Fate Online: Shadow

Chapter 532: Current Affairs

[Hey babe! What's your current location now?]

Solitary Tempest was in the process of gathering a patch of rare herbs growing along a large tree root when she was suddenly notified of a message coming from Shadow.

"Hmm..?"

[I'm currently at Dragon Valley. I think I'll reach the core of Mount Rasborg soon. What about you? Should we meet up? Wait, your communication is now working, does that mean you had already escaped from her clutches?]

When she saw who the message came from, Solitary Tempest paused her activities and immediately replied to Shadow.

"Uhhh…"

Shadow became stiff for a second when he received her reply as he quickly realized that she went through lengths alone just to meet up with him and now, he'll have to tell her that she didn't need to bother anymore.

Even after she had relegated some important quest to the side just to see him.

'So much wasted time just for me to return to square one'

[Uhh..you can come back now. I actually got thrown out]

"What do you mean you got thrown out?" She pulled out a Mana Potion and drank it one go while giving a reply to Shadow.

"Well.."

After that, Shadow gave a short explanation of what happened to him while he was under captivity and what recently happened that ended up him getting thrown out just at the vicinity of the mountain range.

"Then what happened to the Mutated Drake Egg then? Will they return it or they actually stole it under the guise that they are going to incubate it for you?" Solitary Tempest wasn't even mad that she had just wasted her time coming this far and instead, she had already started her journey back.

Though by the sounds of it, she sounded more concerned about the situation of the Drake Egg compared to what happened to Shadow.

[Wow, shouldn't the first thing you do is ask if I'm okay? You're making it sound that the damn egg is even more important than me] Shadow sounded hurt, though it was obvious that he's just feigning it.

Solitary Tempest just rolled her eyes and replied, "If this was the real world, I'd certainly be worried about you. Fortunately for us, it's not, right? And for goodness' sake, we can't lose that Drake. Even if it is a Lesser Dragon, it's still a Dragon at the end of the day. No one currently possesses a Dragon for a mount, we, the Revenant Guild should be the first one to have it!

We should at least ensure that our guild should always be ahead in terms of individual prowess than the Nine Major Guilds!!"

[Relax babe, even if they do catch up with us, it's not like we are by ourselves.

We have allies!] Shadow tried to reassure her, but he was also looking forward to the day that the elites of the nine major guilds do catch up, especially the hostile guilds and take their revenge on them after they had assassinated them multiple times during the early days of the game and caused them to lag behind in terms of Level.

"No! That's not enough! We should always stay ahead! Why do you think I even bothered coming here to team up with you?!" she was almost yelling, obviously angered by Shadow's nonchalant attitude.

'Man~ this must be why she has held the Number One Player title for a quite long time. Such competitive spirit and besides, I doubt that there are even a lot of monsters left in the mountain. I'm pretty sure most of them had joined the Monster Horde and the ones left behind were probably the more intellectual monsters who need to guard the settlement that was left behind'

Shadow could only feel admiration at his woman's competitiveness, and at the same time, he doesn't have the same fire as before since most monsters have already left and he would rather return to see if they can still make it before the clash of The Coalition and the Monster Horde starts.

Indeed, Shadow was still up to date with news of what's happening in the game since he was still able to browse the Web even when most of the game functions were disabled during his captivity, something he was grateful for.

[Anyway, I'm already making my way back. Right, it seems that the Monster Horde is still having a stand-off with the Coalition Army at the Neverwinter Border.

Can you check the status of Snow Village if they're doing fine?] Solitary Tempest's voice was tinged with worry since that village wall surrounding the village certainly wouldn't be able to stop the monsters if they decide to raze the village to the ground.

Shadow rolled his eyes and thought, 'If you were so worried about them, then shouldn't you have just turned back instead of continuing ahead?'

Of course, he can only keep those thoughts to himself since a lot of women are like that. They act like they care or support you, but in all honesty, it was all just lip service.

They don't really care.

He doesn't mind the little hypocrisy from his girlfriend from time to time as long as she maintains basic human decency, nobody's perfect after all!

[Hey, are you listening to me? Is the village fine? I'm worried about the kids]

"Hmm..I think they are doing okay, nothing to worry about!"

[Snow Village]

A former city belonging to the late, Empreal Kingdom.

In the past, the land was once a prospering city. Now, the only remaining validation that the city had once existed is a small village that inherited its name.

Though recently, it's starting to show signs of development after a New Lord had taken over.

Military: 12

Economy: 30

Culture: 20

Technology: 20

Religion: 0

Urban Development: 29

Security: 100%

Solitary Tempest's voice quickly brought him back to reality. He hastily opened the Lord's Menu and saw the little improvements of the village, and thankfully, it seems that the village is doing well.

[Phew~ that's good. I've grown too attached to those kids; I'd be really saddened if they disappear]

'Not really worried, their commander would be too stupid to attack a village under the protection of the Frost Dragon, and for how many years already. the village is still standing strong, so I doubt that they didn't know about the presence of Sonya inside the village during those times'