The table was long and busy with several kinds of dishes in their neatest and glorious gestures. Maids lined up and stood still three meters behind them as they silently ate.
After a few minutes of enduring the torturing atmosphere, Minan finally dropped her spoon and fork and looked at her father who was adjacent to her, seated in the head seat.
"What?" He responded, gently enjoying the chicken soup in front of him.
"It's better to just say what we did wrong instead of torturing us with this sadistic dinner." She stated and folded her arms in protest of being called to the massive villa all of a sudden.
"Minan, show some respect, father missed us. You should at least honor his emotions by pretending to care." Aaron said to her with a petrifying glare, his eyes putting her within a certain mark.
She hated it but needed his favors so she looked away.
"I bet you are just dying to find out why we were called here as much as I do," she mumbled beneath her lips.
"I checked the internet today, I looked up the richest conglomerate in the world. Raintrod World appeared as third with a yearly profit of over two hundred billion dollars. Of course, it is not the very best but it is satisfying, the company was not half this valuable when I inherited it from my father."
The moment he started talking all of them paused and there was total silence in the dining that they could almost hear the gentle wind blow.
"You three have gathered so much for yourself. You have almost everything in the world to even make your uncles respect you... I don't understand why any of you three will go after him, a stain that doesn't need to be paid attention"
Derek chuckled, "A stain that doesn't need to be paid attention to? Yet here we are holding a family dinner because of him. We haven't had one in about seventeen months." He stated.
The table was silent again afterward. Reikson took the napkin in front of him and cleaned his mouth gently.
"I only intended to warn whoever did it. Next time I might trade your position for his." He concluded and left the table.
Aaron also stood up and walked away.
"I don't get why you still want father's love at your age. Did you really do something to the stray?"
"If I did, wouldn't we be holding his funeral right now?" Derek responded and stood up. He looked at his sister, "Although it looks like he wouldn't have minded burying me with him." he added and walked out too.
She shook her head as she watched his back go farther away from her, "That guy is a sucker for father's warmth. Which he is never going to get." She muttered and continued eating.
"I should enjoy my free time while it lasts," she said to herself as she continued with the food.
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[You have entered the abyss]
[You are at the entrance of the second floor of the abyss]
He put his hand into the space and brought out the fiend sword as he saw the message notification.
"So, being unconscious brings me here too?"
[Correct]
"What is happening to me in real? Is my life in jeopardy?"
[No]
~fuuu~
Ayo exhaled softly through his mouth and swirled the sword, although his dexterity with the sword was floppy and rough but he was getting a hang of it.
He was in a dark room with a long door in the middle of the space. He closed his eyes desperately wishing for God knows what and opens it, then steps into the door.
His eyes widened as a new scenery was unveiled before his eyes.
"A forest?" he asked himself.
The forest was limitless, shadowy, and prospering. Its canopy was competed for by poplar, willow, and cottonwood, sufficient twinkling lights busted through their crowns for a motley of herbs to take advantage of the moist and fertile bottom layer below.
Coiling climbing plants held onto a couple of trees, and a potpourri of flowers, which blossomed brightly, brightened up the otherwise mundane forest floor.
A mishmash of animal noises, most belonged to foraging beasts, reverberated through the air.
[Quest chain Generated]
[Quest chain 1]
> The abyss's second floor is home to the orcs and goblins.
> Defeat 25 green orcs and goblins
> Quest reward: bronze key, +5(active) skill cards, +10 stat points.
> Quest failure: -1000 exp.
[Quest chain 2]
> Defeat 50 orcs and goblins
> Quest reward: Silver key, +5(passive)skill cards, +1(status) skill card, +20 stat points
> Quest failure: -2000 exp.
[Quest chain 3]
> Defeat 75 orcs and goblins
> Quest reward: +2 silver key, +1(Unique) skill cards, +50 stat points.
> Quest failure: -3000 exp.
[Quest chain 4]
> Defeat 100 orcs and goblins.
> Quest reward: +1 gold key, +15(random) skill cards, +100 stat points, +1(status) skill card.
> Quest failure: -4000 exp.
[Quest chain 5]
> Defeat 200 orcs and goblins.
> Quest reward: +10 item cards, +1(Unique) skill cards, +100 stat points.
> Quest failure: -5000 exp
[Quest chain 6]
> Defeat the orc and goblin boss monster
> Quest reward: Floor devour
> Quest failure: Abyss restart, level reset.
[User can exit the tower after completing a quest chain]
"Hey hey, aren't you overestimating me? I know I agreed to cooperate but this? it took me my entire life to defeat three."
[You didn't have a weapon then]
[Plus, you have me]
...
"Should I just shoot him?" Donny's subordinates suggested.
"Haha, it's been over three hours since he has been brought here, did you perhaps overpower the taser?" another one inquired with a chuckle.
Donny, sat comfortably on a chair opposite the chair where Ayo was tied to the chair, smoking his robust cigar as usual.
~vruu~
~vruu~
His phone vibrated.
"Hello, customer." He greeted after picking up the phone.
- Terminate it.
"Huh?"
- I don't want to care if you have killed him or are just on your way to doing it, I want nothing tied to this, I will send in the rest of the money we agreed on. So don't contact me, okay?
"Why?"
~pant~
~pant~
~pant~
All the while the man on the phone was talking it sank deeper and deeper into Donny's ears as his eyes beheld what happened in front of him.
[You have killed a target]
[You have gained 1,320 exp]
[You have killed a target]
[You have gained 1,320 exp]
All it took was a horizontal arc swing of the blade in his hands and two heads rolled to Donny's front.
~swish~
He swirled the sword cyclonically splashing the blood stain off on the ground.
A completely different vibe exuded from him.
"This is disgusting, thanks to you... I spent three days in that place..." He muttered as he looked up at Donny.
Donny who was still seated, even though his facial expression had gotten flinty, he was sweating on his face as he looked at the black sword that he was sure was not there just a moment ago.
[I'm shocked you can murder without being bothered]
'...I've killed countless people in my former world, murder was not a big issue, so far it is justifiable. I take it that it is not the same here?'
[As far as no one finds out]
[I guess spending three days in the abyss has tweaked you]
'I reek of old days... having to fight those monsters did bring back old memories I was trying to run away from but what was more interesting were the rewards.' He grinned so widely that his white teeth were displayed so evilly.
Donny did a backflip off the chair he was sitting in and landed behind the chair, still doing another flip backward to get farther away from him.
[You have used Godspeed(S)lv.10]