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章 20: Chapter 19- Be My Knight

"You have got to be kidding me." Zach wasn't surprised by Aurora's stats; he was shocked by her name.

"Edens… that means you are a royal?" Zach asked with a surprised look on his face.

Aurora quietly nodded and closed her menu.

The real world was divided into countries and kingdoms. Even in the future, half of the world was ruled by kings, but in a modern way. Edens was one of the lineages of the kings, and it was the strongest kingdom in the world with an enormous army and strongest defense system.

"So that means you are a princess…" Zach muttered.

"No need to address me formally. I would like it if you call me Aurora," Aurora stated.

"And here I was thinking you were some kind of unfriendly," Zach commented without holding back.

"Wha—!" Aurora raised her brows and asked, "What part of me gave you that impression?"

"Uhh…" After thinking for a while, Zach replied, "Everything?"

"Be more specific." Aurora sighed. "I believe I am polite and kind enough than any other royals you would meet."

"Well, to be honest…" Zach said as though he wasn't honest before. "Your personality suddenly changed when you found out my HP was 1500. But I guess I was wrong."

"I didn't change anything. You asked me nicely, so I was nice to you. If you had replied to me honestly, I would have been nice to you from the start, you know?"

"That doesn't change anything." Zach opened his inventory to send coins to Aurora. "How much? Can you give me a discount?"

"1500 coins for healing 1500 HP," Aurora replied nonchalantly.

"You mean, 1499 coins."

Zach was about to send her money, but Aurora stopped him.

"How about we make a deal?" she asked.

"What deal?"

"Show me your stats," Aurora demanded.

"Not happening."

"Why? I showed you mine, right? Now it's your turn," she insisted.

Zach scoffed and said, "Why are you making it sound like we are exchanging nudes?"

Aurora's face flushed after hearing that. "Don't use such vulgar words in front of me!" she yelled. "Now show me your stats."

"I cannot do that. Even if you say 'please', I can't show you my stats," Zach stated.

"Fine." Aurora sighed and asked, "You are strong, right?"

"Define strong," Zach scoffed. "Your stats are higher than mine, though."

"So, how about you be my knight and protect me? And in return, I will give you money and heal you, for free."

"That doesn't sound like a good deal, princess. And isn't the 'be my knight' thingy like a proposal?" Zach glanced at Aurora and asked with a smirk on his face: "Are you proposing to me, princess?"

"I am not!" she shouted. "I have no one to protect me. If I die, then my kingdom will be doomed."

"But your stats are higher than mine. That must mean you are a good player," Zach asserted and casually sat beside Aurora.

"Ever since I was a kid, I have been trained in everything. Sword fighting, shooting and archery, melee and martial arts, so I am familiar with the game style." Aroura looked up at the sky and continued, "I have never talked with the opposite sex before… I mean, like how we are talking right now. One to one, alone. My father is rigorous, and he is afraid that I might fall in love with someone, so my parents never allowed me to talk to a boy."

"How old are you?" Zach asked curiously.

"17. I will turn 18 after three months, and that's when I will get married to a random man my father chose." Aurora shrugged her shoulders and uttered, "It can be a rich playboy. A 50-year-old king. A successful businessman. Or maybe one of my cousins."

Zach furrowed his brows and muttered, "If I remember correctly, you are the only heir, right?"

"Yes." Aurora nodded. "That's why my entire kingdom's responsibility is up to me. I have to sacrifice my happiness for the sake of the kingdom, for the sake of continuing my lineage."

Zach glanced at Aurora from the corner of his eyes and asked, "Why are you telling me this? I am not the type of person who will get his heart stolen by a beautiful damsel in distress."

Aurora scoffed and started laughing after hearing that. Zach was confused at first. He thought she had gone crazy, but then he remembered all the girls he had met in his life were crazy.

"I wasn't trying to do that. I was just… I rarely get a chance to open up like this." Aurora turned to Zach and said with a wry smile on her face: "One part of me wants to be trapped in this game forever, so I won't have to be a princess again. But another part of me wants to get out of here, so I can fulfill the duty I was born for."

Zach stood up and looked at the stars. He reached his hands to them and said, "Why does it matter? I don't know you or your struggles. Why should I care? Why should anyone care about anyone?"

Aurora looked at the ground with a sad look on her face.

"That includes you too," Zach added.

"Huh?" Aurora looked at Zach with a puzzled look on her face. "What do you—"

"Figure it out yourself. You will have enough time to think about it. We will be stuck in this world for a long time, after all."

Aurora puckered her lips and muttered, "You have to be my knight." She took a deep breath and said, "You wanted to know how I leveled up so fast, right?"

Zach nodded in response.

"I played mixed dungeon with my two maids, but they died protecting me."

'I figured. Since she is a princess, she should be trained well.' Zach thought to himself.

"The players clear the dungeon to gain EXP and level up. While they clear the tower to gain rewards and treasure chests," Aurora asserted. "How about we two team up? I can heal you anytime."

"I am already in a team with my friends," Zach replied.

"That doesn't mean you can't team up with me. And no offense, but we both are skilled, so we are perfect for each other. I don't know about your friends, but if we both play together, we can be invincible."

'My top priority is to get out of this world.' Zach pondered for a while and answered, "I need time to think about it."

Zach added Aurora as a friend and said he would contact her tomorrow.

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Total players in the game 46472.

5 new players logged in.

2 players died.

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[Weekly target.]

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Author's Note- Next chapter- Solo Cultivation (no pun intended coz ma boi doesn't seem to be interested in dual cultivation… or is he?)


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章 21: Chapter 20- Solo Cultivation

Zach rushed to the church and saw Kayden and Shay were waiting for him.

"I was about to send you a message to ask what's taking you so long," Kayden informed Zach and closed his menu. He then pointed his gaze at the female NPC healer standing below a statue inside the church and said, "Go get yourself healed."

'I am already healed. But I guess I will pretend to get healed.' Zach thought and entered the church.

"They charge ten coins for 1 HP, by the way!" Kayden shouted, knowing how corny Zach was when it was something related to money.

Zach stood in front of the NPC and said, "Can you pretend to heal me?"

The NPC looked into Zach's eyes and uttered, "What brings you here, my lord?"

Confused, Zach raised his brows and asked, "What?"

"You are not one of the gods?" she asked with a curious yet calm look on her face.

"Um, do I look like one?"

The NPC inspected Zach from head to toe with her eyes and placed her hand on her chin. "Now that I look closely, you don't seem like one."

"You do have a physique of one, but you are not a true god," she added.

"Thanks for the chit-chat. I will leave now." Zach left the church and went to the inn with Shay and Kayden.

"It's good that we booked our rooms before we left for the dungeon. Otherwise, we would have to sleep in the garden, forest, or streets like more than half of the players," Kayden remarked.

"Although the room charge is 500 coins per night, it's still better than sleeping like a homeless person," Shay added.

"Uhh… Kayden, Shay. I have something to talk to you guys," Zach uttered.

"What is it?" Kayden wondered with a curious look on his face.

"What are we doing tomorrow?"

Kayden was about to reply, but Shay quipped: "Nothing."

"Huh?"

"We are stuck in this game for only seven days. So we will wait for the six days to pass and log out," Shay shrugged.

Zach and Kayden glanced at each other with troubled expressions on their faces after realizing Shay was still ignorant about the fact that they were truly trapped in a game.

"Shay…" Kayden placed his hand on Shay's shoulder and said, "Don't you think everything the black slime said was true?"

"Hah! Since when did you start believing in all that bullshit about gods and stuff? They don't exist! And if the developer of this game truly has a god complex, then he will get arrested sooner or later. Don't worry about it. Let's all just enjoy the remaining six days and have fun."

Zach walked past Shay and Kayden and said, "I have something to do tomorrow. See you guys later."

Zach entered his room and sat on the bed. He sighed and uttered, "I guess I will be playing alone then."

Zach opened his menu and saw his stats.

"Hmm. My MP has automatically refilled to 10." He opened the information tab and read more about MP regeneration.

The standard MP refill was 1 MP every ten minutes, so 6 MP per hour. However, the MP refill was faster when the player was sleeping or resting; that was 1 MP every three minutes, so 20 MP per hour.

"The default MP of all the players is 100, so five hours of sleep would refill their MP to the max," Zach muttered and read more.

"The MP usage is calculated nicely. And the refill time is based on the player's level. The limited MP and refill time would stop the players from grinding all day and night."

That was the reason why this game had an option for a secondary class. If the player had only one class, they would be doomed if they ran out of MP in the middle of a battle. However, the players were allowed to use their HP as MP in an emergency.

"Why would gods consider about mortals? Don't they want us all to die?" Zach wondered. "Or are they giving us a second chance to survive and beat this game?"

Zach then read about the realms systems and the requirement to ascend to the higher realms. The players had to meet two conditions to ascend to the respective higher realms. One was their physique, and another was their level. After evolving to a certain physique and meeting the level requirement, the player could ascend to the higher realm.

"I don't have to worry about my physique as it is already maxed. So now, I only need to focus on leveling up."

Zach closed his eyes and sat in a lotus position to start cultivating. He cultivated for about 10 minutes and stopped to check the increase in his MP.

"It's 70. So I cultivated 60 MP in 10 minutes. If I cultivate for three hours daily, I can have over 1000MP, excluding the rest of the MP I might get from resting."

After pondering for a while, he muttered, "That's enough to deal more than 100,000 HP DMG to the monsters. If I work on my techniques and get better equipment, I can ace this game in no time."

What a way to raise an unwanted flag.

Zach wanted to cultivate for three hours, but he fell asleep after cultivating for one hour. He was exhausted as he hadn't taken a rest after clearing ten floors and fighting with the crazy girl Aria. So it was astonishing that he was able to cultivate even for one hour.

Seven hours later, Zach woke up with a severe headache. He opened his eyes and sat up.

"Why didn't Zoe come to wake me up?" He glanced around and remembered what had happened yesterday.

"Right…" He groaned and muttered, "I should get used to waking up alone."

[Congratulations! You have unlocked a new cultivation technique!]

Zach opened his menu to learn more about the technique.

«Heavenly Rank Technique- Sleep Cultivation.»

«Benefits- You can cultivate 1 MP per minute while sleeping.»

"That's an extra 60 MP per hour. I am getting triple MP compared to other players, and with my infinite MP points… I can become limitless."

"Was this technique active while I was sleeping? Or I got it after waking up?" Zach wondered and opened his stat to check the increase in MP.

"It's 570. So I guess it wasn't active before…." Zach had no idea his current MP was the highest among all the players.

He opened his friend list and messaged Aurora: [Meet me at the gazebo after 30 minutes.]

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Total players in the game 52254.

6754 new players logged in.

972 players died.


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