He had a message for me. I thanked him as I took it. He nodded and took his leave. I had a client at the Mercenary Guild. Joining the church could wait. I was already at a good two-fifths of the way to the initiation questline. My progress was tracked in the menu. There would be time to do more work for them later. I went to the guild and asked where the client was. I was pointed to what looked like a teenager in a cloak. "Escort mission. Take him to the chapel in Plesa Village. You can make your way back after." That was in the opposite direction of Orido. I nodded and approached the figure. "Hello. My name is Brianne Terri. I am the mercenary you asked for." I said in a nice, professional tone. The figure took off their cloak and smiled at me. It was a half-drow Player. They looked familiar for some reason. I just could not put my finger on it. It was because of the features of being a drow. "Are you Terry Bryant from Lionheart High?" they asked. I flinched and snapped "Who the hell are you!?" He just smiled wider. "Paul. It's me, Terry!" he said. Paul was in the same math class and homeroom.
We were not as close as I was to Jeremy, Lisa or Kyle, but we were pretty cool. He was on the swim team and did well. I did not do any sports, but we had the anime and manga club on his off season. He liked the ecchi shows and rom-coms. I liked the psychological horror and drama shows. That did leave me with some questions. "How did you find me?" I asked. There were thousands of players worldwide. This was not even the starting city, so it was not a random coincidence. He even came here and waited for me specifically. He said "Let's talk and walk." Paul then continued out the door of the guild hall. I had no choice but to follow. It was an official guild mission to escort him to Plesa Village. We made it out the gates and down the road before he stopped. I stopped as well and looked at him. "What is it?" I asked. He looked left and right with a smirk and said "The reason I knew about you was because Max, Brett and I are all Devils." I was floored. "You're lying." I said. There was no way. Paul put a hand on my flank. "Fine. I'll just show you." All of a sudden, I got a popup saying I was level 50.
This was way too much to handle. "How the hell did you do that!? You don't know how to hack things." I demanded. "Don't need to. We got Irwin to do it. He's a real good hacker. You know how he's always boosting the grades of the jocks." he explained. "So what are you going to do if you get caught?" I wanted to know. He looked at me. I saw him scoff at me. "Because I am going to be smart and go undetected. They already sent like 50 of their knights after Max and Brett. All I need to do is get a strong companion that can tank all the damage and aggro for me. I already told them about it, but Max said it was the pussy way. Brett actually has a brain so he's doing what he can right now." he said. The plan as he explained it was to use his admin powers to get a girl pregnant. Once that happened, he could take the kid and make it do all the work as a party member. If he did that, he could take all the heat off of himself as it would just look like a super strong NPC companion. He could even hide his true level at will from others. It was a good plan. "Where are you going to find a girl." I asked.
