In the middle of the night, Blake was walking on his tiger through the jungle using his life and death energy perception to wiled the range of search.
A few meters to Blake's side, the former felt the presence of a humanoid silhouette.
When Blake, got near to it, he found a beautiful girl.
She had blond hair, blue eyes, smooth skin, and delicate hands.
She looked like a flower lost in the field.
Blake got near to her to talk. When he was almost on her side, she looked surprised at the sudden appearance of another human.
'Didn't she feel my presence? Is she a noobie or a great actress?' Blake thought.
"Hey, sorry for scaring you, I didn't intend to," Blake said to the beautiful girl.
"That's ok, don't think about it," the girl replied.
"So, are you playing alone, or are you just away from your group?"
"No, I have a group with my other four sisters, but I got lost. Can you help me find them?" the girl asked very timidly.
"I'm already searching for someone, I can also look out for you sisters while I am at it."
"Really? Thank you so much," the girl said in a grateful tone while taking Blake's hands firmly, showing gratitude.
Blake got a little discomfort with this excess demonstration of gratitude since it is not like he already found this girl's sisters.
He tried to gently take his hands back, but then he started to feel nausea and dizziness.
Blake then looked carefully at his hand being held by the girl and saw his vein in dark purple.
He then tried to force his hands out, when he found his body paralyzed.
He didn't think twice and ordered the tiger to attack the girl.
The moment the tiger jumped to attack the girl, the latter released Blake and dodged the incoming attack.
Blake fell on the floor but was still conscious. He ordered his mosquitoes to come and take the blood from his hand, So they would also take the poison out.
The mosquitoes quickly did as Blake ordered, and just took as much blood as needed, not a drop more.
Meanwhile, the girl sent a purple cloud to involve the tiger. But it did not affect it, the girl was confused and sent the cloud in Blake's direction.
But before, it arrived at Blake, a big wind sent the cloud away, and two other humans appears in the place there was a poisonous cloud, in front of Blake.
One of them was Joe, while the other was a very standard man, with black hair and eyes, and an ordinary face.
The girl then turn around and ran away.
"It is her, right?" Joe asked the man on his side.
"Yes, she is one of the Crazy Demoness."
Blake who was conscious till now, saw the situation being solved, and suddenly fainted.
Joe and the man decided to carry Blake back to their camp.
...
It was already the morning of another day when Blake woke up suddenly in a different place than where he fainted. He was in a kind of bed made of leaves in what looks like an improvised wooden house.
The moment he woke up, Joe and the other man that was with him noticed it with their perception and went inside the house.
"So the Sleeping Beauty finally woke up. That's the second time I saw you fainted," Joe said while entering the house with the other man.
"Very funny, and thank you to save me from that lunatic.
Now, besides that, may I know who this friend of yours is?"
"I am Abel, rank 66," the man introduced himself.
"I found him today and he is helping me get in contact with others to increase our alliance," Joe complemented before continuing:
"Moreover, there is some information you need to know.
There have already been ten days since the day we arrived, and some people already made some fame for themselves and some groups started to be created.
Besides that, there was little information about the jungle. The most important is the division. In the begging, there were only goblins in the whole jungle. However, right now the jungle changed in three areas. The Low Rank Area, the Mid Rank Area, and the High Rank Area, or LA, MA, and HA respectively. They were named based on the people that teleported there on the first day.
Besides goblins, the Low Rank Area, LA, also has hobgoblins, while the Mid Rank Area, MA, has kobalts, and the High Rank Area, HA, has eagle eyes."
"So we are in the Low Rank Area, LA?" Blake asked.
"Not anymore, your cave is there, but this camp we build is on the MA."
"And, what about the groups you mentioned?"
"From the information I gathered yesterday, there are only three groups that have been in the highlight around the humans in the jungle, which are The Double Kings, The Rankers, and The Five Crazy Demoness.
The first and third were named by others while the second one named themselves.
The first is the duo of the first ranker Absko, and the second ranker Michael. Together, they destroyed countless goblins' villages.
The second, The Ranker, is an alliance made by the tenth ranker, August. In the simulation and in the game he already used to have a bottomless influence. His rank was due to all his competitors forfeiting the battle. His alliance already has a lot of high rankers.
The third is a group of five crazy girls. They were all from the same group as Abel, from rank 61 to 70. On the first night, those girls force the teleportation of all of the ones in their group, except themselves. Right now, those crazy girls have already forced the teleportation of around a third of all the people that came from the simulation, some of them even more than once."
"Was that girl that ambushed me yesterday night from this group?" Blake asked.
"Yes, she is known as the Poison Demoness."
"Good to know..."
"It would be better if you waited before declaring revenge."
"Why?"
"I will get there.
So, the situation is the following, The Rankers is definitely our competitor. However, their leader is the tenth ranked and there are already a lot of high rankers in it. Meanwhile, I am only ranked 85 and there are only a few low and mid rankers in our alliance.
Even though there are some exceptions such as us three, the higher the rank, the faster someone is developing. Therefore, The Rankers are at a huge advantage against us."
"What are you planning to do Joe?"
"You know me, right? I won't give up!
If we focus on recruiting the black sheep from the low and mid rankers, we might even surpass The Rankers. There are already a lot of solo players that made a name for themselves such as the Ice Queen and the Little Invincible.
However, they won't join us right now. We are too not trustworthy. If any of them want to join an alliance, they would join The Rankers or create an alliance by themselves. It is just too unreasonable for any of them to join us.
We have to recruit people that already gained great influence, or make our ordinary members make a name for themselves. The latter is too hard and the former is a contradiction."
"Stop the bullshit and go direct to the plan."
"Simple, we need to find talents around LA and MA.
But it would be too ineffective, to improve the efficiency, we need to also recruit people who made a name for themselves. Someone that doesn't think with reason, to make the unreasonable decision to join us."
"Don't tell me you are planning to..."
"I am!" Joe cut Blake's words and continues:
"I plan to recruit The Five Crazy Demoness!"
"And how do you plan on doing so?"
"Oh, I didn't plan anything. I will let it in very reliable hands that I know."
"You are going to ask me to recruit them, aren't you?"
"Exactly! Just as I said, you are very reliable.
Can you do it?"
Blake was very reluctant to do it. But he was kind of tired of his unstoppable research and was planning to take time and start to create his undead army.
Firstly he planned to reject it so he could follow what he planned to do.
However, he knew the benefits of improving this alliance, so he didn't want to give up the idea of recruiting them, so he replied:
"Can't you recruit them?"
"No, my charism has an opposite effect on those girls, that is why I think you would be able to do it," Joe said.
'I think I can do it while creating my army, so I will leave the research of the "pill" I was developing to later.'
"Ok, I will give it a try, but I do not promise anything."