On Central Square in the district, Daniel was waiting for Sasha to watch the new player conquering the third tutorial, while thinking about the play he saw from Steve, there was something abnormal about what he saw, in fact even felt it more unnatural than the first tutorial floor.

"Too much luck" mutters.

The abnormality, was the big amount of luck the boy had, in the first level it was not that obvious, but after the debut in second floor he realized that the boy had much luck, situations where usually would be fatal didn't occur at all, and if one looks at what happened in the second floor/level and apply the same logic with what happened in the first, can realized something.

"(Players with anomalies, how much time since I saw one?)" He thinks as Sasha approaches in the distance along with what appears to be a boy of about 14 years old or so.

"This crazy..." says sighing.

Without quitting his thoughts about players with anomalies he looks at Sasha arriving with the kid, listening to the last words of their conversation.

"But as much I would do the same, you can’t leave it like that"

"Well, I will talk with them later..." says the boy, looks like they were talking something personal.

"Oh, and that man looks suspicious, if you see him in the street call the police" She says signaling with her finger at Daniel, obviously changing the subject when arriving.

"Save your finger or I would cut it" Says Daniel with tired eyes "Why change his division?"

"The man who invited him had an unfortunate 'accident' so I should get him with me, plus, he is the one who will decide the bet today"

"Did you tell him the details? Cheater"

"We never agreed on something like that, is not cheating"

After a moment of silence Daniel asks the boy.

"Steve, no? You know about what will happen in the third level?"

The boy nod but doesn't speak.

"And you know what will happens if your cousin wins or loses the bet?"

"I don't know, but she said it's something important to me"

"... Sasha, how can you have a so honest cousin while you are an stupid brainles-..." of course, after that sentence that could not be completed, Sasha had to pay a pretty hefty penalty for attacking another player in the middle of the city, although for Daniel's bad luck, he was convinced to pay half of her penalty.

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In the middle of woods, there was a boy running with all his might, he would like to turn around and throw a dagger to his pursuer while running, but fears it will catch him if he turns around.

"(If I could throw the dagger... no, I'm still not good at throwing daggers)" thinks the boy, remembering the previous day while training throwing daggers, and yet not always the dagger would pierce the target.

The roar of a creature is heard closer.

"What a shity tutorial!" says the boy somewhat annoyed with the difficulty of the third tutorial, of all the tutorials he has done so far. No one would imagine that Daniel was having a smile right now, while watching Steve’s live transmission, It kind of reminded him of when he did the insane difficulty tutorial back in his rookie days.

From a moment to another, the roars cease, although Steve realizes it, he just slows down to look around for a moment.

"(Why did it stop following me? Gave up?)" Thinks the boy, but was right, after all it was only one orc warrior following him, not several orcs, and they were already far from the camp, he had run miles. Orcs are no stupid, like most creatures living in the nature they follow their instinct, but being humanoid creatures they have a certain level of intelligence, the orc would not go away alone to a place far away from the camp, they knew the concept of 'ambush' although it is not commonly practiced.

"How would I kill those things? Have to eliminate half camp, you say?" the trap on this floor hadn't arrived yet, it was just the beginning.

"Fucking bet of shit, am I supposed to do this on hard difficulty?" says Steve, asking to himself if medium difficulty would be better.

"(Anyway, for now I guess I have to do a one-man ambush, I think I have an idea of how to get past this at once)"

Steve stopped to rest for a moment as he thought about what he had been told about floor 3 of the main PvE, it was a lot of information to take into consideration but he managed to remember most of it.

Floor 3 of the main PvE, the third tutorial, varied wildly in hard and insane difficulty. From the hard difficulty, an event would happen that activates a secondary mission, if he managed to kill the head of the orc camp or one of his guards; that by the way they were normally in the deepest part of the camp; the system would give him the secondary mission, whether or not to fulfill it, would be up to the player, but for the going gamble he is supposed to complete the side quest on the first try.

After reviewing the information for a moment, the boy gets up and goes to the camp.

"(I know how to complete this floor, the problem is the secondary mission, that side quest... or rather, the problem is to activate the secondary mission, I hope the plan works)"

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Back in the district, Sasha and Daniel were in their usual place, but this time, the huge window overlooking the horizon showed Steve's live video, It could only be seen from the inside, from the outside you would only see a tinted glass, and inside only very specific people could enter, at least on that floor of the store.

"If you paid the display rights for the store, why don't you want to see it? Are you so nervous about losing?"

This time Daniel wasn't even paying attention to the screen unlike Sasha, although neither showed nervousness.

"The interesting thing is when he goes to activate the secondary mission, until now I don't care"

"...Definitely nervous" Sasha says teasingly, though it was precisely the opposite of nervous.

"You seem more nervous, after all, even if I lose, I don't really lose anything, unlike you" Daniel says, and Sasha only answers with a smile.