Chapter 32
Three days later.
With the maintenance successfully completed, the guild system is implemented in Dream Fantasy.
That evening–
「–And, well, that’s about it. Is there anything else you don’t understand?」
「No, I’m all good now! Thank you so much for teaching me all this!」
「You’re very welcome. Well then, I have some things to take care of, so I’ll be off. Good luck!」
Isamu bids farewell to the boy he was giving a lecture to and leaves Rookie Forest.
He returns to Starting Town and approaches the fountain in the square where they agreed to meet. There, he sees two familiar faces.
It’s Shuka and Nana.
Isamu hurries over to the two of them, and noticing him, they also run up to him.
「Good evening, uncle!」
「Good evening, Tutorial Guy!」
「Yeah, good evening to both of you. Sorry, did I keep you waiting?」
「No, we just got here too! …Come on, Shuka!」
Nana prompts Shuka to say something.
Shuka nods and looks straight into Isamu’s eyes as she begins to speak.
「Uncle, thank you for joining our guild today! We look forward to playing with you!」
The other day, Isamu told the people who invited him to their guilds via chat that he wouldn’t officially belong to any guild, but would gladly join sporadically instead.
Everyone understood his thinking, and after chatting, they said, 「In that case, let’s play together on XX day at YY time.」
And so, the first guild Isamu ended up joining sporadically was Shuka and the others’, which brings us to now.
「I should be thanking you for inviting me! I’m sorry it’s only for a short time, but I’m in your care today!」
「Yup! First, we’ll invite you to our guild house!」
「Oh, you already bought a guild home. Sure, I’d love to visit!」
A guild home is an activity base that a guild can own.
By establishing a guild and paying 10,000 Gald, you can get your own dedicated space.
Along with this, many new interior items have also been implemented, allowing you to coordinate your room.
It seems you can travel to that base from the newly installed transfer magic circle.
That information was written in the email he received the other day.
「Well then, shall we go? The others are probably waiting too!」
「Others? There are other members?」
「Yes! Everyone’s been wanting to meet you, Tutorial Guy!」
「I see, that makes me happy. I’m a little nervous though.」
「Everyone really likes you uncle, so it’ll be fine! Alright, let’s goooo!」
(Hm? I wonder if they might be acquaintances of mine. Well, I’ll find out when I go.)
A few minutes of walking later.
They arrive at the newly installed transfer magic circle.
The specifications seem to be different from other magic circles, with a panel installed in the center.
「Huh, so this is how it looks.」
「Yup! And see, you input the room number and password here!」
As she speaks, Shuka uses the virtual keyboard to enter a 5-digit number into the panel.
After inputting 8 digits, the transfer circle activates.
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What spreads out before Isamu’s eyes is a cute, fairy tale-like space with a pink color scheme.
It’s about the size of a school classroom, and around the cute table placed in the center are about 10 people.
Noticing Isamu and the others who transferred in, they all call out at once.
「Oh, you’re here! We’ve been waiting!」
「Long time no see, Tu-Guy!」
「Good evening, Tutorial Guy!」
「Welcome back Shuka! And welcome, mister!」
「I watched the event broadcast! You’re good at commentary too, Tutorial Guy!」
The people there were the beginners who were with him when he first gave Shuka a lecture.
「Ah, everyone! Long time no see! So you all were the members of Shuka’s guild!」
「Yeah! Little miss invited us!」
「Since then, I’ve been playing with Shuka sometimes. Shuka talks about you a lot, Tutorial Guy!」
「Oh, is that so! I’m happy we could meet again like this!」
After that, Isamu rejoices in his reunion with them.
Then, after finishing greetings, Isamu voices a question he’s curious about.
「–Come to think of it, what’s the name of Shuka’s guild?」
「It’s Happinesstrong!」
「Huh? Ha, hapi…?」
「Happinesstrong! It’s happiness and strong put together, Happinesstrong. By the way, it’s all in hiragana.」
As Isamu is confused, not understanding the meaning of the words, Nana whispers an explanation.
「Ha, Happinesstrong, got it! That’s a good name!」
「Yup! We all thought of it together with the big sis’s!」
「Oh, is that so! Does it have some meaning?」
「Um, you see. Shuka is happy to be able to play with kind big sis’s and big bro’s! I wanted to put that in the name, so when I consulted Nana, she said happiness is happiness in English!」
Shuka answers with a joyful expression.
At Shuka’s words, the other players including Nana also have gentle smiles.
「I see, so that’s why it’s happiness!」
「Yup! And also, we want to become the strongest team. So I wanted to put that in the name too, and when I asked big sis, she said strong is strong in English! So I combined the two!」
「Oh, so that’s how it was. It’s a wonderful name!」
「Yeah, Shuka loves it too!」
(Happinesstrong, huh. Yeah, it really is a great name.)
Isamu is impressed that it has a more solid meaning than he expected.
Then, after hearing that the hiragana spelling was Nana’s idea because 「it’s cuter that way,」 Isamu is invited to the guild by Shuka.
「–So, where are we going now? Defeating a raid boss after all?」
Along with the addition of the guild system, new raid bosses were also added in today’s update.
A raid boss is a powerful boss that cannot possibly be defeated without multiple people, and Isamu had thought he was called to help defeat it.
Though, Isamu wouldn’t be of much help in battle.
「No, we’re going Golden Almirage hunting now. Apparently, if you raise your guild rank, you can receive various benefits!」
In Dream Fantasy, guilds have a rank indicator, and the rank goes up based on the experience points gained by members.
Depending on that rank, buffs are applied to experience points and item drop rates.
It seems Nana and the others want to raise that rank by hunting Golden Almirages.
「Oh, is that so. Alright, I’ll help out too then!」
「Yaaay, thank you uncle! Alright, Happinesstrong, moving out!」
「「「Yeah! 」」」
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They arrive at Red Jungle where Golden Almirages appear.
「Okay! Now, let’s defeat the golden bunnies together!」
「Yeah! We’ll search over there!」
「Then we’ll go that way!」
「Well then, the three of us will look around here!」
「Roger that!」
They split into multiple groups and decide to hunt Golden Almirages separately.
Isamu is in the same group as Shuka and Nana.
「Doing this kind of reminds me of when we leveled up before.」
「It sure does! It’s livelier than before though!」
「Let’s defeat even more than last time today!」
「Yeah, let’s do our best!」
「Alright, I’ll show Tu-Guy how much stronger I’ve gotten!」
And so, while enjoying conversations with the players, Isamu diligently hunts Golden Almirages.
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