Chapter 103: Chapter 103: Suspicions

"Dragon Descendant, is the intelligence confirmed?"

The blond Human Race player with the game ID [White Light Esports — Nya Latotip] was the first to speak, asking the Elf wearing a blue Magic Robe and carrying a long Magic Wand on his back.

Hearing his question, the surrounding players also stopped what they were doing, all turning their attention towards the Elf.

"Of course, I am eighty percent sure. According to the Blood Lion Mercenary Group’s pace, the team escorting those Secret Materials will arrive here by tonight at the latest."

Surveying the group, the Last Dragon Descendant confidently nodded his head.

Most of these people were Professional Players from White Light Club, where the Last Dragon Descendant had once been their colleague and captain for a time before he resigned.

After he terminated his contract with the club, the captain’s position fell to the Human Mage player standing in front of him, Nya Latotip.

Compared to the Elf Clan, humans also possess talents suitable for Spellcasters.

Although lacking the Extraordinary Bloodline of the Elves, humans possess the Talent Skill [Quick Learning].

This ability can increase the speed of learning new Skills and multiplies the speed of proficiency enhancement in all Skills by 1.15 times.

Perhaps the bonus to casting strength isn’t as great as that of the Elves, but it benefits more comprehensively.

Unlike ordinary players, because they use precious internal testing slots provided by the club, all game content for Professional Players consists of a series of pre-arranged Task sheets.

Such as testing certain game mechanisms, extensive map explorations, gathering background information on various Camps and High Rank NPCs, identifying which maps are suitable for leveling and where rare equipment and tasks might be hidden.

It’s less a game than it is a job for them.

Now, the reason they could take time out of their precious working hours to help the Last Dragon Descendant with a Task is that his task might enable earlier access to High Rank Camp reputation.

The club believes that the value of helping the Elf with this task surpasses their current task schedule.

And since the Last Dragon Descendant provided the Task information and the club specifically assigned Professional Players to help him complete it, he gets the main Task Reward, thus no extra reward was given to him.

Previously, after an in-depth investigation, the Last Dragon Descendant gradually discovered that this seemingly unintentional task he took on during his travels was actually deeply complex.

Not to mention, during his investigation into the disappearance of the mercenaries, he had keenly sensed that something was amiss several times, and managed to cover it up skillfully.

As his investigation continued, the completion of the ’Tracking’ task quickly reached 100%, and after the rewards were computed, a new system prompt appeared again.

[System Prompt: ’Tracking’ task complete, you have gained 250,000 Experience Value!]

[You have triggered a Grade B Task ’Suspicion’]

[Task Introduction: The mysterious disappearance of the mercenary group escorting materials reveals even more obscure and difficult to understand messages. Haze shrouds the truth behind it, but what exactly is it?

Note: Depending on the player’s choices in this task, the storyline will develop accordingly, please choose carefully.]

[Task goal: Find the whereabouts of the ’Heavy Sword’ Mercenary Group.]

[Task Reward: 1,000,000 Experience Value]

[Completion: 0%]

The night the ’Tracking’ task ended, the Elf found an anonymous warning letter on the desk in his inn room, notifying him to cease all investigations immediately or bear the consequences!

This moment piqued the interest of the Last Dragon Descendant. Initially, he wasn’t too concerned about the task, but after receiving this warning letter, he could not help but elevate the task’s importance to the highest level in his mind.

He noticed an intriguing detail: the paper of the warning letter was very smooth and was not made of regular beast skin but rather a special kind of plant material.

Due to his professional habits, over the past few months in the game, the Last Dragon Descendant had dedicated some time to studying the background materials of this world, which had given him a certain understanding of the NPCs’ behavioral patterns.

Common bandits, born of lowly civilians, along with some ordinary Mercenary Groups, certainly couldn’t obtain such high-end stuff.

Even if they occasionally got their hands on a few, they wouldn’t specifically use such expensive paper to write letters.

Moreover, these crude men lacked the custom of using warning letters—if this task were assigned to them, he would very likely be ambushed on a dark, windy night by one or several masked men in some dark alley.

And then, as everyone knows... it would result in either defeating monsters or being defeated by monsters.

In conclusion, the sender of the letter could likely only be from two possibilities—Nobles or the regular forces of the Empire.

Only these folks, who pride themselves on their Identity and constantly strive to distinguish themselves from commoners, would use this relatively ’formal’ method of threat.

While explaining the specific task details to other Professional Players, the Last Dragon Descendant was also deep in thought.

Why would the White Rose Army’s Secret Materials need some ordinary mercenaries for escorting?

If it was to mislead others, then who are they guarding against, and what are they guarding against?

After receiving the warning letter, the Elf changed his approach, no longer openly investigating the whereabouts of the missing mercenaries, but instead disguised himself as a Wandering Mercenary from outside, secretly investigating the local black market and Mercenary Union.

After deliberately raising several NPCs’ favorability levels, he inferred from some rumors heard in the black market and snippets of information revealed by certain side quests.

The Last Dragon Descendant deduced that a new batch of ’Secret Materials’ was soon to arrive in Manerqinco.

The missing mercenaries, most likely, had something to do with these ’Secret Materials’.

Since that was the case, intercepting this batch of materials could certainly trigger a more significant Task!

For example, a Task of starting a High-Rank Camp powerful enough to be guarded against by the White Rose Army—

Feeling insecure alone, the Last Dragon Descendant simply called upon several friends from his original club.

Armed with the intelligence in hand, the Last Dragon Descendant was confident that the White Light Club would cooperate with his actions.

The information regarding a potential High-Rank Camp Task is immensely valuable, enough to convince the club to supply him with some manpower.

Moreover, if they were escorting some very rare materials, the club would also gladly reap the profits, and perhaps even adjust their strategy after the official launch, developing this place into a resource point.

As the discoverer of this place, he would similarly have a share in the future resources of this location.

Due to the hundredfold Experience Value during beta testing, the average Level of all players had reached around fifty-seven or fifty-eight.

All being the top Professional Players, even when facing groups of monsters around Level Sixty, they still possessed the power to fight.

As long as the pivotal Task information could be obtained, what does dying once during the beta testing period even mean?

After all, this is just a game in the end.

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