Just after his daily training, Daniel got a phone call about his job application. He decide to just accept any job as long as it is a part time job since his tight on money. After asking about the job working hour and salary, Daniel decide he will go to the job interview since the working hour are flexible and the pay is quite good.

He need to go to the interview next week, the person at the other side of the phone said he don't need to bring anything and just wear casually for the interview.After the phone conversation, Daniel have a meal.He log in to the game after finishing his meal.

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Capsule System Scanning.........

"(Hmm...Is it working?)" After losing Grave, Chrono plan on something.

Searching System Data....

Chrono just sit silently and wait

Finalizing system decision.............

"(I hope the result is good)"

Loading system data...

Finally Chrono surrounding back to normal, after a few second he hear system sound and a window pop up

Trtingting!

The system scan your real body to be beefier thus your character Strength,Dexterity and Stamina increase by 10.

"(It work!!)" With Grave gone, he need more stat to cover for his class weakness.He browsed to website Seth used to gave him and it seem the website conveniently got a guide on how to efficiently train for stronger body.

He reduced his gaming time and train for another 3 hour after his 3 hour daily sword practiced which mean he train for 6 hour a day.Normal people can't do the 6 hour training, but he used to training with a sword 3 hour a day for 6 week and he also get the breathing technique that he learned from the website. Adding 3 hour more for his training is not that hard for him.

The result shown only after a week he start his training probably because his previous sword practice already had the result on his body and his current training just speed up the result.

"(I will train my real body more to grind these stat)" Log in to the game is quite dangerous for Chrono since he is just a simple merchant now, he can't defense himself well from bounty hunter.

Strength bonus he used to get from Grave help him a lot for inflicting more damage and not to mention Grave damage and Soul Necromancer class skill that always help him in a pinch. If he didn't had 'Shadow Ghost', he will died the first time Rydon unleashed 'Earth Smash' back then and he will not have any chance to kill Rydon if didn't had 'Soul Blade'.

"(Is there some limit on how much stat I can gain by training my real body?)"Chrono decide to just ask Seth for quick answer. But Seth simply just answered "Yes, and it's a known fact". Then he remembered the last time he meet Alex, his body seems robust.

It seem the user in Emperor Saga divide by 4 tier.The first tier is the casual user that just play the game without knowing anything. The second tier is a normal user who grind occasionally and just spam their skill in a fight. The third tier is pro user who know exactly what they are doing, their skill and equipment are exceptional and they even grind the crafting skill for extra stat. But the fourth tier is no different with the third tier but with one exception,

They train their real body to get the extra stat.

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Stat Window

Character name

Chrono

title

100 manslayer

Level

50

Class

Merchant

Health

330

Mana

230

Fame

0

Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

Infamy

11,000

Strength

74

Dexterity

174

Endurance

31

Wisdom

31

Intelligent

20

Sense

77

Luck

26

Stamina

75

Blacksmith level beginner level 6.

With Grave gone, Chrono lost 35 bonus strength from Grave which is a lot.Even with extra stat from training his real body, his damage out put is not as much as when he had Grave.Now, Chrono need to hit 3-4 more time to slay a monster even by attacking its vital.

He craft a few sword from the equipment he got from the confrontation with 'Purpose'. But because his blacksmith skill is still beginner, the best sword he can craft only got no more than 30 damage output.

He decide he should go to Daisy, the town of outlaw.He restrain himself from going there before since even in the town he can get killed. Worse, with his current tittle even if the chaotic player can't get any reward if they kill him, they got experience. But right now he got nowhere to go and camping somewhere is suicide with all the bounty hunter coming after him.

Daisy didn't get marked on the normal map. It take's three whole day to find the town and that's only after Chrono found a map made from Emperor Saga fan in the forum. Before entering the town, Chrono craft one more mask to hide his red eye.

Happy Mask :

A happy face mask to hide the wearer true feeling. The mask doesn't have any hole in the eye.

Defense : 0 Durability : 50/50

Wearer get blind status.

With his sense and 'Fear Death' skill, Chrono have no need to see with his eye. It's more important to hide his chaotic status even in the town of outlaw.By hiding his eye with the mask, he can hide his current chaotic status from the user but there's no way he hide it from NPC with his high infamy point.Then, Chrono change his cloth to be a lot more fancier and make an emblem from a piece of wood. He put a fancy string on the emblem and wear it as a necklace.

"(Here we go)". Chrono enter the town of Daisy after he finish his preparation.

If he enter the town as a chaotic player, other player may attack him out of curiosity or just for fun. Chaotic player always can determine a user class and level just base on their equipment. Since Chrono can only wear low defense normal cloth, it will be obvious his low on defense and it's easy to kill him unless he is a very high level player.Worse, most chaotic user is the type that attack first and ask question later.

Chrono walk to the town square with his fancy cloth attracting attention from the user's around him.Unlike the normal town, Daisy town square is empty without any merchant trading or selling stuff the reason is quite obvious, because it's the town for chaotic player that will robe and kill any merchant dare to come .Chrono take one spot and put a table napkin on the ground. Now he officially open a store and shout.

"I can craft an equipment for a price! I got level 6 beginner in Blacksmith!"He shout like it's a normal town.

"...." A user grab his weapon but get stopped by more observant user.

"Don't do it, he strangely too brave"

"He wear a mask without any eye hole, and bravely wear a normal cloth in this town.Maybe he is a high level." Another user speak his mind.

"And look at his emblem, it's TerraFirma clan emblem, if we kill him we are dead meat."

"Yeah, I do hear some extra high level user came here occasionally just to raised their crafting skill level because in normal town it's too crowded."

"Let's observe for now."

Just like that, Chrono manage to fooled chaotic player around him. Because in Daisy there's only NPC merchant that only make poor equipment, the demand for repair and equipment craft is quite high. Chaotic player did get their equipment by killing other user, but the drop are random and sometime the equipment just doesn't suit them.Because of this, chaotic player that stay chaotic for month only have poor equipment. Even in Daisy NPC hate chaotic player, which make the NPC blacksmith only make poor equipment for them.

"(At this rate, I can get my blacksmith skill to intermediate in no time)" With all over Daisy as his customer, Chrono realized he make a jackpot as a merchant. But he know, his cover will be blown one day, for that day Chrono make a few plan for his future escape route.

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In Emperor Saga, every user can learn crafting skill. Because the crafting skill can raise stat, many higher level grind it just for the extra stat. But leveling it before reaching max level is a waste of time since character level is the absolute number in the game.

Only merchant can raise manufacturing skill higher than intermediate level 1 which mean no one can match merchant in crafting and no one can get access to the extra stat pass intermediate level 1 beside merchant. In return, merchant get lower combat ability and easily died.

As a chaotic player, Chrono need to defend himself against bounty hunter,combat NPC and other chaotic player.Grave existence make it easier for him to fight but after its broke, it will be three times harder to survive . Chrono decide he need to raise his combat ability but in his current state hunting monster is possible but hunting while surviving from bounty hunter is near impossible.Which mean Chrono can only did one thing for now, grinding stat and raising his level through crafting and trading

Crafting and trading can raise a player level, but it's experience is too small to be significant.Before he become Grave master, Chrono gained level only with his crafting and trading but to get to level 50, he need to spend 2 years in game time.But Chrono can only this much at the current time.

*sniff* "(Grave...)".Chrono eyed get teary when he thought about grave while crafting.

In the middle of his equipment craft business, a man came to Chrono . His walked and smirk on his face shows his arrogance.A human musketeer level in between 120 wearing aristocratic leather armor and his rapier scabbard on his left waist inlaid with fancy small diamond.He stop in front of Chrono and gaze Chrono suspiciously with his dim red eye.

"You're suspicious I never saw TerraFirma emblem made from a cheap wood like that".Aramis speak with an arrogant aristocratic voice.

"(My cover blown faster than I thought, it's only the first day!)" Hiding his frustration, Chrono get up from his sitting position and speak. " Yes, sir? Can I help you?"

"I said, you're suspicious"Aramis speak with louder voice. His level is one of the highest around and he can be considered one of the best duelist in Daisy that make his arrogance aren't baseless

"What about me is suspicious? This?" Chrono held TerraFirma emblem high showing it to Aramis.

"Yes, I never saw TerraFirma emblem made from a cheap wood." Aramis stays firm, he sure the emblem is a fake since his brother is one of the clan member.

"(Encountering a smart one at the first day!)" Chrono grit his teeth, Happy Mask hide his frustration well enough. Emperor Saga is too detail, in this kind of situation the game even show the user micro expression on their face.

"I take it from someone I slayed before as a trophy since I thought the emblem is authentic."Chrono tried to bluffed his way out.

"Bullshit"

"(It doesn't work)" Chrono faced Aramis with a the Happy Mask doing a slight bow. On Aramis side, it looks like Chrono was scared and tried to apologized. But in reality, Chrono already take out a sword from the portal from his back and his right foot take half a step further for balance if he swing his sword. He bow slightly to listen to Aramis step and calculate his attack radius.It's a battle stance for ambush attack.

"(If he take one more step I can slash his neck accurately.)"Chrono wait for a chance and his Happy Mask do wonder hiding his true intention.

"Aramis,stop it!" A voice heard from their side making Aramis cancel his intention to kill Chrono. Chrono also hide his sword back to the portal and stop his intention, he felt continuing his intention will make it worse. Beside, Aramis already sheath his sword back.

"You're lucky."Aramis look at Chrono before he walk to the voice direction.

"(No, you are)" Chrono didn't voice out his thought, he tried to avoid trouble.

"I'm sorry in Aramis stead, we usually didn't attack anyone without a reason." A user came to Chrono after he said something that looks like scolding to Aramis.

"Don't worry about it. It's normal in this town."

"I thought you are an interesting merchant, would you like to join our clan?"

"WHAT?!" Aramis shocked with the user sudden invitation .Chrono didn't said anything but he was shocked too.

"I'm sorry with the sudden invitation, but I thought a merchant will be a great addition to our clan because currently we had none. By the way, my name is Sitka and this is Aramis."

Chrono pondered for awhile, joining a clan is great since he currently need some kind of protection from his many threat and if it's true the clan had no merchant, Chrono can get a great benefit by craft for the whole clan. The only drawback is his first impression to Aramis is not that good and Chrono sure Aramis felt the same thing. From Aramis interaction with Sitka, Chrono can guess Aramis is on the same clan and Sitka rank is higher than Aramis.

"Sure, why not. I'm currently looking for a clan anyway."Chrono make his decision. His bad first encounter with Aramis is a small matter compare to the benefit of joining a clan.

"Great, follow us to our clan hideout and meet our leader. Don't worry, he usually fine if anyone want to join the clan as long as that user get our recommendation."While Sitka explaining, Aramis face shows dissatisfaction.

"Okay, but don't get me wrong, we need to form a contract before I follow you guys." Even with contract, it's still dangerous to follow two unknown people.But joining a clan is a great opportunity, Chrono decide he should take the risk.

"Don't worry about it.It's a dangerous world." Sitka happily signed the contract from Chrono after reading it.

"Even though we are red eye, we don't scam people like a certain someone." Aramis signed the contract after Sitka ordered him to.

Ignoring Aramis, Chrono asked Sitka on the clan headquarters whereabouts. To his surprise, the clan headquarters location is not on any town or private castle but it's inside one of the cave in the mountain range.

"I told you it's a hideout, a secret hideout for us to live in secrecy."Sitka tried to clarify things.

"Why you guys need to live in secrecy?Authority only hunt a user that do evil thing, they usually didn't touch one whole clan because of a few user misdeed from the clan.Unless....every user in the clan doing bad things..." Chrono start to feel uneasy.

Sitka just smile wryly, she look at Chrono with her red eyes without saying anything.

"Because we are 'BloodBrothers'." Aramis answered shortly because he fairly sure his clan famous enough for a decent player like Chrono recognized it just from a name.

"(A bandit clan!!)". Chrono felt like his heart wanted to jump.

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