It was morning.

I had a hell of day yesterday at the mall but it wasn't a foreign feeling. It was always like that when we hung out. A crazy bunch of idiots doing a bunch of crazy things. I went home after dinner and supper and had a good night's sleep outside of RR. However, it was time to go back in again and train until Breadtalk and Beathoven could log in.

Connect to Royal Road?

Yes | No

“Yes.”

I was teleported to my own masterpiece, the town square and felt proud of myself. I could see the whole city from here. The three spines, the huge looming castle, the penis residences.

WAIT WHAT?!

“HERMES!!!!!!!!”

I ran towards the residences which had an impeccable layout but I definitely could not say the same for the design. I remember the first building Hermes said he had designed and I knew he did that with one glance. The houses were curved. Very curved. The bottom of the house was a round sack with a door in the middle. As it went up it slowly curved inwards and then swayed to the left, before swaying to the right and it had a mushroom cap for a roof.

By the armpit hair of Loki how the fuck did he design a building which looks like a penis that could curve BOTH to the left and the right?

“Like the residences?” I heard a familiar voice behind me.

“HOW DARE YOU GIVE MY CITY HERPES! Alright actually it isn't that bad once you get used to it.”

The view shocked you at first. Hundreds of penises lining up one after another but there was no questioning the layout and colour scheme he chose. Like a true architect. The pathways between residences were easy to manouvere about and every row of residences were different colours of a rainbow. So the first row closest to the spines were red, followed by orange, then yellow, so on and so forth. The roads were also well named. Red privates, Orange privates... I could not think of a better name. Furthermore, the residences were called in general, rainbow sacks. Oh well I guess Hermes did have his moments.

Carnival was completed. There was still some touching up to do here and there but majority of the work was done. The barbaric west spine where people would man up and choose dexterity or strength classes. The castle to the north where out army would reside in. The deliciously retarded east spine where everyone would definitely visit just for the fun of it. The town square where most of the players would gather. A kickass south spine for Carnival wars which would be the backbone of this town's culture and economy. Finally residences which couldn't be found anywhere else except maybe a few centimeters below a guys belly button. This will definitely not be the prettiest town in RR but i sure as hell can bet it's the most retarded and funny looking one. To anyone with a good sense of humour of course. Beginners shouldn't know about this town to start here and since the monsters are around level 50 at the weakest, it wouldn't be a good starting city anyway.

Suddenly, I felt Xantos descend from the sky behind me and as I turned to greet her, I was surprised. Xantos was mounted by a player no doubt. And the player was fineeeeee.

The girl looked around our age, was slightly tall for an asian like us, about 167 centimeters which was quite above average. Actually the BOTs were above average in the height deparment with our average height being about 175 centimeters which was above the average of 170. (Be nice don't laugh at us for being short.) So in general we weren't unattractive. It was just that Joe was too good looking that sunnavabeech. She had long black hair which was typical but it wasn't entirely straight with just the right amount of curl. She had a relatively small face, a decent body and long legs. I didn't mind looking at her cos she was kinda attractive but I really didn't have the time to be retarded. I needed to train abit more and find Fuzzy to spar.

“Who are you and why are you on Xantos?”

“How do you know Xantos?” she retorted.

Well -100 points for being rude omg this bitch.

“Well i've fought alongside Xantos for about 5 days straight in a class C quest and raised him up from when he was a quarter of this size to how huge he is now.”

Oh yeah Xantos had to eat. I used my mana to make a considerably huge orb of light mana and threw it at Xantos. Xantos gulped it down in one shot and let out his usual pattern when he felt happy. He would jump up and down while flapping his wings forwards and back and that threw the girl off her.

“Ow. Well at least it looks like you treat it well. I just started this game. My name is Horse.”

Not even an apology? Oh my god this woman.

“Hello Horse. My name is Jinx. I'm one of the founders of this city. How did you even end up in this town? It was barely finished.”

“I chose random during my character selection and it brought me here. So you're one of the people who designed this stupid looking town?”

SHE IS DEAD. Funny, retarded. Insane, crazy, all those adjectives can be used to describe this town which I take as a compliment but STUPID?!

I had it with her haughtiness. Sure she was kinda attractive but I really wasn't the sort to find bad girls who are rebellious hot and sexy.

“Yes i am. This town was built by 4 of the most awesome people in the world and if you call it stupid you really shouldn't stay here. I'll ask Xantos to give you a lift to a more noob friendly town. Bye. Xantos, please take her to Junad or Rosenheim whichever you see fit.” I told Xantos before turning away and started walking towards the castle.

Suddenly, Soup appeared around the corner and saw us. He ran over while screaming “DID YOU SEE THE RESIDENCES. OMG SO MUCH BROMANCE. I LOVE THIS TOWN!”

I could only smile at that idiot who looked so genuinely happy and entertained at how this town turned out. It was one of the most retarded laughs you can hear and you know how some people's laughs are more contaigous than others? He definitely was in my top 5 contaigous laughters.

“Who is he?” Horse asked from the back.

“Soup. He's another one of the founders. You really should be on your way.” I told her.

Ohhhh no please don't let her be infatuated with Joe this bitch needs to go.

“I don't want to go.”

OH GREAT. SOUP WHY COULDN'T YOU MAKE YOUR AVATAR UGLIER. NOW WE GOT A FANGIRL.

“I made friends with Xantos, FuzzyWuzzy, Slick, Hermes, M1 and M2 over the past 2 days. I'm not going to just leave the first friends I made. Besides they are funny people and I like funny people.” Horse said.

Who doesn't like funny people but do you even deserve to be around funny people?

But alas I'm quite a soft person. She was just a level 1 noob. Even though she was rude to me, insulted my town, the fact that Xantos was willing to carry her around meant that she was at least capable of making friends with her and the Elites.

“Fine. You can stay. You're our first guest in the town of Carnival. Since you've already been here for 2 days you should have seen the town. Any comments other than STUPID?” I asked.

“Oh yeah. Sorry I can be a bit blunt sometimes.”

Apologise after seeing a hot guy in front of you? Typical estrogenic behaviour.

“I think this town really looks ridiculous. It's so obvious that every part of the town was designed by a different person. It probably speaks of their personality as well. I assume you were the one who made the west spine?” Horse asked me.

“Yeah well actually that was me!” Soup butted in.

“Wha- Then which part did you design?” Horse asked me.

“The town square. Where you first came in from I assume.”

OMG my favourite part of this town was designed by this jerk who wanted to send me away and take such a rude tone with me?

Actually, Horse was not a bad person. She was blunt, straightforward, sarcastic but deep down inside she was someone who really valued loyalty and friendship. She was very headstrong in her beliefs but her beliefs were usually morally acceptable as well. It was just that when Xantos seemed like she recognised someone and flew straight down to him, she actually felt abit jealous and sad thus her slightly snobbish remarks.

“I think the town square was really well built. Sorry for thinking that you built the west spine.”

“Hey! What does that mean? The west spine is obviously the most awesome piece of land in this town!” Soup hollered.

Well at least this one I can tell is abit more sincere. Ahh fine might as well.

“Alright Horse you can stay. I think Fuzzy and the rest should be in the castle. We're going to find them now since we've been seperated for 2 days. You wanna come join us?”

“Sure I have nothing else to do anyway. And I'm stuck in this town for 30 days remember.”

“Oh yeah I forgot.”

The three of us could fit on Xantos and we were off, immediately to the castle and when we arrived, all the elites were waiting in the dining hall already.

“Hey you guys are back! And you've met Horse! She parties harrrrrrrd man.” M1 and M2 said in unison.

“Yeah good to see you again guys. It's going to take about 4 more hours before Breadtalk and Beathoven joins us so let's discuss details about the town since its fully functional now. But before that, Fuzzy a quick spar please?” I gave him a pleading look.

“Of course.” Fuzzy answered with a smile.

Over the past 4 days excluding yesterday, I have never won a spar with FuzzyWuzzy but because of his extremely high proficiency in close quater combat, my katana mastery rose to intermediate level 8. My mana manipulation training has also became advanced level 1. The increase from intermediate to advance was extremely huge. Mana suddenly felt alot easier to handle and I could now easily split my mind into three parts. I was working on four and I was almost done. All that added together, I could cast three different spells at once without any incantation whatsoever and wield my katana at the same time. Fuzzy of course was aware of this and even though I lost every time, I was getting closer and closer to winning.

We had a quick spar and using my new abilities, I thought of a new combo that would be able to decapacitate Fuzzy. The moment the spar started, I immediately went full throttle. No need to get familiar with Fuzzy's movements because I've seen them non stop for 5 days in a row already. I split my mind into three parts and used three different spells.

“Poison torrent, Ice Age, Searing Chains.”

Poison torrent was a huge DPS (damage per second) spell which inflicted poison damage over time and instances of damage by water gushing from all directions within the whirlpool. Ice age froze the poison torrent such that Fuzzy was firmly stuck in the whirlpool with the poison still ticking him down and Searing chains was a light spell that hindered movement extremely effectively. Much higher than rooted. I remembered these spells from the books I read in the Great Library of Junad.

Fuzzy could not even react because poison torrent was so powerful it sucked anything near the whirlpool inside immediately and needless to say, brute strength was effective against certain types of magic like earth, ice or maybe even gravity. But against water, it was definitely not effective. Fuzzy kept ticking down and I knew he only could use one skill to escape. Fuzzy had a spell called howl which raised his attack power by a ridiculous amount but only for a short time. I was waiting for the howl and when it came, I used what I learnt from the boss fight against him. I used a darkness spell to remove the buff he gave himself. It was a spell I created myself after wondering what was the best way to remove strong buffs.

“Impure Beckoning” was the name of the skill.

“Alright I give up. That was almost all your mana wasn't it?” Fuzzy asked.

“Yeah. I needed to win at least once you know. I know it's kinda like cheating but my katana training really reached as much as I could learn from sparring with you everyday already. At least let me show you how mages could easily incapacitate a melee fighter right.”

“Haha well played. Well played.”

All the elites were busy making comments about our fight and Horse just looked at me and Fuzzy with her jaws agape.

“How do you even fight like that? What level are you? How do you cast magic? Did Fuzzy even try to do anything? What happened?”

Well of course to an untrained level 1, comprehension was impossible. She just saw a huge dark green bubbling whirlpool which turned into ice immediately, saw Fuzzy's limbs glow with a light and hear a shrieking howl followed by a curtain of translucent darkness draping his body. I can't blame her.

“Well if you stick with us for abit longer the answers will automatically come to you. Why not you wait for all the founders to arrive, decide on a job and then we can give you some help.” I said.

“Sure. But you owe me so many explanations.”

This woman can be really unreasonable sometimes I don't owe her shit.

We then discussed the subtle issues of the town. Who would manage the finances, who would manage the events, who would take care of the well being of the people, our military etc.

Throughout this discussion Horse had finally managed to realise the situation she was in. This was a real meeting with 4 people of a high status. Sure we didn't look like royalty or rich people but we were founders of a city. We had to literally raise a small country. We finalised the discussion and were pleased with our roles.

Breadtalk would be in charge of the events. He was so ridiculous that only his events would manage to fit the town. He was also quite creative so we were expecting great (Retardedly great) things from him.

I would manage the economy and finances because it seemed to be the sort of thing left to the most responsible or calm guy. I did not really like the job but I decided better me than Breadtalk or Joe who would've spent all the money ordering a gigantic cake to replace our castle here or using all the money to buy one legendary weapon which was something Joe would do.

Beathoven would be in charge of the community. He would be the go between for the people and us. The face of the founders for short. We didn't need a good looking guy for it. We needed someone who could understand the people well and for that aspect, Beathoven was a rather good match. Only me or Beathoven could've done the task but since I was already in charge of finances. It was an easy decision.

Soup would be the one in charge of the military. He had always been a military junkie (He's an army officer in real life) and he loved games like Battlefield and Call of Duty. (I know its set 30 years or something in the future but you know you all can relate to this better right.)

M1 and 2 would be in charge of foreign relations. Whenever high ranking people of other countries come, since they were immediately so lovable, they could be put up to the task whenever we needed diplomatic intervention.

Slick was in charge of security. Slick had extremely small snakes which he could send throughout the town, lying harmlessly and unidentifiable in the grass to observe the situation through their feedback. He was also extremely fast if he needed to be. I mean he's a huge snake the biggest out of all of us even Xantos who was huge.

Fuzzy would be in charge of the area surrounding the town. This included the mines which would no doubt be a popular area for miners and blacksmiths. He would also help raise wolves which were about level 50 max for noobs to train on. We needed an elite army of monsters and eventually, the whole city of Carnival would be involved in Ragnarok so we needed the citizens and NPC's of this town to be of a high level.

After the meeting was over, Breadtalk and Beathoven arrived. We introduced Horse to them and likewise they introduced themselves.

“What sort of a name is Breadtalk?” Horse asked.

“A better name than-” Breadtalk did not even complete his sentence and shapeshifted into a horse. A horse that actually sneered at Horse.

Hoooo damn. Nicely done buddy. Let world war III begin. I know Horse wouldn't take it lying down.

Horse went over to Breadtalk and yanked as hard as she could on his tail. Breadtalk shapeshifted back into himself and she found himself holding something that was as similar to a tail a guy had at all. Except this tail was sticking out from the front.

“EWWWW! FUCKYOU!”

*Slap*

“OW! Fuck my face is still swollen from all th slapping from Soup yesterday. Guess I'm just a sucker for slaps.” commented Breadtalk as he started walking to our new destination while rubbing his face. Horse was finding a toilet to wash her hands I suppose so I just created a stream of running water in midair and she did just that.

Well. Everything was settled and Hermes had already brought NPCs into the town using his familiarity with the cities he had built. During our meeting, he had been sending messages to his friends and he said even he himself would reside in Carnival. It was just too fun a town to miss out on. NPCs could be seen streaming into the city via their transport or the transport circle on the town square. It was a matter of time before Carnival became fully populated. I decided that we have to move on to the main highlight of the town. We all went to The Ascension.

I entered the glass arena and started constructing the three lanes of the first ever Carnival war. There would be three possible ways to move from one castle to the next. Three lanes. The first lane I made jagged rocks shoot up like stalagmites from one end to the other. Then, i made it a huge pit 1 meter deep and asked Hermes to fill it up with plastic balls. If he could make balloon castles, he could make plastic balls like the ball pits we used to have fun in last time.

The middle lane I made a huge lake, 5 meters deep fully filled with crystal blue water. In the middle of the lane I made a huge platform, something like the Ayers Rock in Australia rise from the middle of the lake. It was perfectly circular and could serve as a platform for a fight to the death.

For the bottom lane, I made it such that it would be the most physically demanding lane. I created a mudflat with extremely even water and earth content such that the mud would be both extremely sticky and heavy. Underneath the mudflat, I placed certain booby traps that would go off if stepped upon using my mana. Of course if one had mana detection, one could seee the traps but I doubt most people would have the skill.

The lanes were done. There were two flags, one in each castle of their own colour. Red VS Blue as usual. Carnival Wars was ready to begin as well. I counted our team members.

Breadtalk, Beathoven, Soup, M1 and M2, Slick, FuzzyWuzzy, Xantos, Horse and I. 10 people exactly.

“Guys. Wanna give it a test run? 5 versus 5, only one lane allowed to go from one castle to the other. Only mid. (middle lane) First team to grab the flag from the other castle to bring it to his or her own castle wins.”

All around me, there were only excited faces except for one truly horrified face.

“Don't worry Horse, I'll put you on the same team as Breadtalk. He'll take extremely good care of you.” I snickered.

End of Chapter 20

Author's note: OH YEAH! CARNIVAL IS BUILTTT! So many questions have been answered but even more have been created! What's the reward in Carnival Wars? How would Carnival Wars turn out? Would the citizens like it? All new NPCs are coming into town! New players would appear. How would the town be received by the general public? And most importantly, what would happen when the BOTs all fight against each other 5v5? HAHAHA. Please continue supporting me! OTL