9. In The End I'm Just An Outsider

A/N : Sorry guys, I was busy with work and college paper work to the point I don't have enough time to eat in ease. Anyway I'm posting 2 more chapters today with 2,2k words per chapter. I tried to read my past chapters with only around 1-1,3k words and I thought that it was to short so from now on I will write at least 2k words per chapters.

Enjoy Reading...

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*Chapter Start From Here

"So master, what are you going to do in this situation? Since you have lost 1 team consisting of 8 cards, that player should already aware that someone is currently hunting the players down. If she spread the news then it will become much harder for you to hunt more players as they high chance will make a group to increase their survival." (Silvanaz)

"There's no need to think to much about it, let's hunt her down before she can spread it. Gather up all of the soldiers Sil, we will make our move together from now on and let's make haste to find that girl. It was my mistake for taking this life risking game lightly." (Jin)

"Master, I don't support that plan of yours to chase the girl. Rather than wasting our time to search for the girl who already gone who knows where , it would be a better choice to move our hunting ground." (Silvanaz)

"I agree with her on this matter master. It's not like she saw you and you only lose a few iron cards so there's no need to overthink about it." (Kirika)

If I think about it again, they were right. I was to preoccupied by the thoughts of that player spreading rumors about me which is something dumb since she didn't even met me nor saw me.

"Alright, since we have been go north from the start, let's try to move toward east now."

So we went east and after 2 days of journey, we stopped and made a camp there. I also got more iron card soldier drops from the beasts and players that we hunt along the way.

We luckily met a group of 3 players and 4 other lone players which we took down as well and because of that my level has reached level 10 right now.

By reaching level 10, the the trading option in the shop now is open for me to use. The moment I have been waiting for now is here, I immediately open the trading option and start to look at the cards that were sold there.

The trading panel is similar to how a search engine works so I put the keyword 'Imperian' and tap the search button.

The panel then start to show many imperian cards, mostly iron cards and the highest grade that I could find was only 1 follower bronze card called 'Assassin'.

The card price was something I couldn't afford for right now and even if I can afford it, I won't buy it since it will be just a waste of GP to buy a soldier card.

I went to see the iron cards instead and since it was the lowest grade cards, the price was very cheap as there are more supply than demand.

The iron cards price average is 10 GP but right now I can find some cards that were priced 3 to 5 GP.

When I check the Lead cards, the average price was around 40 - 60 GP, about 4 times the the iron cards prices.

The players that we had hunted had around 3 to 5 cards in their arsenals and since I always looted their cards before I killed them, I have more than 200 cards from different factions right now.

About 90% of it were iron cards while the rest is lead and bronze cards. I put all those cards at the trading hub and priced them exactly at the market price.

I have 578 GP so I decided to buy some iron cards that only cost bellow 7 GP. I bought 10 cards that cost me 58 GP, together with the cards that I got from the hunted beasts, I have 60 iron soldiers now which is a very big number for a newbie player to have inside the rookie match according to Sil and Kirika.

Nothing much happen after that. We kept hunting beasts and players, get more cards, sell them at the trading hub, and gather more GP.

Of course I also didn't forget to sent my scouts to search for any kind of buildings or even a dungeon.

Since I already learn from my previous mistake, this time I didn't divided my soldiers into small team like before.

I divided my own group into 2, 1 led by Sil together with me, and the other is led by Kirika. When I summoned Kirika, I also got 11 bonus soldiers from Kirika own faction skill so in total I have more than 70 soldiers that I divide equally to both teams.

Of course the range of my group and Kirika group isn't that far as well so we can help each other team if we met a problem.

Time passed and two weeks passed just like that. With a bigger group now, we hunt an average of 100 iron beasts and 1 to 3 players each day so my GP daily income has increased to more than 100 GP a day.

I look at my status and can't help but grin as I have become many times stronger than compared to the time when I first came here.

[Status]

Name : Jin Konoe

Faction : Imperian

Level : 10 (33/100)

Power : 22 (+25)

Defense : 21 (+34)

Health : 30/30

Mana : 30/30

Spirit: 5/30

Rank : Unranked

Named Card : 1 Gold, 1 Silver

Game Point : 2147

Life : 1

Every time I level up, all of my attributes gained 2 stats but when I level up to level 10 I gained 4 instead. The exp to level up from level 10 also increased by tenfold which makes it harder to level up now.

I also got 3 to 4 iron card drops everyday and unsurprisingly it's always a follower cards. All the artifacts and spell cards that I have where gained from the previous shrine or robbing other players.

I never got them as a drop before so I assume that I can only get them from dungeons or rewards, or maybe the probability for beasts too drop artifacts and spell cards is very small.

With all of the card drops that I gained, I was able to increase my summoned soldiers to 100, which is something considered impossible to do for a rookie match.

There are 1.000 players in this match and by killing them, their numbers also depleted a lot so the probability to meet other players has become smaller than before.

I myself has already killed almost a tenth of the 1.000 original number of players, the players themselves also hunt each other as well so I'm not surprised if the current count of the living players has already drop by half or even more.

Anyway, today mark our fifteenth day after we move east. It was the usual day like before, we hunt beasts, I trained with Sil and try to kill an Iron beasts myself as a training, searching for other players, etc.

We continue to do our usual activity till sunset but when we start to make our camp, unexpectedly we found a player laying on the ground unconsciously.

If it were any other player, then I would kill them as usual, but this time it was different. I knew the identity of the unconscious player.

I didn't just knew her, I also have a close relationship with her, after all she was part of my family, my own little sister.

"What the hell is going on here?! Why is she here?!" (Jin)

Mirai Konoe, my own step little sister that only have two years apart from me. she's part of one of the most popular idol group along with her twin in my country and was also a beauty that her fans long for.

Although my family situation is quite complicated, at least I can say that my relation with her is quite normal, at least at the sibling level. And not just with her, I get along with my other siblings as well.

As for how complicated my family situation is, I could only say that I am the only outsider of this family of mine if we are talking about blood relation and those stuff.

My mother and Mirai mother was very close when they attend high school, and they even met each other husbands to be there as well. Both of them were called as the flowers of their school at that time as their beauty was very heartbreaking.

My mother and my father came from a normal family so after they married, they decided to only have 1 child as they don't have enough money to support another child.

As for Mirai mother and father, both of them came from a prominent family, and her father was even the heir of his family. Both of them were also a world wide celebrity.

Mirai parents got married 3 years earlier than my mother and father, and before Mirai was born along with her twin, her mother already gave birth twice to a boy and girl.

Being a close family with each other, I play a lot with Mirai older brother and sister when I was still a little kid.

Unfortunately my father died when I was 7 years old from having an accident and his death gave a very big blow to my mother heart and mind.

It was at that time that Mirai mother came in. See couldn't stand how my mother grow weak each day by working alone to put food on our table so she begged her husband to take my mother as his second wife.

After a lot of persuasion from Mirai mother, in the end my mother relented and agree to marry again. From that day, my last name also changed into 'Konoe'.

Not long after that, one day my mother become pregnant together with Mirai mother again and after 9 long months, my mother gave birth to a girl and my second mother gave birth to Mirai and her twin.

If you are wondering whether both of my moms ever pregnant again, the answer is a yes. Right now I have 1 older sister, 1 older brother, 4 little sisters and 2 little brothers.

Since my mom and me joined this family, our life has improved a lot. My mother also gained her happiness back and even get along with her 'sister'.

Although there many disagreement from the member of my step father family, in the end they accepted my mother after she gave birth to my very talented little sister.

After that, my mother also got various job and become a very famous actor which surprised me a lot when I found out.

The only one that they haven't accepted was me since I don't have any blood related to the Konoe family at all.

As I don't want to make my mom worried I never told her about the assassination, but my step father knows about it and he even protected me a lot of times from those assassins before. My step father already considered me as his son he said so he will protect me from any harm, even if it from his own family.

But even my step father has his own enemy within the Konoe household so he can't be at home all the time. That's why I decided to learn various martial arts and even joined a very dangerous dojo.

It was to protect myself from the assassins that the Konoe family sent. They consider me as a stain of the Konoe family and want to remove me.

Fortunately I have a close friend at school that turned out to be the heir of one of the most feared dark organization. When I told him my own situation, he helped me a lot, without his help, I don't think I can survive till today.

"What's wrong master, do you perhaps know this girl." (Silvanaz)

"*Sigh* She is my sister, but I don't know how can she be here, did she also accidentally picked up a card and activated it like me?"(Jin)

"I don't think so master" Kirika said while pointing her finger toward a few cards that scattered around her.

Just at a glance, I already recognize that there 5 cards scattered around her. From the outline of the card, I could even tell what grade they are, 2 bronzes, 2 silvers, and 1 gold.

I don't believe my sister luck is that high to find those cards alone. When picked them up, I realize that the cards are from the Etheria faction and they complement each other cards very well.

It was at that moment that I realized the Konoe family was already involved inn Carta Planar.

When the realization came to me, I could only stand silent as the truth shocked me a lot.

'Part of the family huh... Etheria players, well know it all make sense why all of my family members were related to the show business. Even my own mom was also one huh... In the end I'm just an outsider after all.'(Jin)

I looked up toward the sky and a hollow laugh came out from my mouth unconsciously.

"Master, is there any problem?" Silvanaz asked with a worried face seeing how disorientated I am.

"I'm fine" I replied while taking another helmet that hide my face and wore it, even though it was a grade lower than my current helmet.