The Heretic Chef: Exaworld Online

The Curse of Question Marks

The sun began to sink and the sky was dark.

Exaworld Online has a different time to the real world, if at Exaworld during the day then in the real world it will be night.

At night the power of monsters will increase by 50% and the experience gained by 50%.

Nier was currently walking to Pafun City, he smiled happily as he had already picked 1,324 herbs and obtained 102 bear meat. But what made him even more happy was the new title!

『 Because You've Plucked 1,000 Herbs Continuously You Obtained the 'Harvester' Title'. 』

『 Harvester

*Plant picking quality +10%

*Damage on plant monsters +10%. 』

Besides his Sword Mastery Skill experience also rose to 60% and his level also increased a lot.

『 Levels Have Increased. 』

『 Levels Have Increased. 』

『 Levels Have Increased. 』

『 Levels Have Increased. 』

In just a day's time he had reached level 7 and gained many astonishing Titles, Nier smiled in satisfaction because of his achievements.

Now he was planning to complete the Quest but when he saw the darkening day Nier unbundled his intentions and logged out immediately.

* * *

Rein woke up at 6 a.m. Despite playing the game all night he was not tired or sleepy at all.

But because he continued to be in bed his muscles became stiff and then slightly stretched his body slowly.

Since his body had no problem Rein was sitting back on his bed, suddenly Rein's door opened and a girl came in.

It was none other than Remi!

Remi has a height of 159 cm, with long black hair that reaches the waist, and black eyes.

Upon entering he looked at Rein with a puzzled face.

"Eh... Brother is awake, are you having nightmares?"

"No. It was a beautiful dream. Uh... What do you want to do in my room?" Rein immediately held his forehead as Remi's punch had become a habit in the morning.

Remi slightly blushed to see her brother's behavior. "Who said I wanted to, I just told Mom to wake you up."

Seeing her cute little sister have a red hue on her cheek Rein smiled triumphantly. Somehow she felt so happy when teasing her sister.

"Ohh.., are they going again?"

Remi nodded and his face looked sad, the day Rein felt pain when he saw his sister's expression like that. He also felt sorry for his parents who continued to work, If only he could he wanted to see both parents always at home and together forever.

But the cost of living in this era is very expensive because they both inevitably have to work to finance family life.

Without saying much they both walked together and saw that both parents were ready to leave and soon a car came to pick them up.

Rein's eyebrows twitched when he saw his parents leaving him.

"Let's go inside." Rein pulled Remi's hand and they both went inside the house.

"I have to raise a lot of money from the game, ..but my current level is very low and it is difficult to get items that sell, or maybe I should learn blacksmith or alchemy Skills?"

Rein pondered and thought about what he could do, he could not bear to constantly see his parents always separated and only met once every two weeks. 

Seeing Remi's sad face made Rein's determination to raise money even higher.

"Son, didn't you go to college? 5 Minutes later you'll be late."

Rein looked at his watch and immediately rushed to the campus.

* * *

In class the atmosphere was already very crowded and fortunately Rein was not too late. Rein let out a long sigh and immediately sat down next to Rudi.

"Hohoho... It looks like we have a newbie here," Rudi teased Rein by patting him on the shoulder, "So how was your first beginner experience?"

"I've already reached level 7, right you said it's very difficult to level up there."

"Isn't that awesome!? the first day alone has reached level 7 it looks like we will have the arrival of prospective pro-player here." Rudi smiled and patted Rein on the shoulder.

"So what's your level now?" Rein was curious about the level of players who had played this game from the beginning of its release.

"I? Haha... 149!"

"You must be grinding hard, ..hmm so what rank are you in?" Rein asked about the Hall of Fame Leaderboard.

Rudi raised his eyebrows, although level 149 was high, it was still far from a top ranker.

"I'm ranked a hundred thousand."

"Hoo, as I reckon."

Rein nodded his head.

"Fat, after level 10 where do you go next?"

Rudi stroked his chin, "Level 10 huh... It's still at the beginner level.. Looks like you have to raise your level first to around level 30 and then go to the capital, there will be dungeons and many high-level Quests."

"Well, then can I get some info on Exaworld Online's current state?"

"Of course, first I got the official information from Exaworld Online they said that this world still has 85% of the unexplored Territory."

Rein was surprised because he thought the old players had monopolized the resources they had obtained.

"Hehehe.  Let's just forget about that, then let's continue with the second one.

Now inside Exaworld Online has 10 large guilds or known as Top Guilds and one of them is owned by Indonesians!"

"Wow, that's amazing, Indonesia really entered the Guild rank!?" Rein is very interested because it is very rare for Indonesia to have this kind of achievement.

"Garuda Crown, that's the name of the Guild that perfumes the name of Indonesia, this Guild is led by players Helliosh who is also a top Ranker rank 4."

"Excellent, so what about the rest of the other Indonesian guilds?" Unfortunately before Rudi answered Rein's question, the lecturer entered the class.

* * *

In the afternoon Rein returned to the game and this time the purpose of the login was very clear, especially if it was not to complete the accumulated Quest!

First he had to complete the request of grandfather because he was afraid that the old man would die of hunger, but after he got there he did not see the grandfathers yesterday who were here.

"It looks like the other players have helped him." Nier smiled bitterly because his efforts were in vain, so he decided to complete the Quest that Aaron had given him.

But when he turned around he saw the old man smiling at his shoulder blade, Nier's heart immediately thumped in surprise.

"Son, ..it looks like you've done your job well."

"......."

Nier was surprised to see the appearance of this old geezer look different. He looked improved with his gray hair blackened, his wrinkles disappeared, and his body also began to contain, than the male grandfather in front of him looked like a man in his 30s.

"Ehh?, my grandfather has gathered it all together."

"That's amazing, son."

『 102 Meat Iron Bear Has Been Given 』

'Eh.. Why take it all!?'

Nier cursed, this was just like a theft during the day for picking up an item without asking permission from him.

"Good son, ..this is for you." The old grandfather took out a Gold-colored emblem and handed it to Nier.

"We'll see you again, son..."

the old man smiled and walked away leaving him

『 Unknown Emblems

Rank: Normal

Durability :1

???

Cannot Be Dropped, Sold, Or Discarded. 』

Nier was surprised because the item he obtained was a trash item.

"How can I waste hours of my time on this item?"

Nier smiled bitterly looking at the emblem that was in his hand, this was not just a trash item but a kind of curse item as it could not be thrown away and was only useful to meet his Imventory alone.

"Has my luck run out because of yesterday's gift? Or am I really cursed with that question mark gift? Damn this system must be trying to trick me. Shit!"

Nier shouted furiously without paying attention to the person who was watching him.

"Damn, the next gift is also a question mark..." Nier walked over to the Alchemy Shop with a gloomy-looking face.

Arriving there Nier did not forget to calm himself so as not to be too disappointed, he said,

"Okay Rein, whatever happens don't hope."

Nier walks into the store and sees Aaron sitting at the checkout table reading a thick book.

"Ehem, .. excuse me."

Aaron looked at him and smiled and approached Nier.

"Dear Superstar master have you gathered the plants?"

"Superstar?" Nier looked around and saw no one, then he remembered his new title.

"Yes sir." Aaron bowed his head respectfully.

"This is for you." Nier handed over all the herbs in his Inventory to Aaron.

『 1324 Meditate Herb has been awarded. 』

Aaron froze seeing such a large number of herbs, he had never seen such a large number of plants.

"Master.. It's so much we don't know how to pay you..." Aaron stuttered and wanted to hand back Nier's plant.

"Eh.. No, the plant is useless to me..."

Nier didn't want to carry this kind of trash in his inventory so he better give it to the needy.

"I don't think there's any other choice... Then take this, sir." Aaron took the golden emblem from his pocket and gave it to Nier.

Nier instantly froze looking at Aaron who was issuing a golden-coloured emblem.

'Damn... Is the curse really real? Why should the emblem again!'

Nier let out a long sigh then took out the emblem that was in Aaron's hands and instantly a system notification appeared in his view.