The Return of the God Level Assassin

BOTH Luo Yan and Luo Jin walked out of the General Store.  They just finished buying some skill books.  As Luo Yan already expected, there weren't much skill books being sold at the store.  Just some basic attack skills.  The type that only needed 3-5 seconds to cool down.  He wasn't surprised by that because just like in the PC version, most of the powerful skills could be obtained through difficult level tasks and some dungeon raids.  As a result, he only bought one skill book that he deemed useful while Luo Jin bought two.

This kind of skill system was actually a bit pain in the ȧss.  He also thought so when he was still playing the PC version.  Why couldn't the game developer just make it simple?  Like when a player already chose a class, they would be given a set of skills that would be activated once they reached a specific level.  But then again, if it was that simple, then it wouldn't be that interesting.  It might even turn boring in the long run.  

With this kind of skill system, even if two players were in the same class, there's a high possibility that they might not share the same set of skills.  This could truly set apart the dedicated players from those that were just playing for fun.  The former wouldn't hesitate to spend long hours to hunt for skill books while the latter wouldn't even bother to do that and would probably just buy the skill books being sold in the General Store.    

His train of thought was interrupted because he saw Luo Jin walking towards the wrong direction.  Again.  "Ah Jin, that's not the way!" he called.

Luo Jin stopped.  It took a lot of effort for him not to stomp his little foot in annoyance.  It's not that he's bad with direction.  It's just that it's hard for him to familiarize himself with the road of a place he'd never been into.  He had to have been there at least five or more times before he could.  Because this was only the third day since they arrived here at Olkdale, he made a number of direction related mistakes.  Now, it seemed like he's a total fool when it came to direction.

He looked back at Luo Yan.  "It's because you're always so slow.  Why are you in a daze anyway?"

[Yes, yes, it's my fault.  I told you to go to the wrong direction.]  Luo Yan acted sad.  "I'm not in a daze.  Ah Jin is being mean again."

"Argh-" There he went again, looking as if he's about to cry any second.  Luo Jin was really weak against that expression.  "Okay, I'm wrong.  You're not in a daze.  So let's just go to that Task Hall or something."

Luo Yan smiled.  "Okay." He trotted forward and then reached for Luo Jin's hand, holding it.  "Let's go?"

Luo Jin blushed.  "W-what are you holding my hand for?"

"So that Ah Jin won't get lost again."

And then he moved forward, dragging Luo Jin with him.

Soon, they arrived at the Task Hall.  Just like what its name entailed, it was a one story building that seemed to be just a one big hall.  When they entered, it was just like what Luo Yan thought.  A very huge hall.  

There were quite a number of players inside.  Most of them were standing at some kind of bulletin board at the very middle of the hall.  It was made of four screens attached to each other like a box, floating above.  So the players could look at it from four different directions.  There were NPCs scattered around, probably to offer ȧssistance to the players.  There were booths lined up on both sides, some players were going in and out of them.

"So, where should we get those task?" asked Luo Jin.  "And could you please let go of my hand already?"

"Eh~ why?  Doesn't Ah Jin want to hold hands with me?" Luo Yan said, looking down and pouting.

Luo Jin took back his hand.  "Of course I don't.  Now, could we just go and look at those task?"

"Yes…" Luo Yan said in a reluctant tone.  "Then let's go to one of those booths.  On what I read before, players could search and accept tasks from there."

"Let's go then."

They walked towards one of the empty booths.  The booths were the size of a normal telephone booth.  It appeared like it's made with transparent glass when it's empty.  But when someone went in, that transparent glass turned completely dark.

They entered the empty booth.  Luo Yan thought that it would darken once they entered but it still remained transparent.  So, the darkening could only be seen on the outside.  

Inside the booth was a screen where the players could browse different tasks.  They were grouped into four categories;

- Kill Tasks – required the players to kill either a specific number of named monsters or a specific NPC.  

- Delivery Tasks – required the players to deliver an item from one location to another.

- Collection Tasks – required the players to collect a number of items.

Luo Yan gazed down at his brother.  "So, what kind of task should we pick first?"

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Shen Ji Yun was planning to play the game using his alt account again when he received a call from his uncle.  He picked his phone and answered it.  "Uncle?"

"Ji Yun, remember that convention I talked about?  The one where I'm supposed to attend at country M?" Shen Yi Mu said from the other line.

Shen Ji Yun tried to remember it.  "Yes, the three-day convention that's scheduled two months from now, am I right?"

"Yes, that one.  I just received a phone call, telling me that the schedule has been changed.  It would now be held at the end of this month.  I just thought that since it's still a little bit more than a month before the new semester starts, do you want to come with me?"

If he remembered correctly, that convention would be attended by a lot of leading figures in the gaming industry.  "When will we leave?"

"Tomorrow if possible."

Shen Ji Yun stopped.  "That fast?"

"Well, I'm also planning to meet someone there before the convention starts.  So, do you want to come?"

He didn't answer immediately.  Being overseas meant that he couldn't play Arcadia.  Because the game was still only available to play in their country.  Even if he brought a VR helmet with him, he still wouldn't be able to log in.  If that wasn't the case, then a lot of foreigners had already tried to play it.  But the current system of Arcadia still couldn't handle that much traffic.  That's why they put a restriction on location.

Not being able to play also meant that he couldn't contact the silly rabbit.  But he also really wanted to go to this convention.  Because he knew that he would be able to learn a lot just by being there.  

At the end, he finally could only say, "Yes, I'll go with you."

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

The Return of the God Level Assassin is scheduled to go premium tomorrow, February 28 (GMT +8 time).  As you may have already noticed, I've been releasing one chapter daily since last week.  It's because I wanted to pump out as many chapters as I could before it goes premium.  The chapters will now be locked starting chapter 71.

When I decided to continue this, I've already planned on going premium by chapter 71.  Just like on my other novel – NoGift.

I know some of you might drop this because of that.  I completely understand and I won't blame you if you do.  But to those who will still choose to stay, then I could only give a big thank you.  We're not even close to half of the story yet.  There's still so many things I planned to add to this story.  So, I would be really glad if you could join our rabbit Yan Yan in his many upcoming adventures .

The only promise I could give you guys is that  I would try to update one chapter per day.