Chapter 40 - The first step

As soon as Saachi woke up, he refreshed himself and got ready for marathon session inside the game. Before that....

His mother was recovering nicely. His parents would stay in hospital for some more time to convalesce. His brother and sister were cramming lessons, they were apparently not happy with the marks they got in mock tests. He sent some money to his sister to use it to get mock papers from other cities and prep schools. Prep schools are just that - preparatory school for great universities, so their papers would be extra tough. Getting hold of those papers needed both connection and money, both of which the elder brother could now provide.

Classes, classes... assignments, tests... okay, no real life issue to break the marathon session.

Forum updates! Wow! So many level 5 players. And so many promotional videos.

Any bugs? Any special quests? Anything different?

Which academician got hooked up now? He wants to create a lexicon. Good luck, buddy! It's labour intensive, time consuming process. Only do it if you love this. Don't disappoint us later on.

Selling sites, selling sites... should he sell some coins now to have money in the bank?

Nah! Conversion rate, that too in grey market, will be very high. He has enough for now.

Call college scholarship department, accounts department and even office department to push for scholarship.

All work done. Now....game on.

When he came out of his room in chief's place, he made long detour, talking to many NPCs. The higher hierarchy ones were beaming in joy, the proof that the repair work was successful. So they happily piled up some boring quests with extra nice rewards into his kitty.

The Psychology 101 class attended was not in vain. In between he tried calling his buddies from alchemy. Only 3 were present. They were preparing for level grinding. Even this shut-ins could feel the heat of others trying to catch up with them. Once that happened, the good old days of monster hunting in any maps without restriction would be over. These groups would mob together and reduce the levels again if they wished.

So the detour was cut short, he rushed towards his future workers. They had a walk and talk session.

Saachi was using all his knowledge, the tips he had gleaned from psychology and sales classes, and even channeled 'MINDERS' to hook them up.

First step, bambalooze with description... expressively describe why and how it can be proven that NDA clause was broken and how severe would be the outcome. Then explain that he had two plans depending on whether one signed NDA and or not. Then let loose the reel to bait the fish.

Next to tempt the future fashionista trend maker with bag full of alligator skin and enslave her for eternity. Muahahahaha...

Others were not yet in the game, so he just messaged them to call him when they entered the game. He was planning to go back to alchemy trial room but he got a call instead. Forward then...

What do you know...the map was marshlands.

Bree explained the reason. In this map, Royo was pretty much useless and Kylie himself could kill them from afar but it would take more time. So Royo would act as bait, Bree would save his ass while Niyam and Kylie would kill bunched up monsters.

The main difference from previous party style was Royo was bait and Bree would not be free to look after others. Saachi did not stop her planning, unless they saw , no one would believe that he was capable of soloing this map. He knew he had improved but wanted Bree to quantify it and explain where he was lacking.

As soon as Royo grabbed the aggro, Saachi started his attack, the AoE spells had upgraded, and he had learnt the best methods to have max attack, so their attack had such high numbers that Royo could only blink once before laughing out loud. Kylie just starting pulling monsters instead of killing them in ones and twos.

Bree was actually first to recover and change the strategy though. After blessing Niyam with mana

recovery twice(one top up and one over the time), she even pushed Royo to gather aggro from others without the break. Royo happily followed. He did not forget to toss in his extra inventory bags towards Saachi though. Collecting monster drops was and will always be Saachi's job. Royo believed him to be lucky to get better drops. Saachi now had to kill, collect and maintain note with drops collected. (His battle logs would show initial drops and bonus multiplier effect applied. So he had to copy 1st line and forget 2nd one). In this harmonious environment, a call came in and the hunting had to be halted.

The remaining people had met each other near alchemy trial room, thus started conference call. Yes, including the short term gain visioned moron.