In the same coffee shop in the district, the day after Sasha subtly interrogated Samuel, Daniel was next to Sasha looking at the horizon again, this time seeing the sunset, a beautiful view that not any place on earth could have in an environment as luxurious as that one. Daniel was silent, waiting for an answer, he had been summoned to the cafe and he simply waited there in silence, but finally he got tired of waiting.
"Then, what am I doing here?" He says.
"Cause you came after a pretty girl called you, why else would you come?"
"I repeat, what am I doing here?"
"... ok then, you win, is an apology, I thought you didn't tell me the whole truth last time, i mean, not always you give a direct answer so i can not always use my skill"
"and your apology, is to invite me here?"
"This is the best place in the city, you know?"
"I know, this place is min- ours, anyway. So your idea is to invite me to a place that I alread own?"
"It's the thought that counts"
"sure, I knew you wouldnt apology for something like that, it is normal the apologies for interrogate my people is invite me to drink something at my own 'place' o something like that"
"..." Sasha keeps in silent giving Daniel the chance to understand something.
"Then is to ask me something else or so, right?" Daniel says after the moment of silence.
"You remember the newbie I show you short time ago?" She says with her gaze that seems focused on the horizon although she is actually looking at a screen, the one shown by her assistant.
"You are lookin at his next combat?" he intuits.
"Yeah, although is recorded, not on live. He did the second level of the tutorial some hours ago"
"Why that much interest? someone important?"
"actually, is my cousin, one of the few relatives I have with whom I can get along"
Those words shocked him for a moment, he knew some things about her from the time they were partners and rivals, but he never knew about her personal circumstances, remaining silent for a moment.
"..."
Despite his silence, Sasha didn't say anything to him until moments later, surprising him even more for a moment once again.
"When he finished his mission, he went for a walk through the district, and he saw that in the European division the advertisements showed my face"
"He didn't knew his cousin was already in the district? Then who invited him?"
"Most of my family don't know about the district, a guy who wanted revenge against the family approached my cousin and invited him to the district"
"Why someone would invite your cousin to the district? knowing you were there and would kill him or her before doing something to the boy"
"For legal purposes, I changed my last name recently, now i am Sasha White again, and it's not like it has much to do with my family either, so few know that we are part of the same family"
"So, actually you changed your last name to help your cousin... or so I think"
"Yes"
"I keep not knowing what I am doing here"
"The first The first reason is to apologize, the second reason is to ask you for help"
"You want me to include him in the association?"
"When we merge the associations i said i will leave this decisions to you, that's why I ask you this favor"
Associations were an insurance that talented players in the district have, an association was not understood by the system, it was established by the players themselves, in where top level players support talented players and 'retired' players. Much had to be said about associations. Sasha's association supported many types of people, and Daniel's association supported only retired players who had performed admirably in their day, as well as talented players starting out in the district, although these types of new players were a rare occurrence these days in the district. Daniel's association was very well established and was one of the strongest from the beginning, while Sasha, wanting to help a lot, had problems in her association, and it was Daniel who helped her, in the end the result was the merger of the two associations .
"If it's your family and someone important to you, sure you can include him. I guess the person who invited him must be aware that you changed your last name and now is hiding, is that or would do when knowing it"
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"Probably..."
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Meanwhile, in the video that Sasha was watching while talking to Daniel, the situation was reaching its climax. In the second level of the tutorial, on medium difficulty, the new player, Steve White was fulfilling the last of 3 objectives in the dungeon that the second level of tutorial took part in, recover the treasure stolen by a bandit, previous objectives were to kill the bandit guard guarding the prisoners and free at least 2 of the prisoners. The prisoners, 2 wolves, were released by Steve only to attack him, that was the first trap in that tutorial level, after barely escape, only thing left to do was recover the treasure, but it wasn't as easy as expected.
A pair of bandits were watching the warehouse, an small cave, protected by a simple wooden wall. Kill humans would be a complicated situation for the boy, but the bandits were not humans, actually those were a creature similar to goblins, but taller and smart enough to talk some language between them, even if having humanoid forms they talked their own language, not all of them were that smart, but even if so, thanks to that the boy would kill them without psycological damage. Poor boy, didn't knew what was for him in the district.
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"From what I see from his movements, he's very honest, I mean, is fast and has good reflexes, but he almost sings everything he's going to do" says Daniel when watching Sasha's screen.
"Yeah, his movements are as honest as him" she says with a sigh.
"That can be fixed, the real problem is his personality realted to combat. He chose the medium difficulty, if it had been the hard or the insane, do you think he would have a good time?"
"No" Says Sasha without thinking twice, anyone would think that hard or insane difficulty is as the name implies, however in that mission, players who completed the tutorial would know what Daniel's words meant "As I said, he is very honest, couldn't kill a person"
"You have to train that part of him very hard then"
The second level of the tutorial was an small bandit settlement, the dificulty only change one thing, the number of bandit settlement, The hard difficulty adds one more settlement, for a total of three, and insane difficulty well... adds many, anyway, the player would appear in the first settlement and then advance to the next and free the prisoners and recover the treasure, in higer difficulties, the other settlements would contain other races too, even humans.
"Actually..."
"Do not say what I am thinking you are about to say" Daniel had a bad feeling.
"Can you help me to train him?"
"I said don't say it!"
"I already said it, so help me!"
"No"
"What about a little betting? if i win you help me, and if not then you can ask me to do one thing, anything" Sasha offers to Daniel, asking any thing to a legend would be something no one can buy with money.
"Sound good, what's the deal"
"Tomorrow he will enter in floor 3, the third tutorial, there we will place our bets"
"The orcs... sound good, until then, good luck training him" He said that, but stayed watching the video with Sasha.
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Steve would be in trouble if he faced the bandits, reinforcements had arrived before the fight, so if he started a fight he had to finish it quickly, and even then he could only run away after the fight or he would have problems. On the other hand, he could go undetected, which had tried before, but also failed, moving stealthily was harder than he thought, anyone could differentiate the sound of human footsteps from the sound of nature, the last time he tried he had to run away before he was caught.
"(Maybe i can create a distraction?)" He thought that if he used a distraction he could have the guards go to investigate, but one of the two could stay, although he thought that he could with just one if attacking by surprise.
"(But what to use as distraction? Throw a rock wont do it, not enough noise and... the wolf! if i get them here... but is too much attention)" At a crossroads, the boy decides on one of the items he had brought to the second level of the tutorial, making simple fireworks trap, a rather useless tool that he thought would bring just to celebrate the victory or do something funny at ending the level. A useless tool becoming usefull in the key moment, an abnormal good luck, very strange.