Triaos knew what hell awaited if he didn't agree to the agreement. Although Shadows haven't been seen fighting in public, many considered him a legend and many players believed there was a reason why no one had ever thought of challenging him so far. “Name your price" Shadows said to Triaos.He was the kind of person who would keep to his words no matter what and no matter who. That was the kind of person he was. A person of principle.“Guild Leader Shadows, if you may please, I have no intention in money or rare materials. As you must have known, I was once a member of Arcanum Lumiosa but after today's incident Leader Rhazuul had me kicked out of the guild. My life would rather be in danger if I wasn't without a backing. So rather than things that would come and go, I rather be a member of your Shadows Syndicate”.Triaos almost kicked himself in the head, he was too nervous and he felt he had said something stupid in the middle of his speech.The long silence coming from Shadows pro
Logging out, Alex was met with Nexus's metallic face again.“Damn, would you stop doing that? You look like a kidnapper from out of space" Alex barked at Nexus." Actually, I'm from out of space and I successfully organized and carried out a kidnapping yesterday, so you're perfectly correct in your description” Nexus replied in a sarcastic tone “Hope you had fun? I was monitoring your game play, quite a lot of power you pack currently but too many excessive moves, you don't know how to manage your mana, in a battle of attrition, you would lose woefully".“I would refine my moves after a bit of training and it would be okay. I'm sure of it" Alex replied proudly.Giving Alex a knock on the head, Nexus reminded him, “You're being too proud, conceited and reckless. I can't control how you behave or how you do things but I would make sure to warn you, even if you have the system in your possession, there are times it would fail you and at those moments, you would be left to fend off the da
After laying on the floor for a little while, Alex finally stood up after he felt he had rested enough to do anything, concentrating using the system assistance, he manifested 1,000 pieces of copper.“That's half of what I have, I'm planning to use the rest in forging a weapon for Emma and also keep the rest for any future use" Alex explained to Nexus.“1,000 pieces would be more than enough for me to craft a new body, I may even try to craft multiple bodies as long as the material would last, by the time you're back, I would have successfully built the first set of parts alongside the power source” Nexus replied joyfully." You're not coming along? Why?" Emma suddenly asked.“He can't, it broad daylight and it would be easy to notice him" Alex replied Emma “Pretty much correct, that's the reason why I insisted on building a body that would allow me to move easily at any time of the day. But fear not my lady, everything has been planned, and I'm sure it will go well” Nexus replied as
Alex and Emma were shocked. Professor Tillman’s family was kidnapped?“I'm sorry professor, I have no idea what you're talking about. Emma and I are waiting for someone who said he was coming, we have no idea who took your family and why" Alex immediately said in defense.“Then why did I have to rush down here, and told that I would meet the both of you here waiting? If anything happens to my family, I would make sure the both of you see hell” Professor Tillman raged and the he dropped a package that he was carrying before he left.Alex immediately called up the Nexus system and scanned the package to know its content and to his surprise, it was just an ordinary tablet.Bring it out from the box, he saw a note, “Watch and call".“Watch and call? What does that even mean?” Alex murmured before powering up the tablet.When the screen came alive, Alex saw his mum asleep in a pristine white room, an oxygen mask fixed on her face and a vitals machine showing her vitals.There was no one in
The silence was quietly creeping into the conversation as both sides were both thinking of ways to achieve their goals.Alex finally broke the silence and asked “So,why is my friend here? You know everything about me, you have my mother, I can't get my head around why she's here”.The voice on the other side laughed before responding " Oh, for that matter, let's say I'm a man who loves to have insurance on every bet. I've calculated that in the incident you lose your mum, I would need another motivation to keep you going and our beautiful friend here falls perfectly into that category. Going through your history, I've observed that she has been the closest to you aside your mum"Alex shook with rage realizing the Seekers' cruelty knew no bounds. Not content with just leveraging his dying mother's last days to control him, they also imprisoned his cherished childhood friend Emma too.It cut Alex deeply knowing these heartless hackers held the two most important women in his life captiv
Alex sank down onto the edge of his battered bed, the broken slats creaking under his weight. He dropped his head into his hands, grabbing fistfuls of his own hair as if to physically hold himself together against the whirling storm inside threatening to tear his psyche apart.His mother's face swam before him—her warm smile fading into pallid sickness, machines beeping all around. Then a harsh blindfold tightened across her eyes as shadowy figures dragged her frail body from her hospital room. Alex squeezed his eyes shut but still saw her reaching weakly towards him before the door slammed shut, cutting off her cries.The image shifted to Emma’s frightened eyes peering over the duct tape covering her mouth, hands bound cruelly behind her back. Rage and anguish warred within Alex until he thought his heart would explode.A gentle knock at the bedroom door startled Alex from his spiraling distress. “Alex? Can I come in?” Emma’s muffled voice penetrated through his misery.Alex raised h
There was a brief pause in the room before Emma countered Alex.“Alex, that's quite a big assumption, the possibility of Nexus reaching out to them is less than 0.01 percent and it's almost impossible to get them to accept who they are because I'm sure that are probably running away from Vyus as we speak”" Em, let him speak” Alex cautioned Emma " So Nexus, mind answering?”." Well, concerning the 0.01 percent, it can happen in a myriad of ways. If 0.01 percent of this planet is given then imagine the same for every universe out there, it becomes an even bigger possibility” Nexus fumbled around." Doesn't answer my question,” Alex said in a cold voice. “Oh, yes there is still your question. Remember the time we tried finding a cure for your mother's sickness? And we were attacked by Vyus? Remember I told you I got to access different systems from across the universe, so I was able to come across some strange things but I wasn't able to understand until we listened to the message left
Nexus successfully explained the area known as the No Zone to Alex and Emma.“Currently, they are on the verge of entering the inner zone, once they are there, we would lose every form of communication with them" Nexus pointed to a red dot on the screen that was edging the border of the outer area. “This is insane," Emma shouted "This is the same place you actually expect us to go? What are the chances that the Codex hasn't been destroyed by the unstable environment within the No Zone? I'm least concerned about that, if we eventually get there how are we even going to survive once the pulling force brings us deep into the Core area? Alex this is a very bad idea, the thought of it already sends centipedes crawling up my skin”." I understand Em, but we haven't listened to Nexus' proposal nor the reason why he has been in contact with the followers of Kaia. Why don't we give him a chance to explain?” Alex tried pacifying Emma." Good point, actually, we can only send a few words daily