Valera

**Valera** is a female character that debuted in episode 80 of season two. Being in the class Priestess, Valera is also apart of the guild Ministry. In real life, she is a girl who has been hospitalized for the majority of her life and isn't able to do normal things that kids her age would be able to do: run around in the playground, attend school and etcetera.

## Personality

Valera is a character who often over-works herself to gain the praise of others, as seen throughout the episodes in S3. This is speculated to be the caused by the lack of appreciation given by her parents.

Valera's crave for the appreciation of others can be clearly seen in season 3, episode 25 where she cried when she successfully used the spell and received praise from her party mates. Another example of this is when the man who accepted her into Ministry said that she would "smile like an idiot when I just say 'good job' to her".

## Appearance

Valera has short, orange hair, orange pupils and pale skin. She is shown wearing a robe with a colour palette of dark blue, white and yellow and decorated with red rubies. Valera wears a choker around her neck, coloured with a golden-ish yellow and a red ruby at the front.

## Plot

In season 2, episode 80, Valera was shown when a mystery man from (what is presumed) a castle. The man behind the window of the castle calls out to Valera and asked her what she was doing and Valera answers with that she was just enjoying the view.

Later on in season 2 episode 87, it shows a bridge of players lying on the ground, including **Aslan** from the guild **Eternal Scarlet**, exclaiming that they have all failed. Valera is towering above them and says a good job to someone. It is revealed that it was the dragon; hence Valera is the artifact user who has been controlling the world boss, **Elder Dragon Egoron**.

## Backstory

Valera is speculated to have a tragic backstory as in episode 87 she has been seen saying 'Friends are all that matters.'. Possibly indicating she had people backstab her in the past, making her believe that friends are all that matters.

   Valera was a sickly person who has been in the hospital for her entire life, not being able to do normal activities that other children would be able to do: go to school, run around in the playground and etcetera. On one of her birthdays, she received a gift of a computer and the game "Magnolia Online" from her dad, who was said to be busy and couldn't come visit her at the hospital to celebrate her birthday. This starts her journey in the game.

Valera starts as a priestess in the game, not knowing how to play it. She was quickly picked up by a party of players who claim to be doing a quest and needed a priest. Valera declines the quest due to not having much experience and knowledge in the game but the party still accepts her in.

Several weeks later, Valera has leveled up to level 120 and it is the raid day. Though, when she logged on the guild announced that they were going to disband. Heartbroken, the guild said that they were going to meet all the members offline together and Valera said she couldn't and that "we're friends and friends should stick together!". One of the members said that they were just 'online' friends and Valera suggested that if he meant that they were all not 'real' friends. Before the member could decline, Valera left the game and started to cry in the hospital bed.

After the disbandment, Valera applied for the guild Ministry, her reason being that the guild would never quit. The moderator who was checking and accepting the applications has taken her in due to the amount of determination. After the addition of her in Ministry, she started to obsessively play the game to late hours, making nurses of her hospital worry and panic; her reason being that 'my friends needed me'.

Though, after the nurses consulted Valera's father - though with no use due to Valera's father saying that they should BE the one who organize this problem as they were the private, expensive hospital that he entrusted Valera with - they take away Valera's computer, letting her only play Magnolia for short amounts of time, causing Valera to be very unhappy and scared that she would be kicked from Ministry.

She later participated in a raid on the Last Point, but the raid was failing. Her nurse told her she should not play this late. She replied saying, "Mary... It's really important this time! Please let me play for one more hour." She kept playing, but it got so hard to heal her teammates and it was so tiring, her heart rate got too fast and had a minor heart attack. She called for help. They lost. or it seemed the had. All healers were dead, and as she recovered, her captain told her she was ruining everything. He shook her hard. Behind him, a roar shook Last Point. he looked behind him and the dragon they were fighting sent a blast of fire towards him. The Captain might of been killed in that blast. The dragon put its head towards Valera. She said that she has just one friend (That is, the dragon). The game automatically equipped the tiara of the Dragon Priestess and the ruby (necklace) of the Dragon Priestess. She had control of the strongest dragon in the Game. Hence the name, The Dragon Priestess.