War Online

Yarlford city;

After finishing his business at Springwood town, Wil logged out of the game, after receiving the call from Silver.

Stepping out of the capsule, he walked outside of the room and went downstairs to find a familiar face that appears constantly on news.

"Honestly, I didn't expect anyone else dares to buy our properties except the people from the circle. Nice to meet you, Mr. Jeffrey," said Wil as he shook his hands with Charles Jeffrey, who was a well-known successful entrepreneur with nearly 28 Billion dollars of net worth.

Charles smiled in return as he took his seat, "well, I wouldn't have become a self-made billionaire if I wasn't daring enough to take bold decisions."

"Let's come to the business, directly. Silver mentioned you were interested in buying our stadium and some of our lands. Do you know our conditions?" asked Wil, taking the coffee mug placed on the table.

Leaning back onto the sofa and crossing his legs, Kevin nodded in return, "yeah, twice the market rate. I know that. That's why I'm here with a proposal. Instead of twice, I'll pay you thrice the amount.

In return, I want you to invest at least 50% of the extra money in one of my companies in Ares city. It's a…"

"Huh? Come again…" as Wil started repeating the same words in his mind, analyzing the meaning, Silver, who was standing behind him, whispered in his ears, "young master, basically he wants to increase the share value and popularity of his new company using our Scarlet group. In return, he's willing to hand over some of the shares."

"Ah, I see… Thanks, Silver."

Looking at him, Wil spoke, "go on."

"Oh, it's a weapons manufacturing company. Even though it was launched 2 years ago, the clients were only little gangs. My goal is to supply to the mili…" Before his explanation finished, Charles saw Wil stood up, all of a sudden and his eyes turned cold, hard, and flinty, looking at him with disgust, "Silver, throw him out."

"What…"

Charles was taken aback to see a change in a situation all of a sudden, "Wait. Where are you going? If you aren't interested, then…

Wait a second. What about the original deal…

Leave me… Do you know who I am…"

As Silver and Storm grabbed him on either side and dragged him away before handing him to the guards, Wil grumbled while looking at the portrait hanging on the wall, "can't you just dissolve and sell the properties before your operation? Sigh…"

***

In the evening, while the three of the having dinner while discussing their future plans, the ringtone on Silver's mobile phone interrupted their conversation.

"Hello? Ah, yes, Miss Kiyumi. Young master?"

Wil immediately shook his head in response.

Silver continued to talk with her, "He's a bit busy. If it's anything urgent… Ah, I see�� Um, I'm not sure. Okay, I'll inform him to call you back, when he steps out of the capsule."

"So, what does she want?" asked Wil as he was munching the food. He then informed Wil, "It looks like she has some meeting at pregas city, tomorrow afternoon. She's asking whether you are free tomorrow for a dinner date..."

*Cough*Cough* Wil coughed as the food stuck in his throat, "Come again…" asked Wil after drinking water, to which Silver cleared his misunderstanding, "it's not with her but with Ms. Akiko. She's bringing her sister along with her and wants you to join dinner with them."

Upon hearing it, a frown appeared on Wil's face but stayed silent until he finished his dinner.

Before going back to his room, he said, "Remind her that until my engagement with Cherry is annulled, I don't have anything to do with them."

***

Gailzach Kingdom, North Zalfari continent;

"Dragon Fire."

An ocean of flames continue to burn a level-30 and killed it.

*Ding. You level up.

*Ding. You reached level-30. You receive a new skill.

Opening the skills panel, 'One' mumbled in a surprise, "Absolute Freeze? Isn't this skill also very familiar? Yes, Time Traveler. First, Dragon Fire and now, Absolute Freeze…"

A realization hit 'One' as he nodded, "I see, no wonder he's strong. Wait a second. Isn't he an archer? Then, how come I'm a mage? Huh? What's going on?"

As 'One' went into a daze for a while, a roar of a nearby monster brought him back to senses and he mumbled with a smile, "Absolute freeze."

Looking at the monster was frozen inside the ice along with 35 meters of his surroundings, 'One' tightened his fist while a determined look appeared on his face, "even though our starting points are different, now, I too have the same skill set as you, Time Traveler. The next time we meet, I won't be the one who is going to lose. Soon, the world will see a new 'One' once again."

Meanwhile, at the Reverie Kingdom;

*Ding. You reached level-200. You received a new skill.

*Ding. Congratulations, you killed Airavata and freed its spirit. The guardian beast is reborn at the Imperial Palace. You received 2000 fame as a reward.

*Ding. Favorability with King Edward increased by 20

*Ding. You received a quest

Description: King Edward is summoning you to the palace. Go and meet the king in the courtroom.

Reward: Two legendary grade items from the Royal Treasure of player's choice, an exclusive title - 'Savior of the Kingdom,' and 200 gold.

Absorbing 2000 fame points into the nobility badge and becoming an Earl, Bran set out to the Imperial Palace to meet the king once again.

***

The next day morning;

*Welcome to War Online*

*Ding. You have 12 unread messages.

"Eh? That many… let's see…"

Wil ignored the congratulatory messages from allies and read Aster's message, who was currently offline.

Shadow Blade: Young Master, a total of 683 equipment were collected. Of them, 182 are gold- grade, and 3 are of epic grade. I sent them to the stores at Deloris town and remaining to East Ocean City's branch.

"Only 3 epic grade, huh… Not much of profits… Comparing to 2253 gold from the Mayor's safe, I haven't gained much from the players. Well, they are just residing in the town. Not much can be expected, anyway…"

Then, he proceeded to open Rock Fist's message, who was also offline at the moment as he was busy with job hunting since the contract with Wil about to end in a few days… 

Rock Fist: Sir, I volunteered to help Mr. Shadow Blade in picking up the dropped items. While I return, I found a strange letter near the temple. It was addressed to some Duke Nukegan, probably some quest.

Rock Fist: The letter states a rebellion going to occur soon. I don't know who to inform this matter other than you…

Upon reading the message, Wil frowned, "a rebellion? Main story quest, huh… I wonder which poor guy dropped such an important item… Anyway, if such a thing is going to occur, then, I guess I should hurry up with my next step."

Wil then sent a reply to Rock Fist.

Time Traveler: When you are online, deliver the letter directly to me. If I'm unavailable, then, take it to Shadow Blade. If both of us are offline, then, deliver it to the Mayor's mansion.

"Being a prince doesn't give me many benefits. No matter what, I need to climb to Duke before the war starts. Then, upon the end of the 'War' chapter, I can directly climb to Grand Duke after killing Rikilda Llyne.

Sigh… why to think that far… Becoming Grand Duke isn't easy. Reaching 350000 fame is not an easy task. Who knows… it might take years… Even Duke needs 100k fame. That's still 60k far away.

Achievements no longer would be able to help me, alone. I can't do those boring quests and waste hours and days just for fame, either. I need to think another way once my nobility increases… 

Hmm, speaking of fame, I still need… Oh, only 390 fame. Should I just go and clear level-180 too?"

A while later,

*Ding. You cleared a legendary grade dungeon. You receive 100 fame as a reward.

*Ding. Congratulations, you are the first player in the kingdom to clear level-180 legendary grade dungeon. You received 500 fame as a reward.

This time, the players are already numb to the announcement, surprisingly including White Tiger, who is now one of the Vice-Generals of Dreamwalkers while disbanding the Imperial guild along with his 17 small and medium subsidiary guilds for good, oblivious to a giant trap that's almost formed behind him and ready to swallow him soon.

The only one, who reacted to it, is the guild leader, 'Dreamwalker,' who was enraged realizing that Wil isn't giving a sh*t about his challenge as well as a negative image in forums and is happily on an invasion to capture other towns and clearing legendary grade dungeons.

Dreamwalker: How are the preparations?

Sugar: We are waiting for your order. According to the Intel I received from our spies of other kingdoms, after killing 10 guards, we can officially invade a town. All we need is to kill the town's guardian and the Mayor once to capture it. As for the city, it's 100 guards but you need to have high favorability with the King.

Dreamwalker: And what about Deloris town's guardian?

Sugar: Well, according to our info, a player occupied town or city normally doesn't have a default guardian but they can assign one. I bet Time Traveler might have assigned his legendary grade pet.

Dreamwalker: Good. Let's set out right now.

Sending the message, 'Dreamwalker' smiled evilly, "once I capture its neighboring town too, with Eldershore city is already in our control using White Tiger, the northern region will be mine.

Then, all I need is to wait for the barriers to open and make it a strategic location for the other two kingdoms to make a move against Llyne kingdom, hahaha…

Soon, the entire Kingdom will fall into my hands. It doesn't matter if you become some crown prince, Time Traveler.

In the end, I'll become the King and everything will belong to our 'Dream' Corp." 

While more than five thousand Elite players started marching towards the north of the kingdom from different cities and another five thousand is waiting at Eldershore city, Wil, on the other hand, absorbed the remaining fame points into the nobility badge and received a quest before setting out to the capital.

Imperial palace, Llyne City;

In the courtroom, as Wil sat on this throne patiently, the officials are informing various issues occurring all over the kingdom while Mirella is ordering the ministers to solve it.

After hearing one of the issues, Mirella called out Wil and handed him a job in the same indifferent tone she spoke to the ministers, earlier, "prince Time Traveler, I'll leave this job to you…"

A look of disbelief appeared on Wil's face, "this is the quest to fulfill the last requirement to become Marquis? Are you kidding me?"