Chapter 54: Scarlet Gaming Corp.

"I accept"

This time, it was Wil's turn to get surprised as he found Milena readily accepted the offer.

"I expected you to say that you need to think more."

Milena smiled, "something tells me following you will be the right choice. Call it a woman's intuition or whatever…"

Upon hearing this Elf's response, Wil can't help but think, "Those purple eyes. Can those Eyes of truth see something else on me or is it just because of high favorability?" He shook his head and continued to think, "It doesn't matter, right now. I can unravel its mystery sooner or later."

Wil then said, "Okay, that's great. We'll talk about the details as soon as we finished the construction."

After his business with Melina is over and exits the building, he sent a message to Aster.

Time Traveler: Is the matter with refund over? 

Shadow Blade: Yes, Young master. As you know 33 Guardians above level-150 are already off the contract. Of the remaining 43, while excluding five of ours, 21 of level 101-120 and 7 of 120-150 are compensated. So, as you can guess, the sealing of the wild zones will be no longer in effect.

Time Traveler: So, how many of the guilds are still on our side?

Shadow Blade: According to our spies, 7 guilds; Royal Chaos, Evernight, Justice League, Westeros, Snow, paradise, and Heaven. Even though Snow and paradise are among the group, who wanted to claim the compensation, I assure you they are on the Young master's side. 

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Reading the message, a frown appeared on Wil as he didn't think more than half of the guild leaders think the Scarlet guild is useless to them just because he can't provide them those high-level guards. It is one thing to claim the compensation but it is another thing to break the alliance itself. 

"Are they fools to forget who destroyed the Imperial guild? Did they think my background is a fake? Or they believe it but took lightly?

If I can become Viscount so quickly, I can also become the Count too. They didn't even think of such a possibility? Well, at least, those five guilds are still loyal."

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Time Traveler: Very well, if they want to dig their graves, we'll gladly help them.

Shadow Blade: By the way, Young master, three more guilds wish to form an alliance with us. Two of them rejected our invitation before. But then, after sealing the wild zones, Battlecrushers and Greybreaker guilds wished to join our 16 guild alliance but were rejected by me. Even now, their Guild-Leaders still wish to enter an alliance with us.

Time Traveler: Who is the third one?

Shadow Blade: It is a level-7 guild from the capital city called Dreamwalkers. They are trying to set-up a branch here at East Ocean City. But, they weren't interested in our group. Although they still want to be allied to our guild, their main focus is to co-operate with our new guild, Silvershapers.

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"Level-7, huh? Each level represents 5000 member strength. Does that mean their guild strength is already over 35000 members?

Sigh…

The capital city is indeed on a different level compared to ours. If it isn't for the legend class, I might have chosen to start from there too. After all, the city has nearly a million players of population."

After thinking for a while Wil sent a message to Aster.

Time Traveler: I'll leave this decision to you. Do what you think is right. 

***

In the city of Ares, which is also known as the Imperial City since the ancient times, where most of the Giant corporations' HQs are located, there is a huge Queue before a 150-story building.

As for the reason, at 8 A.M., Scarlet Securities' (SS) CEO officially announced all of a sudden that they are going to build a subsidiary company that will focus on the gaming industry and there will be a public interview right on 10 o'clock on the day itself and the next two successive days.

Unlike the other Giant corporations, where they just go and support behind the scenes to take over top guilds, which have immense potential to earn them money, Scarlet on the other hand intends to create an entire company on a huge scale in ten-cities instead without caring about the costs.

Of course, no one knows that they don't care about profits or losses. All of this was created for just their Young master's fun.

At 9:30 A.M., the interviewees who were waiting led to the 11th floor directly for the orientation while the remaining ones who arrived after the time were chased off away by the security.

As for the other 9 cities at their branches, they posted the interview date, which will be a week later as unlike HQ, they can't afford to make preparations so quickly. 

Back to HQ, Zhu Cheng, one of the most popular professional gamers who signed up with Scarlet one day earlier as the CEO of Scarlet Gaming Corporation (SGC), began to explain the ambitions and the goals of the company.

"The very first goal of our company is to build/recruit elites for the recently released highly popular game, War Online. I'm sure most of you play the game or at least heard of it, right?"

As everyone nodded, the CEO continued, "As you know, the game is a whole different level compared to other ones we have seen so far…

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I'll now explain the interview process. First, we'll check your physical capabilities, and especially dodging will give you more points. After all, having a great reflex separates you apart from an ordinary gamer."

Just then, one of the applicants raised his hand and asked, "Mr.Zhu, what if someone has weaker physical capabilities but excels in other areas?"

Zhu Cheng replied, "Good question. Based on your final results, our team will decide whether you are suitable to be an adventurer or a non-combat profession and also which classes or professions you are suited to…

Now, where are we…? 

Right... After testing your physical capabilities, we will test your mental capabilities…" 

Meanwhile, two beautiful 18-year-olds were sitting somewhere in the corner seats of this spacious conference hall in these crowd of 1735 members.

"Ellie, what do you think?"

Elyssa Strike, a high school graduate replied with a sigh, "I don't know whether we will be able to get the job. I mean, just look at the benefits.

Salary of 100K Credits per month if one gets a final score as a C-grade? B-grade will get 200K while A-grade gets 500K Credits?

Only those lawyers from the top firms and doctors from top hospitals are able to earn 500K credits per month. No wonder, my aunt says my brother spends most of his time in the capsule without caring about anything. Looks like this is one profitable job…"

Helena then said, "C'mon, Ellie. You are a 2-Dan Taekwondo practitioner. Surely, you will have a massive advantage over others. Once you were selected, you can save coaching and your dorm rental fees. You don't have to full time at the training center for a meager salary."

Elyssa nodded as she continued to listen to Zhu Cheng's explanation, "I hope so…"

***

Back to War Online;

After dumping the alliance and guild matters onto Aster, he started to walk towards the teleportation point that was connected to the other 9 cities.

As he walking, suddenly Wil frowned, "Hmm, why do I feel like many people are following me…"

Right then, Wil received a message from Supreme Master.

Supreme Master: Time Traveler, just now, I received a private message from White Tiger. He offered 500,000 credits for your head and 100,000 for ShadowBlade's head. For such money, only no-combat zones are safe. Be careful.

Supreme Master: By the way, I don't think I'm the only guild leader to receive this offer.