75 Chapter 76 (1/2)

We chatted a while with Suhei and after the meticulous question and answer by him, I managed to get out of the predicament. I decided to cook dinner today. With a few ingredients newly bought last time, I cook steak with honey as I crave for it. Although I don't have the needs to give them food to cook, I was a bit more giving and I cook a few more for everyone in the house. I was still in the middle of cooking when everyone swarmed into the kitchen.

”Wow, steak! Is there some sort of occasion?” Riko asked, clearly drooling.

”Are you celebrating your successful 'day'?” Suhei is also drooling but he managed to hold it with a bit of teasing.

Pandora was also eager to dig in, she was holding the spoon and fork already.

”Scram! The food is not yet done!” I raised my voice and also my spatula to them and they dispersed. However, they are still peeking a bit. These wolves were clearly so hungry with steaks. What the heck, do they don't like my stir fry? They are instead swarming when I cook steak!

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After the scrumptious dinner, everyone returned to their own rooms. I also locked myself inside my room and began practicing my mana. After getting enlightened a bit with the spark of flames in the burner earlier, I gained a sort of inspiration to conjure flames faster.

Snap!

I snap my fingers while focusing all my mana in my fingers. Once I snapped, like a lighter, the flames appeared in my finger.

”I succeed!” I was so happy. Of course, this one is a faster method conjuring flames rather than concentrating on forming fireball.I also try controlling the water power in my body but it lacks power, might be due to the intense training of fire ability that I have a hard time controlling the water. I recorded a few methods in my notebook and after doing that, I decided to log in back to the game.

I appeared back into the inn. However, I am no longer accustomed with this. I am already a rich boy in the game. After harvesting lots of gold from the first dungeon dive, a fee gold coins from the equipment I sold and a few gold coins from killing monsters and killing those troublesome players, I managed to gather enough money.Its time for me to buy a mansion.

There are two types of shelter in the game, Houses and Mansion. Houses acts similar to simple houses. Only the house is yours and everything inside. Of course it was cheap depending on the location and availability of the House.

On the other hand, the Mansion is different. Mansions comes with a huge plot of land. Many mansions in the game is similar to those grandiose mansions I. the real world with great gardens filled with grasses forming the lawn.

The two were quite different but they are all available to be decorated. Still, there is something I really loved about the mansion, and that is the personal stash.

Mansions has a good inventory and bank stash available only exclusive in mansions that houses don't have. They are quite good for storing your assets like excess weapons and armor. Even important items can be stored here. Although guild houses has this kind of function, I have no access to guild houses, furthermore, my stash are not for sharing. I am selling them if I don't need them. And storing them would be a good idea in a mansion.

I teleported to the Headquarters to buy a mansion. The houses and mansion are being bought here. When I arrived, there are already many players gathered inside. Most of them are newbies and around level 10 or above. All I can say is that they are in the midst of taking quests. Although I teleported here, nobody was paying attention to me. Good thing, looks like teleport is already a skill widely known so I don't have keep on having people shocked with it. Every magician can learn although it would take a lot of time, I am quite satisfied now that it was no longer similar to the past where everyone was being so dumb and was always keeping themselves surprised.

This time, Simona is not the NPC I was looking for. I greeted at her and she greeted me back.

”Hi, its been a while!” Simona smiled as she processed the quest of an adventurer.

”Huh, it just a few days and you are saying its been a while?” I shook my head.

”Idiot, I am just greeting, you don't have to be so tense like that,” Simona said.

The other players were quite dumbstruck. They thought the NPCs were just talking as they are programmed into but then I started talking to an NPC like a close friend. One shameless player holds the hands of one pretty receptionist and kissed her hands like some sort of prince kissing the hands of a princess. Due to that...

Slap!

”Pervert! What are you doing kissing my hands all of a sudden?!” the NPC slapped the adventurer. The shameless Adventurer did not get angry, instead, his eyes grew wide with excitement before he shouted in the Headquarters.

”NPCs are intelligent! They have their own thoughts! Maybe I can find my own girlfriend here!” He happily skipped outside the Headquarters, probably looking for a new NPC to flirt with. The NPC he just kissed the hands earlier were so disgusted that she rushes to the back of the reception table and washed her hands. This movements made all players amazed. I look at Simona who is smirking.

”Did these adventurers did not know you all can take a conversation with players without problems?” I asked Simona.

”Yeah, most of them did not really react much on our reactions when they take a few quests. They thought our reactions are programmed. Now, it was the very first time that somebody did something so shameless,” she laughed again before becoming serious again, ”...so, what are you seeking for?”

”I want to buy a mansion,” I quickly said.

”Ooh! A mansion, are you perhaps so rich now? You should treat me sometime in the tavern once in a while!” Simona said before pointing me to the short haired girl receptionist on her right, ” Talk to Lala-chan, she is the realty receptionist here and you can discuss what you want with her.I don't have the specialty in realty related businesses anyway.”

Lala was indeed the realty receptionist. When I was still a Magic Knight Player, I interact with her for quite some time and I also bought a house and a mansion from her. I am quite familiar on what mansions are good and bad.

I approach Lala who was reading a book in her desk. The Realty receptionist is not that busy for now,,with the reason of players can't afford the current prices of the houses and mansions. They had it easy than Simona who is busy since the beginning of the game.