BORNEO

Ch. 8: Enter Taliana

Arang is on his way to the gaming hall when he recalled his talk with Seri and Lisa earlier in the gathering hall after he informed his situation in the game without telling what he had done and just mentioned his stats in comparison to other cadets and how the evaluation didn't really fair to him since it's only evaluate the character level, number of skills and level of skills.

"I can't help you with you with the game itself, but maybe I can help you to make a report about this issue. Don't put your hope up though. This evaluation system was coming from the central government, so it might take a while to reach them and for them to make a change, if there will be any change, which I doubt." Seri just coldly responded to Arang plea to make an adjustment to the evaluation system without any interest about his stats or how he achieve it.

"I don't know anything about the game, and I doesn't really agree with the decision to include gaming session in the military training. You should just try to raise your levels, catch up with everybody else. That would be your best option if you want to avoid the bottom rank. Maybe you can talk with your roommates? Ask for their advice and experiences in the game." Seri give some advices to Arang, he is part or her team after all. She needs to take care of him somehow.

"If I'm not mistaken, you guys should still be in the starting village and unable to leave, right?" Lisa suddenly joined the conversation.

"Maybe I can help you if you want, I already played the game since the server opening day. Just give me your IGN and I will add you later so you can ask me through whisper if you have questions." Lisa feels sorry to hear Arang's situation, on the other hand she also curious with Arang stats at level 0. "(I need to find out his situation and how he achieve that. It's good that he didn't mentioned how he achieve it. Less people know about this will be better, I can slowly have him tell me his secret and Seri won't say anything too since she doesn't understand and care about it. If I can do the same as him it will be very helpful for me, maybe I can also catch up with the top players.)"

"My IGN is Rimba, but, uhh, what is the whisper that you mentioned about?" Arang scratching his head while asking the question shyly to Lisa. Lisa was suprised to find that Arang didn't even know what whisper is so she started to explain some basic terms of the game for Arang, which Arang is very grateful for.

"(This guy is very ignorant about the game, but that will make it easier for me to get him under my control). My IGN is Taliana, just accept it when my friend request arrived so I can help you." Lisa informed Arang and then leaving with Seri while Arang started to clean the gathering hall. Reaching the instructors dormitory, Lisa just say goodbye to Seri and went to her room, she can wait to play and learn how Arang raise his stats without leveling or doing any quest. She knows that people can raise stat through repetitive actions like mining, fishing, skinning, and other activities, but that kind of activities also provide experience so it won't be possibe for Arang to stay at level 0 if he was doing it. She was sure that Arang must have a secret method.

Player "Taliana" sends you a friend request
Accept/Reject

Rimba is greeted by the blue window when he entered the game.

Meanwhile in the outskirts of Terang Capital, Lampu Kingdom, Taliana is on a killing spree against the poor Kobolds while grumbling. Her level 63 Knight character is facing the 5th group of Kobolds she met and slaughtering them with ease. The Kobolds in the outskirts of the capital are weak, somewhere between level 30-40ish, since the Kingdom army went out to exterminate any big camp of stronger Kobolds regularly, leaving the smaller and weaker camps as training target for the recruits and players. They still posed a threat though when they managed to gang up on you.

"How dare this guy ignore me for so long. I have sent him the friend request 2 hours ago and he still hasn't accepted it. How long does he need to clean the hall?!" Taliana keep muttering while her shield and sword moving to block and strike the Kobolds. She can face around 5-6 Kobolds easily by herself as long as she stay focused and don't let them break her stance. Suddenly she got the notification that her friend request is accepted, startled by the blue window appearing in front of her face she lose sight of her target and allowed some attacks from the Kobolds to hit her and break her stance. Panicked, she struggled to regain her dominance against the remaining Kobolds. Her health is only about 10% left when she finished them all. Feel scared that she is almost end up dead and losing experiences, she move back closer to capital wall and take a rest to recover while sending whisper to Rimba.