BORNEO

Ch. 12: Beware of Goblins!

Finalizing his deal with Lisa, Arang left the office satisfied. He is looking forward to the gaming capsule that soon will be his, he could sell the capsule for some cash later after the subscription period ended or in case of emergency. The money will be very helpful for him and the orphanage. Arang finished his training for today after the meeting with Lisa and entered the game using the capsule provided by the government, Lisa will only give him her capsule after she leave. Still stuck with the maintenance duty, he was on his way to clean the gathering hall when Seri called for him to meet her in the office.

Meeting Seri, he was informed that he now will act as an assistant for the Head Instructor replacing Lisa. Turn out after talking with him, Lisa contacted her father straight away to inform him about her idea and ask for his help to make the necessary arrangements. Her father is delighted with the idea, as it can also used to raise his status in the political circle so he approved her right away and decide to give additional reward for Arang by letting him taking the assistant role that will be vacated by Lisa. That afternoon, a few hours after the call with her father, Lisa is instructed to come back to Pontianak by her father. They will leave to the capital in the next morning to make an official recommendation directly to the central government, her father already made some calls to the people in central government and her recommendation is already as good as approved. They only need to go through the formal process.

Surprised by the extra arrangement, Arang is reminded that he still need to continue his maintenance duty until the next evaluation. Later, his evaluation will be fully conducted by the Head Instructor based on his performance as his assistant and also his gaming performance. So there is still a possibility that he might continue maintenance duty after the next evaluation. Arang doesn't mind to continue his current maintenance duty, he is sure that he will catch up and maybe leaving everyone behind in the gaming session during this period until the next evaluation. Now that he will use a private gaming capsule, he can play longer compared to other cadets every night, not limited by the 6 hours gaming session quota. Suddenly everything seems going right for him, he even considered to praise Lisa as his lucky star.

After finished his talk with Seri, Arang went to finish his maintenance duty for today. Since Lisa already vacated her room, leaving only the gaming capsule, Arang also already ordered by Seri to move tonight. His roommates already doing their gaming session so no other cadets know that Arang will move out from the dorm and act as an assistant replacing Lisa, he is looking forward to see their reaction in the next morning gathering. Entering his new room, Arang noticed the game capsule in the corner of the room, ecstatic that it already his now. Putting his things down, he sit down in the desk and checking his duty and schedule as the assistant. His duty and schedule is still the same as Lisa's, which is pretty lax, but he knows that things might not that easy later on. Who knows what the Head Instructor have for him when they meet after the gathering in the morning. Then he entered the game.

Rimba appeared in his room in the orphanage. Hearing the flurry of activities downstairs, he went down to greet everyone. Sarah just give him the same quest to get meat, but the "Cooking" skill reward is now replaced by a 100 additional EXP. Rimba went to Olaf's place after that, he want to ask about the monsters extermination army from the capital. Olaf is nowhere to be seen when Rimba arrived at the training field, he went to the watch tower on the northern gate to look for Olaf. As the Head of Village Security sometimes Olaf went there to talk with the militia and make the arrangements for them.

In the northern watch tower, Rimba saw the number of militia are less than usual. He asked the young militia he often accompanied during night watch and found out that Olaf and some of the militia are joining the monsters extermination army from the capital. Olaf was waiting for him, but since Rimba is not coming and the leader of the extermination army not willing to wait any longer they just left yesterday. Rimba realized he forgot that the game is running even when he logged out, and with 4:1 time difference the arrival of the army was 2 days ago. They stayed for 1 day in the village before leaving to exterminate the monsters, without any information how long they will do the extermination before coming back to the village.