Morgane sighed when she saw John's state. "You are right, this would in no way change our judgment about you; on the contrary, this news even delights us." She said with an unwilling smile on her lips.
Isaac looks at her with some vexed. "I prefer to warn you, that I don't plan to join your organization regardless. I may be an outsider in this guild, but my relationship with them is always like before. Their problems are mine, and vice versa."
"It's a very strange relationship you have. And even if I know that I do not have any words to say about it, I still doubt that this connection can last until the end. Sooner or later, you will need to make a decision. Together, we go further: as the adage says."
"...It's very informative, Mrs. Morgane; you have my gratitude." Like a gentleman, he responds with a charming smile.
"Well, if all goes well, then we are leaving; but we will need a way to have you with us the right time. As a result, I would like, with your permission, to have a sample of your blood to--
She stopped halfway in her sentence when she saw Isaac hand two scrolls at her.
"What is it?" She asks while accepting Isaac's offer.
"Teleportation scrolls. One contains some of Pure Blood's members, and the other is my teleportation parchment. You are free to invoke me when you feel the need. As for the first parchment, it is only for exploration, if it is used otherwise, you will see the gift I have prepared for you." He explains with a sneaky smile.
Morgane raises her eyebrows, understanding Isaac's threats more than anyone else. 'He warns me in case I think of trapping his mates for other reasons.' She said to herself while peeking through the first parchment.
In addition to the five runes that represent each member present in the living room, there was also an additional invocation pentagram that had a purple hue and whose magical energy was not ordinary.
Instinctively, her gaze lay on Cindy who was like a little kitten enjoying her master's petting.
'The last pentagram is probably for summoning this girl with cat ears. And since all the pentagrams are drawn on only parchment, it is impossible to invoke one person at a time. This guy's more prudent than I imagined. But when did he prepare this? From the others' expressions, it is obvious that they weren't aware of this; not to mention that we came with this woman who is the guild leader.' Feeling that she could not unravel this mystery, she stored the scroll in her inventory.
"Don't worry, this world is full of fun things, I can only get impatient to discover more." She says these misty words with a mysterious smile on her lips.
Isaac frowns. "This world, you say?"
Her words only further supported the suspicions that Isaac already had of him.
"Come on, I'm sure you already know this truth; otherwise, you wouldn't have believed us with such ease."
'…With her confident air and almost flawless appearance, not to mention her strange cold blood; this woman is not just an NPC, but probably one of the intermediate-tier NPCs.
Moreover, the NPC ranking system is quite interesting in GLO. There are ordinary NPCs, also called plebeians, who offer ordinary quests.
Working NPCs: also called second-category NPCs. This NPC category offers not only ordinary quests but also some rare class quests. Among other things, a player is likely to obtain a merchant, blacksmith, paladin, or other secondary classes.
Noble NPCs, …also called semi-superior class NPCs. These are experienced and sometimes even legendary NPCs. Naturally, sympathizing with them is not easy, he makes it pre-required. But the reward is also not ordinary, some are legendary veterans with a history as complex as any human being on earth. Aristocrats are also part of this class of NPCs.
In addition to them, there are upper-class NPCs, mythics, legendaries, demigods, gods, prims, etc.
For the time being, the most important thing is to find out which class belongs to this NPC who was able to leave one of the cities of GLO to appear in our world.
Unless I'm wrong, she doesn't seem to be linked to a player like Maria's Blood Knights or my two maids.
After a long moment of absence, Isaac looks to the others, more precisely to Morgane who is chatting with others; quite the opposite of John who prefers to drown his negative emotions in his glass of wine served by Felix.
Standing next to him, Cindy, who noticed his bland expression whispers to him: "Master?" Normally, she would not perturb Isaac for that, especially since she is not as talkative as her sister.
The reason for all this is that she didn't want Isaac to stop spoiling her.
"This woman, …I can't guess her origins."
Following his look, Cindy's eyes also lay on Morgane's silhouette.
But she looked at her with the same look as the one she threw at others; sufficient proof for Isaac that Morgane was not the one he believed.
"She probably comes from an influential family occupying a special position in the hierarchy of the human kingdom. After that, her level is not exceptional, under the average."
"Under average, huh?" Isaac frowns. "Just to be sure, do you compare her level based on the level of who exactly?"
"From our minions who protect the first floor of your castle." She says nonchalantly.
But Isaac had a cold sweat when he heard her words. 'In other words, this woman must be at least at level 120; she is dangerous!'
At the same time, he crossed Morgane's eyes who smiled at him stealthily, as if she could hear the whole conversation between Isaac and Cindy.
This stealthy and nonchalant gesture on her part only made Isaac more suspicious of her.
Paradoxically, John gets up from his stool and approaches Isaac with a smartphone in his hand.
"Take this, we will contact you once at the headquarters." His explanations followed.
Isaac takes the smartphone without saying anything more.
"Don't put it in your inventory, otherwise we won't be able to you--
"It's okay, I'm not an idiot." He cut him off while shaking his head.
Subsequently, John nods at Morgane.
Knowing what he was talking about, the latter came to him.
"We are leaving."
--
17h,
As the sky gradually darkened because of the arctic climate of the area, Isaac and the others began their meeting on the floor of the mansion, in the room bit prepared to fulfill this role.
The room itself was or had nothing spectacular, just a small round table, and ten chairs, six of which were occupied by the members currently present.
"Well, you'll have to explain one thing to us; you were serious in saying that you were no longer part of the guild?" The question was asked by Stella.
"Yes and no," Isaac responds with a smile.
Four of the five members frown, except Sasha.
Seeing that they were all waiting for explanations, Isaac continued. "Officially, I am not a member of this guild; it was a strategy I had put in place with Heliana when we were still GLO. I needed to tackle a quest that forced me to be an Outsider; that's the only reason."
"..."
"But I can't join the guild, not yet."
"Why?" Steeve asks afterward.
"...For the same reason that pushed me to leave the guild."
"Wait, you need to give us more explanations. Don't forget the benefits you will miss if we do guild quests without your name on the list of members." This time, it was Stella who spoke.
"Sigh, alright, alright; I'll give you explanations." Feeling that he had no other choice, Isaac mutters these words with a boring air while looking at his two maids behind him.
"What do you know about the Castle of Chronos?"
Felix ahead of the others by answering Isaac's question. "The castle of Chronos? You mean, one of the ancient gods who was forced to retreat against a mysterious player?"
"…" Isaac found it even more difficult to find the words to explain himself after hearing Felix say that Chronos was forced to retreat. "Yes, I'm talking about this same Chronos."
"Why Chronos?" Stella slightly asks as if she were thinking aloud.
"... Hemm, ... For some reason, he threw me a curse that forces me to--??
Isaac stops in the middle of his sentence when he sees Felix jump out of his chair before he even finishes giving more details.
"What!? Have you been cursed by a god!?" He roared with scare.
The others also had strange expressions, more precisely Cindy and her sister, who were not convinced that Isaac was telling the truth.
As for the others, they had all their eyes fixed on one person after hearing the word 'curse' from Isaac's mouth, Karl!
The reason why this character is unleashed at each eclipse is because of a divine curse that has affected him since he killed one of the sons of Râ (the god of the sun), Khonsou. He is one of the most powerful demigods who only appears in the game once every two years during the solar eclipse, in the form of an event boss.
Since the place where he appears is different from the previous one, then crossing his way results in the greatest chance. Especially since the guilds kill each other to track him down.
Anyway, Felix is one of the few people to know the cause of his brother's curse.
"Relax, man; it's not like I'm the only one being cursed here." Isaac retorts when he sees Felix's exaggerated reaction.
Following Isaac's response, Stella continued. "If I remember correctly, I think that about half of the members of the guild have been cursed by higher entities; all this is starting to scare me, don't you?"
"Hmph!" Steve bombs his torso with a proud smile. "Why should we care about the gods that exist only in the...game?" But he couldn't keep his manly look until the end, especially when he was trying to say the last word of his sentence.
"..."
'It's problematic, I hope the gods are not resentful.' Noticing everyone's silence, Isaac sighs with bitterness while saying these words to himself.
'I just hope that this scenario won't end in a Ragnarok war; otherwise, I don't give expensive of our lives. Who are we to fight gods?' Since the others had their thoughts, Isaac was able to think calmly without being disturbed by them.
"Ahem." Being the second person to return to the real world, Sasha scrapes her throat to draw the attention of all members to her. "I think we have deviated a little from the real subject." She made this reminder that made everyone speechless.