(Shwing...)
From the door, the second time; Pretty Ji-soo entered the room and walked towards the duo, her figure graceful and confident, and her steps rhythmic and sensual as usual.
"Handsome lord what's your player name, i want to do the transfer."
She said this as she reached them and while she sat on the earlier footstool she sat on. Then she focused her eyes on her player interface that displayed in her mind.
"Skylar 'S' 'K' 'Y' 'L' 'A' 'R'... You send Ila fifty million and send the remaining to me."
Skylar replied, his voice carrying a trace of tiredness with his figure still sprawled on the barrel chair like a reclining old man.
"Lord, we do not deserve it...fifty million is too much..."
Ila protested in a genuine persuasive manner but Skylar signaled her to stop with his hand he raised lazily. "I am not giving you the money, its a loan. You pay me back when you have it."
"Hmm..." Just as Skylar finished his statement, Pretty Ji-soo beside them chimed in while she still have her eyes focused on her player interface. "Lord, there are many Skylar around here... What's the first three digit of your serial."
"Serial...? What's that one?"
Confused Skylar asked in a lazy tone of voice, and Pretty Ji-soo reacted to his question with a puzzled expression as she looked in his direction, and which in turn made Ila stifled a laugh before she answered in her stead.
"Lord, its the number you were given in the real world when you open a simulation account with tribes."
"Oh, that one... It's 001."
"Wow.." To Skylar's lazy response, Pretty Ji-soo who has been checking out his visage sneakily, reacted with surprise. "Handsome lord, you are the first Skylar to open an account?"
"Lord, are you part of the first batch that entered the simulation?" Ila asked before Skylar could react to Pretty Ji-soo inquiry.
"Yes... I also bought my pod the day it was released."
Skylar replied and immediately after, a notification rang in his mind and his player interface displayed automatically in his mind.
[Received: 49 990 000 Gold]
[Total: 50 169 346 Gold]
"Eh." its not exactly fifty million. Skylar with confusion written on his face look to the side at Pretty Ji-soo who has been watching his visage for quiet some time.
"The tower deducted a special transaction fee, since loaning is not included in their system."
Pretty Ji-soo who understood Skylar's questioning look replied as she boldly shifted the footstool closer to Skylar and as she rest her forearm on his laps, her legs stretched perpendicularly under his that is also stretched towards Ila who sat facing him.
"I see." Skylar blinked. Then his eyes aiming for her face met her big, bright and sparkling black eyes that has been on his face.
"Can gold randomly vanish from your account?"
Before Pretty Ji-soo whose eyes is still locked with his could reply him, Ila in her usual gentle manner, responded:
"It is not random... The tower automatically deducts safe zone daily tax from all unaffiliated players whenever they are inside the safe zone. And the most important factor among several factors in their calculation of the tax rate is the level of difficulty the player chose... The higher the difficulty level, the higher the daily tax..."
"What if i only spent one second in the safe zone and i left, will i still be taxed."
Skylar asked, interrupting her, and his voice hiding obvious amusement. Then the soft and gentle Ila responds, her manner like a caring mother:
"Yes, and it will be the same amount if one spend a human day in the safe zone..."
"Lord, a human day is twenty four hours real time." Pretty Ji-soo chimed in before Ila could continue.
"I know." Skylar smiled at her. "Its about the human cycle right... About how human as a specie completes a total energy cycle every twenty four hours right?"
"Uh!... What's that one?"
To Skylar's statement, Pretty Ji-soo expressed puzzlement.
"Lord are you talking about the body cycle of species?" Ila asked.
"That's right." Skylar smiled at Ila. Then he raised his upper body a bit and squinted his eyes he trained on Ila's veil. "Ila, are you alright? You have maintained that upright posture since you sat down."
Before Ila could respond; the excited Pretty Ji-soo quickly adjusted her arms placed on Skylar's lap, correcting her leaning posture. And her bright eyes sparkled as she looked at his face. "Handsome lord, you do not know? Our matron is the number one priestess in lavender, even the twelve roses from nature cult always bow to them in greeting... So what is maintaining a posture for just few hours when they can maintain a posture for an entire day while praying... This is no big deal at all."
"Oh!..." Skylar exclaimed and broke into a wide smile. Then he sat upright, his legs still stretched, and turned to face Pretty Ji-soo. "Tell me more, what goddess does she pray to?"
Before Pretty Ji-soo replied, she glanced at Ila who nodded her head at her. Then she grabbed one of Skylar's sculpted hands, clasping it and continued. "No one knows their name including them. But people pray to that god anyway... Their shrine is at the back, its the building in the middle."
Playing with Skylar's hand she held, she resumed, her voice a lot softer and gentle like a kid asking for candy. "Handsome Lord, for how long are you going to stay?... Can you not just leave?... If only we can have an exemption and recruit a man just for once... Ah..."
Acting like she sighed, Pretty Ji-soo glanced at Ila who maintained her solemn quietness.
Shwing...
Before Pretty Ji-soo could continue, and interrupting the current atmosphere of the room- an atmosphere a strange blend of warmness and solemnity; Yami stuck out her head from behind the door that she opened halfway, her pitch black eyes like the abyss taking a slow scan of the room including the trio looking in her direction, in a manner like she is looking for something.
Then before the trio could inquire about her business she projected her whispering voice to Ila.
"Ila, your attention is needed in your office right now. Its very urgent."
She is definitely up to something. Skylar thought as he turned his face from Yami, and then he saw Ila in front of him stood up elegantly.
Tap, tap, tap...
Skylar watched Ila's back and behind with careful focus as she elegantly walk towards the door where Yami is waiting.
That gown is very annoying, i can't tell if her back pair is as big as her front pair. But her waist is really very small for what she is carrying... And she is also very tall. Well...
"Lord, what do you think about our leader." Pretty Ji-soo interrupted Skylar's thought. She moved closer to him, standing up, and then she whispers in his ears. "She might be the most beautiful in all of lavender... Hehe..."
After her whisper and before Skylar could respond, sitting on the edge of the seat beside Skylar, she continued.
"She always removes the veil when she prays in the shrine..." She looked beside her, at Skylar, and smiled. "So, lord do you want to see her face?... How about we overpower her and remove it forcefully?"
Skylar at her words smiled. "Well, i already plan to do that, but i think the timing matters."
He grabbed her by the waist, making her fall on to his chest.
Now, her big bum on his laps and her head and chest lying on his body, Skylar continued. "What about you?..." He pat her on the head. "Why do you want me to stay so badly that you are even willing to offer your leader to me?"
"Lord, its because you are good looking." Pretty Ji-soo purred. Then with her nose resting on Skylar's bare chest behind his cloak, she starts to sniff him quietly.
"Lord, you smell very good. You smell like our shrine." She said while sniffing him and while her face resting on Skylar's chest heat up slowly and her breadth gradually quickens.
...
Few minutes later:
This chick is very bold, or maybe she trust her instincts like i do... Then i can say the people from lavender really belongs at the top level.
With her bum on Skylar's lap, her body on his, and her head resting on his chest; Skylar pats Pretty Ji-soo who has drifted off to sleep like a baby put to sleep, on the head lovingly while he stare at her incredibly beautiful oval-shaped face and its gorgeous features, especially her fluttering eyelashes.
...
Skylar who holds on to the sleeping pretty Ji-soo with both arms wrapped around her, securing her in place on his body, closed his eyes and delved into his mind. Then he sends out a telepathic message.
"Goldie, what are you up to?"
"I am mapping the whole place you know."
Goldie's voice rang in his mind, replying his message.
At this point the faint purple light seeping from the glass wall that earlier turned transparent and borders the outside of the building, and this light which mix with the cool blue illumination of the room coming from the crystal glass ceiling above, suddenly reduce in intensity drastically.
"Goldie, share me the view."
Skylar still with his eyes closed, sent out another telepathic message.
"Okay."
As Goldie replied him; his view in his mind from darkness, instantly transitioned into the night view of Lavender bathed with moon-like purple light from the gigantic purple moon that looms below the sky and as seen by Goldie who should be looking down as he is suspended far above in the sky.
The view in Skylar's mind was of an outlined square shaped vast land that has countless glass and wooden buildings well structured and well organized built on it.
The buildings either of modern or of fantastical medieval architecture has different types and sizes of flying ships and vehicles, flying around and above them in a chaotic fashion but is well organized if one look closer and carefully. And the fashion is like that of modern day road network as viewed from the sky.
The vast outlined piece of land also include in it the territory Skylar is in- the building which Skylar could clearly see as he focus his mind on it.
This land block should be far bigger than asia continent. The view in Skylar's mind, that of the vast outlined piece of land that was zooming in and out as he scrutinize it settled.
"Goldie, how many of this block are there."
Skylar sent out another telepathic message. Then Goldie whom he is sharing a telepathic view with starts to gain altitude rapidly as confirmed by the rapidly changing view Skylar is seeing.
As Goldie gained altitude and as displayed in Skylar's mind; the earlier block- vast outlined piece of land, starts to become smaller rapidly, the wind around starts to thin out, layers of clouds were zoomed past, earthly stars of different colors and sizes were also zoomed past and finally, the view stabilized and turned into one that displayed a far bigger vast land that contains the earlier block as a fraction of it and the round carved purple wall of the tower beyond that borders it end.
Its just like what's on the updated map. Our block is block eight hundred and eighty eight.
Skylar's eyes focused on a vast bare piece of land- a gap between the earlier block and another block that is also developed with structured and organized buildings and flying vehicles and vessels populating it.
Skylar's focus shifted from this bare vast piece of land, the same size as the square shaped populated blocks and like a passage between them, to another one which is to the other side of their block- block eight hundred and eighty eight.
Those empty block will definitely be left like that... They will just serve as a gap between blocks, making the whole thing look pleasing to the eye... Or maybe it is for the purpose of what i have been thinking about.
His eyes scanned the numerous outlined blocks positioned in a perfect ring shape that goes around the tower including the empty blocks between them. And those behind the tower he couldn't see, since the sky-piercing and colossal tower in the center is blocking the view.
Skylar looked behind the group of blocks in a ring shaped around the tower, at another outline ring shaped piece of land behind it and bordering it, that is bare and not sectioned into blocks, and also goes around the tower like the first ring which is the outermost ring.
So the empty rings are leased out as farm lands instead of developed like the regular ones.
Skylar looked from the empty ring behind the first regular ring that contains both empty and regular blocks including block eight hundred and eighty eight- the block that contains the building he is currently inside; to the common center of the two which is the imposing tower that shields what is behind it.
So there are eighteen rings stacked together. Nine regulars ones and the others between them serving as a buffer zone and a farmland.
"Goldie, how many blocks are in the first regular ring." Skylar quit his thought suddenly and asked.
Goldie: "Does the regular ring mean those that are demarcated into blocks."
Skylar: "Yes... Into how many blocks is the first one sectioned into."
Goldie "Two thousand and forty eight, but only eighty five of them have buildings. The rest are practically deserted."
Skylar: "What about the next one... The next regular ring."
Goldie: "The second one is 1024, the one after that... the third one is 512, the fourth one is 256, the fifth one is 128, the sixth one is 64, the seventh one is 32, the eight one is 16, and the last one is 8 blocks."
"I see." Skylar's focus after Goldie's reply went again from the first ring- the outermost ring to the buffer ring behind it, then to the second ring, then to the buffer ring behind the second ring, and like that, finally to the buffer ring behind the last ring which is the ninth regular ring and which borders the tower which is the common center of all the rings as they are concentric rings going around it.
"The tower's plan is probably to develop the rings from the first to the last, one after the other. So, they won't move to the next ring until the other blocks in this ring is developed."
Skylar commented in his mind which he made known to Goldie, while he scans the other eighty four developing blocks in the first ring that contains block number eight hundred and eighty eight he is staying at.
"Sky, won't that take long. You know... The blocks in the first ring is way too many..."
"Not really." Skylar interrupted Goldie. Then he continued. "They will only be developing half their numbers... The other blocks will serve as a gap between them. The first ring for example... They will only develop a thousand and twenty four of it... As you can see, there are untouched blocks separating those eigthy five. They will do the same for the next regular ring, they will only develop half of it which is five hundred and twelve..."
"I understand." Goldie chimed in. "Then the last one will be four blocks with the other four blocks between them?"
"Exactly!"
After Skylar said this in his mind, exclaiming; he suddenly opened his eyes thereby breaking the visual connection he Goldie shared him.