The Assassin Gamer

Chapter 5 : Potential Allies

Noctis did what he did not just because he pitied Takara, but also because it is practical to take advantage of what he knew about RPG Fantasia.

He needed to gain and nurture potential allies who'll be major power players in the future.

His years of experience in playing online games taught him to play smart, and plan two steps ahead of the enemy.

He thought about the Scraper Guild.

Will he use or discard them and give them a hard time when he encounters them again?

He considered contacting his father so he can remove the Guild from those shortlisted for the Nobility Badge, and get the Scraper Guild back to square one. Perhaps

Noctis can even have them eliminated.

There must be a reason behind their Guild Leader being a bully.

He also needs to approach his deceased brother's allies and get them on his side.

He went to the next floor to challenge the first floor of the Novice Stage.

There are 5 Stages in RPG Fantasia, namely Novice, Intermediate, Legendary, God Mode, and Creator.

There are 20 floors in each Stage, and mini-bosses appear on the fifth floor of each stage, with the next stronger than the last.

The 20th floor holds the strongest bosses.

Finishing the game gets harder and harder every time a player climbs up.

The Game Guardians and the Game Administrators are said to reside in the Creator stage, while the Game Developer resides on the final floor.

He's said to keep a god-class beast, which is the final boss in RPG Fantasia

The Game Guardians are supposed to only explain to players what they'll encounter in the stage they're assigned to, and not meddle in the favor of one faction over another, but that's not always the case.

They also had vested interests and oftentimes took part in the power struggle between the two factions.

Only players with Nobility Badges and Legendary to God Class weapons, skills, and beasts can take on the final boss.

It's said to be so strong it can obliterate a battlefield full of low-rank and low-class players with just a swipe of its claw.

Takara couldn't believe her good luck, but she knew she had to make the most of it.

She needed to get stronger, gain allies, and become a major power player to assist Zero.

Although she has doubts, uncertainties, and suspicions about why a strong player and a new entrant at that, such as Zero played his hand and rescued her from the Scraper Guild, she also felt grateful for that fact alone.

She also wondered about his background and identity.

One thing for sure is, by his actions and speech alone, he is a great ally to have and a formidable foe to go against.

Players with Nobility Badges are elite and untouchable in RPG Fantasia.

They don't care one bit about the ordinary players and can't even be bothered to lift a finger if something happens.

They think of ordinary players and ordinary Guilds as just mere expendable pawns in a game of chess.

But Zero is different, although he has a cold and dark but powerful aura that emanates when he's around.

And the way he approached her made her blush and sent butterflies in her stomach.

She'll repay that favor by being strong support that can deal serious damage in favor of Zero.

She couldn't help but blush and get wet down there when she thought of him.

She came from a banished side branch of the influential Erich clan.

Her mother made clan decisions without consulting the rest of the clan elders, and that angered the Clan head so badly that she was banished alongside her brother and parents.

To make matters worse, she and her brothers are trash when compared to their cousins, who are top battle mages.

Being a battle mage and a multi-elemental one at that made her tremendously powerful in battle once she leveled up to become a sorcerer.

 Her power is imbued on her by Metis.

However, it also had a drawback.

Since her mother is an elite acolyte of the goddess Venus, she often gets horny and if there's no one around willing to have sex with her, she fingers herself while touching her breasts somewhere private.

With Zero backing her up, she went off to improve her strength before attempting to contact the vampire Rebecca Hudgens, the cousin of the vampire challenger Lilith.

Players with nobility badges only recognize and get allied with those who can stand on the same footing as them.

Luckily, she knew what vampires need: lots of blood, and their deficit for magic despite their powers meant they always kept a mage as an ally or else an assistant nearby.

She knew a perfect place where the two vampires could feed: the hunting grounds of the Scraper Guild. She smirked. She wanted the entire guild dead one way or another.

Rebecca Hudgens could transform into a bat, read minds and manipulate people through telepathy.

She can also summon creatures of darkness.

Her supersonic speed in battle meant she is hard to counter if the opponent doesn't have spells/enchantments that are of celestial / fire element.

She's also immune to the sun because of a complicated series of runes.

The weapon has to be made of silver.

Lilith is far harder to approach, but she might have a chance if she tried to make friends with Rebecca Hudgens.

 She has a history of trade and friendship with the vampires, so she might stand a chance.

She also needed to contact the werewolf Raymond Collins, said to be a direct descendant of Fenrir, one of the werewolves of Odin.

Raymond could turn into a werewolf and become a ferocious beast in battle.

 He's also the second most powerful wolf among Fenrir's descendants, as he could shapeshift into just about anyone and mimic them perfectly while in shapeshifter form. 

He also turns into a wolf and howls in the full moon just like the rest of the werewolves.

Takara helped end the thousand-year war between the vampires and werewolves, so she has no problem entering werewolf territory.