The bookmark hanging from my belt floats upward, freezes the pages that are flipping automatically, and displays information in a window above the open book.
Time-Clock
A transportation device that carries passengers to another time, place, or dimension.
Once you know a suitable method, open the front of the clock and enter inside to teleport.
If your method isn’t suitable, you’ll be transported to a random time or place, or perhaps both at once. There may be no means of returning in such cases.
It is lethal to use the clock without suitable knowledge of its function. That is due to the possibility that a sorcery gate will appear inside the clock should it malfunction.
This is a flavor item, unable to be moved from the event map, and impossible to use.
Thank you for finding it, but that is all.
“So, what is it?”
“I suppose I’d call it a joke from the developers?”
“Huh?” the whole group says together.
“I’ll take a screenshot.”
I screenshot the text and share it with the others.
“Okay, this clock is insane.”
“You plan to move this clock eventually, correct?” I ask the maid.
“Yes. There’s already a place for it in the new manor, but since I was instructed not to touch it without the proper preparation, I am unsure of how to transport it.”
The event map should be closed off once the event is over, so there’s no harm in leaving it here. Still, what’s my best option?
Hmm. I think I’ll make the most of this opportunity.
“Why don’t I transport it to the new manor? Although I’m not sure I can put it in my inventory.”
“You probably can, but considering who it belongs to, is that a good idea?”
“Yes, a player with my race probably shouldn’t be committing theft, should she? I need permission from the owner to transport this clock using Space Magic storage. May I ask for his approval?”
“Yes, at once.”
Well, it’s not like Ms. Luana is going to go and ask him herself. The person in charge of the scene can’t just up and leave like that. In other words, she’ll have to grab her nearest colleague and have them run straight to the lord. It’s a pain, but I hope they’ll forgive me for covering all my bases.
“Sis! Where’s breakfast?”
“I’m at the lord’s former manor right now.”
“’Kay!”
The other players have been hard at work while we focused on this mystery.
Mr. Skelly informs us that the team at the abandoned mine are steadily making progress. As they post their map data to the BBS periodically, they’re also recruiting different parties to check out the routes that aren’t filled in yet. So far, it sounds like everything is going swimmingly.
The players working on the harvesting quest are using Lumber to bring more logs to the storage area.
I think that “Investigate the Missing Lumber” is probably the main event quest. Players have been getting information from residents bit by bit, which keeps updating in our feeds. Perhaps the main event is finally starting?
Oh, my sister has arrived, bringing Tomo and the others with her.
I exit the manor and distribute hamburger sandwiches to the group.
“Whoa, there’s so much meat!” cries Rina.
“All meat and no veggies at all?”
“Like I give a damn!”
“I was craving meat, but then I had no rice, so I simply put the patties between bread instead. Ah, make sure to break up the patty and let the bread absorb the meat juices first, or you’ll regret it.”
“It’s overflowing with juices!”
Oh, that’s right. I should give one to Mr. Cecil too.
“What are you up to now, Sis?”
“We’re helping the lord move out of his old manor. Right now, we’ve only made this one discovery.”
I point at none other than the clock, of course. It’s still very visible through the open doors. I also show the others the screenshot.
“Whoa! There must be only one of these in the world, just like the Silver Key.”
“But the description says you can’t actually use it.”
We already have statue portals as furniture, after all. I doubt there’s any use for this clock.
“I keep getting shared information from the investigation quest. Do you think this is gonna be the main one?”
“Yeah, probably.”
“Hmm, but I was still hoping to check out the mine too.”
“Oh?” the group chimes at once.
Investigation of the missing lumber has brought to light reports of suspicious tracks at the entrance to the abandoned mine. Form a group and investigate these strange tracks.
So there’s the connection to the abandoned mine.
“How is the mine team doing, Mr. Skelly?” I ask.
“Not too shabby. Although, they aren’t able to go down some branches off the paths yet.”
The players investigating the lumber will probably head to the mine now, so perhaps they can help out.
“It feels a bit too soon for the event’s climax, don’t you think?” I ask.
“Yeah, it seems like it should be on the third day, if anything,” Mr. Alf replies.
“That must mean the mine contains resources, and those resources will give us information. Then the climax comes after that.”
“Sounds likely, but there’s one problem. How is this event any fun if we just keep doing everything right?”
“The script seems to be based on the Cthulhu mythos, so ‘fun’ probably isn’t what they expect of us.”
“Our goal is to clear it with an S ranking to get the EXP. Let’s leave the fun to the other servers.”
Mr. Cecil is correct. If we get an S clear—the perfect ending—it probably won’t be much fun. When it comes to the Cthulhu mythos, the best you can hope for is that nothing happens at all.
Mythical beings tend to be absurdly strong, so you’ll be dead the moment you encounter them. The goal is usually to stop them or to flee, but without gathering information during these early stages, we won’t know the optimal method for beating a boss like that.
Are we to stop the summoning, retreat from the encounter, or flee that encounter altogether? Which will get us the ending we’re looking for?
I wish that, as a fantasy game, we had a chance of defeating this boss after encountering it, but mythological beings in FLFO are all at max level. We’re no match for such an enemy at this point in time.
Actually, maybe the summoning will fail, and the being will arrive in a weakened state. I suppose we’ll never know until it actually happens.
Information has been shared with you.
“Is this from the mine?” everyone asks instantly.
Deep within the eastern forest, “something” unfamiliar has been spotted.
But what could it be?
“The east?”
“Is that ‘something’ a mythical being? We should handle that afterward if so.”
“If it is a mythical being, it’ll probably be resolved quickest if we just send Sis in to talk to it,” Rina suggests.
“Sure, if it’s lost. But I don’t think she can do anything if it came here because of a broken contract.”
Assuming it isn’t here to demand us summoners overthrow the kingdom in exchange for our lives, of course. I’m sure it would be more interested in seeing the surface world for the first time in so long, not the lives of summoners like ours.