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“Are we ready yet Valeria?”

“We are ready to go whenever. All we need to do is back through the river channel leading out of the city. There is a secret entrance over there.”

“Good. you hear that men? Once you get inside don’t cause any problems for the populace. Immediately spread out in groups of three to find Lord Hydra. If you spot him, use the special call to alert everyone. Understand?!”

“YES SIR!”

“Good, dismissed!”

The Bread followers stood in formation, faces full of seriousness as if they were about to fight for their last time. Such a moment was incredibly important to them as they all knew deep down inside their leader was kidnapped! How could the Bread followers simply take it easily? They were furious! However with a capable leader like Cline, Falcon and Valeria holding their inner emotions in check they became soldiers. Soldiers that would stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Would it cost them their lives? Possibly. However they didn’t care, even the new elves that had just joined, saw Hydra’s miracle in restoring their sacred place.

No one here. Whether it be Cline who was manipulating the Bread followers for revenge or Valeria who wanted more of Hydra’s attention would dare make light of the importance that Hydra was. In their hearts his entire being was there pillar of support. One who showed them the light. One who protected them and saved them when they needed it most. And now, it was their turn to save Hydra.

As they started to rush towards the secret entrance, Falcon rushed to a certain pair of Bread followers who were clearly even more enthusiastic to the others. Just as he was about to tap their shoulders he heard them speak out.

“Rich!”

“Yes Bob?”

“We got to make sure we are the ones to find Lord Hydra first! After being beaten by our brothers our seniority is even lower than the new recruits!”

“You’re right Bob. If we don’t show them our loyalty who knows what will happen next!”

“Haha! Good! I was just coming to join you two to make sure you were going to take this seriously. But it looks like I worried for nothing and you’re even more eager than the rest to prove yourselves. Good let me join you anyways! Together we will find Lord Hydra!”

Rich and Bob turned around as they saw their Boss Falcon give them deep meaningful looks. It was a look that one could tell was previously of disdain and unhappiness, but now it was one of pride and joy. Falcon clearly was about to reprimand them harshly after their previous remarks. Rich and Bob shivered at the thought of what would happen if they thinking of slacking at all. Luckily they also believed in Hydra deep down in their hearts, it was only because they saw a weird situation that they questioned it. However now they would no longer do so again, or so they thought!

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“Ahhh! I have soooo much fun! What should we do now?”

Irina looked at Hydra with eyes full of expectation. Although she was a serious person usually, at times like these she couldn't help but let her inner child roam freely about. After all there were so many interesting things she had never seen before. After eating the apple she had made sure Hydra bought the entire supply from the stall keeper. Now Hydra had over 100 caramel apples just sitting in his bag. However after looking at his bag he realized his supply of [Bread] was nearly gone and so before he forgot about the most important item in the game for him. After speaking with Irina, they left to the bakery to buy some more bread.

While on the way he decided to organize his bag a bit and as he did he checked out the items that Pan had dropped. Hydra had already picked up and thrown the items in the bag that Pan picked up but as he wasn’t in a rush he thought he would check them over later. As they weren’t anything rare just more [Silver Grass] used for bowstrings or some [Ceremonial Flowers] and more types of herbs used for curing poison or spices for food.

It was then that he noticed an item he entirely forgot about until now. Hydra stared at the [Skill Mastery Point] scroll and clicked on the info tab.

Ding!

[Skill Mastery Point]

Can be used to fully upgrade a mastery level of any skill level 5 or higher! Can only be obtained from [Trials] or [Challenge Dungeons].

Shocked Hydra stared at it. Although it might not look like much, such an item can be only called top tier! Skills at the lower levels might get much of a boost pre level 5 however once they started to reach mastery it became harder and harder to reach level 10. And the moment a skill reaches level 10 it was possible for either a evolution or learning an entirely different skill!

Although Hydra only knew this small bit of information. Whenever Hydra had a chance he was always looking up new info on the forums slowly but surely increasing his knowledge on the game. He learnt after being taught by Lockon that his general knowledge of the game was too poor and if he kept it up even if he was able to single handedly fight people due to his fighting skills their knowledge could be used to over turn the situation. This was one of those items in the game that could easily overturn the situation. However for now it was just an item and couldn’t be used until his mastery had risen.

After being distracted for awhile, Irina called out to him loudly.

“Hydra!”

“Sorry what?”

“I said we are here!”

“Ah thanks!”

Hydra entered the bakery and left Irina who was carrying Pan in her arms. They were still wearing the masks as they couldn’t help but enjoy the mood it brought with it. Such an item could only make Irina smile widely. Of course Hydra couldn’t see through the mask, but that didn’t matter they both knew that their peaceful time was fun and that was all that mattered currently. Unfortunately Hydra had long forgotten about being chased by the Bread followers. Although partially was because Hydra didn’t think any of them would dare to enter the imperial capital. Too bad Hydra also forgot that Valeria was part of the Underworld in the capital. And at this moment all the Bread followers had just entered the capital searching madly for him.

“Eh, young lad how can I Help you today?”

“Hey mister, can I get 9,999 pieces of bread?”

“Sure! That will cost you 10 gold!”

Hydra didn’t try and haggle the price, and passed the money over. The moment the baker handed a particle like stack of 9,999 pieces of [Bread] over to Hydra a window popped up!

-Ding!

Conditions of a Secret Skill have been updated!

[Bread ?????? ?????] ?

Requirements: Learn a skill involving bread, Carry 9,999 or more pieces of bread at once, ?????. ⅔ conditions unlocked.

“What’s this?”

Hydra stared at the new information in front of him. As he had seen many strange things involving bread he was simply unphased by another. Although the possibility of him being amazed was there, because he hadn’t fulfilled the last condition he couldn’t help but ignore it until later.

When Hydra finished closing the window, he walked out to see Irina petting Pan softly and Pan returning her actions with a soft nudge against her hands. Seeing ‘himself’ being lovingly pet by Pan, was definitely something to smile about.

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“Boss!”

“What is it Rich?”

“My Lord Hydra senses are tingling!”

“What the hell does that mean?”

“Uhhh… I found Lord Hydra!”

“Oh Good where is he?”

“Over there! Even the Lord emissary is with him!”

“Good! Bob!”

“Yes Boss?”

“Rush in and grab Lord Hydra, as you’re faster than me you will be able to protect run away with him easier. Rich! Sound the call and after that retrieve the Lord emissary!”

““Alright!””

“KACAW…….KACAAAAAAAAAW~ KA KA KA Oh Oh Oh! Oooooeeeee Ooooeeee Oooeeee! Ka e Ka e Tookie tookie tOOOOOOOOOOKie!”

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“Sir Cline! They have found Lord Hydra I heard the Call!”

“Good gather the men in that location!”

As Cline heard the bizarre call that everyone in a diameter of a kilometer could hear they all looked strangely around thinking to themselves.

‘What the fuck was that?’

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“What is that awful sounding noise? It makes me have an uncontrollable urge to beat the crap out of it.”

As Hydra looked towards Irina nad Pan who were staring around in confusion looking for the source of the call as well it was at that moment that Hydra noticed a blur past right by him! The next thing he knew was that the blur had turned into Bob and was now carrying Pan!

“I retrieved Lord Hydra!”

Right after Bob called out, Rich appeared right beside Irina wearing the mask of Pan and grabbed her and started to rush away with her chasing after Bob. At this moment Hydar stood there nothing moving. Although the observers couldn’t see Hydra’s facial expression because of the weird circumstances of the situation people could feel as if the mask had a complete look of dumbfoundment.

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“Haha! Rich we did it!”

“Right we did Bob!”

As the two of them rushed forward with “Pan” and “Hydra” they were happily discussing their triumphant accomplishments thinking of how they were going to be rewarded to saving their lord. Their faces turned into creepily happy ones as they finally arrived back where Falcon was.

“Oh! You…… Where’s Hydra?

“Right here boss!”

As Bob held “Hydra” in his arms, pointing at Pan who was wearing Hydra’s mask. Falcon looked at him for a second, back to Pan, then over to Irina who was wearing Pan’s mask. Falcon spoke, but at this moment he wasn’t speaking to his two subordinates and instead to the figure wearing Pan’s mask.

“Forgive me Lady Irina….. Please go easy on them….”

“Oh, don’t worry I’ll make sure to fix this sheer amount stupidity filled in their minds. Although they got Pan right in a weird way, they still dared to pick me up without permission.”

Irina at this moment took off her mask. Her face filled with anger that even coloured her face red. She didn’t even pull out her bow and immediately jumped straight towards Rich and Bob. At this moment they knew they screwed up. They unfortunately for them, they were simply too stupid to realize that Pan was Hydra, and that Pan was Irina. To them who were more stupid than any existing animal what other outcome could possibly happen?

“KaaKaw! Toooooeeeeeeee EEEEEEEEEEEE!”

At this time they called out another change call. However at this moment it wasn’t the call for finding Lord Hydra, instead it was the call for begging for help. On the other hand Falcon unconsciously face palmed. As if a lgiht bulb went off in his head he immediately thought to himself.

‘Oh, so that’s what it meant.’