I felt my neck being crushed by the infuriated jumper's arm. He placed his right arm across my neck. I could hear my throat being crushed and the air entering my lungs beca scarce.
"Just let explain," I said in a hoarse voice, "I did that for your own good."
"Stop lying," he roared, "you almost got killed!"
"It's just you didn't do anything against the dragons," I tried to resist his arm and strength with all my might. I pushed his arm a few inches away with much difficulty, yet his eyes kept shining in a dangerous light.
He was really trying to kill here. That bastard!
"I fought dragons, all by myself."
"Stop bullshitting … You were terrified of them, I saw that in your eyes."
My words seed to trigger sothing and he pushed further his arm. This ti I hardly managed to resist and again he crushed my neck with his arm.
"Killing won't work, you'll die if you did so," as trying to reason with him failed, then there was nothing else but to give him a few threats.
"I can jump anyti I want, did you forget? I'm a jumper."
"You are bound by the contract between the two of us," I said with a hoarse voice, "and you can't jump according to the contract. You have to remain here and help to save your friend."
My words didn't affect his anger, instead he pushed further and I could hardly suck in any air. For a long minute he kept pressing over my neck before suddenly releasing his arm in obvious resentnt.
"I can't believe how you treated just now… If not for luck, I would have been dead!"
"Cough, cough…" I coughed and sneezed while trying to gallop air like I was on the verge of dying.
"You should never do that again, I'm warning you."
"If the situation required to do it, then I won't hesitate," I stood up slowly while adding in a firm tone, "this isn't a ga, it's an apocalypse. Death is at every corner. Muster up your courage and be prepared for what's about to co."
"You…" he moved closer in a mont. He seed to teleport and stood in front of using his fast speed. However he didn't do anything this ti. After all, he knew better.
"You survived, so did I. We managed to defeat the impossible, so embrace the mont and don't think about what happened too much," I even patted him on the shoulder. For so reason I felt his body softer than usual.
He didn't say anything and stayed silent by my side. I didn't want to hear any more complaints. Right now I had to wait for my warriors to achieve my needed quota of the fifty percent kill so I'd call this quest my win.
However, just after twenty minutes, sothing flashed in front of . "You again? What do you want this ti?" I crossed my arms in defiance and challenge while gazing up at the three angels who just appeared.
"Esteed miracle creator, we are here to notify you of sothing minor," the middle angel said in deep respect in tone, yet his eyes carried strange aning.
It was like he was gazing up at in mockery, as if he was just seeing a dead man in front of him.
"Speak then and don't waste my ti," despite seeing that sinister gaze of his, I calmly said with the sa arrogance as before.
Their treacherous dirty plays against were inevitable. After all, we both belonged to two opposing camps. But guarded by my fa he couldn't dare to reveal his hostility in words in the open.
So I knew he was here to reveal his next trap that he carefully selected for .
"I'm here to notify you of a minor adjustnt. This rest period before the start of the second quest will be elongated from six hours into forty-eight hours, an entire day I an. I wish you luck."
Yet his eyes told he was wishing death. With a whoosh he and the other two angels vanished. From the start he was the only one speaking while the other two kept lowering their heads as if they were showing their respect to .
Screw these motherf*cker!
"What is their aim from this?" The jumper seed a bit calr than before. He stood by my side and asked with puzzlent.
"The ti in between the quests is related directly to the difficulty of the next quest," I slowly said with a slightly dark face, "initially the next quest was related to us taking control of a small area. Then the third quest will be related to defending this area against monsters. The fourth quest will be regarded as ruling almost one fifth of the entire city, creating the five warlords. The fifth quest will be regarding the defense of each warlord against the monster tides and the sixth quest will be regarding the selection of the supre ruler of the city."
I said in one breath while recalling the sequence of quests I knew by heart.
"The seventh quest will be a grand challenge between monsters and humans under the control of that supre lord," the jumper nodded in agreent, "then what do you an? I already am aware of all this."
My face didn't change as I explained further, "out of the upcoming quests, the ones with forty-eight hours of rest and longer are the fourth quest and higher. If my guess is right, then the challenge over the entire city and defending it is too early to happen."
"You got a point," the jumper nodded again as he was lost in deep thoughts before adding, "without the selection of the five warlords, the selection of the entire supre lord won't happen. Also the monster challenge quests can't be a choice either."
"That only leaves quest four ahead of us," I said, "but that ans we are going to battle for a vast area and against many contenders."
I didn't feel this was right. Even if this was their plan, the initial ti of this quest was roughly seven days. With the nature of the system and its famous balancing nature, this ti would be elongated by a few days.
Yet that wasn't enough to make these bastards look this confident in killing . Who would stand a chance against my warriors? Sothing seed wrong here.
"We are at the central park," the jumper suddenly said, "it's considered a big part of a zone by itself. But to be one of the warlords of the city, one had to conquer at least five zones."
I knew this was the condition of being a warlord. Also it was just the initial condition. Afterwards one had to defend against the monsters and other warlords as well.
But the lack of the second quest ant I would lose the ability to gain control over more people. Also it ant I'd lack the power to buy fortifications and defensive weapons from the market.
Yet that wasn't enough to threaten . With the jumper on my side and the warriors as well, I could be considered the only one in New York city who could contend over the supre ruler position, not only a warlord.
"Hmm… We need to move earlier than expected then," I thought about it for a second before I turned to the jumper, "you'll head north and ddle in the Harlem zone."
"Harlem? Why Harlem?" The jumper seed puzzled with my arrangent. But he didn't know that most of the people who survived the initial waves of the apocalypse were mainly gathered there.
"Just go and make sure to scan everything and get to know the strong people there," I said without explaining much to him, "your role is to know who is going to be the one leading that zone. Also if you see anything suspicious, don't hesitate to give a ssage."
"I have my own compass to tell the traitors from the normal people."
As expected, he got the compass. "Just don't be arrogant and overconfident. Our enemy is cunning and I'm sure he will try sothing dirty this ti."
"What's new about that?" he shrugged before his eyes shone abruptly as if he recalled sothing, "what about you? Are you going to remain here as well?"
"I will head south and try to find good zones to control," I now decided to go and find that ace. She was at the hospital, and there were many people gathered and survived so far in there.
If I managed to get them to my side, then I would control three zones before the quest even began. This way I only lacked two zones to conquer and I'd be a warlord.
"Alright," he acted strangely obedient.
"Are you alright?" I couldn't help but ask.
"I'm just happy to get as far away from you as possible, what's wrong with that?" he said it in his usual harsh tone before he pointed at my Bulltors, "won't you send a few with ? I can get more authority there using them."
"You are still thick headed like always," I sighed in helplessness, "what I just warned you? Stay low! Don't show off until we are sure of what's going on here."
"Tsk, you have all of these Bulltors and don't want to give so… You are a stingy person, tsk."
I watched his back moving away while he kept muttering to himself like that while shaking his head and shrugging. I only smiled and said nothing. What did he think of ? I only had less than fifty Bulltors only.
As I sent away the jumper, I couldn't help but send another ssage to Angelica. I asked her about the updates with her friend. Yet no news was given.
She still didn't answer her ssages. This ti I seriously considered this matter.
[See her na in your contact list, is it a special color aside from green?]
The nas of people in the contact list were mainly green in color. That ant they were available. But if the color changed, that would be related to sothing else.
For example if the na was gray, that ant that person was inside a quest and unavailable to reach. If the na was red, that ant he was confined under special circumstances, like being attacked.
And if the na wasn't there, that ant that person was dead. But I didn't think about that option, as if that was truly the case then Angelica wouldn't be able to send ssages to her friend.
[Her na is silver in color, does that indicate sothing?]
Silver? That was a new color I had never heard about before. [Isn't it gray?] I asked as it was close between the gray and silver.
[It's silver, don't think I'd mistake the two! There is a distance between heaven and earth between the two colors!]
Well, I had to admit… Girls were really sothing. I couldn't easily tell apart the two colors, yet she said there was such a big difference. Thumbs up for you, girl!
[Alright, I'll go and check on her soon. I'll keep you updated]
[And I'll keep ssaging her]
I closed the ssage box and the next thing that happened was for the system to announce my success at last in this quest.
[Congratulations! You managed to complete the class special quest]
[You killed over seventy-six percent of the monsters appearing in this quest]
[Your assessnt is rare]
[Rewards are being adjusted according to your assessnt]
Assessnt? I didn't consider that! I thought the system took this much ti as I didn't get the needed quota for the quest.
Unlike what I thought, the quest seed to have been done a long ti ago. It only waited until all the monsters were killed, and like that I noticed the wailing roars of the monsters vanished from the world.
Yeah, my warriors killed every single one of them and gave such a pleasant surprise. What would I get then? More rewards? Or my initial rewards would be upgraded?
I was so impatient to know.
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