The prince was stunned. KMega6KMegacharacter was sensibly correct since his only goal was to help Eastguard and not selfish like the other npcs thought. All he wanted was for Kieser to have a home to come back to when he found him. He really didn’t care too much about others except the few that are in his inner circle of companions. After all, they’re npcs. It’s cold, but it is what it is.
The prince was forced to back off from his attempts at recruiting KMega to his cause. Despite his looks, he was the only one with political ties to the union countries, which is the only reason why he was invited to this meeting. Still, he wasn’t foolish enough to rely on that alone. That’s why he’s been recruiting the few surviving noble sons and daughters to his cause. The royal vaults may have been empty, but not every member of an Earl or Viscount house fell during the invasion. He had begged, borrowed, and stole everything he could to reclaim the throne.
Even with that, the crime rate was at an all time high, while starvation and disease was rampant, and there seemed to be no hope in sight.
Politics weren’t KMega’s thing. The only politics he knew were for outlaws; the strong ruled. That didn’t mean he was unwilling to learn though. Something that he quickly learned is politics was a business, and the currency was favors and promises. Money, provisions, arms, animals, and people. To treat all that as commodities was an unusual topic for KMega. As a pirate, if him or his crew needed anything, they would go out and steal it. He was the most notorious outlaw in every game available at the time. There was also an IRL bounty on him for over 10,000 coin that was never collected. As a necromancer, he refined his ability to command, but he never really interacted with any other people. Being the king of the dead gets real old when you’re alone. He was glad his parents sold off the character when they did. His only annoyance though was that he didn’t see any of the money. As a mage and then a bandit, he learned hierarchy. Unlike the previous game, these required you to interact with others. As a mage though, he was stuck up and ill mannered. He was recruited for guild warfare and pvp a few times where he learned teamwork. When he was a bandit, he learned about contractors and clients. He also experienced master and student relationships, but never to the degree that he had with Yirk.
Several hours had passed during the meeting, and KMega kept silent for the most of it. While in no particular hurry, he offered the fortresses resources when needed and reserved what he could for local rebuilding. He figured that it wasn’t normally this easy, and that politics were complicated. It also started to intrigue him while he thought about the challenge as well as the real life applications if he learned them. After all, he didn’t plan to be a streamer2streamerstory mechanic forever.
Weise watching the meeting using his god view. He wouldn’t normally abuse the system for a personal musing like this, but this case was different. Over the IRL weeks, he has begun to notice discrepancies. Everything was fine on the surface, but far too much has happened to KMega. Being killed by a dragon4dragonspecies right after joining the game was unfortunate, but it’s not unforeseeable. It’s not the first time that someone’s evolved a repeating quest. Surviving a rock lizard ambush isn’t easy, but it’s doable. The deeds that he completed during war that led to receiving two gods blessings at the same time was very rare. His tournament win grabbed the most attention. KMega had no intimidation and no regeneration skills, but he never died. What happened to him that let him survive when he wasn’t meant to? It was imbalanced on both ends; the user received harsh penalties, while the opponent becomes increasingly frustrated. Since it was rare for someone to have such skills, or even know how to use them in that matter, the tournament was the first public case where it was used. While he watched the political situation, he couldn’t help but wonder about a lot of things. In the end, he made his decision.
“I need to meet that young man.” (Weise)
