudra a few of the designs for the Antelope Spear and immediately selected to logout of the game. They were luckily able to manage to clear the quest within the time. He still had 10 minutes to reach Winston at his office. He had no clue about what it is and was in a hurry. He quickly got off his pod and started to move towards Winston's office.

On the other hand, the situation inside vita-nova and the forums became very chaotic. Everyone was surprised by the announcement of Shadow Tyrant reaching the White Heart City. Most of the guilds were shocked.

The forums were also ablaze with similar comments. All the players in the entire game soon came to know that someone managed to reach the city and his name became quite famous among all the players of the game.

”Ridiculous! We are dying to maintain level 9 and these guys have already reached the city,” shouted Raging Blade who was in the middle of the same quest. They were having a very hard time in clearing the quest and were constantly being hampered by monsters that continuously came out of the forest and attacked them. This could only be stopped by going into the forest to kill the leader monsters.

”That guy Wandering Hermit was right. There are people who are way ahead of us. We should have listened to Blue Dart and contacted him when we saw his friends cross level 10. I bet they all managed to get into the city,” said another member of the team.

Blue Dart had already expected such a situation to arise ever since he saw Crimson Power and Merlin in the leaderboard crossing level 10. He had realized that Shadow had found a method to finish the quest in a faster or easier manner.

He had insisted to the guild leader and other members of his team that it is best that they contact Shadow to come to an agreement, but none paid heed to him. Blood Wolf also understood the situation when Blue Dart suggested it. In fact, he understood it better than Blue Dart. He knew that neither Shadow Tyrant nor Merlin Grimlock would tell it to them before they reach the city.

Blue immediately tried to contact Shadow about it as soon as he heard the announcement. With Shadow already logged out, he couldn't contact him. This, he immediately called Blood Wolf.

”What is it?” asked Blood Wolf. He was also quite busy in the game at this time and really didn't appreciate Blue Dart's call at this time. The others who knew about Blue's suggestion were already pestering him for not taking initiative. Even few guild elders were using this opportunity to embarrass him.

”I am unable to contact him. It looks like he logged out. He didn't share his contact number. I can only contact his account,” explained Blue Dart. Blood Wolf had ordered him to wait till Shadow reaches the city before contacting him for the guide to the quest.

This was the most important part of their agenda right now. Everyone in the game wanted to be able to reach the city as fast as possible. ”Is Merlin not responding either?” asked Blood Wolf.

”He isn't responding. It is quite odd for him to not respond. I don't know if they want to keep it secret and only use it for themselves. It would cause a lot of friction between them and other guilds, if they do this. It is weird for him to not respond,” explained Blue Dart.

Merlin had an entirely different take on the issue. As much as he was concerned, they managed to finish the quest because Shadow was at a higher level and hence managed to help them level up easily and finish the quest. He couldn't give a way for them to level up easily.

Without any other options, Merlin just told Blue Dart the truth and told that he would just have to wait till Shadow comes back from his meeting. ”I am sorry, it might take more than 3 hours in real world, but we mainly depended on him to finish the quest,” explained Merlin to Blue Dart.

His explanation hadn't reduced the pressure, he would face as it is was hardly of use to any of them. Most thought that Shadow had somehow finished another special quest or something before he completed the quest. Some players were also putting pressure on the Crimson Realm guild members. Luckily, Shadow hadn't created a guild yet at the city, else the players would have gone crazy if they didn't know the method to clear the quest.

Balthazar had an entirely different issue right now. As he got out of the pod, he saw that he got another mail which informed him that his meeting with Winston wasn't at his office but moved to some other room in the mansion and to ask Thaddeus for directions.

He quickly contacted Thaddeus Crane through his wrist band and Thaddeus soon led him to a place which he least expected. It was Elder Max's old room.

”You're kidding right?” asked Balthazar.

”No, they wanted to go through his possession and cross check if we missed something,” explained Thaddeus and left Balthazar in front of the gate.

Balthazar initially didn't care about checking Max's rooms and belongings for any clues because he didn't care about it. He expected that his family already took care of it. He didn't really want to go through his uncle's belongings.

He had the same issue right now. He didn't want to go into his uncle's room. He had a lot of memories related to his uncle and would possibly remember a few things once he entered the room. Though he had come to terms with the betrayal, he had quite a few happy childhood memories that had lost all meaning after his experience with Max on Rowley's ship.

He still wasn't ready for this. As he was pondering over it, someone opened the door. The man that stepped out was almost 8 feet tall with thick arms. He wore a long grey coat with a hood, a scarf covering his nose and mouth with a pair of shades over his eyes.

”Oh! you finally came. I was just about to go back. Why are you so late?” asked the man in a gruff voice as he pulled Balthazar inside the room. In the room, other than himself there was Winston, Evelyn Price, D.i.c.k and the man who pulled him inside.

D.i.c.k was looking around the place and was bagging several stuff from the room, while Evelyn was showing some doc.u.ments to Winston. D.i.c.k waved his hand as soon as he saw Balthazar enter.