…No, wait, I know she cannot, Players cannot hurt NPC, right? Not directly, so she cannot just come to destroy this place.
So is she here to challenge me or something?
"Why are you here?!" I asked, she had yet to talk, only laughing while glaring at the two of us, analyzing us with her red eyes.
"Oh my, what a reaction! I thought you would be way more laxer with me, dear Planta! I just came here to just say Hi." She laughed. "I helped out at defeating the Demon King, it was such a weird event that it showed right here… According to the lore, it was targeting this very forest, right?"
It was weird how she was talking to us as if we were friends… I thought top players would be like some edgy people but he was seemingly acting rather normal.
"Well yeah…" I sighed.
"And you evolved into that giant tree? Amazing!" She said with fascination.
"Indeed…" I sighed again.
"And is this your friend?! He's also amazing! I've never seen a fire wielding Ent before…" She said.
"Yes, I suppose I am." Titan said.
"Well, anyways, it is a pleasure to see the first ranked player…" I said while sighing. "Can I ask you a question though?"
"Huh? Sure!" She said carefreely.
"Why… why is such a high-level player in here? Do you have… some sort of evil intentions?" I wondered. "I… I won't let you hurt these people…"
"Oh? Ah… I guess my level and my statues really makes people afraid of me…" She sighed. "I've been hearing about you for a while now, every time you do something incredible. I had left my original position in the Dark Continent to come and see the rest of the game world after a long while… To be honest I actually wanted to have a PVP match with you, but one thing led to the other and now we ended saving the forest and the game world! It really feels nice that thing is dead, especially that I am not the first rank anymore as well."
"Eh? You're happy of not being the first rank?" Titan wondered.
"Of course, I only play because I really like to, not really because I'm into… some sort of ego trip for attention. But people kept pestering me all the time, I was even forced to make a guild to organize all these annoying people, my friends seem to enjoy my fame more than I do, hahaha…" Black Haze sighed, sitting over a log.
"So you just came to meet me…" I said while feeling slightly relieved, and at the same time surprised over her simple reason.
"Yep, pretty much that's the only reason!" She said while laughing. "I was thinking on inviting you to my guild due to your amazing talents and all, but I bet that's not what you really want to, right?"
"Not really, but thanks for the thought, Black Haze." I smiled back. "Are you really okay with not being the first ranked anymore though?"
"Yeah, I wish I wasn't anymore to be honest." She sighed. "I guess I am just too good at kicking ass." She began laughing. We laughed with her slightly nervously, but with Mark we began to learn she wasn't really a threat at all, just someone that wanted to make new friends.
"I'm not really into the mood for doing PVP though…" I sighed. "But if you want to stay here you're free to do so, as long as you don't bother the people here."
"Sure, it's fine…" She sighed. "I just wanted to see how powerful you actually were. I've never fought against a Dryad before and all!"
Although she said it was fine, it was pretty clear she really wanted to fight me… It made me feel slightly bad I was just rejecting her, but right now I just wanted to relax. There were many things pilling up in my head to care enough about this right now.
"Well, I am going then…" She said, quickly standing back up and walking away.
"Eh? Wait…" I tried to stop her. "Don't you want to eat with everyone else? There's plenty of food!"
"Really?!" She quickly flew back to us at sonic speed.
Ah, I see, she was making us feel bad for her so we would invite her to eat, wasn't she? She's quite sneaky in that regard, I have to admit it. But fine, I'll bring her along to eat! I'll make her love my cooking so I'll have the strongest player as my ally.
If a crisis occurs again, it would be nice to employ her strength… Wait, am I thinking way too cunningly right now, aren't I? I wasn't this cunning before!
"Yeah! Come with us if you really want to, if you helped at fighting the Demon King you definitely deserve some compensation." I said.
"But is it okay if you don't reveal my identity to everyone else? Even NPC have recognized me before…" Black Haze sighed. "I went through a lot of pains just to get a Subclass that helps me shapeshift."
"Huh, so this female version is a shapeshift form?" Wondered Titan.
"No, this is actually my Avatar, hahaha. I am actually a guy IRL." Said Black haze. "But I thought it would be nice to be a girl inside the game and all, it is indeed quite nice, but I've been selling my image as a male player using my shapeshifting subclass abilities, nobody actually knows my true player appearance aside from my closest friends, who are only four. And well, now you guys."
"But how come nobody recognizes you if they can see your name in your status?" I asked.
"Nah that's only possible because I allowed you guys." She laughed. "[Status Concealment]! Look again now."
[Player Name]: [Rosemary2009]
[Gender]: [Female]
[Title]: [Vampire Progenitor]
[Guild]: [None]
[Guild Alliance]: [None]
[Fame]: [562]
[Race]: [Primordial Bloodline Vampire: Lv203/300]
[Job Class]: [Necromancer Queen: Lv203/300]
[Subclass]: [Dark Dancer: Lv203/300]
"Oh it's true your status changed! What in the world…?" I asked in surprise.
Author's Notes: , DarkReaper2015 makes her appearance!
