MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

"…Man."

Giving himself a bit of time to process the information being shown in front of him, Valyr soon let out a faint sigh before softly chuckling.

"Although I’d easily get my ass beat if I were to face my other self if it were at the peak of Rank 2, that would only be the truth if it had a subclass."

"If the only stats it got were from its class and the elixirs it consumed…" Valyr slightly grinned at the thought.

"Then the tables would easily turn to my favor."

Looking at his status screen for a bit more after that to see if he missed anything, the young man went ahead and brought up his skill screen to the side, wanting to make sure that he hadn’t missed a skill or two with how he perused his notifications.

Seeing that he hadn’t missed neither information nor any new skill after giving both screens a quick skim, it was only then did the young man let out a long sigh of relief.

"I suppose now’s a good time to call it a day," muttered Valyr to himself, softly yawning as he felt a bit of sleepiness wash over his entire body.

Finding it slightly amusing that lethargy immediately took over him the moment he stopped busying himself, the young man faintly shook his head as he made a mental note to hit an Experience Pit the moment he came back to Greater Beyond.

Briefly asking him whether or not to stop grinding XP the moment he had enough to reach the peak of Rank 1, Valyr decided to leave the question for some other time, reminding himself that he had yet to get any proper sleep for over two days.

With that, the young man went ahead and began the process to log out of the game…

Only to be interrupted by a random notification just before he could confirm his selection.

Ding!

[GodKingThomas has sent you a message.]

"Hmm?" As he forced to teeter between the boundary of wakefulness and sleepiness amidst the notification, Valyr immediately felt his consciousness be jolted awake the moment he read the notification he received in greater detail.

"Thomas is in the game?" Vigorously shaking his head in a bid to extricate himself from the sleepiness he was feeling, the young man rubbed his eyes a couple of times to check if the notification was a hallucination brought about by his exhaustion. Your adventure continues at empire

Yet, no matter how many times he rubbed his eyes, the contents of the notification remained the same.

With that, Valyr did not hesitate to pinch his inner thigh as hard as he could, forcing him to grit his teeth as he endured the pain that he was inflicting on himself.

"Nngh…" Feeling all the lethargy disappear after around a minute of the experience, it was only then did Valyr bring up Thomas’ message in front of him.

Whoosh!

"Hey, Valyr. If you’re not busy with anything at the moment, can we talk?"

Gently rubbing the part he pinched to oblivion, the young man continued to grit his teeth as he read the message Thomas sent to him.

"Of course, if you’re busy, just give me a heads-up as to when you’ll be free."

"I was actually planning to log out of the game just before you sent me a message," wrote Valyr in his reply, deciding to be straight to the point. "After all, if you haven’t already noticed, I’ve been in the game for over a day."

"But if it doesn’t take up too much time… then what’s up?"

"…" Unsurprisingly, it took a while for Thomas to respond back to the messages he sent, prompting Valyr to think that the man felt guilty for interrupting what was supposed to be his well-earned sleep.

Thankfully, the man still decided to send a message in the end, sending Valyr a quick question after a couple of minutes.

"Well, remember what we did a couple days ago? The beauty elixir thing?"

"Yeah? What about it?" asked Valyr in his response. "Wait… did you log into the game because you wanted to do it again?"

"I would be lying if I said I didn’t think about it," replied Thomas, causing Valyr to imagine the man letting out an awkward chuckle. "But the reason I sought you out this time was because Meria and Lucques wanted to see you."

"…Really?" answered the young man back, finding it slightly surprising that the two of them took the initiative to look for him.

From what he could recall, he was usually the one who took the initiative to look for them, with Thomas having already benefited from that personality of his in spades thanks to the beauty elixir business.

However, that did not mean that there were times when Thomas and the others were the ones who took the initiative to look for him.

Rummaging through his memories for a short bit, the young man soon recalled a time when Thomas asked him to teach a small group of players in the man’s fledgling organization the art of blacksmithing.

On the other hand, it took a bit longer for him to recall any instance of either Meria or Lucques taking the initiative to look for him.

But of course, that didn’t mean there wasn’t any.

"…Ah." After a bit more rummaging through his treasure trove of memories, Valyr soon stumbled upon a small set of memories involving the two that he thought he’d almost lost to time.

Though, once he took a brief look at them… he was quickly reminded why he decided to forget them.

"Are Meria and Lucques with you?" wrote Valyr, his expression now that of slight unease. "Were you talking with them before entering the game?"

"I was talking with them," sent Thomas back in a matter of seconds. "Though, if I’m being honest, they were wanting to talk to you since yesterday."

Feeling his heart sink the moment he read the man’s next message, the young man took in a deep breath as he asked him, "Did they tell you why they were looking for me?"

"They did," responded Thomas, only to then go on a short retelling of events that led up to the current situation.

Hearing the story start off at the point where he and Thomas parted ways after splitting off the profits generated by the beauty elixirs, Valyr was briefly caught off guard, only to remind himself that the story starting off there wasn’t weird at all.

After all, while he spent the past few days completing tasks in the world of Greater Beyond, Thomas and the others went about their days doing their own things back on Earth in the same timespan.

With that, Thomas briefly elaborated on what he did with the earnings from the beauty elixirs, telling Valyr about how thankful he was that he was able to pay most of his bills for the month while still having some money left over.

After that, the man then talked about how he shared what he did with Meria and Lucques the following day, which unsurprisingly left the two at a complete loss for words.

Then again, such a reaction was warranted, especially since they were like Thomas that knew VRMMORPGs weren’t really that generous when it came to the currency exchange.

Though, after hearing that he and Valyr were able to earn hundreds of Delta in a matter of a few Earth hours, Meria and Lucques did not hesitate to ask Thomas if it was possible for Valyr to have the two of them join in on the operation they had.

"They said… and I quote, ’That amount of money is more than enough to help solve our problems’," wrote Thomas, which only made Valyr let out a low sigh the moment he was reading it.

’To think the same reason in that long-forgotten memory would become a reality for me once more.’

Briefly shaking all of the negative thoughts that lingered in his head, the young man pushed the memory he had of the two to the side for a while as he asked Thomas for more information over their request.

Reading that the two were accompanying Thomas in the game while they were chatting, Valyr did not hesitate to tell the man that he’d meet up with them as soon as possible, prompting him to leave the inn he was staying at just as it was getting late at night.

Whoosh!

Pushing his agility to its newly heightened limits, it only took less than a minute for him to arrive at the area where new players usually spawned.

Looking around for a bit to see where Thomas and the others were, the young man soon took note of a trio of familiar silhouettes loitering by the side of a small building, two of which he was only seeing again for the first time.

"It’s been a while." Moving closer to where the three were, Valyr looked at them with a slightly apologetic smile on his face, the signs of weariness and lethargy from before having already disappeared some time ago.

"It’s definitely been a while," replied Thomas with a nod, slightly grinning as he gave the young man in front of him a brief embrace. "There’s no need for me to introduce them to you, right?"

"Why would you even introduce them?" replied Valyr with a slight chuckle, only to shift his gaze towards the couple that stood beside Thomas. "Anyways, welcome to Greater Beyond, Meria. Lucques."

"Sorry for having you come here," replied Meria after some time, her head slightly lowered in shame. "We know you were about to go to sleep, but… we have an urgent matter that we need your help with."

"Well, I had a feeling that’d be the case ever since Thomas messaged me." Valyr nodded in response, his expression turning solemn. "Now, tell me… does it have anything to do with those debt collectors?"

"Worse." Lucques took the chance to reply in Meria’s stead, his expression somewhat grim. "Way worse than the debt collectors."

"It’s not the debt collectors?" asked Valyr in slight confusion, only to be reminded once more of the memory he skimmed through. "Wait… are you telling me…?"

"It’s exactly what you think it is." Lucques nodded as he let out a defeated sigh.

"It’s the Monstrata."

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