Infinite Realm

"That's all." Lu Zhen said as he closed the box.

"Haha. You really have some dogsh*t luck, Old Lu. It's almost on par with this great Emperor." Fudo guffawed.

After Lu Zhen had opened the Mortal rank chest, the contents were emptied and then auctioned within the group. The reason for putting them for auction rather than distributing them for free was because Sato felt it was wrong for the others to get the items without having done anything. As for the money paid for the goods, Sato brought up the idea that it would be held in a "party account" and the funds would be used to benefit the entire team. Since the money would eventually go back to everyone, no one disagreed with this, and Seiichi was chosen to be the team's finance manager, or better yet, treasurer. This was mostly because guild features hadn't become available to players yet.

Of the 6 men present, Fudo was the one who gained the most as a majority of the items in the box were leaned towards mages so most of the team members didn't auction for it. Lu Zhen, being the one who found the box, was permitted to take 2 items without having to pay anything. As for the rest, it was bought by the remaining 3 since most of the items weren't useful to Sato, who was well above the mainstream level of players, and Fudo had already gotten his fill together with Lu Zhen.

"Even if these items aren't useful to me, I can sell them off to other players at a high price." Fudo had a wide grin on his face.

It should be known that treasure chests and boxes were quite rare and because of this, the items found in them were usually valuable, even if it was from a Mortal rank chest. Fudo was already level 9, which was not far from level 10, so a majority of these goods would become worthless to him. However, he could still sell them to other players and make a killing.

"Enough grinning, you greedy pig." Yato said with a scowl on his face.

Yato didn't manage to get anything from the Mortal rank chest since most of the items inside leaned towards mages. Even for the few that didn't, he got outbid by Katsuo and Seiichi so Yato didn't have the strength to be polite or even to keep a smile on his face.

"Haha. This Emperor made a killing so my magnanimous self will ignore the cries of poor you. Don't worry. Who knows, maybe your turn is just around the corner?" Fudo smirked.

"You...!"

"Alright, that's enough. Break it up you two." Sato said.

"I will be returning back to town now so you guys will have to go on without me." Sato suddenly said.

"Huh? Why?" Everyone turned and asked him.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm too strong." Sato said with a smug.

"Tch." Fudo suddenly lost all the previous joy he had upon seeing Sato's smile.

The others were similarly irritated a bit but they understood what Sato was trying to say.

As a level 15 player, the gap between him and the monsters here was more than 3 levels so he wouldn't be getting any shred of Experience points from defeating them since this was a regulation in the game. It could be said that any fight he engaged in would be the same as using a boulder to kill an ant; it was overkill. What was worse was that this action would benefit him nothing; not even the least valuable reward. So Sato's words weren't wrong in any way because he was indeed too strong.

Rather than to while away his time here, Sato decided to proceed with a plan of his he had thought up a long time ago. So he set his sights back on the town and decided to take his leave now.

"Okay then. We understand so get going now." Fudo waved at him.

Sato ignored him before delegating Seiichi as the new captain of the party in the team control and left the party.

"Hey! What did you do that for?" Fudo yelled.

"Yeah, why?" Yato stared at Sato.

"What?" Sato emotionlessly asked.

"You made four eyes the captain. The heck?" Yato complained.

"Yeah. Don't you know I would have been a better leader than he is? I thought we were best friends." Fudo pouted.

'What the heck? Since when did I become a caretaker for a bunch of kids?'

Even though he knew that the duo was just messing around, Sato got tired of their antics.

"Enough games, you two. You have to be serious about this. We're contending against some of the tops guilds in ISJ and the Asian server too. If we lose this opportunity, no one knows when we would get something similar again. I and Xue Yan have indeed gotten stronger and we can simply rely on the two of us to beat the Kobold King but where will your pride be if that happens? Wouldn't you be more proud of yourselves if you play an important role in the battle? But everything comes at a cost and that's why you're all here.

"I plan on making one of the greatest gaming clubs in ISJ and I don't want slackers in my team. Having fun is good and all but you shouldn't overdo it."

Silence pervaded the place as everyone was surprised at Sato's speech. Not because of the serious expression he had on when he spoke but the content of his words.

'He wants to make one of the greatest clubs in ISJ?' Lu Zhen looked incredibly at Sato.

It should be known that ISJ was one of the larger states in the Alliance that focused on VR gaming, after all, the VR industry had experienced a massive boom here so it was to be expected. Due to this, the competition between VR game development companies was heated and the competition between gaming guilds and clubs was even more vicious. Those who managed to survive this competition long enough became the current reigning supremes, known commonly as Super guilds. Despite knowing all of this, Sato had still planned on creating a new club to challenge these supremes. This was the reason why Lu Zhen was shocked.

It should be known that the Emperor's Might guild in Riverdale was only a branch of the real deal and even at that, they still made impressive achievements in Riverdale and were recognised as the strongest guild not only in the town but also in Black Rock province's gamer community. And this is just the strength of a branch of a super guild. There were multiple other branches like the one in Riverdale scattered all across the world of IR and there was still the main headquarters that was much stronger than the branches. From this, one can imagine the strength of a true super guild and Sato wanted to contend against those guys. If this wasn't madness then what else would it be?

"Alright. I get it " Fudo sighed after being lectured by Sato. Unlike the others, he not only knew about Sato's goal earlier on but he also knew the reason behind it so he was quick to understand.

"Fine." Yato agreed. Though he played around most times, he knew when to be serious and when to mess around, and now wasn't the time for that.

Seeing that everyone seemed to understand him, Sato nodded his head.

"Good. I will be heading back now. We'll see each other again in 24 hours. By then, Xue Yan must have gotten enough rest and also accustomed herself to her newfound strength.. When everyone is set, we will then head straight to the Middle region's 9th floor with the 10th floor as our final goal."