Rioneed: VRMMORPG

Ibro sighed and then said:

"I got no choice here. I need to know every info related to Sefiera if possible."

"As you wish. The only person with this weird unique name Sefiera is the Lokseya Duchess's only daughter. That duchess had died so sudden in extremely suspicious circumstances.

Her only daughter carries the name Sefiera. How does someone like you in this remote preliminary world knows about her?"

Ibro ignored her question and asked:

"Why is she so important?"

"Important? She isn't only important, she is very crucial to everyone here future. Lokseya Empire is one of the first empires in our world. The line of throne inheritance had only three people.

One had died in a mysterious way and one is missing now. Only one person is still alive and is waiting to get the throne for himself."

Ibro wasn't stupid so he asked in a worried tone:

"Is there no information about her?"

"No, she had disappeared a few months ago and no one managed to find her or knew any info about her."

Ibro had now many answers to his previous questions, but he got himself other long lines of questions and many more issues to worry about. He looked towards this girl and then asked:

"You said that Sefiera was very crucial to everyone's future. Why is that?"

The girl sighed and then explained:

"Our first world was built over 5 great empires. 4 out of these 5 empires had been lost already to our enemies. The 5th empire is about to get destroyed if we lost Sefiera too."

Ibro began to speculate things but he couldn't yet understand the full picture. Latey looked at his puzzled looks and then continued:

"The reason behind this was because of the monsters. They managed to get the throne of these four empires and now are about to get the fifth empire too."

"How could this be possible?"

"That is because some crazy guys at some point of time got in love with some monster girls.

They married them and got themselves a hybrid line of sons and daughters. These hybrids are the ones responsible for our current crisis."

"How could someone marry such ugly monsters?"

"Ugly? The high-level monsters can take the shape of the most beautiful humans in the world.

Some can't resist the allure of their beauty so many marriages occurred along the history of our world.

When one of these hybrids reached the throne, the empire got invaded with huge armies of monsters and that old mighty empire got destroyed in no time.

That happened four times already and the fifth time is about to happen."

"Do you mean that the third person in line for the throne is a hybrid?"

"Yes, he is. He must be the person who hired this assassin. You must hold some information about lady Sefiera. That is the only explanation for all of this."

Although what he heard was really mind-blowing, he didn't lose his focus even for a second. He looked at Latey and asked:

"What is your stand in this matter?"

She wasn't naïve; she knew he was trying to assess her threat to him. She smiled and answered with honesty:

"I prefer not to have any relation with this matter. But as I can evade neither you nor the one who sent this assassin then I have to choose aside."

At once she raised her dagger and threw it towards the wall. A small screen appeared from the wall at once with a strange face of an old person.

"What do you want Latey?"

"I want to leave the Goflan association."

The old-looking man stared at her with his sharp eyes before asking with his deep voice:

"Why do you want to leave us? The contract between us still has some centuries to end."

She pointed out towards Ibro while saying:

"The black grino is targeting him. He would have died if I wasn't here."

The old man looked at Ibro then at the dead body in the corner of the room. He knew what she told him was the truth.

"Fine, you can be assigned to protect Mr. Rioneed. His safety is all that matters to us."

He then looked at the dead assassin and said in an obvious anger:

"How audacious is this from grino! Does he think he can kill one of our top clients like this?"

He then closed the screen and that small window vanished. Ibro knew that such an accident wouldn't end simply like that. That old looking man was really angry. Ibro then looked at Latey.

She had linked herself like that with him. He gained a new strong ally to his side. He also managed to neutralize a big threat he didn't know how to deal with if she didn't select his side like this.

"Now as I attached myself to you, can I know your true identity then?"

"Why do you think I have another identity?"

"You are related to lady Sefiera. If I'm not mistaken you are playing here to help her in completing a challenge between her and that hybrid bastard.

In regard to your previous questions, then the most unlikely thing is that she is your assistant in this game. That means you are one of the lords here or a guild master. I prefer actually to the lord position. Am I right?"

She was a really smart girl. Ibro smiled. This smart girl was his ally.

"You guessed it right. The problem is that I can't get in touch with her for a long time already."

"Have you used the order sequence between the two of you?"

"What is this exactly?"

"This order sequence is a serial of numbers. These numbers were given to you by her in the first meeting. Don't you recall these numbers?"

Ibro thought for a long time. This memory was really far away from his mind. He recalled the first meeting with Sefiera. She really told him a long serial of numbers. He looked at Latey then asked:

"What if I got these numbers?"

"You can use your market interface and start a chat with her. She uses the same way all the time to chat with you and you also can use this feature. It's the only way to connect with her."

Ibro looked at the interface in front of him. Although he could use it, it was safer to use the interface of his village. Ibro then decided to kill time by browsing the available goods in this auction.

What shocked him was the huge amount of goods being auctioned. There was a really huge variety of goods here from simple weapons to strange items with no specific uses.

He scrolled down these items till he found some ores and herbs that could help Gozline to recover. He used the list the saint had provided for him as a reference.

Anything that could gather energy was useful for Gozline. The problem was his initial list was really bigger than what he expected and also a lot expensive.

He found over 100 different things out there that he needed to buy. These items were priced at 10 billion gold coins initially.

'Gozline, check these items and tell me how much do you need from them?'

'I want them all.'