The Heretic Chef: Exaworld Online

Meow

On a cold morning, when the sun had not yet fully risen, a silver-haired young man was walking through the forest with a smile etched on his face.

The young man was Nier, he was currently feeling elated because his level had already increased greatly due to the hunt yesterday. In addition, he also obtained a lot of Minotaur meat and horns that he could use for cooking and forging.

"Status."

『 Status Windows

Name: NieR

Level 42

Class: The Heretic Chef

Title :10

Health: 630

Where :630

The Dark Energy: 420

STR :21 INT:21

AGI: 21 VITS: 21

Absolute Evasion: 10%

Charisma 20

Charm 20

Evasion: 30%

Leadership: 1

Fame 296,900

Points Stat: 306. 』

Nier checked his already rapidly rising status then smiled complacently, "306 status points? This many points should only be possessed by a player of level 55."

At level 42, players would normally only get 180 status points. But Nier was different, with his [Hardcore Leveling] Title he would gain 3 additional status points which made his status points much higher than the other players.

In addition to the level, his Dark Energy had also increased tremendously. With 420 points of Dark Energy and coupled with Title [Blessings from Gods] which had the effect of reducing the Skill by half, it allowed him to wear the Masquerade Skill for a full 12 hours.

Now that his goal had been fulfilled, it was time for Nier to go to the capital and steal the kernels from the queen.

* * *

Nier continued walking until he finally stopped when he saw the gate of Karade city. He could see dozens of well-armed guards watching everyone who was about to enter the city.

On Exa Live yesterday, Nier got a lot of information about these guards.

The name of their army is Red Hawk, they all serve to protect the royal family. But due to the large-scale destruction Nier committed a few days ago causing so much damage that the Red Hawk royal army was forced to take part to watch over the city.

Since they were special forces, naturally their levels were much higher than ordinary soldiers. They all had an average level of 250 to 300.

"Heheh even if you are strong, you will not be able to stop me." Nier took a piece of meat from the Inventory and ate it.

Gulp!

"Ugh shit, this meat's rotten..." Nier closed her eyes while enduring the disgust from the meat of the animal she had just eaten.

"Special Skill, Masquerade!"

Stop off!

A black fog started to form and immediately wrapped around him, Nier who was inside could feel that his body was starting to shrink and his strength was also disappearing. A few moments later, the fog finally disappeared.

"Young!"

An adorable voice came out from Nier's mouth.

After using the Masquerade skill, now that Nier's form has turned into a white cat, he looks so adorable that anyone who sees him will feel interested.

"Now that everything is ready, it's time for me to steal!" Nier exclaimed, but the voice that came out of his mouth sounded funny, because it was the voice of a cat.

With his cat form, Nier walks leisurely towards the gate that is heavily guarded by the Red Hawk.

One by one people started to smile when they saw his faith, some of them even took out various kinds of food and showed it towards Nier.

"It turns out to be a cat, without even trying they can get a lot of food."

Nier meowed towards the person who was intending to feed him then walked back into the city.

As expected of a cat, no one stopped his steps upon entering the city.

"If it's not wrong the Royal palace is ahead there..."

Nier is currently still in his cat form, he can not let go of his form if in every street there are guards on duty.

With her gentle footsteps, Nier walked back until she finally arrived in front of the palace gate that looked very majestic.

"It's amazing that even though Karade is the smallest Kingdom in Exaworld Online, it's still a palace!" Nier was amazed by the luxury of the Royal palace.

The gate looks very luxurious, there are many large statues around it, in addition, the courtyard inside also looks very spacious, even there is a large fountain in the middle.

But thanks to that grand and luxurious palace, there was certainly plenty of space that Nier could use to enter the palace without having to meet the guards.

Wush!

Nier ran and jumped up the fence, it was easy for him to enter the gate which was heavily guarded by guards. Even though there are some guards who see it, still cats are cats, they do not care about small animals like this.

Nier did not want to waste any more time, he ran in the yard while looking for a tree that matched the information he had in his head.

Nier continued to search, starting from the yard, guard post, garden, even training area, but unfortunately there was not a single tree that matched the information.

"Damn, where is the tree, and why is the yard so big!" Nier's breath was already panting, he did not expect just by looking for the fruit would take more than 3 hours.

"Is it possible that the tree is in the palace?"

Only the interior of the palace had not been examined.

'Right as well.if you think about it, the fruit must be close to the queen's room.'

Nier rested for a while before walking towards the wide-open window of the palace. He did not dare to go through the front door, even though he was now in the form of a cat, where perhaps the guards would let the stray cats freely enter the palace.

Seeing that there was no one around, Nier immediately jumped into the window, but what happened was not up to her expectations.

As Nier jumped, suddenly the window shone brightly and made a transparent barrier so that Nier's head stumbled hard on the barrier.

Sir!

"Where did this damn barrier come from?!" Nier couldn't give up straight away, he ran and jumped into the window next to him.

Sir!

Again the transparent barrier blocked his path. Nier fell back, fortunately he had prepared his hand in front so that his head was no longer stumbled.

"I don't know, how am I supposed to get in if it's not from here?"

Nier ran around the palace and tried all the roads.

1 hour.

3 hours.

6 hours.

Nier kept looking for hours, all the gaps he had tried even he dared to walk through the front door, but still the result was nil.

"Damn it, what the hell is this palace..." Nier could not help himself to curse.

The palace which he thought was full of cracks turned out to be very tightly guarded, there was not even room for a small cat to seem to enter.

Not seeing the opportunity, Nier was forced to rest himself in front of the palace gate, it was very tiring to look for the fruit for hours.

"Nier, is that you?"

Suddenly a familiar voice sounded from behind him. Of course Nier was surprised, he was still wearing the Masquerade Skill and his form was still a cat, but why would anyone know it was him?

Nier immediately turned around and found a beautiful girl with blue hair and eyes was staring at him.

"Yue?!" Nier immediately rose from his sleep, he did not expect to meet Yue in this form.

"How do you know it's me?" Nier starts talking, but he forgets to turn on the voice chat feature so that the sound that comes out of his mouth is the sound of a cat.

Yue who saw Nier continue meowing started to smile, he sat down and stroked the body of Nier's cat.

"It looks like my guess is correct, what are you doing here?" Yue invited Nier into the party and then turned on the voice chat feature.

『 Yue invited you into the party, accept? 』

"Thank you!"

『 Party has formed. 』

『 Yue Party

•(Leader)

°Priest, level 66

•ireR

°The Heretic Chef, level 42 』

Instantly Nier pegged while looking at Yue's level. It had only been a few days since he had parted with her, yet now Yue's level had already increased by leaps and bounds.

'Basic leveling enthusiast, now I start to doubt that the class is priest.'

The priest was known as the class with the most difficult leveling process, but it was strange why Yue leveling speed was so amazing even faster than professional players.

"So, what are you doing here? Do you need any help?" Yue once again asked. He slightly raised his eyebrows as Nier kept silent and did not reply.

"Actually I—"

Before Nier finished his words, suddenly a system notification appeared in his view.

Ding!

『 Warning! Remaining 10 minutes before the duration of the Masquerade Skill ended. 』

"What's? It's been 12 hours?"

Nier began to worry, the distance between the gate and the palace would roughly take 20 minutes, while the remaining time was only 10 minutes.

It was impossible for him to survive if he ran out of the city right now.

"Nier's? What exactly is going on?" Yue started to smile awkwardly, already 3 times he asked but Nier did not also answer.

"Yue, do you know of a safe place around here?" Nier did not have time to explain everything, he displayed the system notification earlier and hoped that Yue would understand what he meant.

Yue was silent for a moment while reading the notification then not long after that he nodded.

"Alright I understand, I can help you."

Yue immediately hugged Nier who was still in the shape of a cat. Nier himself did not fight back, he let himself be hugged and taken away until a while later they both finally arrived in front of the mansion looking luxurious.

"Yue, where is this?" Ask Nier.

"Calm down, this is my best friend's house. I'll make sure you're safe here." Yue smiled gently, he tried to calm Nier who was feeling anxious.

Since they were being chased for time, Yue immediately opened the door and brought Nier into the house.

"Sister, I'm back.." Said Yue while closing the door, he again carried Nier and led her into a room.

Nier remained silent and waited for the right moment to undo his Masquerade skill.

However, upon entering the room he was greeted with the sound of a girl screaming.

"Yeahhhhh... Why are you bringing a cat?!"

Of course Nier was surprised, he immediately turned around and found a girl who was already hiding behind a wall.

"Keep the cat away from me!" Said the girl in a trembling voice, she looked very frightened when she saw Nier.

"So calm down, this isn't a cat..." Yue tried to calm the girl down, but unfortunately her efforts failed, the girl was so scared that she ran away from Yue.

"Anu... What exactly is going on?" Nier asked, nor did he know how to be in this situation.

Yue sighed softly before putting Nier's body on the chair.

"Nier, do you know who that girl is?"

"......" Nier wanted to answer no immediately, but somehow he felt familiar when he recalled the face of the girl.

Seeing Nier trying to remember him, Yue smiled.

"The girl is a Single Ranker, she is named Queen and the leader of the Crescent Moon Guild."

Nier suddenly froze.

"He's Queen?!"