War Online

As soon as Wil showed the badge to the gatekeeper, he was stunned at first and rubbed his eyes to see the badge again whether he was dreaming or not. After confirming it's real, tears filled his eyes as he bowed to Wil. 

After a while, he calmed down and greeted Wil with a bow as he introduced himself, "My name is Borris, milord. I used to be the Steward of the mansion but now I'm currently working as the gatekeeper. Forgive me for the unsightly display. It's been a very long time since we had a mayor. I thought his majesty had abandoned the people of the town."

*Ding. Favorability with Borris increased by 20

As Wil unlocked the house with his key, he found the inside of the house, a bit old and dusty.

Borris then said, "as you can see, it's been 15 years since the last mayor used to live… Just give me a day, milord. I'll make the house as good as new and will hire the necessary staff for it."

Wil nodded with understanding, "okay, now that I'm here, you don't need to work as the gatekeeper anymore. You can continue to be the Steward of this mansion and hire two gatekeepers. Take this 100 gold for now and get to work."

*Ding. You appointed Borris as Steward to your mansion.

*Ding. Favorability with Borris increased by 10

Since hiring maids, cook, and gatekeepers for the Mansion has nothing to do with him as a Mayor, Wil had no choice to spend his personal amount. But, he didn't flinch even a little bit and casually handed the amount as he was so rich that he doesn't need to use his card to buy gold anymore for a while.

After handing him the money, Wil then asked, "Where do I take charge as the Mayor, by the way?"

Borris replied, "Actually, There's a mayor's office in the Town administration building, but since it is very small, the past mayor changed that last room on the left as his office. After cleaning is done, you can use it."

"Okay, you can continue with your work while I'll go and take charge right now."

After leaving him, Wil walked towards the town center, where he saw there are all normal classes Association buildings, Adventure association, and Town Administration building and a fountain in the middle for attraction.

He entered the administration building and saw elves as receptionists as usual.

"Yes, what can I do for you?" asked an elf named Syvis.

Unlike Melina and others in East Ocean City, the receptionists here are humble and asked him politely to which Wil smiled as he showed them his mayor badge, "I'm the new mayor of this city. Can you show me where my office is?"

As soon as they heard him, the three elves stood up in a shock while Syvis uttered, "Ma… yor…? I apologize, Lord Mayor. Here, come this way…"

Wil reached the 3rd floor of the office and saw his cabin was indeed small as Borris mentioned. It's the size of a small bedroom with a desk and chair. There's a cupboard, and a wardrobe in the room but they are empty for now. It's up to Wil to use them however he wishes.

On the desk, there was a stamp that says Mayor of Deloris and has a dent on it in the shape of his Mayor's badge as if someone crafted the desk that way so that Wil put the badge on it.

"Lord Time Traveler, all you have to do is to put your badge on it and you will officially take charge of this town. And every day, you have to put the badge inside of it for attendance. Your daily work starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m." 

After giving her a simple nod, he put his badge inside it. The badge perfectly settled there in the space as he received a bunch of notification warnings.

*Ding. Once you take charge of this town, your citizenship changes from East Ocean city to Deloris town.

*Ding. Once you take charge of this town, you'll be removed as the Guild leader of Scarlet and drop down to a normal member. An outsider can't lead a Guild. 

*Confirm?

As Wil already decided to bring the Scarlet guild to the town and let Silvershapers guild to develop in the city, Wil pressed confirm. 

*Ding. You are officially Mayor of Deloris town.

*Ding. A mayor's panel has been added to your character. Please check it out for details.

*Ding. Residents need to know that a new mayor is in town. Do you want to make a system announcement in the town or region?

"Hmm, if I consider the region… Let's see… this corresponding town is Regmore and the city is Eldershore? Hahaha, is this so-called fate? White Tiger, now, you are really doomed for sure. Before your company collapse, I'll kick you out from the city the second time."

He immediately selected the second option and the system made an announcement all over the region.

*Ding. Player Time Traveler is being appointed as the new mayor of the town.

*Ding. Mayors Quests are opened. Residents of the town can now accept the quests issued by the mayor at Adventurer Association.

Receiving the two consecutive system announcements, all the players who are currently present inside the city, the two towns, beginner villages, and those who were leveling in the wild zone were also shocked. 

Boomerang Guild residence;

Boomerang is a level-96 Blademaster who left the capital city with his 235 guildmates and settled in Deloris town after suffering huge competition from other guilds over leveling spots.

Because this is the northernmost region of the Kingdom and is in the border between two neighboring Kingdoms separated by a barrier, it was the last choice of all adventurers as many would consider it as a risk to develop here, thus resulted in only having a player population of mere 39000, if one excludes players from beginner villages and the people who already left.

In comparison, one can say it is the same size as a top guild from the capital city. 

Still, since it was a small guild and won't need much investment, Boomerang comfortably settled here coexisting with another small guild since there are no tensions of having guild branches in NPC towns because it would need a mayor's permission unlike in the city.

Other than having small issues regarding leveling spots with the Imperial guild and pinpoint guild from the neighboring city, they wouldn't need to worry about anything as almost all of them are just college students and so are average-level casual gamers. 

As the rest of them went to dungeons and wild zone to level-up, Boomerang was storing the equipment in Guild storage. Just then, a system announcement has been made across the region.

"What? Time Traveler came to this town? No, wait a second. He is a mayor? Hmm, as the resident of the town, I should at least congratulate him personally, right?"

Not just him, similar reactions were seen everywhere in the region even if it was for a short time. After all, Time Traveler is the number one ranked player in the Kingdom. According to casual and average players, he's the strongest player in the Llyne kingdom.

While many players didn't have much of a reaction other than getting shocked for a few seconds, the scene is entirely different in beginner villages.

Because of the presence of Time Traveler, now, many beginners begin to consider moving into the town and hoping to have a chance of getting into his guild while the rest were skeptical about it as even a noob knows a city is better than a town.

It's not like they are in a real-world where one would need to pay food, rent, taxes, etc… that they need to consider their budget and prefer towns. So, for a casual player, NPC towns aren't much useful. 

And there is one more place that has a completely different atmosphere.

Barren Lands, Level 95-100 zone;

A group of 10 belonging to the Imperial guild was fighting the heroic boss Cerberus. Since most of their levels are in the late nineties and their leader is even higher than the boss, they easily overpowered it.

Just when the boss entered a berserk stage in the last 1%, suddenly, everyone heard the system announcement. While the seven of them are also stunned for a second, a darkened expression appeared on the other two while the last one, their leader White Tiger roared, "Time Traveler, damn you…"