Renting a House
"Marcel, I don't trust that Herald asshole. He probably will try something funny." Delirious said to Marcel, as soon as they left their sight.
"I know." Basically nodded. "But don't worry, I feel he will not try anything."
"Huh? Why are you sure? His sister seemed dissatisfied. And she seems pretty thirsty towards you, or pretty much thirsty only on black guys."
"Are you an idiot, Delirious? They obviously are wary of our background."
Delirious wanted to refute his friend's words, but to be honest, he still did not understand.
It was not that he was stupid, however, he was not very good when it comes to plots and hidden intentions. He was just a normal human on Earth, and didn't face these types of scenarios in real life. It includes Basically and their other friends, but this is a new world, and they are in hardcore mode, it is a life and death situation, not a video game anymore. So they have no choice but to expect these circumstances.
"I heard Herald's butler whispering to him that we were probably from a significant or noble background. I don't know how but I can hear them from a long distance, but it doesn't matter anyway. Plus, anyone can see that the two of us are not simple people, because it's quite obvious we wore very weird outfits. It's true that Herald's intentions were not good, but he is not a fool. He will not make an enemy he doesn't know anything about, just a single Teddy for his sister."
"In other words, are we safe?"
"I think not completely." Marcel shook his head. "There is the possibility that I am wrong and they might be foolish enough to attack us. But if something like that happens, we just need to retaliate. At most, we will kill the people they sent."
Delirious nodded with a malicious smile. "You are right. We just need to kill them. Then buried them somewhere that no one could at least find them 😈 "
Hearing the words from his friend, Marcel sweated a bit, probably he was just acting as his avatar there, but he feels there is some real intentions in his friend's voice which shivered down his spine.
"Alllllright then... but let's not worry about those assholes for now." Basically said nervously before shrugging his shoulders indifferently, "Now, we need to worry about finding a place where to sleep."
"Okay, I will go to ask in the inns."
Basically immediately shook his head, "No, let's go to the exchange center Herald mentioned. Perhaps we will find something useful there…"
The exchange center was the place where the city's administration buys mana cores and monster's materials. After the adventurers and hunters return from an expedition, they would bring their loot there to exchange it for money.
But with time, the exchange center had become much more than that. Currently, you could not only sell materials there but also buy weapons, get information, and take missions among other things. You could say that the exchange center was the core of Kalren's economy.
The group did not need much time to find it. As a popular place in the city, everybody knew about it. They just needed to ask around to get detailed information on how to reach there.
When they arrived at the place, they were greeted by a completely crowded giant building. There were hawkers selling things, people shouting for missions, Adventurers searching for a group, and people selling magic cores. For a second there, the two got the feeling they had entered an rpg video game or something.
Of course, if you ignored the bothersome noise of the crowd talking and the stench of people in a middle-age-like city.
The two began to move forward, some people looked at them weirdly because of what they wore but they just ignored the stares.
After the two asked around to know where to go, someone pointed to a line.
The two buddies went there.
After they lined up for the second time today, a clerk-like woman attended them.
"Good morning, we are searching for a place to stay."
The woman nodded. She observed the group carefully and saw that their clothes and outfits seemed very strange. Quickly, she judged them to be some freaks, but another feeling is... other words, people with money.
"Of course, what kind of place do you need?" She asked eucharistically.
Marcel thought for a moment. His first idea was a simple inn, but now that he thought better about it, he decided to ask for a better place.
At least, he needed a place with two rooms, a bath, and a kitchen. Including a courtyard for other reasons.
When the clerk heard his requirements, her face brightened. Only expensive places had big courtyards, and expensive places meant more commission for her. Probably she misjudged them after all.
"I understand. Let me see through our archives to see if we have something for you."
She then searched through a huge stack of papers until finally taking the two of them out.
"These are the only places in the city that meet your requirements. What do you think about them?"
The two simply chose a random one between them without much thinking. They were planning just to stay here for one week after all.
But when the clerk heard that the two only were renting the place for a week, her expression dimmed.
"One week?"
Basically nodded in response, "Yes. We are not going to be in this city for long."
The clerk shook her head.
"I'm sorry, young man. But you need to rent the place for at least one month. That is our rule."
Marcel furrowed his brows. He looked at the price of the house and fell silent.
It was very expensive.
In truth, money is not a problem for them anymore. Because receiving some money from James, Basically learns the materials of the money; just a few iron and small amounts of gold to craft this, and so he tries to craft it by crafting in the crafting table and being able to create a copy of it.
Thankfully, he and Delirious have at least 192 Iron blocks, turn it to regular Iron ingots and then turn it to Iron nuggets, they also have 71 Gold blocks, turn it to Gold ingots then golden nuggets, just a simple craft and bam, a replicate of one Euros coin.
Marcel sighed. But when he was about to concede and pay the entire month of rent, someone came and whispered something to the clerk.
The clerk's expression changed. She looked at the two nervously and nodded.
"Mr, we just received information about a place available, and the owner agreed to rent it for one week."
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(2km Kilometers South in the Outskirts of Kalren City)
While this is happening, near the south entrance of the city, Moo, one of the members of Team 6 landed on the ground while carrying the little cat girl. But unlike her slave appearance, she wore formal clothing thanks to Moo who took her to their old Minecraft server.
For a whole day, he cleaned her up, began to act as her father figure, and also fixed her mentality which isn't easy to say but miraculously he managed to fix her.
He also still remembers the Mayor of that village once said, there was a nearby city just east of them and so he went there including the child, he just didn't want to leave her back to their commune alone.
As he was on the ground with the girl and headed to the entrance of the city.
It took for Moo more than two hours to arrive, kinda short.
"Well, I hope there are some foods we could try. Right, little one?" Moo spoke to the little cat girl Gracie beside him.
"Mhm e.e " She nodded.
To be honest, he indeed felt like he was with his daughter right now. But he knew it wasn't.
It's not like he just replaced her. He just felt pity for her condition by the time he set his eyes on her.
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(In a House somewhere Northeast section of Kalren City)
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It was a beautiful house with large numbers of rooms, a kitchen, an underground hot spring, and a huge courtyard. Way above their expectations.
"You will not regret this choice." The clerk took out a contract and passed it to Marcel. Marcel checked it to make sure that nothing was wrong and signed.
Afterward, he paid thirty percent of the money in advance, as stipulated in the contract. The remaining amount would be paid when they leave.
Once the clerk left the house, Delirious looked at Marcel and asked. "So, our guess is right, there is something sussy about this."
"It was probably Herald. The clerk received orders from the city lord's family to get us to rent this place."
With Marcel's newly found 6th senses and were incredibly sharp, he was able to hear the order the clerk received even though it was just a whisper.
"I think that white haired bastard is trying to sell us a favor. Of course, his intentions are not completely genuine. If I'm not wrong, the city lord's people can easily keep surveillance on us here, right?"
"Right, and my other theory is that they chose this house for us to rent as part of their plan. They probably put hidden cameras or some magic observation shit in there, based in this world, it maybe has a lot of magic that we do not know of."
Delirious then asked, "Then, why did you accept it then?"
Marcel just shrugged, "Why not? This place is rather good, cheap, and perfect for us, even for our friends if they are present here. Besides, it has been a long time since the last time I took a hot bath. As for Herald's intentions, we should raise our guard."
Listening to his words, Delirious thus needs to let his guard up, no matter what kind of scheme the noble bastard will do. If it is something Delirious doesn't like, such as ever hurt his new friend, Xavier Number 2, or steal his precious Teddy Bear. He will definitely wipe this city out of the map.
However, there are other people who are far stronger than the two, but the two got weapons and items that could defend themselves from. According to James, there are only small numbers of people above the Intermediate Realm in this part of the city the two were in.
Having Xavier, sci-fi weapons, and valuable and powerful Minecraft items on their side, they might be able to kill 40%-70% of the people in part of the city they were in.
Thankfully, there are no high level individuals such as the people in the Master, Grandmaster, or Legendary Realm nearby, or any Demigod in Kalren. If there's one, then the two won't last long for less than 20 seconds if they start rampaging.
As such, even if they knew that Herald's intentions were not genuine, they feigned ignorance and just accepted the gift.
So no choice, the two friends simply decided to enjoy the comfy house.
After 50 minutes of putting their stuff in, Delirious has something in mind.
"I'm going to buy something in the market, wanna come?"
"Nah. You'll go."
"Wait, what if there's someone might kidnapped me, kill me, or worse stealing my teddy bear >:/ "
"Take Xavier with you in case someone tries something funny."
"Mm, fine. Come here, Xavier Number 2."
"I told you to stop with the nam—... whatever…"
When Delirious and Xavier were gone, Basically muttered.
"Hope everything won't go bad." He said as he took out multiple objects from his inventory.
He pulled out a Surveillance Drones.
Before they left the commune, Terroriser discovered a skill he has, a skill, or more like a System, it enables him to get something or download some modes, some came from Gmod, and some are from other games, that's why they have stuffs that isn't part of Minecraft like the Drone Marcel pulled out.
He was planning to send about five drones to look at their surroundings, just in case.
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A/N: Every 1k views in my story, I will published a new chapter, because the progress moves very slowly. If the story getting views in a fast rate, then 10k views per chapter.