6 hours had passed since the time that Kain had received his mission.
Since Kain didn't know what it meant to make a vampire starve, he just started to pass his time.
After awakening,
the WGC would issue the licenses for people to go to the Beasts Continent to hunt.
It would usually take about 12 days to arrive in every single house in the world which had someone who did awaken on that day.
After all, when someone went to awaken in the towers, they had to fill in their name and address along with verifying it with their TPID card.
(Terraeth Personal ID)
He played games, watched movies, socialized with others.
This whole process repeated for 3 days.
Heck, he even went to the cinema.
...
*Ding**Dong*
Suddenly a bell sound rang.
*creek*
A door was opened.
"WGC Delivery Service. Your Hunting Pass along with Guild licenses have arrived, please tap your phone here," said a delivery man as he pointed at the screen in the other hand.
As soon as he tapped on the screen, Kain's credits were deducted. The delivery man handed a package and left.
"Who was it?" Eren asked, while watching TV. He was currently watching anime on ARTV.
(Augmented Reality Television)
"Looks like our ID passes along with WGC ID have arrived."
For the first 3 years, Awakeners could work directly under WGC, WGC will give you services of what a top tier guild could provide for the first three years.
After that, people would have to leave WGC and join a guild. After all, WGC was not a guild but an alliance of the world.
There used to be elections between the guilds in which the top elected person would get selected.
The general system for the leader selection was that all of the guilds in the world would vote for a guild. A guild cannot vote for themselves.
Meanwhile, most guilds were run by powerful families, hence the guild leaders were also the members of those families. A very few guilds had different systems.
"So it finally happened huh..." said Eren as he sighed.
"So? What are your plans? Are we going to really climb the tower?" asked Eren.
"Yes, we need to, do not forget that we promised it," said Kain. He truly did want to climb the tower.
Having an achievement like climbing the tower and having the title of Tower Climbers was very prestigious.
Tower climbers were also the top echelons in all the powers outside.
So why did most people not want to climb the tower?
That was because, it is said that most of the people who climb the tower do not come out alive.
"Do not think that it is too hard, didn't our Terraeth human ancestors climb this tower?" he reasoned.
"Yeah... Fine." Eren didn't bother to talk about it anymore.
"So? What are we doing next?" he asked.
"We will be going to the Beast Continent of the north," replied Kain.
Beast Continent was the other part of the land that was over the northern hemisphere of Terraria.
This place was divided into many regions.
Some dangerous and some specifically for newbie hunting.
After they were done talking, Kain and Eren went outside.
While walking over the road, Kain this time felt something.
His vision felt a little blurry, his head felt a bit dizzy. He could also feel a strong thirst. He drank the water he had brought with himself but it was to no avail. The water only helped with the thirst for a few minutes. He knew that this was something related to the 'Vampire' thingy but he refused to believe he couldn't conquer it.
He knew that as long as he conquered it, he would be able to still make use of those 'Sins' and still be able to not drink blood.
But how could he even know what he was even doing. It was utterly foolish to try it. Blood was like water and food combined for vampires after all.
After he arrived at the WGC's Headquarters in 02 City.
The cities in this world were made around all of the 6 towers only. Hence there were only 6 cities in all of the southern continent.
After he entered the headquarters, he felt it. This time he felt it.
The smell of humans... He was feeling the smell of humans! And he was not only able to smell it, he also found it... pleasant.
'Calm down... Calm down,' he repeated in his mind as he took deep breaths, his eyes had also turned red for a few seconds.
"Are you alright Kain? You seem to be hiding something from me these days aren't you?" asked Eren.
Hearing this, Kain decided to hide this fact from Eren before he gets to know everything about it.
"What could I possibly be hiding from a guy who even knows my underwear size?" replied Kain in a sarcastic tone.
"Tsk. Just make sure if you have any problems, to discuss with me okay." Eren still decided to assure Kain.
"Mhm..." replied Kain, he had finally suppressed his bloodlust. His drying throat also calmed down.
'Haha... I knew it... we can conquer it,' Kain inwardly cheered.
Soon Kain and Eren arrived at the reception desk.
The receptionist saw both of them coming and fixed her hair.
"This is WGC Headquarters. How may we help you?" asked the receptionist.
"We are here to report for the first time and join any newbie party that might join in," said Kain to the receptionist.
"O-kay, then I shall find the perfect party for you," said the receptionist as she started looking for a party.
After about 5 minutes, she said, "Sir we have found a party of three, do you wish to join in? The party will leave tomorrow, if you say then I can add you to their party."
"Yes, please do that, also is there any place where we can get some decent starter equipment?" Kain enquired.
Going to an area infested by thousands of beasts, an area which humanity was unable to explore even after 5000 years of coming out of the tower, it was definitely going to be challenging. And as such, going without any sorts of equipment in that place would be like courting death.
"Oh... Yes! You may go to the equipment counter and get some equipment. Starter equipment for newly awakened only costs 20 credits. But if you buy it again, it would cost you a hundred credits so be careful out there," the receptionist spoke as she added:
"Also! Since you both are new, I am sure that you are not in a guild, hence all the materials that you acquire can be sold to WGC itself, you do not need to sell it to local vendors," replied the receptionist with a smile.
"Uh... we will consider that," Kain replied but he knew that he would not be selling even a single piece of beast materials here.
After all, street vendors offered a better price than WGC. The only thing WGC offered was the 'Official' tag. It was like this, people preferred government jobs more than private jobs in the past. That was because it was the 'government' and hence there was a sense of security in the eyes of common people.
After Kain and Eren got out, they decided to go to a local vendor market.
After about a 10 minute walk, they arrived at the Asmar Market.
The Asmar Market was the biggest market in all of 02 City. It is said that, if you are unable to find something anywhere around the city, you could definitely find that item in the Asmar market. This was the reputation it had.
And no, unlike the markets that used to be very rowdy, this place was different. There were many big shops on the sides, there were also pre-built tent-like sci-fi stalls that could be occupied by anyone as long as they booked for it.
As for the paths to walk? There were two. One for the cars and other vehicles to pass through and one for cycle men and footpath.
Soon, Kain and Eren arrived at a stall nearby,
The stall had various swords and armors kept in it. There were also price tags which showed like 5 credits for sword and 10 credits for full leather armor.
This made them save 10 whole credits! If they bought it from the Association, it would've been a ripoff.
As for the quality? The quality of all the weapons in this stall was the best for their price. After all,
In this market there were quality checks every single day for every single item done by robots.
If there was even the slightest of the issue in the products, that item would be taken away by the robot and no one would be able to do anything about it.
So, you might ask... why does not everyone buy items from this market? After all, it's cheaper here.
Well, there is also a valid reason for that. The thing is, the items sold by the WGC are made by the guilds. And hence, the players who are part of a guild receive a huge discount from the items.
The 20 credit price tag would then be dropped down to 10 for all of the items if the person was part of a guild and buys that guild's items.
That was the reason that WGC sold so many items and many people bought them. And since it was a crowd tactic, it influenced many. Even if there were warnings sent by other Awakeners who realized this on internet, many still fell for it.
"Is anyone here?" Kain asked.
"Hm? Oh! Customer! Of course! I am here, do you need anything dear customer?" Suddenly a young boy came in and asked.
The boy was truly handsome. Unlike Kain and Eren who had slightly above average looks, this boy had truly good looks. He had brown hair and wore eyeglasses.
"May I know how much this sword will cost me along with a lightweight leather armor... Mr....?" asked Kain as he looked at the boy.
"Sam. And also, that would cost you about um... let's see, I'll charge you 9 credits for everything. 1 credit discount. How about it?" said Sam as he held the sword Kain took and started wiping it with a cloth.
"Okay... So just tell me one thing. Did you forge all of this on your own?" asked Kain to Sam.
"Hm? Why do you want to know that, of course, I made it all on my own, look, there is my signature on the items engraved on it," told Sam as he pointed at a signature. The signature was a stylish lightning bolt.
"Okay, then Mr. Sam, would you please get us two of such sets?" said Kain as he pointed at Eren.
"Okay," replied Sam as he brought over a set of armors and weapons.
[...]
After they both bought their armors and weapons, they added the WGC seal over their armor. It was the identification system in WGC. There was a QR code like seal over the armor, it would work as their ID cards here.
After taking care of everything,
Kain and Eren both arrived at home.
'This throat of mine...' Suddenly Kain felt a huge thirst in his throat again.
It has been like this for days.
Kain tried his best to control it but it just doesn't stop. By now, Kain was not sure what it was that his body was even asking for;
After all, he couldn't possibly drink someone's blood, now, can he?
That night, Kain drank an unknown amount of water, he even drank water directly from the pipe, but it was all for waste.
He could do nothing other than to just sleep, thirsty and hungry.
After all, the food also felt very bland.
...
The next morning,
Kain and Eren were cooking breakfast together.
Kain was making rice, meanwhile, Eren was chopping some vegetables.
"Ouch! Ugh. No... I cut my finger," spoke Eren.
"Hmm? You must be careful dude, when working with the knife, you must always keep watch for your fingers," said Kain as he turned around to look at Eren.
Suddenly,
His head started to spin. He felt as if his eyes were blurring. He could not make sense of anything.
The only thing he could feel was the tasty smell of blood. The smell of such a small amount of blood was enough to make him go senile.
At that moment, he suddenly.....