After checking my notes and rereading from chapter 1, I noticed I miscalculated some hp and mp, and some level gain. I fixed them but it doesn’t really change the story. I also fixed some grammar errors, though I'm sure there's still some.

Clarifications:

Spoiler :

To those wondering why the party’s hp and mp were low on chapter two, the party didn’t have potions with them while grinding. They did go out without buying you know. They only relied on their natural hp and mp regeneration.

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Though she was late, the old man wasn’t in her room when she awoke, making her surprised since the old man has always been on time even when he was ill.

Rina stood up, and as she opened the door and peeked at the corridor, she saw the old man walking to her room. She was worried for the old man’s well being, but it seems he’s fine.

“Ohoho, I apologize for being tardy Rina-sama.”

“It’s fine, but why were you late?”

“Ohoho, would you like to eat breakfast or would you like to take a bath first?”

“Don’t change the subject, this is the first time in my whole life that I’ve seen you late, there’s a reason right?”

“No need to worry Rina-sama, I simply overslept because of ol-... age.”

“That’s understandable, you’re seventy eight after all, but if you are ill, tell me immediately ok?”

“As you wish Rina-sama.”

Just like the usual, she took a bath and ate breakfast made by the android butlers. She rested in the flower garden and an hour later, she trained with the old man.

Though she doesn’t need to because of Ren’s android soldiers and his modification on the mansion, Rina studies in various fields that could help her in dangerous situations. Her actions are largely influenced by the time she was kidnapped and the time her parents were killed by their own servants.

She starts with body strengthening, which focuses on mobility, since the best way to protect oneself is to run. Rina runs around the mansion twice then proceeds to the mansion’s gym.

She only lift weights enough to move every part of her muscles, unlike body builders who lift weights to create tears on fiber and tissues of their muscles, making them stronger once the muscles rebuild.

Next is martial arts, which is taught by the old man who’s well versed in both striking and grappling. After ending it with a spar they take a break and eat lunch.

At around 2:00 pm, Rina trains in swimming and parkour for about two hours and takes a small rest for afternoon snack.

The rest of the day is spent with Rina being taught different information that can help her survive in any situation, like gun shooting, driving different vehicles, and even identifying poisons.

In other words, she spends most of her time with the old man, who for her is already her grandfather. Though the old man gets angry when he’s called that.

She trains twice every three days, except for days when Ren is out of his laboratory. The old man knows of Rina’s affection towards Ren and he wants to support her, but he only tries to push the two together.

He doesn’t want to interfere much, since he wants Rina to achieve her happiness through her own efforts. Though he also tries to give Rina other choices, since he at least want to see her have a family before dies.

When Rina finished her studies with Sebas, the old man, she went to the lounge on the ground floor, a room away from the dinning hall.

The room was big enough to fit a hundred, but only she and Sebas were there, waiting for the food prepared by the android butlers.

There were only three people inside the mansion, Rina, Ren, and Sebas. There were more in the past, but were replaced by Ren’s androids which he said were much more efficient and won’t betray the Takahashi family like the other money hungry ones.

While sitting on a sofa waiting for the food, Rina asked. “You really don’t want to try Zanaria Online? It’s really fun and you can play it while you’re asleep.”

“Ohoho, my answer is still the same Rina-sama.”

“It’s just appearance, it won’t affect the game...”

“Ohoho, even I want to look good in front of others, so I don’t want to play a game where I’ll look old even though I’m not.”

“Sigh, you’ll play it sooner or later. I’m sure you will.”

“Ohoho”

At exactly 7:30 pm, they went to the dinning hall and ate dinner.

After that, Rina rested on the balcony connected to her room with the old man for twenty minutes, to let the food be digested properly.

After that, the old man said “Good night Rina-sama” as he walked to the door.

“Good night Sebas” Said Rina as she laid on her bed.

Sebas smiled, before closing the door and heading to his room.

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Rina awoke in the same place where she logged out, and in front of her was the three.

“Welcome back master.” Said Decima while grabbing Nona’s mouth to stop her from interfering.

Ragus rubbed his head on Rina’s shoulder before flying and staying above them.

They resumed their level grinding as they moved closer to the fairy settlement.

Along the way, they met a female archer accompanied by two elven males that were identical to each other, wearing clothes that resembled Nona’s, with the same glow and aura.

There was also a bird with burning feathers flying above them, which was obviously a phoenix.

The female archer was a P2W player. The two magicians were her mercenaries, and the phoenix was her pet.

She had gray hair and green eyes uncommon for japanese citizens, with good looking face, and slender body, wearing emerald colored set, emitting light green aura.

Rina wanted to avoid the archer, but when the archer saw her, she ran to Rina while waving her hand and saying. “Wait!”

Rina couldn’t avoid them, so when they got closer, she said. “So why did you call me?”

“Since you’re the first player I’ve seen with two mercenaries like me, I want to add you to my friend list.”

Since the archer was also a P2W player, and Rina will benefit with having her as a friend, especially when Rina starts trading materials in the future, she said. “So it’s just that.”

“So you’re ok with it?”

“I have nothing to lose anyway.”

Kiting101 wants to add you to her friend list

ACCEPT?YESNO

“There, friend request sent to Morta.”

Rina clicked yes, finally getting her first ingame friend.

“Muahaha, I finally have my first friend!” Said Kiting101 as she raised her head, crossed her arms, and puffed her small chest. After she calmed down, she said “Ok, time to get back to grinding, see you later Morta!” She ran, followed by her mercenaries and pet.

Just like Rina, Kiting101 was cautious of players.

Since both of them were P2W players, Kiting101 thought Morta would see her as just another player and not as a walking bag of money.

She simply wanted to have some sort of link with someone who could possibly be her friend in the future.

She already forced the conversation, taking it further would only make her look creepy, so she decided to part after adding Morta to her friend list. She just hopes that Morta won’t delete her later.

Rina summoned the friend screen for the first time.

FRIENDS

NAMELEVELCLASSSTATUSKiting10128HunterOnline[1]

After a few moments of staring at the screen, Rina and the others also went back to level grinding. She doesn’t know if it was the best choice to add an unknown player, but it’s surely not the worst.

Just like before, they’ll find a spot brimming with monsters, deactivate the aggression control, make Decima pull the mobs, and once the mobs are gathered, they’ll kill it. They slowly moved further as they did.

They continued grinding like that, and at 12:01 am, a screen appeared in front of Rina.

A message from the game master!

OPENLATER

Rina didn’t cancel it and focused on clearing the current mobs in front of her. After that, she activated aggression control and opened the message.

Unlike the spam of marriage proposal messages, which she deleted while they were resting, the message that came from the game master piqued her interest.

A gift to everyone that played, are playing, and will play in the future.(GMasta)

To celebrate the first week of Zanaria online, we will increase the exp gained by 100% for two days. It starts tomorrow at 12:01 am and will end on Sunday at 11:59 pm. To those with grinding or premium kits, do not worry, the exp boost will stack to existing exp boosts.

This is the game master saying, sleep is for the weak, but since we’re all sleeping, we’re all weak? Ok, that was a lame joke, so I’ll apologize by saying that there will be more bonuses on the following weeks, so continue playing and have fun!

After reading the message, Rina and the rest returned to level grinding. It would be good if they can focus on grinding tomorrow, so Rina will try to have the two enter their second job class before then.