"I agree, because if becoming friends with you helps clear my debt to you soday, then I am ready to be your friend," he said, just as he was about to shake hands, but Jas pulled his hand back in response.
"Then I'm sorry if you're becoming my friend just to repay this debt, and I apologize for asking this of you. Please forget it," he said as he started to return to Rey to play gas.
"Oh wait, I'm sorry if I said sothing wrong, and okay, I will be your friend," Evan quickly interjected, not wanting to miss the chance to befriend soone who wasn't interested in friendship for benefits.
"Friendship not for debt, right?" Jas clarified, and Evan nodded with an awkward smile.
"Okay, let's play the gas before ti runs out," he said, placing his hand on Evan's shoulder and dragging him towards where Rey was waiting.
"So, the matter is settled, and we've got our new friend, Evan," Jas declared, while Rey sighed softly, knowing Jas's nature—friendly and energetic—and rembering the day he approached him.
In the past, when Rey was sitting in a park watching children play, he felt sad because his life was filled with loneliness and no child would play with him. Then Jas ca into his life like a whirlwind, his only friend to date, and Rey was truly grateful. He couldn't imagine a life without a friend, a life filled with sadness.
"Hello, I'll introduce myself again, Rey Dragonstrom, and I hope our friendship lasts forever," Rey said, to which Evan responded with kindness.
"Okay, if the introduction is over, let explain how to play the ga," Jas said as he began to describe the gaplay.
A few minutes later...
"Do you understand what to do?" Rey asked, standing beside them.
"Sort of, but I need to actually play before I can say for sure," Evan replied, nodding as he started a new match.
"Let's play a team three-on-three match next, after you finish your ga," Jas suggested, and Rey nodded in agreent, though Evan hesitated.
"Guys, I think you should play together until I'm good enough to play at an average level," Evan suggested, worried that he might cause them to lose gas and potentially harm their budding friendship.
"Don't worry, even if we're not that great, we can still carry you if sothing happens," Jas reassured him, confidently tapping his chest.
"Okay, but don't bla if we lose," Evan murmured in a low voice, too quiet for the others to hear.
Evan quickly started his first match and entered the ga lobby.
The ga was quite unique, featuring elents of fantasy and survival warfare.
In this ga, up to one hundred and fifty players are spawned on a vast land containing various regions like jungles, snowy mountains, destroyed cities, underground cities, and more.
The characters of the players have different types of elental affinities; so have balanced affinities, while others have a high affinity for just one elent. This creates unique characteristics for them in different regions, affecting their stats, attacks, and defenses.
Their weapons are also influenced by these elents, adding more fun to the ga. Players can create only one character per account, and if they want another, they must delete the existing one. Each new character's elents are fixed upon creation and cannot be changed, with the effects remaining the sa unless the account is new.
Gas often use a leveling system similar to RPGs, where a player's character gains levels from the results of matches, and the higher the rank, the greater the rewards.
"Let's skip the description and dive into the ga," Jas suggested.
"Evan, why don't you create a new account since you're playing with a guest account? That way, we can see if your luck is as bad as Rey's or as good as mine," Jas explained as he provided the instructions.
"What do you an by 'luck' in this context?" Evan asked, puzzled about how luck could play a role.
"In this world, the characters are assigned randomly after you make an account, and you can't change their elents. You can only play with them until you delete the account, which you can only do after ten days. So, people usually stick with their character until they're certain they want to delete it," Jas clarified. "I ntion this because the ga features a variety of elents, such as common, rare, unique, legendary, and mythic.
Common elents include Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth. Rare elents include Lightning, Ice, Inferno, Wood. Unique elents include Shadow, Darkness, Light, and others that are still hidden. Legendary elents are Eclipse, Radiance, Ti, Space. Mythic elents are Void, Chaos, death, and life."
"People are so eager to attain higher levels because the effects are so cool; whoever gets them becos akin to a hacker," Jas remarked as Evan also got caught up in the excitent.
Evan deliberately lost in the ga to a player whose fiery elent made his weapon's bullets inflict a burning effect.
He swiftly navigated to the settings and clicked the sign-in button.
After entering all his details, Evan's account was activated, and he was ready to play. However, character creation was first on the agenda.
He selected a male skin and opted for a simple look, as he wasn't interested in customization and only wished to test his luck.
"Hurry up and click 'OK.' I can't wait to see if you get a good elent or just a common one," Jas urged, his eagerness growing as he anticipated the surprise.
"Okay, okay, just let finish," Evan replied as he was about to enter his real na, but Jas and Rey stopped him, advising against using his real na. Heeding their advice, he chose a new, random one.
"That na looks odd yet cool; it's good and unique," Rey suggested, and with Jas nodding in agreent, Evan also nodded after a mont's thought, liking the na sowhat, and quickly pressed 'OK.'
Then ca the mont they had all been waiting for: the elental selection screen appeared.
The screen displayed a spinning slot with so elents visible and others not. After a few seconds, the spin slowed down and was about to stop on the wind elent when it ticked over one more step and stopped on a question mark.
"Oh boy, Evan, it can't be—you must have hit the jackpot with this one," Jas exclaid, knowing that Evan was guaranteed a rare elent.
The question mark began to crack gradually, and finally, the elent was revealed.
{A/N: Hello everyone, I hope you enjoy this chapter. I want to clarify that the ga described herein is not derived from our world; it's a product of my imagination. I plan to develop it further for a future arc in this novel or possibly others, which will be revealed in ti.}
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