Starting from Zero Vol 3 Chapter 2

    Big Blade has been unaffected by my invisibility from the start. There must be something wrong on him. I ordered Phantom to go into Big Blade silently but didn't do anything to him yet. I planned to strike him when he's least expecting it.

    I stopped my escape and turned to face him. Big Blade thought I was going to make a last stand, and charged at me faster. As we contacted, he suddenly felt something restraining his movement. His well-prepared attack swayed sideways, while my sword pierced his shoulder easily. 

    But he's still an experienced PvPer. He quickly halted his action and tried to back-slash me. Yet his move went wrong again. He tripped over his left feet and crashed flat on the ground. Then his left hand began to strangle his own neck, while he used his right hand to pull it away, panicked. 

    I already got ready to attack though. I stabbed at the still-lying-on-the-ground Big Blade. The poor guy went into ghost mode in a white flash. 

    I saw a robe on the ground. This must be Wayne's. There's another loot which is glowing red and I put in into my bracelet inventory. The other players arrived at where Big Blade died, but can't find anything as I'm standing still. Ha, looks like Big Blade is the only one who can see though my cape. 

    Ahhh vital strikes feel so good! 

    He dropped something again, I took it and ran. When they saw my figure they started to chase. I intentionally waited for them to get close, then used [blink] and disappeared in front of them. I didn't go far (and I can't go far anyway), I just appeared behind their backs. 

    The idiots then backed against each other and formed a circle, all of them looks terrified, which looks quite a funny sight. I don't have all day though. I ran towards the nearest one and slashed at his neck. He is fast. He crouched and dodged my attack. But I'm faster. My knee went into his face with a THUMP. If this is in real life I believe his face would sink in. 

    Well that failed, I activated my ring of teleportation without another thought. Destination is Flowing Cloud city. With a flash, I appeared somewhere outside the city, and those guys are just standing around 300 meters from me. 

    Shoot, I forgot. Red names can't go into cities. It seems my ring can't help with it either. 

    Those guys didn't notice my teleportation, and are still looking around. I don't have time for these minions either, so I decided to go back to Wayne first. I activated my chat. 

    "Wayne!"

    "Boss! Are you alright? Don't do anything stupid!" 

    "Ha-har! Since when would your boss do stupid things? I got your robe! And a staff too, it's quite good. Go to the bridge outside Lost City, I'm red now and I can't go inside!" 

    "Oh, Roger that! Boss you're so good!" Wayne sounds over excited! 

    "Don't forget to bring me some pills!"

    "Got it!" 

    I activated my ring, target is Lost City. With a black flash I appear in the city. 

    Wait, this is...the teleport station? But I'm red now. How did I get here? 

    Never mind. I ran towards Clark's shop while chatting to Wayne. "Wayne, don't go outside now. Come back to the weapon shop, I'm inside the city!" 

    "What? But aren't you red named?" 

    "No idea. But I'm in here anyway. Come now!"

     We both arrived at the shop. We went upstairs. Clark already prepared some drink for us. I sipped some tea and took out the robe and staff I got. 

    Wayne put on his robe excitedly, then looked at the staff. "Nice one! You got his weapon? You're so awesome!" 

    "Ha ha! Don't know if I'm too lucky or that guy was just out of luck." 

    I dragged Clark over, "Speaking of which, why am I teleported into the city while red named?" 

    "Duh. This is the Lost City, where the exiled gather. It is meant for red named ones." 

    "Huh?!" Me and Wayne both yelled. "So the Lost City is just like, the criminal village?" (*) 

    "No, not quite." Clark explained slowly, "There are three ways to get to the Lost City:

    One, like what you did, walk here by force. But there are numerous high leveled monsters along the way. And the Dark Forest is like a natural maze, most people would simply get lost in there forever. You were just lucky to get out. 

    Two, is like what your friend just did: use the city's portal scroll, or use that ring of yours. 

    Three is to kill people. Your Evilness increases by 100 for each innocent one you kill;  It decreases by 100 each time you die. If your Evilness exceeds 25100, it will return to 25000 when you die. If anyone's post-death Evilness is at 25000 AND they happens to be near Lost City, their soul will be teleported here when they die." 

    "Can't you just teleport here using teleport stations?" Wayne questioned. 

    "No. The Lost City uses its own teleport system. There are no nodes in other cites. By the way, the Lost City is not exclusive. There are three in this nation." 

     "You mean there are three criminal villages?"

     "Ugh, you still don't get it?" Clark lost patience. "Ordinary red players will get teleported to their nearest criminal village upon death. Only the most serious red players will come here!" 

    "Ah, I get it now!" Wayne yelled. "So it's like, a place for REAL criminals!" 

    I quickly checked my status window, my "Evilness" reads 400. I killed several people back there, some of them attacked me first so those didn't count as crimes. 

    "Hey Clark. How do I get rid of my red name?" 

    "Normally you just wait. It goes down by 2 for every online hour you spend, until it hits 0. Another method is doing quests. When red, NPCs outside the cities will give you red name quests, complete them to erase your Evilness by a portion. How much depends on the difficulty of the quest. The last way is to kill monsters. Each kill reduces Evilness by [Monster Level/500]. I'll tell you a secret too: When your Evilness is 0, it will turn into Righteousness if you stay online for 20 hours without committing crime. It raises by 1 for every 20 hours. But when you kill an innocent player, it will immediately become Evilness 100 no matter how much Righteousness you got." 

    "Any rewards for having Righteousness?"

    "Should be, but I don't know exactly what it is!" 

    "Well that's not my concern now. I need to erase my red name first!" I stood up and grasped Wayne. "Come, let's level up while I wash my name!" 

    "Ok!"