The Immortal Player

'Things have drastically changed compared to the past…' Pedro sighed deep inside. Then, he shook his head and said, 'Well… The good thing is that I am benefitting from it. I wonder what changes would happen because of my interference.'

Pedro simply raised his shoulders and said, "Who knows! I am not a fortune teller to find out!"

Pedro chuckled to himself. At this moment, Sabrina—together with Clara, arrived with them on top of the Tarala Kingdom's North-Western Wall—overseeing the bustling Adventurer's Guild below them, with the picture-perfect setting sun to their left.

"There's no problem within the Adventurer's Guild," Sabrina said, casually. Then, she followed Pedro's gaze and glanced to the Adventurer's Guild below them, while saying, "There are some minor conflicts amongst the adventurers—like loot distribution conflicts, but…"

"That's the adventurer's problems! It is beyond the organization's control since the collaboration and agreements were made by themselves." Pedro said as he interjected with a calm demeanor.

On the other hand, Sabrina simply nodded in response. Then, she glanced towards Pedro, who looked like a legendary figure with the orange sky and the setting sun behind him. She could only smile genuinely and gasp, murmuring, "What a view…"

Noticing Sabrina spoke, Pedro consequently glanced towards her—making them stare in each other's eyes. Their minds shifted into neutral as all thoughts suddenly disappeared in their minds. Their hearts started to race faster as the winds were seemingly pushing them to each other.

However, at this moment, a strong magical energy blew towards them—making them reactively use Magical Outburst in response. That said, the strong magical energy simply flew by them and disappeared in the next second. Thus, the love birds also stopped releasing their magical energy afterward. Then, they reactively glanced towards Faunia as if asking 'what was that for?'.

Faunia simply chuckled in response. Then, she said, "Stop your useless love thing, humans! It's been two days since you last trained using your magical energy without using those puny Enmas Skills! If you have time to do such things… Do it while training!"

Pedro and Sabrina could not help but smile in response—contrary to the annoyed reaction that Faunia assumed beforehand. Well, Faunia did not care that much about it and simply crossed her arms, while asking, "So, are we gonna keep standing here, or are we gonna go back to the training area?"

"Of course… We go back to the training area!" Pedro said with a smirk on his face. Then, he walked towards the edge of the kingdom's wall and said, "But since it is not that far from here by foot… Why don't we walk our way there instead? After all… The use of the teleportation portal is too expensive! There won't be any problems for everyone, right?"

Faunia could only shake her head in response and murmur, "Expensive my ass! You're just greedy, human!"

Pedro simply chuckled in response and jumped off the Forty Feet high wall, while saying, "See you all later!"

Faunia could not help but shake her head in response and started walking towards the edge of the wall while saying, "If you don't want to arrive last… I suggest that you all move now!"

In the blink of an eye, Faunia disappeared with the breeze of the wind. Sabrina, Ragas, and Clara could not help but force out a smile in response. Well… Unlike Pedro and Faunia—who were a bit short-tempered and lazy, Sabrina, Ragas, and Clara were still well-mannered beings.

In fact, Ragas even bowed towards Clara and Sabrina—like a butler, while saying, "Young Miss, Young Alerian… Please go ahead first!"

The two girls simply nodded towards Ragas in response and left—using the normal way down the wall and out of the Kingdom. Ragas simply followed behind them, ensuring that no one would be left behind.

Just half an hour later, Faunia arrived at the 'Spider Farm Dungeon' of Pedro—at the side of Baliu Mountain facing the Baliu Village and the Tarala Kingdom. The forest near the entrance of the dungeon on that side had somehow started to be filled with spider webs all over the place.

That said, Faunia even ignored the presence of the baby spiders that were able to escape the dungeon and simply made a path straight into the dungeon. However, before she could even go any deep into the dungeon, she encountered a group of adventurers—who were seeming standing in guard in that area.contemporary romance

"Humans?" Faunia murmured to herself. Then, she thought deep inside, asking herself, 'What are they doing in this place? I should inform the 'greedy' human about this!'

However, before Faunia could even talk to Pedro telepathically, one of the four men chuckled upon seeing her, and said, "A little girl? What are you doing here? This a dangerous place! So, please leave as soon as possible! Some of our guildmates—from the Kiwi Guild, are somewhere outside this dangerous cave. Go find them and they would bring you back to the Baliu Village."

"A little girl?!" Faunia asked with a frown on her face. Her teeth were gritted as her eyes glared towards the players—full of killing intent. Then, she grumbled, saying, "YOU! A PEST! A PEST DARED TO CALL ME A LITTLE GIRL!?"

At this moment, the players could not help but shiver in fear as their bodies unconsciously took a step away from Faunia. Of course, they reactively grabbed their weapons and were ready to engage and fight Faunia.

That said, since Faunia really looked like a little girl, the players did not dare attack her immediately and even gave her another chance, saying, "Little girl, we're not bad people! This place is indeed a dangerous place. So, for your safety, leave immediately. Else… If you insist on staying longer, then, we don't have a choice but to use force and drag you out of this place—even if we needed to do so."

Faunia's fist simply tightened in response. At this moment, she can't help but to angrily talk with Pedro telepathically. She said, "Greedy Human! THERE ARE SOME PESTS CALLING ME A LITTLE GIRL, HERE IN OUR TRAINING AREA! They said they are some kind of member of a so-called Kiwi Guild! Knowing your relations with other humans… Tell me… Are they allies or not?"

"Pests? Humans?" Pedro asked in response, telepathically.

"Uhm!" Faunia simply responded.

"Did they say where they were from?" Pedro asked.

"They did not… But from the looks of it, they are somehow affiliated with a place called Baliu Village!"

"Hooo… I see!" Pedro said in response. Then, after a few seconds of deliberation, Pedro chuckled and said, "Do as you please!"

Faunia chuckled in response and said, both telepathically and in actual, "Noted!"

At this moment, the players—who were still scolding Faunia and telling her to leave, could only stare at her and frown, thinking whether Faunia would really follow their advice or she'd be like a brat who is difficult to persuade.

Unfortunately, their indecisiveness had become the cause of their death. Before they could utter a word or inform their fellow guildmates, their heads fell down the floor as their vision slowly went gray. Then, a notification from their player interface popped out—telling them that they were being forced out of the game and that their characters died and would be deleted.

"Fuuuuuck!" The four players cried as their vision completed faded.

On the other hand, Faunia took their inventory bags and placed them inside hers. Then, she took out another inventory bag where she placed the four men's corpses. And it may look like it took her a minute or more to do so, but, in fact, Faunia was able to do it in just a few second's notice with the help of her golden chains.

Then, without wasting any chance, she went deeper into the dungeon and killed every single player that she was able to encounter. This time, the players weren't even aware of Faunia's presence and simply died out of nowhere like magic. 

After a minute, there was nothing but the Spider Queen, a few 'Food' Carrying Spiders, and a few baby spiders were left. Thus, unlike how it was when Pedro and the Advance Force 1 were training here two days ago, the rate at which the Spider Queen was laying baby spiders was ten times slower.

Faunia knew that Pedro was using the spiders for some reason—to the point that he did not want to disrupt their cycle by any means. Now that the cycle was 10 times slower, she knew that Pedro would be annoyed if he learns about it, at the least.

That said, Faunia was not concerned about the cycle or whatnot. She was worried that their training would be affected by humans who are freely lurking around that area, instead. Well… They can easily take care of other players. However, it would be really annoying if they need to get out of their way often times just to silence such players.

Whichever is the case, Pedro still has the final say on everything so Faunia simply decided to wait for Pedro's decision instead and simply protect that area before they arrive. Besides… It would be a good chance for her to 'exercise' from time to time. And the players were the best way to 'stretch' her limbs a bit.

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