The day proceeded without a hitch after the interview. Levi and Anri took their time, going on a date, exploring various attractions and amenities provided by the World VR League to League Members and even meeting some newly minted fans for Levi. Which Levi took a bit too nonchalantly, which instantly created haters at his very first day.
They even went to some of the Guild Masters, with Mortimer the guild master of the undead company being overly enthusiastic, instantly offering Levi a blinding amount of money. If only his wife isn’t as rich.
The Guild Masters as expected were a bit weary of Levi. But they all welcomed Levi and applauded his performance. All of them requesting Levi’s contact information, either interested in his training, or are still contemplating whether to offer a higher price than the crazy undead enthusiast.
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A few hours later, stood along with other League members in preparation for the Pet Pageant Venue. After confirming how much of an advantage Levi had just from levels and racial bonuses from [Active Skeletal Conversion], the two opted for Levi to just join both Pet Pageant, and Pet Marathon. Levi couldn’t tell if that was Anri’s plan from the start, but when he mentioned Hel being an option for the pageant, Anri started getting a bit too excited. Even logging in to Avalesk using the League preparation time to explain everything to Hel.
The rules of the League when it comes to pet related events are rather lax when it comes to participants. An aftermath of constant bombardment of fans, not wanting to see ‘pets’ to be forcefully bound just to appear on stage. More of a MMORPG pets rights thing. As long as the pet of the player consents to be a part of the activity without coercion(The system itself will check this), then there shouldn’t be any problems.
Seeing the lax rules for the pageant, Levi summed that he can even use the Serahaim Tri-Elves as ‘pets’ if he wanted to. Though that of course wouldn’t work seeing the Tri-Elves are true seekers of knowledge, a very prideful race at that. But there had been cases where humanoids were used as pets during past Pet contests that was even ‘cleared’ by the system. It was a never-ending debate but eventually the League opted to just allow ALMOST everything until they deem it not allowed, in order to adjust for all scenarios, seeing how weird Virtual Reality Games can be.
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The Skeletal Bird of course with it’s essence to serve and a penchant to hog attention, immediately agreed and started preparing itself for the pageant. Clearly unperturbed whether it was called a pet or dust in the air. Anri was Levi’s wife after all. If her mistress wills it, then it’s Hel’s duty to fulfill her desires.
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Lily Meadows, or also known as her in game name: Lily Ketchup. Is one of the World VR League’s renowned Best Tamers. Her achievements exceed even some of the more newly minted Guild Masters like Null from Oblivion, and Hex from Unsundered Throne.
Although more a niche, Pet Marathon just like PVP and Battle Arena, has it’s own set of hardcore enthusiasts. Never has there been a day where League Players simply ‘Trying to earn more points’ had ever placed in the rankings of Pet Related events. Kind of the same as every other hardcore niche events like Spell Weaving, Blacksmithing and Crafting tournaments but a bit more controversial since Pet related events explore areas like the ‘bond’ between player and companion.
Lily having chanced upon once in a generation Baby Crystal Hoof during one of her quests was fairly confident in winning this season’s contest, basking in the attention of the crowd as she stood in line to sign in and confirm her attendance for the event.
One glance behind however sent shivers to run down her spine. Instantly noticing the very tall man standing inline just a few paces behind her. It sent signals to her brain about the danger the man brings, forcefully bringing out the other side of Lily.
The long-standing core member of the free guild: Adventurer’s Tea Party. Someone who has undergone, multiple control related Adaptations and is Rumored to even be on par with this Era’s Guild Masters approached Levi who was simply waiting in line.
“Hello.”
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To be continued.