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After ten minutes had passed, he felt that no new monster would come from the far regions. He grabbed the scroll again, then opened it and read the chants slowly, eagerly, and whispering. The bright red dot reappeared to be controlled by Ibro. This time, he made it fall far from the village gate, close to the tree where he was hiding, as it was almost the center of a massive mob of monsters around him. As before, he felt MANA gathering in the place rapidly before a violent trembling accompanied by a sea of ​​raging flames that showed no mercy or stop. Cries of pain were echoing with a flood of alarming alerts. If he discovered a way to turn these alerts silent he would be more than happy as they began to annoy him and distract him a little. He waited in his place for about two minutes, during which the area was completely free of any monster. As soon as the fires faded away, he quickly descended from his place and moved quickly to pass the village gate in seconds. He crossed the streets leading to the village governor’s house which was located at the village center. If there were any remaining monsters in the village, they would be at that building. Once he reached the big square where he started his journey from, he found that it was completely devoid of any movement. Ibro did not move directly towards the building which was located at the opposite side of him, but stayed for a few minutes observing the place around it carefully. He feared to have a stealth monster lurking in the shadows waiting to ambush him. When he realized that the place was empty of any monster hiding nearby, he carefully moved towards the building with extreme caution. The building was considered the largest building in the village with a height of four floors. However, from his recent experience of destroying strongholds, he knew that the Village Founding Stone was inside the room of its governor, which was usually on the ground floor. He entered the building and crossed the wide hallway to find three rooms in front of it. He opened the door of each room in a hurry, as there was only four minutes left for his quest. As soon as he found the stone fixed on the ground majestically at the third room, he moved in a hurry and placed his hand on it to hear a pleasing alert followed by soft sound saying:

“System Prompt: Player managed to liberate the novice village of Ishka from the hands of the monsters. Player completed the quest in the given time. Do you choose to take it, move it, or destroy it completely?”

He almost took it, but he backed down. What if he took it and then the game asked him to defend it again? He couldn’t trust this cunning game.

“I choose to completely destroy it.”

“System Prompt: Are you sure?”

Ibro felt strange, as this was the first time he had heard an alert like that. Had the game just warned him not to do so? Was the game trying to scheme against him again? For a while, Ibro hesitated about destroying the village, but as he didn’t trust the game words, so he decided to deviate from the context of the text that the game wrote for him. He was still angry about his wasted uses of the legendary scroll.

“Yes I am sure.”

“System Prompt: player chooses to completely destroy the novice village of Ishka. Player will have half of the village belongings in gold coins.

Congratulations, you've got a hundred thousand gold coins.

System Prompt: player destroyed a novice village in vicinity of Memphis city. Because you liberated the village from monsters, you will not face any penalties from Memphis city and your quest reward will be reduced a lot due to your rash decision. To go to Memphis city, player has to find another village to move through it to Memphis city or walk directly to Memphis city.

System Prompt: You succeeded in saving the village of Ishka from an attack by monsters. As the reward was reduced because of your actions, you will get 2000 gold coins + 1 million XP.”

Ibro stared at the flashing words that were passing slowly in front of his eyesight and his brain suddenly froze. He was now in deep trouble. He lost his novice village. Amidst the zeal of fighting and during his anger , anxiety and grief after overcoming the game scheme, he forgot something very crucial to any player.

“To be able to go to Memphis city, I must do so with a scroll from the village governor! How did I possibly forget that info?!!”

The governor of each village was a wizard at the level of twenty-fifth, and he had special transportation scrolls that he personally gave them to the players to move to the city. Now the city governor had died, and the village itself had been destroyed. Even the resources of the village were all turned by the game into gold coins. He remembered the game warning to him. Apparently he overreacted and the game did not mean any harm to him, but rather tried to help him. He felt how stupid he was back then! He remained silent trying to control his feelings, as now was not the time to feel regret. He must find a way out of this crisis. Among the devastation of what was the novice village of Ishka, Ibro stood alone, completely unaware of what he should do. He felt that without his memories from his past life, he would become a worthless player! This feeling was the worst feeling ever.. to feel you are nothing but trash! Could he really change anything? Could he really change destiny? What a fool!

“I doubt that! I’m just worthless!”

He was in his worst condition since returning from the future. He felt bitterness in his throat. Perhaps, if someone other than him came from the future, he would not have fallen into this disaster like him. Amid his personal despair, he heard the sound of alert suddenly to find a communication request by Oya. He was unwilling to talk to anyone now, but nevertheless he accepted the request. She appeared in front of him with a wide smile, which gradually changed before her eyes shoed an expressions of great concern.

“What happened to you Ibro?”

“Nothing, just another bad day.”

“This is not a bad day. I have had many bad days before. You are in disaster. Tell me what happened or will you remain this mysterious person who is addicted to hiding his secrets from me?”

Ibro looked at her with a sorrowful look. What was the benefit of the secrets in front of his great misfortunate? The closest way to reach Memphis city would take him an entire month at least, that if he was not subjected to death during that long journey. If he died once, he would go back to square zero and start his journey again. As for the search for another novice village it was an impossible solution. He knew the location of Memphis city, but he did not know where these novice villages were distributed. In short, this miserable situation meant that he would lose all the progress he had gained so far, that in condition of him getting out from this dilemma.

“Well, I will tell you everything. As you guessed before, I know many of the secrets of the current game and many of the secrets of the game in the future. Do not be surprised, but the reason for this I won’t be able to tell you now. What happened is that I took advantage of one of game secrets and developed my level very quickly as you noticed. It seems that the game became dissatisfied with what I did so it sat a trap for me at quest that I was doing. It schemed against me and forced me to have an impossible to do quest without intending to make me succeed in it. This quest was related to the destruction of strongholds that the game announced my success in destroying the first stronghold in the game. When I destroyed the first stronghold, I found a special stone. This stone allows me to establish my own stronghold that supplies me with monsters to train my soldiers when I establish my own village, or helps my alliance members to upgrade if I established my alliance. That is why I attacked and destroyed a large number of strongholds. In the game there is a quest that appears when the players destroy five strongholds in the vicinity of their own novice village. That quest story was that the monsters create a great army to attack the village and the players in it have to protect it from that army.”

“Did you protect your village then?”

Ibro shook his head in remorse, and said with regret:

“Unfortunately no, I thought there was no point in being there. I am alone in the novice village, and in order to defend it I have to use the scroll of the land of fire, which is a legendary scroll.”

“Do you have a legendary scroll Ibro?! You are cheating! How did you get that scroll?”

Ibro made a pale laugh before saying:

“I had gotten it in my legendary quest regarding Enog store.”

“Did you buy it from this store?”

“No, I got it as a reward after i succeeded in that quest.”

“Ah, I see. And what happened to your novice village?”

“The monsters seized them, and then I was forced to accept a quest of liberating the novice village from their hands. If I didn’t do this quest my account will be reset and everything I have will be lost. This is the scheme that the game designed for me.”

Anxiety was evident on her face during his talk. At this moment he felt very grateful to her, grateful that he wasn’t alone and she was by his side.

“What are you going to do now Ibro? Have you scouted those monsters and knew their numbers and levels?”

“The number of monsters can be best described as huge, at the very least, there are 10K monsters, if not more, in the vicinity of the village! Their levels were at least level 10 Elite monsters, which was their weakest ones. “

“This is terrible! What will you do Ibro? Will you start the game again?”

He felt grateful to her again because she did not reprimand him or highlight the mistakes he had made. Rather, she was worried about him and was trying to help him.

“Don't worry about those monsters, i got rid of them and liberated the village.”

The shock seemed clear on her beautiful face. She did not expect the number of monsters to reach this huge number around the village, and she did not imagine that Ibro could get rid of them. But after seconds of amazed look, she understood the reason for his ability to do so.

“You used your legendary scroll? Right?”

“Yes, I had to use it indeed.  I can sum up the game plot against me in a simple choice, either I survive and lose the scroll, or I lose and lose everything I have including the scroll.”

“You chose to lose the scroll? That is why you are sad and angry.”

“No, I'm not sad about the scroll. My scroll can be used up to five times. In this fight I have used it only twice.”

-“Why are you so devastated then?”

“Because when I liberated the village, I was extremely angry with the game, so I totally destroyed the village.”

“What did you do?!!”

“I completely destroyed it.”

“You are insane!”

“Yeah, tell me about it!”

Ibro laughed at her direct and spontaneous comment. He was really crazy at the time.

“If I told you that the game warned me of the consequences of destroying the village, even though I decided to destroy it, what would you say about me then?”

Oya laughed and then said:

“I will say you are crazy, crazy, crazy and crazy.”

They laughed together for seconds before the silence returned again to cloud them. Oya was not a rookie player, but an expert. She realized that there was a penalty on Ibro for destroying the village. His despair came from this penalty which she was sure that it was very heavy.

“What is your penalty for destroying the village?”

Ibro smiled in respond to her question. It was very convenient to talk to an intelligent person like her.

“You guess ..”

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