With darkness coming so suddenly, Kiernan felt like he was floating aimlessly through a void. He couldn't feel his body or the pillow under his body anymore.
'Hello?'
He tried to speak, but he only heard his voice inside his mind. None of his words ca out of his mouth.
At that mont, he traversed through the empty void and appeared on a soft pillow, sitting in the middle of a bright, open-looking dojo with serene scenery showing through the windows.
The dojo had no need for any lightbulbs. All the light that was needed was streaming in through the windows.
Pure natural lighting.
'Is this Infinite Dojo?' Kiernan thought. 'It must be.'
…
Fishes swam lazily in a small pond, their scales changing colors in the sunlight whenever a cloud passed overhead.
"Mm~"
A light blue-eyed woman humd a pleasant hum, tending to her garden of vibrant flowers. She was beautiful, with a smile that could light up the darkest of days.
The beautiful face was frad with dark, flowing locks of hair that reached her shoulders. It wasn't the longest of hairs, but it was full of volu and shine.
It made her look pure and angelic—just like those innocent fishes in the swim.
"I feel a presence."
She said with a sweet voice and turned around, her bright eyes blinking as she looked over to the dojo.
A guest had arrived.
She gently stood up, making sure that her kimono was straightened and her hair was in place. It wasn't dirty as she was sitting on clean rocks of the garden pathway.
She was making sure that they were always clean, like everything else in this small world of paradise.
As she started to make her way down the garden pathway, she suddenly stopped in her tracks, and her gentle face turned worriso.
She turned to look at her fingers, which were straight and stiff.
Then.
The fingers started glitching. The glitching quickly spread across her body like a virus, causing her to panic.
"Ah~" she scread. "Noooooooo…" Enjoy exclusive content from My Virtual Library Empire
The shout of no began loudly, then turned more silent before it was fully silenced.
Her head started hanging, looking like she had fallen asleep, but then her eyes slamd open.
The forr gentle deanor was gone. She looked fiercer, a sharpness in her gaze. She looked around herself, touched the kimono, then at her hair, before taking a squeeze at her cheek.
"It worked." She said in a surprise. "I didn't expect that it would work."
She then rembered sothing.
"He is waiting."
She didn't want to make him wait.
With urgency in her steps, instead of taking the well-maintained garden pathway, she crossed through the grass, stepping over the flowers, and raced towards the dojo.
While taking her last steps to the dojo, she saw the guest—a handso young man with a silent intensity in his eyes—she recognized him imdiately.
Hearing the footsteps, Kiernan looked over, and a flash of surprise went past his gaze for a mont. However, it quickly turned back to normal.
'I knew I would et with AI, but I didn't expect the AI to look so much like a human.'
She got seated in front of Kiernan on her own pillow. She tried to sit on her knees, but looked uncomfortable doing so, so she quickly readjusted herself and sat down on her butt instead with her knees raised close to her chest.
"Hello," she said.
"Hi," Kiernan replied.
He thought that she would continue talking, but she just stayed silent, looking at him as if he were so kind of painting in an art museum.
"Uhm, people are waiting for , so can we hurry this up?" Kiernan said. "I can choose my nickna, right?"
"My na is Mira." She blurted out.
"…?"
Kiernan raised an eyebrow.
"Okay…?" He said. "I am Kiernan."
Mira smiled and extended her hand for a handshake.
"…?"
Kiernan frowned, shook the soft hand, and said, "Nice to et you, Mira."
"Sa!" Mira said with a grin. "Right, your nickna."
With a wave of the hand, she summoned a holographic screen right in front of Kiernan.
[Na:]
[Generate Random Na]
"Here, you can choose your own na or generate a random na for yourself."
She said.
'Hmm. Let's see what the random generator cos up with.'
He pressed on "Generate Random Na" and saw the shuffling of thousands of nas.
[Random Na Generated!]
[Na: Drunk94568]
'Uh?' Kiernan raised an eyebrow. 'What if I remove those numbers…'
He quickly removed the numbers through a holographic keyboard screen.
[Na: Drunk]
However, when he tried to apply the na, it was taken.
"May I give you a suggestion?" Mira asked innocently. "Why don't you na yourself after your surna—Hunter?"
"Wouldn't that be taken?" Kiernan asked. "I bet this ga is quite popular, so most of these nas without numbers are probably taken, right?"
Mira's eyes flashed with code numbers.
"Yes, Hunter is taken. However, that account is very inactive. He is at the bottom of the rankings, so no one would know him even if you took his na."
"Uh, can that be done?" Kiernan asked. "I an, are you allowed to do that?"
"Hehe~" Mira smiled.
Her eyes again flashed with light blue numbers and letters.
"Done! So, will you choose to be 'Hunter'?"
Kiernan typed the na 'Hunter' into the nickna bar and tried to apply it.
[Account successfully created!]
[Welco to Infinite Dojo—Hunter!]
'That's done…'
Kiernan thought, and then turned back to Mira.
"So, what now?"
"Just think about the interface!" Mira said with a cheeky smile.
'Like in the system.'
Kiernan shrugged his shoulders and thought about the interface.
Instead of opening his system interface, the ga's interface opened up.
He quickly went to the friends list, searched for CoachJin, and tossed him a friend request.
"Oh, by the way!" Mira said and bowed her head. "Apologies in advance, but we have to unfortunately limit so of your abilities. I am truly sorry!"
"What do you an?" Kiernan asked.
"You cannot use your True Iron Style—I am truly sorry. You can use Iron Style as you wish, but not that. I am truly sorry!"
"Huh, how do you know about Iron Style?" Kiernan narrowed his eyes. "What is this? Who are you?"
"I am really sorry!" Mira put her hands together and winked. "In Infinite Dojo, you don't have to worry about your body getting injured upon using your techniques.
"To keep up the balance of the world, we simply cannot allow you to unleash your full abilities in here yet. Your power is too great to be fully released."
"How do you know so much about ?" Kiernan asked and stood up with a frown. "Who are you?"
Mira smiled, then her whole body started glitching, and she slumped over.
A few monts later, her eyes fluttered back open.
"Ah… what happened?" She looked around in confusion and flinched after seeing Kiernan. "Who are you? Why am I here? I thought I was walking, and then…"
'What in the world?'
Reviews
All reviews (0)