Lord Evolution: Starting With SS-rank Skills

D'andre sent a friend request.

[ D'andre: I just received a really good item, wondering if you're interested. ]

Rowan was quite surprised by the notification and the message.

"We can send friend requests?" he muttered.

He hadn't been aware of this until now. In the game, the option to add friends wasn't even available. The only connections players could make were going on the same raids together as parties. Aside from that, everyone was basically on their own. So he felt really strange seeing a friend request in the actual world.

[ You accepted the friend request. ]

[ You can now message D'andre. ]

[ A new tab: FRIEND has been added. ]

Rowan accepted the friend request and received three notifications. The message window was already open, so he clicked on it.

A virtual keyboard appeared midair, which surprised him, but he didn't dwell on it and quickly typed his reply.

[ Rowan: Aight, where are you, so I can come take a look at it? ]

[ D'andre: At the village square, these beautiful women don't want to leave me alone... ]

Rowan read his reply and frowned.

[ Rowan: How are you able to type when the ladies are there with you? ]

[ D'andre: I'm currently hiding from them. I excused myself after I received the item. Since you're nearby, I decided to contact you first. Also, I'm not really typing; you can unlock the option to use voice typing when you reach a certain power level. Please come quickly. ]

Rowan felt a tinge of annoyance reading the "come quickly" part. He replied with a simple "Gay madafaka" and closed the message window.

Without wasting time, he walked out the door and began strolling towards the village square.

Walking through the village, he was greeted with the gloomy and worried faces of his people.

Some of the families who had lost their loved ones were still weeping, and quite a crowd was gathered outside. A few other villagers were sitting outside their homes with worried expressions, some deep in contemplation.

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Seeing all this, Rowan's mood dampened once again.

"Whosoever did this, count your days!" he swore inwardly and continued walking, only waving at the people he made eye contact with.

On his way, he found Roland and Bruce with a few soldiers strolling towards the farms.

They greeted him, and he responded with a smile.

"Lord Rowan, are you alright?" Roland asked with concern. He knew just how much it felt to lose the people under your leadership.

"I am alright; I hope it's the same for you all," Rowan responded positively.

The soldiers nodded with smiles, some faking it.

"Their deaths were more than a mere coincidence, and I've already made my promise to you guys that I'll get to the root of it by any means possible. So just keep doing your good work and pray the ancestors smile upon us," Rowan gave a short speech utilizing [ Super Voice ].

The effect was immediate as the soldiers became more motivated. However, the effect only motivated them but did not wash away the sadness.

Rowan bade them farewell and continued to the village square.

When he arrived there, he saw a small group of young ladies gathered around D'andre, who performed his cheap magic tricks as usual.

D'andre spotted him and called off his spell.

"Beautiful ladies, I'll be gone for now to do important business with your lord. See y'all beautiful faces later," he said.

He winked at them, blew them a kiss, and rushed to meet Rowan.

The ladies, who just noticed the presence of Rowan, greeted him and rushed out of the village square one after the other.

"Surrounding yourself with beautiful ladies every day is not a good message to your crush, you know that, right?" Rowan snorted.

"I never asked to be surrounded. My handsome face just magnetizes the beauties easily, and I have to face this everywhere I go. You can't even begin to imagine how much I am loved by the ladies," D'andre bragged with a proud smile.

"Sure, and you can't win the heart of the one you truly desire," Rowan snorted once again.

D'andre felt a little bit hurt by his words but covered it up with a smile.

"The ladies who play hard to get are usually the ones deeply in love with you. They just don't want to appear weak, hence the cold walls against love proposals," he tried to defend himself.

"This is not Earth, madafaka," Rowan felt like slapping D'andre across the face for his foolishness. Sadly, D'andre was way stronger than he was.

"Haha, let's forget about that and move straight to the reason we are here," said D'andre as he called open his inventory and summoned an item.

[ Occupation assignment card (Mid-grade) ]

Rowan saw the name of the item, and his expression brightened.

"The previous owner of the card found it unimportant and sold it to me at a really cheap price. He is a rank B lord, so it's pretty understandable that he doesn't take such an item seriously," D'andre explained.

However, Rowan paid less attention to his words and more attention to the details of the item.

[ Occupation Assignment Card: Assigns a random occupation to user.

Current grade can assign occupation with special skill quality of up to B-grade! ]

"Damn!" Rowan remarked audibly.

"Crazy, right?" D'andre replied. He thought Rowan was responding to his words.

"How much are you selling it?" Rowan inquired immediately.

"You're interested in it?" D'andre asked.

"Why wouldn't I be interested?" Rowan felt like cussing the shit out of D'andre at this moment.

There were so many opportunities he could get from this card.

He could finally obtain the Crafter-type occupation and be able to use [ Merge ] anytime he liked.

Also, if he could awaken other types like Assassin, Knight, Summoner, etc., he would be really excited.

"I will sell it for 10 million evolution points," D'andre decided.

"However, if you can't pay fully now, you can drop half the price and pay later. Now that we are friends according to the system, you'll be able to get stuff on credit and pay back later," he continued.

[ A trade has been triggered. ]

[ Occupation assignment card (Mid-grade) for ten million evolution points. ACCEPT/REJECT? ]

Rowan clicked accept without wasting time.

[ Do you want to pay partially or fully? ]

Rowan didn't have a reason to buy on credit for now.

So he paid fully, and the card appeared in his inventory.

Without wasting time, he activated it...