As mentioned before, his gaming knowledge and hours spent in gaming wasn't anything to be proud of. He didn't have any consoles at home. He never had one. And the saddest part was neither his friends had one. This was infuriating for Ken at this moment.
Robin forgot that he himself was responsible for having no consoles. When he started earning first he threw the money away on buying a good android mobile. And now he was suffering for this. Plus another reason for him not buying any consoles before was that he didn't have any interest in them.
But now he would have to get his ass up and buy a PS4. He looked up the price of a PS4 and found that it was affordable with all the money had saved in the last few months. It hadn't been a year since he had graduated from the university so he didn't have much of the savings and whatever he had, was previously spent on his mobile.
The price of PS4 was 20k rupees which was roughly around 250 dollars. With no hesitation he ordered a new PS4. He did feel the pinch of the price, he was saving the money to buy a new laptop but it was down the PS4 drain.
But Robin didn't regret taking that decision. Once an AI was in his hand, money wouldn't be any factor to him. He wasn't sure if JARVIS could make him rich, but looking at the fact that JARVIS in the movie had once hacked into SHIELD facility and even survive under the attack of another AI which was powered by the mind gem, it would suffice to say that JARVIS was one of the top AI in the human civilization.
But was this JARVIS the same JARVIS from the movie or will it be completely different.
Maybe GAIA from Horizon Zero Dawn would be able to tackle JARVIS but GAIA was too unstable of a factor to be brought out. All in all, Robin had his faith in JARVIS the most at the moment. The game is played by taking over multiple characters which included Iron Man, so in a sense Robin was Iron Man and Jarvis should be listening and accepting his commands.
Even if it wasn't, JARVIS isn't inherently bad.If it was released on the Internet it shouldn't go rogue. This was the safest bet for Robin at the moment. After ordering the console it was time to wait it out.
Robin now was in deep thought as he searched through Youtube using keywords like 'greatest weapons of all time in games' or words like 'weapons that give the user power in games'. In this quest of his search he came across many . For example the famous 'Frostmourne'.
Robin remembered hearing about this weapon from the game World of Warcraft. He still could vividly remember when he first watched the trailer of the game. When Arthas pulled the sword out and became the Lich King.
He even played that game in campaign single player mode for quite some time but as usual life happened and he had to let go of the famous game. Now again he came across the famous sword. Of course he wasn't stupid to bring out Frostmourne.
He didn't want to be a Lich King with demented thoughts. He wanted to be alive very much and be in control of his own destiny. He went through many games, even some indie games like Hollow Knight and honestly he loved the charms in the game or games like minecraft which had the totem of undying.
But then again he was struck with this old laptop. This laptop of his couldn't even open Minecraft properly, forget about good graphics games. The last proper game this laptop could support was Witcher series and that too in a very shitty frame rate. It was for this reason he was saving the money but now every penny of his 'laptop' saving just went to the console. The laptop he was using right now Lenovo G50 which he bought in 2016 and it came without even a fucking authentic Windows.
The situation was really dire for Robin at the moment when it came to games. But thankfully along with Witcher he could play another game.
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Skyrim.
"Will go through Skyrim tomorrow until my console arrives in 3 days." Robin thought as he continued to see the mobile screen and followed his search while lying down in his bed.
Gastly decided to join his trainer and laid near Robin in his bed. Time to time Robin would look at Gastly and smile. The thought of having a Pokemon for himself was still a little dreamy. As the seconds in the wall clock ticked away, he slowly drifted off to sleep.
Robin had a smile even in his sleep. It was really an eventful day for the person who was soon going to shake the world!!
The next day. 8am
Robin opened his eyes and almost jumped in his bed. It was totally contradictory to Robin's normal behavior who tended to be lazy and get up much later after opening his eyes. The reason was because he realized that there was no Gastly around.
"Gastly? Are you there?"
Robin asked in anxiety. He was anxious not because he thought Gastly had left him and went somewhere. It was more so to check if the things that happened yesterday were just a dream. And in response to Robin's call. Gastly slowly appeared at the corner of a room floating at the height of his head.
"Why are you there?" Robin was puzzled why Gastly was so far. He could remember that Gastly had laid down with him in bed.
"Gastly.. Gastly.."
"Ah shit!! I forgot you can't speak. I wish you could be like that Team Rocket Moewth. But well I can't be whiny and choosy in this."
"Gastly... Gastly.. "
Gastly was frantically moving around the room while trying to point something outside. It took almost 5 minutes of relentless moving, changing its gaseous form into different shapes that Robin understood why Gastly was in a hiding mode.
Apparently, his mom came to clean the floors of the room in the early morning as this was her morning routine and her face and the way she walked scared Gastly!! A human being ended up scaring Gastly!!! Well in a way, its trainer too was kind of fearful of her!
"We both share the same feelings bro ;( !!"
"But we also love her. Always protect her!!"
"Gastly?"
Gastly was confused. This human being was more terrifying than itself, why did this person require protection? Though Gastly didn't understand why its trainer asked for a weird help, it could only nod its head in acceptance.
Robin then asked Gastly to be in his place while he freshened himself up and had his breakfast. Almost like a whirlwind, he went to brush his teeth, wash his face after arranging his bed.
"Mom, what is there for breakfast!!"
"Fruit oatmeal!!"
"Fruits? You mean just apples." Robin asked with a pout. His mom could really glorify just one fruit.
"There is pomegranate in it." Robin's mom argued back.
"Fine, fine. It's a fruit oatmeal. But you know I don't like pomegranates."
"Don't be so whiny. Many will die to have breakfast like you."
"Yeah yeah I know. I am very privileged." Though Robin was saying this mockery he himself knew how privileged he was. He had a great family, loving parents, no stress about his own future. And now more so after he got this new power.
He was nothing like those novels where he used to read with protagonists toiling for years before getting some boost or power and then conquer the world. He didn't have any grand plans of conquering the world whatsoever but he knew that in his future journey the world would be affected because of him.
If he was thinking of bringing spaceships to the world in the future it already meant that he was going to break the delicate balance that the world right now was so adamant on maintaining. Though this balance could be debatable in many countries but in the vast majority of the world there were some people trying to keep everything in check. Robin was having all these future thoughts while feeding himself the oats with a spoon.
"Mom's oatmeal is definitely the best." Robin thought to himself as he finished the whole breakfast at a breakneck speed. He was doing so because he was going to play Skyrim again and see if there was anything useful in it.
He had played this game ages ago and he had forgotten many things in it. He wanted to see if there was anything useful until the PS4 arrived and then with JARVIS he could plan his future.
"Thanks mom."
"Thanking me? Are you okay? Did something happen to you?"
"No.. No.. Nothing happened. I was just thinking about how lucky I was to get food with no input."
"Well you are paying for the food anyways."
"That is not essentially required and I would have gotten the same even if I didn't provide."Robin's mother looked at his son weirdly. Robin never acted like this before.
"I am off to work." Robin didn't continue the conversation as he went to his room and shut the door. It was time for Skyrim.