Everything was up to Damian now. Zen tried to squash all his feelings. Whatever the cyborg chose, he respected it. Zen did not want to regret freeing Damian even if they could not be in the same party.
Akiko and Liu Feng did not remain idle either. They distributed the blank map parts between themselves, so each person had sixty-one map parts. Hopefully, it was enough to secure two rooms in the luxury dorm. Moving rooms now would be a massive pain, and they couldn’t afford to lose their guild gathering place.Damian looked at the system notification. He already knew what he had to do. There should be cameras watching him now and many famiglias paying close attention to him. There was no better time to do this.“I would like to decline. Sorry, everyone. I can’t come home right now. If anything, I want to take this opportunity to make an important announcement.”For once, there was more attention on Damian Gorski than on Zen. The gamer heldAfter the event concluded, most students chose to return to sleep. Damian decided to pack up his things as he was in the last place of the latest event. He had to move rooms when the evacuation notice came. The cyborg had no idea how he would fit all his machinery in a room any smaller than this.Earning himself a Class C room wasn’t easy. After stacking the bed vertically towards a wall, he only managed to get everything he needed to fit in it. The deluxe room had a little more space than a standard room which couldn’t fit Damian’s charging station through the door. Now that he had to downgrade to a basic room, the cyborg worried that people would steal his workshop if he left it outside his room.With a heavy sigh, the cyborg looked at his packed workshop. It was sad having to say goodbye to this spacious room. He still had a lot of work to do even if the orders were on pause, thanks to his whistle-blowing stunt earlier. Not all their clients were
As soon as Damian left, Zen started preparing breakfast. There was no point returning to bed if he had to wake up in two more hours to make breakfast. It didn’t hurt to start earlier. The members of Godly Food had similar ideas as they excused themselves. Akiko and Sasha headed back and prepared the room for a guild debrief while Oritha informed Zen to send her a message as soon as breakfast was ready. The Amazonian couldn’t miss her daily workout.Within moments, only two people remained in the kitchen. The blind man didn’t mind spending his early morning in silence with Zen. He remained silent as the shorter teen worked. The dutiful chef didn’t forget his hospitality and served a cup of Liu Feng’s favourite tea after the water boiled.“Sorry,” the blind teen apologised when Zen served his oolong tea.Why was he apologising?Before Zen could refuse the apology, something more shocking happened. Liu Feng stood up and lowe
Soon after they cleared the air, Liu Feng received a private message from Damian informing them he had moved all the equipment into the hallway outside the spare room and was waiting for access. Thankfully, the guild meeting was in progress, so nobody saw the cyborg on their way to the meeting room. According to Damian, Liu Feng’s special order had also arrived.“The microwave and fridge have arrived,” he told Zen. “I’m going to help register Damian’s access to the new room while he helps us install the new appliances. We’ll host the celebratory feast in our room after the guild meeting.”Nodding, Zen bade Liu Feng goodbye as the busy man left to help their newest party member settle in his new room. The cyborg hardly left his room, so nothing should happen. Even if someone spotted him in their dormitory, it would be alright. His sworn brother would be there to handle it.As Zen busied away cooking breakfast for the guil
There was a reason why Damian Gorski never attended parties, apart from how he never received any invitations. His family threw celebrations regularly, but the cyborg would often opt not to participate. Firstly, he couldn’t eat anything. Secondly, he wasn’t a social butterfly. The attention exhausted him, and while he loved them dearly, being in their presence was simply too much. Damian preferred the solace of his cold laboratory, tinkering with the latest invention instead. His family understood his eccentric personality and did not force it. However, the same could not be said about Zen and his party. With the Seer personally escorting Damian to the main room, he could not refuse.“He’s here!” Liu Feng announced as he entered the room. All eyes turned to their newest party member eagerly as the tantalising smell of food invaded the Seer’s nostrils. Was that fried dough sticks and black coffee?To maintain privacy from the prying eyes
After breakfast, everyone scattered to do what they needed to do. Liu Feng decided to hit the training dojo with Akiko, both deciding they needed extra training. Zen prayed that the dojo would remain intact after the two decided to hash out whatever tension they had with each other.Oritha and Sasha wanted to catch up on the much-needed beauty sleep while Damian was working on fulfilling his outstanding client orders. That meant Zen was free to do what he wanted for the rest of the day without interruptions from others. It was a rather rare opportunity, so the gamer wasted no time.Lying comfortably in bed, Zen returned to the virtual world and remembered how he logged out on the newest stage. The chaos of a battlefield greeted his ears, with injured soldiers lying everywhere.Mandy reappeared as soon as Zen logged back into the game. As more than an hour passed, the previous poison resistance buff was no longer applicable. Instead, Zen received a new rand
The fortress was huge. Zen wasn’t expecting the new stage to have such a huge spawning area compared to the second stage. It was massive enough to get lost in the fortress. The spawn village on the first floor had many NPCs compared to the second floor’s spawn. However, neither could be compared to the number of NPCs in this fortress. Zen saw how every soldier here had a name and unique appearance. It was as if they had been modelled after real people and not simply created using the character creation RNG generator. There had to be at least a hundred people in the courtyard alone. Zen didn’t know if there would be more or less people inside the castle or marketplace. However, at least a hundred more sentries were on these walls, watch towers and guarding the drawbridge gates.“Hey, do you know where the garrison commander is?” Zen asked a sentry guard on duty.The soldier was wearing chain armour and blinked at Zen. He stared at the adventure
The noble in charge of the fortress was a wimpy-looking young man who had only recently accepted the title of baron from his father’s unfortunate death. According to the page serving this young baron, the original owner of this fortress was a brave and commendable general. Under the old Baron’s command, the troops defended their borders for years with minimal casualties. However, the young son of the baron had no interest in swords. Instead, he went to the capital to pursue his interest in literature. Now that he was a Baron, everyone suffered under his poor leadership.Gunter did everything he could to assist the young lord, but the young man was only interested in furthering his studies. If anything, he still insisted on increasing diplomacy with the goblins instead of exterminating their race. Needless to say, Gunter and his liege did not get along well. If not for the commander’s sense of loyalty to his previous master, he would have left the foolish young
Venedict might not be the smartest person alive. However, he couldn’t understand why this young adventurer thought food was the key to victory in a war against barbaric monsters.Goblins could not be reasoned with. If anything, they were usually low-levelled monsters that adventurers slayed for some pocket money. There had been no history of a friendly goblin. They robbed merchant caravans like petty thieves and plundered villages, killing whatever they saw.More importantly, he didn’t know adventurers were skilled in potion-making, first aid and basic blacksmithing. Where did such a person hail from? This kid was a jack-of-all-trades. His knowledge of little knick-knacks comprised almost every occupation. With Zen’s helping hand, the severely injured troops recovered. They had almost eighty percent of their forces ready for battle again after Zen distributed diluted healing salves and applied first aid.However, Zen refused to take command of