VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

{ "We shall start early so that we get some moments to spare before the arrival of the golden moon." }

Many players did not even think about anything anymore and just accepted the quest as soon as the golden quest window appeared before them.

They were excited already, and if they were to skip the line and start directly, wasting time would only make them fall behind the others.

"Wow. Look at these excited people."

It did not even take five minutes for the plaza to clear up.

Only the players that were still admiring the pretty librarian and his pretty partner were left there along with the two of them.

The spectators who were finding a place to sit around the plaza just rejected the quest and found a nice place now that the plaza was empty.

And, since they knew the event started earlier than it should have, they knew this was their chance to secure the best seats before the others arrived there after hearing the news of the event.

They were lucky, but unlike them, the ones who still had the quest window open before them were thinking what to do.

"We will have to do this alone, right?"

"Some will get together in groups and will have to do things in groups, but it's mostly random. We might not meet till the end."

Standing in the line was tiring and the crowd made them sweaty in their pretty clothes, so they first cooled down and drank some water before helping one another tidy up their clothes and hair.

"What if we do meet?"

"It would be fun, I guess? It's not like we will have to fight or anything so if we do meet, we will compete for the better score."

The event was going to be simple.

They will be placed inside the library that will temporarily be spatially modified into a highly complex maze.

The spectators will see the library as a normal place, but inside the minds of the participants, it will be a whole different world– of course though, the spectators will see what the players are seeing as well through the display screens.

The Mind maze, as the players call it, was a special technique of the Librarian— the arcane weaver.

He was born a sorcerer and he studied magic, the world, the truths, and the past into detail, gaining control over the world altering powers of [Arcanum]— the special energy that was like Mana, but more ancient and Natural.

He created this special energy world for the participants that was as real as any reality for the ones participating in the event.

"Then, shall we?"

They would be dropped in random locations throughout the library that had now turned into a giant maze, and they would have to come out of it.

The system will assign them 'stars' according to their performance and since its system is supported, there's no need for them to worry about anything like cheating or miscalculations.

The librarian used the quest method exactly because he also understood basic human nature better than the others.

He was a human at the end of the day as well, so there wasn't much that he had left to understand about these simple beings.

"Yeah. Let's go."

The two of them knew how players would have reacted had this not been supported by the system as well.

"Then, good luck I guess."

She was smirking right now, and he understood that provocative smirk very well.

"I'll do my best, remember that."

"It depends on the starts you get, darling. And there are more than one kind of star."

Above them, the librarian was looking down at the ground, at this particular couple dressed in attractive clothes.

He could tell the boy was a curious one right after he saw him moving freely even in the presence of his familiar.

And the girl… he had a feeling that he had seen that girl somewhere.

But he could not remember for certain so he was contemplating as he looked at her black hair, those familiar blue eyes, and especially… that white sword she was carrying as an accessory at the back of her dress.

The attractive sword had somehow become the part of her dress from the way it was set on the dress, it was unique and though one could not tell that it was a weapon with their simple eyes, as the bearer of those unique eyes, he could certainly tell that it was no simple sword.

But, he could not tell anything more about that weapon.

It was a sword and that was it. Even his special eyes could not tell how precious or worthless that unique sword was… which confused him even more than his distant memory of the owner of that weapon.

"Let's see who gets more than."

The event was called [Appreciation of blessed talents].

The venue for the event was going to the mind maze that the Librarian created inside of the library.

Those who performed well and earn good stars will obtain something that they 'needed the most' in their current state to move forward depending on their contributions.

The criteria was unknown, but they knew if they performed well enough, aside from the things that they could obtain from the treasury, they might also get to choose something from the library.

"Good luck to you too, Miss Alexandra."

They both pressed the accept quest button and vanished from the plaza, vanishing from the eyes of the Librarian and the Spirit beast as well.

"How amusing…"

The librarian was confused but there was a smile on his face right now.

He looked beside him at his partner before closing his eyes and looking at the situation inside of the library.

There were hundreds of people participating this time around.

More than half of the total player population of the Moongold and a sixth of natives were participating this time.

If it wasn't for his continuously expanding spatial magic, they might not have been able to accommodate so many people into that relatively small place.

There weren't many people this time around, just like he knew there would be.

But, he was only interested in the results that these individuals show to them, to the world, and to the people watching them.

Last time the event was held, the player did not have much information about it or knew the actual importance of it, but this time, they knew.

And since they knew there were amazing rewards waiting for them, without knowing what actually they are walking into, they started the trial that was presented to them, and appeared inside the mage where they will face quests, quizzes, puzzles, and most importantly— trials of the (Forgotten enigmas).