The group chatted with each other while making their way to the city's shopping district. They have gone back to Tabatha's Teleport Tower, arriving in the tower from using the pier's teleport system. They had asked Tabatha were they should go for a shopping spree, where Tabatha recommended the city of Hunnry, a city known for it's massive shopping district and wares.

  "Man we can get so much stuff with your funds!" Zewei told James. "You're in possession of wealth people can only dream of! The majority of this world's population will never get anything close to the amount of gold that you have. What store are we going to first?"

  "Dunno," James said. "Yall got any ideas? Maybe new gear, food, what are we getting today?"

  "We could go for some new gear to be honest." Wade said. "New gear would help us stop you from almost dying like yesterday."

  "Oh come on, I didn't almost die!"

  "YOU FELL WITH A BURNING SHIP!"

  The group entered a store named "Arnold's Cousin Amy's Arms and Armor Store."

  "Jeez, I thought the last gear store we went to had a mouthful of a name." James joked.

  "Welcome to Arnold's Cousin Amy's Arms and Armor Store!" The woman behind the counter said. She had an eyepatch over her right eye and a tattoo on her arm that said, "My eyepatch is very much real."

  The group ended up walking out decked in new clothing and armor, with a weapon strapped to their sides. Zewei now donned light steel armor, with clawed gauntlets on both hands. Wade now wore very light leather armor, with a small dagger on his side. Corin wore robes similar to Janica's current robes, except with green lining instead of yellow. Jasper was stubborn at first, but in the end he accepted a new sword that looks extremely similar to a buster sword from a certain video game James played. James and Janica looked about the same as before, but now their armor was reinforced further with lighter and stronger steel bands.

  "Man we are dripped out!" James said, looking over the group.

  "Why would we be dripping?" Wade asked, giving James a confused look.

  James ran off from the group for a short while to purchase large amounts of food from the nearby food vendors. Since his inventory was infinite, he stored all the food inside of it.

  "Wouldn't the food spoil?" Janica asked, seeing James' inventory opened with large amounts of food inside.

  "Nah, I found out that food doesn't spoil after leaving some old food we got from the first town we went to inside of it, and it was still warm and ready to eat."

  The group was heading towards the local teleport tower, sadly not owned by a woman named Tabatha, but as they headed there, they spotted a suspicious group of cloaked figures that bore the same exact symbol James saw on an assassin a few days earlier.

  "Janica," James whispered, hiding behind an extremely thin tree. "I think those guys are a part of the group that tried to kill us before."

  "Yea," Wade whispered back, somehow moving to another thin tree nearby James. "Those are definitely Adventurers Guild members, look at their symbols."

  "Why are you guys whispering," Janica said out loud, not hiding behind comically thin trees like James and Wade. "They're like how far away from us, surely they wouldn't recognize us from that fa- OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE." The group of suspicious cloaked people vanished mysteriously.

  Suddenly, the group was surrounded by the cloaked people. Each of the cloaked members held a red dagger in one hand, and a ball of ice presumably summoned from a spell. The first cloaked member to speak was the tallest one.

  "You universe-hopper scum, you think you guys can just avoid the Adventurers Guild? You may have thought you escaped us, but no, we will keep sending more and more powerful people after you until we destroy all universe-hopper scum like you."

  "Bitch what?" James mocked. "This guy sounds like an anime villain, ain't no way. You guys are a bunch of edgelords and we will find out who the fuck is in charge and kick his ass, you hear me?"

  "JAMES YOU'RE THREATENING AN ASSASSIN!" Janica yelled at James. "ARE YOU INS- you know what, why do I even ask this"

  Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author's consent. Report any sightings.

  The cloaked group members obviously got tired of James and Janica's talking, because they shot an ice ball at all the group members. Janica quickly shielded everyone before the ice balls could hit, and the group was covered by a giant blue shield. Corin made a blast of wind with her wind control spell, but the cloaked people didn't move an inch from the wind. The wind did however blow their cloaks off, but there was a second pair of cloaks underneath.

  "How many cloaks you guys got under there?" James joked, before summoning an assault rifle. James shot at the people, but they dodged swiftly, avoiding the bullets. James then started a connection of energy with the bullets, and made them home at the cloaked people. They didn't expect that of course, and the bullets pierced their cloaks with ease, killing more than half. James collapsed from summoning the gun, shooting it, and using telekinesis on the bullets.

  Jasper's sword lit on fire, and he swung at the remaining cloaked members, his sword burning through the cloaks. Zewei and Wade just watched because they thought this was one sick fight. After Jasper killed the members, the bodies dissolved into blood and sank through the floor because of James looting them.

  "You guys are dangerous to us," Jasper told James and Janica shortly after the fight. "As long as we have you guys in our section, we'll get assassins sent after us. This is your fault, we could've died!"

  "Jasper calm down," Zewei said. "We didn't almost die, we kicked their ass and got rewards for it! Plus it's not like we're incompetent or something, did you see the way you sword went through the cloaks, or James' thing killing like half?"

  "We may have been safe this time," Jasper said. "But what about next time? Didn't you hear that tall cloaked guy? He said there would be more powerful people after them, so tell me one good reason why I should let them stay in our section with us."

  "You don't control the sections Jasper." Zewei said. "You're not in charge of who stays and who doesn't. Why are you always so stubborn and rude?"

  "Guys calm down," Corin said, trying to mitigate the situation. "Jasper I have to agree with Zewei a little bit, you've been slightly hostile to James and Janica ever since they arrived in our section, and being hostile towards fellow members isn't good for us. They haven't done anything wrong."

  "They did do something wrong!" Jasper shouted. "They're the reason there were fucking assassins sent after us! Their presence puts us in danger! Plus I should be in charge of the sections seeing that I'm the only one that sees that they're an active threat!"

  Wade finally stopped just watching, and slapped Jasper. The slap hurt much because Wade was fairly weak, but it did make Jasper stop shouting for a bit.

  "Jasper," Wade said calmly. "You're being really rude and hostile right now, and I think the group would agree if we all just go back to the section and calm down a bit. And just to clarify, James and Janica are not a threat, they are fellow group members who just happen to have an entire evil organization chasing them, that's all."

  Jasper stormed off in silence, leaving the group to figure out what just happened. By the time the group finally started heading towards the teleport tower, Jasper was already at their section, sitting on his bunk in anger.

  Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the Adventurers Guild, sat a dark skinned man in his office, looking over the footage taken from the latest fight with the group.

  "HOW THE FUCK DID THEY NOT DIE?!" He yelled angrily at the floating stone tablet in front of him displaying the footage. "Those men had powerful ice spells and daggers, and neither could pierce that damn girl's shield. And that boy with the weird wand, how did he wipe out half of the assassination group? I didn't think I would have to send powerful people after them, but so be it. I will wipe out these scum from the face of this world, I must avenge my daughter."

  The man's goal to kill all universe-hoppers was first started when his daughter got in a fight with a few universe-hoppers. She lived a life of crime, and eventually ran into universe-hoppers that were well versed in this world, and they killed her to collect a massive bounty on her head. The man, after finding out about his daughter's death, started slaughtering every single universe-hopper he could find out about, and later on in his life, he started an organization that kills universe-hoppers. Disguised as an actual guild, the Adventurers Guild would lure, chase, kill, and do anything to kill universe-hoppers. The siblings would have to get much stronger to survive the more powerful people being sent their way.

  Back at the section, the group didn't discuss about Jasper, and instead talked about the group sent after them, and how to combat the next groups that might be sent at them.

  "Can we tell the Sky Guild about it?" James asked.

  "Probably not," Wade replied. "People in here might tell the Adventurers Guild that we're on to them, you guys were lucky enough to find us who didn't tell anyone about you're status as universe-hoppers."

  "How many dickheads actually want to kill universe-hoppers? That group was not a small one, probably like fifteen people in it!"

  "Why would their head be a dick? Anyway, there are a lot of people who despise universe-hoppers for some reason, way more than you might think. If word spreads in the Sky Guild that you two are from another universe, you guys might face assassins inside here! Of course, we won't let them get to you guys."

  "I wonder how Derek was never caught, he's a part of the Adventurers Guild, but he's a universe-hopper too! I do hope he actually has our back though."

  "Can you explain who Derek is?" Janica asked.

  James recapped what happened back at the burning ship.

  "That reminds me," Janica said. "Never do that again, or you'll wish you had died back there."

  Janica noticed the rest of the members looking at her weirdly.

  "I forgot that jokes from Earth sound off here. Great."