Chapter 27: Lady Alice
Hexter made a suggestion to Terias. He wanted him to meet lady Alice and get him see for himself.
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"I was looking forward to meet lady Alice." Terias replied happily, how could he miss the chance to have an audience with a beautiful noble lady.
"Very well then, let me guide you to that place." Roan offered to guide Terias as he stood up, gesturing Terias to follow him.
'Finally, the time to meet the important character has arrived.'
'With how proud the Viscount Hexter's claims sounded, the room must have some good things, only accessible to a few.'
As he was guided to another just after getting his artifact ring, he had several thoughts going in his brain.
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From the grandeur expectations of the exclusive room to the possible members of that Noble's group.
He had already seen a lot of them in the event hall before and was curious to know the other participants of the group.
'Are the members of group and the members from the exclusive room same? Roan never said a thing about them being same. '
Terias had only heard that there's an exclusive room out there from Hexter's mouth.
Hexter did not even belong to the secret group. At least that's what Terias knew, as he fingered Hexter's sultry wife for the membership artifact of that group.
A noble would not consent to a humiliation like that, not someone proud and boastful like Hexter.
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The exclusive room was across the main hall, he reached it together with Roan in an instant.
Not an utter of a word and they had reached the room's entrance. The door of the room was guarded by two warriors.
They let him and Roan enter the room as they recognised Roan.
As the door opened, he could see the same scene as of the main event. The tables were arranged in the same manner, the people were not engaging in anything different from the main event.
The only difference was a dim light of the room. The place had a theme of a dark secretive place, although the people were not really doing anything shady.
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"Here, she is the gorgeous lady Alice."
Roan led Terias and greeted a beautiful blonde lady as the lady was seated on the chair graciously.
She had a skimpy dress on her, her curves leaked out tempting Terias to touch the lascivious body. Her abdominal muscles were toned giving her waist a sexy look. Her side boobs flashed out of her dress, she was a walking sin.
"And here my lady is, sir Terias the Viscount and a level three warrior, also our newest member of the group, Hike."
Roan made an introduction of both parties and finally introduced him to the name of the group he had joined, Hike.
"Ohh , sir Terias. It's rare for people such as you to be a part of our exclusive group. Very rare."
Lady Alice added in a humourous manner. As for what she meant? Her mannerism were too hot and her twin peaks attracted Terias.
Terias believed she was talking about him being old and still wanting to be a part of Hike.
"Haha it's indeed rare for dedicated martial artist like sir Terias to be interested in Hike."
Roan said humouring Alice.
'They were talking about the previous Viscount's dedication to combat arts. It is indeed pretty erratic, for his personality to be wanting to join these groups all of a sudden.'
Terias realised this when Roan joined Alice in the conversation. He thought his age was the topic but in reality it was his sudden change of interest.
'My physical age might be in eighties but there are many people of my age, it would not be surprising for few of them to be lustful.'
Terias came to a conclusion, in this world the age was really a number. In front of Alice, the age would really be just number.
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"I was curious about the rumours and perhaps very interested in beautiful women, which led me here." Terias tried taking a humourous and flirtatious approach, the same as Roan and Alice.
"Of course, then you must have enjoyed the little game back at our table."
Roan smirked, thinking about the task he had made the Viscount do for the membership artifact.
"What little game? You have made me curious. Please do let me know." Alice asked with curiosity as if familiar with Roan and his antics.
"Haha, I had my fun there. Though it was a first time for me to be doing something like that." Terias replied vaguely to Alice, as he waited for Roan to explain the fun back then.
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Roan explained to Alice how he had made Terias fish out for the membership artifact from Hexter's wife in front of Hexter.
"I see, you have given our newest member the taste of the group's task." Alice said giving Terias a smile of mischief.
For a few moments after that small talk with Alice, she began to give the brief about the working of the group, Hike.
The group was not made by lady Alice but was acquired by her from the previous owner.
She had later made various changes in the group and made it into the now famous exclusive group Hike.
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She improved upon the aspect of anonymity in the group. The part was difficult as a hierarchy had to be established anyway, which would unbalance the power and thus leak of data.
So, she made a hierarchy system within the group. The members were divided in two types members and anonymous.
They were divided on the basis of tasks accomplished by them. Once the number of tasks completed reached a good number, two hundred credits would grant the members an option to upgrade from the member to the anonymous.
The anonymous members had many perks, one of them being the most important anonymity.
Their identity and actions were secrets and could not be accessed easily.
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Since the credits were able to almost provide the members with anything, the information part was a big and top occupant of the group trade.
The second and third position of items being traded were occupied by artifacts and ki techniques.
Right, artifacts like his ring which showed texts and the books like the one Robert bought. These artifacts were readily available in the Hike and could be easily exchanged with the credits.
The lewd and carnal desire part for which Terias wanted to join the group was another matter all along.
These were the tasks from many anonymous people given to the members or even anonymous people too.
Since the anonymous members were familiar with the rules, they could pinpoint the members identity, accepting the task and had their fun.
'In the same manner Roan had known who would be accepting the task he had put up and had his fun with Daisy.'
Terias connected the events as they finally made sense. Roan was the one who put up the task and by offering some credits, he got to know the real identity of member.
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Although members too had no chances of identity leaks but with some hints here and there, their identity could be guessed.
The same went for people from the anonymous level but in their case even getting hints was a difficult and costed lots of credits.
As for the ring like artifact he had got for the membership proof. He could put up his task for people to accept from that ring.
Although the ring did not work like a chat message, he had to reach a place like the exclusive room to connect to a main artifact where the task would be written down and spread.
These main artifact were available to the major events and there was no need to get suspiciously close to the artifact, the task could be put up from a few metres away.
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The texts appearing on the artifact was only possible when the artifact from another member was made in contact, both shared the text or information.
The text about Daisy was only visible on his ring was because of the contact she had made with the artifact, leading to the shared details of the task she had accepted.
As the information dumping was finally completed, Terias returned to his default settings of admiring the beautiful ladies.
Albeit less in amount, the women present in the dimly lit room were more likely to be useful for him than the one in the main hall.
Except for Daisy, he did not feel like getting to know the other people and socialize.
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The people of his interest were already available in the exclusive room, most of them had the possibility to have accepted tasks like Daisy.
'What am I supposed to do now? Shall I go around making contact with the people and try to connect with their membership artifact?'
'That would be very awkward to do and any member from the Hike would realise what I am doing and my real identity.' he sighed
'I need to act normal, have a small talk with and then maybe try activating my ring. If that works then good.'
Terias could not really think of any other way. As for why he was trying to do this? Well, he got a taste of Daisy and could not be satisfied with just her, he wanted more.
Alice and Roan were busy conversing with few others and he was naturally left out, having nothing better to do he decided give socializing a try.
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