Chapter 140

"It's better for my boys to camp here. At least you won't be troubled by defending this place."

Noda looked with appreciation towards Ibro. She knew that this place was like a headache for her.

She lost precious time and spent a lot of effort trying to deal with the threats that came from here. She said warningly:

"I'm glad with your offer. I only want to warn you, these nasty monsters kept amassing their armies once every three days to attack us. This battle took more than two days, so we have less than a day before their next attack."

Ibro felt weird. This rhythm was much higher than the attack pattern he experienced at his village. He wanted to ask more but he felt it wasn't suitable to speak here so he said:

"Thanks for your warning."

Then he looked towards the captain and ordered:

"Make your camp here. If any monsters' army appears here then coordinate with whoever is down here and defend this place till I come to you."

"Don't worry my lord. We will defend this place with our lives."

Ibro nodded in appreciation to this captain's good response.

Although his army was made of different units that came from many lost civilizations, throughout this battle, they were united together to be one whole big unit.

Ibro recalled Hoden and Mamor's dialogue with him about this point before. They had farsighted vision indeed.  In contrast to his united army, those guild players didn't learn to know how to play with each other well till now.

That was normal as dealing with players was always more difficult than dealing with these soldiers.

Ibro moved behind the two girls to reach back to the surface.

The rest of their small gang was still waiting for their return. Although Noda didn't gain any actual level, she still teased them with the number of monsters she killed.

He sensed their deep love for competition and fighting. He also sensed something different. These players weren't casual new players here.

The way of their speech, their comfortable attitude while walking without any hesitation. Their funny atmosphere which could be created from friendship, it needed a home-like feeling to appear fluently like this.

These players felt here like their home. Was their home a game too? Or were their homes in constant war state? He looked deeply towards Noda and wondered:

'What is the truth behind you girl?'

"We have arrived at the village; tell me what you think?"

Ibro woke up from his own thoughts by the loud voice of Foly. This girl wasn't less energetic from Sola at all. Ibro looked around him. He entered the village already.

This village was way smaller than his village. His village has built two levels till now. He was sure that his village would start by cleaning out all the war effects before raising buildings there.

Here, this village was made of one section only. The outer wall was the wooden wall that came with this low grade of the village. Ibro smiled and replied diplomatically:

"It's a good village."

"Only good? I see it is a very perfect village for such a stage of the game. Do you know that we have built the guild headquarters near the village? That HQ would serve as a rallying point for our players.

Unfortunately, guild players can't be considered villagers or else we had fulfilled the population condition since day one."

Ibro just kept his smile on his face. Deep inside him, he felt surprised. He thought that the main obstacle in front of Noda to upgrade was the condition to get 10 strongholds.

But now he understood that the main problem was the population problem. It appeared that his enemy really helped him in this condition.

"Don't mind her, she didn't mean anything."

Ibro looked at Noda just smiled. He was busier looking around him than listening to these small gang little skirmishes between themselves.

This village was organized more perfectly than his own village. For example, back at his village, the houses were built everywhere. But here, he only saw houses at specific places.

They were gathered together to form a sort of block. Maybe the small population in this village had played a good role in helping them organize things like this.

Ibro also felt they were trying to imitate some sort of advanced grade village or even a city. While he was deep in his own world, they had reached the lord's manor.

It was a perfect copy of his manor. He entered with the gang. When they entered, Noda stopped them at the main hall as she said:

"Wait here. I have something important to discuss with Ibro."

Ibro walked behind her while he heard all kinds of teasing towards her from all the gang without any exception.

Ibro could hardly hold his laugh but a mall smile appeared on his face. Noda noticed his smile and said:

"Don't play much with them or else you will turn out to be like them."

"I don't see their attitude to be wrong."

"Indeed they're refreshing. But when you know the real truth about this world then you will change your opinion."

They had reached the meeting room. It was the same meeting room where Ibro used to carry out his meetings before at his village. Noda sat on the main chair and then said with serious looks:

"I promised to answer you ten questions, but before that, I need to ask you some questions."

Ibro wasn't a fool. This girl wanted to know some secrets about his village and how he did manage to upgrade his village in this short period.

"It depends on what you want to know."

"Oh, so you have some secrets you want to hide. That's interesting."

Ibro laughed and then she asked again:

"Tell me, if I want to know everything from you then what price would I have to pay?"

"I don't know. What can you pay?"

"Oh your price seemed to be very high, or you don't know the true value of what you got. I personally tend to the second option."

Ibro looked with doubt towards her. Her attitude now was really different from the previous Noda who he dealt with at the war. She noticed his questioning looks and said:

"Actually I was the one responsible for debating and dealings when I was with my brother. Or why did you think they kept calling me by big sis?

I'm the one who chose them, gathered them and made our small gang. So don't let my generous kind personality which you saw before misled you. I treated you like that as I wanted to make you join our little gang. So what do you think?"

Ibro was shocked deeply by her strange turn in personality. She planned to make him join her league. He smiled. She was thinking she could make him join her in this simple way.

"Don't think about refusing my offer so soon. Your soldiers are being trapped down there. You are here alone. You won't be able to get their help, so you must think carefully about your options. This army is so important to you so don't be rash to decide."