I stood up and walked towards Crimson, while carrying Loyd on my back. I guess Crimson defeated Duk. The fog outside of the battle field disappeared and people started to enter the district. Crimson saw me struggling to carry Loyd and ran towards me. He gave me a pink potion and took Loyd.
“How did you even lose to him? He wasn’t even that strong.”
He looked so serious when he said that it made me give him a look of total contempt. I forgot that Crimson is a person like this. Someone lives off of their pride and ego. I wonder how he became the sin of wrath, not pride.
“Hey! Walk faster and get to your houses you little useless piece of shit!” Crimson scorned with rage towards people who were goofing off.
Actually, I think I know how he became the sin of wrath.
But thank god we finally defeated Duk. For my debut quest, this was kind of challenging but at least we got through it.
[Loading compensations.]
[Obtaining: Passive skill: High level mental barrier, active skill: Quick Dash, Items: 1000 Tea Leaves, Golden apple, Particle of the Catastrophe’s asteroid.]
[You have defeated an incarnation of a being from the outer world. You will be awarded with a special award related to that constellation.]
[Obtaining, “The Scythe of Key and Gate”.]
With all the other awards, a scythe appeared from nowhere and landed in my hands. Other than the scythe, other rewards weren’t that satisfying since I barely contributed to defeating Duk. Crimson probably got the best rewards. Although I only got some low level skills and a few tea leaves, I still got a weapon. The iron sword I have is not good enough to fight against people like Duk. There are probably more threats approaching that are stronger than Duk. Looking at the shattered iron sword, I sighed. I put the new scythe into my inventory.
I was kind of expecting to obtain a special item related to Duk’s guardian. Because when we beat bosses in a dungeon on the server, it gave an item related to the boss’s guardian. I have no idea who his guardian was and what this item does but I will figure it out later.
[1 out of 4 catastrophes defeated. Please head to the next catastrophe. The closest catastrophe not in combat is located in
The WHAT?
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I stared at the message for a couple of minutes. I was extremely surprised by the fact that the next quest was leading us to the kingdom of angels,
-A cloud kingdom with multiple floating islands. In the peaceful paradise full of angels, there shall be songs of beauty.-
I’m pretty sure that was the message that popped up when anyone tried to enter the kingdom. As you can predict from its name, the kingdom is based off of the bible. There are beautiful angels and harmonic choirs. It is known for having the prettiest people in the world, according to Crimson although he never visited before. The only person that has been to
Me and Crimson started walking towards the exit of the district. Right when I set my foot outside of the district, I felt extreme pain from my left arm. I accidentally dropped Loyd on the ground and held on to where the pain was coming from. Crimson yelled and asked a doctor for help and I took my dark green hoodie off. There was a big bruise from where the pain originated. There were some particles of a rock stuck on my joint. I struggled moving my shoulder too. I think I broke my entire left arm when I was fighting Duk.
Sid, who was waiting in the base camp, quickly ran towards me with Crimson and handed me some pills. I swallowed it quickly without water because of the extreme pain. The pain started fading away but I wasn’t able to move my arm. It was like I was injected with an anesthetic.
“Hold up, this will hurt.” Crimson grabbed my arm.
I was wondering what he was doing but before I even questioned him, I heard a really loud crack. He relocated my entire arm by just twisting it. The pain got so much worse. It was so bad that I couldn’t even scream.
“Damn bro it hurt that bad? How weak are you?”
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“Damn even Zoiph and Jacob weren't this weak when I first met them.” Crimson sighed.
I quickly turned around and got up from the ground when I heard familiar names.
“Wait, you know them? Where are they? I haven’t seen them ever since the decon-”
I stopped speaking because I thought I was leaking too much information. I can’t let him know the fact that this world was the game that I used to play and I know the entire history of this server. To him, I have to be a foreigner that appeared out of nowhere.
“Oh so you know them too?” He took off his sunglasses and turned around towards me. He started thinking for a minute. I don’t think he noticed my awkward actions.
“Well Zoiph definitely died right after Duk. Then Jacob… His soul was like torn down to 2 pieces or something? I don’t know, don’t ask me. I only heard stories from Loyd.”
My face shattered into pieces of glass when I heard him say that Zoiph and Jacob died. Those 2 were some of the most famous people on the server. They were both war veterans of the first 2 wars that went missing after the 2nd one. Zoiph was a historian who recorded most of the events that took place in the server. The books and the records he made were used for education in many colleges and schools. The news of his death was nothing but a surprise to me. It was the same for Jacob. He was one of the founders of this town who fought with Loyd during the “Frost War”. He later stood with Loyd and made the basic systems in the town. He was remembered as a hero and later took in as the president before Loyd. I couldn’t believe both of them died.
“You look surprised.” Crimson laughed while giving me a serious stare. It was like he was trying to hide what he was really thinking by laughing.
“Well, yeah. They were famous. They were the founder and the heroes of this town. Why wouldn’t I be surprised?”
“Oh so you do know the history of this town. What else do you know?”
I realized I made a critical mistake there. Now he is aware that I know about the town’s history.
“It’s fine. I don’t really care if you know about this town. I don’t give a fuck if you are just a guy out of nowhere that knows the secrets of this town. I won’t tell Loyd so don’t worry. But I’m just saying, he probably knows too.”
I sighed with relief. At least I know he won’t kill me. But I should probably talk to Loyd about this, the fact that I know about this town.
“But what do you mean that they are dead? When did this even happen? Why did they die?” I hurriedly questioned since I don’t have to hide anything anymore.
“Well, I don’t even know where to start. I don’t know how much you know about this town but surely you are missing out on something if you don’t know what happened to them. If you were there for the revolutionary war you probably know what happened but I guess you missed out.”
“Of course I was there! At the end of the war there was… There was… Wha, what happened?”
I couldn’t remember what happened. There was no way. I know every single event that happened in the town. But why can’t I remember what happened at the end of the war? It’s like my memory was erased by someone.
“Uhh I don’t think you know. You should visit the library in the white house. I think Loyd is writing a book where it has all the recordings of the events that took place on the server. What was it called… Replay?”
Reading that book might be helpful but I had to figure out what was going on with me first.
Okay let’s be calm and analyze what happened. After the frost war which was led by Crimson, the town was at peace until Ulysses overthrew and exiled Jacob and Loyd. After that, Loyd and Crimson teamed up and that's when they became friends. Loyd successfully retook the town from Ulysses but what happened at the end of the war?
I started taking heavy breaths. It was like I was being choked up and the air that was flowing through my lungs suddenly cut out. I grabbed onto my chest and fell on the ground. This was the same type of pain I experienced in my dream. It’s like everytime I realize my memory has been erased I panic. Right when I was about to faint, Crimson hit my head as hard as he could. My face smashed into the ground. I coughed and stood back up. As I was getting dirt off of my face, I saw Sid yell at Crimson but he was yawning like he was annoyed by his scolding.
“Bro you know like we have to time at all right now. We should either head back to the capitol or go help Govind with another catastrophe.”
He was right. There was no time to waste just because of my panic attack.
“I say we just head back to the capitol for now and wait until Loyd recovers. Looks like you also need some weapons too with that weak ass body. Govind is strong enough to handle a catastrophe either way.”
I wasn’t really satisfied the way he worded this but he wasn’t wrong. In a situation where Loyd hasn’t even woken up yet, we won’t be much of a help. Plus, Govind probably can handle the catastrophe by himself because he is stronger than Crimson in some perspectives.
“You guys can return to the capitol then. I will recover the damage in the district and join yall when we are done.”
I nodded with a smile.
“Sounds fair to me? I’m hungry. Yo new kid, have you ever been to the guest house? The pub they have has really good food. We should visit.”
“Didn’t you say we don’t have time for this? That’s why you pounded my face into the ground.”
“Ok but just a sip of beer can’t hurt you that much. Plus, you need new clothes. I will find you a new hoodie there.”
I sighed and answered him.
“Fine let’s go. But you have to promise to get me a new hoodie.”
“Yeah sure thing! I keep promises you know. Like if you know some history in this town you should know how honest I am!”
“You were literally the biggest liar who stole 300,000 tea leaves from Loyd and the national bank…”
He coughed out some awkwardness and started moving faster.
“Come on! Let’s go, I’m so hungry.”
“Do you even know my name?”
“Of course I do!”
“What is it.”
“...”
I sighed and told him.
“It’s Luke. Luke Park.”