Far away from any sort of castle or town, in the middle of verdant mountains, filled with animal and vegetal life and seemingly no other intelligent life form, ventured a man. Dressed with a large white cloak, with a hood on, covering some of his face, holding a large staff onto his hand and followed by some small animals. Venturing through the wilds, that’s how he started this game and that’s how he wanted to end it. 

Vincent, the player behind the screen, did receive a message that the guild would have a great party to end it all in great style, but he didn’t want to spend his time into the castle, all he wanted was to see the nature, something he wouldn’t be able to do so after the game was over. There could be other games, but YGGDRASIL was by far the most realistic experience he’s had. He could walk around the wilds, play with animals, he even made friends in the Empire of Order, even if he ditched on them way too much, disappearing for many months and only communicating through magic to make sure he would have his spot in the guild assured. 
FloweryBastard, or how some got to call him, the Wandering Druid, continued walking and walking, until the final countdown would finally arrive, and so he would say the numbers outloud as they showed onto the screen. “[color=a187be]10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2…1…Goodbye YGGDRASIL.[/color]” He closed his eyes as the 0 showed up onto the screen, he knew what came next, he would open his eyes, get the game gear off and go back to his miserable little life. 

Or would he?

Upon opening his eyes, the male looked around, the numbers were gone, so were the screens and even the logout button. He felt more freedom than ever, in his movements, in his speech, upon trying to speak, a different voice other than his own even came from his mouth! He looked around a bit startled and immediately began searching for the logout button which wasn’t there anymore. “[color=a187be]What the fuck!?[/color]” He asked himself. “[color=a187be]How am I supposed to leave… ? Or am I not supposed to…?[/color]”

Took him some time to sit down, ponder, think and accept, Vincent was trapped into that world. Which was not very good considering he had a very serious illness and lived all by himself. He clearly did not wish to die, but he needed to be rational and accept things as they were. He was stuck into that odd world, and it seemed he was stuck into his character’s body. If he was in a game world, he would probably need a name other than FloweryBastard, he wished to keep his character up so thought of something fitting. A name which reminded him of flowers, and little by little, he came up with it: Basilio Calathium. 

Now Basilio needed to think, what was the next step? It came naturally to him, he should revisit his old guild and find his team mates. He had been Missing in Action for months, but they were used to it by now. 

The druid wandered through the mountain in search of something to mount, soon he would find the perfect creature for it, a giant eagle. “[color=a187be]Hm…let’s test something….[color=00a651][b]Tame Beast![/b][/color][/color]” Upon verbally saying the name of the spell, a green glow would shine bright and reach the eagle, which would immediately come down to him, waiting. “So the spells do work here. All right, good. Well, for now let’s get away from here.” Mounting onto the eagle, Basilio moved towards the beast and took flight away from there. The Destination? Grand Arce Bellum, of course…well, at least to the location he reminded it being. He wasn’t sure if this world wouldn’t be the same as the Yggdrasil’s map which he had walked through most of it, but if it was at least similar, he could for sure find his way in some time.




Took him a bit longer than he expected, he had to ask for plants and animals in the middle of the way, making many stops, but soon he would be able to find the castle.  Thank God in the game that mountain was pretty close to Arce Bellum, otherwise he could have not found it. He would land in the village and go to the castle by foot.

The sight of a giant eagle landing in the middle of the village, did startle the people inside, and soon the guards would come, pointing their weapons at it. “Oh! Been a while since I’ve seen these guys!” Basilio laughed as he jumped off the animal, which would take flight soon. “[color=00aeef]O-oh! Lord FloweryBastard!? We all thought you were gone for good![/color]” Basilio tilted his head to the side.

“[color=a187be]Wait wait wait, they can talk now? This is just too weird.[/color]” Vincent thought inside of his head, and Basilio would keep blinking, until the guards would say another thing that startled him “[color=00aeef]Lord Grey requires the presence of all the Supreme beings inside.[/color]” Basilio nodded his head and just smiled, laughing in the end. “[color=8882be]Grey? Ol’ Grey ended up taking lead of the guild!? That’s hilarious! I always saw him as someone who followed orders. But very well, take me to him![/color]” And so they did. 

Basilio followed the guard into the castle and gosh it all looked the same, Basilio looked around excitedly, and even joyous, letting out soft chuckles out of nostalgia from the periods he would come back to the guild and meet up with everyone. Soon the Silver Guards would take him to Grey’s door, knocking onto the door. “[color=00aeef]Lord Grey, we have found Lord FloweryBastard in the village and brought him here. Should we let him in?[/color]”