Pride Online

Chapter 77: Nemesis (2) Part II

“It was a quest in a dungeon around Nasen to hunt this guy.” He finished, before he pointed his finger to the sky, making everyone’s eyes look up at the same time.

A few moments later, there was a huge hot air balloon floating above the dome. But the thing that was more surprising was that the balloon was pulling a body of a large red monster with it, too. When everyone could process what kind of monster it was, they gasped.

“A dragon?!” GM June yelled out in surprise, as did the audience, who started making a sensation.

“What level are you exactly, Mister Vincent? How could you complete a dragon hunting quest all by yourself like this?” She turned to ask with an amazed expression. And Vincent just hushed her with a finger on her mouth, winking the amber eyes behind the mask at her.

“Well, you have a point. How many levels do I have exactly? Do you want to take a guess?”

“Uh... yes, I do.” That was another time his personal charm got the GM girl in a dreamy state for a while. And the crowd started talking, causing the chattering noise to the area.

How could they not be shocked, when the dragon-type monster was the toughest one on the Pride. Moreover, the red dragon that was pulled by the quest courier just now, was the fire dragon Laven that had a high level up to 158!

The facts that got everyone gulping. While some of them started fantasizing about the godly skills of Vincent.

“So, what now?” Maysa started a new conversation, getting the girl host out of her dream. “Did you really invite us just to get our prize, or is there something else? Why are you throwing such a huge party for us like this?”

Her sarcasm brought an amused smile to the tall man’s face standing next to her for another time. His golden eyes were sparkling as he replied with a gentle voice.

“Don’t be so impatient, Miss Maysa.”

“Maybe, it’s because I get too excited.” She turned to give him a smile, but her eyes did not look so friendly, just a tiny bit. “, Or it’s that we don’t have all night. We agreed to be here because everyone demanded to see us. And I wasn’t given many choices.”

Her words were too honest and straightforward, making many of the players look at each other awkwardly, unlike Thada who still kept his polite smile on.

“May, that’s not nice,” her buddy scolded.

“I was just being honest. Also, I told you that I didn’t want to come.”

“Come on, May.” His lips twitched into an amused smile. “We’ve talked about this.”

“You’re just being too nice, Vincent. You know it so well that there’s no use in doing this.”

“Yes, there’s definitely some use, girl. I do this because I don’t want to be the cause of the GMs’ troubles. You know how many people want to know my real identity, and they even threatened to mess up the server. But if I show up here, everything will be solved, right?”

“Why are you like this?!”

Maysa acted sulky, turning her face in the opposite direction from him. Wisana gave an endearing smile, holding up his hand to stroke on her hair softly. Then he turned to Thada.

“Let’s continue.” The host nodded in agreement. The amused smile never left his pretty face.

“Well, before we award you, we’d like to have a little interview with you two for a bit. Would you mind?”

“Of course, not. Let’s do it.” Wisana agreed easily.

Thada nodded at GM June as a signal, before she rushed in to take his place right away.

“Now, let’s start the interview with Mister Vincent and Miss Maysa, shall we?!”

The GM girl, who was an expert in entertainment, asked the crowd like she was the lead singer in a concert. And she got the loudest cheer in response that it vibrated the whole stadium. At that moment Vincent sneakily caught eyes with Maysa, raising his eyebrows as the signal that only they could understand.

“First, would you please introduce yourself to the audience?”

“Sure,” Maysa replied delightfully like she had been waiting for the question. “I’m Maysa from the gunner class. Personally, I like going on adventures like this. I only join an event only occasionally, but most of the time, I’d prefer traveling and exploring rare items more.”

“Well, how old are you?”

“I’m 17.”

“And what’s your size, babe? You look really good!!”

Suddenly there was a shout from the grandstand, making Maysa pause. When she glanced at the source of the voice, she saw a group of flirty men, so she gave them a sweet smile. Then she held her finger to her lips and winked at them playfully.

“That’s a secret. But why don’t you come to look and take a guess yourself?”

Hearing the sweet voice teased back like this, the Maysa lovers’ club went wild, before they started chanting ‘Long live Maysa’, which would become their official slogan later.

“Er... let’s move on to Vincent, please tell us about yourself.” When June pointed her palm to the Anubis masked man, the entire dome got silenced again. It was because Vincent’s aura was completely different from Maysa’s.

To make the image clearer, Maysa was a white color that seemed bright and lively. But Vincent had different characteristics. He looked calm, mysterious, and terrifying at the same time. He was like a black color that felt warm and attractive.

“My name is Vincent, I guess everyone already knew that.” He said jokingly. “Well, how would I say this? I’m not that interesting. I joined the game because I like something challenging. I usually go on adventures with my good friends, farming, collecting items, and taking a walk around dungeons, something like that.”

“Well, which dungeon is your favorite place for taking a walk?”

After her question, he held up his fingers to count.

“My favs are the volcano bleach, the phantom death, the fort of war god, and the tomb of ancestors, those kinds of places.”

Dead silence...

Well, all the dungeon names coming out of his mouth were those of the hardest dungeons. Players who were not skilled enough and not fully armed with a whole party, could not just go there and expect to get out in one piece. Because the monsters around those places all had levels higher than 80.

Damn, this kind of place was his public park, or what?!!

They would like to believe he was just bluffing, but he already carried a dead dragon, leveled 158, back here as proof, too!

“I... is that so? Well, what an interesting place to take a nice walk.” June said with a chuckle, even though her face was almost as pale as paper.

“Not really. Lately, I’m getting tired walking around the places now.”

“Uh... and why is that?”

“Because there’s no one to walk with me.” After he finished, Wisana purposefully tilted up the girl host’s chin softly to catch her eyes, making her blush again. And then there came a displeased screech from the girls in the hall.

A-HEMM!!

Maysa could not stand it any longer, so she coughed aloud like she wanted to bring back her buddy’s consciousness.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I got a bit carried away. You’re just too cute,” he said before he smiled sweetly at her another time.

“W... well, let’s move on to the next question.” GM June was having a hard time continuing with the interview. It seemed that not only just the girl audience who got attracted to Vincent’s charming smile, but she also started to be melted by it, too.

“You two are together almost all the time like this, what’s your relationship with each other?” The question was what many players were curious about, too. So, they got quiet, making the two feel like many thousands of eyes were staring at them. The buddies turned to catch each other’s eyes for a while before they put on a grin.

“Can we be counted as friends, May? Or, is there something more?”