NOVEL WEB Chapter 17: Discussions
Right after regaining his composure, Night immediately moved his finger and contacted his little brother," Anonymous, offer Requiem any monthly salary he wishes as long as it doesn't surpass 300k dollars, and if that doesn't work, give him my contacts and tell him to call me for future partnerships."
Anonymous was dumbfounded as he heard his brother's voice through the call and the words he uttered," Brot..." He was about to ask for explanation when his voice was immediately cut off.
"Do not ever put yourself on his bad side Ano, I know your personality and the way you accomplish things, if someone isn't on your side you eliminate him, but leave this one to me, you are in no way shape or form to harm or attack him but only speak reason with him," Right after saying so, Night ended the call and sped towards the leveling spot his brother spotted on the map, his mind racing with different words he could use to please Yone.
'We need to hire him. No, we have to!'
Calming himself down, Night fainted that he was in deep thoughts as he spoke to the death knight called Silver behind him in a private chat, "Requiem is rising too fast. If we keep the same momentum, and we can't hide him, we need to make sure he doesn't join anyone else. Get someone to shadow him, befriend him, or help him out in a way that makes him owe us."
"Yes sir, as per your orders," Silver responded respectfully as his fingers darted through several characters on his friend list, sending out orders one after the other.
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Forum:
"The fuck? The second ranking in our kingdom is merely level 2, not even close to 50% EXP bar, yet this Requiem guy is level 4 already, not that far from level 5. Is he cheating?"
"This is definitely cheating! I have looked it up and Requiem was never a name for any player in End World and there is no way a random kid will surpass all the pro's all of a sudden, this guy is hacking for sure!"
"You sure about this? I heard some people say he is from an extremely wealthy family in real life hidden from the outside world and media, maybe he was just going under the radar even while playing End World."
"Brother Requiem, do you have a girlfriend?!"
Over 100k people reacted to the rankings with dozens of people reacting every minute, making it become one of the trending pictures and topics of the current Eclipse Online, shocking even many kingdoms on the side since all of them didn't have a single player over level 3 as well.
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Yone smirked as he saw his leveling speed trending on the forum," Woow, the pressure of being on the spotlight is truly scary. Still, I should get used to this, getting frightened by everyone focusing on me won't help me rise above my past life's position."
Yone felt his body shake, but he didn't know whether it was fear or excitement.
"It's time to start getting funds for that, this is a perfect situation!"
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Inside a forum designated for only the top 100 guilds of End World, plus officially created guilds with offices, gym, and several other buildings and facilities in real life. A conversation between multiple guild executives was currently occurring.
"What do you think guys? If we don't know anything about him, should we have a peaceful approach to this and try to poach him one-by-one? We can choose which guild to go first by doing a random number generator, and if your End World guild ranking is displayed, you start first."
"Hmm, this does make sense given the advantage the top guilds hold, but what if they don't agree?" A guild executive wondered, not buying his words given the identity of the one who typed the message.
"This isn't End World, the top 10 guilds don't have the same power anymore, if they dare disagree, can they deal with all of us at once in this early stage? Did you forget that gaining one level takes hours and our spawn cities are randoms? Do you actually think they will dare risk a fight against us when their members aren't even gathered properly," The guy nicknamed Chapa gave all the points, clearly not worried about the top guilds seeing this message in the slightest.
"You are right...I was overthinking it, I guess," The guy agreed after thinking it over.
The top 10 guilds are indeed way weaker right now, especially dealing with the infamous assassin guild Under the veil and their members being scattered across the whole game without any ways of gathering them before level 10.
Still, even after Chapa's reasonable take, many people still felt a death flag being raised on top of their guild companies, their blood pressure rising and their head aching with pain.
The top 10 guilds are terrifying existences and controlled the entirety of End World before, each controlling an empire, and a trillionaire company backs every single guild except three whose backers are unknown.
Hence, while Chapa's words made sense, there was still a lot of hesitation and no one replying to his reasonable message even after a few minutes.
"You guys, what are you doing? Thinking about a random lucky player on the first hours of the game, let us focus on the game's developers displaying our exact EXP bar next to the levels and the fact that killing isn't prohibited and not punished till level 10! Did you forget the administration announcement about that matter?!" Anonymous seemed very angry as he typed the message, clearly not caring about Requiem in the slightest.
"Anonymous, we spoke about this already, that it's their decision and parameters and it's not a bug nor will it be changed as they clearly stated, so deal with it. Now let's focus on new talents and rising stars like this assassin, and if you don't care about poaching him then just ignore this forum thread!" Chapa from Black Dragons guild immediately replied, dissatisfied by Anonymous of the White Wings guild behavior.
"Relax, Chapa and Ano. I'll take charge of this conversation from here on. I'll gather the other top nine guilds and make them decide about poaching new talents like this assassin. Now stop getting emotional." A guy nicknamed Black stepped in. His guild name was Legends, and a number was next to it.
Number1!
///AUTHOR THOUGHTS: This does not affect the word count so don't worry, my chapters are always between 1k and 1.4k regardless of this message.///
///Wanted to mention that it will be two chapters updated daily, and obviously another chapter will be updated after this with a bonus chapter after we finally hit 20 Power Stones for the first time! Thank you so much guys for the support and I'll try to deliver even more if I ever get contracted successfully///
///ONE LAST THING: I noticed that 20 Power Stones after counting can be reached with a single reader so I'll push the Power Stone goal to 35 Power Stones per week for One Bonus Chapter.Thanks So Much For The Support Again!///