[Adam's POV!]
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Same time as beta release ended
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"Hey, what place is this?" I asked as I looked at the empty caskets lying all around. Different shapes and colors on every house, with most of them empty.
This settlement was in the middle of the stretchy grasslands and had half a dozen houses, and was on our way to the Mermaid Kingdom. We just stopped here to take a short break before we reached the coastal city and then to the City of Islands, Reverie.
In Reverie, there stays Laplace, for whom I had journeyed for so long. Well, Laplace Junior, since the real Laplace is a legend now.
"It's called Buston. Nobody lives here, and people leave stuff in the caskets for the future adventurers who would pass by here. You can leave extra food in the caskets too. They say it brings good luck," Albedo spoke as he threw a stone into the caskets from a distance.
"Aren't Buston supposed to be in dungeons and stuff? Like only in dangerous places." I had my knowledge about Buston. But they were more of a cart than a settlement. And clearly players have always found them mostly in dungeons and such.
"I guess so. You can say this one is just an oddity?" Albedo wasn't really interested in this topic.
[Beta Release has ended!]
[World Update: Thank you for trying out the game. The official release will be on 1st of January at 8:30AM. Stay tuned!]
Since the Beta release ended, I wonder what the real body will do now. There was nothing interesting going on in that town, anyway.
"Hey, Adam. Can I ask a question?" Tristan, the purple-haired dark mage, asked as he looked at me.
"Sure," I answered as I played with magic a little. Since I had nothing much to do either, I indulged myself in an art of using magic to create precise objects for fun. This would help me with my magic control as well, so it was a plus.
"Are you really going to meet the leader? Or do you have any other purpose in that town? I can't shake this feeling that you know something that we don't," Tristan asked directly, making Albedo a bit surprised.
Traveling for the past three months, we had shared quite a lot of small adventures and shared a bit of our own stories as well. Because I could use [Freestyle], I was able to protect almost all the mages around with little difficulty.
This increased the respect they had for me. And let them open up with their own backstories to me. While I already knew most of it because of what happened in the Border Town, hearing it again as they were going into details helped me understand them better.
Their reason for walking this path of darkness and cutting themselves off from the society just to achieve something that they even don't know. In all honesty, it was a concoction of sad/horror stories, one after another.
Thus, it was easy for all the dark mages, including Tristan, to openly ask me about anything that they wanted to know.
"Yeah. I told you before. Right now, I am only going to meet your leader. After that, I need to meet my brother in the Mermaid Kingdom. Though I am thinking of calling him to me instead… let's see how it goes," I spoke as I stood up and stretched a little.
Though that was not entirely true.
Sea City of Light.
It was a city that was about 100 miles away from the City of Islands, Reverie. And when the real body asked me to meet 'him' there. All it meant was to go and wait for the players to appear.
Sea City of Light was one of the 4 cities that was chosen as the starter town. And while Wesker was going to look over the players in the Border town, I was supposed to create a scene in the Sea City.
Adam is a being that people can look at but cannot touch. They can think about him, talk to him, but can never get too close to him. It's the same for players, it is the same for these dark mages, it will be the same for everyone else.
While we always talked about a lot of things, the topic rarely came to me. Even though it did, I made sure to not answer it at all. Did it make things awkward? Sure, it did. But that is how it is always going to be.
"If you say so," Tristan spoke as he observed me for a while before looking back to where Yemir was coming from.
"All right. Let's get ready to leave," he spoke as he observed us, and the dark mages nodded. As for me, I looked in the [Maps!] to check things around.
When we came here, I did a run around the entire area and made sure to update the [Maps!]. It was just an extra step to complete the map as much as possible.
And finding everything fine, I then looked at the caravan that was going to carry us. It was a normal caravan, with no added effect. Two horse-like animals pulled it just like in the real world.
Moving towards the caravan, I then waited for the other mages to board first. And then at last, I sat in front of Yemir, who was sitting close to the exit of the caravan.
"How long from here?" I asked while Yemir looked at the map, before making a quick calculation and speaking," about 3 more days. And then we will reach the coastal city."
I pondered over it for a while before nodding.
'Seems like it was going to get boring again, huh?' I thought in my heart before creating a cube composed of threads and began reshaping it once again.
"I might have said this but you really have a fine control over your mana," Yemir who observed my magic, complimented my magic while I smiled.
The caravan started as I once again immersed in a conversation with Yemir and the group.