Chapter Two:

Confidence

"Maple killers? What a joke!"

"Lol yeah, some noob trying to get mesos most likely,"

"It's best just to ignore random messages like that,"

A crowd had gathered at the free market channel 19 when Will logged in Migino. The quiet channel 19 where he would train by himself was now a bustling highway of conversation. There were people as far as the screen could see. All of the terrain was covered with busy maplers buzzing around like bees in a hive.

Migino, a level 25, orange hair (an unfortunate mishap with a hair quest.), and brown skin was coming out of a weapon shop. He was wearing a blue sergeant chest plate, steel sergeant kilt, and a pair of black tennis shoes.

As he walked down the crowded streets he tried to catch what all the commotion was about. Everyone was either screaming at each other or laughing. It didn't settle well with Migino, usually when there was a crowd like this, there was about to be something big like a massive enemy horde or even worse…horntail.

He leapt onto a nearby walk way that was slightly empty and looked over the mass of word bubbles trying to make sense of all this. While he leaned in, he accidentally moved into one boy's word bubble.

"WATCH IT YOU N00B!!" The kid yelled.

"Oh…I'm really sorry." Migino said as he stepped down towards the boy. "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know what's going on would you." He questioned as he stepped over another floating bubble.

"Oh, you must have just logged on didn't you?" The boy's face turned from mad to serious.

"Uh yeah, I just got on, why what happened? Did someone summon a boss or something?" Migino said as he tried looking over the hoards of Maplers.

"Well, it's only speculation but they say there's a couple of maplers who have gained the ability to actually Delete other maplers! As in ounce they kill you, you don't come back." The boy said with a frown.

"Who are they? Why would they do that? And how do they do it?" Migino pried as he walked toward the kid.

"That's what I wanna know. Everyone say's there in channel ones Ludibrium right now. Everyone got so scarred; the CC'd and came the farthest away from there. They say some GM's are on a private investigation over there now. It's so bad; they shut down the ticket booth to orbis!" The boy began 

walking towards the back of the free market where fewer people were standing. Migino waded in and out of the crowed trying to follow.

"Now the only way to see if this is just a hoax is for you to already be in lidibrium, be able to elude the GM's, and if it's true, come back in one piece. Some people have already tried and we have tracked them but…" the boy paused for a second.

"It seems like either they lost internet connection or they were logged off by a GM."

Migino starred at him in fear. Suddenly, his expression turned from interest to concern.

"What area are they rumored to be in!?" He demanded.

"Whoa um, the Omega sector was where we sent the last guy…but he mysteriously got logged off…why?"

"My friend was going to meet me in the Omega sector!!" Migino yelled as he ran towards the door in a panic.

"Wait!! Hold on man, there's no way you can elude all the GM's out there! And at your low a level I wouldn't even think about going to ludibrium! Those guy's supposedly killed a whole guild! What do you expect to do?" The boy yelled to him.

"I'm not going to confront them, I just want to get my buddy outa there!" He said about to take the portal out of the free market.

"Hold on a minute! I can help you!" The kid said stopping Migino in his tracks.

"I know the last area's where the search crew were when they were logged out by GM's so I know most of the GM's current locations, also I see you're in ludibrium. I know that place like the back of my hand so I can point places where there are secret portals for you to hide in."

Migino looked back at the boy. They starred each other down.

"Why do you wanna help me so bad now?"

"There's a bounty on the info of their whereabouts, 50mil. I help you get your friend, you give me the info. It's a win/win scenario." They boy grinned like a crocodile. There was greed flowing from him like a fountain on over load.

Migino glared at him for a minute. He didn't care about the fact another mapler could be deleted. All he cared about was the mesos.

"Fine, just…don't screw up ok!?" Migino sighed as he jumped into the portal.

"No prob, you can contact me on whisper ok? Don't want any GM's finding you if your talking out loud right?" The boy smirked.



"Wait I didn't get your name!" Migino said as he was blasted back to ludibrium.

"Zachary 1221, but you can call me Zach!" were the last words Migino heard before he was Hurled into one of the most amazing adventures of all maple story history.