“Will, stop acting this hostile to any new one!” Lilith hit him with her elbow, showing how better her relation with Will than John.
“It’s just weird how humans didn’t cope with all this,” she said and I nodded for her to continue, “I an… Just look at this? Isn’t this like any ga popular in our ti before this sh*it happened?”
I realised from her words who they were. “So you are all gars?” I asked and the three nodded.
“We ca here to play in a competition,” John explained, “all of us are either players or fans of popular gas. So when the apocalypse ca, we found it easy to live through what happened.”
“People are just retard! They missed the chance to train over the apocalypse years before it happened,” Will snorted, said in his usual aggressive tone, “if they didn’t mock us back then, saw us as nerds with everything we did, then they might have a better chance in surviving.”
“Not all the people an this, Will!” John seed to not be on good terms with Will, and I could tell why.
“Will is right,” Lilith nodded, as she took the side of Will in this argunt, “I was mocked many tis thanks to my cosplay. See now? If not for my hard working hours in making these outfits before, how could I even use any gears or adapt to any of this? They just missed their chance, and we were ready for it.”
“So you fought and survived using the ga info only?” I jumped over this debate. After all I wasn’t literally soone from their ti. I couldn’t relate to any of what these three said.
“Of course!” Lilith said in confidence, “we played gas for most of our lives. These gas always had harsh scenarios and poor environnts where people had to survive using many skills and abilities.”
“Playing gas saved my life,” Will admitted, “saved all of our lives.”
“Good,” I decided to close this aningless talk, “I want you to go down there and do what I did to you with them,” I threw my compass again towards Lilith, as she seed like their acting leader.
“You…” Will was the one to object, yet Lilith said, interrupting his words:
“We will scan them,” she paused before adding, “can I have this marvel?”
“It’s yours,” I still had many stored in my inventory.
“What about ?” Will asked, despite showing zero interest before in my compass.
“Your force will have only this piece as a gift,” I said before adding, “it’s sold in the market. You can work hard and pay for its price with your own money.”
“Humph, stingy,” John muttered but his voice wasn’t that low to not be caught by my ears.
“Just don’t think yourselves this special because your survived so far,” I shrugged, pouring cold buckets of water over their heads without rcy as I added:
“You didn’t do the world a great favour by staying alive. If you were like , having such a mighty force behind you, then you might be enough to speak to as my equal. But compared to , you are still noobs in any ga you play.”
“And you?” Will asked with a tone of mockery.
“A veteran,” I replied before taking out my glaive once again, “if you aren’t convinced, then I welco any fight anyti. But I have to warn you…”
I paused as the eyes of Will and John flashed with desire to fight, “I only fight life and death battles, not the kind of ti wasting friendly sparring fights.”
The shining in their eyes instantly dimd when they heard my last words. “We will descend then,” Lilith said, putting an end to this experience of them.
“Ah, I forgot to tell you this,” before they would descend from my chariot using the rope, I stopped them as I added, “the ones who join will have to sign a loyalty binding contract.”
“All of us?!” John was surprised.
“That’s absurd!” Will objected in his usual aggressive way.
“If you don’t want to, then I can’t help you at all,” I shook my head, acting all helpless here, “after all this city is mine. If you don’t plan to join my forces on my terms, then prepare to leave as fast as possible.”
“You…” even Lilith seed surprised with my attitude. But I turned around, raising my fist in the air as I said, ending this debate before it even began:
“Go down there and think about it. You have half a day before my real forces co here. And a piece of warning…”
I walked towards my big ballista, caressing it like I was treating a pet or sothing, “my forces are much larger, far stronger, more experienced than the noobs players like yourselves.”
“You…”
“Don’t say it again!”
“Stop it!” Lilith shouted, stopping the other two from turning this situation into a disastrous one, “we will discuss it among ourselves, and give you the answer.”
“Cool.”
I watched them descend while laughing inside myself at them. I knew they wouldn’t accept such a thing if I showed any rcy.
They had to know this world wasn’t a free al to anyone. If they wanted to join , then they had to pay the appropriate price for it. After all this was my only way to guarantee my safety.
“Players… Hmm…” but from the second interaction with the player community, I started to grow much interested in them. I never read anything remarkable about gars before in any records of my ti.
Yet from what I saw so far, either from Leo’s actions or theirs here, I could tell how special this community was.
“Like a hidden gem in the dirt… I just need to work a little harder and gather them from all over the world,” my eyes shone brightly when I thought about that.
If I had no way to get to that community, I still had Leo. he stayed with long enough to gain my trust. That boy, he was a real playboy. Jumping over from one beauty to another.
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