Chapter 4: First Quest

Trade Center, Town of Estampador, Kingdom of Estafiel

Arriving at the huge cathedral-style building that is composed of may floors.

Shi Fan can see more of the merchant type adventurers well as stalls that were being operated by Merchant Guilds.

Searching on his minimap for the nearest quest board Shi Fan ran through the crowd of people nimbly avoiding direct contact.

Arriving on the place that was indicated on the minimap, Shi Fan placed his palm on the board showing the different quests given by NPC's. Towns, Kingdoms and Empires who have a good reputation are given lots of quests with good rewards unlike those who are not.

Looking at the quests displayed are its different types of quests catered to adventurers depending on their increasing difficulty the rewards also increase alongside it.

"Oh? A newbie?" a voice said from Shi Fan's back.

Looking back Shi Fan could see 6 people taller than him by almost quarter of a meter. He scanned the status bar near the person's head.

"Level 152," Shi Fan frowned. Although some newbies attract other eyes it's not this early.

"Hehe, boss let's go why waste your time on a newbie like him?"

"That's right boss let's go. Our head is waiting for us"

Hearing his subordinates talking he turned angry. "Shut up. Can't you see I'm talking to this newbie here?" the tall voice said

"Hey boy, you want some good quests? I can give you a good one." he continued

"Really?! What quest is it?" Shi Fan asked with a questionable expression on his face. He doubted, after all there's no such thing as free lunch.

"It's a 2 star one. A lone NPC gave it to me a few days ago but since I'm too high leveled to bother with it. The quest just rots in my quest log. Why don't you complete it?" the man informed him about the quest when he saw the reaction on Shi Fan's face

Emperor Online has a function where Side Type quests can be given to other adventurers when they cannot complete it due to certain issues. Quests are differentiated into stars ranging from 1-5 stars according to their difficulty. The hardest one is 5 Stars quests and is the only starred quests that cannot be given to other adventurers.

"Alright I'll accept as long as it doesn't involve dealing with monsters as I am too low leveled right now." despite the suspicion Shi Fan approved of it.

"Okay then it's yours now" then he immediately opened his system interface and when he was about to transfer to Shi Fan. "Hmm? Hey kid why is your username written "?????" the game doesn't allow symbols in their username so why do you have question marks on it?"

"It must be a bug hehe" remembering what happened during his character creation he possibly cannot tell them that he didn't type his name. Bug sometimes appear ingame due to its massive size, the most common is the text-based one due to syntax made during writing.

"A bug huh. Well you should change it in the Adventurer Association in Kingdoms or else the system might accuse you of breaking rules," the tall man warned Shi Fan of it as he swiped the abandoned quest to Shi Fan.

"System: Adventurer Tiger Tail transferred 2- Star Side Quest: Moon Tree to you"

"Well then farewell kiddo may we meet again," Tiger Tail waved goodbye then walked to the upper floors of the Trade Center.

7th Floor Trade Center, Town of Estampador

"March investigate that guy for me" Tiger Tail ordered to the person at his back.

"Why? Isn't he just some newbie. Why would I bother my time investigating him?" March angrily asked.

"Newbie? Yeah his reaction before proves he is a newbie but his name is what scares me." Tiger Tail said remembering something in the past

"In Emperor Online there are only two instances of people having question marks as a username. One is if his account encountered a bug and the second reason is..."

"Is?" March asked.

"An Emperor!" Tiger Tail exclaimed.

"Impossible! An Emperor with newbie items as well as appearing here? It might be only just a bug. Those darn developers have become so lazy already." March didn't agree with Tiger Tail's explanation.

"I hope so. Plus only Emperors can see the names of other players and other Emperors without identification skills. Lucky for us without them detecting it will be hard. Or else. Another war might be waged due to that guy. And the Kingdom of Estafiel will surely be deleted in the map." Tiger Tail said.