As he continued walking, the city slowly grew in size until he saw a towering gate in front of him. He saw a sign above the gate reading "Meren City", muttering it under his breath and walked in. When he entered and Arin saw what could be descibed as a bustling city, people crowded around going about their day. There were stores of all kinds even stalls lined the streets, selling food and all sorts of items. He slowly walked around, taking in the view and enjoying all of the wonderful smells in the air. After enjoying all the wonderful things, he went on to his first task.

It was to find his teacher!

According to the village chief, the instructor for the summoner class could be found in the northern part of the city by the city lord's mansion. There would be an empty area filled with grass and a little house should be at the back of the small field. Arin arrived and did see the instructor's home. As he entered the field and continued to the house, he thought about how out of place this was and thought that his teacher was one of those eccentrics.

Little did he know...it was true. When Arin reached the house, he was about to knock on it before the door suddenly opened. An old woman stood in front of him with a kind smile. In her arms was a cat that she petted,

"I've been expecting you", she said, "Please, come in."

He was surprised and entered with out saying much. The house itself was quite small, however, it had a cozy feeling. There was a small fire place at the other end of the house, A pair of spiral staircases were situated on opposite corners leading to the second floor. In front of him was a small wooden table with several chairs. There was another room which seemed to be the kitchen.

Soon, he was seated and served a cup of tea. After taking a sip, he decided to get a good look at the instructor.

Elis Diont (Level ???)

Summoner Instructor

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It seems that Arin was too weak and unable to see anything but the name and class. He wanted to ask about the next step in getting stronger but didn't know how to break the silence. Suddenly, the instructor spoke.

"My name is Elis Diont and I am the current Instructor for all young summoners. You may refer to me as just Elis", she said.

Arin, thankful for her speaking, then introduced himself and asked her as to what his next step should be. 

"There are many things you can do to get stronger, as your instructor, I suggest you go to one of the dungeons nearby. As to which one, that is your choice. Come back to me once you are more powerful", she said.

This answer might seem weird but it is quite normal. After all, this game is comepletely open-world, while there is a main quest-line, there are an insane number of side quests and other content when exploring the game. With this, Arin left and began exploring the city until he stopped at a inn. It wasn't anything special but he wanted to gain information on the city and its surroundings. He entered and sat on a random table, ordering a drink and some soup. He spent some time listening in on other conversations before finding something interesting. 

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In another table full of city guards, one of them was speaking about a cave.

"To the west of the city is a Black Spider Cave, It had just appeared but already it has claimed many lives, however people are still entering no matter what. There seems to be a treasure of something", he said. 

Arin found this very interesting and planned to leave for this spider cave. Unfortunately he was reaching the time limit of entering the game and exited quietly. It was the second day and already so much had happened. Before he went to sleep, he decided to check up on the forums and see if anything interesting had happened yet but there was nothing new. People were still searching for guild tokens or selling items. Suddenly he remembered about the Rabbit King's Sabre and he logged in to his account from his tablet and put up the sabre to sell on the game auction center. He set it so that the highest bidder after 6 hours would get it. 

With the business side of things taken care of, he went to sleep hoping that the sabre would sell for a lot.

Later that night, the sabre caused lots of commotion. After all, it was one of the first few rare weapons to appear and it had a special skill as well. Many groups contacted their upper echelons about the sabre. It was currently one of the strongest weapons in the game due to its stats and skill. After all, players still had white equipment and uncommons were quite rare. As for rares, they could be counted on one hand. Soon the bidding amount soared, even the three great guilds started bidding. Furthermore they started looking for information about this "Lord Rainbow" but could not find much, after all, Arin was still unknown.

When Arin woke up the next day, the first thing he did was look at who bought the sabre and how much it was bought for. When he saw the amount, he was amazed by the number. It had been bought for almost 100 gold and if he chose to convert the gold to real-world currency, it was around 900 dollars. As for the person who bought it, the player was named was, "Iron Hand." It sounded familiar to him until he realized that it was the guildmaster of The Hundred Knights group. Arin did not think that such a notable player would buy his weapon. After all, it was the guildmast of one of the most famous guilds.

After his excitement went down, he decided to convert the gold to cash and save it to pay for his loans. He quickly went to his work place and changed, evidently he wanted to talk to Elias about it. But who would've known that Elias would beat him to it.

"That sabre is amazing! It has a special skill and increases speed!" he said, "Why would anyone sell it?"

Arin then replied, "Maybe because that person was not a warrior, he might've been a mage class. "

Elias paused what he was doing and looked at him.

"How would you know this?"

Arin then replied, "Why do you think?"

"You're Lord Rainbow??" he said. 

He nodded and looked at him smugly.

Elias questioned him about the weapon and didn't believe him. However, once Arin told hime the whole story did Elias trust him. He sat in amazment wondering how his friend could defeat an boss on his own. 

At the end of his shift, Arin bought some lunch and went home. He couldn't wait to enter Black Spider Cave, it was his first real dungeon in the game.

However, the moment he entered, he was bombarded by notifications from people wanting to get to know him. This annoyed him and he chose to silence all of it and prevent anymore from popping up. After doing so, he immediately went for the cave, excited as to what he would find there.