ℙ005 – Black Phantom

P005 – Black Phantom

At another place...

A young man is sitting in a pretty chair in his room inside a high-rise penthouse apartment. His face could be considered top-grade handsome by the majority's standards. He was wearing expensive clothes made of silk fibre, and was holding a wine glass in his hand.

Tenkawa Ouma, 22 years old. The first son and main heir of the Tenkawa family, a large conglomerate with various business projects spread across the country.

He also had another identity, a guildmaster of the great guild in the Ascension world, Genesis. In that world, he was known as The Radiant Hero, Leon the Templar Knight.

Possessing wealth and blessed appearance, truly the epitome of being born with a golden spoon.

But even so, his expression didn't look good, especially after seeing the holo screen.

; ; ... Hecate No thank you. [Hecate has left the chat.] Rena-cchi Achaa...

She's really angry, isn't she?

LEON... AYAMARE!1 [Ayamare: Go and apologize!]

Leon Hey?! Is it really my fault?

I didn't say anything wrong, right?

Emilia This is why you are single.

You don't understand a girl's heart!

KAZU Yeah... this time's raid, she was really looking forward to it, right?

She even devised the attack strategy personally.

Rena-cchi It was going really well at first... Until that bastard came!

Black Phantom! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!!

I wish I was a combat class player!

I want to curse myself why I chose this damn nanny class before!

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He leaned back in his chair in deep thought.

So many bad things happened in one day. The raid operation he led was destroyed by an unknown third party. This made him so angry that he couldn't think straight. Because of that, he seemed to have said something wrong to Hecate and made her angry.

"Today is a really bad day."

Hecate, one of the core members of her guild, everyone's little sister figure.

She was a mascot as well, the top ranked DPS in the Genesis Guild. As one of the players who managed to reach the 3rd Job-class - Archwitch, she only focused(?) on water elemental spells and dealing strong damage to her enemies.

Her petite stature and adorable face can't help but trigger everyone's <del>lolicon</del> maternal instincts.

Even Ouma himself had to resist the temptation to pat her on the head!

When players create their virtual avatar, the game's AI will provide a basic appearance based on the player's own body shape. Players can make subtle adjustments based on the system, but the differences can't be too great.

These are regulations made from the government, not from the side of game companies.

It is said that this rule was created to overcome various problems that arise in VRMMO games, such as when some people cannot control their body properly after returning from a game due to differences in body shape. Another case is nekama fraud.

One day, a player finds out that his in-game girlfriend is actually a guy IRL, they even have sex in the game. The nekama man was eventually killed by the victim player and the incident went viral.

After these kind problematic cases occurred, the government decided to enforce this rule. No more nekama, no more giddy people.

Interestingly, shortly after this regulation was enacted, many people decided to have full-body surgery. Discarding fat, cutting one's own flesh and bones just to beautify one's self.

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In short, Hecate's looks truly reflect her IRL. This girl is really a loli!

Now that Ouma was thinking deeply, Hecate was probably angry too.

Don't be fooled by her adorable figure. Hecate was a very competent player with the highest level in the guild. She is the most promising loyal(?) supporter, though she seems to have a strange obsession with leveling up. The last time he looked, her level had already reached 128.

Even his avatar, Leon was still level 108 no, it would be 107 after today's incident. It would be difficult to surpass her level, but he had no intention of giving up. Even if he had to buy Exp Potions every day.

; ; Item Name: Exp Potion Type: Consumable - Potion Rarity: Durability: 10/10 Price:

50

Effect: Increase EXP gain rate by 50% for 1 hour Details: A special brew made by combining Elfen and Rune technology.

This potion can increase learning efficiency after consumption.

Obtainable from cash shop items.

Can be purchased 7 times per day (7/7).

Besides being a strong player, Hecate is also a very good strategist.

; ; You are dead! ; ; Item Name: Skill Assimilation Orb Type: Consumable - Miscellaneous Rarity: Durability: 1/1 Effect: Combine every fuse-able user's skills to create new skills. Details: Orb containing the power of Origin. ; ; Item Name: Crime Scroll Type: Consumable - Scroll Rarity: Durability: 5/5 Price:

500

Effect: Hides own name for 10 minutes. Details: A scroll which enchanted by powerful dark entity. It gives the user the ability to hides their name.

Obtainable from cash shop items.

Can be purchased 2 times per day (2/2).

Apart from being able to make players hide their names, it doesn't really have any other functions, moreover the price is very expensive. A whooping

500 is equal to 25.000 and that's only one use for 10 minutes. Even PK-ers would think thrice if they want to buy it.

A mere 25.000 is no big deal for someone like him, but to lowly peasant, it can be considered expensive.

"Which means... There are someone backing him. But the question is... Who? Prominence? or Stellar Wing?

No... that can't be... He also attacked them previously."

Black Phantom appeared sporadically up until now. All the place he appeared undoubtedly become carnage of death.

He first attacked Stellar Wing Guild in their stronghold while they're gone, looting their treasure and causing them enormous loss. Then, he appeared inside a dungeon that Prominence Guild trying to conquer. They was massacred and the clearance record turned into [???].

If they were behind this, why would Black Phantom attack them?

"Who is actually backing Black Phantom's operation!?"

Originally, he just scoff it off when Black Phantom appeared the first time and thinking that it wasn't his problem. But now that his guild also became victim, he knew the seriousness behind this.

The era has changed.

Virtual Technology has changed the world.

Now many business corporation and organization paid very importance to this technology. Especially when social distancing rule is in effect. Inside virtual world, physical touch won't bring any harm.

Many of the organization important meeting now held inside a virtual world.

Long distance no longer become problems.

Movie production started to shift their approach and makes use of the game realistic effect to make a film.

It was more cheap than hiring a special effect programmer.

Idol and band activities also held inside virtual world. It was more safer than in the real world.

If there are riot happened, it can be just laughed off, logout and all be fine.

Virtual school, Virtual meeting, Virtual idol, Virtual sex...

People start using virtual world as a replacement of the real world. Many aspect of life has started to change its meaning ever since this technology is introduced.

And currently the most stable virtual world is Ascension.

If Ouma can secure Genesis Guild's foothold in this game, his position as the most prominent heir in Tenkawa family will be solidified. The other heirs won't be able to do anything to flip the situation. But it seems this kind of thinking is still naive.

"I see... Black Phantom's existence, must likely backed by one of them! Then that makes sense!

Want to overthrow me and then did a Pyrrhic turnaround by using Black Phantom?

Heh, in your dreams, my foolish little brothers!!"

Ouma chuckled with his realization. Though, his facial expression did not smile. Humans only fears the unknown, but now that he knows the enemy(?) behind this, he no longer have anything to fear.

He stood from his chair and pressed something in it. The gorgeous chair suddenly morphed its shape like a transformers do. It now reveals a safety box that is carefully hidden inside the chair.

"This chair is really intriguing. Anything that "Rucien" makes is fascinating.

But, I wonder why he made a chair from Titanium."

If Ruri was here to see this chair, she would definitely recognize this chair as one of her creations.

Ouma couldn't understand what is inside the mind of an artist. Using such metal just to create a secret safety box chair, that's definitely not a normal way of thought.

Isn't this kind of wasteful?

In any case, it was worth to spend money to make a collection of Rucien's work, even though the price is somewhat expensive. All of his(?) work was created by using metal that hard to come by.

Ouma clicked the handle according to the password he set and the safety box immediately opened, revealing a bottle of wine and another glass, neatly arranged. He then opened the cork and start pouring the wine to the glass.

The purple color of the wine, was changed to red under the room lighting. In Ouma's eyes this wine suddenly looked like a liquid of blood. Perhaps he secretly wish that the liquid inside the glass is really Black Phantom's blood.

"I should hire some people again later to help me level up faster.

It would be shameful if the guild leader level was lower than his member."

Ouma savored the taste of the wine as he looked at the city scenery from the window.

; ; The one that supporting behind "Black Phantom" was actually himself!