Dreamland MMORPG Book 2: A Hard-working Thief of Justice Rising.

Chapter 8: Finding a new member for the team

Ace and Mike-Oscar went to give the materials to Edwin but when they arrived to Golden Soul inn, they found a surprise.
Edwin was surrounded by several players and all of them looked at Mike-Oscar and Ace like they were the golden chicken. All of the players were wearing white armors with an emblem of a blue hand on the armors.
-Mike-Oscar: Are you feeling blue, guys?
-Ace: We might be in a pinch now. I have a real feeling that they are after me. I don't know why.
-Thug 1: Who of you is Ace?
-Ace: Yep. They are after me.
-Mike-Oscar: What you did already?
-Ace: Nothing. But troubles follow me wherever I go.
-Mike-Oscar: You have a function called Trouble Magnet no?
-Ace: More like a secret passive.
-Mike-Oscar: I hope that you are not a real magnet. I like my neck like it is right now.
-Ace: Hah, Hah, Hah. You seem to love jokes.
-Thug 2: And yet you seem to not care about us.
-Ace: You won't dare to attack me now. If you want trouble with the guards you would not wait here, you would wait outside the city.
-Thug 3: This guys knows a lot. I hope that we can kill him.
Mike-Oscar shot at the first thug without waiting, Ace jumped at the second one and stabbed him in his neck and the rest started running.

Mike-Oscar sighed and looked at Ace.
-Mike-Oscar: Seems that the cat is out of the bag. I am a player that has been contacted by Harlequinn. Yeah, your first companion.
-Ace: She's quick.
-Mike-Oscar: Nope. I would tell you how my name reached her files, but here I can't. And about the quest, sorry I lied.
-Ace: Obviously. I expected something like that. And I could guess that someone as strong as you would be doing something more hard.
-Mike-Oscar: Welp, that's a fact.
Harlequinn entered in the inn.
-Harlequinn: Edwin, Edwin, Edwin... What I will do with your greedy ass?
-Edwin: You know?
-Harlequinn: Of course! A True Gold member asking newbies instead of their allies? Odd. So I guessed that you wanted a newbie. Then I talked with some people and strangely you put the request 50 seconds before Ace grabbed it. A strange coincidence, no?
-Edwin: Harlequinn... I can explain this.
-Harlequinn: I did not sell information to you about big guilds to be stabbed in my back. And yet you betrayed me. (Sighs) Ace, what you want to do about this?
-Ace: I fulfilled the request. So pay me up, Edwin and allow me to get the exp. (Points his sword at Edwin) And quick.
-Edwin: Understood! Give me the materials please.
Ace gave to Edwin what he had asked and Edwin ended the quest by opening a window and then Ace received the reward.

Ace arrived to level 28, obtained 30000 gold and the red striker ring. Ace smiled and sheathed his sword.
-Ace: We will leave, but if you stay on my path once again... I will take you down. Get it?
-Edwin: Clear as the water!
Ace, Harlequinn and Mike-Oscar went out of the inn and went inside a shop that sold custom things.

It was filled with lots of crates and heads of monsters, there was a tall dwarf looking at them and allowed them to pass to a hidden room. It was a red room, with a table and 4 seats around it with around 5 big file cabinets and a big crate with countless locks. Harlequinn sat down and sighed.
-Harlequinn: You are getting strong but your trouble magnet works stronger than the one of Geralt.
-Ace: Thanks.
-Harlequinn: That is not a compliment!
-Ace: I know. But I take it as one.
-Mike-Oscar: I am as I said, a player contacted by Harlequinn.
-Harlequinn: I have already a list of players. Still, the only one that answered was Mike here.
-Ace: That's a trouble.
-Harlequinn: You will have to go after the other 5 players I have chosen for now.
Harlequinn passes a folder with a 5 names to Ace.
-Harlequinn: We have Wanderer as our crafter. Hard to find, hard to talk with and impossible to get his way of working well.
-Ace: Troubles?
-Harlequinn: Guess it. He tries to go low profile. I found him, but we won't be able to talk with him peacefully. So you must get stronger, he is strong. Also Enforcer will be there.
-Ace: Enforcer? Who is he?
-Harlequinn: Healer, mage. Can also fight at close range. The two guys I talked about worked together in the Battle of the Thousand Fields.
-Mike-Oscar: I remember it. It was a nasty trouble.
-Ace: By what Oboro told me, Angel's Paradise also fought there.
-Harlequinn: Yeah. And those monsters crushed both armies.  Wait... YOU KNOW OBORO!?
-Ace: Yep? Also I know most of Angel's Paradise members that are working as GM
-Harlequinn: I will need time to take all that... Still... Getting Wanderer to work with us...
-Ace: We will talk to them.
-Harlequinn: Those two are powerful. Wanderer killed 1000 players on his own. Enforcer made sure that he got out alive.
-Ace: So, they both are dangerous together.
-Harlequinn: Jackpot!
-Ace: The others?
-Harlequinn: Zarark. The silent sniper. An expert in ricochetting.  He is one of the best snipers for something.
-Mike-Oscar: Trouble is that he does not trust us?
-Harlequinn: Guessed right, Mike. Zarark hates me for an old trouble. So you will have to convince him. Get ready to deflect ricocheted shots.
-Ace: And the other two?
-Harlequinn: Easy targets. Devil and Phoenix. Phoenix is a mercenary, really powerful but he is moved by money.
-Ace: So we have to get money in this. No problem our heist should give money for us.
-Harlequinn: Perfect.
-Ace: Devil.
-Harlequinn: He is a mercenary but he is attached to someone. A girl that goes by the name of Alice. She seems in trouble. If we help her, we may gain more help.
-Ace: Okay. We can go after Devil first. Get some levels first, later going after them.
Ace got up and was about to leave.
-Mike-Oscar: You don't know my purpose.
-Ace: Well, first I must get the others.
-Mike-Oscar: I am a PSY, sniper and that can follow people. I can contact people and follow people.
-Ace: So you are logistic support and a spy. Good. See you later.
Ace left.

Hi people! I hope that you like this chapter! Ace has to recruit a team? How will he manage to get ready for this team? Who knows!