A sudden voice came down from the clover opening of the ceiling, and from there riding a magical carpet, an old man dressed with a pointy hat and long brown robes.
— Welcome, young men and women. You all begin a new journey today, I wish you all faith, hope and love. I'm the master of this Grimoire tower.
After a breif pause, he looked around the young ones gathered here as if speaking with each of them.
— We've never had a Wizard King from this area, nor anyone who's actually achieved greatness in the Magic Knights, I sincerelly hope that, one of you will become the Wizard King someday.
Is this the quest line? Becoming the Wizard king, maybe this is something like the Endymion Expansion quest line.
While lost in thought, a sudden shout came from the old man.
— No, really! Seriously!
Snapping Yuhan back to the cutscene playing out, after a small cough, he continued in his usual monotone voice.
— Now it's time, for the awarding... of the grimoires!
At this moment, dozens of books started to glow, and float out of the shelves and find their way to the hands of random NPC's. But strangely enough none had come to Yuhan.
— Umm... My Grimoire is not coming..
One of the NPC said, and the crowd turned to look at him, kneeling on the ground, armas streched up, while all looked at him, the old man said flatly.
— Try again next year.
As he said that, the boy with silver hair just let out the most comical sound yet.
— Whaaaat?!
As voices started to laugh at him, even Yuhan had a little smile on his lips, gag characters like him were essential to any entertaining story, but just as the laughter started, a sudden bright yellow light came from one of the floating books, gently coming down to rest on the hands of the boy right in front of him.
A young man with black hair, amber eyes and a eye-catching blue necklace, all the other NPC's in the crowd started to whisper about the rumored four-leaf clover, shining on the cover of the book.
In a quick and decisive gesture, he turned around and declared in a serious voice.
— I'm going to become the Wizard King.
The room was silent, followed by a thunderous roar of applause and cheers, some were even crying.
I guess he's relevant to the story, it's kind of cliche to have a "chosen one" type of protagonist, but I guess it makes the story easier to tell
— Yuno! Just you wait. I'll catch up to you in no time... Because I'm your Rival!
As the silver-haired boy shouted, the cheers died down, the room was silent again.
An underdog storyline? The weakling rising to face the genius protagonist who's given everything, I like this story already
Without saying anything, Yuhan saw Yuno leave without even looking back, cold and inexpressive, he knew the cutscene was over when the other NPC's started to leave.
Why did I not get a book too? Do I need to make some type of side quest to unlock it? Let me check the quest screen
Confidently, Yuhan waved his hand infront of him, but nothing happend. A clearly confused look was plastered across his face, he waved his hand again and again, but nothing happend.
Is it bugged? I need to call and admin or something
— Log out.
The room was empty, only the old man remained, looking at him like he's seen this before.
— Young man, no matter how long you stand there, it's still not time for you to recieve your grimoire, I have to ask you to leave.
After his words, Yuhan was reluctant, an NPC was reacting to his actions, he tried to tell himself that, maybe that is only a scripted response to say the event was over and he needed to leave.
With hesitant steps, Yuhan walked out of the tower, the sun was setting, walking down the steps, he was unsure about what was happening, Status Screen, Inventory, Quest Screen, Chat, he had tried every system function, but nothing worked.
Yuhan had just came out of the gate door, when he saw Yuno the boy who got the special grimoire, Iron chains coming out of the ground, wrapping tightly around him.
— I'll be taking that grimoire.
A sinister cold voice, said as chains snatched the book to his hand, with a scar on his face, greasy dark hair going past his shoulders, wearing a red cape, with a triumphant look on his face.
— Revchi, was it? It's pointless for you to steal that, the only-
Cutting him off, the man holding the grimoire said with a mocking voice.
—The only one who can use a Grimoire is the one that it chose. However, underground collectors are buying Grimoires with four-leaf clover for insane prices, a four-leaf may have chosen you, but you only just recieved it. You're just a little chick.
The two were focused on each other, so much so that Yuhan just standing by, remained unoticed.
Another cutscene? The protagonist is in danger, I'm guessing players should duel the enemy, free the protagonist and advance the questline, but... I'm too busy right now, I need to contact an Admin to fix my interface, I'll do it later.
With a sigh, Yuhan was ready to leave when a loud voice came from above.
— HOLD IT!
The silver haired boy from before, came from above, jumping above our heads, and crashing against the wall, it's a good comedy relief to scene full of tension, but Yuhan was unimpressed, he could just watch again next time he made this quest.
The dialoge played out, the shouts of the silver haired boy, the villain with his mocking tone, just as they were pointing at each other, a figure passed right between them, not even sparing a glance, with spiky dark hair, wearing a black jacket, jeans and dark blue t-shirt , confused looks were shot in his direction.