New Life Online 265 Best It Engineer

Upon entering the guild, we let our priso... recruits free. I asked them to wait because I have to go to the inn as Two-Teeth is waiting there, probably wasted already with booze.

-Life Inn-

The inn is pretty busy and everyone is very noisy, especially, with Two Teeth and his group. I can tell that he's talking and everyone around him is listening and laughing. Zia and the others are there too.

"Don't leave me out of the fun," I said and then everyone looked at me and somehow, it got quiet... did I ruin the mood?

"Hey Scy! You should listen to Two Teeth's stories, they're awesome and hilarious!" Zia invited me to join them.

"I will join you later but for now, let me borrow two teeth from you guys," I said and so he stood up and signaled to his group that he'll be back.

"What the h.e.l.l are you doing here?!" Two Teeth suddenly was shocked after seeing the notorious girl, I even forgot to ask her name. Also, is it just me or Two Teeth can finally talk straight...

"This guy asked for my service for gold so I accepted, just like that. Don't you dare come near me or I'll puke my insides out." They need to freaking calm down.

"Now, now. I'm sure you've missed each other so let's just stay calm and later get a room for yourselves." I said teasing them.

"Shut up!" Both of them yelled at the same time. What a couple... get a room.

"Fine... Let's go." I said and so we headed to the Guild Hall.

-Guild Hall-

"Welcome to our humble guild. Thank you for accepting my invitation... what do you want me to call you again?" I asked the notorious girl.

She looked at two teeth and then to me... I think she doesn't want to let Two Teeth know that I beat her, that's why she's lying...

"They call me Glace but people sometimes get confused about the meaning of my name. They think it's related to ice or cold but it technically means smooth and highly polished." Well, now she's talking like an adult.

"Your name doesn't fit you. Your name should be Rugged because you're rough." I looked closely and Two Teeth's broken teeth seem to be already fixed. He probably used the money he got from us to get it fixed.

"And your name should be No Face No Teeth. Believe me, it will happen soon." There she goes again...

"Please refrain from talking like that, ok? We're civilized people here. So, Two Teeth, I heard you're planning to join our crew?" I decided to get to the point.

"Fine..." She just said and then looked away. What's with them...

"To tell you honestly, after the war, it became so peaceful. Monsters here in gra.s.slands are way too weak that they are not worth hunting anymore so we decided to travel beyond gra.s.slands but you know, we are kinda famous and we're not really allowed to travel freely without alerting guards so, in exchange for my group's loyalty, we need your connections to freely go wherever we want." Wow, it looks like Two Teeth really is using his head now instead of just being the bad guy but it's also a good opportunity to use him.

"Well, you know, it's easy to say that you will give us your loyalty without doing anything so how about this, you come with us on a mission then if you can prove to me that you are worthy to be part of our guild then let's talk about it again?" Unlike Glace's deal, I need loyalty more than gold so I guess I'll show her later how strong our guild is.

"Well, I don't really have a choice, do I? Then it's a deal." He replied and he offered me a handshake, so I accepted it.

"So, now that I have you both here, the mission is to find a place, probably an Island far east of Drowned Trident's Guild. If we can reach that island then you'll earn my trust. I need you both to use your experience and help me get there." I explained.

"This mission is impossible. Have you told him that this mission would never succeed?" He asked Glace.

"I already told him what happened to our s.h.i.+p last time but he won't listen to me. I needed the work so I accepted his offer." Accepted? Really?

"It doesn't matter if you're the strongest player of New Life Online, there's no way you can get past the Aqua Serpent Dragon, a lower cla.s.s World Boss. It destroyed our s.h.i.+p in just one swoop of its tail. If we are on land, we might stand a chance but the sea is its territory and fighting it would be a suicide." Now, this is interesting.

"I thought your s.h.i.+p was destroyed by some sort of spell that came down from above?" That's what Glace told me last time.

"We sailed the sea using two s.h.i.+ps. Our only choice that time with the Aqua Serpent Dragon was to abandon a s.h.i.+p and escape using our last s.h.i.+p. We succeeded that time but after that, the island you were talking about, we saw it. We thought we could finally find something but when we were finally getting closer to the island, something struck our s.h.i.+p from above and before we knew it, we were already logged out. Just like that, all our money and time preparing for it was all for nothing. That's why we're back into robbing business and that's also the time we've met you. Sorry about that too." I can tell that their adventure was really a failure. I really admire them for being adventurous, though.

"Well, I guess it's the time to try again. I can fund our adventure and I can't guarantee for our safety but if we can reach the island then your work is done. We just have to do what you did and prepare for the spell thing that will come to crush the s.h.i.+ps." I know that it's easier than done but if I have to sacrifice a s.h.i.+p or two for that World Boss then it's not really a big deal.

"If we die there, the levels we could lose won't be a problem because we could travel into stronger areas to level up faster. I'm just worried about how long the mission will be. It might take a month and that would also mean that we won't be able to train for that amount of time. This could really slow down your Guild's overall progress." Well, Two Teeth is right. I can't really tell them the reason but it's what I have to do.

"I'm not really expecting that anyone will join us from my guild as they are free to choose but this is really important to me. That's why I'm asking you guys. Anyway, let's start building the s.h.i.+ps as soon as possible." I said and both of them just agreed to my plan.

-Life Guild Inn-

After that, Two Teeth introduced me to his members. It's like they have the same numbers as Glace team and there must be a good reason why they did split up into two groups.

They have well-equipped warriors (Yuuki and Oyer), a.s.sa.s.sins (Nyx, and Paradox) and a hunter (Xenon). Unlike Glace's team, most of them are melee fighters. It's a really bad composition in team fights but good for ambushes. I need to train them at some point.

I also informed my guildmates that I will be leaving soon but instead, they insisted that they want to join me... Even Osia wants to come with us because she said that she likes adventures. To protect our guild, we seek help from neighboring guilds, which are Vanguards and Feywilds, when we're gone. Also, Emily with the other villagers and some of our elf friends decided to stay too. I'm sure Sh.e.l.la would help us out. (I don't think so)

After all of that, I ordered Glace to create a map, if she still has it or remembers it, while I asked Two Teeth to design a st.u.r.dier and faster s.h.i.+p for us this time. I asked my guild's teams to do their best to gather the best materials that we could use and supply that could last more than a month. It's better to have more food and water in case of accidents or emergencies. We need to be careful because the problems are not the monsters or the unknown spells but it's the time. My parents have suffered enough and I need to save them as soon as possible.

-SOS Headquarters-

I finally logged out to have my dinner together with the others. Well, like earlier today, we are having a fancy breakfast again but this time, a familiar face is with us. I feel like I've seen her before.

"So it looks like you've finally met our best IT engineer?" Azzie said. Wait, what?

"Yow, Scy. It's me, Glace." Pffft... The food came out of my mouth as soon as she said her name...