Chapter 175 - Before Departure
“Let Anne go?”
Hearing Rhode mention her name, Anne curiously leaned her head to the side. After thinking for a while, she nodded.
“No problem, Leader. Anne will follow you wherever you go.”
After saying it, Anne went back to focusing on the food before her and began to eat again. It seemed that she didn’t care about what Rhode told her to do; she’d do it anyways. As for why Rhode chose her, what were they going to do? It didn’t seem to have anything to do with her? If she had the time to think about the answer, it would be better spent eating the bread before her.
“Do you want me to go with you too, Mr. Rhode?” Lize and Marlene glanced at each other, then both of them said.
“There’s no need.”
Rhode shook his head. The Black Pine ruins weren’t that troublesome anyways and there’s also no undead creatures. Lize, as a Cleric, didn’t have to go with him; it would be too much of a waste. At first, Rhode didn’t plan to bring Anne along; it was just that he couldn’t bring the Mystery Ball back by himself. Although judging from its name, it didn’t seem too big, but ping pong balls were also balls, as were basketballs and the moon… Rhode didn’t think that he would have the power to lift up a moon. Originally, in the game, to take the Mystery Ball, one would need a barbarian class character. However, Rhode didn’t have any barbarians as his subordinates, but Anne, as a half beast, was also not bad… at least she was a lot stronger than him.
“I hope these few days you guys can take care of Christie. She just arrived here, so there must be a lot of things she isn’t accustomed to yet. Since you guys are girls, you must be understand her more than me.”
“Alright.” Hearing until here, Lize hesitated for a while then agreed. She wasn’t too worried with Rhode’s arrangement. In fact, Lize also wished that she could stay by Christie’s side. However, it seemed that she wasn’t well accustomed to her current environment, so she kept some distance from them. Christie was only relieved when Rhode was by her side, but with Rhode’s words, Lize finally could justifiably get closer to Christie.
In the game, Rhode was once amazed with this magnificent scene, but he didn’t think it was strange. Since no matter how real, it was still only data. What was strange with sending things flying in the sky or floating in the sea? But in reality, when he looked at the crowded port, looking at the floating ships come and go in the air, he felt that it was really incredible. Just by looking at the ship that was floating in midair without any machine or power to maintain it. There was only a rope tied into it. It was really too unreliable; what if the ship actually fell off?
He looked at the floating ships not far from him and shook his head. After that, he pulled his cloak to hide his appearance. He didn’t want to attract any unwanted attention on his journey, so he decided to be low-profile. He knew just how much trouble his face might bring to him. Since he was young, the teacher and his peers always treated him like a girl. When he arrived in the game world, it was finally a lot more pleasant. He chose a burly male character so he didn’t have to be worry about getting treated like a girl. This was one of the reason why he really liked the Dragon Soul Continent. At least in the game, no one would mistake him for a girl…
In the end, he was still back in the square one. It was really tragic…
“Ah, leader, Anne has found our ship!”
Anne carried her fine gold shield and jumped around Rhode. She stretched out her hand and pointed toward a ship not far from them. Rhode looked toward the direction Anne pointed and saw a two-story ship floating in the port, its flag embroidered with a golden wing pattern. After Rhode looked at the pattern, he lowered his head and saw the same pattern on his ticket.
This was it.