21 It's your lucky day!

Though Ryan had spent a lot of the day fighting with beasts inside the game world one after the other monotonously, he found himself only excited and not bored in the least as he searched for some more.

It wasn't too difficult to run into some dire wolves. For his current level, these were perfect. They posed a challenge to him as they always traveled in at least packs of five and at the same time weren't too overwhelming for him.

This was the perfect opportunity for taking his time and working on his newly acquired [Blood Swipe] skill. He wanted to level this skill as soon as possible because without a doubt this was his way to acquire more specialized vampire class skills if that was even a thing.

At this moment, he also had no idea how to go about finding a rare beast or what to do even if he found one by chance.

He periodically looked up the internet to see if anyone had sighted any rare beast in the vicinity. They were termed rare-grade for a reason and their spawn rate was extremely unpredictable and rare.

If he spent his time looking for one of these, then he would only end up wasting all of his allocated ten days, after which the curse would be completely unleashed. Ryan really did not want to think about what would happen next.

So for the time being, he focussed on understanding his [Blood Swipe] further and potentially unlocking new skills by hunting more beasts and farming for more experience points. If he ever ran into one, he wanted to be ready for it.

Ryan continued grinding in the same area and soon a couple of hours passed by. He had also gained 2 more levels. 

He decided to take a break and search the online forums again for any rare beast nearby when he noticed several messages blinking in his notification, all of them from Mark.

"Did something happen? Did mom figure out everything?"

Ryan immediately panicked and started opening all the messages. Luckily for him, nothing he feared had happened. Mark's messages were all about cursing his guild leader and asking for his current location.

It looked like his friend was really pissed off and wanted to vent a little.

"I am near the dire wolf territory." Ryan marked his coordinates and sent the location to his friend.

Almost immediately, the other party replied.

[Damn it. That is too far. I will just talk to you when you log out. By the way, you were absolutely correct. My entire guild is a shitty guild and that bastard is even worse. He was basically using all of us for some quest.]

[We died three times you know! Three times, all because of him! And then, the nerve of the guy, he is also interrogating us and asking us if someone came to the dungeon without him and finished off the hidden boss.]

[That fucking asshole is actually accusing us of stealing some treasure! How dare he! He was the one who lied and basically used us all like meat shields and now he is talking as if we cheated him out of something!]

[Complete and utter bullshit!]

Mark's message came flying into the inbox one after the other.

"So the cat's out of the bag huh?" Ryan sighed. He had already warned his friend about this but the guy did not listen. 

Ryan also did not blame him. After all, Mark had been playing with this guild for a while now so it would be difficult to just up and quit the guild out of nowhere.

However, now at least, he needed to get out of that damned place.

As Ryan was typing up a reply to his friend, suddenly an idea popped into his mind.

Ryan quickly stopped messaging his friend and opened the call interface to make a call urgently.

Di! Di! Di!

Mark immediately picked up the call in a couple of rings. He was still in the mood to vent out and curse his damned guild members, but before he could say anything, Ryan interrupted him.

"Hey, did you quit the guild yet?"

"Huh?" Mark was confused, but once Ryan explained, he quickly understood the plan. "Yes, leave it to me. I can do this. These idiots definitely get the news about rare beasts every now and then. We can take advantage of it for sure."

The duo ended the call, and Mark started searching the guild chat room eagerly.

Ryan as well once again began his grind. He found a target and activated his [Blood Swipe] skill repeatedly to increase its proficiency. 

As for the rare sighting, since he delegated the task to Mark, he had full faith that his friend would bring some good news. 

Mark was always like that. He helped with his whole heart and never asked any questions. Even this time, he did not ask anything about why Ryan needed this rare or what quest he was working on. 

Anyone else would have been nosey or at least asked once about the why part, but not Mark. Back when Ryan was horribly injured, and it felt like his life was over, and his family was doomed, he was also the only person who stood beside him through it all.

"I should just tell him?" Ryan quietly contemplated as he slaughtered the two dire wolves circling him. Not that he did not trust his friend, but this was just too much of a burden to share, especially when he couldn't even tell if this was a curse or blessing yet.

However, he had to make this decision soon. Maybe in a day or two, Mark might come back with the information about a rare sighting. 

At that time, Ryan knew he would insist on fighting the thing together so he could have a better chance of completing the quest. Then everything would anyway be revealed. In fact, the next time the two of them met in-game, it was inevitable that things unravel.

While Ryan was mulling over this, suddenly, another message popped up on his interface and snapped him out of his thoughts. "What!" His eyes almost widened in shock as he saw the ID and the message the person had sent along. It was from Mark!

<Bro, 15 it's your lucky day! I have the location of a rare. It's actually very near you. Wait for me. will be there in like minutes>