Coming down from above, Skylar gently landed on the back of Goldie that is in his hundred meter tall version and is perched on a large white fluffy cloud.
"Goldie, let's go."
After he instructed, Goldie stood up, stretched his wings of 270 meter wingspan, and gently took off higher into the sky, gently gaining speed.
A while later, once they have reached a very high altitude in the lower sky, Skylar after coating his physical vessel—his entire body, in seven layers of natural energy, he looked down below as he felt something amiss.
"Hmm..." His eyes narrowed.
Though he couldn't see the view on the earth below as the cloud was blocking it, with extrasensory sense, he could sense the presence and location of exotic flower vine trained on the exterior of building's wooden frame he could likewise sense but faintly.
I can't quiet put my finger on it...
Letting go of the disparity he earlier sensed in the ambient etheric field, he looked at the super colossal tower far beside him that pierced through the layer of cloud below and continued far higher into the skies above, looking like he could barely touch it if he stretch his hand towards it.
"Goldie? Don't you think this tower look a bit father than before? Or is it this block that's different?"
"It is. And not just this block... maybe I will do a round check tomorrow..." Goldie replied Skylar.
"Okay..." Skylar chilled, sitting back down on Goldie's velvety feather and starts looking at the sea of electrical sparks that engulf them and is trailing behind them.
"Goldie? Let's fire off."
"Okay, but erect a barrier or you will just turn to meat paste... Even with seven coating layers, what you just picked up won't protect you from the speed I will go next..."
While responding to Skylar's request, Goldie tilt his body upward; changing his flight path and going higher into the sky.
"Okay.. You are kind of right..." Skylar responded, smiling. Then he willed in his mind, and a spherical energy barrier made from natural energy rapidly formed around them, enveloping them and shimmering with blue electric spark as they gain altitude—going higher into the upper sky that is getting darker.
A moment later, Goldie as he decelerated, tilted downward, restoring his flight path, making it parallel to the earth; then all of a sudden, he accelerated, flying into the far distance at a speed approaching mach 200, leaving behind a glowing and burning plasma trail that looks like a colossal pillar elongating behind them in the direction they are travelling.
...
About forty five minutes later, reaching their destination, Skylar jumped from the back of Goldie, landing on a balcony at the left side of the executive guild building.
He looked to his left and saw Yami, who is still dressed suggestively as earlier before he left—barefooted, wearing a black lace leggings with a black pleated micro skirt on top and a black tight-fitting mock-neck top—coming towards him, jogging and smiling.
"Heehee~ You are done with your business?"
As she almost reached him, she questioned him, bringing him out of the trance he got into from gawking at the contour of her large breasts and their peaks behind her tight-fitting top.
"Not yet." He responded, removing the mask on his face.
"Hee–hee–hee~" Giggling, Yami reached him. She hugged him, wrapping her hands around his neck intimately, and she focused her mysterious-looking black eyes on his green blinking eyes.
"What is it?" Skylar demanded.
"I found an interesting person—two actually. They want to join your faction? Hee–hee–hee~" Yami giggled.
What's she talking about?...
Skylar became stumped by her words for a minute. Then realizing something, he looked far behind her and he saw a chestnut-brown curly haired beauty with a super smooth and clear caramel skin, dressed in a creamy white mini dress with yellow floral print made of very light fabric, and a pair of creamy white high heels, standing close to the balustrade of the balcony and looking quietly and thoughtfully at the view beyond it.
Oh! She is that type, what a change of taste?
Skylar nodded his head after observing the beauty he is yet to see her face; warm, calm, positive and dominating aura; coupled with a confident, elegant, agreeable yet conditionally combative, and classy presence. Then he return his focus to Yami.
"Who is she?" He asked.
"Hee–hee–hee~ She is lawyer Mary. Have you heard of her?" Yami replied, questioning.
"Kind of, recently. I wasn't paying attention." Skylar answered, looking unsure.
Yami smiled: "She is a very famous character, and she is now even more famous—Ila famous..."
"Oh!" Suprised, Skylar's eyes widened.
"Actually, she is infamous, not famous; she is a boyhunter and boypredator..." Yami added as she starts removing tiny food crumbs from Skylar's silver fringes.
"What's that?" Skylar inquired; he did not understand the word she used.
"Hee–hee–hee~" Replying, Yami giggled. "A boyhunter hunts to capture young boys in the wild and a predator is pretty much someone that devour them."
"Wow! You're saying, she is a cannibal?!" Suprised, Skylar exclaimed, and he glanced at the chestnut curly brown hair beauty—lawyer Mary—in the distance.
"No. Not that devour. Its the devour that feels good..."
"Oh! A pedo." Realizing, Skylar interjected.
"Yes. Hee–hee–hee~" Yami giggled, and at the same time she turned to the neck part of his piling hooded cloak—Loki robe—likewise starting to remove tiny food crumbs and dust particle from it
Hmm weird... Skylar unbelieving of Yami's claim narrowed his eyes after looking at Lawyer Mary again, expecting to find something about her that he could deduce from her appearance and presence and that alludes to the claim, which at the end, he didn't find.
Yami continued: "Although there are no concrete proof of her supposed crimes yet, because there are a lot of self-proclaimed witness and victims that reported her to the government alliance faction, the government people have been trying to catch her for a very long time now—she's top twenty on their wanted list..."
"Oh! Do you know what the victims sound like?" Skylar asked, resuming eye contact with Yami, trying to figure out the validity of the claim.
Yami answered: "Well, on Brave Forum and the newly released Bubble Stream, some of the boys coming out to make claims sounded unnatural, they sounded like they are lying. But there are still about a half of them that sounded like they were really her victim, they sounded so convincing, most of them even brag about it, using it as a status symbol, you know she is beautiful and famous..."
"I see..." Skylar responded, falling into contemplation.
It might be true, but for now I will assume fity fifty. But there is another possibility she is the one intentionally creating the rumor, nah, that's almost unlikely, not everyone is crazy like me. But another possibility is, she has an enemy that is behind it—someone that wants to bring her down by any means...
"Yami, what's special about her? What's the deal with her... You can't tell me those accusations alone made her popular."
"Hee–hee–hee~" Yami as she giggled after listening to Skylar's question and simultaneously after finishing with her business on his hooded cloak, jumped up—latching onto him—hugging him tightly with her legs wrapped around his waist like a koala.
Then as Skylar support her large squishy bums with his hands, she leaned back her upper body, holding on to him securely with her hands wrapped around his neck. And with her eyes locked onto his, she replied:
"You know the terms and conditions we signed?"
"You mean Tribes registration contract?" Skylar replied.
"Yes." Responding, she continued. "She has a streaming channel in the real world at the beginning of the simulation where she analyze them. She is the one that discovered and announced the loophole in the age limit registration issue... you know that one?"
"Yes, I kind of. The issue where young people that registered with ages below fifteen are not allowed to log into the simulation till they are fifteen." Skylar replied. Smiling simultaneously.
"Yes, its because of her we have a lot of children in the simulation now; that's how she got famous. And she is also well known among the circles of big factions and big players; she has a reputation of helping green players secure good deals with large factions and vice versa. Some of the green players she helped in the past have even become lords and great lords..."
"Oh! She's kinda of impressive." Skylar interjected. He continued. "Before... you said she is now more famous? What's going on?"
"Yes, you should know that too." Yami replied with seriousness while repositioning her bums on Skylar's palms, sitting on them more comfortably. She resumed: "Do you know about the last part on the terms and conditions? The part where they mentioned simulation conflict resolution in the real world?"
"Of course. Didn't it say something like whatever happens in the simulation remains in the simulation. No Brave users should extend disagreement from the simulation world into the real world, any one caught doing so will be permanently banned from logging in, something like that. So what's the deal with it? Isn't that just repetitive since there is no point in doing that? You can't just attack people in the real world for what they did to you here and you wouldn't be arrested if you are caught?"
"Hee–hee–hee~ Extending disagreements—Punishment and revenge?" Yami giggled and stated like a question, making Skylar fall into contemplation.
Hmmm... Punishment and revenge. I hit you here, you hit me in the real world and I sue you, why should tribes get involved in the first place, wait! Punishment... government factions and simulation criminals...
"Hee–hee–hee~ you get it." Yami announced as she saw Skylar's eyes brighten up from realization.
Skylar smiled: "Are you saying the governments are detaining simulation criminals in the real world, and are prosecuting them with their help?"
"Huh?" Suprised, Yami's mouth gaped wide open. "That's what you deduced from that?" She questioned, staring at his eyes, stunned.
Confused by her reaction, Skylar tilts his head to the side slightly.
"What should I have deduced?" He questioned, sounding real confused.
Pausing her lips and smiling sweetly at Skylar, Yami took a deep breath, replying: "Okay, let's do this. You see lawyer Mary over there?"
"Mmm–Hmm."
"She was detained and taken to court yesterday in the real world, how do you think she is here now and not in some prison if the government alliance people are hellbent on locking her up?" She asked.
"I don't know. Lack of solid evidence?" Skylar replied.
Yami shook her head, "That won't work in the real world, with the amount of people that testified against her and giving how convincing and consistent their testimony were, her 'guilty has charged' was certain. Think about that last term of use again... what was the government doing by taking her to court for the crimes she committed here?"
"And don't forget she herself is a practicing lawyer and has never broken any law in the real world..."
"Extending disagreement.." Right away, Skylar responded and scrunched his nose, expressing disagreement in anticipation of where the conclusion is heading.
"Exactly!" Yami exclaimed, beaming. "Going by by the terms of service, if the court were to really sentence her yesterday, that will mean they continued a disagreement that originated in the simulation in the real world, and everyone involved in the persecution that have registered with Tribes will be permanently banned and those yet to register under the same term, will be forever denied registration..."
"Eh!!" Scrunching his face futher, Skylar frowned. "How does that make sense? Its the government we are talking about here. You are telling me the government can't really regulate Tribes activity in the real world. let's say inside the simulation, the almighty tower has been like, 'government you must follow our rules and we won't listen to you in here, because that way things will be fair and interesting', and the government were like 'okay, we understand, we will give you that and play along', you can't tell me over there in the real world, the government will also be like, 'okay because we don't want our people to permanently get banned, we will take a step back and let our preys swagger around, shaming us and making us loose prestige'... instead of them being like, 'hey Tribes! Listen, we are the one in charge here since day one, you will listen to us and bend that rule for us—no matter who you are, we call the shots here'."
"Its like, you are basically saying there is a possibility Tribes is kind of beyond government control somehow?"
"Why not? Little Sky."