The next day was boring as it was spent teleporting person after person.
Although if I used mana potions it would go a lot faster, the cost didn't match the benefit.
Mana potions could be used to help in terrible disasters, and using them in such mundane circumstances felt like a poor idea.
[Guild Chat
[High Magister Tero, of The High Order] "The bank currently has 100 slots of space, 80 of them are usable by anyone in the guild. If you have any extra or unused items put them in the bank. If you have spare resources, put them in the bank. If you have spare money do the same.
There's no point in resource hoarding at this point, the more we can progress as a collective the better.
Lets remember, we're here to hit the highest peaks, to be better than the rest. Lets not fall to greed."
]
I doubted anyone would add anything, but to my surprise the main thing added was money.
In only twelve hours the bank already had twenty gold in it.
For fairness sake I added all my herbs to it as well, also adding my runes.
It only took a while more before I got the whisper I was waiting for up till now.
[Whisper from Sera] "Ready"
[Whisper to Sera] "Not in a subspace? (Like your room or the dungeon)"
It took her a minute to respond.
[Whisper from Sera] "Nope"
After chuckling to myself, imagining her running out of her room I started making the portal.
Walking though the portal was a brunet girl with glasses.
If I had to describe her appearance I would say she had a distinct homeschooled look, and when I went to shake her hand this became a little more solid of a theory as she backed away from my hand.
"Sorry, I don't like touching. So we can, uhh" She stumbles a bit before doing an awkward and quick bow that I imitate.
"That's okay! Um, can I ask what you're able to make? Like, rune wise?" I say, trying to get the the meat of the conversation quickly.
"Oh um, I can make runes one level higher than what's available at that level range, then I can make charms to attach to equipment that give boots to stats or benefits." She says quickly, using her hands a lot
"So, its like enchanting?"
"No" She says bluntly "Its runesmithing"
"Yah but its like enchanting how it boosts things"
"I mean…If thats the comparison you need to make" She says, clearly not liking what I was saying.
"Well…Okay. Do you want to work with us to upgrade our dungeon team's gearsets?"
"Dungion team?"
"Yes so. As a guild we need to pick a group of people to do dungeons first right? They should be the most geared and leveled in the group, so that they can survive and give recommendations to everyone else"
"Um, I can, but I would need stones from certain areas so I need protection and I feel like it would be very uncool to have to pay for protection again" She says in a jumble.
"You paid for protection?"
"Yah, that's how I leveled and got my runes."
"Ohh, okay. We can arrange for someone to be your bodyguard for sure. Where do you need to go?"
"Um, past Crooked Hills there a zone called Leviathan Cove…Uhh, just look"
[Intermediate Runemaking: Make Rune of Riptide, Make Rune of Lavaskin]
[Reward: Level 41, Rune Architect Class]
"No shit-"
"Please don't use profanity around me" She says, cutting me off.
My eyes dart to her, expecting her to smile or indicate that she was joking, but it never comes.
"Ohh, sorry" I say awkwardly "Well um, Riptide comes from Leviathan Shores, but where does the other one come from?"
"I don't know, but I just made it first because I didn't know. Then I ran out of money. Then I contacted you"
"Mhm"
It feels like im getting used here, but it is what it is.
"Alright, if you can add runes to fifteen pieces of gear, and we'll give you the resources, we'll safeguard you in Leviathan Shores. Deal?" I go for another handshake out of habit from my time with Merlin, sadly she only looks at my hand and gives me an awkward nod before I put my hand down.
"Well um, what do you need?" I ask, trying to recover.
"The stone and gold found in Crooked Hills"
"And you get that mining right?"
"Correct"
"Okay, check the bank and take what you need. Ill get people farming it"
I decide to take my leave after that, awkwardly starting to walk away with a wave.
After that I sent out a message in the guild chat, saying that any miners that could go to Crooked Hill would be much appreciated, and that I would enchant their items in exchange.
I was trying to not use numbers, I didn't want the guild to be "Gather this much and I'll do this much"
It was important that my guild was as close as possible, even if that meant things weren't always one to one fair.
The goal of The High Order after all was to be the pinnacle, not just the best at clearing dungeons, or the highest level, or the richest.
It was something that lingered in my head as I headed to the city's bath house.
It was a place I had come to love, though the level I bought cost a pretty penny so I couldn't go to often.
[World Chat
[Expeditioner Chad, of the Explorers Guild] "Beastmen north of the Leviathan Shore, we communicated but spoke different languages! The eyes were real! There are more people here!"
]
"Holy shit!" I yell, snapping myself out of my bath induced sleepiness.
Instantly I go to guild chat, starting to figure out what to say to the guild .
[Guild Chat
[High Magister Tero, of The High Order] "New possibly human life has been discovered north of the Leviathan Shore. As soon as possible meet in town square if you wish to make contact]
No matter what, I wanted The High Order to be the first to make meaningful contact with the new people.