Online Cluster: Great Tomb

Chapter 17: The Butterfly Effect

Evening arrived, precisely at 18:15 WIB. I got back into the game as fast as I could after dinner. My avatar was right in the middle of a very dense forest because this is where I last got out of the game.

Using the cloak I borrowed from Lazy, I took the risk and entered Sector 51 city. With all the players after me, there should be no need as they can kill me at any time.

I walked up to the NPC to buy something, but when I was about to buy the item an inscription appeared before me that read “Access Rejected.”

“Huff..”

You know, this is my first time being a BP. That's why I don't know if a BP is also not allowed to buy from an NPC. I quickly regretted my actions for killing the previous players in the Safe Area.

I sensed that some players became suspicious from seeing me wearing a cloak covered and so were unable to take their eyes off me.

Trying to ignore it, I walked to the middle of the city. Then from there I headed to the southeast where there is a garden with many beautiful plants and ornamental trees. Not to forget also with the lights as lighting.

There are a lot of other players here as well. It's risky, but I'm dying to find out about something, which is why I have to see him.

“It should be here..”.

The breeze hit some of the withered parts of the plant and flew them away. My eyes were on someone sitting on one of the park benches under a tree.

A girl who has ponytail hair, wears pink and white clothes with slightly exposed shoulders, as well as a short skirt with stockings that reach above the knees.

Realizing that she was the girl I asked to meet here this morning, I immediately approached and sat on the same bench with a little distance between us and opened my hood.

We didn't speak in the slightest for a while because it was awkward. I don't know where to start either. But when he looked at me, I knew that the one who had to start the conversation first was me.

“Um..”

“Iya?”

“…”

Lothawat! I really don't know where to start this conversation. I wanted to get straight to the point of the conversation, but I guess that's a little disrespectful.

The sound of the wind hitting the leaves on the trees and the rustling of the bushes sounded quite soothing. But on the other hand I paused myself to keep the attitude and therefore I asked him directly about what I wanted to know with a serious face.

“Live it, the one in Sector 66 it... What is your clan?”

He looked straight at my eyes to answer.

“Iya, that's my current clan. I invited a friend to sign in.”

While hearing his answer, I opened the inventory to check something. But I just remembered that my inventory only contained the trash of the players I killed this morning.

“Hm.. so that's your clan, yeah. If you may know, Dim-... a player named Zatfley, why are you after him?”

After asking that I realized that this place began to be visited by many people periodically.

“I don't know about the problem.but what I heard from the other members, he broke into continues to steal very important data from the former headquarters in Sector 36. CCTV recording him.”

I opened my eyes wide when I heard him say about Sector 36.

“Sector 36 you say?”

“Iya, but the search for this Zatfley player was postponed first. I heard that Vice Chairman is focused on recruiting a player named Watuk for the upcoming event. He's in the 90s Sector as far as I'm concerned.”

“Hah?!”

So surprised, I did not realize I was standing from the bench I was sitting on. I was thinking of looking for trouble here while walking around.

If this is Sector 36, then they are aiming for Dimas because a data from their abandoned headquarters means that the one who is after us is the Celestial clan.

Then the facilities I met in Sector 66 also belong to the Celestials? But I really didn't expect that. Then I can assume that it was just a coincidence. But they are also eyeing Watuk-, meaning they want to recruit Bang Sema.

The data this girl is referring to is probably the mainframe I got. I've also told Lazy to check it out in its entirety, but since he hasn't told me anything, I don't think there has been any progress.

I hope Dimas, Bang Sema, and the others are fine because they didn't tell me at all about their current state. Wait, event?!

“You said something about the event, huh? What event?”

My entire concentration was scrapped when I asked about the event.

“Eh? You haven't seen the video promotion?”

“Hah?”

Seeing that I was unable to follow the direction of the conversation, the girl opened the hologram screen and displayed a promotional video to me. In essence, the video shows if in a short time there will be a major event.

A battleroyal type event with a guild base. In other words, an event about guild-to-guild warfare or what I used to call a clan.

“Guild... War.. then all this makes sense.”.

They want to sign Bang Sema because he is one of the strong players. Then because Dimas was the only one of us caught on CCTV, they were eyeing Dimas to get back their mainframe which was likely something that could make them win.

But I still don't know what it is. It could be a weapon, information, blueprints, or even an Artifact. But since they were focusing more on recruiting Bang Sema, it was definitely not an Artifact because it was so incomparable.

Then what was the reason they were hunting me this morning? There's no way they're doing it just to get revenge for their facility that I destroyed. Because if they are then their priorities are completely muddled for a great clan.

I want to try to negotiate with them. But I guess it was a waste because we didn't have anything to offer. Because I think the data we took and Bang Sema, of course I will not release it.

With Bang Sema as our main force and such data for the future progress of our clan, there is no way I will just hand it over. But I do not know the opinion of other members because our opinions could be different.

“Content for the info! For now, can you leave this place?”

“Eh? Why..?”

I opened the inventory and took out a low-status dagger owned by one of the three of them this morning and kept my inventory open.

“Please... go.”.

“Alright, before that, you have a clan, right? What's name?”

“…”

I looked straight at him with a smile without saying anything. Not getting an answer to her question from me, she left this park to leave me.

People may ask why the girl can answer and give me information about her clan easily. I'll make it clear, if we know each other. That'sthat's all.

“Now..”.

Turning my gaze away from the running girl's back, I turned around and looked in the opposite direction holding a dagger.

“Before, I thank you for not interrupting the time of the two of us. Now out!”

I lifted the dagger to the front of the body and prepared. Meanwhile some shadows were seen coming out from the darkness of the other side of the trees. Four men approached me empty-handed.

They used the rustling sound of tree leaves to hide the sound while hiding. In other words they have played a lot and are used to this kind of thing.

Their clothes were different from the three players this morning. So I guess they're not Celestial members. Then they're after me because I'm a BP, yeah, whatever.

I may have been battered this morning for not carrying anything in my inventory. But not this time. They choose to use their bare hands.

They ran and tried to hit me in the face. I lowered my head and slammed the dagger in my right hand into his stomach several times. With a body that had not disappeared, I made it a shield when the other players wanted to hit me, but it landed right on his face.

After pushing the player I had just made the shield forward and bumping into his partner, I thrust a dagger into his neck then horizontally cut off part of his neck and made his body disappear. Then kick the************ colleague very strongly. As he fell down in pain from my future kick, I stuck a dagger right above his head.

After his body disappeared, the other two players without me realized were already near me and one of them landed a punch right into the stomach and I did not have time to avoid it.

Ignoring her pain, I gave a kick to her chest and she was thrown. At the same time, the fourth man hit me in the face and hit me hard. I returned the blow right in the face and when I wanted to put the dagger in the right hand, he caught it and twisted my wrist, making the dagger slip and fall.

I kicked her crotch, pulled her collar, until she finally lost her balance and fell on her back. I held him down by landing one of my knees on his chest and started beating him in the face even though he tried to cover it up.

As I tried to finish him off, his partner got up and ran towards us and tried to kick me in the face. I tried to hold him back by crossing both hands, but it still made me back off and the player I was holding back was awake.

Feeling that it would be impossible to win if I only relied on my bare hands, I glanced at my dagger that had fallen, as well as those who had the same thought. We ran in the same direction, but because they were closer to the dagger, one of them managed to reach it first but I stepped on his hand.

When the player whose hand I stepped on was busy with my foot, other players tried to attack me in a position that could not move. I caught his fist and hit him right in the lower jaw until he staggered and lost his balance.

I opened the inventory and found a weapon with the AK-47 type. I think it belongs to one of the two players before. Without thinking twice I turned off the safety and pulled the trigger after aiming at the player whose hand I stepped on. But nothing happened.

After checking the contents of the magazine, it turned out that the contents were completely absent, so I threw the magazine and turned the gun around before finally hitting the immovable player right in his head a few times until he completely fell and disappeared the sign he was dead.

Without me realizing it, the player who had staggered turned out to have regained consciousness and gave a hovering kick to me. I was the one who was thrown hard and dropped the weapon I just used to hit, but I quickly woke up again.

He ran towards me and seemed to want to do the same thing a second time. I dodged it and hit him when he floated around doing that kick and fell. I dragged her by pulling her hair up to the park bench despite the resistance.

There I put his neck on the corner of the bench and hit the side of his head several times until it sounded like a broken collarbone, then his body disappeared.

Without thinking long and with a staggered body, I took back the daggers and robes I had worn and ran towards the middle of the city and moved Sector, going to the place of Inspiration. Arriving at the place, I met a female player who was guarding the entrance.

“Please call Ilham. I'd like to talk to him. I didn't bring the black coins, so I'll wait here.”

Without giving her the black coins I was supposed to give her as admission, I asked her to summon Ilham in a hurry.

“Ilham? Wait a minute, whose brother is this?”

“Ilham, MONKEY, your boss! Call him fast! Her friend in the real world nyari, say so! Reiga, Ega, whatever call me so hurry up!”

I slightly snapped while undressing the robe which finally left him with no other choice but to enter and summon Inspiration while I waited in that place alone.

Realizing that what he was looking at was a notification telling the other players if I was a blacklisted player, I unsheathed the dagger and pointed it at them.

They also started to pull out their weapons. But at the right time, Inspiration came to me with a little confusion because the situation was a little heated. He was accompanied by a female player.

“Um... still want to continue? If I can give you time.”

“Oi, wait!”

I held back Ilham who really looked like he wanted to leave me with all five players.

“Hahh. What the hell are you! You guys, no other business in my shop or never come here again!”

After hearing his words, the five players lowered their weapons and I invited him inside without needing any coins. While inside we did not speak at all until we entered his office.

He gave me a glass of water. I drank it without doubting anything. Well, even so drinking or eating in the game does not affect the body in the real world and only the status in the game.

He sat on the chair behind the table and asked me to sit on the chair opposite him. After I sat down, I drank a glass of water that had not been finished.

“So?”

“Hm?”

I slightly tilted my head in confusion at his question.

“How can you be BP? This is the first time!”

I put the glass glass I was holding onto the table and began to explain it in detail. I began to explain it from us taking the Celestial mainframe until it finally got to this point. It took me a while until I finished telling them everything.

After hearing everything, Ilham leaned back while crossing his hands in front of his chest.

“Ega, you know if there will be a big event?”

What did he mean about that Guild War?

“Guild War's? I just found out a while ago.”

“Nah, yes. I suggest you speak well with them. I don't know, maybe you'll be safe with that. If possible before the event starts. That's my suggestion.”

He looked at me very seriously.

“Why should you set a time limit?”

“…”

He stood up from where he sat and walked to the corner of the room where there was a workshop table. After returning from the workshop table, he returned with a white suitcase and gave it to me before finally returning to his seat.

“Ega, I know you fought hard to keep your clan standing. But from now on, the choice is in your hands. I hope things don't end like the previous clan.”

I stared at him intently with all the dark memories I wanted to forget, instantly everything came back forcibly just from his words.

“Well, at least they're still playing thanks to you. Now try opening the suitcase.”

After the follow-up, Ilham asked me to open the suitcase I was holding.

As I opened it slowly, a reflection of dark purple light shot out from within that was emitted by a transparent glass sphere the size of a normal marble. I took it and looked at it closer.

After careful attention, the glass ball not only gives off a dark purple light, but also an electric spark that is also dark.

“I can't find a player selling Chrome for your weapons order. So instead you can use that as the point.”

“What is this?”

I was still stunned to see that amazing thing that was beautiful to me.

“Raksha’s Core. If you remember, long ago, when we first played together, we once completed a Three-Star Quest, remember?”

I still remember the times when we were a small level first. It was truly a tiring day even just to raise one level.

“Yes, I remember. Is this the prize?”

“Iya. I kept it until now. Considering you used to quit the game first without saying anything.”

“Ah..”

I put the glass ball back in the suitcase and closed it.

“You've used Artifacts, Ega?”

I shook my head to answer his question.

“Never at all. Some of my men have, but I never have. Wait, don't tell me this is an Artifact?!”

“Not, it's not an Artifact. After all, where is a Three Star Quest that loves Artifacts.”

“Iya also well-”

“But!”

When he cut my sentence, I knew he was saying it seriously so I responded seriously as well to his words.

“It was indeed not an Artifact. But at least with the correct processing, you can make weapons as high as Artifacts.”

“Wait, you mean- huh?!”

“Numernya, the scarcity of weapons is divided into five stars, namely one star Common, two stars Rare, three stars Epic, four stars Legendary, then five stars Mythic. But with that, you can break the limits that only a handful of players know. So what I'm talking about is..”.

“Relik, right? Or commonly called Black Star Series.”

He nodded and instantly my hands trembled slightly as this was the first time I had seen an item like this.

“So, how much is it?”

When I asked that, he immediately shook his head with a smile.

“Use that to make your weapon. I'm sorry, but my current BS level is still not enough to manage it. But at least, you can, right?”

“Hah? Well, where can-”

“Not the current account, which I mean. But your other account..”.

I looked straight at his two eyes seriously with a slight feeling of anger.

“Cak, stop there! I don't want to use that account anymore!”

“Yeah, I don't make it. That's why I said you were the one who decided. Remember, your enemy is a great clan. Yeah, if they want to let you go, that's a good thing. But maybe not? Do you want your clan that is now fared like it was?”

I hit the table in front of me so hard that it sounded all over the room. But I can't return his words at all.

“Kuh-..!”

From the beginning I never talked about my other account because I did not want to use it anymore. He should have known! But why is he talking about it this time?! I don't think the incident this time required me to use that account again. But if it is…

“If you refuse, no problem. Then I take the goods again.”

When one of his hands tried to grab the suitcase near me, I held the suitcase.

“Oh? So what's your answer, Ega?”

“Damn it! Hahh. But let me bring the goods.”

He smiled and then laughed very hard.

“That's him! You should have used your old account instead of the current one. Well, the point is I hope you make the right answer. Anyway, I want to see the figure who once occupied the Leaderboard 0.1% of all existing servers. Isn't that so, Ega-no, Sorata?”

“Cih!”

I grabbed the suitcase and took it out of the place with great annoyance.