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

Chapter 33:Messy Preparations

Mike-Oscar and Zarark went to Greltiel, the town of magic.
Greltiel was a big town and easily surpassed the rest in eccentricities. All the buildings were made of silver and had many mana circuits in all the buildings. Entirely 3/4 of the city relied in mana circuits and mana crystals.
The city was a giant city with a star shape filled with lots of water-traffic corridors which connected with the lake that was on top of the mountains, also you could see countless rails in the air that carried cargo. If you wanted to go through all the city it would be best to use one of the boats that went through the city.
The entire city was separated in two districts with the academy of PSY as its frontier, one part was the shopping district where the people could buy the newest creations of Greltiel's mages and was in the left side of the city, the right part of the city was the guilds area and also the area where all quests of the city were given, there you could find many requests of crafters asking for materials and paid very well. Of course the materials were extremely hard to obtain.
The academy of PSY was in the middle of the city, just in front of the mana gate, which was a 340 meters tall palace with 100 floors, it was a blue and white building, with thousands of windows with the emblem of the city that was a clover of 5 leaves. Usually everyone could enter and guilds could put requests for PSY players from the academy paying a small fee of 3000 coins and then they would try to get a PSY player that wanted to join to the guild.

Zarark and Mike-Oscar went to the shopping district to buy some of the new items like a mana powered lantern which was a better item than the torches used by normal players and even easier to use than the spells. But this shopping walk had another reason. If the engineers saw them interested in items, they could contact them both and that way they could ask for Sieg and know which kind of man he was.
After several hours of checking out the items, a engineer contacted the group.
-Engineer: Hello! I see that you are interested in the utility items that we have done!
-Zarark: Yes, I am interested in them. But I see no scopes with ricochet trajectory. A shame since I am a sniper who uses the ricochets.
-Engineer: We have not worked in them due to the low amount of snipers using ricochets.
-Zarark: Talking of offensive items. Do you know anything about Sieg?
-Engineer: Oh, that guy. He is a good guy, even if his father is an important person. Always helps in the building and has some crazy ideas. But his new project seems to be an instant death item.
-Mike-Oscar: Yes, a small explosive I guess.
-Engineer: We have it in our storage. Knowing of lady Diane, no thief shall enter. We have monsters that will protect it. Death Jacks, Living Chests and Pandemic slimes.
-Zarark: But for the expo they will take it out of the storage, no?
-Engineer: Yes, 5 hours before the expo starts all the items will be transported to private storages. To avoid sabotage of any of the engineers exposing items. After all they have permission to enter in the normal storage without any problem. To check daily their products. That way we totally avoid sabotage.
-Zarark: Okay. (Sees a guidance ball) OH! A guidance ball, huh? It's odd to find them. Usually they work to guide someone.
-Engineer: Oh yes, they are for the tourism. They can check the private storages too.
-Zarark: Maybe I should do a tour.
-Engineer: Interested in the expo too?
-Zarark: Maybe I finally find a good sniper utility item.
-Engineer: Well, there are some. But do not expect too much.
-Zarark: Thanks. See you around.
-Engineer: Until next time!
Zarark and Mike-Oscar left the shops and went to a cafeteria to get some coffee and see from afar the entire academy since all the restaurants and similar places in Greltiel had a great view of the academy since it was the biggest pride of Greltiel. Unlike the rest of the main cities, Greltiel was a group of ruins of the old age until Diane and Alvyn decided to reform it in the Beta test and create the town of magic so the mages had a place to belong.

Zarark saw the chance of going through the private storages and check the one of Sieg, Mike-Oscar seemed to be wary of this chance since it was possible that it was a trap so they could be spotted but they decided to not take the risk yet and contact via Psy-Link with Harlequin to check things out.
-Zarark: H, here Z.
-Harlequin: Here H. What is going on? You managed to get the information we need?
-Mike-Oscar: M-O here. We have some but the rest will be risky. Let us say that this is a tough tourism day.
-Harlequin: That pun sucked, M-O. But explain the problem.
-Zarark: We might have found a chance to get the item without going to the normal storage.
-Harlequin: Getting into the normal storage is suicide. We all know that. Death Jacks prowling. Death Jacks, level 40 monsters.
-Zarark: That's why we searched for another way. In the day of the exposition, the engineers that will expose their newest creations will put their creations in the private storages they have.
-Harlequin: And so, avoiding the last second sabotage. But if we manage to get into Sieg private storage…
-Zarark: We can steal the creation in the exposition day.
-Harlequin: By the way, Z… Where are the mercs?
-Zarark: (Thinks for a bit) Where they are!? I lost track of them since we entered!
-Mike-Oscar: I believe they said something of checking out some storageeeee…. GODDAMMIT! THEY ARE CHECKING THE PRIVATE STORAGES!
-Zarark: Goddammit! What we needed now! If they are caught, Sieg will be even more careful.
-Harlequin: Find those two, now. If you mess up, we can say goodbye to all the balance in Dreamland! Imagine if all the developers and GMs are killed in their own expo! They are going to be livid and that means they are going to release extermination bosses! And not only that… Alvyn will be angry… The man who can push an extermination boss with his 100% power… We… We are so done. We are so bloody done!
-Zarark: I see where are you going… I will catch them in no time.
Mike-Oscar stops the Psy-Link and Zarark starts running to the private storage of Sieg to find Phoenix and Devil.

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