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As Silver and his comrades were preparing for their departure to Dragon district and Trista went right to makeing the earings for Silver. A meeting was being held out of game by the top most streamers that were playing Abandoned Kingdom's Online.
"Alright everyone, now that we are all here I want to make a few things clear." A man's voice played over the video call.
"We suspect that there is another way to clear the Petrification but it requires a plant beyond the front lines."
"However getting such plant is almost impossible curently with all the fighting going on there." The man stated with a tired voice.
"Whats the front lines." Another person in the call asked a question that most that were in the call were wondering.
"Its a fight between the people of olma and a demon Lord." The man replyed quickly so he could get back on topic.
"Other than that i have a report that we now have 229 players and 27 NPC's that have volunteered so far for this hunt and the nurmber should continue to grow as more players make their way to the capital." The man finished speaking only for the call to go silent.
"Actually we might have a problem regarding that." A voice that Silver or rather Ryan would recognize immidiatly if he was in this call said a little glumly.
"What's the problem Kastor?" A felmale voice asked. She initially intended to stay quiet but Kastor had peaked her interest.
"I ran into Silver at the capital Librarie and asked him to join buy he refused. He said he wouldnt join because he has NPC's in his group and he wouldnt risk their lives for this." Kastor said sounding rather down.
"Silvers in the capital?!" Another voice almost yelled.
"Cookie, please calm down. Now Kastor are you sure the person you meet was realy Silver and not someone elts?" The man asked as he was a little skeptical.
"It was him. that I'm sure of. He talked of my hydra from a couple years ago." Kastor said in a reminiscent tone as if his hydra was a fond memory.
"Im surprised he didnt kill you if he is still bringing that up." A younge female voice chided.
"Silver wouldnt do that Princess." Kastor couldnt imagine Silver would do such a thing.
"You almost destroyed a country with that hydra. I dont think you understand how mad he got after learning about that." The girl named Princess said in a iritated voice.
"It wasnt that bad." Kastor replyed.
"Regarding Silver I'm sure he has his reasons beyond what you have already mentioned but this is something I havnt thought about. The Npc's do seem more human like so its understandable to not want to risk their lives." The man spoke up after hearing enough of the squabbling.
"Yeah but I had seen him go to the section for magicle beasts. Im sure he was looking for the information on the gargoyle." Kaster said.
"He probably thinks your going to send this whole operation sideways." Princess stated to which many in the call agreed for vairying reasons.
"For now let's focus on the task at hand and leave the mater about Silver on the side." The man from the start said as he wanted to discuss strategy and more in depth tactics.
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Riding in a carrage down the streets on their way to the Dragon district Silver was lost in thought while his companions were looking at him with both interest and curiosity. On both of his ears now dangled a set of earings that held a feeling of connection and a strange bond with two others sitting not far from him.
Lifing his hand and gently caressing one of the earings he started to inspect it.
[(Earings of Love)
A one of a kind earing made for someone very dear to the crafter. Do to the Earings of Love being made for the crafters love, they can only be worn by that individual.
The 2 shards that have been embedded into the small earings are known as shards of bonding and any item that is embedded with gems cut from the same gem stone will have a bond.
Do to (Earings of Love) only holding 1/3 of power compaired to its counterparts (Bonding Ring) the effects will be cut.
(Do to title (Earings of Love), when in range of another person with a reciprocate item with Gems of bonding from the same Gem stone, that person will gain 1.66% more Exp from kills.)
(Special Effect - When wairing Earings of Love near Individuals with a set made with Gems of bonding cut from the same Gem stone. All individuals will gain a +5 to their base stat.)]
'I guess I shouldnt be surprised about a description like that based on the name but I still dont know what to do.' Silver thought with furrowed brows. He just couldnt get over the description of the Item that were basicly forced onto him by the girls in the same carrage as him.
Thats right they pinned him down and forcefully attached the earings onto his ears. It's not like he was unwilling in the first place but when given the chance Blair and Rachel didnt hesitate.
"Can you stop acting like that and sit up here like the rest of us." Kaiya said while looking at Silver who was sitting on the floor in between the two groups of girls.
Opening his eyes and looking at Kaiya he could still see the slight smirk on his sister's lips. Its not even like he minded the earings but when thinking about what happened when they forced them onto him made him blush.
Glancing over to Kaiya's left he could see Rachel and to her right was Rianna. They also were looking at him but each of the looks they were giving him were different. Rachel had a smirk similar to Kaiya but Rianna was giving him more of a loving smile.
Looking to the other side of the carrage he could see Liz, Emy, and Blair. On to of Blair's lap was Trista who smiled as soon as his eyes landed onto her. Her smile was mischievous and clearly had hidden intentions.
Letting out a sigh he decided to close his eyes again and try to focus on anything but the events that happened back in the inn.
However as soon as he closed his eyes the seen played as if it was happening right infront of him.
He watched as Trista walked into the inn room and walked over to Blair and the others. He was busy preparing the herbs he had gathered in the short time he had before they were going to depart. Next thing he knew, he was being forcefully pulled back and pinned to the floor by Blair and Rachel.
Trista decided to stradle him and started to attach the earings to his ears. Of course he had no idea what was going on so he struggled a little to try and get away without hurting any of them but that only caused more problems as Trista was forcefully creating friction to stay steady on top of him.
It was at this point Silver did his best to stop his thoughts as he needed to focus on something elts. Precisely the dungeon they were heading to on the other side of the capital.
Opening his eyes and ceasing his throught he decided to ask Kaiya about the dungeon not intending to leave the floor at all.
"So how does the dungeon work exactly. I didnt get to look to much into it as I was a little busy." Silver asked looking at Kaiya.
Glairing at him for a second Kaiya thought he was being childish since they were only haveing a little fun before.
"The dungeon has between 3 to 5 floors before a boss room. There are floor bosses as well but they are only slightly stronger than most regular monsters and can show up randomly or not at all. However they do tend to drop better loot so its worth looking for them.
As for how many floors there are, I think this dungeon has only 8 maped floors so far but it is confirmed to have at least 4 more since there is a boss on each fourth floor and there are reports of a portal after the 8th floor." Kaiya repeated what she remembers from when she looked online.
Thinking about this Silver started to go over what they had for supplies in his head.' 6 mana potions and 3 healing potions left. I have what I need to make 2 batches of healing potions but I dont have any alchemy supplies.' Thinking this he looked to Liz.
"I want you to take this." Silver said while holding out the small box holding the 3 Mana potions he still had on him.
Liz looked at it for a few seconds before taking the box from him. She started to examine it and looked for a way to open it. The others were looking at her also curious while Rachel and Rianna were looking at him with worry in their eyes.
After finding a way to open the box Liz almost froze upon realization of whats it's contens were.
"I cant take this. They are way to valuable." Liz said while closeing the box.
"They arnt that valuable." He said while looking at the box.
"Of course they are. Mana potions cost nearly 15 gold coins each on the market." Liz said upset about his attitude on the matter.
"15 gold?" Silver questioned while looking over to Rachel and Rianna.
"Dont look at me, I dont normaly buy them." Rianna said seeing his questioning gaze.
"I can accept maybe 5 gold coins here in the capital but 15 is really high." Rachel said while remembering what they cost the last time she did a supply run for Fraya.
"Well we got them for 1 gold coin each so dont worry about it to much." Rachel said while takeing out the two Mana potions that she still had and handing them to Silver.
"Shouldnt they go to Liz?" Silver asked while accepting the Mana potions.
"You need some as well since you also have a heal ability." Rachel replyed while glairing at him. She clearly wasnt happy he gave away the Mana potions he had.
"But if~" Silver started to say only to feel like he was treading on thin ice from the stares he was getting.
"You want to finish what you were saying?" Rachel asked only to see him shake his head.
After Silver decided to remain silent as not to upset Rachel the rest of the ride was peaceful. Most of the girls talked about clothing and jewlery. A few times he noticed his name get mentioned but decided to pretend not to notice as they always giggled afterwards.