Ascyaf O Vivid: The VRMMORPG Story
Chapter 26: The Hidden Meaning
Hearing the screams the young man made, Akuji said, “It looks like you're late.”
Making the young man growl and glance at the owner of this shop. “What does Mr Dex mean?!”
“It has been sold.”
He could only ask again after hearing that. “Don't I have asked you to secure it?”
“This place doesn't have anything of the sort, Nak.” Dex said before proceeding, “Moreover you didn't give me an advance.”
“...” The young man fell silent before glancing at the grimore in Akuji's hand once again. With the status of the grimore that can be said to be very good, how could he not help but want the grimore?
“Dik—“
“I'm not your sister,” break up Akuji. “Again it looks like you're nineteen, right? “
“Ya, indeed ...“
“Then aren't we the same age? Don't assume I'm younger than you.”
He made the young man stunned for a moment. Looking at Akuji's face once again before asking, “So, how should I call you?”
“At least you can introduce yourself first right?”
“Uh, uhm, of course.” growled at the mistake before taking a short breath, the young man reached out and introduced himself, “Thorne.”
“Akuji,” reply Akuji smiled. Glancing at the weapon that Thorne brought and asked, “Why do you need this grimore while your weapon is scythe (sabit)?”
“For second weapon. Anyway my main role is cleric,” reply Thorne.
Role.
Since in Vivid there is no class system, the role becomes a reference for players to balance the type of player and even the Residents in their party. Moreover, deducing a role was too easy since a skill tree had its own name, players only had to deduce which skill tree was the core of their game.
It's just ...
“Weapons for the main skill tree as the second weapon?”
... Akuji doesn't understand it very well.
Since the Cleric Skill Tree requires one of three types of weapons, grimore, knuckle, or staff (magic stick) to be able to use the skills in it. And wouldn't it be better to use the weapon from the skill tree that becomes the core for the player as the main weapon? Especially since the healing of the skill that the Cleric Skill Tree possessed based on magic power ...
“Isn't it better to choose grimore since this weapon itself has the highest base level of magic power?”
“That's the usual thing for a cleric you know? Moreover, the skill mastery of the elementalist is no match for me since my reaction speed is slow.”
Thorne obviously made Akuji remember that elementalist mastery-type skills, in addition to Magic Mastery which has a similar effect to other weapon mastery skills, the next skill focuses more on the direction of attack. Indeed, a Tier 3 skill, Mobile Cast could function towards support but it seemed that it was not as suitable for Thorne as he had said.
“So you are the type of person who is silent, silent, and silent, yes?”
“Do you mock me, Akuji?”
“No.” Akuji said to Thorne, but seeing the smile still clearly on his face made Thorne just feel like she was really mocking him.
“So, can you sell the grimore to me?” ask Thorne, not forgetting what her main purpose is here.
“How much do you want to buy it.”
“30.000 Inar.” Thorne said, offering the starting price of the grimore but Akuji just shook his head.
“No.”
“Then 33,000 Inar!”
“Hmm, stay no,” reject Akuji casually make that price offer increase ...
“36.000!”
“No.”
“40.000!”
“No.”
“45.000!” bargain Thorne, increase the price to 50% of the original.
... Making the owner of this shop, Dex had a white face as if he had lost precious gold. ‘Is the weathered grimore really that valuable?’ dex thought secretly, questioning his personal judgment ability.
“To be honest, I don't want to be selling this grimore no matter how much Inar you bargained for.”
“Then is there something you want in exchange for that grimore?” thorne asked weakly, still hoping that the grimore could still be his as long as Akuji's request wasn't outrageous.
“Hmm, then ...,” Akuji thought, staring at Thorne and the role she had before saying, “You can accompany me level up.”
“Huhhh.” Successfully made Thorne sigh ill-gotten relieved to hear it. ‘It didn't seem as difficult as I thought,’ thought silently.
“Until what level?”
“How high are you now?” reply Akuji asked.
“Level 67.”
“Then up to level 60 only.”
“Good, I can accept that.” Thorne said and took out a paper with a geometric pattern on it.
“What is it?”
“A contract. I wouldn't know if you were just using me, would I?” Thorne replies, sees Akuji's unchanging face and gives a full warning to make Akuji understand. “You will be exposed to various bad status to a level reduction that is not small if you violate the contents of the contract in it.”
They had just met and how could Thorne be sure if Akuji would actually give up the grimore even after his level had reached the level he had called before?
Thorne does not want herself to be deceived or just taken advantage of.
After all, since the contract paper he had only been at a low level since it only cost 10,000 Inar, the punishment caused by the breach of contract would not be very bad. It was just Thorne's persuasion to make Akuji really stick to it.
“For its contents ...” Thinking for a moment Thorne wrote it quickly.
- Party b (Contracted) will complete the request of party a (Contracting) until the request of party a is fulfilled.
- If party a (Contractor) does not hand over the goods in question and or disappears after the intended request is completed to party b (Contracted), the penalty will fall with the possibility that all objects owned are lost when dead.
“Hmm? How can I be the only one who gets the punishment?” I said and looked at Thorne. “Don't you also have to accept a penalty if you break it?”
“Yes, yes, of course,” Thorne said agreeing to that while thinking how could she possibly leave this simple request.
- If party b (Contracted) leaves the request of party a (Contracting) before the request of party a (Contracting) is fully completed, the penalty with the possibility of all objects owned lost when dead will be imposed.
“How? Are you satisfied?”
“Well, that's better,” Akuji replied when listing the special ID each player has onto the contract paper on party a while party b is filled in by Thorne.
“So, let's level up soon.” Thorne said, looking forward to completing this easy request and getting the grimore.
“Um, of course.”
“By the way, what is your level Akuji?”
“Not high, only 19.”
“Hah? How much?” Thorne asked again, doubting her hearing for a moment ...
“Only level 19.”
“....”
... Just to hear the reconfirmation Akuji managed to make Thorne speechless, sculpting like a rock.
The area around the Vedas, the capital of the Ladian Theocracy may have a low monster level compared to the surrounding area since security forces have always patrolled to control the number of monsters.
Yeah, low. That's ‘only’ at level 40 if Thorne compares with the average level of monsters beyond that range in level 60 and above.
However, can the word only be applied to Akuji who is not even close to that level?
Thorne's heart is fucked, though, it was impossible to find a party willing to accommodate Akuji to his level while he was unable to ignore him since the additional punishment he himself added if he broke the contract he himself made.
Is this what you call a fraud?
“This scam!” thorne shouted as he looked at Akuji's smiling face and thought about the young man's name ...
‘Akuji? I'm no jiken? The akuma no jiken? Demon Case?!’
... It was as if it found a hidden meaning from him and could only curse deeper.
‘Yes! He really IS A CASE OF THE DEVIL!’
