Conquering The Game's World

"For the raging desert, we would need a lot of water supply. So, William, we will depend on you for that."

Everyone, including William, understood Luis was talking about his elemental affinity.

"No problem." William nodded.

One by one, Luis started giving instructions to everyone on the things they would need to prepare. Time passed, as it was 2 hours since Luis started speaking. They all listened to all the things he listed with utmost seriousness. He even elaborated on how they would work together with the other teams from their class.

Then they further discussed several things, as Luis checked the time to see it was already past dinner time.

"That's it for today, so for the next few days. I hope to see what you all are capable of. If we are acquainted with each other's abilities, it would be easier to work together."

When Luis said that, the others also nodded in agreement. The drowsy Cobert, who was dying to leave, became delighted and stood up with vigor.

Luis also stood up from his seat and was about to leave. When he paused, turned back, and left after saying a sentence.

"Everyone, please don't forget to prepare for the written test. Good night~"

In a merry mood, Luis settled the bill and left, whistling a tune.

The others looked at each other and left without speaking a word. Bonnie and William were already on bad terms because of the previous incident. Because of her indifference, Sufi didn't feel the need to talk to them. Cobert was just too lazy to talk. He wanted to return to the dorm and sleep.

***

"What a strange bunch they are." Luis chuckled, thinking of the teammates assigned to him.

{Lily, who is Bonnie's Father?} Luis asked, using his Telepathy skill. He had been curious about it since before when Bonnie told them that her father was an amazing technician.

{Her father is Nolan Brown. A famous technician of the Grandas Kingdom. Last year, he was nominated for the position of council member of Tresta. A vast organization supported by the government. Which develops high-tech technologies. However, he lost because of not having enough votes in his favour.}

Luis' eyes widened in surprise. {He is talented enough to be nominated for the position of Tresta's council?! Then he must be very good.} He sighed. {Now Bonnie's previous statement about him being amazing sounds underwhelming.}

Of course, Luis knew about Tresta. Which is why he was so amazed.

{What about Sufi? Is her fire magic as good as she claims?}

{Compared to Master and Sister Alicia, she is still far behind. However, she is indeed good.}

{I see.} Luis wasn't expecting her to be that good in the first place. Now Lily's confirmation that Sufi wasn't lying before made him relieved.

{What about William?} Luis asked, and Lily's answer didn't come as a surprise to him.

{Just an average guy, he didn't have any competitors in a small town such as Lipose. Constant praise from the people surrounding him boosted his confidence. After coming to the academy, he found he was nothing special and had an average talent.}

{Which was a tremendous blow to his confidence. This made him develop an inferiority complex. He bows to the strong and vents his frustration on the people he deems weaker than himself.}

"Hmm," Luis did not comment on this. He had seen a lot of such people in his previous life, who blame everything on circumstances and harm the innocent for no reason.

They feel that they are the only ones being mistreated, not even thinking about those who are in a worse condition than them.

'Whatever… Who am I to say anything? In this life, I have talent, have a loving family, and my financial situation is better than 99.8% of other families in the world. Blessed with all this, how am I in any position to criticize others?'

Luis thought so with a smile, as the regrets of his previous life and experiences of two deaths flashed in his mind.

His lips trembled, but he shook his head to stop thinking about that stuff and talked with Lily.

{Tell me everything about Cobert.}

{From his documents, the information matches with what he had described before. However, when I checked the information about the merchant that had adopted him. Several of their abnormalities came to light.}

{Oh, tell me?} Luis' smile widened as he felt that his previous conjecture was right.

Lily started speaking.

{The merchant that adopted him was a good businessman in the eyes of the public, but it was just a fake image he established to hide his identity as the leader of a secret organization that specializes in training assassins.}

{In fact, some of the assassins killed in that raid had also come out of this organization called Night Hawkers.}

{You mean to say that Cobert's stepdad trained the assassins who attacked me and killed Aunt Maria?} Luis asked. His expression was flat. Not bothered by the news.

{I don't know which assassin took the task of attacking you. So, I can't say for sure Master.}

Luis nodded.

In fact, he had tortured the captive assassins to find out which one of them had attacked him. However, they were clueless about who took on that task. So, he could only end the investigation, thinking it was one of the dead assassins.

{Well forget it.} Luis pursed his lips, then asked several questions in succession. {Tell me more about the Night Hawkers organization and whether is Cobert also an assassin. If so, what's his code name?}

{As you have guessed, Master!}

{Cobert had been working as an assassin. He goes by the code name Twilight Owl. He has completed several difficult commissions and is known as the genius assassin of this generation. A few months ago, the leader of the Night Hawkers died suffering from severe injuries, making Cobert the new leader of the organization.}

After Lily's explanation was over, a wide grin appeared on Luis' face. 'It is indeed him! Oh, Twilight… you gave me such an enormous surprise.'

Luis covered his face with his palms and rubbed his temples.

'Who would have expected that the cunning hidden boss of [Holy Dragon Knight 2] was a student of the Oracle Academy before his plot started and has been the observer to all the events of the first sequel acting as a mob character hiding his strength?'

{Lily, what's his actual strength?}

{From his completed commissions, it is estimated to be above C rank.}

'Should have thought so.' Luis knew that Cobert indeed had amazing talent. Besides, after being trained and working as an assassin, he must have had a lot of combat experience. So, it's normal that his rank is higher than Luis, who had just awakened a few months ago.

'Looking at his lazy personality now. It seems he hasn't been blacked yet.' Luis tried to remember the plot about how Twilight was blackened. 'If I don't remember wrong, in his backstory, the girl he liked was killed by someone… Her name was Lorna or something.'

He couldn't remember the details, so he stopped thinking about it.

'Let's observe him for some time and then decide on how to deal with him.'

After deciding, Luis was about to call Alicia. To ask if she had her dinner. However, he came across a familiar silver-haired figure walking some distance away from him.

{It's Alex and the four threats that my Enhanced Instinct is warning me about are probably the ones following him. Two of them should be Frank and Rover. Who are the other two?}

{Master, they are the guards called by Sera.}

'I see, so they are trying to protect Alex while hiding. Does Sera not want to tell Alex that he is in danger? Or does she not have an explanation for her actions?'

Luis' eyes were subtle, as he noticed that Alex, oblivious to the tail behind, saw him and approached his direction. 'Is this guy truly a protagonist? I feel ashamed when I remember how I used to play the game with him as my game avatar.'

However, he didn't show the disappointment on his face and waited for Alex to approach him.

"It's been a while! Do you remember me, Mr. Luis?"

For Alex's warm greeting, of course, Luis wouldn't be a rude bastard. So, he also gave a polite response.

"Hello! Of course, I remember you. You are from Fenrir Class, and we met in the entrance test. Your name was… Alex Stain, right?"

Alex showed a surprised expression, not expecting Luis to truly remember him. Moreover, by his name.

Since Luis never revealed his identity, Alex didn't know that the person who contacted him through Rura was actually him.

"I didn't expect you to know me."

"I remember all the students who received S-grade evaluations." Luis shrugged and asked in a casual tone. "Anyway, where are you going this late at night? It doesn't seem like you are walking in the direction of the dorm."

Alex nodded and answered without hiding.

"I received a letter stating that Student Thomas wanted to meet me..."