The World Of Skill

Lind II

“Hey, pretty ladies, why you are in a rush? Why don’t you accompany us here for a bit?”

Before the party managed to move, they are stopped by a group of me. As Lind is famous for its beach and bikini-wearing players, there are a lot of troublemakers here with the purpose of picking up girls.

Of course, since it was common knowledge of the game, the girls who come to Lind is basically acknowledging themselves that they could be hit on. It wasn’t applicable to all but most of the girls that come to Lind and wear a bikini are actually waiting for someone to strike up a conversation with them. It is almost like a site to find a match.

These men who comes to stop the party also have that idea in their mind.

“It’s okay if you look ugly in reality. As long as you are pretty enough in the game, we can have a lot of fun.”

Inside the game, there is a function to report s****l harassment if it was not under the consent of the victim. If both parties actually consented to it, there is an option to unlock 【Adult Mode】, of course, the system isn’t promoting free s*x to the players. The most they can do is kissing and it was also unlocked after the players are going through marriage inside the game.

“What are you saying you lowly insect? Don’t you even know that if you touched even a single strand of my hair you will regret it for the rest of your life?”

As fiery as she always is, Azalea speaks up against the group of men.

“Hahaha, what a temper. I really like a girl like you. When they are on the bed, they will act wild like horses. Hahaha.”

“Watch your mouth!”

“Princess let me handle this.”

Geoffrey then holds Azalea back as he stepped forward.

“Young men, I advise you to back down. It won’t be good for you if you crossed the line.”

“*whistle* look at this, are you her nanny or something? What can you do to us anyway?”

Seeing that the group of men is coming nearer, Ryu is moving in front of Marina and put her behind him to shield her from the group. As Azalea already have Geoffrey protecting her, he isn’t worried.

“Princess, should I report this to the prince?”

“What? How can you do that? Getting my brother in this mess will only make muddy water murkier.”

“Then, what should we do?”

Just before the group of men managed to get near, a group of people in black hooded uniforms appeared and apprehended them.

“What’s this? You know you can’t use violence inside the town.”

“We’re not using violence; we’re just maintaining the peaceful atmosphere of the town by apprehending some criminals.”

“We’re not criminals! We haven’t done anything wrong.”

“Save your excuse for the time you’re in jail.”

After that, the group of offensive men immediately dragged away from their location and the men in black also leave the area before giving a nod towards the party.

“Was that a group of the game masters? What actually happened?”

Ryu knows that there is an option to report s****l harassment and the game master will come to the scene. He is just surprised because they came faster than Ryu anticipates. Only a couple of minutes have passed ever since they encounter the group of men but they are already here. Not to mention, who called them to come?

Ryu looked back and found Marina smiling at him. It seems that it was this lady who appeared to always be calm in any kind of situation.

“Big sis, was it you that called for help?”

“Yes. That was not a big deal.”

“As expected of the young miss. That really saves us a lot of trouble.”

“It’s alright. Let’s continue and go to the item shop.”

Ryu thinks that something is still out of the place but he didn’t mind too much. After all, this is the second city he ever visited inside the Green World and he is excited. To tell the truth, if Ryu wasn’t in a party with the others, he will most likely act like the ruffians from earlier; trying to pick up girls. Good thing he saw a live example of what’s going to happen to him if he goes too far. But Ryu suddenly feels confused while he remembered of what just happened.

［Don't they haven’t done anything that could be considered as s****l harassment? Their words could be considered offensive but no physical contact has even been done. I also don’t know how long usually a game master will come but don’t they have a lot of things to do? Like checking reports and bugs, will they come this fast? Ah, never mind. It wasn’t important anyway. I better look around and enjoy the view. ］

“Hey, stop looking around like a country bumpkin! And wipe that drool from your face. You are embarrassing us!”

Ryu hasn’t even looked around for a minute before Azalea reprimanded him.

“What’s wrong with looking around? It’s not like I need your permission to use my eye.”

“But you’re slowing us down.”

“We’re slowing down because you stopped just to speak mean words to me.”

“Ugh, whatever, let’s keep on moving. It’s just around the corner.”

Marina and Geoffrey only laughed at the scene. Ryu can only grumble as he walked forward and looked down at the road to focus.

［Isn’t she paying too much attention to me? She immediately takes every chance to demean me. This little brat, should I aim an arrow at her every now and then? I can just say that my hand is slipped. Of course, even as a gold medalist, I’m still a human and my aim can miss. Hahaha, just you wait brat. ］

The party then arrived at the item shop but they have to go to a queue as the shop is bustling with people.

［A big town is really different.  I can’t imagine having to go in a queue to use the item shop. Veloz is really deserted compared to Lind but I think I liked Veloz better. Of course, Lind wins in terms of girls and view but the relaxing atmosphere on Veloz can’t be compared. I wonder what the other cities looks like. I can’t wait to see more of them. ］

Finally, it was their party turn. The item shop NPC actually only wears a bikini. No wonder that the queue is so long not to mention that she has an explosive body. Azalea immediately hit Ryu’s side with her elbow and brought Ryu back to reality with the pain.

“Ouch, it hurts…”

“Your fault for not having any manner. Can’t you control your perverted eyes even just for a moment? Just finish selling your loot and restocking and we’re going to leave.”

The four of them then sit down on a beach shop afterward to rest and refill their satiety. They are also discussing their future plans.

“Princess, if we want to maintain our leveling speed, we need to move to 【Tegron’s Desert】. We could hunt field monster until we reach level 25 and we will enter the 【Desert Scorpion Dungeon】 after. The dungeon has a minimum level requirement of 25 so I think we will need to hunt normal field monster first for three to four days to reach level 25. After we enter the dungeon, we can expect to have one or two-level up for every run.”

“Alright, we will follow your plan, Geoffrey.”

“Shall we depart now princess?”

“No, we can sit down for a bit. I want to see the sunset in Lind.”

Ryu looked at Azalea and surprised that this girl could actually act like a normal girl. Ryu looked at the sea and indeed the view is so beautiful. The orange sun setting in the sea, as if a scene from a painting. Ryu looked to the side and Azalea is giving her another astonishment, her smile is so gentle as she looked at the setting sun. The sunlight reflected on her eyes as the sunlight shine on her face making it look as if she was glowing. Accompanied by her golden hair, she looked like an angel that has descended from heaven. Marina on the side also looked beautiful but at this moment Azalea is the one that caught his attention.

［This arrogant girl could actually make that kind of expression. How pretty. Oh, wait! Sh*t! What am I thinking? No-no-no. it must be the sun effect. Even Marina looked even more lovely than usual. ］

Marina suddenly turned her head and looked at Ryu only to caught him looking at her and gives him a smile. Ryu can feel that something is tugging at his heart when he sees her smile.

［As I thought, Marina, is the most attractive girl I have met. Even if her character appearance is edited, I still like to look at it regardless. Moreover, her gentleness that comes from the soul couldn’t be faked. She is still the best. ］

“Perverted i***t, stop looking at big sis. She is just too kind to everyone so don’t get the wrong idea.”

Ryu is annoyed at Azalea because her words disturbed the mood instantly.

“If only you could close your mouth or speak nicer. I believe that many people will like you.”

“What do you mean by saying that? A lot of people like me already without doing all of that.”

“Yeah right. A bunch of masochist people I bet.”

“Talking to you is just a waste of my energy. Hmph!”

They stopped talking again and watched until the sun completely sets and the street lights illuminated the surroundings.

“Let’s head out to the Tegron’s Desert now.”

 ***

Inside the desert scorpion dungeon, a girl is moving carefully with her bow ready. She found a monster not far from her and she aimed her attack carefully.

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She successfully ambushed the enemy with a power shot. The dessert scorpion immediately enraged and looked in her direction as she has taken the aggro from the monster.

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She keeps on launching one arrow after another as she attacks the desert scorpion. There is no hesitation or fear in her eyes at all. Even when the scorpion is already near, she keeps on attacking nonstop. It was more like a trade of blows between the two of them as she didn’t even bother to dodge.

Of course, as a virtual reality game, the pain reception is duplicated so the players can still feel the pain. Although it was set at only 40%, it will still hurt a lot. The limit was not even half of the maximum capacity as it was possible to cause death in reality if the pain reception is at 100%. After all, the brain will experience pain in reality just like inside the game.

40% of the pain is also something not to joke about. It could be seen how firm her resolution is, as she gritted her teeth while taking the blows. At last, the scorpion disappearing into white lights before her eyes. Her health gauge is at 8% which is a close battle.

“Killing 3 dessert scorpion gives me 20% of the experience. Even if I died on the 4th dessert scorpion, I will still have a profit of 10% experience. The death penalty is only one minute but waiting for my health to fully regenerates will take 30 minutes without using a potion. Should I just kill myself after killing 3 dessert scorpions? Can my item durability hold out?”

Wiping the blood of the dessert scorpion from her cheeks, Sayu steeled her resolve.

“Alright, let’s kill 3 dessert scorpions and kill myself after.”

She is already prepared for this. Anyway, this pain wasn’t anything compared to her future.