Chapter 10 Fairy Ring
Disclaimer: I own nothing , this is purely a fanfic for enjoyment. Cross-over from various games , books, anime, and movies. The familiar characters you see here belongs to their respected authors and owners.
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Authors Note: This fanfic is going AU. Couldn't wait for translation release.
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Previously on Harry's New Hobby
"Infinity Force!." Shiroe shouted as he placed the effect on Harry.
"Healer of the World!." shouted Harry at his end.
Healing magic errupted and a very strong green healing energy erupted from the ground healing everything in sight. The area covered the entire nation of Japan server.
Normally such a spell is harmless to everything and would heal everyone in its path wheter monster or Player. There is an exception, that is the forces of undead, because of their characteristics, any healing done to them will cause damage instead.
With the effect of 'Healer of the World', that converts all of Harry's MP into a continental area heal, focusing on the damage to all undead monsters, along with Shiroe's 'Infinity Force', that unlocks the target's limeters, and grants them unlimited MP for 15 seconds, let's just say that it does infinity damage to all undead within range, and let's just say that 'Healer of the World' has alot of range.
Harry's spell wiped out all undead in whole of Japan server that night, the result?, he gained plenty of levels and his fame continued to spread across the land.
Harry fainted after casting such a very strong spell.
Harry saw the message on his screen before he passed out.
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*Ding*
Congratulations!
-You have gained 50 levels
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Congratulations! You are the MVP!
-Gained Phatasmal item Sleipnir
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Chapter Start
Harry woke up feeling very refreshed, He was in a VIP hotel type of room, probably in the Choushi's mayor's guest room he deduced.
Harry did his morning stretches and took a bath. After finishing his bath, Harry wore his other pair of emperor outfit duplicate. When Harry exited the house, he saw people celebrating.
Harry decided to take a stroll to enjoy the sites, everyone seems to bow to him for some strange reason including the troops from the people of the land. Harry waved his hands at them, and went to find Shiroe but couldn't find him anywhere so he he decided to use the telepathy.
"Moshi, Moshi, ahh your awake sempai, congratulations on saving our behind, with this, we will be safe untill next year, we will be sure to deploy more troops so they don't overwhelm us again. That was really some light show you gave that time, hoh?, your heading back to Akihabara?, well I suppose, do you have some free time?, the nobles from the League of Freedom Cities Eastal keeps on pestering us about Emperor vi Britania for some tea party and some business contracts for those eggs, I'm really swamped with work, what? your hanging up?, hey, listen to my rant dammit!." Shiroe talked but Harry hung up.
Harry arrived at his guild Hall, and was greeted by its members and got further teased.
Another two months passed, and Harry was getting bored, Harry did get a unique reward from the Duke Sergead though, a compact infinity bag, a bag that has a bottomless storage space, how very useful, and since he had his Vongola ring, said reward was multiplied by ten, earning him ten pairs. Harry has indeed struck gold, he shared and gave one to Soujiro, and one to Shiroe. Harry was certain they would definitely need it because of the endless paperwork, and both seem to have endless workload, it would aid them to have their necessary items on hand to lessen their problems.
Harry was utterly bored, no action, well, if you count evading fans action, then Harry has plenty. It was then Harry had a brilliant and crazy idea. His answer came to the form of the Fairy ring.
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Fairy Ring
Fairy Ring(or Fairy Circle) is a device that allows you to teleport between zones in Elder Tales. Although confirmed to be working after the Catastrophe, no one wants to approach them. The reason for this is because the teleportation device changes destination under the influence of the moon.
The destination changes every 1 hour, in addition to that the cycle also changes every month (they use the moon calendar which only contains 28 months). The destination of the Fairy Ring you just used is entirely different and doesn't take you back to where you originally came from, so the number of connection combinations to various places (Fairy Ring works on a world-wide scale) is enormous even though it is limited by the moon. Because there is a re-use restriction time, once a Fairy Ring has been used once another can't be used right after.
Generally in Elder Tales, players create parties to play with for the day depending on the location of their main player town. For those by themselves, after doing proper preparations like shopping, they would use Fairy Ring to move to the field zone containing the dungeon, there they would meet up with others and go on adventures and battles. Due to inability to check guides after the Catastrophe, movement of Adventurers have become very limited.
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Harry made a mad dash to see Soujiro and explained his plan to him, well there was an issue on investigating the rings, but everyone was very busy, and is afraid to use the rings. Harry also contacted Shiroe and said that he would inform the Round Table Council since the Fairy Ring investigation seems to be put off and is lacking in progress and manpower.
After a week of deliberation, Harry's idea has been approved so Harry went on a shopping spree and bought all the food and spices at the market, Harry has now a 3 year worth supply of food, Harry has also accumulated 500 million gold in funds save since he was forced to produce 2k of super eggs per day and there was an inflation in prices, because adventurers had become more active and procured much more money than usual, add to the fact that his Blissey's proficiency in making eggs has increased that they seem to breeze through the process of making soft boiled eggs, and they can now make due with 2k eggs per day. Harry stuffed all the food, spices and all of his items into the infinity bag.
Harry checked his stat and skills. He now noticed a big jump in his HP and Mp and checked the cause, what he saw almost gave him a heart attack.
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Special effect: Loyal Devotion
- As the number of people admires your visage through the 'Super Delicious Eggs of Fantasy', so will the stats you gained be multiplied
-Current number of devotees/admirers has reached 152,720+ people and rising earning your Tittle stats to be multiplied by [ 15 ].
- 10000 devotees/admirers = [ 1 ] multiply.
HP + 2500 x [ 15 ] = 37500
MP + 2000 x [ 15 ] = 30000
Fame + 2500 x [ 15 ] = 37500
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Harry's Stats:
Character Name: Harry
Alignment: Neutral
Level: 141
Profession: Summoner
Subclass: level 100 Chef
Title: Seeker of Truth, Emperor vi Britania
Fame: 300 +(37500) = 37800
Health: 46900 (+800) = 47700 + (20% = 9380) = 56280
Mana: 58200 + (20% = 11640) = 69840
Strength: 80
Agility: 110
Vitality: 430
Wisdom: 50
Intellect: 940
Luck: 50
Attack: 220
Magic Attack: 1880 (+240)
Magic defense: 100 (+5) + (+10)
Mana Regen speed: 10 secs (+2820)
Defense: 430 (+10)
Speed: 220
Hit: 220
Crit: 100
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Harry was smiling at his new stats, he now rivaled a World Boss himself.
He was now ready, Harry wore his emperor's outfit beffiting of his status, he really fell in love with that outfit resulting in him having plenty of duplicates, Harry arrived at Akihabara's Fairy Ring, alot of people decided to send him off, some people he didn't even know where there, probably a Super Egg fan.
He was about to use the Fairy ring when he heard a shout.
"Wait Shishou!." someone shouted, Harry turned around and saw Ranma, Saito, Killua Gon, and Nanoha running towards him.
"Your not getting rid of us that easy Shishou, mou, how very sneaky of you." Ranma stated, which gave Harry a smile.
"Hehehe, I'm touched, maybe I should start my own guild with you guy's." Harry joked.
"Really sempai?, you hear that everyone, Harry is starting a guild with us." said Ranma earning him a cheer from Killua, Gon, Saito and Nanoha having Harry sweatdropped.
Harry gulped, he couldn't tell them it was a joke, it would break their hearts, so Harry sent a rushed message to Soujiro.
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Dear Souji,
I have gotten myself in a bit of a Jam, It seems that I have made myself another family and blurted a joke that I should make a guild with them, sadly they took it literally and I hate to break their hearts so I'm informing you of my resignation. I will probably register our guild when we arrive where the Fairy ring will take us, I hope you understand, your friend Harry.
P.S.
I hope to rival your guild in Strength, but I don't look forward to paperwork.
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"You'll have to wait, I'll make it once we arrived at our destinations Guild Building Zone, everyone ready?, okay, to the new frontier!." Harry shouted as he activated the fairy ring.
The ring did it's magic, and it also performed a spectacular lightshow.
Elsewhere, somewhere in the North American Server, their fairy ring started to activate, many people gathered including the people of the land. 6 silhouette of people's shadow could be seen appearing, the light died down showing Harry, and his party in all their glory.
People we're looking like them like an alien object, now, what would most do when they arrive at an unknown place and discovered civilization?, what would they say?, "We come in peace?.", or "We mean you no harm?." or something like that, but that wasn't the case with Harry.
The moment he set foot in the new territory, this is what he said.
"ALL HAIL BRITANIA!." Harry shouted.
The people looked at him funny, maybe he had a few screw loose in his head. Harry's group just smiled at his antics.
The people stared at Harry for 5 minutes, and then they all laughed at the crazy person who used the Fairy ring, oh, they laughed for 30 minutes alright. It wasn't until a large number of the people of the land gathered at the Fairy ring and kneeled at Harry that made them shut up.
Harry just walked straight to the Guild building Zone, Harry observed his sorroundings as he walked, it was bad, the situation was really really bad, it was a lawless zone, and the treatment between the NPC, and players was very harsh.
Harry grit his teeth, and his hand formed to a fist, it was this scene that he was glad that Shiroe did what he did at Akihabara, then he got a brilliant idea, why not copy what Shiroe did?, Harry had the resources to bend the people of this city to his demands to make it better, so his mind went into overdrive, and when he arrived at the Guild building Zone he withrawed his membership from his guild West Wind Brigade and made a new guild, he called it the "Britanian Empire." He invited his new family immediately making them a happy camper.
Harry also brought the the Guild building Zone for 5 million gold, for his next step he explained his plan to his group, and he got their approval. He ordered his members to spread the word that he will be having a meeting with the major guilds both battle and production guilds the next day at 11 a.m at the Town Council Hall. Harry also told them to bring a representive for small guilds, and instructed them that it is an Order from the Emperor of Britania from the guild 'Bitanian Empire', failure to comply will result in the ban of their guild items and money, he also told them if they still will not reply then check the Owner of the Guild Building Zone, and they should listen to Harry's tune. Harry's group followed his order, and spread his ultimatum to this new city successfully which he learned was New York in the real world.
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News spread like wildfire about the Britanian Empire guild's forceful takeover, many were skeptical, but seing major guilds were in a panic like headless chickens confirmed their validity, the small guilds were quite happy, it could not have resulted in a worse situation than it already is, so they took a leap of faith in the meeting and attended it.
Harry found an information broker, and paid him for some information about the city. This is what he learned.
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North American Server
Region personally under the jurisdiction of Atharva Inc. Within the game this area is call "The Land of UN/Wen".
In the North American server area in Elder Tales, Big Apple and South Angels were the only two player towns available to be selected in the early days. Although it seems to simulate America in 1/2 the scale through 'Half-Gaia Project', things like cultural backgrounds have not been clarified at this point.
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Big Apple
Inital starting point in the North American server.
After the Catastrophe, the town lost order after the so-called '6.01 Food Riots', it has become a savage town filled with violent guilds and selfish Adventurers, the few righteous Adventurers and guilds that exist don't have enough power to bring the town back to order. Location is around the area corresponding to New York.
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It was bad as he thought, he also learned the major players in the Big Apple.
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[]The Big league Battle Guilds/Elite Four[]
Lorelei of guild Ice Castle
Bruno of guild Fighting Force
Agatha of guild Ghost Bearers
Lance of guild Dragon Riders
[]The Production Guilds[]
Sabrina of guild Psychic Blaster
Koga of guild Poison Jammer
Blaine of guild Fire Storm
Giovanni of guild Ground Slammer
[]Small Guilds[]
Brock of guild Rock Smasher
Misty of guild Water Queen
Lt. Surge of guild Electric Emperor
Erica of guild Grass Perfection
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[Note: If you haven't notice, I took these characters from the pokemon game.]
Time skip, day of the meeting.
Harry was already inside the Town Council Hall, he waited in another room waiting for the right time to enter the main meeting hall. The time has finally arrived for the face-off.
As Harry entered the room, the guild leaders become wary of Harry.
Naturally, Harry played mind games with them.
"Good morning, before we start, I would like to give this opening statement, ALL HAIL BRITANIA!." Harry shouted which made them sweatdropped. Harry then adjusted his glasses and thought "Harry: 1, Big Apple guilds: 0."
"Now we can discuss the finer points of this meeting." Harry stated resulting in many outbursts that came from the Big Apple's guild masters.
"This is is blackmail!, how can you call yourself human when you got our items, and money hostage?." Lance, the leader of the elite four argued.
"Ahahahahahaha!, my, my, and the situation before was better?, well I'm sure it was, only for your group that is." Harry smirked.
Lance, gupled and back off, it was true, his guild was one who took advantage of the chaos, he was one who he horded food and occupied the best training spots.
"You are right, it is blackmail, this is War gentlemen, it would be best I describe it to one of many of your excuses like 'survival of the fittest'." Harry pointed out.
Harry's deduction strikes home, almost the majority of them who had power used that very excuse themselves and the innocent ones are forced to do the same, such cycle is repeated.
"This meeting is a mere formality, your fate is literally in my hands, you have no say in the matter, but I am ordering you to follow it or else!." Harry's threat lingered on their minds, it was like the death reaper has his blade on their throats, and one wrong move would be very costly indeed.
"What are your demands?." Lance, the leader of the elite four gave up reasoning with this person, much less threatening him, his points were all valid as he was using it himself a few month's ago.
Silence filled the room, they were all waiting to what unreasonable demands Harry was going to make but surprised them instead.
"Here are my demands, first, the ban PKing in low-level zones around Big Apple. Second, each guild should comprise with each other for grinding spots. Third, each guild must respect human rights of players. There must not be any confinement, kidnapping, murder, and rape. Joining and leaving guilds must be a voluntary decision. Fourth, you are to collect resources through taxation and job requests which will be used to investigate the Fairy Rings that can be used for exploring zones and mapping routes. When exploration has been completed, they will disseminate information through newspaper and other media channels." Harry explained but he was interrupted.
"How can you tax us when money isn't circulating especially from small guilds like us?." Brock bravely pointed his opinion.
Many were anticipating what kind of punishment Harry would dish out for insubordination, but was surprised to what happened next.
"Let me finish before you ask your questions." Harry calmly pacified the people in the meeting. Surprisingly, they found out that Harry was a reasonable guy.
"Now where was I?, ah, the main purpose of the alliance is to improve the city's vitality and security. This was achieved through governance, regulation, criminalization, taxation, collaboration, information management, innovation, and economy. One might ask how I will do this?, it's simple." Harry chuckled
All of the guild masters in the room were full of anticipation.
"I'm surprised that you guys haven't still figured out how to make food here, its making this city stagnant." Harry snapped his fingers and his party brought food that he prepared and served them to the people of the room.
The guild masters in the room were salivating at the aroma, they carefully took a bite, and cried tears of joys for their first taste of real food before the catastrophe.
"Please!, please, share with us this secret." All of them begged, it has been many months since the catastrophe occured, since they could not figure out how to cook for food, they resorted to hoarding the edible simple foods that had taste, and led to much chaos in the Big Apple.
"Yes gentleman, I am sharing this piece of information to all of the people here in the Big Apple, this will boosts innovations which subsequently increases consumption and business and decreases depression. The increased consumption also leads to rising in demand and jobs across production and battle guilds. Yes gentleman, this is the Holy Grail of information which can revolutionize this stone age of a city, and can motivate those lazy player bums to hunt for money which in turn will do those things I mentioned earlier, but I expect for you guys to do the same, and share your discovery to the public if you found some new discoveries that will lead to innovation and inventions, do you agree to my terms?." Harry asked.
"Yes!." They shouted unanimously, they were desperate dammit and this person in front of them is offering information worth the Holy Grail for free to better themselves, naturally they are in turn obligated to agree to his fair demands.
"The secret is this this." Harry said, and the room was filled with anticipation.
"The out-of-the-game innovations can be created by those with suitable subclasses and levels without using the in-game menu. this means that you can cook food the traditional way, but the success to its trick is who has the class who does them, for example, my subclass is a chef and a high level one, so naturally I can cook complicated dishes, the success of cooking is also determined by ones subclass level, so cooking complicated dishes is out of those whose subclass is not high enough and those who does not have the right class." explained Harry.
"Naturally this does not mean that it only affects cooking only, other classes can do the same and can recreate real world inventions such as a radio. Gentlemen where I came from we have successfully recreated a steam powered boat, that is the difference and value and true meaning of this information. Naturally possessing this information doesn't really lead to success if we hoard it to ourselves, we need cooperation with all the players and guilds to advance at that level to where I am from. I expect you to disclose your new discoveries to the public. We will definitely enter an age of rediscovering inventions that we can recreate from the real world." Harry explained excitedly.
The Big Apple guild masters digested this information, and realized that they were very close to ruin. A shiver run down their spine at this realization that if this person in front of them had not intervened it would ultimately lead to their demise.
"There is one more issue I would like to include, that is to build good relationships with the People of the Land or NPC and respect their human rights." Harry explained.
Shock and confusion were clearly shown in the Big Apple guild masters faces.
"Let me elaborate, as you have clearly noticed, the people of the land or NPC are no longer what we thought them to be, they have thoughts and feelings and every right to what makes them human, the only difference between them and us is that we are immortal in this game. It reminds me of the case near my previous town, the other player city abused the people of the land and they were selling the people of the land or NPC as slaves." Harry shared his experience.
Shock were the thought of the Big Apple guild masters, they haven't thought of it, but they were headed down that path, if it wasn't for Harry they would definitely have.
"Let me remind you gentlemen, the people of the land are like normal human beings, as such they outnumber us greatly seing as this is their original world, a war with them would be devastating. But let me assure you that they can be reasoned with as well, we have formed an alliance with them at my previous server location and it has opened many trade routes, and naturally, profits for both sides, it's a win-win situation really, just be careful of their politics." Harry explained, and the people of the room digested this new piece of information, plenty of them were interested in future profits to be made.
"With that, I leave the fate of your lovely city in your capable hands, I also leave the political management of this city to your care, and the name of it's new group to you, here is my closing statement, ALL HAIL BRITANIA!." Harry shouted as he left the building.
Harry arrived at his new guild house with his new family, it was pretty decent space, a rank A guild house, quite spacious and capable of fitting in 100 players, and has many rooms. Harry allowed to splurge himself at the success of his mission.
Little did Harry know that he changed the destiny of the New York/ Big Apple town's inhabitants, and saved many lives in the process.