On the surface, hidden from the light, avoiding the sun behind the clouds, a man in his mid-twenties with silvery hair stood in the midst of huge and countless craters, wearing light but high-quality armor and wielding an elegant black-red sword.
The atmosphere was gloomy. The man was sweating profusely and breathing rapidly, so much so that he looked extrely tired, as if all his energy had been drained.
The man took a deep breath, then straightened up slightly and turned his expressionless face sowhere else.
There was another man standing there, sweating profusely, just like him. Although the two n were in a similar condition, one was standing while the other was lying on the ground.
In addition, the man lying on the ground looked more like a demon than a human being with his grayish skin and horns that rose from his forehead to form a crown.
Despite this frightening and powerful appearance, the red blood emanating from his body slowly watered the earth. Then his eyes, which only a few seconds ago had been sparkling with light, slowly began to fade.
The man, still standing unlike his opponent, involuntarily smiled and looked up at the sky. Then he felt a drop fall right in the center of his forehead.
Seconds after the first drop, it started to rain heavily, but the man continued to smile, not caring about getting wet.
The raindrops seeped into the armor, creating a feeling of discomfort, but he turned and looked far away from the battlefield, at the huge, smoking city. Then he raised his sword and shouted as loud as he could.
"I did it!"
The mont he shouted, the image slowly faded to black, and a text appeared on the screen. As the man slowly disappeared from view, the credits slowly started to roll after the ssage 'Congratulations!'.
"I wonder how long has it been..."
I smiled at the credits that flowed in front of and got up from my chair with the relief of a weight lifted from my shoulders. I stretched and looked at the clock right next to the computer.
Seven hours huh...
Leaving the credits running on the computer screen as they were, I headed to the kitchen and gulped down the water I had just taken out of the fridge.
Obviously, I was relieved and at peace, because I had co across an unfamiliar ending of a ga I had been playing for a long ti, but unfortunately, the sa could not be said for my body which had been in the sa position for seven hours straight...
I poured another glass of water down my throat and went back to my room and sat down in my chair. The credits were still rolling, the nas of the producers and animators coming up.
I morized these nas a long ti ago, I've seen this scene so many tis that I know exactly when it will end: one minute and forty-seven seconds.
Shortly after I sat down in the chair, I counted down from three and the credits ended just as I reached zero. The main screen of the ga appeared and I was back in control. So I leaned forward slightly, went into the stats section of the main nu, and looked at my profile.
I finally managed to get the achievents up to one hundred percent... In just three years, after two hundred and fifty-six days of playing this ga, not counting the intervals, I actually finished this ga.
This ga, "The Lands of Lunerra", stole a huge amount of my ti, but I did it...
I smiled again as the mories began to flash through my mind.
When the ga first ca out, I was seventeen years old, a normal high school senior, I didn't have many friends and I had an ordinary life. I was nothing more than an orphaned kid just hanging out on my own, a simple person who spent all day studying for the university exam...
When I finally passed the exam and was accepted to a very good university with a scholarship, I was introduced to this ga thanks to an advertisent I ca across while watching a video on the internet.
After days of exam stress, I was quite surprised to see an advertisent for a ga whose graphics were not based on realism but on 'fantastic animation'. I still rember my curiosity and excitent when I first saw the advertisent...
I was excited to see such a good ga, even though the graphics were in the style of fantasy animation. Because as an eighteen-year-old, fresh out of high school, I was hungry for entertainnt.
So after working during the sumr vacation and buying myself a good computer, I bought and downloaded the ga without thinking too much about it.
The ga was exactly as advertised, so there was no rip-off. Of course, it was too early to make such a judgnt since I still didn't know the story or the quality of the ga, but the 'Story Mode' option that greeted when I entered the main nu of this ga, which managed to attract with its na and graphics, made smile involuntarily.
In a ti when online gas have almost completely taken over the industry, I never ward up to the 'grind' chanics and the cycle of completing the sa tasks and similar activities.
That's why I always found it more fun to play gas that told brand new stories and gave pleasure as I 'lived' these stories. I was one of those gars, which is rare in our ti...
I already knew that The Lands of Lunerra had a story mode, but still, with the excitent of a child eating cake for the first ti, I clicked the 'play' button. Thus, I started a ga that would take two hundred and fifty-six days out of my life in just three years.
The ga was set on a different planet. Different kingdoms, different lands, and a completely different world... But on this planet, which is almost the sa technologically advanced as our world, one day suddenly all living things fainted and fell asleep.
As all the people fell asleep, accidents plagued the world, and when they woke up, they were greeted by great suffering, but it was nothing yet. Because they had encountered creatures they had never seen on Earth.
Creatures that were thought to have appeared out of nowhere had caused great trouble for humanity. Countless people lost their lives because of them, but then people gained skills by acquiring a system similar to today's gas. Using this system, they fought the creatures and beca stronger, and so on... The story briefly begins eighty years after the 'awakening' of the planet.
Our character was an orphan boy whose parents were killed by soone. It's such a cliché when I think about it. A main character type that can be found in almost every fantasy-based entertainnt source and a basic scenario that most people are probably tired of seeing...
But that didn't stop from playing the ga. Because I was drawn to the choices I could make by controlling the main character, the countless paths I could choose to walk with him, and the many endings I could get at the end of the story.
As a result, I finished the ga at least once with almost all the classes, completed quests for all the side characters, realized again and again how detailed the ga was, and each ti I encountered sothing for the first ti, I was even more excited. With each new ending I finally reached, I literally fell in love with the ga.
Being able to communicate with almost all the NPCs in the ga, befriending them, forming groups with them, and going on adventures with them was a great satisfaction for , who didn't have many friends in real life. But no matter how many tis I finished the ga, my stats always showed ninety-eight percent of the achievents.
So I got ambitious, and after almost a hundred and twenty-one hours of work, now, I've actually finished this ga.
I'm happy. I feel absolutely wonderful, but at the sa ti, I feel... empty? I think sothing like that.
What drove to play this ga again and again and again was that every ti I ca back to it, it managed to show sothing new, but now I've reached the absolute end...
Now, what should I do with all this free ti?
What can I do?
I really love the ga, in fact, I doubt I could play anything better than this in my life, so what choice do I have but to accept it?
I paused, closed my eyes, and forced myself to think like this as much as possible, but I couldn't get rid of this dark, endless emptiness inside .
Finally, I opened my eyes again, frowned, and sighed deeply.
Damn it, this was bound to happen eventually. After all, no ga can generate new things forever, and it was pretty clear that I would end up finishing this ga and having nothing left to do.
I shouldn't have gotten so attached to a ga.
With emptiness in my heart, I looked at the main nu of the ga and closed the ga with another sigh. Then I leaned back in my chair and watched the ceiling in silence.
I forced myself to laugh, I tried to be happy, and I thought about what I could achieve for the rest of my life. Who knows, maybe I could even beco famous for my achievents.
I started to think about the future. And then suddenly, one by one, every single one of these thoughts was interrupted.
My half-smile turned bleakly sour.
Who am I kidding?
I got into a really good university, and my future is bright, yes, but what else do I have? I have never had a 'real' friend or a lover in my entire life. Have I ever tasted real 'happiness'? Even my parents ran away when I was very young, sending to an orphanage.
Even though I am only twenty-one, and still considered young by society, I have had a rough road. Looking back, most of the smiles I show people are fake. I was never really loved by anyone and that's why I played this ga in the first place.
The best solution I could find was to cure this lack of love in through interesting stories of two-dinsional characters, but now that's over too.
I stared at the ceiling for a while longer, then yawned slightly and realized that I was quite tired, so another annoying thought entered my mind.
Ah, really... it's Sunday. I have to go to class again tomorrow.
I don't want to go to school... I already know what they are telling , but I still have responsibilities.
I lay down on my bed, closed my eyes and decided to go to sleep, but then I rembered that I had forgotten to turn off the computer. Sighing, I forced my aching joints and tried to turn off the computer without sitting in the chair.
That's when a notification on the screen caught my attention.
My eyebrows raised curiously.
I saw that the notification indicated that I had received an email. Then I saw the subject of the email and the sender and completely froze in my tracks.
Forgetting all my joint pains and fatigue, I quickly sat down in the chair and clicked on the notification.
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