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Chapter 48: A little too late

While Liam was completely engrossed in his own world, the two world announcements which chimed in one after the other created an uproar throughout the game and all the players within it currently.

Somewhere near the royal city…

Three figures dashed around in a huge pit of considerable depth. If one looked closely, these three figures were only moving around using the rocks and tree roots protruding from the walls of this pit.

They were particularly very careful not to step near the center of the pit and for good reason.

At the depth of the pit laid several chopped-up green snake corpses, and at the dead center was an enormous green boa eyeing the humans with its sinister slit-like yellow eyes.

HISSSSS!

The boa moved at an incredible speed aiming for the red-haired girl, but before it could strike her, a huge metallic shield was rammed against its head.

Haa! Alex grunted taking the full brunt of the attack. "Rey, what the heck? Why are you so slow?"

"Ahh… Sorry, sis!" Rey stuttered and quickly shot two arrows one after the other. However, his aim wasn't all that great as he had hastily made the attacks.

The boa managed to recover and struck again, this time first spewing a cloud of deadly poisonous gas.

Alex jutted out her shield again. Her movements were visibly slowed down because of the paralyzing effect of the poison.

"Damn it, Rey! The damn thing is almost dead. Why are you screwing up NOW?!"

"Fuck." Rey was more scared of the woman than the realistic anaconda-sized serpent.

He quickly prepared to shoot the next arrow, this time activating the booster effect for extra strength and precision. The arrow zoomed across, slicing through the air.

Fortunately for Rey, his aim this time was accurate. However, unfortunately for him, the boa moved at the last second, dodging the attack with its superb agility.

The beast raised its head again to attack the paralyzed tank. "Ah fuck. I am so screwed today." Rey cursed under his breath.

The beast they were up against was actually a field boss with an irritating regeneration ability.

If they don't finish it within the next couple of seconds, then the fight was basically going to be reset and they would have to fight with it all over again.

And of course, he was going to be blamed for it. "Alex is going to kill me!" Rey shivered.

He watched the giant boa as a green light enveloped its body, slowly covering all its injuries and bruises. However, just as the light was spread another flash of light appeared and the boa's head was cleanly severed.

"Divine Retribution." Mia's voice rang out calmly.

[Ding. Congratulations. You have killed the Giant Poisonous Boa. You have gained 13000 Experience points]

[Ding. You have leveled up]

[Ding. Congratulations. You have reached Level 15]

[Ding. Congratulations. Your fame spreads far and wide. You are currently at the 15th position on the world leaderboard.]

Alex smiled contentedly at the fruits of their hard work and collapsed on the ground tiredly. "Huff huff… Thanks, Mia. You timed it really well."

She paused and threw a threatening glance at Rey before adding. "I would have killed someone if I had to restart this stupid fight from the beginning."

Rey took a step back and dug around the corpse for loot, pretending as if he hadn't heard her, though his shaky hands showed that he was very nervous.

But Alex did not let him be. She threw her shield at him and muttered in annoyance. "Why were you so distracted?"

Ah… Rey was speechless. "Did you both not see the world announcements?" He looked at both his scary party members.

Alex and Mia shook their heads. "Unlike you, we actually turned the notifications off during the fight like a sane person would do." Alex scoffed.

Rey chose to ignore that remark and shamelessly replied with a smile. "He He. You will be shocked. Check it fast."

"My big brother unlocked the leaderboard and killed a field boss! He got side-wide announcements for both!"

"Blehh… Useless. That guy won't even talk to you properly and yet you are calling him big brother. You are such an idiot." Alex scolded him while gazing at the two back to back announcements.

Though there could potentially be other people with the same name, they had no doubt that this was the same person with whom they had partied.

"If only we had killed this thing sooner, we could have gotten that announcement. Damn it. I can't believe that asshole beat us to it by just a few minutes."

Alex gnashed her teeth in anger, mentally imagining pummeling the guy with the hateful smile on his face.

Mia, however, remained silent as if it had nothing to do with her. She bent down and took the skill book which had dropped from their field boss kill. "Rey, here. This skill book is yours."

"Oh, nice! Tame skill finally! Sweet." He kissed the skill book and gave out a fist pump. "Let's go. Let's go. I need a cool pet now!"

"So you decided to become a beast hunter?" Alex frowned.

"Yes. Of course. Liam advised me to stick to the training hall class recommendations and I am going to do it." He proudly declared.

"Idiot." Alex kicked his shin, making the guy yelp in pain. She then ignored him and started discussing with Mia. "Shall we log out? We need to at least get some sleep. Tomorrow is a big day."

On hearing her words, Mia's usual calm and composed expression slightly faltered and she nodded. The two of them then logged out while Rey decided to stay back and explore a bit by himself.


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Chapter 49: No matter what it took

In one of the tall high-rise buildings on the streets of New York, two women walked out of a board room into the elevator. One had long curly blonde hair while the other was a redhead.

"Mia, are you alright?" Alex gently patted her. It hurt to see her best friend in so much pain.

Mia lightly nodded with a bitter smile. "They are trying to take advantage of me because of my age, aren't they?"

Alex sighed. "Fucking selfish assholes. If uncle and aunt were alive…"

"But they are not alive anymore, Alex." Mia cut her short.

Alex didn't say anything after that as the two of them walked in silence for a long time. When they reached the gates of the tall building, Mia silently waved her hand for a cab.

"Mia, just come home with me. I don't want you to stay alone." Alex caught her hand and insisted.

"No. I need some time and space to think. I will call you tomorrow." Seeing the worried look on her friend's face, she added with a sad smile. "Don't worry. I won't do anything rash."

Her words didn't comfort Alex even one bit, but she forced a smile and waved her hand as the cab took away. She in fact did not plan to leave her alone.

"I will wait for a couple of hours and then go visit her with dinner." Alex took out her phone and scrolled through her emails as she flagged for another cab.

The past few weeks had unexpectedly changed all of their lives. Mia's parents died in an accident, leaving her as the sole successor for all of their properties and shares.

In the beginning, no one noticed anything as they were overcome with grief, but the business partner and Mia's parents' close friend Walter backstabbed the young girl while she was at her lowest point.

He made the shares crash further, which were already low because of the unexpected accident of the CEO, Mia's father.

And now in the name of a hostile takeover, he was trying to swallow the whole company by joining hands with their competitor.

Unless Mia somehow managed to gather a lot of financial support in a small time, it was extremely impossible for her to stop this.

But how could a young girl gather that much support? That too she had barely stepped into her undergraduate college and knew very little about business.

Irrespective of her intellectual capabilities, she was still far from managing this storm without any help.

Alex knew that Mia was ready to do anything and sell everything that they owned. This company was her father's big dream.

He had worked hard to bring himself here, so she didn't want to lose that as well in the same year she lost her father.

Alex also didn't want to see that happen, but unlike Mia, she wasn't that rich. She had a healthy trust fund but the two of them were in different categories.

If she gave her everything she owned, it wouldn't even make a dent in the number that she needed. She was also completely helpless.

But she didn't want to desert her friend and her sister when she needed help the most.

She wanted to do something. Alex sighed and got out of the cab, reaching back to her apartment. Several thoughts swirled in her mind as she walked in absentmindedly.

"Alex! Alex! Did you see this? This game is totally blowing up! Do you know how many players have already joined? And it has only been a day since the game launched?!"

"This is crazy insane! This is totally going to be the next big thing!" Rey shouted in excitement, his eyes still glued to the esports news channel.

However, in contrast to his cheerful mood, the person slouching on the couch next to him said and did nothing as she blankly stared at the television.

"Is this really growing so much?" She muttered in a daze.

"Yes. Do you even know what is the gold to dollar ratio now?" Alex shook her head, a few strands of her red hair falling on the side.

"By the way, our names on the leaderboard are already gone. People are grinding day and night and the…"

Rey continued excitedly chatting about the new developments both in-game and outside the game, but the woman was clearly no longer paying any attention to him.

She had zoned out completely with several thoughts running in her mind. Several popular video games had come and gone.

They all typically had a high game currency to real world currency exchange rate but this inevitably dropped in a few months.

So even though this new game was shrouded in mystery and no one knew what exactly was happening, this hype as well probably wouldn't last long.

But still… if she was a gambler, she would surely bet on the hype at least lasting for a year…

This gave Alex several ideas.

If she perhaps could somehow become extremely powerful and strong in a short period of time, then maybe… just maybe she could gather all the resources they need to keep the company afloat and stop the hostile takeover.

So while Mia was busy dealing with all the company related issues, she could potentially help her out by gaining resources in this manner.

And by some chance, if the game somehow managed to last longer, then their company could even gain a lot by being an official sponsor of the in-game guild or esports team. The possibilities were truly limitless!

All in all, this was a wonderful opportunity. Sure she could probably work hard on some other route and achieve this same result, but the fastest, high risk high reward route was this one.

And call it intuition or gut feeling, for some reason, she knew that this was the way to go! Something told her that she needed to follow her instincts and invest more time and effort into this game.

Alex closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Now that she had made this decision, her brain already started calculating what she needed to do to achieve her goals.

How could she possibly rise head and shoulders above the herd of professional gamers and skilled players?

She took a few deep breaths and thought about it from different angles, but no matter how hard she racked her brain, only a single person's image flashed in front of her again and again and the obvious shortcut stared right at her face.

If she could somehow use him...

Alex gritted her teeth. She was determined to take things as far as it was needed. She was going to put everything on the line, so how could she hesitate about something like this?

After all, it was just a game right… just how realistic could it be? Something like that couldn't possibly matter as long as it didn't happen in real life!

She bit her lips and turned to look at her brother who was back to watching the news. "Do you still have that jerk on your friend list?"


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