War Online

Upon Wil's probing, Hyori bitterly smiled as she explained, "it's not that I don't want to play or hate it. It's just my dad who rejected it fearing it would affect my studies and Archery practice.

If I want to play without him knowing, I should rent a space for it.

Even though it doesn't cost much to buy a low-grade capsule, it has maintenance costs too. Sigh… With my meager 20000 credits salary, I would have to sacrifice other things for it. Why bother…"

Wil stared at her blinked twice, "but, you can earn ten times your salary from the game though. Didn't you ever research it? With your talent in archery, you can even earn more than a hundred times…"

"Eh? Hundred times?" As Hyori was taken aback and looked at him, Wil continued, "If you worry about the rental and maintenance costs, then, you can use one of the floors in C-block. It is safe and secure."

"But the rent…" As Wil saw Hyori was hesitating, he further pushed, "well, it's not like anyone is living there. You can use it as your wish. If you feel a burden on being in debt, you can pay the rent when you earn more than the required amount.

Honestly, If not because you only wish to work part-time, I would have recommended you to Scarlet Gaming corp."

***

As the Car stopped at the apartment, Hyori stepped outside and said, "I'll think about it seriously and will reply to you by tomorrow."

Wil smiled, "well, I wouldn't say no if you can also make your Master and other fellow employees play the game and help me out while you are at it. The flat is big enough to store several capsules."

Hyori squinted her eyes while smiling, "so, getting Master to play the game is your true goal, huh…"

"Oops busted…" Wil then grinned as he waved his hand, "see ya."

In the evening, Walter arrived at the airport. He didn't return to the apartment as their next flight is only two hours away.

After sending off both of them, he waited one more hour until it's time for Silver's flight to Yarlford city.

While he was returning, Wil looked at the file that Silver gave him while they were on their way to the airport.

Looking at the bank account details of the elites of the Vulture group, Wil frowned, "There are no large transactions like I suspected. But, only one week is left. What should I do?"

Without getting any other ideas to his brain, he sighed as he looked outside, "what's the use of having knowledge of the future when you are incapable of changing that. Let's just do what we can, then…"

***

*Welcome to War Online*

The next day morning, Wil logged in and found himself on the 2nd floor in Mansion.

As Wil came downstairs, he found the five architects are explaining to Aster, who was listening to it attentively.

Realizing that Wil arrived, everyone greeted him.

Wil nodded in return and asked, "Is everything, ready?"

The team leader spoke, "yes, Mr. Ravens. The plan is ready based on the land and details you have told me. Here…"

Wil took the sheets of paper and take a look at the plans. Because he was a layman, it took him an entire hour to understand the logic behind each and every measurement of the stores.

"Good, let's proceed with it. Aster, you are also following me."

After placing the mayor's badge inside the table for attendance, he ordered his steward, Borris, "I'm going out. Tell Malle to sort everything out when she reports for duty."

Then, with Aster and five architects, Wil entered teleportation formation inside the temple and paid 17 gold and 50 silver for the party of seven to teleport to East Ocean city.

Leaving Aster and the architects at the lands, Wil went to the city Administration building while ignoring everyone's stares that filled curiosity about why the number one ranked player returned to the city.

After all, it was confirmed that Scarlet and Time Traveler left East Ocean city for an unknown reason, although several rumors circulated that they were scared of Resistance and run away.

As Melina asked politely about the reason for his visit, Wil smiled in return, "I think it's time for you to resign this job…"

"Eh?" As the players around who came to register themselves and the fellow elves were confused about what this man is talking about, on the other hand, Melina's eyes lit up, "You mean…"

Wil nodded and then said, "I want to build stores in my land. I need special building permissions, barrier protection, blueprints, workforce, materials, etc…"

Upon hearing it, Melina respectfully replied, "Please follow me."

As they went to the first floor, Melina then asked, "what do you need special permission for, milord?"

Wil then replied, "Bank, Library, Temple, and Auction House. I need blueprints for teleportation formation and need to add special effects to rooms that are similar to the Mayor's guest rooms. And finally, need barrier protection over all the stores after the construction is over. These are all the things I'm building on my land."

As she read the list along with the information on the measurements of each building, Melina said, "This is one huge construction plan. We can't estimate the amount beforehand. You can pay at least 100-200 gold as an advance now and rest after the construction is finished. As for teleportation formation, it costs 50 gold and special effects cost 20 gold per each room."

Wil then took out two pouches from inventory and handed it to her, "Take this 1000 gold as an advance payment and hire the best workers and use the best materials. The rest will be explained by my subordinate named ShadowBlade."

"Tho… Thousand gold?" Melina's hands shook as she took the money and then said, "As the future head manager, I would be delighted to oversee the construction myself."

Wil smiled in return, "Thanks…"

After settling the matter, Wil took two architects with him and returned to Deloris town to show them the land and his future construction plans once the Scarlet district at East Ocean city is finished. 

***

A few hours later, the entire city erupted into chaos as more than two thousand NPCs were seen building something over a huge area in the northern region of the city where it's mostly empty grassland.

As the players of Silvershapers who were going in and out of Dreamwalkers' smithies and labs saw the huge construction around them, they started to send messages to the guild higher-ups.

Moonlight restaurant;

9 Vice-guild leaders of Resistance gathered to discuss the sudden issue.

The Vice-leader of Redwings, littleNine spoke, "I was informed that Time Traveler has been sighted in the city, a few hours ago. I think it might something to do with him. We don't need to care about it even if that were true.

Our backer already decided to wage a full-scale war against Imperials. Remember how they suppressed us, a week ago? We are going to do the same.

The Silver and gold grade equipment will be sent to all the guilds and help is also arriving, soon…"

*Ding. World Battle Tournament is going to commence. Head to a Battle Arena within 2 hours to register yourselves. Check the official website for details.

"Huh? What…"

Everyone in the world suddenly received a notification at the same time.