Detained (2)

Lukas's brows furrowed as he looked Zoom in the eye, but Zoom kept a straight face not saying anything else.

"Send me a video footage of the incident." Lukas then snapped his fingers before he took out his virtual device, it was shaped like a tablet and was coloured grey, he swiped and scrolled through before he had found the video.

Using the cameras installed in the room, someone who was monitoring from a separate room was able to send a video to Lukas.

"Alright we'll see who's at fault here." Lukas said.

The video played for less than a minute before Lukas turned his virtual device off and looked at Zoom with a awkward expression.

"So the guy pushed me first and after I stood up he punched me so I beat him up."

"But did you have to include the other two?"

"If I didn't take action first those two would have attacked me."

Lukas was contemplating for a bit of what to do, currently Zoom was innocent and was free to leave while the three players who first started the fight were to be punished.

'This guy had connections to Thea, he came out of nowhere, there were reports of countless people falling from the sky, they have no records or any information about them, maybe I could take him in for experimentations at the lab, I'll be able to weaken Thea's business empire while I can experiment on this little guy, killing two birds with one stone!'

With this in mind Lukas leaned forward and launched his hand to grab Zoom by the neck but before Lukas could grab Zoom suddenly.

Bam!

Thea held Lukas's wrist with great force crushing Lukas's bones.

Lukas's gritted his teeth with intense pain as he stared at both Zoom and Thea.

"Hands off Lukas." Thea let go of Lukas's hand before she broke the chains that restrained Zoom and broke them with ease.

"He's free to go and you have no right to keep on detaining him." Thea said.

"Can I get compensation?" Zoom said without any fear, this was a good opportunity to exploit so he took the chance.

Thea looked at Zoom with a surprise expression as she smiled with glee, she then turned to see Lukas's reaction, seeing that Lukas was hesitant she increased the pressure of her aura causing Lukas to panic slightly.

"Alright fine, you were the one who was attacked inside the association so I guess you should be given compensation." Lukas said with a hesitant tone, he did not want to give even a penny but due to Thea's pressure he had to comply for now.

"I want to be able to register to help defend the city without lining up and I want money."

Lukas looked at Zoom with a weird expression, 'That's it?' was what Lukas wanted to say, the registration wasn't a problem and money, they had tons of it.

"One million."

"I'll give you the money as long as you don't talk about the incident today, even to the media."

"Deal." Zoom didn't really bother with such things and only wanted money and be able to cut in line since he was too impatient and felt that the time spent lining up was a waste.

The deal was settled and after an hour everything was already done, Zoom had received his money while he also was now registered for the event.

On Zoom's left wrist was a watch with a square looking watch at the centre that had a number, currently it was 0 but from the instructions Zoom had been told.

Once you kill a beast the watch will be able to detect it and give you a certain amount of contribution points.

Zoom had also been told that the beasts near the city have become restless and are gathering to form 4 separate hordes coming from all corners, this meant that the farming zones nearby were now useless since unless you are willing to fight a horde of beasts at once you have no where to grind.

The only way to grind for now was to go to the dungeons but they were filled with players and the dungeons are crowded with players clashing almost all the time.

The zones that were not affected were to far and would take a while to get there and also the beast horde is about to attack in a day so if you were to far when the horde of beasts were fully assembled you'd have to pass the horde of beasts just to get to the city.

So currently all players were fighting in the dungeons frantically levelling as much as they can.

"Since I can't grind EXP all I can do is make more pills!" Zoom then went to an alleyway to summon Rey.

Beside Zoom was now a giant twice his height, Rey had a sword on his back and was clad in armour.

Zoom brought Rey along since Rey was a level 75 puppet and was slightly stronger than Zoom, Zoom wanted Rey to escort him back to the castle since he didn't want to die with one million worth of herbs with him.

Since the beasts were in disarray lately players took the time to see their herbs, items and all the other stuff they had collected.

The player market near the gate was much much more lively as even NPC's started joining in and built their own stalls.

The price of herbs were now 10 UC each since players were starting to learn about pill crafting but the 1 UC difference didn't bother Zoom as he spent 1,050,000 UC to buy 26,250 pieces each of the Vine Herbs.

***

Inside a room within the guild's association building Lukas sat on his desk.

Ring!

Lukas had received a call and picked it up, after listening for a bit he became suddenly shocked.

"A new puppet king is born?!" Lukas jumped up from his seat as he shouted this.