Harry's Bounty

Harry took away all the betting pool money and returned to Harryville. Garry gifted half of the confiscated smuggled goods of Okari henchmen which included exotic wine, beer and drugs too which could be sold at decent prizes legally too through Harryville market.

On other hand, The diplomatic relations between Harryville and Okari Village were at worst. They were enemies already. Just an official declaration of war is required from any of these sides to officialy go for war.

Okari was so angry that he immediately contacted Evil Union to post bounty of 1000 dollars on the head of Harryville Mayor for his interference in plans of expanding Okari Smuggling Chain.

However there were some good news as well for Okari as they have successfully established bases in two other villages of Purapo and Jakarville giving them income boosts of 20 percent. (10 percent from each village).

Back in Harryville, economy is booming. Due to woodcrafting stuff available from imports people were happy too. They imported raw wood too for improving the houses within Harryville. This gave rise to talented carpenters in Harryville too. Even Harjan got decent carpentry level. Harry repaired and renovated his house himself obtaining carpentry skill. Residents of Harryville are able to purchase raw meat of wild animals now from Garryville which made many villagers happy.

Although these products could be purchased from Gamers Union or Evil Union too but its like purchase from third party as products were being sold by Garryville/Harryville to Unions first with tax and then Union sell it at further higher prices with tax to Harryville/Garryville. But not anymore now they can directly trade with each other. Also no need to pay taxes as both of them are allies.

Harry issued a quest to his villagers for building of a wooden pipeline to supply Garryville with water from Hari Lake. Quest was issued through Gamers Union. Reward for quest is +2 carpentry levels for all contributors of pipeline project. But unlike Garryville quest these levels won't be deducted from Harry's Stats. It will be actually created by Gamers Union for certain cost which was paid by richie rich Harry already.

Earlier Garryville relied on wells or ponds for water. But the taste and quality of lake water is much better. Harryville will charge bills from Garryville villagers for water consumption tracked through online water meters. This brilliant idea created another stat of Mind at Level 1 for Harry. Although mind is associated with magic and mana but it is associated with improvement in brain too especially at earlier levels as magic/mana are acquired after achieving higher levels in mind.

Within few days this quest was completed and all the villagers improved their carpentry levels. Garryville Villagers and mayor were happy to obtain lake water. This event further raised +5 levels in Leadership of Harry making it 25. Garry met Harry personally and informed him about his bounty by Okari Village. But Harry remained calm and showed no sign of fear. Because it was free money and free exp to him.

Various rookie assassins or rookie killers tried their luck but ended up dead themselves. This raised Harry's combat stats (martial arts, strength, defense, speed, mind) by 1 each. Bounty was raised to 2000 to attract higher level assassins. But they were still not strong enough to handle someone like Harry. Actually before 3000 AD, MMORPGs didn't allow stats swapping so even most hardcore gamers are not aware about this new feature. Harry can be considered first one in whole world and thus he is luckiest to experiment this feature. Not only this that crazy quest of +5 levels in all stats was stepping stone for his glory too. It can be said as pure luck to acquire such quest.

Soon Harry rolled out a project for construction of dirt road between Harryville and all other villages except Okari Village through Gamers Union. For rewards he has no problem of funding as economy was booming and he was generating revenue from dead assassins too. Some dead assassins had bounty on their heads as well and that money is automatically transferred by Unions to Harry's virtual bank account.

Villagers are paying nominal 5 percent income tax for various services to Village's Treasury as best source of income for Village. There is nominal House Tax system installed too which Harry learned via wikipedia. Water was another source of village income. Both Harryville and Garryville were being billed for water consumption. [Electricity and Internet costs are beared by two Unions for all so there is no system required for that.] Sales Tax system was also installed in Harryville and Garryville Market.

This road project will allow earning of toll taxes for maintainence of roads from other villages. Okari villagers have to pay double taxes due to enemity between two villages. Their was another logic for this project too. Harry knew that doing labor work will generate strength stat for all the contributors of road work. And those people can be later used in defense of Harryville in case of his absence as he still wanted to roam around the world.

Harry's Current balance is 10,500 dollars. Village's treasury is 100, 000 dollars. This money is nothing in front of International/Empire level (Unions) or even Kingdom/National level, but even in an city/town he can be considered as average earning citizen. Although city's, kingdoms and international gamers were much more advanced in both stats and money but they have to depend on villages like Harryville only for their basic needs.

After few days this project was completed too. Harry achieved "Killer of Assassins" achievement as he killed around 50 assassins. Harry leveled up his combat stats by one more level each. Additionally, Harry raised his non combat skills (Fishing, Hunting, Woodcutting, Carpentry and Construction) making them touch level 10. Most common villagers of Harryville now have strength of 2 to 5 levels depending on their contributions in road work. Harjan was closest to Harry so he worked hardest earning level 10 strength which was highest among villagers after Harry. All villagers got another skill of construction of level 2 to 5.

Finally Harry decided to explore western village named as Purapo again giving command to Harjan. With construction of roads travel is easier now and Harry can visit any of the known villages in single day and can even return back to Harryville within same day. Harry packed his belongings and said goodbyes to his villagers for his second journey. Everybody now was aware that this man will bring more opportunities and fame for their village on his return so they were happy for his departure.

Harry has a plan of forming his own guild which is not easy for low income villager like him. He can accomplish so only by allying all known villages at the very least. Although village is a mini guild itself but he was not satisfied by this. He must upgrade this guild to city level, then state level, then international level and even higher if possible.

Apart from 5 known significant villages there were various insignificant Villages as well, discovered daily by many gamers but they were like unorganized slums so Unions didn't took effort to name them as they were daily created or destroyed by some rookies.

After few hours he arrived at his destination i.e. Purapo Village. Various domesticated pastures could be seen here. Vast Agricultural fields were adding beauty to this village. Mayor Purapo is a very beautiful girl known for her beauty around all known significant villages. Of course, Harry was interested in wooing this beauty too as side mission. But that was not easy task as she had many followers. She got marriage offers from cities too. Harry was immersed in day dream on thinking about Purapo. This resulted in his crashing with someone which seemed like girl.

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Harry's Stats (title effects included) - Strengh - 32, Martial Arts - 27, Defense - 22, Speed - 27, Mind - 3, Fishing - 10, Leadership - 25, Hunting - 10, Woodcutting - 10, Carpentry - 10, Construction - 10

Harry's Money - 10,500 Dollars, Harryville Treasury - 100,000 Dollars

Titles - Harryville Fishing Champ (+5 Fishing), Harryville Dueling Champ (+5 Strength), Mayor of Harryville (+5 Leadership), Garryville Dueling Champ (+5 Strength), Killer of Assassins (+5 Speed)

Map -

---------------------------(North)Garryville (GU)

West)Purapo (GU)--------(Center)Harryville (GU)---------East Okari (EU)

----------------------------(South)Jakarville (GU)