Chapter 12

Under the gentle light from the monitor, Roland typed on his mechanical keyboard quickly . Soon, he finished his article and uploaded the videos . After he posted them, he was going to rest his fingers for a while, when his phone rang .

He glanced at the number on the screen and accepted the call . Without any formalities, he simply asked, “How’s it going?”

“Not bad . I’m already promoted to Saint Samurai,” said a young man with a magnetic voice . “What about you? According to the forum, the future of Mages doesn’t look good . ”

4Roland replied, “It’s fine . I’ve already got my feet under me . ”

“You’re good,” said the young man sincerely . “You don’t need to work today, do you? Let’s meet at the old spot . I’ve called Raffle . This game is too complicated and astonishingly huge . It’s hard to talk about it over the phone . ”

1“All right, I’ll meet you there . ”

Roland hung up the phone and found a T-shirt in the closet . Then he said goodbye to his parents in the living room and left on a bike .

1Roland was in a southern city, and it was a hot summer . The sun was scorching, although it was only morning . Roland tried to ride in the shadow of trees and avoid the sun, but he started sweating heavily very soon .

5The air in this city was usually humid, and there were few heavy industries within, with trees everywhere . So, Roland’s hometown had great air quality and a clear sky . However, Roland felt that there was a strange smell in the air . He wondered if it was his imagination .

8Ten minutes later, Roland came to a cold drink bar . The official hour of opening had not arrived yet, but the door was already open . Roland secured his bike and walked in .

The air conditioner was on in the cold drink bar . The moment he came in, Roland felt that he was revived from the heat . The decorations of the bar were mostly in warm yellow . He greeted the pretty woman at the counter and went straight to a booth on the second floor that had the plate of a panda on the door .

2Soft music was being played inside the booth . A young man was sitting on the yellow chair . He was handsome, with fair skin, dark eyes, red lips, and bright teeth . He was enjoying a bottle of Red Bull, a watermelon before him .

8Roland sat down on his opposite and chuckled . “Red Bull and watermelon… You’re having such aphrodisiacs so early in the morning? Did you have too much sex last night?”

7The handsome young man was named Schuck . They were best buddies and neighbors and had been in the same school from elementary school to college . They were not brothers but closer than brothers . So, they were most direct with each other .

6Schuck put down the can in his hand and said helplessly, “I have no choice . Marriage is the tomb of love . Now, all the sex is compulsory . If I hadn’t worked hard to feed her first, I wouldn’t have been able to join the game in time . ”

4Handsome guys were always pursued by a lot of girls . Schuck was good-looking even compared to superstars . Besides, he was a decent man who didn’t smoke or drink . Playing games was his only hobby . So, many girls were after him .

5Schuck’s wife was his classmate, and naturally, Roland’s classmate too, from middle school . Her name was Chen Hongdan . Of all his pursuers, she was the most beautiful and audacious .

7She had been pursuing Schuck since middle school . She even threatened her family so she could be sent to Schuck’s class in high school . She also applied for the same college that Schuck went to and volunteered to do laundry for Schuck in college .

5After they graduated, they naturally got married .

1Schuck was the owner of this cold drink bar, but Chen Hongdan was actually running it . She loved her husband and did not want him to work hard .

7The panda booth was a special place reserved for him and his friends . It was never open to the public .

“You’re talking like married life is hard . ”

Roland knew that Schuck’s life was comfortable . The guy had an easy job . He was not earning plenty of money with his cold drink bar, but his life was definitely above average . Besides, his wife was very nice to him . Most men would envy him .

“According to the official announcement, Saint Samurai is one of the three OP classes . How were you promoted so fast?”

Schuck replied, equally puzzled, “At first, I thought it was hard . My character was a Bard . I ran to the Temple of Light and prayed before the statue of the goddess with Language Proficiency, and then I was promoted . I found it odd, too . ”

6“How does the class feel?” asked Roland curiously .

Schuck picked up a piece of melon and said, “I haven’t fought anyone yet, but the privileges are quite good . People in the Temple of Light were shocked when I became a Saint Samurai . They offered me weapons and armors and twenty gold coins, claiming that they would give me money regularly every month . ”

4Roland sighed helplessly . Their experiences were too different . He had worked hard yet couldn’t really cast one complete spell, and his friend was already making money . Most upsetting of all, Schuck didn’t really do anything . How lucky was he?

While Roland was bummed out, the booth opened, and two young men, one fat and the other slim, came in . They wiped their sweat and sat on the long chair without greeting Roland and Schuck . They didn’t start talking until they had some watermelon .

1“Today is too hot . I feel that my fat is being squeezed out . ”

4It was the fatty, who was named Raffel, who said this . He was not too tall and had an amusingly round face .

5“It’s because you’re too fat . I don’t sweat as much at all . ”

The slim guy replied to him . He was about 1 . 83 meters tall . Because he was too slim, he looked like a pole . He was called Brazil, because he loved watching the Brazilian national team play football and wore their uniform all the time .

4He went by the same name in the game .

2Roland looked out and asked, “Where are Li Lin and Husseret?”

1Schuck waved his hand and said, “They’re working and won’t be free until nighttime . Let’s talk first . Tell me your locations in the game . ”

Raffel and Brazil both shook their heads, because they could not speak the local language . Raffel was a Shield Warrior, and Brazil was an Archer . Neither of them could cast a spell, so they did not know what the NPCs talked about . All they knew was that they were in different towns .

Schuck said, “I am in a city named Isnas . I don’t know its specific location yet, but it should be a fairly large city with its scale . ”

Roland told his friends his location, Red Mountain Town . Then he remarked, “This game is outrageously huge . It seems that we are scattered . So, we might as well work on our own for now and make other plans later when we re more familiar with the game . ”

2Schuck nodded and said, “That’s all we can do for now . ”

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