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

Chapter 15: Anger and Despair

In True Gold HQ, Ariamor was angry. Really angry, he had paid a lot of money to a lot of people to handle those who were investigating his guild but no one had done the job. Rakshi was in front of him with a report that was literally a lot of good news but none of the expected ones and that Umbra had to retreat because Alice now was close to the student of Zero made him more angry.
-Ariamor: This is what happens when I trust in small groups and mercenaries! This! And now I have that son of a gun of Zero training people! What more? That Duraralt goes after my head with a pair of federations covering him!?
-Rakshi: Sir, at least they are not going worse.
-Ariamor: I care nothing about that! I want my problems solved and right now! I want that bastard of Nex out of my way, I want the GMs to investigate anyone else that is not me! I want to be able to go to the islands without being all day scared! And not even Dirt Cheap will allow me to do all that!
-Rakshi: Sir…
-Ariamor: Send a message to Zach. He fails and he will pay. Nothing more, nothing less.
-Rakshi: Sir… Calm down.
-Ariamor: I will be calm when that bastard of Nex is gone! And I want a competent guy! One that cares about nothing unless completing the job! I am after that bastard of Ace! Punish him! Destroy everything he cares about! I do not care of what is used, just take him out!
-Rakshi: I shall call the executives to handle your problems with the islands?
-Ariamor: Yes. Call them. I want this over by this weekend! No one will stay on my path! I will fill that island with secret factories!
-Rakshi: As you desire, sir.
-Ariamor: And call me Ariamor dammit!
Rakshi leaves the office of Ariamor and Ariamor sits on his chair.

Meanwhile, Devil and Phoenix were after a member of the Blue Hand who used a crossbow too and attacked him. After knocking him out, they brought him to Wanderer in order to do a fake Blue Hand armor for Mike-Oscar.
Ace decided to log out for the day. He took the helmet off and saw his father pale.
-Ryan: What is it father?
-Beat: An old friend is in his last moments of life. At least is what the doctor says.
-Ryan: The same who said that said man would die in a month? He is still alive and has passed two years from then!
-Beat: He is sick. And his daughter will get his company. He even has done a testament.
-Ryan: But you are worried.
-Beat: Of course, his daughter is a good girl… But…
-Ryan: I remember what the old man said.

Flashback
Two years ago. Ryan and Beat went to see an old friend of Beat. He was Rodin, a great businessman who had a great company dedicated to the creation of hardware and technology. Also they had a lot of banks so having good knowledge of economics was a must.
But now Rodin was in the bed, sick almost to death. Beat had helped his old friend trying to heal him. But no doctor knew what to do. Seemed that Rodin would die.

Rodin was a short man with white hair, black eyes, with a scar in his left eye, brawny and a handsome man after all. But nothing worked when he was that sick.
In Rodin’s room that was a big room filled with many photos of his family, that was his wife, Bella, a tall woman with long blonde hair, blue eyes, sexy and his daughter, Alice, who was a short girl with golden hair that was tied into two drills, blue eyes, with good curves but she was a bit more beautiful than her mother.
-Beat: Rodin. I will try to save you, don't give up!
-Rodin: Beat, we both know that death is calling me. My body won't be able to work like this.
-Beat: I will find a way! You trusted in me before when I started Beatech, trust me now!
-Rodin: You ain't God. You cannot save everyone.
-Ryan: Old man, trust my father. He ain't that easy to defeat!
-Rodin: Try it. Meanwhile I will have the testament ready. Just in case you are too late. Promise me one thing only: If I die, protect my daughter.
-Ryan: We both promise that!
-Rodin: (coughs) See, Beat? This is why I am so proud of Ryan and you. Never think in yourself, only you go to help others. If Ryan was the boyfriend of my dear Alice I would be glad.
-Beat: Stop with that joke! Ryan is a great guy but you think that Alice will accept him?
-Rodin: She is still an innocent girl. But I taught her everything I know and she is smarter than me.
-Ryan: Well, I think that your partners aren't happy with the way you decided the next heir.
-Beat: Yeah.
-Rodin: To hell with them! They wanted to put the last nail on me last year! (coughs)
The doctor arrived and started running tests and made Beat and Ryan leave. But Ryan saw Alice worried sick and went to talk with her.
-Ryan: Don't worry, the old man is enough badass to get out of this one. No one ain't going to put the last nail on him yet!
-Alice: Thanks but… I am unsure of what to do. I want him to recover but if I become the next leader of the company all my life will be tied to that.
-Ryan: Well, same situation as mine. But you know what? You are the leader not a pawn. Choose the path from the paths that you can choose.
Alice smiled at Ryan.
Flashback ends.

Beat looked angry, he had a chance to save him but it was a gamble and the kind that if it did not work, Rodin would die. He was scared of failure in this situation but then he received a call. It was Rodin himself.
-Rodin: Beat. The doctors have lost all hope in healing me. They say that I need a new heart and a new pair of lungs. I have hidden this meeting from my daughter because I thought that this would happen. You have a new product thanks to the neural studies that you did. Enhanced body limbs.
-Beat: Organs and it is a gamble.
-Rodin: Odds?
-Beat: 60% success. But you will die if it fails.
-Rodin: I am a 50 year old man. How many years you can give me?
-Beat: 30 at best. 5 in worst case scenario of success. But if this fails, you will die in the first minute after the surgery.
-Rodin: There is another way no?
-Beat: I could save your mind inside VR tech. Prepare a robot body. But it won't be legal for now. Ethics are the trouble.
-Rodin: Then gamble it is. Better than winding up dead with no fight at all.
-Beat: Okay. Warn your daughter of this and make sure you don't leave nothing behind. After the surgery you can die or you can live. That biological failure in your heart and lungs is a big thing.
-Rodin: Well, at least they work a 50% and with the medical care I manage to get by.
Beat finished the call.
-Ryan: You will do it?
-Beat: Ain't leaving Rodin to die without a fight.

Beat left the house and Ryan receives a call from Alice.
-Ryan: Hi?
-Alice: I heard the call. I am scared.
-Ryan: Need someone to go there?
-Alice: Thanks. But I know that you have other things to do.
-Ryan: There can't be two sexy cinnamon rolls and yet in your family there are two.
-Alice: (laughs) Stop with that sass!
-Ryan: Well, you laughed. My job is done. Trust in my father, he is not that random to risk a life with a gamble. But a question: You liked what you saw in Dreamland?
Alice finished quickly the call because she knew that she had been looked through.
-Ryan: Well… She is that innocent that she got embarrassed only of learning that I know that she looked. Now I have to get those of the TV channel of Dreamland to go there.

Ryan sent an anonymous message to the channel informing of the heist and, in Dreamland, prepared a calling card for Blue Hand and left it in the hands of Harlequin.
The next day, in Bradtiel, Ace and the others were going to the HQ of Blue Hand that was in the port of Bradtiel and was a giant warehouse where Blue Hand crafted their items. By the info that Harlequinn had, the treasure room was in the guild master room so they had a perfect chance while Harlequin was talking to the guild master, she would be casting a chantless spell that would create an illusion that the treasure was still there.
Devil and Phoenix did their job quickly the day before so Wanderer managed to make a good armor for Mike-Oscar who after using it, entered in the warehouse and went to the roof and prepared to shoot at the riot who would come to the warehouse after the information filtered to the scammed players.

Hope you like extra long chapters with cliffhangers! Stay tuned to see the heist!