“Arrggh!! Dammit!!”

Daniel looked again at the envelope, with this much money, he wouldn’t last for two weeks. Initially he thought he could get more money since Alex was the one who had breached the contract but instead of extra money, Alex only gave him a ‘parting gift’.

Alex’s response was actually included in Daniel’s calculations when he decided to attack ‘TerraNorth’. He thought that since Alex can cancel the contract at anytime, it was a great plus if he got fired after successfully attacking ‘TerraNorth’.

And once Alex actually fired him like he had expected, Daniel didn’t feel any joy. After Daniel found out about Alex’s lies, he felt that he could finally enjoy his work since he now knows that his jobs aren’t life threatening.

“(So...Maybe I should go back to selling Emperor Saga loot on the Internet?)”

Daniel now has the most resources in Emperor Saga. His current in-game wealth makes him one of the richest users in Emperor Saga.

Since Emperor Saga is the long running game, selling normal rare items could not support his lifestyle. The last time he sold the equipment he had gained from the ‘Ancient Dragon’ stomach, he received less then $5 for each item.

There were numerous high level artisan that could easily craft artifact level equipment in game. This made it harder for Daniel to sell equipment.

In game money, land or company shares and one-of-a-kind artifact were the only thing worth selling, they were the of item kind that could not be reproduced.

Users who possess one-of-a-kind artifacts usually wear it because the benefits the artifacts give cannot be ignored.

Daniel searched through the items he claimed from the ‘Grand Safe’ robbery and he found none of such artifacts.

“(But I believe the ring I gained from killing Roshan was one of a kind one-of-a-kind artifact although I still didn’t test it yet.)”

That only left Daniel with in-game money and land or company shares. Daniel has plenty of in-game money, on the other hand, he believed that converting the money into real money will obstruct his future plans.

And…..

*Sigh*

“.........Mister Daniel, I know you have a hard time but please refrain yourself from doing something stupid.”

The lady besides Daniel looked at him with suspicious eyes. Blue eyes, blond hair and proportional body; this lady can be considered beautiful.

“......Don’t worry, I have no intention of betraying my end of the deal.”

“Hmph! Good. I have a hard time too since I’m also losing my job.”

“But you only here for spying.”

“Yes, but now I felt stupid getting fired from a high paying company because of the game. My husband would get angry.”

“Fine, I get it, Misses Smith.”

To execute his plan, Daniel used all the help he can get. Without the ‘BloodBrothers’ resource such as the ‘Stealth Belt’ and explosives, the ‘Grand Safe’ robbery and Roshan killing would not have succeeded.

Without Sitka and Fizz successfully persuading the merchants and underworld clan leaders, marching to the ‘TerraNorth’ headquarters throne room without a single fight would just be a dream.

And without the ‘BloodBrothers’ help, capturing the throne and defeating the Chaos Knight was out of the question.

‘Give and take’, one of the merchant’s great philosophy. No one would work for free and rewards are a must even with the word ‘help’. Regrettably, Daniel needed to divide his loot.

“...........And I know it is hard, but don’t be foolish and break the law.”

“W-What? Do I look like a criminal to you?”

“You just robbed an international bank.”

“That’s only in the game!”

“Sorry, I will buy you a lunch.”

“......Am I a kid to you?”

“Don’t want it?”

“N-No, I mean, sure, buy me a lunch.”

********

“(It’s been a long time since I was here….)”

The next morning, Daniel got back to his old routine of his morning exercise. Then, he came to the abandoned building where he used to train.

Daniel looked at the ‘parting gift’ he got from Alex, he took the gift and wore it on. The size was perfect for him. It was the equipment he used for the fighting simulations.

The sword and the suit was the same, but to replace the room that generates the hologram, Daniel was given the headgear instead.

“(Hmmm…….unlike the room, this headgear has all kinds of Emperor Saga monsters database. Instead of fighting humanoid holograms, I can also fight monsters.)”

Daniel selected one of the monsters from the headgear and began his fighting simulations. It was a ‘Fire Dragon’, one of the higher tier boss monsters.

“GROAAHH!!!”

“ARRGHH!!”

2 hours later.

The way the suit generates pain was a mystery. With just the headgear, Daniel only saw the ‘Fire Dragon’ unleashed its ‘Fire Breath’ attack.

Furthermore, the suit makes it as if the dragon’s flame was real and Daniel was knocked out from the dragon’s attack. With no medical expert watching him, it was an extremely dangerous feat to simulate the fight against the stronger monster.

Daniel decided he should fight lower level monsters and make his way up as his fighting skill improved.

“(And the skill, I need to master that skill!)”

Four days left before users can access Emperor Saga. In these four days, Daniel trained harder than before to master the skill.

*****

Welcomed Back to Emperor Saga, we had successfully updated the game AI’s for the better gaming experience. Below were some of the major updates, you can access the Emperor Saga’s websites for more detail updates.

Your emotions would have a significant affect on your character status. New users ban rules enforced, users that abusing the game system for their advantage would be dragged by the GMs to the central court for a hearing. The guilty verdict will earn you 6 months in game jail time. Currently, the North Continent were divided by seven different countries with a different policies for every country. Since the coins value was doubled from the impact of the recent great robbery, the coins that have lower value than bronze coin, copper coins was introduced. ‘Craftsmen Festival’ will be regarded as an official event in the ‘North Continent’. The festival would be held annually in the Chaotic town of Daisy.

Stat Window

Character name

Chrono

title

100 Menslayer, Guardian Slayer

Level

100

Class

Merchant

Health

570

Mana

470

Fame

1,500

Infamy

21,800

Strength

135(+80)

Dexterity

264

Endurance

44

Wisdom

41

Intelligent

52

Sense

104

Luck

28

Stamina

129

Legendary Sword Stat Window

Sword Name

Grave

Class

Soul Necromancer

Level

100

Soul

10,000

Attack

98~100

Durability

102/102

Loading Skill

Error, Loading Fail

Chrono felt disappointed when he saw the loading fail message. He trained real hard for the past four days expecting the skill to be included in his in game character.

“(No, the game would not try to load it if the skill can’t be included. Maybe I need to train more.)”

Besides the skill failed loading game message, one of the updated announcements also piqued his interest.

“(This new ban rules….Don’t tell me they already found me out, I hope not.)”

After the updates, everyone from the ‘BloodBrothers’ logged in at the same time. They were excited with the new updates and the clan’s success.

Since it was the first time they were logging in after 5 days, no one was doing missions, raids or robberies, making the hideout full.

“Hey, long time no see!!”

“Yeah, I was so excited! Did you guys saw the video? Who do you think that ‘Skull Mask’, I never saw him in our clan.”

“I saw it, I think that ‘Skull Mask’ only tagged around to help our clan. But he was sooo coool!”

“Hey, how about we celebrate about our clan success? We had nothing to do anyway, let’s throw a party!”

“”””.........................””””

“Huh? Why the sudden silence?”

“Hmm...You know, five days ago our leaders just got fired from work so celebrating now seems…”

“.............”

“I-I think I need to go out and grind my level.”

“I-I also need to go.”

“Let’s just rob someone.”

******

Meanwhile, in the council room of the ‘BloodBrothers’.

Like before, Chrono and Aramis was standing while Jurek, his three henchmen, Sitka and Robo sat on their designated place.

The council room did not allow for non-council members to enter, let alone a stranger. But today was special, a young man that was non ‘BloodBrothers’ members sat on one of the vacant council chairs.

The main reason for the meeting was to discuss about how to divide the loot and a few other matters.To start the meeting, Jurek stood up to the open speech.

*ehem*

“For starters, we would let Chrono divide the loot as he wishes, if anyone of us doesn’t agree, raised your hands and state your reason of appeals.”

Once Jurek finished his speech, Chrono moved in front and start his speech.

“Firstly, thank you to everyone here for contributing and believing in my plan. The plan would never succeed without everyone here, let’s give ourselves a round of applause for our great success.”

*clap* *clap* *clap*

“Initially, I want to divide the loot like we promised. But because of some circumstances, I need to change a few things on how we divide the loots.”

“What?!”

“Relax, let me finish first.”

*Ehem*

“The reason for change is the upcoming quest I’m about to do, my class upgrade quest. While completing the quest, I can’t manage the company as I should. Now is the crucial time for the company, I need to appoint you to manage the company as well.”

“.........”

“Like I initially promised, the ‘Grand Fort’ would be given to Fizz and half of the ‘Ever Garden’ soldiers would be given to you.”

“.........”

“ The rights of collecting taxes from the five cities would be given to ‘BloodBrothers’ and I would take 40% of the ‘Cranberry’ assets, while the rest of the assets would be divided between ‘BloodBrothers’ and Fizz.”

“..............”

“ The new change I propose is, Fizz as ‘Cranberry’ and ‘EverGarden’ CEO. And ‘BloodBrothers’ will act as ‘Cranberry’ and ‘EverGarden’ protectors if the company assets get attacked. In return, I will give 30% of the company annual revenue.”

“..............”

“Any objection?”

“Hmm...I guess that fair enough.”

The plan’s success was mainly due to Sitka and Fizz as they had manage to persuade the shareholders. Sitka was respected by the underworld clan leader, as long as she approved someone, they would go along with the plan.

With Sitka’s backing, Chrono thought it was fine as long as Fizz could persuade some of the merchants to sell their shares. 51% of the shares was enough for Chrono to gain the company ownership and during his march to ‘TerraNorth’ headquarters Chrono knows how hard it is to persuade the merchants.

For this reason, Fizz completely exceeds Chrono expectations by persuading all the merchants, including the stubborn high level merchants.

Since then, Chrono recognized Fizz skill as a merchant and he felt that giving Fizz the CEO position was a fine decision.

“Okay, now for the clan matters. Chrono please escort mister Fizz outside.”

Chrono knows Jurek want to discuss about the plan on the artifacts gathering for the new ‘BloodBrothers’ guardian. Fizz was allowed to come to the hideout but trusting Fizz on the clan matters was too much.

Chrono escorts Fizz leaving the council room. Outside, they had another talk.

“Thank you again for your help.”

“Don’t mention it, I gained a lot from this. After the invasion, everyone saw merchants class in a different light, now they know the merchants powers are dangerous enough to destroy the most powerful clan in this game.”

“Yes, now everyone will regard a merchant like a noble in middle age. By the way, I wonder if you can give me the merchant class upgrade quest?”

“Yes, if you go to the city you need to talk to me anyway. Hmmm… let’s see...here you go.”

Fizz press a few things on his user interface before a screen appeared before him. To give the quest to Chrono, Fizz need to recite quest dialog like a NPC.

“Greeting fellow merchants! I see you already reach the appropriate level to upgrade your merchant class Now, take this certificate and find Jolo at the port city of ‘Malak’, he will give you the further instruction. Don’t forget to bring your merchant friend!”

Merchant Class UpgradeQuest :

Gained the certificates from the merchant’s guild leader in the major city around the world with your merchants friend.

Quest Rewards : Merchant Class Upgrade

Quest Rank : B

“Hmm...’with your merchants friend’? I hate that part.”

“Like it or not, you need at least a two people party in order to trigger the quest progression. You know, the merchant class always have a hard time moving between cities, this requirement aren’t hard to meet.”

“Yeah, I know. I also heard there was an expedition party created at the city of ‘Mafoso’ every month just to complete this quest.”

“Yes, luckily the expedition would move out next week. But I thought you would have blackmailed a merchant to create a party with you and complete the quest, why the expedition?”

“My name kind of hot now, I need to wait for it to cool down before traveling alone again. And I’m not that heartless, why does everyone think of me as some kind of criminal?”

“....Because you just robbed a world’s bank. By the way, need to get going.”

*******

Using the return scroll, Fizz get back to ‘Mafoso’. Once Fizz was gone, Chrono dropped by his workshop to see his slave goblin.

Once he entered the workshop, All of his slaves stopped and bowed. Weirdly, the goblins face looked sweaty, it seems they were afraid of Chrono since the the last time they made a mistake.

The goblins would never dared to betray their master, but there was one thing Chrono need to keep in check, their natural desires.

“(Don’t tell me….they reproduced?)”

Chrono start to counts the goblin, he supposed to have only ten slaved. Francis advised him to kill the extra goblin to control their reproduction.

1,2,3…...9,10,11. Once Chrono finishes counting, he takes out his sword to kill one of the goblins.

“(I wonder which one the extra...Hmm?!)”

Among all the bowing goblins, only one goblin stood standing. For a lowly creature, his face full of pride. There was a huge ‘X’ scar on his body, his masculinity made the other goblins look small and slim;like his little brother.

The goblin walked towards Chrono with his pride and honor. Instead of appearing as an unsightly slave, bowing down like his kin, the goblin kneeled in front of Chrono in knightly manners before it spoke.

“YOUR BIDDING, MASTER?”

*******