"How the hell did he suddenly disappear? Did he went into [Stealth] and just left them hanging!?"
"Idiot! You can't use your abilities inside the city!"
Actually, Michael took the chance to leave when all of them were distracted by the arrival of Falling Moon and the others, that's why no one noticed that he had already slipped away from the scene earlier.
[Hey! How did you manage to leave this crowded place!? No, that's not the point here, why did you leave? Aren't you interested in joining one of the powerful guilds?], a call came from Storm Breaker.
"For now? Nah!" Michael said as he ended the call, as he then rejected all of the following calls.
Meanwhile.
"What an asshole" Falling Moon said when her call was rejected the third time before giving up in contacting Michael.
"Hmmp!" the representative from Aqua Royals snorted coldly before leaving with his team.
Judgement Fall also left with his group, feeling a bit relieved that Michael doesn't seem interested in joining any of their guild.
After that small episode, the other players also started leaving one by one as they headed to deal their own business.
"Joining a guild is good and all, but I'm not someone who take orders from someone less skilled and weaker than me" Michael muttered, while walking to a less busier road as he wanted to avoid moving through the busy streets from now on to avoid attention...until he gets something to hide his name or information.
"My time is almost over...need to move fast" Michael increased his pace as he headed towards the City Lord's mansion.
A few minutes later.
Michael was once again in front of the walled, City Lord's Mansion.
"Sergeant Marcus!" Michael called out when he saw Marcus standing beside the small guard house at the other side of the bridge.
"Hmm..?" Marcus heard someone yelling his name, so he turned his head around towards where the direction of the voice is coming from and saw Michael at the other side of the bridge, waving towards him.
"Shadow! Young lad!" Marcus waved back as he left his post and started making his way towards Michael.
"What are you doing here lad? Have you come to visit this old man?" Marcus chuckled as he looked at Michael from head to toe, and he was a bit shocked inside at the changes of the young man in front of him.
'It was only a few days, but it seems this lad had become stronger' Marcus thought, not knowing that it was Michael's change in equipment and his bonus attributes.
"Yes...but at the same time, my purpose for coming here is if it's possible to get an audience from the City Lord?" Michael just smiled and went directly on point, as he doesn't like beating around the bush.
"An audience? Why?" Marcus raised an eyebrow, as he looked suspiciously at him.
"Don't look at me like that" Michael chuckled, then he continued, "It's just that I have something that his daughter, Lady Tiana would surely like"
Michael showed him a mysterious smile.
"Hmmm...alright" Marcus agreed, but then he said to him in a menacing voice, "But if you do something...just know that the one who kills you would be me"
"Whoa...why so serious old man. I'm not dumb to do something crazy here" Michael laughed, as he felt that Marcus is being paranoid of his purpose of him coming here.
"You should know that unaffiliated assassins can't easily be trusted...I'm already doing you a huge favor here...so I hope you don't do something that might stain my reputation" He coldly snorted then turned around.
"Wait here...I'll get someone to get you if My Lord wants to see you"
"Oh...sure" Michael was a bit surprised that this man in front of him sounded very confident that he could see the City Lord anytime.
'It seems his identity is not just a normal Gate Guard' Michael thought as he stared at the back of Marcus, that had just disappeared through the other side of the gate.
*****
Marcus passed through the gate, but he didn't walk towards the main entrance and instead made his way to the side, towards the right garden and arrived in front of a huge tree, where he suddenly crouched down and pressed something near the roots of the tree, where the sound of a mechanism suddenly hummed, as an entrance appeared in below his feet, where there's a stairs that leads underground.
Marcus made his way down, as the entrance closed behind him and there was pure darkness for a second, before the lamps attached at the walls started igniting to life one by one starting from his side and deeper inside, slowly illuminating the dark, narrow straight passageway that's enough for three people to walk side by side together.
Marcus then walked deeper and arrived inside a room full of books, like a small library, and at the side near the large glass window, there was a desk with a man sitting behind it, and where the man is currently engrossed in the book on his hands.
Marcus passed through the passageway, as the book shelf behind him slid into a close.
"My Lord" Marcus said as he bowed towards the City Lord.
"What is it Marcus that you even left your post to come here?" Gustav said without averting his eyes from the book he's reading.
"Apologies My Lord, but the young lad from before has asked me to request an audience from you" Marcus replied.
Gustav raised an eyebrow, as he closed his book and looked towards Marcus and said, "Shadow? Why?"
Marcus smiled, "En, he said that he has something that the little miss might like"
"It seems you have taken a liking towards the young man that you even personally came to see me where you could've just sent someone to report to me" Gustav smiled, as his attention now switched to the man standing in front of him.
"En..only a few days had passed but the young man had become quite a bit stronger than the last time I saw him. It seems the young lad is pretty capable after all, and he even killed a King of the Green Goblins recently"
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During the last update of the game, the difference between the two worlds had been changed from the original 12 hour difference to a two day difference.
It means that one day in the real world is equivalent to two days in the virtual world.
"Hmm..it might not mean much for us in killing a king of the green goblins, but for the populace, it's considered as a huge feat because we'd need at least a platoon of soldiers to subjugate one, and It seems you have plans to recruit him in the League because of that?"
Marcus grinned and answered, "En..but we'll see for now".
His bearing suddenly changed from his subservient attitude to someone with an air of authority.
After all, Marcus isn't just an ordinary servant of the Mikhailov Family, but was the right hand man of the previous of the head of the family. Meaning, his status isn't just something that Gustav could brushed off as he could also be considered a family, especially with his other identity.
"Alright then, I'll see what this young man's purpose for coming here and even disturbing my leisure time" Gustav said as he stood up and said to Marcus with respect.
A few minutes later.
Michael, who's been leaning on the guard rail of the bridge and waiting for Marcus is now carrying something on his hand that was covered in cloth, and then he finally saw Marcus exiting the gates and who waved towards him to come over.
Michael immediately made his was towards him, as the soldiers above the walls and the ones who are guarding the bridge are intently watching his movements.
"Come..the City Lord has agreed for you to see him" Marcus said as he gestured for him to follow him inside, he also noticed the thing Michael is holding, but didn't bother asking.
Michael walked over and followed behind the man, while feeling the numerous gazes directed towards him from behind, where they only disappeared when he passed through the gate.
'I just hope that this thing is enough for me to enter their treasury again, and get that item' Michael thought, as he remembered an item that caught his eye inside the treasury of the City Lord before, but he didn't choose it because he thought he didn't need something like that for the time being...but he just didn't expect that he would need something like that so soon!
By then, they once again arrived inside the main hall of the mansion, where Michael saw the City Lord and his daughter sitting in their seats, with his wife missing, and also this time, there are soldiers dressed silver armor radiating with a silver hue, standing guard inside.
Two of them are standing just below the City Lord and his daughter are, while the ten others are standing at both sides of the room, near the columns that supports the building.
Michael continued to discreetly observe his surroundings.
"I heard that you have something that my daughter would surely like?" Gustav's voice suddenly echoed throughout the hall, as Michael's attention were immediately drawn towards him.
"Ahh...yes" Michael smiled, especially to Tiana who certainly looks excited as she kept glancing at the thing that Michael is carrying.
Then Michael took off the cloth covering, revealing a cage with an azure colored bird with a pinkish neck and half the size of an adult's hand inside, and the bird also has a long pointy beak just like a hummingbird.
"Its..its a Storm Raptor! Oh my gosh!" Tiana yelped in excitement as she immediately walked down the stairs and ran towards Michael as she squatted and stared at the little thing inside with stars in her eyes!
'S-storm Raptor!? How the heck is this little thing called Storm Raptor!? More like a hummingbird if you ask me!' Michael exclaimed inside, as he didn't expect such a cute little thing would have fearsome name.
"Haha..don't look so surprised" Gustav laughed, as he also came down from his chair and stood in front of Michael.
"Can I?"
"Sure" Michael handed the cage to Gustav.
Then Gustav put his face close to the cage and started observing the little bird inside, while the Storm Raptor seems oblivious to its surroundings as it just kept sleeping.
"Father! I wanna look!" Tiana excitedly tugged his robe.
While the father and daughter are busy observing the bird.
"Why is it called a Storm Raptor?" Michael leaned the to side and whispered to Marcus.
Marcus smiled at him and whispered, "It looks harmless because it's still a baby, an adult one can grow to become as big as an adult male"
"Seriously?"
"En"
"Where did you get it? Because as far as I know, their species don't live around these parts" Gustav suddenly turned to Michael and said, as he knew that their species lives in a huge forest down the south, where there are no nearby human settlements.
"I stumbled upon it inside a hollow part of a tree when I was hunting Green Goblins" Michael didn't even hesitate to answer that he even forgot to address Gustav with his title, that it even made Marcus flinched as he smiled.
'Hmm...does that mean monsters could freely travel around the continent, while all of the players are still trapped inside the beginner zones?' Michael thought, realizing the meaning behind the words that Gustav just told him.
Gustav didn't mind his attitude and said with a surprised tone, "Really?"
"En.. Is a Storm Raptor rare or something? I don't understand your reactions about it" Michael started speaking casually with Gustav, as he was also full of curiosity about the bird, because when the first time he saw it, he can't see any information about the monster except for its level, but now…
[Storm Raptor (Youngling)] [Elite]
Level: 10
Skills: Locked, Locked, Locked
"They are rare monsters, because they are very hard to catch, and if we rank all the monsters in the continent in terms of speed, then they top over all of the other monsters, that's why they are called Storm Raptors, because of their immense speed and agility" Marcus hurriedly answered his question instead.
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