12 Chapter 12 (1/2)
For some reason, this woman is somehow a mystery. In my past life, she never revealed that she is the lucky person to gain the free Reality Verse Nexus despite the urge of the community and the others. Her secrecy is too good that even private investigators hired by some rich and prideful players cannot even dig up a single clue to her identity.
”You are also same as me, you also got the machine for free right? Its been a long time,” she smiled.
I continued eating. She is somewhat a mystery to me and I am sure that she has a big backing of a huge company or a powerhouse guild from other games. These kind of people are not that easy to find and are not even going to participate in conferences for powerhouses players.
I am just wondering if this girl is somehow just had a carefree life and can do what she want.
”Not a talker are we?” she combed her hair and looked again to me.
If other guys in novels like these are attracted to her beauty, then don't count me in! I already have enough of the girls in my past life. I'm not going to do it here and I will make everything straight.
”Need something?” I quickly asked as her.I
”Does it need something to talk about to strike up a conversation?” The girl seems confused.
”Of course, that is obvious. How can you even talk something if there is no topic?” I coldly said. I have to stop her from striking up conversation with me, otherwise, the world will go on haywire. In the past, I have not interacted with this woman and if I will do so in this life, everything will change in the future though I still intend to stop my impending death, interacting with her is not necessary.
”Okay, since you insist to have a topic, I shall introduce my name to you, I'm Rika Tsukinara. What is your name?” this woman sure is persistent.
”Tch, too bothersome, I am not asking for your name,” I coldly retorted.
”So cold, then let's talk about Alternate World. I know you are playing this game since you got the machine. It is impossible that you don't play the game since what will you do to the machine except to play it?” the girl said.
”It should be a good thing to gift to my nephew or my uncle who loves games, its quite expensive, I can also sell it secretly,” I quickly replied.
”Stop lying, I know that you can't do that since you signed up a contract,” she said. This girl is quite sharp.
Her food seems to arrive so she quickly accepted the tray. She seemed to order a few appetizing meal and a bowl of the special Meat bowl where apparently, you can only see meat on it and not a single piece of rice can be seen.
Her other food are some Chinese cuisines and Japanese Cuisines that are too expensive for me now to buy.
Seeing me look at the food in her table with a gulp, she smiled and pushed a lobster soup in front of me.
”You can have this! You seemed hungry and seems to lack the food you have just eaten,” Rika smiled.
I groaned. I basically wanted to grab the food and eat away, however, I have my own pride. I can't do so.
”I can't accept-” I did not get to finish what I was about to say due to the fact that I felt a murderous intent. It was an intent that I can do in the past but I can't do for now. Normal people experiencing the murderous intent will basically tremble and run away out of fear.
However, since I have the mental fortitude and have experienced this kind of feeling many times in the past, I am practically resistant to it but due to my body lacking the proper training, I practically trembled. However, she revealed a surprise look seeing that I toughened up.
”Oh? I never expected you can toughen up despite having experienced it,” Rika looks at mecuriously. She must be scanning me if I am training my murderous intent. However, that will be useless since I have not done it yet.
”Bullsh*t,” I groaned. I am not a stranger to murderous intent.
”I was right. You seemed to be capable enough. I knew you are playing the game. I wish to recruit you into my guild!” she smiled.
It's another bullsh*t. I knew that no one arrived the capital to establish the guild. So if she says she has a guild, that is practically impossible unless it was a guild that exists in other games.
”Not interested. I am a solo player,” I quickly declined her rumblings.
”Not so fast, friend. You might change your mind if you have heard my game account and guild name,” Rika said.
”...” I stayed silent. Actually, I am also curious but I never have the intention to join the guild.
”My name in the game is Harmless Sparrow and our guild is none other than the Blue Sky!” she excitedly said.
Deep inside, I was stunned. That guild is one of the twelve guild powerhouses in the past and Harmless Sparrow, a Magic Knight is the exquisite guild leader of the guild who is said to be one of the top beauties in the game. However, she left the guild after a conflict to her boyfriend who is the vice guild leader and after leaving, her boyfriend became the guild leader of the game. She broke up with him, ending the two year relationship they had. Today, she has no boyfriend yet and she is still available to be conquered.
”Not heard of it, stop bothering me,” I flatly said.
She was stunned for sure. She might be one of the best players in the game but I have no intention to get close and leech off on her. I will only rely on my own.
After finishing the food, I stood up and looked at her.
”If you are trying to hook any player to your nonexistent guild then fool other people!” I said before leaving her baffled.
I did not look back and jog back home. I may be a dick in attitude but I prefer doing that. My plan will get too messed up. Friends are not my type here. They usually backstab you so I don't care who they are. I am not interested. I don't have any friends in the past either except for the NPCs that treat me better than usual.
I arrived back home without much trouble. I also felt refreshed and I have not felt like this back then before I was this age until I arrive the time where I learned the meditation.
After resting a bit, I drank a few bottles of water before logging in back. When I arrive back in the game, my avatar is still inside the room that I rented. I checked my profile and saw a few of the AP accumulated and are now 18. Every level I earn will allow me to earn 2 AP per level and since I have not used the AP, it got stacked.
I used 9 AP to agility and 9 to intelligence, reducing the 18 AP back to 0. I also checked the SP I earned. Unlike the AP, I can only earn 1 SP per level, which is hard to manage especially for me who is a Versatile Class that needed to learn a few different skills from other class, making Versatile Players to have trouble learning skills as they have to carefully plan their SP to avoid complications.
But since I came in the past, I have already prepared how to solve this trouble. There is an SP farm quest in this town and you can keep on getting the SP for quite a while until you reach its quest cap which will be the 200 quest acquisition time. Acquiring the same task for 200 times will stop you from doing so to avoid exploiting it. Also, to trigger this quest, you need to be well known by the NPCs and has a friendship level of Friend of all.
Friendship level comes with 7 levels. Worst, Bad, Neutral, Friend, Friend of all, Best Friend, and Relative. Relative is the highest part of the level a player can get on NPCs. To raise the friendship level, chatting, helping them out and doing some frivolous quests are the best and the best would be to slay a boss which will be usually issued by the Mayor or highest leader of the area. Killing the boss allows to earn the Friendship Level of the Town to Friendof all immediately. This method was revealed by none other than Harmless Sparrow as they are the first guys who have gotten this good information in the town and the first guys to discover the hidden quest which allows players to earn the SP without leveling which will be laborous if you want to get it.