Chapter 54

  Dave searched for half an hour without finding any monsters to grind EXP on. He was about to give up and hit the recall when he came to an area with a group of newly spawned monsters .

  Dave looked up and saw a message written across the sky in fiery words.

  “Hmm, they finally made it. ”

  The congratulatory message remained hanging in the sky for all to see. Dave went back to hunting the new spawns.

  Some time later Dave looked up at a change in the level of brightness. A new message replaced the one congratulating the guild.

  “Huh. That’s unexpected. I don’t remember ever hearing about the game being shut down for a patch.”

  Dave disconnected and made something to eat. It was late at night and there wasn’t much else to do.

  He sat at the computer with his cup of noodles and looked through the patch notes.

  Dave sat, absorbing and integrating the information, his noodles long since gone cold and gelatinous.

  It wasn’t just a service pack, it was a whole new game!

  He was pulled out of his reverie by the sound of his phone ringing.

  Dave didn’t recognize the number.

  Normally he would let an unknown caller go to message. But for some reason, he took this particular call.

  “Hello?”

  “Mr. Skeletal? It's me! Lone Arrow!” a female voice, “Did you see those patch notes? That stuff is lit man!”

  Idiot! He’d given her his number. Why did he do that!

  “Uhm,” Dave coughed, “I guess it is. The whole game experience is going to be different.” He said

  “Yeah, tell me about it, at least now I won’t have to use the stupid lock-on system.” she said

  Dave didn’t use a ranged weapon, but thought without the lock-on system shooting would be much more difficult. It was optional but still…

  “You sound confident in your archery skills.”

  “Yeah, I am. Actually, I’m better with a gun.” she giggled, “But it’s almost the same.”

  His hands went cold when she said the word ‘gun,’ his mind flashing back to a hospital room not so long ago.

  “Hey, you okay over there, you went quiet? The gun thing was just a joke! Really.

  “Anyway, the dagger sold and I want to send you your share.”