Chapter 1: A New Place to Call Home

Chapter 1: A New Place to Call Home

Real Life

The light of the moon radiated the gloomy night, guiding the path of a man who was driving back to his home. A sound of a car door opened, the man who drove the car made his way through a house, taking his key out of his pocket and moved his hand to unlock the door, 

begun to proceed through the door.

“I am home,” He said loudly, loud enough that everybody inside that house could hear his voice.

“Hey how’s your meeting?” an older woman with pajamas walked the stairs down, reaching him. “It’s late night already.”

“Yeah, mom,” He replied with his tired voice “It was great. We finally managed to specified our target market, and decided which marketing strategy we are going to implement,”

“That was great!” said his mom cheerfully. “Anyway, Dad will be arrived here at Jakarta tomorrow afternoon. Could you pick him up?”

“Of course, mom. Tomorrow is a holiday,” He said while removing his shoes.

“You are a good son, you know,” said his mom delightfully.

“Yeah, I know you would say the opposite when I refused,” Said that man with a bitter laugh.

His mom laughed as well. Upon kissing his mom forehead, the man went upstairs towards his bathroom and clean himself, before finally reached his bedroom.

“Alright ROK time!” He said with a high spirit, touching an app in his phone, making his phone screen turned into a long loading bar, before the screen then changed again into a zoomed in village-like structure.

Rise of Kingdom. It has been three days since the first time he played this game. He 

enjoyed the game so much as he planned to stay the whole night with his phone.

Kingdom 1579 - Nagato

The man moved out some troops out of his village, attacking some figures with ‘barbarian lv2’ in the tag. His troops were almost failed to survive the fight, before he the pull his troops back to the village. Then he moved another different troops, this time it heading to a corn-

like structure.

“Deutsche.Vassal!!” someone chatted him in the game. He quickly saw the name of the sender. It was written ‘Zuanxi’

Yeah. His nametag is Deutsche.Vassal, although he is not a German guy. In this game, He got along with two players whom also his neighbor in ROK, for less than two days.

“Hey, Zuanxi could you please chill?” Vassal typed it fast. “I did not realize that your troops heading towards that cropland first.”

“DID NOT YOU SEE THE LINE??” she yelled.

Vassal got himself screwed up with this one. He moved his farming troops into the other croplands. Then started to move the other troops to fight the barbarians, this time led by a commander named ‘Hermann lv12,’ and he managed to kill those barbarians without any difficulty.

 “Your troops march line is white! I thought it was someone else’s.” Vassal tried to explain. “Fine. You could farm here. Let me take the other cropland.”

“Calm down, both of you,” a girl named Rune Ex typed with a laugh emoticon. She knew it that quarreling is not an unusually thing for them.

“There are a lot of player who are way stronger than us, you know.” Zuanxi said. “As a neighbor we three have to work together for this."

 “I know,” Vassal said. “Then we should probably join an alliance so we could get more allies.”

 “Sure,” Rune agreed. “How about if we start from the nearest one from us.”

Then those three joined an alliance called Silent Night(SLNT). But Something just happened in in the alliance chat

“New member! Help us!” said SLNT’s leader in the SLNT alliance chat. “We are being attacked!”

Vassal quickly scrolled his screen down to SLNT’s base, the South part of Aroth. He saw the whole alliance is fighting against two men. He could see those two men have the same alliance tag, “The Knight of Chaos (TKOC).”

Kingdom 1517 – Aroth, SLNT Base

“Rebuild your center fortress elsewhere, and I will spare your lives.” One of the TKOC guy named Loki threatened the SLNT out, along with his Minamoto

 “We are not going to let that happen!” SLNT’s leader said. “We have 18 players online!”

 “Fine,” the other TKOC guy with Scipio “We have given you choices. Now you will have to die.” His name was Luis Mcollum.

The whole SLNT members are marching to surround Loki and Luis, but SLNT is much weaker alliance compared to TKOC. Loki and Luis are both level 14 at that moment, while the strongest member of SLNT only reached level 8.

“Are you a fool to launch full force attack towards a Scipio user like me?” Luis laughed. “The more Scipio got attacked, the more attack and bonus health he will get!”

Upon received damages, Scipio was healed by his special ability “Patient warrior,” which give him healing point more than the damage he received from those SLNT. Which make every SLNT member weaker, so it is the time for Loki’s Minamoto to kill the surviving SLNT’s commanders.

“Screw you, TKOC!” the SLNT yelled.

“We do not need Kandi for this,” Luis said. “Thank you SLNT for helping me to test out my Scipio.”

“Haha. That was a joke. Both of us are more than enough to fight all of you,” Loki said, before he and Luis had their troops withdrawn.

Vassal were bewitched of how good did TKOC players were. He spent his time exploring the TKOC alliance members. He learned that the girl named Kandi mentioned by Loki, was their leader. He was so curious about her that alliance, but he had to do something more urgent.

Kingdom 1579 – Vassal’s base

“They are too far.” Zuanxi said. “We are in the North, that we need to wait for lv1 passes to be opened in order to help them!”

“Teleport?” Vassal asked.

 “Well, are you sure guys really wanted to teleport there, after what happened?” Zuanxi emphasized his words.

Vassal had been thinking . It was not because he was afraid. Instead, he wishes to see those guys from TKOC, because they looked experienced and Vassal could learn much things by joining them. Suddenly, something woke him up from daydreaming.

“GUYS, look!” Rune words shocked both Vassal and Zuanxi. “We are in danger!”

Rune shared her location to Vassal and Zuanxi. It turned out that they are the middle of a fight between two other alliances, which are Integrated Britania (ITB) and Indo Legends (ILS). The fight was so harsh that Rune are so terrified, because her city is the one which located the nearest to the war zone, and those ITB were so barbaric that they even hit anybody in front of their path.

“Rune,” Zuanxi said. “Are you okay?”

“What should we do?” Rune asked. “The ITB has launched an attack towards my base!”

“Stay here, both of you” Vassal said. “I will protect both of you.”

“I don’t need protection,” Zuanxi said. “Rune does.”

“I know,” Vassal said. “I am planning sort of strategy. I know I am new to this game but it might work!”

“Well,” Zuanxi said. “I haven’t fight someone yet in this game, but I am ready if this is going to be the first.”

“Very well,” Vassal said. “Zuanxi, could you please move your troops to Rune’s city?”

“Sure,” Zuanxi agreed and move her Pelagius towards Rune’s city. “What are you planning?”

“Just watch,” said Vassal.

Vassal moved his Hermann to attack the one of the ITB attacker. Then when the ITB change his attack towards Vassal’s, Vassal ordered Zuanxi and Rune to ambush the ITB, which 

shocked the ITB away.

“Should we chase?” Rune asked.

“Wait. Defend here,” Vassal answered certainly.

“I don’t know what are you planning, Vassal,” said Zuanxi. “But I think I am going to trust you with this one.”

“The ITB are fighting against the ILS,” Vassal was thinking hard. “We will wait for those ITB to clash in the ILS zone, then we attack them from behind!”

“Wow,” Zuanxi said. “They would be shocked.

“Go Vassal!” Rune said joyfully.

After the ITB launched a full force assault to ILS’ flag, Vassal marched towards their back, together with Zuanxi, while Rune was told to defend their city. It turned out that those ITB were shocked to be pressed from both side. After a few minutes, those ITB were defeated in the open field and teleported away out of the war zone.

“Great job, Vassal” said Zuanxi, which made Vassal happy that they were able to win their first battle.

“Wait,” Rune said. “How about the ILS?

“Oops,” Vassal was silenced, as he could not celebrate their victory any much longer.

“They are Indonesian alliance,” Zuanxi said. “Letme talk to them, I am also Indonesian.”

“What?” Vassal was shocked because he was also Indonesian. “Hey Zuanxi I am also Indonesian.”

“OMG,” Zuanxi said. “Why we were talking in English all the time?”

Zuanxi then talked to their leader, wishing that they could have peace. But it turned out that the ILS leader, wanted to recruit Vassal, Zuanxi, and Rune to their alliance.

“See that?” Zuanxi said. “Let’s move there!”

“But,” Rune said weakly. “I am Malaysian.”

Rune’s words cornered both Zuanxi and Vassal.

“That’s fine,” Rune said. “You can both join Indo Legends (ILS). I will look for another alliance.

“Rune,” Zuanxi said “Then I will not join the ILS.”

“No,” Rune refused. “Do not hold your decision just because of one girl here.”

Vassal were so frustrated,. He was thinking hard so Rune could stay with him and Zuanxi. What came into his mind was only TKOC. He admired how tidy and organized their playing style were. But TKOC minimum power was 250k at the moment, while each of their power were barely reached 200k. Then he knew that he had no other choices than to try negotiate with ILS.

“Hold for a while,” Vassal said. “Let me talk to Alif, their leader.”

Both of the girls looked at Vassal, they knew what’s Vassal up to, they only could hope, before seeing Vassal went away with his troops, going to the ILS’ base.

Kingdom 1579 – Nagato, ILS Base

“Hey, welcome Deutsche Vassal!” said Alif in Indonesian.

“You can call me Vassal,” Vassal said.

“You know, Vassal,” Alif said. “I saw your strategy there, you did great, man!

“Because we slew your enemy down?” Vassal said.

“More than that.” Alif said. “please join us! I need people like you!”

Vassal was slightly happy, because Zuanxi, Rune, and himself would not necessarily had to fight the ILS, and had a chance to grow bigger in safer alliance. Unlike Aroth, there are only one big alliance who dominate Nagato.

“We are in the 18^th rank alliance in 1579, bro” said Alif persuasively.

Vassal paid attention to Alif’s words carefully. He knew he need ILS for the safety sake of Zuanxi and Rune. But Rune is non-Indonesian player, so he could not leave her alone. Finally, with a leap of faith, he tried to negotiate with Alif.

“I am here thankful for your invitation. But unfortunately there are a non-Indonesian member with us here.” Vassal look closer to Alif’s eye and spoke that seriously.

“Umm,” Alif could not spoke any single words. “Yeah man, we need people like you. So, you can bring her out. As long as you could manage her, it would be fine.”

“Are you sure?” Vassal emphasized his word sharper this time.

“Yes,” Alif said. “I will make the three of you R4s.”

“Thanks.” Vassal said. “I don’t care about the R4. I just need a place to call home, together with my friends.

Vassal had never thought that this was going to be easy. But they had made it. He brought both Rune and Zuanxi to join the ILS. Thinking about what next step he was going to make to protect the two girls that he considered as his sisters.

<End of Chapter 1>