Royal request

Ren was okay after a few days, he may have took a health potion, but I kept a close eye on him. Maria hasn't been talking to me ever since I came here, she has spoken to Ren a few times but he just ignores her. Who can blame him, she did stab him in the arm.

On the bright side, I made some new friends while being here. Beth is mostly the top dog out of all of us. She ran away from her wolf tribe because of a fallen angel. She ended up entering a human village full of beast tamers and met Leia. Leia hid her for a good amount of time but someone discovered Beth and Leia. They were accused as traitors then were put to death, they are alive today because of Maria. She took them here and they became apart of the group party.

Leia always had a good heart, she always thought of others before herself (that’s why she helped Beth) and she had a strange obsession with pigs. Leia said back in the real world she had a family farm. She loved to be around the farm animals but manly pigs. Even in the game, I see her waking up early in the morning and feed the birds near the woods also some pixies.

Selena on the other hand, is very different compared to Leia and Beth. Selena is more quiet and reserved, she always is reading a book or had a book in her hand. She doesn't talk to many people mainly the guys, but she has opened up to us little by little. I try to talk to her as much as I can. Then I found out we have a lot of common. We have read most of the same books, like some of the same music, and we're both fangirls so we can rant to each other about almost everything. Almost everyone thinks that we're crazy.

Ren also meet some friends as well, even though how much they are different form each other.

Jace is pretty much the high school prince. You know, the guy every girl wants to date, the guy every boy wants to be, perfect at everything and anything. One time when Ren invited me to hangout with the guys and go sword shopping, the entire time a crowd of girls were following us awing over Jace. He doesn’t really mind it, but he mainly doesn't even notice them. Ryder on the other hand took this opportunity to wow some of the girls, so they were met to be.

Ryder is the guy who would flirt with every girl he meets then gets beat-up afterward. Jace and Ryder came from the same school, so of course their friends. Ryder is always trying to make everything a joke even if it ends up as a pun. But Jace is always there to laugh at his cringe worthy jokes.

Pawblo is the youngest one of the group, he is a 8th grader and is the shortest out of all of us, at least now I can finally be taller then someone for once. In the real world, Pawblo was apart of his schools drama club then ended up as one of the leaders. He has some friends in Solaria form his school, but they all are apart of the angel army. So he was a bit of an outsider. But when he cam here, he told me that he finally has a place where he belongs.

Everyone made me feel like I was apart of a new family.

General Cara doesn't come over that often. She always has a meeting with all the leaders and what clues they have maybe to find the final boss. It's already been 6 months and we had the same information as we did when we came here. Already 10,000-15,000 players dead and there were about 40,000 players at the start.

One day, General Cara came back and had something to tell us. Ren and I weren't with the others at the time, we were in town looking for some spellbooks.

"Why do you still wear that black scarf around you neck? You do know that Maria knows who we are right."

"I know," Ren answered "Its really warm and I like it. Also did you hear about the attacks with a few smaller villages? The shadow knights have been said to be behind it and if anyone in the village knew I was one of them then they would burn me at the stake."

"I thought that was a witch thing."

I heard a little ring and checked the chat room

hey its Leia, come back to the safe house now. General Cara is here

And she wants to see all of us. Get here ASAP!!!!!

We're heading back now.

See you there.

"What's up?"

"Leia wants us to go back to the safe house. General Cara came back and has some news for us."

"then we better hurry up, this is the General we're taking about and she doesn't like to wait around."Ren grabbed my arm and ran back to the safe house.

As we ran, I noticed an alley with two little kids on the ground and a tall book in a black hooded jacket standing up to three adults in army uniforms.

"stop sight seeing, we have to go now or we will never hear the end of it from Maria." Ren pulled my arm one more time and I followed him

Back at the safe house, we ran to the meeting room where everyone was. To our surprise Maria was there, hands on her waist and ready to give us a long annoying lecture.

"where the hell were you too! Do you realize how mad the General is!"

"We were just in town trying to-"

"What, trying to do what! Having a nice get-a-way from everyone or trying to have a successful date with this witch whore."

I glared and quietly growled at that comment.

Ren puts his arm in front of me trying to block me from fighting Maria.

"That's not it, we went to go buy-"

"What! A wedding ring for your girlfriend."

"Will you just shut up and listen to us!" I screamed

Ren puts his hand on my shoulder then said. "We were in town to buy some new spellbooks."

"Ha, liers!"

"No they're telling the truth." Selena spoke up. "I asked Luna to go into town to see if she could get me some new spellbooks then Ren volunteered to join her. So why don't you sit your ass down and fucking chill."

Maria gave me a glare then sat in her seat next to Leia.

"Nice job Selena, I think I'm rubbing off on you now."

Selena smiled and showed me that she saved two seats for me and Ren.

The door opened and standing there was General Cara.

"Good, everyone is here. So now we start the meeting. Computer open the map of Solaria."

From the table was a projection of the Solaria country.

"Now you all heard about the recent attacks. We have sources pointing towards that the head of the attacks is the Dark King."

"Wait, are you saying the Dark King could be the boss level." Beth asked.

"Possibly but we're not 100% sure of it. All of the stories that the witnesses told us all traces back to this area."

The map zooms in closer to an area with a tall white castle.

"That's the Angel Kingdom, all of the problems are coming from there." Maria said standing up from her seat.

"Please sit down Maria."

She sat back down.

"Now as I was saying gangs, criminals, and leaders all have the Dark King as their main alli."

"Great." Said Ryder putting his feet on the table. "All we have to do is find the source then kill it, there easy."

General Cara walked towards Ryder. "Let me finish hot-shot." Smacking him in the head.

"But that's not the only thing we have to worry about."

Now there was a projection of a picture of a man with blue eyes and lightbrown/blonde hair with a gold crown on his head.

"There have been some leaders sent from the Dark King have been sending death warnings and attempted assassinations to the king of the angels. On Christmas eve he is planning to have a ball to honor a peace treaty with the other territory leaders. All of the players in their court and soldiers will be there and would make a great place for eliminating them."

"Wait isn't Christmas a month away how are we supposed to do all of that with little time." Pawblo asked.

General Cara took a deep breath then said "Here is what we'll do Maria and Ren, I need you to go around the town and try to track down the source of the attacks and why

they are in the kingdom. Selena you will be getting more information about the king and the kingdom. The rest of you need to protect the king and explore the castle to see if there is any reason why anyone would be there."

Everyone turned to Maria who was glaring at Ren. I could hear Ren whispering how much he is regretting life at that moment.

"We'll leave in two days see you then." She said as she walked through the door.

We all got up from our seats and exited the room.

Maria walked up to Ren then said "Listen here shadow knight, you are going to listen to me on this mission and we will do it my way! Got it!"

Ren nodded and she walked away.

"What did I do to deserve this. I'm a person right, I help my friends. Why god, why you do this to me."

I laughed at Ren then we walked back to town and looked at the shops.