Chapter 25: Emergency Meeting

Chapter 25: Emergency Meeting

In the control room, the fight between Adam and the Adult Centipede Skeleton played out on the big screen.

In the scene where Adam sliced off the centipede's skeleton leg, a few surprised exclamations echoed throughout the room.

Then, shockingly, it looked like the Adult Centipede Skeleton ran away, but they were certain that it was because it could sense Ron nearby.

"What do you think?" Ron asked his colleague with a neutral tone.

He wasn't the most fond of Kage and his Pro-Strong agenda, but he knew how powerful he was, and with Lose Eye, Keep Smile guild members here, the situation would be resolved quickly.

"I think that ant was lucky that the Adult Centipede Skeleton sensed your presence." Kage said coldly. "If you were ten seconds too late, he would be a crushed bug on the ground."

"That is as expected." Ron said, his eyes narrowing. "However, he is only Coinfeeder and yet had the guts to confront the centipede by himself. That deserves some respect."

"Strong deserves respect." Kage said. "Weak does not."

He then turned around and approached the door.

"Let's get this over with so I can leave this place quicker." Kage sniffed the air and grimaced. "It smells disgusting in here. A bunch of weaklings who can't even stand up for themselves."

Ron sighed and then looked at one of the control room's operatives.

"Send this feed to the Council of Mercenaries. I am sure they would like to see it."

"Yes, sir." One of them nodded and started sending the video about the fight to the Council of Mercenaries.

...

After a short while, an alarm rang throughout the mall, indicating that an emergency meeting was going to be held.

All the players in the tutorial gathered in the Safe Area and swarmed inside the auditorium.

The players in Adam's group had just recently returned from second floor and sat down inside the auditorium, wondering what the meeting was about.

After everyone had gathered in the auditorium and most of the seats were filled, Ron and Kage appeared in front of the auditorium.

"Hello, everyone," Ron said. "The reason for today's emergency meeting is because something happened on the second floor, and we have to address it."

Ramon narrowed his eyes dangerously.

Seth's expression looked complicated, and he focused his gaze on the steel shortsword dangling from Adam's hip. He clenched his hands into a tight fist.

The players from other groups watched as Adam approached Ron. They were surprised about the reward, as 10,000 points were equal to completing a D-ranked mission, and 100 Shinecoins was a significant amount of money.

"Here." Ron handed Adam the brown pouch containing Shinecoins and said, "If it weren't for your identity as Coinfeeder, the reward would've been much higher, but the council thought that this should be more than enough for someone in tutorial."

"I understand." Adam nodded and made the Shinecoins enter his interface.

He was then about to return, but then Ron stopped him.

"Also, here." Ron took out a round shield from his inventory and handed it over to Adam. "Yours broke, right? This is an old shield of mine, and I don't have any use for it."

Adam looked surprised but also conflicted about whether he should accept it.

Of course, he wouldn't mind free weapons, but this could have hidden intentions behind it.

Seeing that look, Ron shook his head. "I ain't trying to force you to join Crescent Serpents if you are afraid of that. This is my reward to you."

"..." Adam nodded and accepted the shield.

It looked slightly higher quality than his previous one.

After Adam returned to his seat, Ron looked at everyone and said, "For today, you all can have one meal in the restaurant, free of charge."

Many eyes brightened up as some of them had already had the pleasure of tasting the food in there, and it was a hundred times better than in the cafeteria but also more expensive.

Now that it was free of charge, many salivated just at the thought.

After that, the emergency meeting ended, and Adam was the first one to leave the auditorium.

'10,000 points. I wanted a little bit more, but it's good enough.' Adam sighed with a slight relief and looked at his interface with 100 Shinecoins.

He never had this many Shinecoins during his tutorial days in his previous life. Back then, it was a struggle to earn even a single Shinecoin.

'This is still not enough for Skill Scroll, and I don't need any weapons. I should just save them, and perhaps, at the end of the tutorial, I might be able to acquire one Skill Scroll.'