*Trrrriiinggggg*
The sound of the gong drumming against the electric bell incessantly broke through the empty corridors, instantly brightening the gloomy atmosphere of the classrooms and brought an end to the hectic school day, which was further accentuated by the extre heat of the sumr sun.
Without any delay, the students launched themselves into packing their bags while the teachers of several classrooms waved their hands around and raised their voices in an attempt to quiet them down.
It was the sa in class 11th where a female teacher was shouting louder than the assembly speakers.
"Tomorrow we are going to have a lab day...read the theory given in the manuals..."
But alas,
"Nezuko-chan~you are so beautiful~"
"Bro shut up your trap and don’t cling to like that...also wipe that drool off your face. It’s disgusting!!"
A girl sitting few benches behind giggled as she said, "Live BL in my classroom... exactly what I needed."
Yes, the teacher’s words didn’t even reach them.
And they were teenagers.
And they were horny.
Basically...perverts?
The teacher went on with more details even when almost none of them paid any attention to her.
It’s not like they didn’t care. They had indeed paused their activities when she had started the announcent but then they glanced at their nerdy classmates and suddenly... suddenly they rembered their existence.
Thoughts along the lines of ’ahh, I am blessed with such good friends’ , ’their sacrifices are indeed selfless’ weren’t much uncommon.
Sigh...unlucky nerds!
On top of that, today was the release of the most anticipated ga of the decade ... "Zenim: An Unexplored World", the first ever VR ga!!!
Many of them looked at the classroom wall clock, noting the ti to be 3:15 pm; the ga would be released at 4 pm.
Excitent shimred among the die hard gars and the casual ones as well, for this was the day many would experience the fictitious ga of the novels firsthand.
Jurel was also one of them, his excitent ready to burst out.
Even though he tried to maintain a calm composure, the slight trembling of his forelimbs betrayed his feelings.
’Few more minutes and i shall finally be playing it’ The black haired boy thought as he cycled through the bustling crowd which at this hour consisted mainly of exhausted students returning to their hos.
His joy was palpable at this point, his wish to play at exactly the releasing ti fueled more by his desire to secure his gaming na in the ga -- Lone Boy.
The na sounded childish and simple. But in the gaming na, it was anything but ordinary.
The idol of millions of younger generation gars...on second thought, he was young as well...
But well, this figure shrouded in mystery was right now cycling towards his ho.
Yes,you heard it right. Mystery!
He was soone who had never gone livestream but his na at the top of leaderboards of several gas was a testimony to his incredible gaming skills.
And as such his fanbase was huge and crazy theories on him swirled all over the Internet.
But Jurel never intended to expose his identity.
He played for he loved playing and that was it!
It was in his opinion that his gaming career would have a lot of pressure should his identity be known to all...which he considered an unnecessary burden.
Even while he would appear in gaming tournans, he would always wear a mask and bulky clothes to hide his face and his fra.
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"Mom I am back!" He shouted and went upstairs to his room, slamming the door shut behind him...poor mother,she couldn’t even reply to her only son.
Anyway, the bast--ahem, the boy nad Jurel quickly freshened up , sat on his bed and eagerly watched the ti for any update on the ga. His attention shifted to the polished cylindrical gaming pod, which was carefully kept at one of the corners in his room.
This pod, made after a thorough research, can shift one’s consciousness from one plane to another. Though the public weren’t inford about its makers neither were any papers published on how consciousness shift could even take place.
Another interesting thing about it was that the person within the pod wouldn’t face any backlash and through several wires connected to the interior of the pod, would be fed nutrients essential to the body for upto 6 hours.
After which,it would need to be recharged again. By a special charger only, made by the developers.
Though Jurel had found rumours stating that the top tier products could feed you for an entire day...aning one could remain in the pods for as long as they liked.
But he didn’t want anything to do with such luxurious items.
’Its not like I shall be playing the ga the whole day.’ He mused inwardly before getting up from his bed, then switched off his television and stood before his gaming pod.
Keeping his growing excitent in check, he put his palm on a Palm Scanner.
With a slight hitch, the two sleek doors slid inwardly into the thick walls of the pod, allowing him entry.
Once inside, the doors closed behind him and the space occupied by Jurel vibrated with a strange power as a robotic feminine voice greeted him.
"Welco visitor. Please get ready for our first ever VR ga: Zenim- An Unexplored World.
The ga to be launched in: 3 minutes 15 seconds..."
With that, Jurel found himself looking towards a tir with the said numbers and a green neon light flashing everyti a second went down. Just above the tir he could see a digital clock rged with the calender system.
’This is certainly helpful, I guess small things like this matter a lot’
Jurel’s thoughts drifted as he found himself appreciating the space around him that sohow seed to have...more volu?
He was sure he wasn’t imagining it, the volu he found himself in looked a lot more than it should have been.
Out of confusion and curiosity, he extended his palm towards the wall. But they never reached the wall he was seeing as his palm struck sothing before that.
"Now wait a minute... don’t tell it’s an illusion?! So the one I am touching is the real wall which for so reason I can’t see....but I can only see the illusory wall, woah." He muttered, awestruck at this bizarre feature.
He then shook his head pensively, reminding himself that he was about to imrse into a human-made alternate reality.
’I guess technology has advanced so much that I still can’t grasp it’s vastness’
His lips concorted into a small smile before it vanished and as if a chord had struck within his inner self, he understood the need for the illusionary volu.
’Ah right...it must be for the claustrophobic people... wow they really have all things taken care of haha’
At around the sa ti, the tir went down to zero and a loud beep accompanied by a red flash of light echoed within the enclosed space before eventually dying down.
Jurel suddenly felt himself feeling dizzy,his vision slightly blurring.
Dark stains spread at random points on the walls of the pod like blotches of ink spreading on a paper,which startled him very much so.
His consciousness faded away as he found himself suddenly standing...no, was he levitating in the air?
He slowly opened his eyes and all around him, a blue grid system appeared as if he had been sucked into a matrix.
From the depths of the grid, several bluish fragnts rose up,moving at an incredible speed and assembled themselves in front of an astonished Jurel who couldn’t at all comprehend what was even happening.
To him, who was used to seeing a mundane reality, this deviation from his daily life left him dazed, as if he had stumbled on a dream he couldn’t seem to wake up from.
Instinctively, he tried balancing himself before he observed that he couldn’t feel his body as well.
All he could do was watch as the fragnts connected themselves to reveal a greyish screen with a darkish periter, slightly rounded at the corners.
"A system! It’s a fucking system!!" Jurel could no longer hold his excitent and shouted in awe.
What he had once thought to be just a fiction was now a reality!
A treat to all the gars and die hard readers!
"Wait a minute, shouldn’t there be a protagonist then?" He couldn’t help but grin at his own nonsense before adding "There should be an apocalypse as well!!"
He chuckled at his own joke before his eyes widened...a text had appeared on the screen.
[~Ding~]
Then...he heard it...the notification of the Almighty System!
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