Sorim Grapes is Wronged

30.

[Whisper/Beombiga: How did it go? If you failed, I’ll send you ingredients by mail now]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: It’s okay, Changmigak gave me some]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Ah…]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: ㅡㅡ?]

[Whisper/Beombiga: That’s really warm.. It’s heartwarming…]

[Whisper/Beombiga: As expected, games are meant to be played with others..]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Boring material gathering for luck-based quests goes by quickly when you’re with people….]

[Whisper/Beombiga: What a beautiful world of people….]

Beombiga sometimes randomly sings praises of humanity.

The result was a great success. I tried to return the leftover ingredients, but the three only took back the equipment and not the ingredients. They said there would be similar quests later, so I put the ingredients in storage.

After finishing the cooking quest, I completed all the quests in the city and finally went out to the field, but there were more people following than before.

More precisely, there were more characters with ‘Blood Demon’ above their heads. One, two…. Eight Blood Demon guild members were following us four.

[General/Gchang: ㅇㅅㅇ?]

[General/Gakjong: lol]

[General/MinoIsMine: ; Blood Demon guild members, why are you following us?]

[General/OfficialStance: We’re going to the Il-Bei dungeon lol]

[General/980102: We’re just going the same way lol]

[General/Karis: They say we’re following them lololol]

[General/Karis: Self-conscious much lol ridiculous]

Embarrassed, MinoIsMine ran off and started hitting a tree.

I received a quest to kill ten Black Horn monsters and went to the quest location, but the Blood Demon guild members ran ahead of me and killed all the Black Horn monsters I was supposed to kill.

I had no choice but to wait for respawn, but they killed them again as soon as they respawned.

[General/Gakjong: What are you guys doing?]

[General/MinoIsMine: You said you were going to Il-Bei, why are you interfering here and being a pain?]

[General/Karis: lol You’re talking rough]

[General/OfficialStance: Why? Are we not allowed to kill monsters? Did you rent the field? lol]

[General/Gchang: Angryy needs to do the quest, please stop interfering]

[General/OfficialStance: lol Okay, sorry]

After Gchang said something, there was no more interference, so it was awkward for me to say anything.

But the same thing happened at the next location.

They took the herbs I needed to collect, and they dealt with the monsters I needed to kill among themselves.

[Gchang has requested to form a party.

Do you accept?

Accept / Decline]

I was already annoyed, and now this?

[Whisper/Gchang: Angryy, I think these people are picking on me ㅠ]

[Whisper/Gchang: If party members kill monsters and collect herbs, it counts towards the quest. If you accept the party invite, we’ll do it for you]

After thinking about it, I pressed accept.

[Angryy has joined the party.]

[Party/MinoIsMine: Should we post this on the server forum? lololol]

[Party/MinoIsMine: Gasp]

[Party/Gakjong: Oh]

[Party/Gakjong: Angryy, hi lololol]

[Party/MinoIsMine: Welcome ㅠㅠ To think we’d have our first party with Angryy over something like this ㅜㅜ]

[Party/Gakjong: In a way, we should thank Blood Demon lol]

[Party/Gakjong: Without this, we probably would never have partied together]

[Party/Gchang: Angryy, just stay still, we’ll clear the quest for you]

The Changmigak trio killed the monsters I needed to kill at the speed of light before the Blood Demon guys could. It really did count when party members took care of them, so I was able to complete the quest. However, the Blood Demon guys continued to interfere with me.

When we came to a PVP area where characters could kill each other, they started using attack skills on Changmigak.

[General/MinoIsMine: You f*cking bastards, why are you messing with people who are just minding their own business]

[General/OfficialStance: I just brushed past you while trying to hit a mob lol]

[General/Gakjong: What the hell, a guild ranked 2nd on the server]

[General/Gakjong: Is interfering with a newbie’s quest]

[General/Aiman: What’s going on??]

[General/OfficialStance: They’re asking for help because they can’t handle it themselves lol]

[General/Hwadak: What did Blood Demon do?]

[General/Gakjong: They kept interfering with the quest and now they’re even PVPing]

[General/Gakjong: Fortunately PVP doesn’t work before level 50; If it weren’t for us, the newbie would’ve died already;]

[General/OfficialStance: We’re just using a feature they provided and we’re getting cursed at lol ridiculous]

[General/Karis: lol Run away before chatting]

Karis used an attack skill on Gakjong. Gakjong quickly dodged and used a skill on Karis, but another Blood Demon guy spread some kind of white barrier to reduce its effect.

I was in my mid-30s level-wise, and although I was in the middle of a battlefield where everyone was firing skills at each other, my HP wasn’t reduced at all and I was fine.

[Whisper/Beombiga: Angryy, are you being interfered with right now?]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Yeah]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Where are you now?]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: You don’t need to come]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Hmm….]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Blood Demon is cute when they’re quiet, but sometimes they cross the line. Especially these days..]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Let me know if you need help anytime]

I absolutely won’t tell him. Beombiga wasn’t unemployed but a game streaming broadcaster…. I can’t involve someone who makes a living from games in such a childish fight.

[Party/Gchang: It’s because of me ㅠ]

[Party/Gchang: Because I won’t hand over the mine ㅠ They keep picking fights with our guild ㅠ]

[Party/Gchang: They know Angryy is following us, so they’re deliberately harassing us now ㅠ]

[Party/Gchang: I’m sorry….ㅇㅅㅠ]

[Party/Gakjong: Don’t apologize because of those jerks playing bullies in a game]

[Party/MinoIsMine: But… even in this situation, Angryy;]

[Party/MinoIsMine: Look at them doing the quest lol ㅠㅠㅠ]

While the Blood Demon guys were distracted with Changmigak, I was quickly collecting ‘Shadows of the Rock’.

[Party/Gakjong: Ah lol]

[Party/Gakjong: I think Angryy would survive even if we left them on a deserted island]

[Party/Gchang: Yeah, at least do the quest ㅠ]

[Party/MinoIsMine: Angryy, don’t do that and die with us..]

[Party/MinoIsMine: We’re bound by the same party, it’s a shared fate]

Whose side is this MinoIsMine on?

[General/Karis: Ah lol]

[General/Karis: It’s even annoying to play with them lol]

Karis used an area-of-effect skill as if he wasn’t going to hold back anymore. MinoIsMine, whose HP was already low, ended up dying. However, he revived right on the spot, and a 3:8 fight broke out again.

Changmigak was stronger than I thought. They used all sorts of flashy effect skills that I couldn’t understand and killed 6 of the Blood Demon guys, but all 6 revived immediately, and due to the numerical disadvantage, all three ended up dying. The Blood Demon guild members stomped on their corpses.

Knowing that they would die even if they revived, the three were being toyed with while dead.

[General/Gchang: Angryy ㅇㅅㅠ now’s the time, hurry and go do the quest]

[General/MinoIsMine: We’ll hold off these Blood Demon bastards ㅠㅠ!]

[General/Gakjong: Don’t worry about us..!]

[General/Karis: Are you filming a movie? lol]

[General/Karis: I thought you were Siph lol]

[General/OfficialStance: As expected, muscles prove to be idiots]

Siph.

I stopped my mouse abruptly.

‘Don’t worry about me!’

This was the last words of Siph, one of the five heroes of the World Tree. Siph sacrificed himself to protect his lover and comrades.

[General/Angryy: If you mean Siph]

[General/OfficialStance: ?]

[General/Angryy: Are you talking about the hero of the Haldeon Empire who sacrificed his life to protect his comrades during the Human-Demon War?]

[General/OfficialStance: ..??]

[General/Karis: Hero of the Haldeon Empire lololol So damn lol]

[General/Angryy: Did you just call Siph a muscle-brained idiot?]

[General/OfficialStance: lol]

[General/OfficialStance: Did that muscle-brain even have a name? I didn’t know because I skipped it]

[General/Gchang: ㅇㅅㅇ;;;?]

[General/Angryy: You’ve been quite entertaining]

I have a bad personality. My patience is very short, and the world is full of things that make me angry.

The reason I had been quietly watching these bastards messing around was simple. I couldn’t type as fast as they could.

But from the moment they called Siph a muscle-brained idiot, I decided not to hold back.

[General/OfficialStance: lol???]

[General/Angryy: It’s really funny]

[General/Angryy: How shallow must your life be to think that playing bully in a game would work]

[General/OfficialStance: ㅡㅡ Hey, why don’t you just shut up?]

[General/Karis: lololol We’re going easy on you because you’re a newbie lol]

[General/Angryy: I’m curious, what’s good about playing bully in a game?]

[General/Karis: Well, we can make you miserable]

[General/OfficialStance: lololol]

[General/OfficialStance: We can keep killing you whenever we find you and prevent you from doing quests~]

I was so dumbfounded that my typing speed increased.

[General/Angryy: So you’re saying you kill people using something like Fireball]

[General/Angryy: I know you’re sitting in front of a computer on a weekday afternoon, pressing the asdf keys on your keyboard to use skills]

[General/Angryy: If you tell me to be scared of that..]

[General/Angryy: I don’t know if this is bullying or just being a loser…]