Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Experience tales with My Virtual Library Empire

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After helping Melisa and going with her to make more of her unique items, we moved to a nearby café, where to meet Lily, Rita, and Angelina’s party. The Queen decided to come along, changing her appearance into that of a young man, taking the identity of Black Haze, the strongest player of BNLO… Or well, the first to reach Level 300!

Her ability to transform her body appearance and even the information of her status are all pretty unique abilities, I’m not going to lie that it makes me wish I had something so conventional with me as well! But it certainly comes in handy for a queen as well, I suppose.

“Phew, we barely made it in time! Sorry for being so late, bestie,” Rita sighed in relief. “I was busy dealing with my family and everything… It’s a miracle I can find time to log-in most of the time, honestly.”

“You’re such a hard worker, Rita,” giggled Lily. “I can’t really give a good excuse, I was actually resting and sleeping from all the exhaustion I felt yesterday… but I do feel better, I think.”

“That’s totally understandable, honestly,” I said. “You’ve all gone through a lot. So its only normal you would feel so tired and exhausted! Also Angelina, welcome back! How have things treated you and everyone else?”

“Good so far, we were busy with our personal life, work, family, and so on,” Angelina said. “Sorry for being absent for a couple of days, but right now we’re finally free, so let us join you in whatever we can! …Wait, is that Black Haze at your side?!”

“Yeah I was thinking the same thing nya! What the hell nyaaa?!” gasped Anikitty. “BLACK HAZEEEE!”

“I guess this shouldn’t be surprising, Planta might have her connections,” said Erdrich, nodding while a small skeleton merchant was standing by his side.

Wait it’s the merchant from before! I see, so he became buddies with the necromancer of the party?! Not even I can believe that so easily, but well, I’ll need to ask him if he can sell me some stuff later.

“Hmm, it feels like we’ve faced her Aura yet,” said Gandalf, rubbing his long beard. “Have we met before, Black Haze?”

“Honestly I am surprised you don’t know, but I am also the Queen from here,” she explained. “I use my special ability to change my form. I quite literally live two lives.”

“R-Really?!” gasped Gandalf. “Wait a moment, you’re truly the queen?! I thought she was… Wait a second! I-I…!”

“Damn the old man’s taking a while to process this nya,” laughed Anikitty. “I kind of guessed something was up, but wow, to think it’s that nyahahaha!”

“It’s surprising, yeah,” Angelina nodded. “Camilla was your name? Is this your real name?”

“Yeah,” nodded Camilla. “I’m telling you the truth because you’ve been fighting for the Kingdom so far, and you’re people Planta trusts the most as well. And so, well, I came here to try to convince you to fight to protect the Kingdom.”

“Oh, but of course, that should go without even saying, we’ll join,” nodded Erdrich. “My army of Undead are below your command. We’ve been busy with IRL stuff, but now we can work out something to help.”

“Of course,” nodded Angelina. “We also would benefit greatly from completing the World Quest that will most likely trigger from this… I had even considered that we could invite even more Players to help and fight for us, what do you think?”

“That’s a good idea,” said Gandalf, stroking his beard. “The more the merrier, right? And unlike NPC, players can just die without many problems. As long as they aren’t PVP or Guild Wars battles, the penalties should be minimal. If you can offer them a good pay, plus the rewards they’ll get from the World Quest, I think most will agree.”

“Nice,” nodded Camilla. “I’ll be including my own Guild too, which is the strongest in the entire game. So I’m sure that could incentivize some to come and help, if possible. It still all left for them to choose.”

“Huh, so things are finally going to start soon…” Rita said. “I can’t say I’m not nervous, this is going to be quite big.”

“It’ll be an intense battle where everything will be on stake, so of course it’ll be big,” I said. “I’m also really nervous, despite how much we’ve prepared. We need to prepare even more! So, for now, let’s go to the druid guild, we need to quickly make sure their preparations are complete. We can’t be their help, even less the assistance of Lady Verdant, a literal goddess.”

“Uwaah! So she’s really helping nyah?! Sugoi!” said Anikitty. “Then it’ll be a piece of cake with a goddess by our side!”

“I don’t know about that, her presence can only be summoned temporarily,” said the queen.

“She also requires a lot of preparation time, the druids had already begun doing that though, she needs a gigantic domain to summon her divine presence,” said Mark. “But I think it’ll work anyways. The thing is, we need to know when we can time her summoning perfectly, to make the best use of her strength.”

“He’s right,” nodded Elena. “We shouldn’t summon her immediately after the battle begins, but in the middle maybe, when it seems like Merlinus has the upper hand, or he pulls out something ridiculous. Which, based on how old and strong he is, it’s very likely.”

“We’ve only seen but a fragment of his true capabilities,” said the Queen. “And the records about what he can do are also very short, he had been hiding his powers for hundreds of years. Most of what he’s capable of doing is unknown to us.”

“As long as we can secure the citizens’ safety, I think we got half the job done,” I said. “Now, let’s go, we have to talk with the druids and see if everything is right. We’ll need to fully coordinate everything, and also leave several ways to communicate from afar.”

I hurriedly drank my cappuccino and ate my strawberry muffin, rushing to the druid guild with everyone else.

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