VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Chapter 37: Commotion in the town

[You have succeeded in helping a helpless creature in a dire situation! Rewarding Exp!]

[You have successfully healed a Mana beast: Arun crystal Gecko from a deadly condition! Due to the title <Merciful tamer> the beast will look up to you favorably!]

[For dealing with a crisis within your family and seeing the situation through to a positive end, a title effect will be added to the <Merciful tamer>.]

[Ding!]

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<Merciful tamer>

Effect 1: Increased familiarity with tamable beasts.

Effect 2: Tamed creatures and friendly species will be attracted to you.

Effect 3: The title will grow with the user.

Additional effect #1: Every time you save a tamed beast from a dire situation, three stat points will be distributed randomly.

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"I didn't even do anything…"

Elio was a little sad to see these rewards when he had not done anything here in the first place. And just like him, Alex was feeling a little guilty after receiving rewards that she did not deserve.

"I got another common achievement, and the free Exp pushed me to (Level-22)."

She did not want to help this little creature, but now that things had turned out like this, she was at least happy to see the brightly shining creature.

"It is almost night, so it seems like we will have to go see the guard captain first before we have dinner."

"I'm starving already…"

She did not understand it before, but after using an appraisal scroll on the creature and searching through her personal [Data gallery] she finally found out the reason there were those golden dots present all over the gecko.

"First a Mana slime and now a mutant. You should just become a tamer at this point instead of a mage or some kind of artist."

"Miu!"

"Muuuu~!"

They were preparing to go back to the town now and the crystal gecko that they had saved was going to accompany them… though, since the light it produced attracted a lot of attention, the gecko would be traveling inside of its friend, the slime.

"Haha, I don't want to be anything specific anyway. The class will just get in the way."

In the first place, he was happy with how things were right now. He did not want anything more, or anything more complicated.

"Haaa…"

Since the slime itself was a translucent Mana creature, the light from the gecko did not get out of the slime.

The small creature inside of the smaller creature seemed just like a normal gecko. And, since the gecko was also a Mana creature that was essentially also made of crystals, it did not need to breathe or eat like they did.

"Miu!"

Since it was inside of Az, they could carry both of them around and there was no threat of Mana poisoning. And since the creature was a mutant, a special one among its kind, it was also pretty intelligent.

"I guess you don't know where your home is then, hun?"

Somehow, after the creature was back to normal, it had started acting friendly towards him.

It wasn't just because Elio had saved it, but it seemed like the gecko had been excited to meet him since a while ago.

It was smart and, after he received the messages about the addition of a new effect to his title, he also received notification about how this little creature wanted to be 'friends' with him.

System obviously classified it as him taming the creature, but Elio knew this was a little more than that.

"Muuuu!"

Now, both the little creatures were excited to go back and Az seemed to be looking forward to showing his friend the new things outside of this forest, or the messy trash place where they had found it.

"Shall we?"

They were too deep inside the forest now, and it would have taken them half a day to get back to the town. Which was not a good idea when the sun was down.

"Yes."

So, they were going to use a return scroll to the town.

"Let's go, you two."

Elio picked up his two friends in one hand while wrapping his other hand around his partner's waist as he kissed her neck.

"...?!"

Which was of course out of the blue, and Not something she was expecting.

"Thanks."

But from that soft voice, and that hand around her, she understood the sincerity this boy of hers wanted to convey.

"As I said, you owe me one now."

-Oooooooooooong!

She used a group return scroll and the four of them vanished from the forest– reappearing all the way into the center of the town, in the main plaza where Elio had appeared when he first arrived in this town.

"Let's go quickly see that guard captain. I'm starving~."

She was tired after all that they did today and wanted to have a nice long sleep with her beloved, however…

"Hmm? What's happening here?"

When they appeared in the plaza, they did not find the kind of public that they usually do.

In the distance, even the stalls seemed to be empty for some reason.

Many of the stalls even seemed to be completely empty– as if they were sold out already.

"Did something happen?"

There was an eerie quietness in the atmosphere around them… but at the same time, they could hear the distant murmurs of a large crowd.

"Let's go."

Alex knew the feeling they had right now.

As a veteran player, she recognized this quietness, these distant noises, this familiar sight of empty plaza at such an hour.

She knew instantly what might be happening and where they needed to be, so she grabbed his hand and ran straight towards the town hall, the main building of any town of any state structure of this world.

"Yes, I know!"

"I was in the mages tower at that time!"

"The mages there suddenly acted like that dude! I was buying some stuff and the mage suddenly screamed on my face!"

"Did you hear? They say there are some kind of strange movements in the forest now."

"I knew it… I knew it! This is all because of that nightmare! I knew it was real!"

When they reached the town hall, the majority of the players of this town had gathered here.

The guards were here as well and along with them, the few knights present in the city, along with the experienced mages who could use (tier-3) and even (tier-4) spells, along with the important people of various organizations, and even the most important person in this entire town– the mayor.

"Well, wow…"

The two of them had only come here to look for the guard captain, but now that they were seeing this sight… they knew something even more interesting than a simple question was going to unfold here.

"What's going on here…?"

But Elio was still confused right now.

He did not know what was happening and aside from knowing this was a precursor to a Town-level quest, he certainly was oblivious to everything going on in this plaza.

{ "Foreigners and protectors of Moongold." }

The others did not know exactly what was going on either, but now that the highest authority of this town, the mayor himself had spoken up… they knew they were going to find out what was going on soon.