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199. The Dark Story of Three Senior Idlers
One day in the border area between the Lalania Empire and that impenetrable mountain range, three friends enter the area to follow the quest to guard the border from zombie attacks.
“Hei, Martin. Do we have to take this quest? This quest does not make us able to level up and drop the item as well as dregs. Moreover, its monster attacks almost never stop at all, so it is very tiring.”
“Ck, tsk, tsk. Jacob, you and the other players are taking this quest too lightly. You do not understand its value at all. Jacob, listen up. There is nothing as easy as gaining experience points and contribution points aside from this quest. Isn't this supposed to be a paradise for players who want to plow rankings easily?”
“But... Hey, Yuda. What about your opinion?”
Along with the two young men's argument that was deadlocked, they glanced towards their last comrade, the biggest sword user among them.
“Well, isn't anything a problem? As long as we can spend time in the game.”
Thus replied the young man called Judah with the look of his lazy.
However, in contrast to his lazy appearance as if reluctant to run a quest, Yuda was precisely the player who won the most points from the quest.
With a charming swing of his greatsword, he put the lives of the zombies that were forcibly raised by the evil necromancers back to their final resting place. It did not take long for him to attract the attention of the count who was assigned to manage the place.
“Hah, Senior Yuda?”
“Luca?”
He is the count, Count Luca Auralia aka Luca, our protagonist.
“I did not expect that it was Senior Yuda when I heard that there was a great player who suddenly came to this place and greatly helped us in preventing the zombie invasion.”
“Hahahahaha. It'sit's nothing. But by the way, Dik Luca. What's with that count title?”
“Ah, this is a kind of gift from the game event. Thanks to him, I was tasked with guarding this place and lost almost all my time to level-up. Senior knows for himself, right, that zombie monsters can not be used for level-up.”
The protagonist suddenly complains about the cruel slavery initiated by the first female emperor, Cecilia de Lalania.
Basically, Luca's relationship with the group of three lazy senior friends is not too close. They just happened to cross paths in the club room. It can be counted on the fingers. They only had time to cross in the club room as much as 3 times.
That's how lazy the seniors who have actually been in their last year have been until almost never seen his face at the club.
Regarding their not-so-close relationship, Luca also looks a little hesitant to chat with them.
The zombie invasion doesn't stop there. They kept rising like cockroaches from the ground.
“Ck, the zombies will keep popping if the necromancer is not killed. Senior Yuda, Senior Martin, and Senior Jacob, I leave this place to you. I'll look for the necromancer that caused all this mess.”
‘How, Aura? Did that disgusting necromancer find his location?’ [Whispering, until it doesn't sound like the other one]
“Luca, let me help you find that necromancer. Martin and Jacob have been more than enough to keep this place.”
After thinking for a moment, Luca finally decided to accept the goodwill of his senior.
“Alright, Senior. I'm handing my back to you.”
“Hmm. Leave it to me, Luca.”
In an instant, Luca was able to find the location of the necromancer, thanks to the Aura's detection ability.
Without a second thought, Luca lunged towards the evil necromancer to exterminate him. It was of course not left to the guards of the evil necromancer. Two troll-type zombies with larger body sizes and looks very strong immediately blocked Luca's steps.
But there, Yuda with his big sword, supports Luca by eliminating the zombie bodyguards.
Thanks to him, Luca was able to freely eliminate the evil necromancer through his crescent moon dance.
For a moment, Luca peered back. Look carefully at the battle of Judah.
A very beautiful swordplay but not yet aligned at all with the high-class game Malik from White Star. However, the style of the sword somehow creates a unique impression that is calm, deep, and graceful that is very visible arising from the results of the hard work of repetitive exercises. Very incompatible with the image of Yuda that Luca has known all along as a lazy senior.
Therefore, he also wondered about what would make his senior a slacker at the club when the personality shown by his swordplay at all showed the opposite.
With hesitation, Luca also asked his curiosity directly to the person concerned.
“With such a graceful swordplay style, why did Senior just lazily come to show his Senior face at the club? Originally, I guess it was because Senior was just lazy in training, but looking at Senior's swordplay just now, it seems that I have been wrong. The style of the sword where probably comes from someone who is lazy to exercise.”
“For sure Senior has been diligently practicing all this time somewhere. But why was Senior reluctant to enter the club room? Is there a problem I don't know about, Senior?”
Hearing Luca's question, Yuda's expression turned grim.
Just like what Luca had predicted, something had happened to the originally feisty young man that had left him swallowed into despair until now.
At first, he was reluctant to bring back the bitter memories he had buried deep in the depths of his heart. But seeing Luca's innocence, Judah was somehow able to see the young figure of him two years ago inside Luca.
Judah felt a strange sympathy for Luca. But unlike Luca who had many people protecting him, Judah had no one to stand up to protect him as a poor orphan who had nothing.
Perhaps because of the strange feeling of familiarity that moves him so that with resolution, Yuda finally determined to bring up his traumatic past that he actually no longer wanted to remember to Luca. Everything was for the sake of a young man who was very similar to him two years ago so as not to end up with the same tragic fate as him.
“This is a story about a plain, stupid young man who was so confident in his talent that he felt the world was just revolving around him, without having at all self-consciousness of its shortcomings that are orphaned and have nothing. It will be a long boring story. Will you listen to him, Luca?”
Whatever innocent Luca is, he's not insensitive. He instantly knew that the young man hinted at by his senior, Yuda, was nothing but referring to himself.
Even Luca without lowering the seriousness of his expression nodded firmly as a signal that he was ready to listen to the dark past outpouring of heart from his senior that made him fall into despair, destroying the bright future of that talented young man.
Yuda started to tell stories.
It all started when he from the village decided to come to Jakarta to fight the fate of using a little money given by his grandparents in order to achieve his dreams and aspirations to become an e-sport player vrmmorpg because his admiration after seeing the e-sport match vrmmorpg his hometown club, Lucifer Club.
Because they do not have the money to enroll in elite schools such as Puncak Bakti High School, Angkasa Jaya High School, or Mulia Karsa High School, Yuda also decided to enter the 4th rank High School at that time whose tuition fees were much cheaper, Pelita Harapan High School.
Fortunately, because his talent in e-sport vrmmorpg recognized by the secretary, he immediately obtained a scholarship to enter the school. It was of course a very big gift for Yuda at the time he was in Jakarta living very poor, even to eat, just to eat, sometimes he had to fast because he did not have enough money to buy food.
Long story short, he also joined the club e-sport vrmmorpg High School Pelita Harapan and as expected of him, he became the greatest rookie in his generation that was even more shining than Areka at that time.
The students became a lot of people who cheated on him and he became a school celebrity in an instant. On his shoulders immediately there was great hope to scent the name of Pelita Harapan High School which had always been a middle school and never able to compete with three elite schools.
Judah did not realize at all that the beginning of his downfall was near when a certain senior figure who was not expected, became envious of him and began to devise his evil scheme for the fall of Judah.