Liam pressed his body against the shelf, watg as the gangster rummaged through the ste before urgently moving on. He narrowed his eyes, sing the man’s every movement, gauging his strength.

  Notig how the man showed a strained expression carrying the box, Liam estimated him to be a level three pyer at most.

  Maybe he is one of those three I heard earlier…

  With this information Liam made up his mind. He sneaked from one row of shelves to the and pressed his body against it. A few seds ter footsteps could be heard, ing closer.

  Liam tightened his grip on his knife, his breath quiing. Notig the light tremble of his hand Liam did his best to adjust his mind.

  Inwardly Liam questioned why he found himself in a dangerous situation again. Was it this world or was it the sequence of his choices?

  Well, most likely both…

  A faint smile pyed on Liam’s lips, easing his nerves as the footsteps almost reached him. A moment ter a figure turhe er.

  Suddenly everything happened in a fsh. Liam appeared behind the man, moving his knife like lightning.

  The on’s handle smmed heavily against the gangster’s head. He could barely let out a groan before he fell to the floor.

  A chaotioise sounded as the tents of the box scattered on the floor.

  Liam stared at the man’s bleeding head in shock, praying that he didn’t kill him. He hastily grabbed some suit jacket form a nearby shelf and pressed it against the man’s head before falling silent.

  Meanwhile the sounds ing from outside grew even more chaotic. Screams and shouts could be heard. Suddenly the door ushed open with a heavy kick.

  “Federation army! Don’t resist! If there is someone here, you better e out!”

  A deep shout echoed in the room. Liam gelt the relief i, answering loudly:

  “Here, here. Row 8b. I’m the one who called you.”

  Liam stared at the rows of shelves when suddenly two burly men wielding swords bigger than their bodies, heavy armor, came into his view.

  “Drop you on!”

  “I’m…”

  “DROP YOUR ON!”

  The loud voice almost caused the shelves to vibrate. Liam didn’t dare to disobey. He threw his knife away, raised his arms and stepped back.

  Immediately the two soldiers approached. One of them checked the gangster on the floor, while the other sed Liam. He nodded after a moment, having seemingly firmed Liam’s identity somehow.

  “Liam Varsmith, please stay patient. When our rades cleared the building, we will get you out.”

  “Thank you. you tell your rades that a friend of mine should be locked here somewhere? He wears the clothes of a pastor, easy tnize.”

  “Alright.”

  While the soldier sent the message, his partner suddenly let out a taunting whistle.

  “Look what all this is? Trying to destroy evidence, eh? One object more illegal than the !”

  The excmatiohe attention of the first soldier.

  “Hm, not only skin masks but even prohibited poison arrows, restricted minerals… quite the colle.”

  The gaaken care of by Liam just woke up when he heard this and immediately preteo fall unscious again.

  Subsequently the army did their job. They rounded out all the workers, clearing the entire warehouse. The pastor was found asleep in a ste room. The entire cargo was sed, revealing more traband.

  Liam khat he brought the army a lot of work, but this had nothing to do with him. After giving his testimony, he left together with the pastathering with Trey.

  On the way back Liam remembered something, deg to buy a phone for Trey so they could stay in tact.

  Wherio returo the unity, everyone weled them happily. Liam finally had time to ask the pastor what happened.

  It turned out that the pastor tried to apply to the gangsters’ sciousness, preag for quite some time. But while doing so he tally saw and reized some restricted minerals.

  The gangsters panicked and locked the pastor away, waiting for their boss to give the final verdict.

  Luckily Liam arrived before the boss, leading to the current situation.

  The unity celebrated the pastor’s return with their limited means. When the old man heard that Liam tried tanize jobs for everyoears threateo e out of his eyes.

  The gatheri on for a couple hours until Liam finally bade everyone goodbye. He made a silent promise tahe gaming house as fast as possible.

  Writing Serena, he learhat his sister was doh her lessons and was now helping out in Merida’s ic.

  Not feeling like spending the rest of the afternoon alone on the couch, he decided to visit the dojo.

  When Master Baker saw Liam ing in, he immediately stared at him closely. Liam shivered, feeling as if was safe in front of the starlight master’s sharp gaze.

  “Kid, did you break through?”

  “Yes, master. I broke through in a lucky moment.”

  Immediately Master Baker gritted his teeth sn angrily:

  “Are you stupid? Why didn’t you inform me immediately?! Didn’t I tell you that it’s extremely important to solidate your foundation after every breakthrough?”

  Liam didn’t know what to say. At that moment he simply didn’t think about it. But feeling his body now, he was sure that the breakthrough assisted by C was extremely thh and there was o be anxious. But how could he say this to the master?

  “Kid, when did you break through?”

  “Y… yesterday.”

  “A whole day ago?! You are really beyond saving! Damn, e with me!”

  Not giving Liam any ce Master Baker gripped his arm and pulled him into the dojo.

  “Since you are te, you have to make it up with hard work. You only have yourself to bme.”

  Liam shivered, feeling a drop of sweat run down his neck. For the rest of the day he was tortured by the master, forced into the most aositions before being stuffed with nutritious food. Rind repeat.

  Wheurned home in the evening, every cell of Liam’s body hurt. He tried to reduce his movement to a minimum, drawing taunting ughter from Serena.

  Even the day moving was too painful. Liam had a quick breakfast befoing back to bed and waiting for the game to start.

  Finally, a signal came form his sole and Liam could return to aboul.

  When Liam’s visiourned, he found himself sitting on a barrel on their guild’s property. Immediately multiple messages assaulted his mind.

  C remihe pyers about the ges, causing chaos in the global chat.

  “Guild ‘Warrior are invincible’ looking for members. Applications to me or on our website!”

  “Guild ‘Nothis a good thief’ LFM, please write me if you want to carry the torch of thieves’ glory!”

  “Guild ‘Mages No.1’ accepting members. You know what to do!”

  “Quick, quick, sell yold guys, before the price drops.”

  “Damn, what is this exge rate?! 1:20.000?! Are you crazy?”

  “Why is there a limit? Thirty gold per person?! Devs, don’t you want to earn money? What is this stupid sh*t?”

  “Upstairs, if you don’t need your money just mail me some.”

  “+1”

  “+1”

  “Gold will never be able to substitute skill! Prove yourself in the first pyer-arraour, today at the Svebrial Arena!”

  “Hey, not to deal you a blow but it looks like using the arena costs money…”

  Liam was quickly overwhelmed, turning off the chaotic chat. But this wasn’t the end of it.

  Looking at the golden ring which had appeared in his hand, Liam couldn’t hide his shock as a notification fshed in his vision.

  [Bleary Mirage’s championship ringCategory: Magic (upgradable)

  Effect 1: be worn without using an equipment space.

  Effect 2: Charisma +10.

  Effect 3: more easily trigger the recruitment mission of NPCs.

  Restri: Bound to Bleary Mirage

  Only a single person is worthy of wearing this ring.]

  Liam was filled with disbelief, even blurting out loud:

  “This is so OP!”

  Others might not uand what this ring signified, but especially the third effect was the dream of every guild.

  Guilds had the ability to recruit NPCs which worked for them and gave a bonus during guild wars. But the more potential the NPC, the higher the difficulty of recruiting them.

  But with this championship ring one had a huge advantage over uilds. Staring at the spicuous object Liam almost didn’t want to wear at.

  But then a few ses came to his mind. Every time he had to sent Silver Bde to verse with an NPC because of her high charisma stat.

  Liam noticed a faint movement around him, knowing that his friends would log in any sed. With a sigh he finally put the ring on.

  Staring at the sky with mencholic eyes, Liam had a strahought.

  this be sidered as me losing to Silver Bde?

  However, Liam’s attention was soon directed elsewhere as his friends appeared one by one.

  “Wele back!”

  mykrail