(What in the random encounter ass situation did I ended up freaking encountering?) – thought Phantasia as the two sides were arguing extremely aggressively between.

(This woman... I think she was the one that attack me... Or more exactly, I think those bastard threw her and she accidently ended up smashing into the back of my head.)

(Yeah. Don’t want to deal with that bullshit.) – thought Phantasia as he tried sneaking away.

"Hm? Hold on." – said the samurai player as he noticed Phantasia the moment he moved.

(Crap.) – thought Phantasia.

"Are you... One of our guild members?" – asked the samurai player as Phantasia looked in his direction, while the female player that pumped right into him only just now realized that there was somebody behind her.

"No. I’m just solo player, I ain’t part of any guild." – said Phantasia as he looked at the samurai player and other Japanese styled equipment wearing players, noticing a symbol that each player had on themselves.

(Yokai Guild... If I remember correctly, it is a guild where that childish guy named Mugen is in charge, right?) – thought Phantasia.

(No surprise there, I already spotted few demonic factions here and what not.)

"..."

(Oni?) – thought the samurai player.

(Still, I really don’t recognize him.)

(I think he really isn’t part of our guild.)

"Tch. If you ain’t part of the conversation, then get the fuck out." – said the samurai player.

"..."

(Wasn’t really planning on picking a fight in the first place. It is better if I just do what he says.) – thought Phantasia as he gotten up.

"!"

"Hey, hold up." – said the hooded woman player.

"...What now?" – asked annoyed Phantasia.

"You. What level are you?" – asked the hooded woman.

"...And what does that have to do with anything that is going on right now?" – asked Phantasia.

"Just answer her question." – said the samurai player.

"..."

"Around 300, happy?" – said Phantasia.

"Now, if you excuse me-"

"Are you interested in joining our guild?" – asked the hooded woman.

"!"

"Hey, what are you doing?" – whispered the samurai player.

"This guy looks interesting. Not only that, he an oni." – said the hooded woman.

"It isn’t really a race you can get easily."

"...True... But you know that appearance cannot really tells once appearance. Maybe he just wants to make himself look like a thug." – said the samurai player.

"Can I just go? I don’t really have any interested in joining any guilds." – said Phantasia as he tried walking past the Youkai guild’s members.

"Yeah. Nobody is fucking should be joining the guild of these assholes." – said the short haired woman.

"Tch! And you still haven’t learned you fucking place!?" – asked pissed off samurai as Phantasia tried using the situation as distraction to slip away.

"Oh! Fuck you! You shitty hypocrite! You had stolen all good hunting spots from the people!" – shouted the pissed off woman.

"..."

(Huh... They did said something before about hunting grounds before too.) – thought Phantasia as he slow down a bit while leaving in order to listen bit more.

"Do you really think it is us who does that shit!? EVERY GUILD THAT IS HERE DOES THIS!" – shouted annoyed samurai.

"Hold on. What the hell are you talking about?" – asked Phantasia as he stopped in place.

"Huh? Weren’t you leaving?" – said annoyed samurai.

"Yeah. But what you just said caught my attention." – said Phantasia.

"Are the hunting grounds taken?"

"Tch! So, you are new here." – said the short haired woman.

"Yeah, those bastards took them."

"Those fucking whores! All of the guilds here taken the hunting grounds here and they are not letting anybody use them!"

"Unless you either join them or pay them stupid high fee!"

"...But isn’t this peace zone?" – asked Phantasia.

"Okay. Listen! You said that you are leaving, then fucking leave!" – said annoyed samurai as he snapped at Phantasia.

"This is our fucking-"

However before the samurai player could even finish speaking, Phantasia grabbed the man by his face, covering his mouth, while at the same time lifting the man off the ground.

"!?"

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL?!" – asked the player with a mask as he and other members of the Youkai guild got alarmed by Phantasia’s action.

"You." – said Phantasia as he turned towards the short haired woman while throwing away the samurai player away, making him fly long distance before then smashing right into the wall.

"What is going on? Explain in details."

"..."

"The guilds from many different factions are using this place to gather up new recruits." – said the short haired woman.

"Sometimes they scout people or sometimes they just hire them."

"But sometimes they force people to join them, for example by not letting them hunt at all and doing stuff."

"Like these bastards does! They took several of the best hunting spots and they are fucking not letting anybody use them, even though it is not theirs!"

"They-"

"YOU BASTARD!" – shouted the samurai player as he drew his katana.

"DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I’M!?"

"I don’t, nor do I care." – said Phantasia.

"Now, continue, what were you-"

"DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE IGNORE ME!" – shouted the samurai player as he ran straight at Phantasia, unleashing his movement and attack skill to quickly close up the distance, before then swinging down his blade, trying to cut Phantasia in half.

"?!" – however, Phantasia easily caught the blade with just one of his hands, stopping the blade completely in place.

"FUCKER! YOU THINK-"

"!?"

(W-wait! What the hell is going on?!) – thought the samurai player as he tried breaking his sword free from Phantasia’s grasp... But no matter what he did, he could not break Phantasia’s grip on the blade, not even making the towering man even struggle or anything at all.

"..."

"Would you mind stop interrupting us." – said Phantasia as he pushed the man away alongside his weapon, causing the man to get sent flying once again, before then smashing and rolling on the ground.

However, the man quickly regained himself and stood up instantly, while the remaining members of the Youkai guild got ready for combat.

"...You... You are not some level 300, are you?" – said the samurai player.

"And what if I’m not?" – asked Phantasia as he looked down at the samurai.

"I’m just trying to have here a nice conversation."

"So if you don’t mind."

"Fuck off."

"I don’t care that this is peace zone."

"I will PK all of your asses right here and now if you want."

"Oh you little-"

"Boss!" – said the masked player as he noticed that the commotion started causing attention as the people started slowly checking the situation out.

"Tch."

"You will get your peace for now." – said the samurai player as the Youkai guild’s players put away their weapons.

"But remember."

"You just made the Youkai guild your enemies." – said the samurai player as he and rest of his group left the area.

"..."

"He ain’t scared of you. If anything, they are scared of guards." – said the short haired woman.

"These bastards already made a big commotion before where the guards needed to get involved and they were held responsible for the incident they caused."

"Do they always act like this?" – asked Phantasia.

"Well, a lot of their members do act childish, just like that guy." – said the short haired girl.

"Still, it is annoying to admit it, but their guilds is strong like hell." – said the short haired girl as Phantasia sat down on the bench once again.

"Would you mind explaining it to me?" – asked Phantasia.

"..."

"Fine." – said the short haired girl as she sat down.

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"I’ve gotten fucking killed by these bastards several times now when I tried to farm some materials... And then after they killed me, they demanded ransom for the ’crimes’ I fucking did!" – said annoyed short haired woman as she was stomping the ground non stop in anger and annoyance.

"Then why not just leave this place?"

"Where!?" – asked annoyed short haired woman.

"If I go to the faction specific farming spot, they may not kick me out, but many locations there are under control of specific guilds and they have far more authority there."

"As for places where there is no faction controlling it, I can just end up getting killed by the random ass fucking faction, thinking that I’m fucking enemy!"

"The only place where you can play normally here... Or more exactly, this was the only place where you could level up enough to somewhat survive the bullshit that was outside of peace zones."

"However, now that the guilds started invading this places, forget the faction, the players are bastards!"

"I was thinking about leaving this peace zone and heading to the different one, but traveling cost money if you are not strong enough to survive."

"..."

(In other words, the place that was meant to relive neutral and casual players from the chaos of the outside is already being attacked by the player guilds.) – thought Phantasia.

(They managed to stop the factions from conducing wars here, but not players...Welp, I say I blame the guys who thought about those peace zones, they may had just straight up ban access to these players and what not.)

(...Still, why though?)

(I mean, maybe there was a reason why they haven’t banned access to the high-level players from coming to those zones?)

"..."

(Either way, I don’t really care about this place.)

(But...)

"..."

"Say, what is your name?" – asked Phantasia.

"Hm? Oh, I’m Orion here." – said the short haired girl as she introduced herself.

"Orion." – said Phantasia.

"If possible, would you mind talking with me about something?"

"?"

"What? I already told you everything about the current situation, buddy." – said Orion.

"No, no. I don’t mean that." – said Phantasia.

"I want to talk about something else."

"So, would you mind indulging this man’s curiosity?"