Chapter 3: Searching for answers

Two figures stood at the entrance to Mac Anu they walked down the familiar steps and across the bridge. A male and a female Twin blade walked to the secret meeting place. Crossel and Balmung were startled to see other come to the alley.

"And you are?" said Crossel

"We are system administrators we have been told by a source that wishes to remain anonymous that you have found a modded area. Is this true?" The male replied

Both Crossel and Balmung began to approach the pair, Balmung drew his blade and Crossel his staff.

"You misunderstand our intent we are going to clean up the area we just want to know the keywords." The female said

"Alright then." Balmung replied "The keywords were Bursting Passed Over Aqua Field."

"Thanks for your help."

The pair left the area and headed towards the chaos gate. Balmung and Crossel were now alone in the alley.

"Balmung we need to figure out what that dragon was and why it was with Godhand" Crossel told Balmung

"Yes I agree but we know nothing about Godhand and we wouldn't know where to start looking for information about him…" Replied Balmung

"Well the day I met Godhand he said he was going with another party but they had stood him up we could try to figure out who he was going to go with."

"That sounds like a pretty good lead but how will we find out who he was going with Crossel?"

"Not sure we could ask around Mac Anu."

"Yeah alright for now."

Balmung and Crossel left the meeting place and walked around the small city of Mac Anu talking to any player they could find looking for information. Both of them were ready to give up when a player logged in at the chaos gate.

"Excuse me sir." Crossel shouted to the player

"Yes what do you need I am very busy, I have a party waiting in Dun Lorieag." The player said.

"Well we were just wondering if you have ever heard of a player by the name of Godhand." Crossel told him.

"You must be talking about the Godhand Virus."

"The what?"

"The Godhand Virus is a bug that has been recently spotted in many areas of the world. He isn't so much a virus as he is a hacker. He has no actual player class giving him the ability to bypass restrictions to armor and such. As well he can extract the stats from armors and weapons and add them to his move list and permanent stats."

"Wow I had no idea…"

"Hmph sounds like just another hacker to me Crossel let the Admin. take care of it and lets move on with our lives" Balmung said.

The player realizing he was no longer needed left through the chaos gate.

"But that dragon… was so strange…" Crossel replied

"Forget it lets just go to a dungeon."

"But Balmung I want to investigate this. Don't you find it strange that someone can do this and that player never mentioned the dragon."

"You got me there… Alright lets keep investigating the dragon."

"Great hey are you high enough level to go to any other servers?"

"Yeah I can go to Delta, Theta and Sigma."

"Alright then you go ask around Theta and Sigma I will keep asking around here"