War Online

Chapter 392: Liberation of Reverie province part-1

As the Queen handed the baby to her trusted handmaid Sarah, Wil felt something amiss. 

In his eyes, the Queen should be the one who should despite Lucius the most as he was born out of a mere servant.

"Is she just a noble character?" Wil wondered while continuing to watch the scene where Sarah put up a disguise and escape the palace.

The scene was cut off and suddenly, it changed to Sarah breathing heavily resting inside a small cave at the foot of a cliff while dragons are flying above the sky, searching the surroundings.

"Hmm? Now, this is strange. Why does it feel like there is something more to this?" Before Wil gets the answers, the short film was abruptly ended with a notification.

*Ding! The story mode is finished.

As the fifteen minutes short film ended, the surroundings disappeared and Wil found himself in the living room where Sarah was explaining to Lucius.

"I was ordered to take you far away from where the palace can't reach you. I traveled for thousands of kilometers, shifting from one village to other for a whole year. Eventually, 14 years ago, I fell in love with your father and settle down here. You know the rest of the story."

Grabbing his face, Sarah further said, "I'm sorry that I wanted to bury this secret in my grave but never expected that the truth comes out this way."

Lucius hugged her back and thanked her for telling the truth.

Wil, who was watching them, interrupted them in a serious tone, "Lucius, the Dragon Island is in chaos right now. Every heir like you is vying for the throne. Even if you want to stay away, the others won't let you.

Soon, people will come looking for you to eliminate the competition. You cannot stay here for very long. Come with me. I'll make you return to your rightful place and bring peace to the Island."

As an experienced player, Wil knew the mechanism of the NPCs way better than others. Even though the company claimed that their interactions will be real-life-like, Wil knew that wasn't the case.

It is common knowledge that characters have a lot of options and their reaction will depend on the player's action.

However, NPCs involved with a quest will not have that many options. And their reaction will depend more on favorability than their actions.

With favorability points crossing 80 because of the earlier quest reward for saving Sarah, Wil was sure what the boy will say now. He was waiting for the answer.

*Ding! You completed the quest, Meet Lucius Draconus. Favorability with Lucius increases by 10 points.

*Ding! You completed the quest, Lucius' Faction Lord. You received a title as a reward.

*Ding! Faction tab was added to the character.

Faction Lord: Upon equipping this title, you can recruit NPCs and players that are unbounded to any organization as long as your favorability points with them exceed 60.  You have full authority over all the members of the faction.

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Ares Academy of Arts, Ares city (Real world);

It was evening 4 and all the students are leaving the Academics building. Like everyone, Rini was leaving for the university dorm with a group of friends, although it appeared like she was alone and detached from the world.

While they were giggling around, talking about various things from cosmetics to boyfriends, she was just silently tagging along with a cold look on her face.

The group of seven then encountered several people are rushing towards the tennis club. 

"Hey, Lila" One of them stopped a girl to check what's going on.

"Girls, what are you still doing here?" This new fresher seems excited. "There's a match going on between Seniors Tachibana Shinji and Yi Xue for the position of club captain. Come on, hurry up"

A couple of girls screamed like fangirls as soon as they heard of these two handsome and popular tennis stars of their university. The remaining girls also followed the rest, leaving behind Rini who said she wasn't that interested.

As they left, Rini raised her hand and looked at the sky, "Sigh Ever since the war started, the game got boring. No wild monsters, no dungeons, no PVP in the wild, as for the Arena challenges, only weakling opponents. They don't have any techniques. Only quests are available but they are for wimps damn that Aerona. Why should she hire an expert to win the war? What's the point of winning the war so soon

And I can't concentrate on real-life sports too. Even martial arts lost their appeal compared to a battle in the virtual world. At this rate, I'll die of boredom

Maybe, I should ask the third brother-in-law to spar with me. Even if he's busy, the Vulture guild is full of experts. I could pass off the time Hmm Should I call Akiko-Nee or Kiyumi-Nee?"

*Ring* Ring*

While she was contemplating on how to contact the Vulture guild to relieve her boredom, her phone started to ring.

She took it out and saw it was her uncle it was calling. "Hello, Uncle."

"Rini-chan, are your classes over?"

"Yes, I was on my way to the dorm. Tell me, what is it?"

"Then, you need to hurry up and log in. Reverie kingdom's escaped crown princess declared independence and is currently in the midst of a war with the Duchy of Reverie province. She has the support of Crimson Sun and his guilds. We lost more than half of our generals. You need to hurry up and stop him before we lose the territory"

As soon as she heard of the news, her cold-looking eyes lit up in excitement. This battle-crazed girl instantly dashed towards the dormitory without wasting any time.

*Welcome to War Online*

*Ding! Reverie Province has declared Independence.

*Ding! You receive a quest

Quest: Protect Reverie

Description: Using the Imperial sword, Princess Tremellia Similis Reverie declared the independence of the Reverie Province and launched an attack on the current rule of Reverie Province. Protect Duke Reinhold for 24 hours or kill Princess Tremellia to protect your territory.

Conditions to failure: Death of Duke Reinhold or Your death.

Rewards: 3000 fame points, 5000 gold coins, and one random legendary grade piece of equipment.

Accept?

"Why not?" She clicked on the option.

*Ding! You accepted the quest.

As soon as she accepted the quest, instead of planning the strategy with the generals, she directly went to the temple to enter the teleportation formation and leave for Reverie city.

Getting out of the temple at Reverie city, she found the city in chaos with the NPCs just running around here and there while the adventurers are rushing towards the palace.

She followed the rest and after running for ten minutes straight, she reached the palace grounds where people are just killing each other NPCs and players alike. With thousands of people gathered there with very little room to move around freely as one wishes, Rini found it hard to find her target.

She quickly sent a message to her uncle for assistance.

Galaxy: Reverie Province - 4823,164

Now that she got the coordinates, she proceeded to summon her buddy.

"Come out, Pyre."

*Screech* A powerful screech was heard in the surroundings as a Blazing phoenix appeared before her.

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. Thank you.

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