5 So many Troubles.
Of course, until he was officially adopted, then they couldn't live together yet.
So first, they go to their own home, for now, to clean themself, after that they decided that tomorrow is the day to do it.
"Anyway, it's already time", After getting home and took a full cycled bath, Xia Yun immediately and excitedly jumped to his room.
The clock on the wall showed 16:20. This is pretty early for her but she didn't really have anything to do so might as well adjust herself to the game environment more.
So he jumped to his bed and use the virtual gaming helmet.
He then gently lay on the bed and very clearly said the trigger pass.
"Connect!".
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Xia Yun slowly opened her eyes. She was pretty excited about everything in the game.
Except for her body, now she remembered that his avatar in-game is female gender.
"I already paid for the house taxes, so I could change my avatar now, right?...".
"But... one month, wouldn't I break the contract if I was absent for a day?...", Xia Yun was seriously contemplating what to do.
"Well... just for now... yes, when it's time, I will change it", Xia Yun finally decided to postpone it for another time.
Xia Yun looked around and found out that she was in the room that was rented the last time.
After checking her menu, she found out that the three guys were already online.
But she didn't see them in the room, so this means that they already left.
Looking at the menu again, she found out that she has many unanswered calls from many people she doesn't know.
Well, she didn't think much of it so she also left. When she was outside it was like a new world without worries, she can be free here. ...or so she thought.
Just as she was out of the hotel, she was approached by people, asking for names, wanting to invite her to their guild, and if she can party with them.
As someone that has pretty low social skills and low confidence when it comes to the stranger, she didn't know what to do.
She just standing there stunned and in panic.
"Run", She heard a voice and felt a pull on her hand. So she just followed with the flow and run away from the crowds. She was pulled by a stranger wearing a black cloak that covered the stranger's appearance.
She was still holding the hand of the stranger that was just saved her and to her surprise, it was a soft hand.
After running away for a while, both of them stopped in a small alley.
"Hah... hah...", Xia Yun's stamina was pretty low, so it was lucky they can lose them before she runs out of stamina.
"Thank you so much", Xia Yun takes a while to catch her breath and finally thanked the stranger.
"... So it's you, the new member", The stranger revealed its appearance, a girl with red hair and fiery red eyes, holding a simple iron dagger on her waist.
"Huh? new member?", Xia Yun was what she was saying.
"I'm one of the members of the "Crownless Kings", you can call me Firefly", The girl introduced herself and finally made Xia Yun understand. Well, Night Emperor does say that she was the tenth member so it was obvious there was still 6 more member she hasn't met yet.
So this girl is one of them, she thought.
"Um, I'm white cloud, the new member", Xia Yun immediately introduced herself. Pretty badly served.
"I know, not because the leader told me, but you were pretty famous on the internet as well", Firefly said rather bluntly. 'The leader she talked about is probably Night Emperor, right?' Xia Yun thought.
"Internet? me? famous? why?", Xia Yun has many questions to ask but instead of answering, Firefly just showed her the news.
'Shocking, this guildless goddess was already level 1 while everyone was still at level 0, is it luck or skill?', Xia Yun read the news carefully and found her picture from yesterday.
"Anyway, many guilds wanted to recruit you now, so be sure to avoid them or ignore them if possible, else trouble might arise", Firefly said.
"Huh, why?", Xua Yun got confused.
"You see, guilds like these big guilds like talents, but if the talents are not theirs then it is better to destroy it before it falls into someone else hands. The simple way of saying, since they can't have you, then nobody can but without any romantic feeling", Firefly explained.
"Oh... then what about our guild?", Xia Yun understand and then asked.
"We were just going to create it, last time, the leader only wanted to wait for everyone, now only you left", Firefly said.
"So you were waiting for me?", Xia Yun asked and Firefly nodded.
"Umm, shouldn't we go now then?", Xia Yun said.
"Right, but use this first", Firefly gave her a black cloak like hers.
"Oh, thank you", Xia Yun understands that this was so they didn't get noticed by the crowds.
"Let's go", After using it, Xia Yun then asked Firefly to lead the way and both of them goes to where the Night Emperor and the others.
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After getting out of town and walking for a while, they finally arrived at the designated location.
There, 8 people were waiting for them, 3 of them were familiar which is Night Emperor, Seven Conqueror, and Dark Prime.
The 8 people noticed them coming and approached them. Seven Conqueror is the most cheerful between them and he approached Xia Yun with a big smile.
"Cloud! we've been waiting for you", Seven Conqueror said.
"Sorry, did you guys wait a long time?", Xia Yun apologized.
"Not long, anyway since you're here let's proceed to make the guild", Night Emperor approached them and said.
'Lies, we definitely have waited for a few hours. If not for Seven Conqueror stupid joke, we might have been bored to death here ', The Gold-haired girl bringing a 2 handed sword on the side thought.
"Alright put your hand on top of the book", Night Emperor took out a book, if Xia Yun remembers correctly, in the forum, this book is called guild certificate. Xia Yun put her hand on the book and it started to dimly glowed.
"Alright, it's done, wait for a few minutes", After just touching it for a while, Night Emperor told her that she can stop touching it. After that, he then opened the book and write something with a pen that appears from inside the book.
Xia Yun has read about guilds before, to make one you need at least ten members as the core, less than that then you can't make it. After that, those ten members can point to one as their leader, and the rest can then have permission to invite the member freely if the guild leader allows them.
This is why the first ten members of the guild are called the core of the guild, and if one of them left, then the 9 members can vote on who will be the new 10th member. Of course, you can expand this number as much as you can, but this is the default of the system, and it has been approved to be the most stable number. You still need to pay some fee to expand it tho.
Anyway, after writing for a while, Night Emperor finally closed the book.
"All of you, make a circle around me", Night Emperor said.
Though confused, since Xia Yun never heard that they have to make a circle before.
"you guys still remember the pattern right?", Night Emperor asked.
"Yeah", all 8 members nodded except for the confused Xia Yun.
"Huh? what pattern?", Xia Yun asked. Is there something she hasn't read yet? she was sure to already read everything about the guild creation though.
"Don't worry about it. Just come closer a bit", Night Emperor said.
"Okay...", Xia Yun obediently got close which made her stand just a few meters from him. Though there are also members who have the same distance so she didn't think of anything weird about it.
After everyone was in place, the guild certificate started to shake like it tries to escape from Night Emperor's hands, he just let the book go and it stay floating in the air.
"Don't move", Night Emperor reminded.
After a while of circling the air, the book turned from the usual brown leather color to silver color. Then the book flies back to Night Emperor's hands.
"It's done", Night Emperor said.
After checking her status, Xia Yun noticed that she has new information on her status which is the guild and some others.
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[White Cloud]
Gender: Female
Race: Human?
Bloodline: ???
Occupation: ???, Blade Saint(Legacy).
Secondary Occupation: None.
Reputation Points: 200rp(reputation points) *from hidden dungeon and boss*
Title: Blade Saint Descendant(Hidden).
Guild: Crownless Kings (Silver)
Level 1
Experience: 1700/2000
Health Points: 20/20
Mana Points: 100/100
Physical Attack Power: 3
Magical Attack Power: 8
Physical Defense: 4
Magical Defense: 6
Strength: 2 (17) (Affect Physical Attack Power and Stamina)
Agility: 4 (19) (Affect Movement Speed, and Dodge rate)
Dexterity: 4 (19) ( Attack Speed and Critical Chance,)
Constitution: 2 (17) (Affect Health Points and Physical Defense)
Intelligence: 5 (28) (Affect Magical Attack Power, Mana Points, and Casting Speed)
Spirit: 5 (20) (Affect Magical Resistance and Status Effect Resistance)
Status Point: 15
[Hidden Attribute]
(Attack speed, Critical chance, Casting speed, Charm, and Luck).
Note: Sealed items cannot add any stats until unsealed.
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"Well then, looks like it was a success", Night Emperor said.
"Success? is it the thing just now? what is that?", Xia Yun asked.
"It's just a simple ritual, no need to worry about it. Anyway, since it was done let's go somewhere", Night Emperor suggested.
"Party Up", Night Emperor invites all of them to the party.
"Where are we going?", Xia Yun asked.
"An interesting place", Night Emperor just faintly smiled.
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It looks like the place is pretty far because they've been walking for some time now.
"We're here", Night Emperor immediately stopped. This sudden action surprised Xia Yun that was walking behind him. She didn't have time to stop in time so she bumped her head on his back.
"You okay?", Night Emperor asked, felt bad for her.
"Um, it's nothing, I'm just surprised", Xia Yun nodded.
"Well, that's good. I shouldn't have stopped abruptly, sorry about that", Night Emperor apologized.
"No, it's okay, I'm not hurt", Xia Yun shakes her head to indicate that she didn't mind it.
"Well, if you say so, then, tell me what you're seeing right now", Night Emperor faintly smiled.
"Another cave?", Xia Yun saw a cave in front of them, just like from the last dungeon.
"...right, it's a cave, but it's also called 'hidden dungeon' ", Night Emperor was amused with her answer.
"Oh... what difference does it have with a normal dungeon?", Xia Yun asked.
"Simple, let's try to go inside, and you will understand", Night Emperor said and then walked in front of the cave.
When he arrived right in front of the entrance, immediately everyone in the party got notifications.
*You have found a hidden dungeon*.
*As the first team to found a "hidden dungeon"*
*rewarding 10 gold, a class specialty skill, and a recall scroll*
*Do you want to enter the dungeon? (You can only enter it once)*.
*Yes / No*
"Do you know the difference now?", Night Emperor asked Xia Yun.
"We can only enter it once?", Xia Yun answered.
"Correct, not only that, whether you finish the dungeon or wiped out in the process. The dungeon will disappear from the game", Night Emperor explained.
"So it's a one-time thing?", Xia Yun asked again.
"You can say so, but don't worry about it there is many more hidden dungeon in this game. Each having a better reward than the normal dungeon. Though in fact, this "hidden dungeon" shouldn't have existed in the first place", Night Emperor said.
"Shouldn't have? why?", Xia Yun didn't read anything about the hidden dungeon or to be exact, she didn't found any in the forum.
"You will know it later, for now, let's enter shall we?", Night Emperor didn't answer, instead he just smiled.
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"Say, Seven", Sky Shepherd, which is the girl with blue hair and eyes, called out for Seven Conqueror.
"Hm?", Seven Conqueror turned to look at her.
"Didn't leader became much... different now?", Sky Shepherd said.
"How so?", Seven Conqueror didn't know what she's talking about.
"Well, after meeting cloud girl, he was somehow... more talkative, like in the past", Sky Shepherd explained.
"Actually now you said it...", Seven Conqueror looked at the figure of Xia Yun and Night Emperor that were still conversing with each other. He can see Night Emperor sometimes chuckled and also smiled so... naturally.
"Right? he usually just gives orders and didn't care for anything after that "incident" ", Sky Shepherd sees that Seven Conqueror starting to understand what she was trying to tell him.
"... Who knows, she still doesn't know anything so teaching her is normal", Seven Conqueror shakes his head, trying to deny a thought that comes to his head.
"You know, the last time he wants to teach someone is when it was "her" ", Sky Shepherd said, and with a somewhat hateful expression when mentioning the last part.
"...", Seven Conqueror can only be silent.
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After clicking the *yes* button, everyone immediately gets teleported inside the dungeon.
Immediately after seeing the inside, Xia Yun immediately became fascinated by the interior of the cave.
There are a lot of beautiful crystals that were either on the ground or on the ceiling of the cave, each giving off a different kind of colored shine that illuminate the cave. The entrance of the cave was also separated by five tunnels that go different ways. Every tunnel is only the size of two people that can enter at the same time.
"Do you like it?", Night Emperor saw the look on Xia Yun and chuckled.
"It's really beautiful, I don't know a game could have this kind of thing", Xia Yun nodded.
"It's because it is a game that it could have something like this", Night Emperor said.
"Anyway, we're here for one thing only", Night Emperor gathered all the members and then explain the plan to them, that is to find the hidden treasure within the dungeon. The boss, they can worry about it later.
"Umm... does every hidden dungeon have hidden treasure?", Xia Yun asked.
"Every dungeon has a hidden treasure, it's just that hidden dungeon has a much better-graded treasure than normal dungeon", Night Emperor explained.
"Oh...", Xia Yun understands.
"Well then, let's split up two and two", Night Emperor commanded.
Immediately, everyone chooses their own companion without Night Emperor's permission, leaving only Xia Yun and Night Emperor, since so, they have no choice but to go together.
"Well, then lead, we will leave first!", Everyone in the party said with enthusiast and then left both of them in the dust.
"Is there something wrong? why are they acting weird?", Night Emperor immediately became speechless by their action.
But then he looks at Xia Yun that was innocently looking at him, waiting for orders, and immediately, he slaps his forehead in realization.
"Those guys... always done unnecessary things", Night Emperor also had a headache about this.
"Unnecessary? what is?", Xia Yun still looking at him with a now confused expression.
"Ha... it's nothing, let's go inside", Night Emperor shakes his head.
Since Night Emperor didn't want to answer, then she didn't ask anymore. Both of them then choose the tunnel that was haven't been touched yet and entered.
Inside of the tunnel.
"That reminds me, now you use sword right?", Night Emperor started the conversation while continued walking through the tunnel.
"I don't know, you said I don't need to use staff to chant my healing spells right? wouldn't that mean I don't need to use the sword?", Xia Yun said.
"Indeed, but though healer is very useful, they have huge disadvantage", Night Emperor said.
He then explained, "Healer is always in the backline where it's safe, but once an enemy can go to the backline, the priest can easily be killed. This is why teams usually had some reserved player to protect the healer".
"But you are special. If you can use the advantage of having a sword to fight, you can easily erase that disadvantage and even having no one to protect you is no problem", Night Emperor said.
"Even so, you can also fight in the frontline, and heals at the same time, becoming a versatile role in the party", Night Emperor suggested the end goal.
"So? how is it? do you want to try it?", Night Emperor asked.
"...", Xia Yun thought, if she really can do it then wouldn't it mean she will be very useful to the team? she was really grateful since they want to pay her so much, this is a good way to pay them back right?.
"U-um, I never fight before, o-or use a sword, but I want to try it", Xia Yun agreed.
"Great! the first step is the most important to reach the goal, since so then I will personally train you how to use the sword", Night Emperor smiled widely, feeling very satisfied with her answer. Though he won't be disappointed even if she refuses but he didn't know why he felt really happy when she agreed.
"...", Xia Yun didn't know why looking at his smile made her feel weird inside. As if... she was happy?.
"Ah, talking about training, real combat experience is always the fastest and the most effective and we have a perfect target for it", Night Emperor pointed at the just showed-up monster in front of them.
The monster has a crystal body the size of a human. Looking at the monster, the info about the monster immediately pops up in front of Xia Yun.
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[Crystal Guardian]
Level 2
HP: 200
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"U-um, do I do it alone?", Xia Yun immediately became nervous.
"Of course, but don't worry about it, this monster has slow movement so you can easily dodge its attack", Night Emperor nodded. This is the perfect place to train, since everything here has slow movement speed, you can always dodge the monster's attack and counterattack. But even so, the monsters have a high defense to compensate for their slower movement, making it time cost to kill.
"O-okay, should I start now?", Xia Yun asked, since the monster keeps getting closer and closer to them.
"Whenever you're ready", Night Emperor said.
"T-then, here I go", Xia Yun slowly approached the monster.
She slowly unsheathed her white long sword, and do a normal sword holding stance that she usually saw on television.
When the monster was really close to her, she just swings her sword blindly.
"Don't just swing it around, aim for its body, get used to holding a sword, and swing it as your life depends on it", Night Emperor instructed from behind.
But the monster didn't give her a chance for it and swing its big arm toward her. Though she didn't know how to attack, she still knows about defending. So she put the sword right on the trajectory of the attack and hold the blade with her other hand.
But she didn't expect the impact to be so big, which made her unsteady and bounced back to the wall of the cave.
"Are you okay?", Night Emperor came at her and look worriedly at her.
"Mmm... it hurts", Xia Yun moaned in pain, this is the first time she got hurt in the game, she didn't expect it to be so painful.
"...I'll take care of this", Night Emperor immediately attacked the crystal guardian relentlessly, and in a few slashes, the crystal guardian fell to the ground and became dust. The guardian gave decent Exp for them as much as 20 Exp.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have told you to fight it", Night Emperor felt bad and apologized.
"...I-it's fine, I don't know it would be this painful", Xia Yun sweats a lot because of the pain.
"Is it that painful?", Night Emperor felt something was wrong.
"Mmm, it's really hurt, it feels like... I want to pass out", Xia Yun said with a half-closing eye and stream of sweats on her body that wet her clothes. Luckily, the clothes were pretty thick so it didn't show any shameful part.
"Let's go back now", Night Emperor said.
"But the dungeon...", Xia Yun said while gasping for breath.
"It's not important, you need to log out now, for your safety and we can only do it in the safe spot", Night Emperor said.
"I can still do it...", Xia Yun wanted to convince them that she can still do it but her expression betrayed her.
"You can't I'll take you out now", Night Emperor immediately lift her, in a princess carry once again.
"I...", Xia Yun wanted to say something but she felt somehow comfortable in this position so she didn't say anymore, she even unconsciously reach her hands to hug his neck and then fell unconscious.
"...", Night Emperor notified the party member to continue exploring and also explain their situation. He also gave the leadership to Bright Might, which is the boy with blue hair and eyes.
"Lead, don't do anything weird to her okay?!", Messaged Bright Calibur, which is the girl with blonde hair and golden eyes.
"What do you think I am", Night Emperor became speechless at his member behavior.
"Well, let's leave", Night Emperor traced back to the entrance. There, he was given a notification if he wanted to give up on the dungeon, there also a warning of someone touching him will get the same decision he picked.
Of course, he picked yes. After being transferred outside he immediately runs back to town. Because of his fast speed and an enormous amount of stamina, they arrived at the town faster than they were when they left for the dungeon. Of course, this also because of Xia Yun's body that he felt really light that it feels like he has nothing to lift. If not for the soft feeling in some place, he might think he has gone insane.
When in town, they immediately became the center of attention. How can they not, an absolute beauty being carried by a handsome and charming man. A lot of people became jealous, some recorded both of them. But Night Emperor didn't care about it and just wanted to find a hotel so that he can let Xia Yun rest.
Although he knows that she was already forcefully logged out by the system since she has fallen unconscious. But her body needs a good place to rest so that it could heal slowly and restored her fatigue.
But just as he wanted to reach the inn he wanted to go to, he was detained by several people. He recognized one of the men to be the guy he was having trouble with yesterday.
"What do you want?", Night Emperor stopped and asked.
"Where do you want to bring her huh?", The man grinned and looked at the unconscious Xia Yun with a lascivious expression.
"None of your business now go away", Night Emperor was really annoyed at this point.
"What, do you want to pass? leave her and you can pass, hahaha", The man laughed hard, he was humiliated yesterday, so the feeling of humiliating the man who does it to him was amazing.
"...", Night Emperor's expression darkened, and even more so after he heard their whisper of taking turn-on doing it.
"Move or you'll regret it", Night Emperor was on his last line, even more, then he won't care about the rules in the town.
At this time, many players were already watching the thing going for a while, some just came and wanted to eat popcorn, some recorded the scene, waiting for something to happen.
"Make us!", The man smiled wickedly and said loudly.
"As you wish", The last line has been crossed, and the beast has awoken.
Night Emperor fixed the way he's holding Xia Yun so that he can hold her with one hand. After that, he slowly unsheathed his sword, and when the sword was fully separated to its scabbard, everyone in the scene can feel an inexplicable pressure.
"la sanction du mal est la mort", Night Emperor said. (A/n: Yep, France is definitely usable here).
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"Hey, look, didn't he look familiar?", One of the spectators said.
"Ah, you're right! isn't that the leader of "that" guild?", The other agreed.
"That guild... Do you mean the crownless kings?".
"The crownless kings? isn't that the guild that dominates the old popular game with only nine members?".
"Damn, dominating the game with only nine members? how much of a monster are they?".
"They are real monsters! my friend guild has once in a war against them, and with only a few members of the crownless kings, his guild was wiped clean".
"Yo, you kidding right?".
"Not at all, you can even find a video about it and a lot more".
"Then who is that guy on the other side?".
"I don't know, I have never seen him before".
"Hahaha, wouldn't this be, the king versus peasants?".
"Then that female expert on his hands was from his guild?".
"What do you think?".
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Night Emperor strikes them like a cheetah, sword light can be seen here and there. He didn't gave them any chance of striking back, and whenever one of them wanted to attack, he would always aim for them so they will defend themself. If you see it from the spectator's perspective, this is a one-sided battle.
One, by one the guy subordinate was decimated under his sword, and more to go. The guy himself already sweated, now he hopes that the guard will come quickly to save him. He didn't run away because this will hurt his prestige. But after his last subordinate fell he truly regret not running away.
"Haha, not bad, but it's not enough! if I were to join the battle then you would easily lose. But I would be kind to let you go away! be grateful!", The man bluffed like a king person. But when he looked at Night Emperor's eyes, he was terrified. It's like he was being eyed by a wolf and wanted to quickly run away.
Of course, there's no way Night Emperor would let him away. Since he already killed then might as well finish it.
After killing the last guy, his name has turned to bloody red, which means that he will be forbidden to enter the town and will be arrested if found doing so. But he didn't care about it and quickly book a room in an inn. Because of his red name, it was a little more expensive than usual.
After putting Xia Yun on the bed, he sighed in relief. He felt really weird with himself. He never loses his temper before, this is the first time after so long.
And it's because of this beautiful girl on the bed.
"Weird...".
