A Girl's Life in a Gaming World

Chapter 79 - Town Upgrade

After quite some time had passed, everyone gradually settled down. Elder Jin laid his tired body in a quiet corner after he ordered the village guards to clean the debris in the village and call back the villagers who evacuated. Even though there is still the danger of the void portals, he chose to trust the information from the books he read. 

Void portals tend to take one to three days before monsters start appearing from the portals again. A day is enough for them to plan what they would do. And there are still things to pack that was left behind by the villagers when they evacuated in panic. 

It pains him to leave the village, but the trouble that the two void portals will bring cannot be underestimated even with the help of the guardians. 

Elder Jin sighed as he stared at the guardians walking out of the village in the distance. Guardians are like a foreigner in their world. It is not their responsibility to protect the village, nor do they have a reason to stay. Without any reward, very few will stay and protect them. 

"In the end, the fate of the village is to be destroyed. Is it really all for nothing?" He looked up in the sky and closed his eyes as he reminisced the village's past. 

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At the same time, the players did their own things. Some traveled to the next town that the village chief recommended to join the Adventurer's guild and explore the game as soon as possible. Some continued to rest, while some who had work and classes logged out first since they still don't know how the time works in the game and the real world. 

Meanwhile, Akkar and Elise continued to rest and pass the time with his viewers waiting for Hal to wake up. He had fun meeting and introducing himself to his new viewers while Elise supported him on the side.

Although he had lots of viewers during the battle, a lot of those people left as soon as the battle concluded. Out of the more than 100,000 viewers, only 8,000 of them remained, but he already expected it since they had just met him. His priorities will be making these people who stayed continue watching him. It's sad to see a huge number of viewers leaving. However, he did manage to get a lot of video clips that have a high chance of going viral if he uploaded them fast. One of them is his battle with Ezekiel, the fight with the goblin army, and even Alexandria's mysterious strength will garner the interest of the masses. 

They didn't wait too long before Hal finally woke up, after confirming that he was completely fine the three of them decided to look at the void portal up close to satisfy their curiosity. 

Akkar turned off his stream first as a precaution of leaking any information they might find in their investigations. They decided to check the portal closer to the village first before they check the battlefield Alexandria and Ezekiel fought. 

"There's nothing left in here." Elise exclaimed as she walked closer to the void portal. Now that she had a closer look, she could feel the ominous aura around the portal crawling through her skin. "Ahhhh!!" 

"What happened!? Akkar's attention, who was walking around the place, was interrupted by Elise's screech. When he turned around, he saw Elise holding her right hand with burn marks on them. 

"It's nothing. I did not get hurt; I was just startled when the portal suddenly shocked me when I touched it." Elise uttered, noticing Akkar's worried look on her fingers. 

Hal also tried touching the portal out of curiosity, only to suffer the same fate. "This thing stings!!"

"..." 

"Move aside, let me try something," Akkar uttered as he walked towards the portal while dragging his great ax on the ground. His entire arm thickened and tightened, with his muscle slowly bulging out. 

Elise and Hal hurriedly moved aside, seeing Akkar lifting his weapon in the air. 

With a soft shout, he struck his weapon down on the portal in front of him. 

BANG!!!

A rather resounding explosion rang out. Even the ground seemed to tremble after that. However, the explosion didn't come from the portal breaking. It came from the retaliation of the portal as if it had a mind of its own. Not only did Akkar suffer the same fate as the two of them. It was a lot stronger than he expected. 

"Arghhh!!" Akkar grits his teeth as he pushes his great ax with all his might. Alas, no matter how hard he clenched his great ax. The portal is emitting an unknown force that is repelling his great ax, coupled with the portal's shocks running across his body. In the end, his grip loosened up. 

"Watch out!!" Elise shouted to Hal, seeing Akkar's weapon flying in his direction. 

Hal leaned to one side to avoid the raging great ax. "F*ck, what did you do that for?? Are you trying to kill me!?" He exclaimed, staring at the great ax buried deep in the ground. Good thing he was paying attention, or else he couldn't have dodged it. 

"It seems that destroying it is not an option." Akkar was in a dazed state for a short while, before he strode to his weapon and pulled it off the ground. "Don't worry, it will only sting." 

"Does it hurt?" Elise uttered. She took a closer look at his two arms, seeing that it was full of burn marks. She instantly held his arms and casted healing magic. 

Hal looked at his burned hands, then at Elise's hands holding Akkar's hands. "Let's go there's nothing to see here." He felt a little lonely that he thought of finding a girlfriend in a moment. 

Akkar and Elise nodded to each other before following Hal. 

"What the hell happened in here!?" Hal exclaimed, After arriving the three of them were astounded by the scene in front of them. The crater created from the explosion is bigger than they thought it is almost as big as a lake. 

"What are these?" Elise uttered. Once they got close enough, the sight of items scattered on the ground in front of the void portal immediately caught her attention. Among these, the item that caught her attention is a scroll, a key, and a staff, while different kinds of potions were scattered around them. 

The first thing her hand grabbed is the scroll. She thought that it might be a scroll to learn a new skill. But her guess was so far from the truth. 

[Acquired Scroll of Town Upgrade]