Chapter 137 Mission Begins! (1/2)

Celia stood before Rhode. Her usual cold and expressionless face was nowhere to be seen. Instead, this time, her face was filled with fury and anger. Rhode folded his arms as he stared at his own summoned spirit — And before he could give her any instructions, she immediately drew her sword in an arc and sliced the mercenary's corpse. Holy silver flames flared as it burned the poor bastard's corpse into nothingness.

Although the holy flame was powerful, it produced no smoke nor ashes in its wake. This could be considered an extremely environmentally friendly product…

”I haven't even told you to do anything yet?”

”I'm very sorry, Master.”

Celia tilted her head down slightly, both of her hands were still gripping onto her sword tightly.”I sensed a malicious presence and I couldn't stand it any longer, so…”

”… Forget it.”

Rhode waved his hand and stopped Celia's apology. He wasn't affected by her action at all.

”Do you feel confident facing these things?”

After hearing Rhode's question, Celia went silent for a moment. Afterwards, her expression gradually sank and a conflicted expression appeared on her face.

”Regarding this… Master, I am… sorry. I'm unsure…”

”...”

Rhode stared helplessly at Celia, unsure of how to continue.

And, at this moment, a crisp laughter could be heard.

”Huhuhu… Seems like Master is in trouble, maybe I could help?”

”Gillian?”

Hearing her voice, Rhode frowned slightly and felt surprised.

”Why did you appear? I did not…”

”You are just merely unable to summon me, but this doesn't mean that I am unable to communicate with you. Master, did you forget? I am a core card. As long as I want to, I can communicate with you anytime. Yes… This is the same logic as making friends online with video call. We can see and hear each other, but if you want to do something to me then I'm sorry…”

”That's enough. I am not going to discuss this with you now.”

Realizing that Gillian was purposely trying to go off topic, Rhode quickly tried to steer it back to the main issue at hand. He didn't specifically try to find out information about core cards because most of the special features basically have no much use — After all, a game is just a game and Artificial Intelligence is just AI, especially the AI of such core cards. It was rare enough to even for them to speak to their master.

Generally, only when players got into missions which involves a deck of cards, or somehow manage to kill some special creature and fulfill certain conditions, the core cards would only then appear and remind players that there is something worthy of his or her concern. For Gillian to go off topic on her own accord was indeed rare.

”Don't tell me this mission is related to you…”

Rhode frowned and asked. It couldn't be helped for him to have such thoughts, after all, this was the first mission he received in this world. Gillian, who had always been in silent, suddenly communicated with him on her own accord. This was a very weird event. Moreover, considering what Gillian said previously, it implied that she knew what was this whole game system was about. Rhode couldn't help but suspect if this was all part of the plan by this summoned spirit.

”Although I can very well understand Master's thoughts, but I am really sorry, you should be very clear on the triggering of random tasks. This isn't my doing. Well… you can think of me this way — An in-game assistant! You see, every time you receive a mission, the assistant will always intimately inform you of important details and data. Now this responsibility has fallen to me!~”

Gillian was determined and oddly excited, it seemed like she liked being an assistant. As if this job comes with a lot of future prospects.

”Well… okay then.”

Rhode nodded helplessly. He still felt that this blabbering summoned spirit was unreliable. But at this point of time, he needed her assistance.

”I wish to know the danger level of this mission in relative to our combat power, and also, how many people are in there.”

After listening to Rhode's questions, Gillian went silent for a moment as if in contemplation and then almost immediately replied afterwards: ”Yellow Alert Level 3! As for the amount of people… I'm sorry, Master. I am not a radar. Such a cheating ability, I do not have it~”

”Only level 3?”

Upon hearing Gillian's quick yet cheeky reply, Rhode felt that something wasn't right. Missions with yellow alert meant that the difficulty wasn't very high. This level of danger might pose some difficulty to solo players, but with a 2 or 3 man party, it would be a walk in the park. Rhode could remember clearly that when he was level 35, this mission was blaring bright red warnings in his face which represents the highest danger level.

Realizing the change in Rhode's expression, Gillian giggled.