53 A new event
[Notice!]
[A new event has been issued by the system!]
Igarashi, who was making new mangas with Sasori in his shop in Mondstadt, suddenly received a notification.
"Huh?" He mumbled to himself, adjusting his monocle
"What's wrong?" Sasori said, clearly hearing Igarashi
"Oh, nothing." Igarashi waved his hand and checked the new event.
He opened the system interface and soon, the system's dark-themed main interface appeared in front of him.
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<The Mangaka System>
<Level: 3>
• Status
• Quests
↳ New main quests
↳ New side quests
↳ Events (New)
• Store
↳ Weapon Section
↳ Furniture section
↳ Adventure Section
↳ Food section
• Inventory
• Owned shops
↳ Liyue Harbor
↳ City of Mondstadt
• Palace of Memories
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Igarashi dragged his finger across the system interface and clicked the quest button, and soon, the new event appeared.
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A new special event has been added!
Description: Because of the Traveler's recent win against Dvalin, the City of Mondstadt is now celebrating. A festival to celebrate!
Objective: During the festival, make sure to attract a lot of customers!
Rewards: For every 10 customers, a mysterious gift shall be given. There is a small chance to receive a skill from one of the mystery gifts!
Duration: Four Days
[Note: This event shall officially begin in one week. Good luck!]
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'A festival?!' Igarashi thought as he read the new event.
'A celebratory festival... Why didn't we get this event in the game?' Igarashi thought with a wry smile. 'But nonetheless, this is the second time the system has made a special event... I obviously need to complete it for those rewards!'
Smiling cheerfully, he stood up from his seat. "Alright, Sasori! We have a lot of work to do! Are you ready?"
"Yes!" Sasori nodded vigorously. Although he doesn't know why Igarashi is getting excited, he somehow feels excited too.
Seeing his enthusiasm, Igarashi smiled. "Yosh, let's go!"
After saying this, the two of them started writing like there was no tomorrow.
Brush strokes here and there, as well as the intricate writing of characters and their dialogues appeared on the papers that they were writing on.
As Igarashi was writing, he smiled and stopped. He then rose his newly drawn work and admired it. 'If there are fangirls in this world, they would surely love this.'
The drawing he just made was a sketch of James Moriarty from the famous light novel, anime, and manga, Moriarty the Patriot.
It was just a sketch for the first volume depicting him holding a gun against his head with a confident smile. It has no colors yet.
'In order to rake in a lot of customers, I need various mangas!' He concluded.
"Hey, Sasori." He leaned back in his seat and looked at Sasori who was handing a finished page to a lesser puppet.
"Yes?" Sasori replied with the same indifferent expression he has.
"Well, you see, I've been thinking of something..." Igarashi leaned further and gently lifted himself with the chair. "Do you think we need to advertise our shop more?"
"Hm? Why?" Sasori genuinely asked. "I'm already advertising it around, and haven't we been getting a decent amount of customers?"
"I know, I know, but..." Igarashi rubbed the back of his head. "I'm thinking of... Hiring the Knights of Favonius and Adventurers Guild to advertise our work."
"But wouldn't that be expensive?" Sasori replied. Suddenly, his eyes widened as he remembered something as he saw Igarashi's smug smile. "Wait a minute... How many Mora do we have?"
Hearing this, Igarashi's smug smile widened. "Oh, nothing really..."
"Just a little bit over 5 Million, really." He shrugged with a smile.
"..." Sasori looked at Igarashi with a deadpan expression.
With the number of customers he has been getting from both of his shops, this was to be expected.
But yes, he still needs to pay tax, but that did not bother him at all. Add to the fact that his employees don't need to be paid (Except Mo Fan), then it was easy money.
"Well anyways, with our money, this should be of no problem." Igarashi smiled
Suddenly, the system window appeared in front of him.
[Notice.]
[The system has received an update.]
'Huh? An update?' Out of curiosity, Igarashi opened the system interface and looked at the notifications.
[A new update has been added.]
[System Tax: The system shall now start consuming 50,000 Mora every day from the host]
"What?!" Igarashi exclaimed out loud.
He then sealed his mouth and looked at Sasori. "Sorry."
Turning his head, he returned to the system. 'System, what do you mean by Tax? You never had that feature before!'
[Answer. It is to stay fair.]
[The consumed Mora shall be used by the System to continue operations.]
'...' Igarashi read the message and internally sighed. '50,000 Mora... Everyday... I'm gonna go bankrupt if I run out of Mora! Although I have five million... Who knows if it one day runs out!'
Slap!*
Slapping his face, Igarashi shook his head.
'Calm yourself down, Igarashi.' He started breathing in and out. 'You're a calm and rational guy... That just likes money. That's all.'
Calming Himself down, Igarashi started thinking. 'With the system's new update, I definitely need to do this event.'
'As well as...' Igarashi looked at the system screen with a difficult expression and sighed.
'Alright. Since there's still a week before the festival, I first need to complete my other quests.'
Sitting back down, he browsed through his quest tab and nodded his head. 'Alright, I just need to gather five apprentices, right? Seems easy enough.'
'The only problem is... Who? Hmm...'
Igarashi wanted to do the Dragonspine quest but he decided to do it later. He'll first do the easy quest before the hard one.
Seriously, Dragonspine is hard. The sheer cold makes Igarashi just don't want to climb the mountain.
'Though... If I were to travel with Lumine up the mountain, then maybe I can be safe somewhat.' He thought of the traveler. 'Besides, she'll meet Albedo sooner or later, might as well introduce them early.'
Suddenly, he remembered a certain someone that he recently sold a manga to. 'By the way, I wonder what Fischl is doing right now...'
'As a Senior Investigator in the Adventurer's Guild, she has a certain reputation for herself.' He started thinking of how she could spread his manga. 'I hope she spreads to the other in-game characters... They do, after all, give more system points.'
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Meanwhile, Wolvendom.
"Uh... Guys? What are you doing?" Bennett asked.
He and Fischl went to Wolvendom in hopes of helping his friend, who was being framed for devastating a nearby village. It was said that wolves were ruining their crops and stealing their food.
And Razor, being a human raised by wolves, was naturally blamed.
However, as soon as Fischl and Razor met, Fischl said the most strangest thing.
"Hmph, so this Prinzessin was right." Fischl said as she menacingly walked toward Razor with Oz behind her. "You... Are a fellow stand user!"
She pointed at Razor who was eating an apple.
Razor, who stopped eating and looked at Fischl with a puzzled expression, spoke. "Stand. I don't understand. Is it food?"
"I dare thou to cease thy lies!" She exclaimed as she started posing. "I, the Prinzessin Der Verurteilung Challenge thee to a duel!"
"My loyal stand, the almighty Oz that has struck fear to the hearts of the enemies of the Immernachtreich shall fight with me."
For some reason, the wind blew at the right time, resulting in a dramatic scene. With the sunlight and leafs blowing at the right time, it somehow made her look... Dramatic.
"..." Razor, who was peacefully eating an apple, felt puzzled but understood her intentions. "I see. You want challenge."
Standing up, he ate the apple with one bite and picked up his Claymore before unleashing his wolf spirit. "Lupical always says to accept challenges."
Seeing the purple electro spirit behind Razor that looked rather domineering, Fischl's eyes shined brightly as she smiled cheerfully. "Oh-Ho! Ho! This shalt be a great battle!"
Soon, the two started walking toward each other.
And Bennet, who was watching from the sidelines, rubbed his eyes. "Huh? What the... Why did I see weird floating things beside Fischl for a second? Weird..."
Fischl ゴゴゴゴ
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A/N: I wrote this because... I felt like it. I still have a lot to do like making a conceptual Painting for my class, and out of stress, I made this chapter.
Don't know when the next chapter will be written tho.
