Chapter 71: Cericia makes her move

Looking at the familiar number, Wil thought, "Silver? I wonder what he wants to talk about…"

"Yes, Silver"

"Hello, Young master. Thank god you are fine. I knocked on the door several times but you didn't open. I was worried," said Silver.

"I'm inside the game. If there's nothing important, I'm disconnecting the call, right now."

Silver immediately said, "Wait, Young master. Don't disconnect. There's something I need to report. Earlier, I was informed by Miss Rodin to threaten someone here."

"Hmm, Cherry wants to threaten someone? Who is it?" asked Wil with a frown as he knew it was her first time visiting the city. It might not be possible to make enemies within a short time.

"Someone named Chun Yongmin. She told me that he's an owner of a small convenience store. Originally, I want to complete it as it wouldn't take us long to subdue a mere shop keeper like him but I was present at the airport when Miss Rodin acted rudely towards the young master.

After remembering that, I can't help but…"

Wil smiled as he interrupted, "I know. And you did the right thing. Moreover, she isn't my wife to order you guys as she wishes.

Do one thing. Find out everything about this Chun Yongmin and what she wants from him.

If you can't find anything important, just tell her you'll do the job after hearing the full details.

Be adamant about it no matter what and tell her that it's my order as a last resort in case she dares to flip out."

"Ah, Yes…" Silver was astonished upon hearing out Wil's order. After disconnecting the call, Silver mumbled, "Young master is very different compared to a month ago. It's as if he became mature after coming to this city and living on his own.

Even at the airport, the young master I know will get angry feeling humiliation and immediately call his father and tell him about it. But, he just laughed as if he didn't take it seriously and left the place.

I should have a talk with Aster once and report to Lord Philip, later."

***

One hour later,

Wil's reading was once again disrupted by Silver.

Realizing that it was Silver, he quickly lifted the call, "Yes, Silver. What did you find?"

Silver replied, "Young master, Chun Yongmin is the son of the owner of Wyoming Food mart. He is a classmate of Lee Jiwon, a tenant at our Scarlet apartments.

He's currently working as a part-timer there because his dad is in poor health. No criminal records or hidden background have been found yet.

As for Miss Rodin, as you guessed, she instantly flipped out the moment I said I need to hear the details. She threatened me with Mr. Rodin and then, Lord Philip's name and locked herself inside the apartment after finding I was still adamant about it.

I apologize that I wasn't able to get any information from her."

"Oh, that part-timer?" Listening to him, Wil replied, "I know that guy. Don't worry. We can find out in other ways. Tell our boys to keep an eye on him. If she's the same girl as I knew 8 years ago, then, cops would arrest him for sure. If that ever happens, call me."

"Yes, Young master…" Silver once again fell into thoughts, "Is this even the Young master I knew? Just what happened in the past three weeks that he changed this much…"

Silver immediately dialed a number, "Hello, Aster. We need to meet, right away."

*** 

Back to the palace, Wil stayed in the library until the evening before joining the dinner with Mirella on her orders.

After finishing the dinner, he went straight to his room and sat on the bed before taking out three books from inventory.

Putting aside the two skill books, Wil opened the Alchemy Book with an expectation.

"What a f****** scam."

His expectations filled face turned red and almost threw the book in anger.

"I can't believe I of all people got scammed by the system. There's no f*****g legacy in it. I thought I can become an Alchemist while continuing to be an adventurer."

Unlike what Wil expected, it is just a book that contained the experiences and recipes of a Grandmaster, who belongs to the royal family.

Still, Wil at least thought of reading it once since he bought it with a large amount of fame. After reading it for an hour, the anger on his face already disappeared and was replaced with astonishment.

"Damn, this is a needle in a haystack. Hahaha, I can't believe I lucked it out."

Even though there is no legacy, it contains lots of recipes of legendary grade potions and pills. That alone is enough to satisfy anyone. So, Wil no longer considered it was a scam and even thought of placing it in the Bank Vault.

After carefully putting away the book in inventory, Wil then looked at the two skill books he purchased from the library with 1200 Fame and 3900 Fame respectively. Thus spending a total of 10100 fame and left with only 11100 fame, which he let the nobility badge consume thereby filling it up to almost half of it.

"I still need 11900 fame to meet one of the requirements to become Marquis. I guess I'll miss the achievement of being the first player but these two are also important. Can't do anything about it."

Blindness 

Description: Pull your enemy into your illusion of eternal darkness and blind your enemy. Cost: 2 Mana per second. CD: 1 hour

Learn?

"So at the maximum level, it costs 2 mana per second and has a cooldown of 1 hour huh. Even though it's a great skill, it will work best with an Assassin's hands. Let's not learn and give it to Aster instead."

After throwing it inside the inventory, he took the second skill book in his hands with a big smile. 

Arrow Shower

Description: Shoot a magic energy Arrow into the sky and rain a shower of arrows upon the enemies in an area with 100 meters of the radius. Each arrow contains an attack power of a normal arrow. Cost: 3 mana per arrow. CD: 12 hours.

Learn?

Looking at the skill, Wil continued to smile, "With Gravity Suppression, I can make everyone kneel and then, rain arrows on them from the sky. How wonderful that combo is… I really love AOE skills."

He instantly learned the skill and the book disappeared.

***

The crescent moon was covered by the clouds and complete darkness descended on to the world. Of course, this has nothing to with the players since its midnight, and half of them logged out as soon as it went dark while the other half are still leveling in the dungeons.

Since players outside of the Aynor continent don't have fire torches or knew the existence of night vision Skill, the large guilds came up with the strategy. They saved the five dungeon tries that are given per day until it gets almost dark.

They go into the dungeon and level up until sunrise when the new day starts. Looking at them, free players and small guilds decided to follow their strategy, and eventually, it spread all over the world.

Obviously, fights between the guilds can't be stopped when one guild solely wants to occupy it and kick out others using an opportunity that the dungeon cave can only accommodate 200 people. 

Of course, this has nothing to do with Wil as he was happily sleeping on a comfy bed in the palace while still enjoying free exp.

Suddenly, his beautiful dream was disrupted by a notification.

*Ding. Someone is calling you from outside

He looked at the number, "Silver, again? At this time?"

"What is it?"

"Young master, sorry for disturbing your sleep. But, it is an important matter. You are right about Miss Rodin. Police arrested Chun Yongmin at his house 15 minutes ago while claiming that they found drugs in his convenience store."

Upon hearing it, a frown appeared on Wil and he sat up immediately, "I knew it. That b**** didn't change one bit. It's a planted evidence, isn't it?"

Silver replied, "Yes, there's no doubt about it. Chun Yongmin's official statement is that he was being framed. He'll be tested for drugs tomorrow morning but it won't be of any use since the Colonel here is saying there's clear evidence. The poor guy still doesn't know that Miss Rodin is the one behind it. But, we still don't know why is she targetting him."

Wil then asked, "what's the statement of police?"

"According to police, they raided the convenience store in the middle of the night after getting an anonymous tip.

The statement says that 1 kg of stuff was being found in the storage room. He's now being interrogated as a drug seller.

What should I do now, Young Master? Should we save or leave him be?" said Silver.