The Strongest Wizard

What The f**k Was That Just Now? What Are We Going To Do Next?!?!

25th December 1018

"Merry Christmas, everyone. May you have a great and joyous holiday ahead of you...!" I greeted the wide-eyed gamers who were staring at me and was wondering who I might be since I look like one of them but acted like an NPC without any form of identification hovering above my head.

I was more concerned about the HP that I had that I am holding on to my dear life...! It was coming close to zero, and I flipped through my system and spatial storage space as I withdrew a single minor healing potion. I immediately clicked 'USE', and the minor healing potion quickly restored my life to almost full HP...!

Luckily, I had not used any of the healing potions before that, and those hits I received from the Mayor that had turned into a werewolf were enough to respawn me and placed me in an impervious mode for at least a few minutes...!

One of the gamers realised something was off and hollered out to me," Hey, female NPC...! What about the quests that I had received from the Mayor?" It was rude to address someone as 'Hey' even though it was to an NPC, so I choose to ignore him.

One of the smarter gamers came up running to me as he held a small scroll in his hand and I knew instantly, that it was a quest that was handed over by the Mayor before he turned into a werewolf and had to be restrained and carried away.

"Excuse me, female NPC adventurer, what shall I do with this quest that had been handed out by the Mayor. Now as the current Mayor of the Town Hall had been taken away, would another Mayor take over its place later?"

I stopped in my tracks and turned around. I noticed the ID of the gamer was hovering his head, and it identified himself as "SnowBall", and it sounded cute. His features were of a foreign origin and no doubt he had some experience in playing MMORPG and had approached me in the right manner.

Still holding on to a demeanour like an NPC, I stood up straight and looked straight in his eyes and replied, "That quest in your hand is no more of use. You can throw it away because even if you complete the quest, you would not be able to redeem any rewards from it."

"The Mayor of the Town Hall would not be replaced and the episode that unfolds before your very eyes would not be repeated. In other words, those guys who had queued up since the start of the game had wasted precious time."

"You should be looking for monsters to grind or mines or other resources to farm. That quest in your hand had turned useless the moment the Mayor of the Town Hall had been restrained."

'Snowball' looked at me and then finally understood what had transpired when he recounted the way the episode unfold. He crumpled the quest scroll in his hands and then it disintegrated into dust as he poured it to the ground.

"Thank you, NPC adventurer for your kind words and advise. Right now, I would heed your tips in grinding monsters and farming other resources to change them for credits or keep them with me if the resources would be of use to me later in the game. Thank you once again and may our path crossed again sometime later."

'Snowball' clasped his hand over his chest as he bowed slightly to me. I nodded to him and began my journey to the Magistrate's house, which is also could consider as the Lord of the City. The highest-ranking noble in the City would be the Magistrate, and he was one of the other three Archmage that controls the Archmage Tower in the country.

If any one of the Archmage Tower got damaged or ruined, the whole continent would be in chaos. In this MMORPG, four countries made up of a continent and four continents made up of a single world in this virtual gaming platform.

I chose the Western continent and the country that I should start in, as I was most familiar with the world setting. Besides, I have all the trump cards inside my sleeves, so why should I waste it on the second time around, am I right?

I walked down a path with the badge that had been given by one of the Silverlight Knights and headed towards the Magistrate's Office. Upon reaching there, I was stopped by a pair of Silverlight Knights, different from the Town Hall earlier.

"Stop right there, adventurer. You have no business of venturing to this part of the City. Please turn back and return to where you had come from." I was shooed away from entering and discovered that I should be the one who would be doing the meet and greet first.

"Good day, Sir Knights. I am here to meet Sir Maelstorm for I had managed to complete a hidden quest - Catching A Wolf By Its Ears. Here is the proof, and I am here to gain my peerage from Sir Maelstrom." I showed the badge to the Silverlight Knights. When the Silverlight Knights saw the badge, they immediately stood at attention and saluted me.

"Please do forgive us, Beast Tamer for not knowing your status earlier. Please enter. I am sure Sir Maelstorm would be glad to meet up with you."

The main door of the Magistrate's Office was opened wide with a simple nudge of their hands, and both the Silverlight Knights showed the way with a flourish of their arms.

"Thank you, Sir Knights. I would soon be on my way once I had made the proper transactions." I told the Silverlight Knights once I entered the doorway. "You are much welcome, Beast Tamer. Welcome to the City of Votrieburg, the Magistrate's Office, Sir Maelstorm."

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Unknown to me, some gamers had trailed me and witnessed what had happened. "What the f**k is that? I thought that girl is an NPC? She is a gamer, just like one of us...!"

"She was so sneaky as to hide her name and status and looked exactly like an NPC. How could she able to do that since this MMORPG was launched less than 2 hours ago...!"

"Don't tell me the girl is actually a guy who disguised himself and creating traps for all male gamers like us...! f**k us all, your crazy female NPC or whoever you are...!"

One of the gamers that had trailed me thought otherwise since no one asked and I don't bother to explain further as well.

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I knocked on the door to the Magistrate's Office that had a polished plate on the door itself. A few moments later, a Silverlight Knight opened the door from inside and gestured me to an empty leather armchair that was set in front of a mahogany table. A man with his back to me slowly turned and introduced himself. He was a middle-aged man, bespectacled and with white-silvery hair, moustache and beard.

"Have a seat, Beast Tamer or shall I call you by your ID; Gamer Za. Why haven't you choose your Class yet? Are you here to receive some tips as well?"

"Don't mind if I do." I plopped down on the plushy leather armchair as I placed the badge that I had received earlier and placed it on the mahogany table before Sir Maelstorm.