The Immortal Player

Chapter 100: The First Continental Quest

"Ehe..." Pedro placed his hand behind his head and forced out a smile towards the officers and officials responsible for the application of new aspiring members of the BHO.

Whilst everyone's gaze was focused on him, he sighed as he slowly closed his eyes. After a few seconds, he reopened it but this time it turned all black. Everyone in the line fell down the floor unconscious.

Amongst the officers and officials, an old man with white hair and a muscular body, and the middle-aged man with tobacco remained conscious. The middle-aged man staggered a bit making the tobacco in his mouth fall into the ground. He let go of his grasp of the kid and placed his hand to his forehead as if resisting a tinge pain in his head.

The old man frowned as if he was not affected and stared towards Pedro with a confused look. Seconds later, that old man sighed and laughed loudly as his attention was shifted to the middle-aged man.

"Jason! Hahaha!"

"Why are you laughing old man?!" The middle-aged man named Jason clenched his fist and slammed the table that made a huge hole with cracks running into the whole table.

"Oooh... Didn't your brother taught you to respect your elders?" The old man raised his head and he stares towards Jason with killing intent.

"He did! But he also taught me that if you want to be respected, you must learn how to respect others first... old man Fuego!"

Jason looked back towards old man Fuego as both of them exerted strong magical energy that was enveloping the two of them. Old man Fuego's magical energy covered his body that had a thickness of around 6 inches from his skin. While Jason had magical energy that had a thickness of around 3 to 4 inches from his skin.

Old man Fuego had a reddish colored magical energy, while Jason had brownish color. The tension between the two rises by each second as they start to completely forget about Pedro and Faunia.

"Hehehe... I must use this opportunity to leave." Pedro grinned as he slowly walked backward. He glanced back at Faunia and instructed something to her.

'Let's go! We'll just fall in line again! I doubt that they'd remember our faces.'

'Sigh... Let me clear things up, human! I'll help and protect you until I find a suitable inheritor! But it doesn't mean that I'll let some insect look down upon me!'

'You're being st@pid!'

'What did you say, human?'

'Did your head got kicked by a pony? I mean... The reason why these 'insects' look down upon you was that because they are weak! They don't have the strength, just to even see your true power. Besides... won't it feel more 'fulfilling' to show these 'insects' your true strength on more crucial times?'

'Hmm... I get what you mean. But still... I am not stupid and I won't get looked down upon! Not now, Not in the future!'

'Sigh...' Pedro shooked his head and felt that he is just gonna have a headache if he kept arguing with Faunia. Hence, he decided to give up since he was just a few steps away from the corner of the hallway down to the stairs.

"Young man! Is this how you pay your respect to your elders?" Old man Fuego shouted that made Pedro stop on his tracks. Pedro's face went grim and the hair in his body stood.

"Old man! How many times do I have to~" Jason stood and turned towards Old man Fuego. He shoved the table and his chair to the side as he clenched his fist. It was filled with a thick, 4 inch, layer of magical energy. But before he could finish his words, Old man Fuego interrupted.

"I'm not talking to you!"

Fwaaaaah!

Old man Fuego pointed towards Jason and a flame immediately came out of his pointing finger, like a flame thrower. Instinctively, Jason kneeled forward to duck and dodge the flame.

"He... made me kneel before him!" Jason was in fury as he can only look towards Old man Fuego and the wall behind him that was hit by the flame.

The brick wall was melted by the flame. A hole was made and showed a room from an adjacent building. It was the storage area for the cafe, where bags of coffee and other vegetables were located. The sacks of coffee beans got into flame and were still burning.

Gulp!

Jason could only stare at the burning sacks thinking that if he got hit by the flame, he would have become roasted meat by now.

"Sigh... Look what you made me do! Just because the organization promoted young ones like you to the rank of Teniente Commandante, doesn't mean that you'd be cocky enough to disrespect your superiors!" Old man Fuego shooked his head. He stood and walked towards the hallway to catch up with Pedro and Faunia.

"As for you two... I may be old, but I'm still full of ENERGY, you know!" Old man Fuego arrived in the hallway. He made a 'this way please' arm gesture towards them. "Can we have a little chat?"

"Are you threatening us?" Pedro placed his hand in his inventory bag as the penknife slowly slid down to his sleeves, ready to come out any time.

"Hahaha! No! No! This old man just wanted to have a chat with you. It's been ten years since I last met someone with a rare ability like yours!"

"Eh?" Pedro was astonished to what Old man Fuego said. Upon seeing the astonished look in Pedro's face, Old man Fuego sent a grin.

"Can we have a little chat?"

'I must not get ahead of my self. That person this old man was referring to must be Madame Soledad. Seeing my 'ability', he must be thinking that I am someone with a potential and not someone suspicious.' Pedro calmed himself.

After seconds of silence, he nodded in response and followed old man Fuego who went back first. Pedro took a glance at Faunia who was walking by his side.

'Faunia, I'd have to rely on you when it comes to that old man. When I activated my gods' eyes, he didn't even flinch an inch. I am not confident that I am strong enough to fight him.'

'Do not worry, human! That old man needs three to four times of his current strength just to lay a scratch on me.' Faunia grinned in response.

Pedro simply nodded as he returned his focus, forward. When he was about to enter the room a system notification suddenly rang.

Out of curiosity, he opened his interface to check it out.

[System Notification! A continental quest has been issued!]

[Quest: Protect the Aquari Continent!

Rating: A-rated

Mission: Kill the monsters that start to dominate the Aquari Continent! Each monster killed will have an equivalent point that can be exchanged for items after the event.

Your Kill count: 0

Players with the highest monster kill-count would get special rewards.

Top 1 player will get a Gold-rated offensive skill. Top 10 players will get random generated Silver-rated skill. Top 100 players will get random generated Bronze-rated Skill.

Quest Player Ranking

1. _______ Kill count: ______

2. _______ Kill count: ______

...

...

Quest Duration: 2 Months

Quest participation is optional. Once a player killed a monster, the kill count will automatically start.]

"A quest?" Pedro was astounded after realizing something.

'Why do I feel that something bad is about to happen? It is just a game but... this feeling! Besides... Why does my heart tells me to save the NPCs on the Aquari continent, like Chief Antonio and the Kagat Village, or is it just myself making excuses about being greedy about the rewards?' He questioned himself deep inside.

"Is there a problem?" Old man Fuego broke the silence and made Pedro back to himself. Pedro simply shooked his head and walked forward to the room.

"Nothing." He answered.