CHAPTER 3
THE NEXT DAY
All six of them assembled in the sandcastle and stared at each other.
"So let's start with the important stuff like where the guild base will be located, who is going to take the position of guild master etc.," said Ulbert.
After a long chat, it was decided that a lot of things are going to remain the same like the name of the guild, the position of the guild master, and authorities given to him.
One significant change was that they decided against focusing on roleplay as they only had 6 members against the previous total of 41.
The second major change was that they will try to be more neutral but they remained quite evil. And even started to form strategies for PKing.
Momonga, in the middle of the conversation, noticed something off about Touch Me. He was very actively participating on the topic of PKing, which he never enjoyed in the old game. He only PKed the players who either threatened any member of the guild or a general player and did it in the name of justice. But the Touch Me standing before him, almost seemed like a different individual altogether. He shared the same aura of disgust for the human players as the other members of the guild.
Momonga decided he would ask to Touch Me about this in private but the concern for his closest friend had better of him when Touch Me proposed the idea of setting up dungeons to lure the players and kill them using traps as no one will suspect it this early in the game.
"Are you okay Touch-san? Something feels odd about you" Mamonga asked.
" Yes, you feel like a different person. Like something has happened to you, which has changed your views on PKI… no justice altogether." Bukubukuchagama said.
Touch Me went silent for a second.
Tabula who just noticed the fact that Touch Me who had his rebuttal always ready for everything, the messenger of Justice, going silent said
" You don't need to share, we understand but if something has troubling you, my friend, I will help you no matter what."
After a while, a massive outburst of crying came out of Touch's direction. Everyone's mouth fell down for a second as they saw their friend fell down in his knees. Everyone started comforting him while Mamonga hugged him tightly.
Touch Me after sobbing, released Mamonga and told what transpired in the last three years which rocked him to the core and quitted the old game due to the frustration he felt every time he saw things that reminded him of his dead family.
How he dropped his phone in the middle of the street when he heard the news of his daughters and wife getting caught in an accident, to how he ran and begged people to donate some blood but to no avail. How he was unable to find a single person who would donate the ultra-rare blood type, willingly. Every single one of them either downright refused or started asking large sums of money for it and some even went as far as asking his dying daughter's hand for marriage. He saw through his own eyes that not only rich businessmen were greedy and corrupt but even the normal people have become corrupt.
As Momonga heard this he went through a flashback of the time when his mother overworked herself to death while cooking his favorite meal nonetheless, feeling helpless all alone in this big corrupt world. No family, no friend, not even a single person on whom he can rely or even talk to. He knew the pain of being alone, he hugged Touch with all of his strength to comfort him, albeit a little.
The mood was saddened to the point that nobody dared to break the silence. Then a growl was heard. Everyone looked in the direction from where the sound came and they saw a little sand basilisk had summoned near the sandcastle.
Poor basilisk was then tortured to death by the newly formed guild named 'ainz ooal gown Mk2' to let out all the frustration built up in their minds.
NEXT DAY
They planned on which position, everyone would take. Touch Me and HeroHero will take the position of warriors. Tabula for buffing and healing the allies and nerfing the enemies. Momonga took the position of a summoner and Bukubukuchagama took archer.
Everybody took their positions as they ventured out of the Sandy castle (now made the temporary guild base). With Touch Me and HeroHero in front, Tabula and Ulbert in the middle, and Bukubukuchagama and Momonga at the back.
They dived into a dungeon with lodes of branches and levels slaying numerous orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, basilisk, Nagas, etc. But now they were running out of low tier potions and durability of low leveled armor and weapons.
" So what should we do now? Dive further down or go back to replenish consumables and make new equipment to further strengthen us."
Ulbert asked.
"We should turn back," HeroHero said before Momonga could even react.
"We don't know how powerful enemies would be after the last basilisk which almost killed me, so my vote is with the Hero-san." Touch said.
"Even though all of us are about level 50-60 now but there could be a boss hidden somewhere, so we should head back," Momonga said.
Everybody hooded their heads and started to head back. After walking and laughing together on silly jokes for half an hour, they ran into a giant which was blocked the entrance of the cave.
"There is no way we could survive after fighting that thing" Tabula blurted.
"That thing has a name and that is …. drum roll please….. ultra-rare Giant" Ulbert said in a mischievous voice.
Everybody except Tabula chuckled a bit.
"I know" Tabula screamed.
Chuckles turned into full-blown laughter. After a minute, they all calmed down and started to think seriously about how to get out of the cave without sacrificing anyone.
After a while, they gave up and decided to work out the problem on the next day as all of them were exhausted from the grind.