1 Second Meeting
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"Good morning everyone!" Spirit Lake's Little Fish smiled as she took one of the nine seats around the round table.
"Hehe! Little Fish, you seem to be in good mood today? Did something happen?" Young Master 007 whose seat was at the other side of the table inquired.
"Seeing everyone made me happy!" Little Fish answered.
"I see!" Young Master 007 smirked. "It has been month already, yet we are unable to log out of this game! So we could only be happy when we meet others like us! Ah! How nice would it be if I could log out anytime I wish!"
"Keep dreaming!" White Beast who was seated to the left of Young Master 007 ridiculed. "This is no longer the game we know! Our bodies are natives of this world and we seemed to have taken over their consciousness! We are no longer players, only a bunch of aliens!"
"That isn't completely correct!" Climbing The Peak Of Everest who was seated to the left of White Beast interrupted. "As you see, this room, our IGN names and the game interface still exist even though we occupy the bodies of the natives(NPCs)! Thus we are still players!"
"Sigh! Even if we are players we still don't have the strength to log out! As such it is useless to talk about wether we are still players at the moment! Only when we have strength can we consider such questions!" Father Of My Daughter calmly overthrew the discussion.
"What Father Of My Daughter said is right!" Mr Bones Of The Underworld sighed. But suddenly his eyes opened wide as he realised that something was wrong with his words.
"Cough! What I meant is player 'Father' is correct!" Mr Bones hurriedly coughed! "We can only meet once a month and for a short period of 3 hours! It is better to discuss more relevant topics than wasting time on bitching about!"
The room turned silent suddenly. The nine members in this room weren't fools, neither were they children. They did not need to argue the whole day like those politicians.
"Well then, why don't we share our experiences during the past month! If anyone is facing with problems they could consult others!" Climbing The Peak Of Everest, the only pro-player out of nine advised.
"Hehe! This is only the second time we are meeting, and you want us to share our information with others?" Young Master 007 sneered.
"Sigh! Young Master 007, don't be so eager to counter all statements!" Father Of My Daughter smiled. "Appraise everyone's level before you talk! You would shut your mouth and enjoy the benefits if you did!"
"Huh!" Young Master 007 instinctively wanted to counter Father Of My Daughter, but he gritted his teeth and used basic appraisal to appraise everyone's level.
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Spirit Lake's Little Fish:
Level: 5
Bounded Master Cards:
Duplicate (Black)
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White Beast:
Level: 4
Bounded Master Cards:
Silence (Black)
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Father Of My Daughter:
Level: 7
Bounded Master Cards:
Absorb (Black)
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Mr. Bones Of The Underworld
Level: 4
Bounded Master Cards:
Recharge (Black)
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Drowning In The River Called Time:
Level: 21
Bounded Master Cards:
Transform (Black)
Fireball (novice)
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Most Qualified Stranger:
Level: 7
Bounded Master Cards:
Shatter (Black)
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Noob-20000818
Level: 2
Bounded Master Cards:
Evolve (Black)
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Climbing The Peak Of Everest:
Level: 13
Bounded Master Cards:
Search (Black)
Water Shield (Novice)
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Young Master 007
Level: 1
Bounded Master Cards:
Steal (Black)
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Cough! Cough!
Young Master 007 hurriedly coughed. He then turned towards Drowning In The River Called Time and said, "Fuck you! What's with your level!"
He was trying to change the topic away from his own level.
Drowning In The River Called Time was seated in between Young Mastet 007 and Father Of My Daughter. She turned to her left and gave Young Master 007 a beautiful smile. A smile that made the whole world turn brighter!
"It's because of this!" Drowning In The River Called Time pulled out a Black Card from her pocket with her jade like arm.
As the black card was pulled out, it calmly floated to the middle of the round table under its master's control. Once it was at the middle, it released a gentle glow and rotated around, as if to let everyone observe(appreciate) its whole body.
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Transform (Black)
Type: Master Card
Level: 2
Ability 1: Can Transform Into a Red Grade Master Card of same level.
Cool down Duration: 7 days
Ability 2: Can Transform Into a Green Grade Master Card of same level.
Cool down Duration: 4 days
Ability 3: Can Transform Into a Orange Grade Master Card of same level.
Cool Down Duration: 1 day
Ability 4: can Transform into a Yellow Grade Master Card of same level.
Cool down Duration: 6 hours
Ability 5: can Transform into a White Grade Master Card of same level.
Cool down Duration: 1 hour
Ability 6: can Transform into a Novice Grade Master Card of same level.
Cool down Duration: 12 minutes
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"Fuck you!" Young Master 007's eyes turned fierce with greed. Out of their 9 Black grade Master Cards, the Transform Card has the highest starting potential. With it as your starting point your starting levels would rise at rocket speed!
But even though his eyes were filled with greed Young Master 007 did not snatch the Transform card. Cough! He couldn't snatch it anyway as it was 'bound' to Drowning In The River Called Time.
Well actually Young Master 007's Black Grade 'Steal' Master Card could let him snatch other's bounded master cards but, cough, he would be seeking death if he snatched cards with his pitiful level 1.
Seeing Young Master 007's greedy eyes, Climbing The Peak Of Everest consoled him. "The Transform card might have huge starting potential but its advantages decrease as our levels go up!"
"That's right!" Drowning In The River Called Time nodded. She smiled brightly towards Young Master 007 and explained, "Once we reach the level where we can find our own cards, the Transform card pretty much becomes an extra card! At Max its value would equal 3 Red Grade cards due to its ability to transform!"
Young Master 007 turned silent. Tears flew out of his eyes as he saw the smiling Drowning In The River Called Time.
'Why are you consoling me?! I was planning to snatch your card once I reach higher levels ok! Don't console me with your beautiful smile! Ahh! I am feeling guilty already!'
"Ok, enough! Let's start with the introduction already!" Climbing The Peak Of Everest said. "Since it was me who brought up such a topic, let us start with me."
"My body is a native of a planet in the 3rd universe! My genes have roots in both human and snake, but mostly human. During the past month I have been searching for resources to evolve my snake genes, but the planet I am currently at is low on resources and the natives of the planet have no idea of evolution yet! So if anyone has resources leading to snakes, you can make a transaction with me. I won't make you bear a loss!" Climbing The Peak Of Everest seemed to have already adjusted to his situation. He was even planning his next actions early.
"Hmm! Wasn't the first evolution at level 50? Why are you in such a hurry?" White Beast, the owner of the Silence Master Card inquired.
Climbing The Peak Of Everest turned silent. "Sigh! This was supposed to be classified information, well, there is no need to keep it secret anymore."
He sighed once more and inquired.
"Why do you think NPCs are stronger than players of same level?"
"Wasn't it because of the game setting?" Spirit Lake's Little Fish cutely answered with a question.
Climbing shook his head. "This Game dominated the virtual reality games within 3 months of its release, and the reason behind it is because of its reality! Each and everything in the game has a reason why it is the way it is! This is also the reason why this game was called a second world to humanity!"
"Oh!" Spirit Lake's Little Fish nodded. "Then what is the reason behind NPCs greater strength?"
"Does it have something to do with evolution?" Mr Bones Of The Underworld added.
"Hmm!" Climbing nodded his head. "The NPCs of the world are stronger than humans of same level because they undergo twice the number of evolutions than us players! This was supposed to be classified information of the pro-players, but well who is going to blame me now?"
"This...." Drowning In The River Called Time frowned. "When is the first evolution of the NPCs?" She asked, her heart unsettled.
"Level 25" Climbing answered.
"Hmm!" Drowning went silent. She then sighed. "Seems like I was too hasty!"
Others nodded in sympathy.
"Wha... what is going on?" Young Master 007 did not understand. What has NPCs evolution got to do with them? At this moment he felt like a noob facing a group of experts.
He turned and looked towards Noob-20000818, who was in between Spirit Lake's Little Fish and Climbing The Peak Of Everest for consolation. It seems Young Master 007 was seeking for a kindred spirit, but he was disappointed! Noob-20000818 seemed to have understood the meaning behind Climbing's words.
"Hehe!" Drowning In The River Called Time smiled at him and explained. "NPCs evolve at level 25 while players evolve at level 50, but at the moment we are no different from NPCs. Our bodies are natives of this world and the evolution path we take is one that belongs to NPCs! Do you understand now?"
Young Master 007's face turned red. He nodded, grateful towards Drowning. 'Later, I should make this girl my girlfriend' he thought in his mind.
"I will hold back my level for now and seek for a better evolution!" Drowning suddenly got up and bowed towards Climbing. "Thanks for providing such valuable information! I will search for resources related to snake race during this month! I will pay back this favour!"
Evolution was an important thing. It was one of the mainstream methods to increase strength and thus every evolution chance was important. Hastily undergoing evolution could make one lose many things that they could have gained.
Drowning was at level 21 and her first evolution was only 4 levels away. This information was very important to her.
Climbing smiled, but he did not say anything. He wasn't a good guy who gave things to others for free. So he accepted Drowning's proposal.
Following Drowning, others expressed their willingness to search for resources related to snake race to pay this debt off. Well everyone except Young Master 007.
He wasn't a fool and understood that he had to pay for Climbing's information, but his situation wasn't good.
He was currently locked up inside the Royal Prison of a kingdom belonging to the fifth universe. This was the reason why his level was still at 1. His level was even lower than Noob-2000818.
"Cough! Cough!" Young Master 007 coughed. "Umm! Do, do you guys happen to know any methods to break out of jail?"
Silence!
"What kind of jail?" Climbing The Peak Of Everest pressed his eyebrows. It seems that Young Master 007 was giving him a headache.
"A Royal Prison! The planet I am on follows the Noble system! It hasn't modernised yet!" Young Master replied.
"Can you tell me how you go into prison? Nobles are stricter with their prisoners than Morden civilisations." Climbing was still rubbing his forehead.
"This.." Young Master 007 hesitated. He looked to his right and saw Drowning's smile. He then gritted his teeth and confessed. "I..I sneaked into a noble's house!"
This was the truth, but there was more to it. Young Master 007 had indeed sneaked into a noble's house but the reason he sneaked into the noble's house was to peek at the noble's daughter while she bathing!
That's right! Young Master 007 was a pervert!
'Bullshit! It was a pure accident!' Young Master 007 suddenly roared in his mind for no apparent reason. He felt that he had to clarify things, but to whom, he was clueless.
"Hmm! That's easy to solve!" Climbing stroked his chin. Was this a habit of those who knew everything?
"Playing dead is the easiest way to escape from Royal Prisons. Unlike those Morden civilisations where they advertise criminals, the Nobles do things in secret. Playing dead so that they would throw you out of the prison and hiding for a while in the mountains would be enough! By the time you return everyone would have forgotten you!" Climbing showed a part of his experience at the moment.
Young Master 007 was enlightened. His impression towards Climbing The Peak Of Everest increased by a single positive point. That's right! Only by a single point.
"How do I play dead? I have no experience in this aspect!" Young Master 007 inquired hurriedly. They would only meet once a month and only for three hours each time. He had to collect information to escape from prison as soon as possible.
"That should be easy!" Mr Bones Of The Underworld replied this time. "Some 'special' Wardens carry a potion that can make you stay in a semi-dead state!"
Corruption was everywhere! This was the gist of Mr Bones' words.
"All you need to do is find who that special warden is, and also find some things to bribe him! Moreover make sure to die when they are just about to carry the dead bodies out of the prison. After all the semi-dead potions have a time limit!" White Beast added.
Young Master 007 nodded. But his heart was in pain. He looked towards Noob-20000818. He felt he was much more of a noob that this guy!
"What should I do if I can't find the special warden before they remove the corpses out of the prison?" Young Master 007 was a pervert, but he was also a noob!
"Are you an idiot?" Climbing scolded. His head was in pain. Was dealing with noobs so hard? Back in those days he found noobs very cute. They would rush to ask for autographs and selfies and would even smile silly from time to time!
"Just kill some if there are no corpses!"
"Hmm!" Young Master 007 nodded and shrank back into his seat.
'Why does this guy sound so angry?!' The positive point he had towards Climbing vanished.
