Reign of the Hunters

Chapter 17: Mysterious Ring

Ye Ci did not agree to Dong Yin's words and instead glanced at He Xiao was still smiling at her. "It's no big deal. To me, it's just friends playing a game together. We could take care of each other. It's ok if you have other plans, we can add each other as friends. It's the same anyways."

"Ok, I'll join your guild." Ye Ci gave her answer.

Her decision to join Steel Blooded Battle Spear was not because of her guilt for her past life's betrayal. It was because of Yi Cang, Dong Yin, and Liu Chang. She did not have to do everything alone if she joined them.

"I told you she would agree!" Liu Chang hollered, hugging Ye Ci and smiling at Dong Yin.

Ye Ci laughed along and the five of them continued their meal with glee.

He Xiao parted with the four after the meal. Ye Ci was planning to continue leveling up but Dong Yin proposed a trip to the nearby theme park. The four of them went to the theme park for an entire day before finally parting ways at 8 pm.

Ye Ci did not log into the game that night. She slept after giving her parents a phone call.

Ye Ci slept like the dead that night. Even her circadian rhythm failed to wake her up. It was already midday before she had finally woken up.

After a light meal, Ye Ci tidied herself up and logged into the game.

Ye Ci received a private message right after she went online. It was from Golden Man, asking her if she had left the newbie village.

Ye Ci was still in Wolf Canyon.

"We're going to explore the Abandoned Mine in Moonfall City. Are you free?"

"It's not possible at the moment. I'm still at the spot where I went offline that day. I need quite some time to get to Moonfall City from here." Ye Ci calculated the distance between her location and Moonfall City. She needed at least two hours to get to Moonfall City.

"Ok then, we'll go first. Remember to get in touch when you have the time." Golden Man said in a regretful tone and cut off the voice connection.

Ye Ci surveyed her surroundings. Frodo was still sitting at the same spot. She did not mind him and was preparing to leave. Frodo shrieked unexpectedly, "Hey! Big one, you're walking away with my stuff!"

Ye Ci was baffled. She turned around and saw a furious Frodo, "What have I taken away from you? I gave that ladder back to you."

"Hmph! Frodo knew not to trust the wretched Elves. They never speak the truth!" Frodo was so angry that he jumped up and down, waving his fists at Ye Ci. "My ring! My precious ring! It's with you!"

Ring? Ye Ci produced the bound Black Ring from and asked, "Do you happen to be talking about this?"

"Yes! This is it!' Frodo rushed towards Ye Ci in an attempt to grab the Black Ring. She hid the ring away and asked, "Don't you think you have some explanations to make? Like...what exactly is this ring?"

Something that was important to a hidden NPC, and what's more, one that automatically bound itself to her... There must be something more to the Grey equipment than what it appeared to be. Ye Ci could feel that the ring was nothing ordinary, but she would need to figure out the way to discover its secrets from Frodo.

Frodo glared at Ye Ci, looking as if he could spew fire from his eyes. He breathed heavily and his face was so red that it looked like he would explode. "Frodo will never tell you where that thing came from! Frodo will never tell you that the precious thing is related to the Dark Lord Naga!"

Ye Ci nearly laughed out loud. There was a Gnome NPC that had been labeled as log-headed by the players.

Ye Ci held the ring up high. Frodo tried his best to grab the ring away from her, but his height denied him success. Ye Ci grinned and patted Frodo's head, "Yeap, you'll never tell me that the ring has anything to do with Dark Lord Naga..."