[I call this event "The Bounty Hunting"]

[How does it work you may ask? It's quite simple really]

[There are three ways to obtain a bounty on your head.

1. If you're between the top 100 ranked players. This will automatically add a bounty to your head. The better your rank, the bigger reward of course.

2. If there's a really high ranking difference between two players who are near eachother: In this case, the player with the higher ranking will get marked by a bounty depending on the difference in their ranks.

3. If you kill many players who have bounties on their heads in the process. Let's say that you kill 5 players with bounty for example. When that happens, you'll be marked with a pretty hefty bounty too]

The army of players start whispering to one another. Mikey and the man in front of him look at eachother. The man gives Mikey a really hostile look.

Shit! Mikey thinks to himself. This is the worst possible timing for something like this... now all of those players might try to get us.

[Oh yeah, I forgot. You will all, obviously, get a reward for killing a player with a bounty.

This reward varies depending on the ranking of the player which you kill. The lowest bounty placed on someone can be 1000 Emerald nuggets]

And one last thing, after this event ends, your ranking will be updated. I will no reveal the duration of the event for now]

[Now then, let's not wait any further and start the event RIGHT NOW!]

One thousand emerald nuggets as the LOWEST bounty there can be? That's absolutely crazy. Mikey thinks to himself. That's almost 10 SSS points. Just how much will my bounty be worth?! Mikey looks at the player in front of him, the man is looking above Mikey's head.

Mikey looks above himself and sees it too.

[100 000 Emerald nuggets+Special reward]

Those words are written above Mikey's head in small letters.

Holy fuck, that's a little bit too much don't you think?! Mikey smiles nervously. That's almost 1000 SSS points, the price does increase by 10 Emerald Nuggets every time you allocate an SSS point but still...

The player opposite to Mikey has an emotionless expression on his face. He turns around and comes up to the other players. They whisper to eachother for a few moments. Mikey looks at his crew and shrugs his shoulders, he doesn't know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, Lucy and Ragnar are talking about something.

The other players are all in extreme distress, the leader probably told them about Mikey's rank.

Soon enough the leader comes back to Mikey and tells him this. "We know about your bounty obviously, but we are not taking the risk of fighting you. Plus, your crew, I can't see their ranks but I am certain that they're extremely strong too. We welcome you to this village, but not for long, we can't have you guys sticking around here with those bounties, I hope you understand that."

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Woah, seriously? Mikey thinks to himself. I thought that they would surely attack us, this is nice, but I guess I shouldn't drop my guard down.

"I appreaciate that, there's one more thing I wish to know." Mikey says.

"What is it?" The leader asks nervously.

"The forest, what's beyond it?" Mikey asks.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you because of that announcement. Follow me and my allies into our village, I will tell you there." The leader responds.

The player leader actually looks somewhat intimidating, his hair is dark red and short, he has red eyes which shouldn't be normally possible. This means that it must be an attribute. He is pretty large too. If Mikey couldn't see his rank, he would've definitely thought of him as a formidable opponent.

The man and his allies are leading the way to the village, Mikey and the others follow them.

"You think we can trust 'em Mikey?" Ragnar asks.

"Act towards them as if we were allies, but make sure not to drop down your guard." Mikey responds.

"There's something off about their leader." Ragnar continues the conversation.

"What do you mean?" Mikey asks.

"Well, my attribute kept going off while the two of you were talking, I know that his ranking is low, but I think he's hiding something." Ragnar answers. "Otherwise my attribute wouldn't warn me about him." He adds.

"Maybe he's hiding his rank?" Lucy joins in the conversation.

"You think he could do something like that?" Zoro joins in aswell.

"Of course, there must be an attribute like that, right?" Says Christina, who didn't want to be left out of the conversation.

"Whatever they try, it won't get us killed, we are simply stronger." Mikey says confidently.

A few minutes pass and they finally reach the village. There's something set up in the middle of it. Several tables and seats. Cauldrons, meat, vegetables, spices, salt etc.

"Are they having a feast?" Lucy asks.

"Seems like it." Ragnar says.

The leader of the players comes up to Mikey and the others.

"We're having a feast, come join us please." The leader says.

"I forgot to ask, but what's your name?" Mikey asks.

"Oh right, my name is Andrew, nice to meet you." The leader says.

"Mikey." Mikey responds and shakes hands with Andrew.

Mikey's crew and Andrew sit down at a roundtable. Some of the players are sitting down at other tables and some players are cooking food for the feast. They're not using furnace but are actually cooking the food and adding ingredients to it. Something which Mikey hasn't really thought of yet since coming here.

Even though no one can see it everyone can sense it. The players are extremely scared of Mikey's crew. I mean, it kind of makes sense. It's as if you were just walking around a forest and stumbled upon someone in a full military gear.

"Why are they cooking the food the normal way?" Christina asks Andrew out of curiosity. The others are quite interested aswell. Normally, you can put almost anything in furnace or simply craft it.

"The food tastes actually much better that way, and not only that, do you see that girl with brown hair in ponytail?" Andrew asks.

Everyone nods as they look at the girl. She looks young, probably about 15 or 16 years. She's giving orders to everyone, telling them what should they do.

"Well, her attribute of the past allows her to cook meals that not only taste extremely delicious, they also literally boost your stats." Andrew says.

"What a strange attribute." Zoro responds.

"Not sure if you can say that when you don't even know how one of your attributes work." Luylcy laughs.

"I guess so." Zoro laughs aswell.

That's right, Zoro still hasn't figured out the nature of his second attribute, whose name still remains a mystery, Zoro knows the name of the attribute of course, he just doesn't know how it works at all or what it does.

"Now then, while we wait for the food. Let me tell you guys about what's beyond this forest." Andrew puts his hands together and smirks. Everyone at the roundtable starts listening.