I'm Hungry Now
*PING* Global Announcement: Player 'Raoundozia' has officially created the first association on Rising Essence, Main Kingdom. [House], 'Knights of Raoundozia' is now permanently at the first place in the record of associations and has been placed at first place in the Association Leaderboards.
*PING* Global Announcement: Player 'Raoundozia' has officially created the first association...
*PING* Global Announcement: Player 'Raoundozia'...
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At the Marketing Area of the Azure Dragon City.
"Um, Mr Edorn? Something else just happened..."
Sworn Heir: "Huh? What did that animal do now?"
"Uh no, it is someone else..."
Sworn Heir: "Just speak it out dumbfuck! What the hell are you hesitating on about?!"
"Y-y-yes! The first association has just been created, by some player called randu-rano, randou- eh..."
Sworn Heir: "...Just read it again and write it down, how useless can you be?! Once you're done writing this shit you'll be demoted to lower spy!"
"Y-yes... Mr Edorn. The player's name is Raoundozia, he..."
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Meanwhile, the entirety of the playerbase of Rising Essence was having a shocked response all over Main Kingdom. Once it spread to the forums, it was more than possible of extending towards anyone; with that, maybe they'll have some nice little sponsors to aid in their future.
"Man, who is this Rando-Bando anyways? Heh heh heh-heh, heh."
"Mmm, where is he from? He was the first to create an association in the entire game, I'm sure there will be many displeased young masters, hehehe."
"It doesn't matter, as soon as the second one comes to be, an imminent battle for the first castle available will proceed. By then, I'm sure they'll be recruiting many!"
"Man, if only we were on the same Region, that way I could at least move on to their respective Sub-Division if we were separated. Fuck."
"Wait, you can know which Region they're from?"
"Yup, it's on the Leaderboard, dumbass."
"Haha, to have his own name be on the association's name; is destined to be trampled down for his conceitedness!"
"Yeah, now, that's some fucking dogshit luck alright."
"Holy shieeet, it's only been a few hours since the maintenance has had finished, yet this guy actually made it?"
"Holy~ fuck! What kind of people are these? To be able of having one Lordship Token dropped to their own hands... fuck."
At this point of the game, players were totally oblivious to the difficulty of a Lordship Token being dropped. After all, only Heavenly BOSSes that are LV30 at the very least, have that chance to drop such an item, and there were no 100% drop rate or so for the first kill. If it was, maybe Tongqiu would've gotten it himself, since he was the first player to have ever killed a Heavenly grade BOSS.
Still, it probably wouldn't even take a month for all players around the world to understand the painstaking needed effort to obtain a Lordship Token. Right now, their entire focus was on this 'Raoundozia' and his brand new name becoming the sensation of Rising Essence. Whether or not this name came to be more and more impactful was another matter, which most players truly didn't care much for anyway. After all, it's just the first one to ever be created, not the best one or the like, right?
In any case, once two associations were created; the system will give each of the two of them a week to prepare in order to have a one-day battle for the castle; which will also be spawned as soon as the second association comes to be. Once such a thing occurred and that one week of preparation is over, the leader of each of such associations must have a raid -created by the Association's feature- already created. That was the only way for the AI to allow both rivals to fight each other out, by directly teleport those in said raids towards the territory!
After that, the one resulting victorious in the end would end up being the first association with a territory of their own, which so far, seems to be something that'll be available for everyone in the mid-long future. Whether by the system's implementation or the players themselves not having met the necessary requirements to request for an ownerless land around their Region. After all, Main Kingdom was way bigger than New Earth, which was already shocking by itself. And the reachable lands that the 'Journeyers' have had the chance to go to were merely those of the closest ones to the Main City of each Sub-Division. Meaning that they hadn't even explored the entire area of a single Sub-Division, as well as the fact that the distance between each Sub-Division is only lesser than that of going from a Sub-Division main city to their respective Division itself.
As for the territory beyond that which is occupied by said Sub-Divisions, it was bigger than them even! This was clearly a hint for players that in the not that distant future, they'll be the ones 'taking care' of Main Kingdom itself. Hell, even the guards of the Sub-Divisions' Main Cities were of a Star Elite grade and LV60 only, while the strongest sighted NPCs/mobs were of LV75, that alone was enough to cause the ambition of oh so many players to go wild, wild, wild. Let alone the prospect of ruling over a land.
Oh well, none of that mattered, specially when Tongqiu only had a few reactions to it.
"Hmmm, Raoundozia...? That's the player I sold my, ugh I don't even remember, oh well. Who cares." Tongqiu was walking along the hella busy streets of Azure Dragon City, as of right now, he was moving towards the market area so as to take a look into the oh so important-to-be smith shops. He was already changed into a 'ferocious' mask and a few normal clothes that he so endearingly used, that were bought by Irllytia.
The smith sub-class, though of an obvious familiarity with the blacksmith sub-class, was similar yet specifically different. They were different in that way because, the smith sub-class was in charge of creating the accessories which were the hardest to come by, as well as some other stuff that could be done to structures, buildings and who knows what else.
They were sure to be a meticulous sub-class, that was for sure; maybe even harder to master when it came to the crafting or the forging of their works and projects. Nevertheless, Tongqiu was deeply interested in them for three reasons.
One was pretty obvious, and also the one that players will be going for. Because they were to be the hardest equipment to obtain in the game, then it was better to become one themselves or be acquainted with one who would be. A player can dream.
Two, this was more unique to him, specially because his Forge and Create sub-class branch was even more so of the word; 'unique'. He could see that his fourth sub-class to be available was the smith one! The previously unknown, shadowy articles also brightened the hell up! Allowing for Tongqiu to calmly see through a few, and lots, of things he couldn't do so with before.
Three, now, this one is personal for Tongqiu. After all, if he was a smith, wouldn't he be able to do any kind of precious accessories his women -and girls- wanted?! He'd be able to make them be all joyful, cheery and 'melty'- ehem. Just thinking about it made Tongqiu be all smiles, stupid, smiles. Which prompted little Rosey to rebuke him with a gaze, to which Tongqiu decisively chose to ignore.
Ding, Ring~
He made his way into one of the crowded smith's shops as the sound of a typical bell sounding as soon as the door was opened accompanied his entrance into the shop. There were many players, but it was not FULL of people. Indeed, there were many, but the guards outside and inside the smith's shop made sure to only allow certain amount and 'quality' of players at a time. The shops were small, really small; but there were at least 50 or so players all around, touching, inspecting with their heads having some veins popping up from their hard-gazing at some items while some others directly took them to the reception desk to ask about them.
Step, step. Step, step.
Hurried footsteps resounded, Tongqiu shook his head, already imagining some a pair of players' fate be painful and embarrassing as well as deserved.
"Hey you! Stop right there, puny thief!" A thunderous roar caused all the players inside the shop to turn back to look at the door, where two male players were being held by the wrist by a tall, bulky and just 'strong'-looking guard. The players were still in a running posture as they slowly inched their head to look upwards, damn, they were tall themselves but this almost 2,20 meters tall monster was way too fucking scary!
One of them opened his mouth, fearfully speaking out: "Y-y-yes, sir?"
"Take them out, or punishment will befall on you two, a harder one that is." The same thunderous, rough and violent voice spoke out once again, this time however, his voice although scary, was also pretty much 'peacemaking' this situation... in a way.
"Sir! That's unfair! How can you just detain us beca-" The other players, courageously, spoke out in total indignation. It actually seemed as if he was quite the experienced one in 'this', as he skillfully 'spoke for the people' in here trying to garner the aid of players. Ah, it was a clear pity that, he only managed to say 9 and a half words before his jaw was directly ripped off his head, blood gushing out like a little fountain and meat going down towards the floor. The guard made sure to not filthy the shop's valuables themselves, after all, the floor would take 3 seconds or so of cleaning to have them go back to normal.
Pak!
-23,850.
Thud
The sound of the hit wasn't even tough or hellish. It was so comical that despite the little shown of might and strength at 'resolving' situations, nor players or NPCs felt that much of a fear inducing state compared to before when the guard was still speaking.
After getting rid of the sharp tongued individual, the other player was in a state of shock as he saw his partner in crime's dead ass body fall onto the ground, he looked back at the guard, this time his expression was lifeless yet obedient.
"Here sir, I'm sorry... please, PLEASE, LET ME GO."
Alright, the player lost it, a little. It was still a game, but such a reaction brought up his own experiences of 'life' and as such, he grew panicky like a fucking flurry rabbit.
'Is this what they call 'guilty'? Mmm.' Tongqiu's thoughts were as simple and as short as that upon witnessing this scene, he was entire unmoved by these antics and he simply proceeded to swiftly arrive at one item he became interested in as soon as he entered the shop.
Back on the entrance of the smith's shop, the matter was being 'resolved' peacefully at last, the guard spoke once again: "Mn, good. You 'Journeyers' seem to glance at us guards a little weird so I may have overreacted, please forgive me, ah."
Nodding like a chicken, or even a headless chicken at that, the still alive thief was elated as hell as he responded: "Yes, yes, yes yes yes!" Thank you so much! I'll be leaving then."
It was weird but, the thieving player was let alone as he successfully went out the door and exited the smith's shop. Ah, but Tongqiu could 'see' many guards taking that player by force right after he entered the abundant river of people that was just across the corner.
'Sigh, players still haven't 'woken' up, huh? They still behave like little retards, just because it is a game.' Shaking his head slightly, Tongqiu kept on moving forwards to the item that caught his interest a few seconds before the 'show' began.
Well, probably no one but Tongqiu saw what happened to that player, though some may easily take a guess on it, not as wild as it seemed. Everyone went back to their own matters and continued their observations; whether it was stupidly done so, somewhat acceptable done so or cleverly done so, like asking the clerks or the receptionist himself/herself.
Tongqiu arrived at his destination and picked up an 'ordinary' looking silvery necklace with a hexagon lazuli dark stone shaped in a rectangular manner as the center stone on its prong. He chose to ignore it, but now that he was inspecting it up close he took a look at its description, which popped up the mere instant he landed his eyes on them.
[Safeware Blue Sky]: Type: Necklace, Grade: Valuable, Equipment Requirements: LV25, female, Effect: Grants its wearer the ability to draw less aggro as well as having mobs and NPCs around that of the wearer's level to MISS their attacks at the wearer.
'Oh, so necklaces are defensive? Could accessories be separated in branches likes this?' Tongqiu was habitually losing himself on his thoughts, when a light and soft patting on his left shoulder was felt. An equally soft and feminine voice came towards his ears at the same time.
"Excuse me, sir. Would you kindly allow me to buy it? We had already checked its effects with the receptionist over there." A woman that seemed to be around 20 years old, soft brown eyes, bright red lips, a little nose with elegant eyebrows and had pure white skin then pointed at the receptionist in the not-so-distant distance, which also had a young man smile brightly at them as he waved his left had at them high up in the air. The girl then came back to him, looked dazedly at Tongqiu before abruptly biting her lips and speaking in her soft tone: "My boyfriend and I had to go to the City's bank to take out some money, we came about a few minutes ago and were negotiating the price. Because the damned smith's shop has a rule of only taking the items they've already brought unless it is for inspection, we couldn't take it away from this booth..."
"Could you please grant me the chance to buy it? I really want it." Then, the young woman gazed at Tongqiu in complete silence, her eyes hopeful, way too hopeful.
Having scrutinized her entire body for easily a solid 10 seconds, which made her flinch at times as well as tremble, as she even turned around surreptitiously to look back at her boyfriend in the distance as if to let him know 'everything is going fine'. He then spoke after thinking it for a while: "Would you do anything for it?"
What a joke, he simply laid out some clear, blatant intentions right in front of her face, that'd be enough to either scare her off or enrage her. Well, at least a normal person. The young woman, was definitely not.
She actually got close in on him as she whispered in his ear with a ragged and husky voice: "Just take me to the back to the shop and fuck me senseless there."
As soon as she finished speaking, she let her face be mere centimeters away from Tongqiu's; with her forehead at kissing reach for his lips and his chin about to poke her nose. Only one word was ever so noticeable in this scene over here, hot as fuck.
'Heh.' Tongqiu slowly took her hand in his before moving towards the reception desk, the young woman was slightly flustered but her expression went to normal right after.
Arriving at the reception desk, Tongqiu spoke out first while the young woman spoke to her boyfriend a second after hearing Tongqiu's words which were directed towards the receptionist.
"For the Safeware Blue Sky necklace over there, they'll be buying it while I'll be looking for another one at the back of the shop in exchange for letting go of it, deal?"
"Oh my boyfriend, I'll be speaking with that gentleman over there to negotiate some compensation, I'll be back shortly, hehe~."
"Oh, are you sure? Don't you want me to help you out a little? After all, I'm buying it for you, baby."
"Hehehe~, no no, he's already quite enraged and despondent on having that necklace taken away from him. He probably was buying for his girlfriend like you were, or his family maybe, don't you feel pity? That's why, let me speak to him calmly, okay?"
"Then alright baby, don't take too long, we still need your amazing heals to stabilize our party!"
"Mn, mn. It won't be that long, hehe." With that, she gave him a little peck on his lips before almost attaching her body at Tongqiu's back, her cup C threatening Tongqiu's reason, or a normal man's reason.
It was at this moment that the receptionist spoke in agreement: "Alright sir, please, this way. Once you're finished selecting an equally costly item, you may leave."
He wasn't worried at all of being robbed, if this was a normal medieval times, it wouldn't happen. But a place where magic was more than a commodity, it was of no worry at all!
With that, the pair of Tongqiu and the girl whose ID he didn't even cared to look at moved to the back of the shop. They first passed through a forging section where they only saw 3 players work on smithing, it seemed that the requirements to become a smith were much harsher than expected. They didn't even looked at the two of them as they proceeded to tread forwards until they reached the depository.
Once they arrived inside, Tongqiu took 5 steps in, he saw many orderly piles of boxes containing many, many luxurious items here and there.
Thud, trck-ck.
The sound of the door being impatiently yet completely closed was heard before the sound of the lock being set to use was also heard. Looking back at the door, which was now closed with a young woman plastering her entire back to it as she started to undress, first her shoe garments, then her pants before starting to take off her shirt; Tongqiu then stopped her when she had her hand flashing her braless torso with them gripping on her shirt.
The young woman abruptly stopped moving as her head raised in a swift motion, incoherently speaking: "Eh- whard- ah, you- are you no-"
She was then dumbly interrupted by a Tongqiu who harshly pulled her bottom towards him, bent, towards his crotch. He had already set free the beast when she suddenly felt her lower back be engulfed by a rather thick warmness that melted her body and brain right away.
"Ughnnmfff!" A gruesome moan escaped her lips as she intended to go for Tongqiu's mouth with her head turned backwards, when she was suddenly grabbed by the neck, courtesy of his left claw-like gripping hand as Tongqiu 'softly' spoke at her ear: "Nope."
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Author's Note: Hi, just wanted to say that this and the next two chapters will be a little more steamy than normal.
V2: #1 8/10
