Quest for Justice by Sean Fay Wolfe Read Free Book Online

that they will pass on to you. They will show you how to fight, craft, create, and other such things.”
    â€œSo, it’s your job to train new players to prepare them for the server?” asked Kat.
    â€œThat’s right,” replied Jayden. “Almost every new player on this server came through our program first, including most of the population of Element City.”
    â€œWhat’s Element City?” asked Stan.
    â€œThe server’s capital,” said Adoria. “Element City is where most people go after they go through our program. It’s situated on a huge open plain, surrounded by forest on all sides, and it has the greatest population of any settlementon this server. That’s where people build their houses and a bunch of crazy contraptions and structures and all that. At the center of the city is Element Castle, where the King of this server presides over a council that makes the laws of the land.”
    â€œSounds like an interesting place. Do you think we should go there after we finish your program?” asked Charlie.
    â€œUm . . . yes, I don’t see why not,” replied Adoria. But her hesitation was not lost on Stan, and she didn’t meet Charlie’s eyes when she said this. Stan wondered what was wrong with Element City.
    â€œSo, is there a place for us to sleep?” asked Charlie, yawning. “I’m bushed; we haven’t slept yet, and we’ve been on the server for almost two days now!”
    â€œOh, by all means, go ahead!” said Adoria with a warm smile. “You’ll find some things for you in your rooms at the motel. Jayden, show these players to their rooms, please.”
    â€œYes, ma’am,” replied Jayden. “Follow me,” and he left the room. Stan, Charlie, and Kat followed him out of the hall, picking Rex up where he’d waited by the door.
    â€œSo,” said Jayden as they left the building, “what kind of materials do you guys have so far?”
    â€œNot much,” replied Charlie, looking in his inventory as he walked. “Just . . . a stack of dirt, five arrows, some string, and some wood. You guys got anything else?” he asked as helooked to Kat and Stan.
    â€œI’ve got a stone sword and pickaxe, some cobblestone, and a few torches,” replied Kat. “Stan?”
    â€œOh, I’ve just got some coal, the pickaxe you gave me, and the book.”
    â€œCome on, you guys! To survive in this game you’re gonna need better stuff than that!” Stan could tell that Jayden wasn’t being condescending—he was just ribbing them. Stan laughed with Jayden.
    â€œI guess Stan and I owe you a thank-you,” said Charlie. “Without those swords and the bread, and the book, we definitely wouldn’t have even come close to making it here. We wouldn’t even have survived the first night with those Spiders!”
    â€œYeah . . . thanks a million,” agreed Stan, shuddering as he remembered fighting off the Spiders.
    â€œAh, don’t mention it,” replied Jayden with a shrug. “Besides, it wasn’t me who put those out there—it was my friend Sally. She’s the one who goes out there and replenishes the stock at the spawn point every week. Speaking of which, why did it take you guys two days to get here, anyway? It’s only a day’s journey.”
    So Stan and Charlie told Jayden about the time that they had had getting to the village, about getting lost, and the Spiders, and running into Kat (who added to the story fromthat point on), and the mine, and the Creeper, and Mr. A. Jayden seemed taken aback by the story of Mr. A.
    â€œYou guys ran into a Griefer?” he asked skeptically. “But none of you are even level four yet! The best weapon you have is a moderately used stone sword! Why would anyone want to attack you?”
    â€œWell, he was about to tell us in a melodramatic monologue, but I believe that that was the