Chapter 113 - Merlin negotiating (2/2)
Misty Day: ”It does sound wrong when you tell that you want to be helpful.”
Red Dagger: ”That sounds downright creepy and frightening.”
Boris Blade: ”Helpful!! If you were actually a helpful guy, you wouldn't have put the video in the chat.”
Merlin: ”Of course. I am helpful. I am helping my friends and myself. I never told that I would help without being asked. I am not a saint.????????????”
Boris Blade: ”If you wanted to help, why didn't you have him accept the challenge. It is a disgrace to both me and Shadow.”
Merlin: ”Hah?!! ????Why didn't you just contact Shadow on chat.”
Boris: Blade: ”You an idiot. How could I contact him without him accepting a friend request. He seems to have shut off the notifications or just ignored.”
Merlin: ”You are the idiot! If you couldn't contact him, you should have asked me or do you have difficulties in that too.????”
Clear Sky: ”????????”
Dead Sea: ”????????”
Red Dagger: ”????????”
Nix Maester: ”You expected the hot head to actually contact you. ????Don't joke Merlin bro!”
Tristar: ”Putting the talk of the video aside. Merlin can you inform Shadow of the challenge.”
King Rex: ”Yes, as Merlin had suggested Shadow for the Fight Club. It is good that Boris is willing to test him.”
Oceanis (Administrator): I agree. Let Boris test him out and invite us for the fight.
Nix Maester: ”Oh! Oh! The big guys are having a serious talk. It is no fun now. Bye.”
Nix Maester: ”Hi Tristar. What did you have to give Merlin?”
Oceanis (Administrator): ”Nix. Bye.”
Nix Maester: ”Aw! Guild Leader, a few more moments please.”
Star Lord (Administrator): ”Please, let this nonsense about video end with this. It has gotten tiring. Go play the game.”
On the other side, Shadow, Slaine and the others were running hard to try and get away from the bandit camp. The bandits started to attack them in large numbers. As soon as they got a chance, all of them started to channel their hearthstones to escape from the bandit camp.
”That was completely unexpected,” said Shadow looking at Slaine. ”Why did the idiot go deep into the monster horde?”
Though Merlin told everyone in the Fight Club that Shadow had been tailing him and took the video, Shadow hadn't even had a good look at the assassin who caused the issue. He only knew that it was Boris from the team chat.
”You don't know? He came for you,” said Slaine looking at him. ”That was the secret that you didn't hear from me. Boris challenged you to a fight, but Rudra didn't want you to participate. He is a professional player.”
”Why? What if he is a professional? I doubt he is any better than me,” said Shadow indignantly.
”No good will come out of it, if you win or lose. We will lose the momentum that we gained if you lose and if you win, we can't be sure that he won't be a sore loser. The Foedus Rex guild members are already getting into fights with us,” explained Slaine.
”Ya, that is true. I heard that they were being quite aggressive,” agreed Shadow. ”But I doubt he would let me go. I don't like him trailing me.”
”Frankly speaking, even I feel the same. He did go a bit overboard. It is best if you accept the challenge and put an end to it. Else, he might continue with this and it is hard to get good stuff with a pair of eyes following you,” said Slaine.
The recent stunt pulled by Boris changed his opinion about the way that they should be handling the challenge. Seeing a player do something as stupid as going into a horde just to follow Shadow had changed his view on how far a star player might go for a bit of fame.
”I just didn't tell you till now as Rudra suggested that we avoid the challenge and probably wouldn't have told you, if not for Boris' interference at the camp. He didn't want me to tell you, but now I will let you talk it out with him,” said Slaine.
As they were talking about this, Mob and other came to them. ”You know I just sent Merlin the video of Boris getting killed. He asked me not to let go public. He is negotiating with Rex,” said Mob.
”Apart from that, Merlin had nominated you to join the Fight Club,” added Bitter Beast.
”Fight Club?” asked both Shadow and Slaine. Though Shadow had lived seven years in his previous life, he didn't know of the existence of fight club. It was only known to its members or close to the members and these didn't want to irritate them by making it public.
”It is a dream group for all PvP enthusiasts in the virtual games. I would love to be accepted into it and asked Merlin to nominate me, but he always told that I was not ready for their test,” said Mob.
”You mean the rumors of the PvP club where the players try to improve harmoniously is true?” asked Slaine with an expression of extreme shock.
”Yes. Merlin is a part of it, and he thinks you are good fit,” said Mob looking at Shadow. ”I won't deny that I am not jealous of you, but you are quite capable and a bit crazy like him. Maybe that is required for the Fight Club too.”
”So, do you know if the rumors about the founders of the fight club were also true?” asked Slaine.
”Which ones?” asked Bitter Beast.
”You know. They say it was started by real-life mercenaries who joined various guilds and that is the reason they are so good,” said Slaine. He had been hearing quite a few rumors for the past couple of years from various friends. These were the kind that most whispered that didn't say out loud for the fear of being considered an idiot.
”And they continued to have maintain their camaraderie through the group?” asked Mob sarcastically.
”Yes,” said Slaine not realizing that Mob was being sarcastic.
”No, dude! I was being disingenuous. They are not mercenaries,” said Mob.
”How do you know?” asked Bitter Beast.
”Cause I asked Merlin similar questions,” said Mob looking at him angrily. He once had a similar conversation with Merlin where he felt like a fool and he felt annoyed that he had to accept that in front of Slaine and Shadow.
”Might be. Actually, if they were mercenaries that were old comrades, they could have started a guild on their own,” said Slaine agreeing with it.
”They could be in different guilds. There is a good chance that they didn't have prior experience with games and just joined the guilds and ended up being crucial parts of the guilds,” said Shadow. He felt these rumors to be quite close his own situation in his previous life.