Chapter 8: Mysterious Assassin


    The yers around Adam suddenly started shouting, chaos took ce. How unlucky could they be? They began flooding the Kingdom''s chat with screenshots of their new quest. Soon, everyone knew that the next vige that would be attacked, would be Rosewatch.


    Adam suddenly saw rows of ''f'' in the chat. Adam closed it and shook his head. They were really unlucky. The first viges attacked would be destroyed, because of the levels of the yers. But the ones who would be attackedter had more luck, as their yers would have the time to level up and would thus be able to defeat the tide and even get the rewards.


    Adam clenched his fists. That was unfair. That was too unfair! He would lose two Levels and a lot of time just because someone else had made a mistake!


    But then Adam shook his head and refused to let despair take a hold of him. He could survive this. He didn''t know how, but he knew he could. The developers wouldn''t just put something unreasonable like this.


    Adam quickly concluded he needed equipment. He needed almost 5000 XP to pass to the next level, so leveling up would be difficult. And the power given by equipments was better than the one given by levels.


    Adam rushed toward the auction house, and once he arrived there he began looking for equipments. He also put everything he got on sale.


    He was surprised though, because before he could even find a good piece of equipment for himself he received a notification.


    [Auction House: ''King yer'' has bought your ''Venom Piercer'' for 5 Silver.]


    Adam was surprised. When selling in the auction house, one needed to put a minimal price, and a price to buy the equipment immediately. And he had actually set 1 Silver for his materials, and 5 for the daggers as the maximum price. But as Adam decided to ignore the matter and take it as someone needing it for a quest, he received another notification.


    [King yer has sent you a friend invitation.]


    Adam looked at the ID carefully. He didn''t remember hearing about this person. Was he a member of some guild who recognized his name and wanted to recruit him?


    Adam thus epted the invitation, curious.


    Immediately after, Adam received a call.


    The first thing King yer asked was "Are you in Rosewatch?"


    Adam asked, surprised "How do you know?" King yer replied "I am in Rosewatch too. When I heard your name in the announcement, I was quite sure I remembered seeing your name earlier."


    Adam was surprised, this man had a really good memory. He asked "What about it?"


    King yer said "I have a quest with great rewards, ones that could help with the vige''s attack. But I won''t be able to do it in less than 30 minutes if I''m on my own. That''s why I need help."


    Adam asked "Your quest can be shared? Why with me?" King yer replied "It can only be shared with another person, and who would I choose other than you? You are the only one who killed an Elite Boss."


    Adam smiled, that was true. King yer said "Where are you right now?" Adam replied "At the auction house." King yer said "Good. Join me in front of the vige chief''s house."


    Adam said "Okay." and then hung up before walking in the chief''s direction. He only needed thirty seconds to reach there. There weren''t many people, so he easily found King yer. And it was hard to miss him anyway.


    King yer was a Level 4 Dark Elf Assassin, with several equipments on him. He was the first Level 4 Adam saw, and he had several pieces of equipment on him, which was quite rare.


    King yer waved at him and Adam approached him. They shook hands as King yer said "I didn''t think you were this tall. Truly befitting a Berseker. Now, ept the quest, we must hurry."


    [King yer has invited you to join a quest!]


    Quest Detail: You found a letter on a dead knight about an important member of the Azure Sky Kingdom being captured.


    Quest Level: 5


    Quest Difficulty: S


    Objective: Save the mysterious person trapped.


    Deadline: 24 hours


    Reward: 3000 XP, 40 Silver, ?


    Failure penalty: Forbidden from entering Ember City, lose 2 levels.


    Adam looked at King yer in shock. How lucky was he to find an S Rank Quest? Still, before epting Adam asked "This quest only seem to benefit you. 3000 XP isn''t enough for me to level up before the tide."


    King yer nodded and said "I know. But this is an S Quest, do you think you won''t get some equipment? As a quest bes more difficult, it doesn''t increase the XP primarily, but the items you will get. Although it isn''t said here, I found in the letter that if we can seed we will get a powerful skill of our choice, as well as a ss Armor."


    Hearing him, Adam suddenly felt excited. The skill could be disappointing if he was unlucky but the ss Armor couldn''t. A ss Armor was a special kind of armor that was literally made for one ss, and that was stronger than other equipments of the same level.


    Adam no longer hesitated and epted the quest. Adam looked at his map, but was surprised to see there was no objective. As if he was reading his mind King yer said "There is nothing on your map because we can''t go there by foot. I picked up a teleportation crystal next to the letter that will lead us to the quest. Do you need anything before we go?"


    Adam checked his equipments durability but saw they were all at 100% of durability. The only things he used were his sword to attack, and his boots when he was bitten by the wolf, but he reced both, so Adam nodded and said "We can go."


    King yer nodded and took out a multicolored crystal. That was the first time Adam saw something like this. King yer clenched his hand, crushing the crystal. Then, just next to them a tear appeared in space, and King yer said "Here, we need to enter in here to start the quest."


    However, just as he said that a nearby yer rushed toward the tear. Adam wanted to stop him, but King yer shook his head. Adam thus watched, curious. The yer was about to enter the rift when suddenly he was sliced in two.


    Adam saw him blink his eyes before dying, not understanding what happened. King yer said "Not just anyone can enter a tear in space, we can enter because the quest protects us, but at our level anyone who didn''t receive the quest will die."


    Adam felt pity for the Level 2 Assassin. His level was now reset to 1 because of his greed. King yer said "Come in."


    Adam nodded and the two entered. When they passed to the other side, the portal closed itself. Adam looked around, curious. They hadnded into a strange room, there was no door nor window, only torches on the sides that emitted some mana.


    King yer said "We can only get in here through a teleportation crystal. Come, we need to hurry to save the princess. But first, ept the invite so we can share XP from the kills."


    [King yer has invited you to form a party!]


    Adam epted and as they started running he said "I''ll tank in front while you attack them in their back." King yer smiled and said "Of course, you don''t expect an Assassin to tank do you?"


    Adam smiled back and looked forward to their first opponents.


    As they ran, Adam fell behind because King yer was faster than him as an Assassin, and as he looked at his back he felt the man was an expert. The way he was moving showed he had a great control over his body.


    After a moment King yer took Adam by surprise when he asked "Do you have any AP left?" Adam replied "Yes, 15 of them."


    King yer turned around, with some shock on his face, and asked "What Level were you when you killed the Elite?" Adam replied "Level 2. Killing it raised my levels by two, and the quest associated by another level. I didn''t really get the time to put in my levels though."


    King yerughed and said "This will be easier than I thought then. You should put 10 of your AP in Agility, and use the other 5 as you wish. This way, we will be able toplete this quest faster. Moreover, even for a Berseker Agility is important. For your Strength and Endurance, the ss Armor will give more than enough points for each."


    Adam thought about it, and in the end nodded. His strength was already high enough, and to get any substantial change he would need to put all 15 of his AP into Strength. But doing so would make of him a ss Cannon, and he didn''t want that.


    Adam first put 10 AP in Agility, then 3 into Intelligence and thest two in Endurance. He immediately felt his speed double. King yer smiled and elerated. He was actually holding back?