Love Began with the First Meeting

[World] Silent Sorrow: Wasn't it your plan to start this all over?

[World] After Your Birth: What do you mean?

[World] Silent Sorrow: We will see.

After that, Charlie remained silent no matter how much After Your Birth or Creepy Group tried to provoke him. He preferred to exert mental pressure on his opponents. But dealing with Rita took little effort. That woman was really stupid.

There was a lot of noise in the World channel, but it was merely exchange of words between Dragon Leaping and Dragon Yelling. To be more precise, it was the Creepy Group and Candy Group kept sending message in the World channel until everyone felt deeply annoyed and joined the verbal battle.

Elsa seldom browsed the World channel. Messaging in World channel did not come free of cost. Many of her friends and group members used the channel and saved their data and messages. But sending one message in the channel cost one dollar in the physical world. That was money Elsa could not afford. But Olivia had the privilege to spend a few extra dollars, and she had already uploaded the game after the server was merged. Merely a day had passed since the merger, and people were already competing to spend lavishly, which in turn contributed to Dragon's revenue. Olivia quietly mined in the safe regions, while closely paying attention to what was happening in the World channel. At the moment, it was impossible to elevate the player level by engaging in fights in the jungles. The only thing to do was to save some equipment and forge medicines in the safe regions.

A considerable amount of anonymous accounts surged into the server, naming themselves from 'Sweet Dream's Supporter A', 'Sweet Dream's Supporter B' to 'Sweet Dream's Supporter Z'. The user names looked like typical anonymous accounts, which had magnificent power to send an overwhelming number of messages to dominate the World channel. If someone sent a single text, it would soon be drowned in an explosive amount of messages from these anonymous accounts within mere seconds. Thus, being absent-minded for even one second meant that the message you wished to see would be nowhere to be found.

The World channel became peaceful once again due to these anonymous accounts, but messages in [System] continued coming in. Endless news about players from Creepy Group being defeated one after the other dominated the comments zone. At 11 pm, the electricity supply was cut off in all dormitories, except for the double room dormitory. Olivia indulged herself in the gossips. Although it was not available to connect to the school network at the moment, she had access to personal Wi-Fi on her laptop. She lay down on her bed and continued gaming.

"Olivia, you're not going to sleep now?" The lights went out when she had just finished her bath, so she followed the light emitted by Olivia's laptop and walked to her bed.

"I have some more exercises to finish. You go to sleep," Olivia told her with a smile. She was clever enough to understand that Charlie had lost his temper because the players had discussed about what had happened in the college in the game forum. It had ticked him off. He had been waiting for the electricity to be cut off, so that Elsa wouldn't take part in the fight anymore.

The moment Elsa lay down to bed, her phone screen lit up with a message notification.

"No kiss for your sweetheart before going offline?"

Elsa blushed at the bluntness of his text. Knowing that Charlie would keep pestering her until she obliged, she sent him a message with a kiss emoji, "There you go. I'm going to sleep now. Good night!" After ending him the text, she set her phone on silent mode. Charlie smiled at her reply. He said to Yusuf, "I'm going to stay up for a while longer."

"Hmm." Yusuf adjusted his glasses. He was drawing perfectly straight lines on a thick professional book. "I'll be staying up late too. There are several points I'm still unable to figure out in this joint project with my professor." He stopped drawing and raised his head to look at Charlie, who was busy typing something on his laptop. "Remember the appointment tomorrow with our professor." He curled his lips slightly upwards and murmured, "If you forget, the professor will go crazy."

"I know. Tomorrow at 9 am, right? I'll be there at the biology lab," Charlie said without much care. When he didn't get a quick reply from Yusuf, he turned back to smile at the bookworm who was looking at him suspiciously. "Take it easy. I won't forget my promises." Yusuf sighed and nodded. He actually believed that Charlie would keep his word.

The dorm room was silent, except for the occasional sounds of typing and writing.

[World] Silent Sorrow: Let's begin!

[World] Legendary Past: I've been waiting for you.

[World] Legendary Past: Those who are irrelevant to this battle, please leave. This battle will last for the next half an hour. Kill!

[World] Wind Blowing Butt: Damn, I don't have any charm to return to the city. Please give me some, Queen Legendary Past. I don't want to be killed so early! Ah, shit! What do I do?

[World] Rose In The Field: The charm to return back to the city can be consigned for sale. Everyone is allowed to get one at a time, and it lasts for two minutes!

[World] Peeping At Beauties From A Ditch: What the hell? LOL! What's with the sneak raid?

Along with the critical sound from Peeping At Beauties From A Ditch, the World channel abounded with whining from the members of the Creepy Group. Those who shunned the warfare did not dare come back to World, so they hid in the Safety Town to wait and upgrade their level after the massacre, which would last for another half an hour. It was a weekend, which meant that most of the users did not need to attend school or go to work. Plus, double experience could be acquired during the merge of servers at weekends. So, the users intending to upgrade their levels could not afford to miss this opportunity.

Fortunately, the half-an-hour massacre lasted just until the wee hours, which would not delay the process of upgrading levels.

Observing the whining in the World channel and the messages popping from the system, Olivia raised her hand to her chin, absorbed in thought. Dragon was a game that lured you to spend money like water. The simple reason was its elaborate animation and various engaging tasks which never failed to draw its users' interest. So, there was never a shortage of fans for Dragon since its advent. Of course, games never do well without the wealthy guys making in-game purchases. And there were a greater number of rich guys in Dragon than any other games. So in the end, the competition was higher in Dragon than any other games, turning it into a symbol of status and power, even though it was just a game.

Even before it was unveiled that Silent Sorrow was Charlie, he was known as a legendary player in Dragon Leaping. Now that his identity was revealed, a number of questions emerged. Like, for example, when Elsa was still with Allen, Charlie stayed in the background. But when they broke up, he soon came into view. If he had had a crush on Elsa from his childhood, then this made complete sense.

[World] Silent Sorrow: Let's put a stop to this!

[World] Silent Sorrow: Obsession, I will teach you a good lesson today. There are people in the world who you are not allowed to offend. If you dare to do this one more time, you will suffer loses outside this game as well.