"That's probably what happened to your parents."
Russell said just after he gulped down the last strands of Nereian Sea Ran.
Maya listened attentively to the information she just heard, but her heart was racing faster and faster due to the anticipation that she could see her parents again that went missing a few years ago.
Clenching both her fist placed on top of her shorts over her fair-skinned legs, she spoke while trying her best to compose herself, although she knew that it was alright to break down in front of so strangers.
"The day they went missing, four years ago, they were coming ho after visiting the grave of my father's parents, while my mother's parents are still living on Alastor to this day, but you see..."
She paused for a second before letting out a heartfelt sigh as she recalled the monts she spent with her parents whom she missed so much that it's only her job as a sales clerk that barely distracts her from thinking about them every ti.
...
Russell — who was listening to Maya's words of longingness — felt a slight chill on his scalp as his thoughts were drifting into sothing.
It's the sa with Alie who was sohow bombarding him with questions in his head through their Chaos connection.
'That's what I wanted to know, too.'
Normally, any intruder especially in this kind of world where the System, stats, skills, and artifacts exist, would certainly be cautious if soone intrudes on their ho as the capacity brought by the existence of skills or anything related makes people easily kill or be killed.
Russell almost chortled, breaking his character necessary for this mont, at Alie's words that ran through his mind, but he noticed Alie's get up, a simple black t-shirt and black pants that didn't match the shoulder-length black veil she's using to slightly cover her face.
After composing himself, silently restraining himself from letting out a laugh, Russell asked thoughtfully.
"Maya... I have a question first, did you know that we were coming here?"
Maya slightly flinched that if the person she was talking with didn't have a perception stat, it won't be noticeable. After a few seconds, she looked at Russell's side who was wearing a dirty white mask.
"Hmm... to be honest, on my way ho, I noticed you two following ..."
"You're an assassin, right?"
Russell suddenly asked, causing Maya's eyes to dilate a little.
"You... you have Status Appraisal Skill!?"
Status Appraisal Skill was not sothing a player could just obtain via Skillbook as it costs hundreds of millions to buy one unless a player has a profession dedicated to scouting by which the System grants that player a general version of Status Appraisal Skill or have a contracted Constellation that would grant them a higher version of Status Appraisal Skill.
Russell didn't answer imdiately, although he didn't use the 'Eye of Night (EX)' skill he has, he knew Maya from his unpublished novel.
She's the one who murdered or more like sothing that fell into the category of massacring the 'Shadow Guild' after discovering that they were the ones who enslaved her parents until their deaths.
Maya was one of the Untouched Elents that Russell wrote in his unpublished novel for a simple yet stupid reason after Maya massacred the Shadow Guild, she barely appeared in the story afterward. He rembered the lines in his unpublished novel just like when he first saw Maya in the Player General Store.
'Blood spilled everywhere in the office of the Shadow Guild where several renowned individuals' heads flew everywhere in the blink of an eye, with just a twinkling of a star, as Maya was sitting on the Shadow Guild: Guild Master's seat with her legs crossed up on the table with an indifferent look on her face'
pAn,Da-n0v e1,c As he recalled it, he thought inwardly, assessing one of the cockroach-like characters in his unpublished novel.
'Arthur is one of the dogs of the Shadow Guild, but he escaped Maya's wrath by a hair's breadth.'
Russell thought inwardly of the general thought of the lines he wrote about Arthur at that ti, he felt like face-palming in front of Alie and Maya due to his failed writing.
'I feel like I'm having PTSD by rembering the details of my unpublished novel.'
He lampooned inwardly but still thought of the lines he wrote.
'Arthur Wolfson was called by the Guild Master to take a vacation because of the new slaves he controlled by forcing them to sign a contract that would make them workers in an underground Strayed Dungeon that mines a certain type of mineral called Urum (UR). But a few days later, he received a piece of news that the Guild Master and the Shadow Guild's other heads were brutally murdered by an unknown individual.'
...
After a few seconds, he looked at Maya under the Mask of Night, then he took off the mask, prompting Alie's words to bombard his head again.
'I'd say, telepathy is f*cking annoying sotis.'
But Maya's words made Russell forget what Alie just said.
"You... It's you... h-how? No..."
Maya said in incredulity as she stared intensely at Russell's average-looking face, seeing the deep blue short hair and deep black eyes.
"Yes. I'm the student you once encountered. Your mory is good."
Russell said inwardly, but Alie's words in his head caused his fist to be clenched inconspicuously.
Alie said seriously via telepathy, then she raised the black veil, revealing her pink hair that wasn't tied into a pigtail, but it was rather loose, almost reaching her waist and her ruby eyes.
Russell took note of Alie's words, forgetting to complain about the term 'shared' Personal Attendant which didn't even occur in his mind as a possibility, but considering that they're companions, it's just sohow right.
"But... I need to work... and I don't know the rules and regulations there..."
"100 million a month. That's your salary."
Alie interjected, prompting Russell to look at her in disbelief, but thinking about the future, money wouldn't matter that much anymore. He then looks at Maya after thinking as he acquiesces with Alie's judgnt at this mont.
Maya beca speechless, her mouth agape because her salary per week was only 100,000 Obel which amounts to 400,000 Obel per month, and these intruders who were technically Obelisk students were offering her a hundred million just to beco their Personal Assistant.
After a long sigh, she agreed reluctantly, then Russell proceeded with their plan about rescuing her parents.
...
Shadow Guild Branch, Part of Western Olympia.
"Oi! Oi! What are you fellows doing huh?!"
Bam-!
A kick landed on the back of an elder-looking man with a slightly thin body, auburn hair, and sapphire-like eyes. Although the Ergence caused the Mana to be consolidated around the world, causing evolution to the physique of humans, it doesn't an that the work they're going to be involved with would be easier.
An elderly woman with short red hair and blue eyes — who didn't even have the strength to shout — tend to the elderly man. Although they were in their middle 50s, their looks seed only in their late 30s.
"What a husband and wife, unfortunately... you'll die here, so just help us work, at least you'll do us good!"
A man with a rough face spoke in a firm voice with a grin on his lips.
The elderly man and woman picked up a pickaxe, an unordinary one that wouldn't break easily, then proceeded to go inside the already cleared Strayed Dungeon that's heavily controlled to mine a mineral called Urum (UR). There were thousands of people like them wearing gray t-shirts with numbers written on its back.
...
The elderly man with a number on the back of his gray t-shirt written as 721 whispered with a poignant tone.
"I hope we can see her again..."
The elderly woman with a number on the back of her gray t-shirt written as 722 teared up as she said in a breaking voice.
"I miss our daughter, too."
...
"Let's go... it's gonna be a fun night."
For so reason, Alie's words that were said with a smile caused Russell to feel goosebumps on his body, more than the strange Maya that they didn't think hard about at this mont as they deed it unnecessary for now.
Russell nodded at Alie, he already told her the location where the possibility of the location of Maya's parents could be found, but the problem this ti was that it was sowhere that Alie didn't go to during her days as a slave in a certain organization living under the Thorn of Rose.
Alie scratched her head, then Russell said via telepathy.
Alie nodded as she painted the image of the nearest Air Train station that was bound to the Western Olympia.
After an unknown period of ti, Alie took out the Staff of the Lost Shade (Growth) and used the Spade Warp.
Maya's eyes widened at the spade-shaped warp dyed in the darkest black that appeared out of nowhere, her mouth slightly agape while at a loss for words, then Russell walked through first, followed by Maya, and lastly by Alie.
...
Inside the Air Train of the Spiral Station.
Sitting on the seats inside the cabin assigned to them according to the Air Train ticket number, Russell looked outside, seeing the lights of the city, starry night sky, and bluish moon.
'If nothing changes, there's only a single Strayed Dungeon where Urum can be mined...'
He inwardly thought as the Air Train traversed on its track, hovering over it.
...
On the northern right of Olympia, Forest of Oblivion, a towering facility has been built by the Obelisk Organization, sealing the confidential Strayed Dungeon.
Checking the woman with platinum hair, purple eyes, and a voluptuous body that's being gawked at by the guards, the gate to the large facility opened.
Then, taking a magical elevator, and reaching the underground in a matter of seconds, Ayleen Mayfield, the professor of A-1 students of first years walked for a few minutes as various kinds of greetings reached her auricular senses.
She stopped in front of a certain massive door with a label that's written...
[Cetery of Oblivion]
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