Zen made dinner, and the smell attracted its first customers before even he was finished.“Oh, sorry about this afternoon. I got too carried away with wrapping up the quests on the first floor and missed the time. Can you taste check for me?”Sasha’s sullen expression lit up at once, but Oritha kept her distance. They were completely decimated by the dungeon boss at stage nineteen and had to resort to farming for boss drops for the rest of the guild that afternoon. It was annoying how difficult farming boss drops were. If it weren’t for the reviving penalty fees, they would have continued to push on with the new floor boss raids.“It’s great!” Sasha commented. “Is this meat sauce?”Zen nodded and poured the thickened
Oritha released Zen, who collapsed bonelessly into Liu Feng’s waiting arms.At some point during the tickle torture, Zen could only receive what he was given against his will. What could he say? Liu Feng was far too skilful with his hands for any resistance. The Seer sees it all. There was nothing he could hide about his body from the expert.
Zen was eating his dinner when the reply from his party members came. He changed into the new clothes Liu Feng prepared for him and had to fold the sleeves a little. The blind assassin told Zen to eat while he went to resolve some matters but refused to divulge details about his errand.Zen didn’t really mind. He was surprisingly exhausted after the tickle torture session and needed some alone time to plan his itinerary. There was a lot to prepare before he started his journey on the second dungeon floor. According to Sasha, who was the first to reply, the second floor was a fungi forest of doom.Specifically, there were mushroom monsters on the second dungeon floor equipped with the most annoying abilities.“So the mushrooms can explode into a puff of spores that will give the player negative effects?&r
Before making dungeon preparations, Zen scrolled through the general contact list and found Damian Gorski. He had a third of the academy’s students on his friend’s list, but Damian Gorski wasn’t one of them. Thankfully, it wasn’t difficult to find what he needed. Yet, the only problem bugging Zen was initiating contact.Liu Feng told him what Sasha had learned about Damian Gorski. The Russian sniper did not sound too happy about getting a door slammed in her face. The Cyborg never left his room apart from receiving deliveries from the invigilators that his family sent. He was often busy working on new inventions at the academy and frequently contacting them. Anyone could tell that Damian did not care about preparing for the events or clearing the dungeons. He was an oddball, but Zen could understand why.He hated to sound too pushy and r
After a while, Zen wondered if there was a better way to go around. Crawling looked ridiculous and was starting to exhaust him, even if this was virtual reality. Thankfully, the VR headset did not register his new fractured ribs as an injury, so he could continue crawling without repercussions.“Would wrapping a bandage over my face help?” Zen wondered.He looked ridiculous, crawling through the fog. If he wrapped a bandage around his face, it wouldn’t damage his rock bottom reputation. Zen tried not to think about the tinkle during the tickle session. If he did, he would probably die of mortification. The most important thing was to survive and be the person who gets that last laugh.Thankful for his basic crafting skills, Zen fashioned a poorly made [Cloth Mask] using the bandages. The item
Oh, wait. Zen saw the sign he missed earlier and finally understood why he strayed from the main and obvious path. The sign wasn’t on a post. It was hanging from a tree. If he recalled accurately, he crawled on the ground and tried to avoid the poison mist earlier. That would explain how he missed such an obvious thing.A blush of humiliation scattered across his virtual cheeks when the Godfather sent him a new tip.[The Godfather thinks you need to use blindness cure eyedrops in your inventory if you missed such an obvious sign. You have been awarded 100 credits.]Ok! That was his fault, but must the Godfather use tipping to communicate with him specifically? It wasn’t important advice or helpful comments. Zen had a feeling the Godfather paid special attention to him for an entirely different reason tha
Ping!Instead of the usual blue notification window notification he saw, Zen blinked in surprise at the purple notification screen.[You are about to unlock a unique quest. By proceeding with this quest, you abide by the rules of Omerta with Godfather Estrada and will not divulge details of the quest to any candidates in Godfather High. Do you wish to proceed?]Zen froze. Omerta with the Godfather?He wanted to decline at once, but there was no such option. Tearfully, he could only accept it and pray that his party members would ask him no questions. It was just a stupid detour from the main path. Why was he involved with another omerta? It was too unfair how he couldn’t even decline the unique quest!Those watching Zen
Zen found himself back at the Mushroom Maiden Shrine, and the viewers on his broadcast channel stared at the chestnut-haired teen. Nobody knew what happened when the channel was censored, but Zen’s confusion made them suspect he failed the Godfather’s Trial.While the world was swimming in speculation, Zen looked at his newly acquired secret skill that would not appear in his character profile card when shared with others, similar to his hidden titles.“Inspect.”===Unique Skill: Mandy’s Morse Code (Passive)Effects: Will give the user three taps on the left shoulder if someone is lying. Constantly activated during events, in dungeons and on school grounds.