"Did you really think that I would want to marry a buffoon like you?"
"I just wanted to take everything you own"
"Now that I have it, you can go die"
Welcome to Eden’s Floor!
'Ugh...What happened?'
Hello traveller, you are the 5,995,780,407th Billionth person to join us.
"Wait what? I'm in here..." The man sighed powerlessly as he found himself on a glass circular platform floating in space. This was his personal room. A platform floating alone in space, it can be customised however he wants and nobody else can enter unless you invite them in. The man examined the empty platform before scrunching his eyebrows.
"It shouldn't be this desolate, where is all my premium membership items?"
"E, Open up systems interface"
Name: Peter Wes
Age: 32
Civilian
E Coins: 0
E Meter 48/1000
Friends List: 431
Return Home
"This isn't me? Where is all my E Coins?" The man was stunned to see that he was completely broke, but that wasn't the worse part.
"I'm in somebody else’s Avatar?" The man was completely confused as the name shown on the system interface wasn't his own. The only thing that matched was his and the avatars age were the same.
"E, open up the communication channel"
Syncing host to Eden’s Floor communication channel, initiating... initiating success!
The man wasn't too surprised to see a holographic screen come before him, but he was surprised to see countless news station all replaying the same thing.
George Wood is dead.
'I'm right here... What is happening?' He decided to click on one of the news stations live report.
"George Wood, CEO of Alias has unexpectedly died the day after his wedding, the results of his death are still unclear and... Hold on guys, I just received a statement from the newly widowed wife of George Wood" The reporter said while pressing into an earpiece to listen carefully.
"Right now, we will play the voice recordings of Michelle Jean... I mean Michelle Woods" The reporter corrected with an embarrassed expression.
"Citizens of Eden’s Floor, a man had died. This man was a man of great power and changes. The one to spearhead the plan to save Earth. As you know, the earth is now uninhabitable, and unless you have a secured location, you will not survive in the outside world. My husband was sick due to the toxic air in the Earth and had died before he could upload his consciousness into Eden’s Floor. It's a bad day for Alias as not only had George Wood died, his parents died to the same sickness.
So, as the last remaining member of the Wood Family, I will take over the Company in my husband stead, this is what he would had wanted. I am also taking his spot as the Game Master, don't fret, I will not abuse this authority of power and will do my best to better all the living conditions of civilian in Eden’s Floor." A sweet sounding voice echoed throughout the holographic screen and into all viewers ears.
"Well, there you have it folks, a statement from the one and only, Michelle Wood who is famously known as the extremely beautiful, sweet, kind and caring angel of mankind. This is someone who has lead charge to many charity events back when the Earth was still habitable. So, you can feel relieved that the responsibilities of Game Master will be in safe hands" The reporter said
"BULLSHIT! You two-faced bitch!" The man quickly shut down the news feed angrily. He tried to concentrate his mind to remembering some vital details, but it was just a blur. All he knew was that he was betrayed by his wife, and that he had lost everything that used to belong to him.
Being a Game Master was basically being God. There was to be only 100 Game Masters in Eden’s Floor at a time, each Game Master can only manage the world they create, and although Game Masters can visit someone else’s world, they have no power inside, but in return, that worlds Game Master can't kill the visiting Game Masters even if they wanted to. Michelle Woods the only Woods left alive took one 100 Game Master role. Now she can create or destroy a whole world with a flick of a finger, so they basically rule over all civilians lives inside Eden’s Floor.
What was Eden’s Floor? It was the first plan to save humanity. The worlds leader pooled in every resource to create this beautiful work of art. A machine transcending every invention known to mankind. It has almost unlimited space and can hold innumerable amount of consciousness.
After the Earth atmosphere became toxic, the climate turned for the worse with natural resources such as oil running out, so humanity was losing hope. But then, Eden’s Floor turned out to be a massive success, which made everyone leave behind their real body to join the network.
The second plan to save Earth was Alias responsibility. Since no one can stay on Earth to help maintain and clean it up. Alias was the leading company in producing Androids. They created hundreds of thousands of Androids to help clean up the Earth after everyone has entered Eden’s Floor. This cleaning plan was estimated to take around 300 years. After 300 years, people would now be able to go offline and back into the real world when the Earth was safe to inhabit again. But by then, everyone’s body would had already been destroyed. So instead of leaving the bodies to rot on the streets, the Androids were also programmed to use dead bodies as soil. Only rich people could freeze their real body to keep it fresh, so once 300 years past, they can return back into their real bodies.
This lead to plan three. The Kingston Family Business deals in clones. They promised that after 300 years, they can create real life fleshly clones for civilians to inhabit. But the catch was that the clones were to be sold via E Coins, this caused many people to feel pressured, which caused a flurry of people crazily trying to earn wealth in all different sorts of ways.
"Peter Wes, what the fuck took you so long?"
"Peter, it’s good to have you join the party man"
"Peter, don't let me see you, or else I'll kill you!"
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"You need to come, we need help!"
George was dumbfounded when he saw his inbox screen blowing up. These were messages for the real Peter Wes who he supposedly took over. He didn't know what happened to the real Peter Wes, and quite frankly, he was feeling a little scared. When you first upload your consciousness, the system automatically adds people that you know to your friends list. He saw that the friends list are all people that Peter knew. This was until he found an odd email. He opened the email due to his real name being used.
For George
I know that you are confused, but just know that I am out there looking out for you.
Nobody knows that you are alive, and I think it would be best to keep it that way, please live on until 300 years pass, I want to see you in the flesh again, I'm working hard on keeping your dead body safe.
Please do not contact anyone you use to know, you can't trust anyone, not even me. So please keep your real identity a secret and pretend to be Peter Wes.
Love J.K
No matter how many times he tried to reply, there was no replying address, it was like the person who sent the message was a ghost. J.K? He thought hard and long about who that could be. But his memories kept playing up. In fact, he felt a huge chunk of memory had been ripped out of his head, he wasn't sure if it was because he was placed inside somebody else’s avatar.
"E, please open up the wardrobe" He had only panicked for a small moment before calming down as he knew that panicking would get him nowhere.
At your command traveller - initiating wardrobe function, beep beep beep, function activated!
A giant wooden wardrobe appeared out of thin air, but he didn't seem too surprised. Back on Earth, he was given knowledge of all the basic functions in Eden’s Floor. He was also given a Game Master key, but that key had landed into the arms of his murderer, and although he was confused as to how his consciousness uploaded into the network, he wanted to know what he looks like.
He opened the wardrobe and saw that a mirror inside the inner hinge. Looking at the reflection, he didn't notice it before but he found that he was completely naked. He slowly held up his hands and touched himself. He grabbed his face and massaged it. He was weirded out at first but decided to continue exploring. He had dark green eyes, it was sharp and intimidating, in contrast to his real body, which had soft blue dreamy eyes. It was too big of a difference.
He had a long-bridged nose, dark thick eyebrows. His jaw seemed to be personally chiselled by the gods. He was impressed, and almost drooled before rubbing his fingers through his scruffy beard, and then his hair. His dark brown hair was messy on top, with the sides cut short.
His body was extremely ripped like a professional athlete. He ran his fingers down the hard surface of his muscular hairy chest. Then he ran his fingers down what seemed like a yakuza styled tattoo of a black dragon. Which could be seen running down his right shoulder, through his torso, and towards his right waist.
He ran his hands down towards his penis and gripped it. The penis of this body was at least twice as big as his old one. He felt that this was the only thing good that came out of this sad situation.
He found that he was powerless inside this system. He had to wait 300 years until he can return to the real world because if he gets found out before then. Michelle Woods who is a Game Master can easily erase his consciousness in a blink of an eye.
From now on, he wasn't George Woods. He was now going to live as Peter Wes.
"Peter Wes, Peter Wes, I am now Peter Wes" He was repeating the name over and over as to remember what to call himself.
The only clothes inside the wardrobe were a few free choices, as for more better styles of clothing’s cost E-Coin. He chose to wear a normal white shirt with blue jeans and chose to wear one a normal pair of black shoes. He then chose to delete all his current friends on his friend list, and all the inbox messages he had gotten beside the mysterious J.K person as he didn't know any of these people. They were all acquaintances of the real Peter Wes, and he would probably be found out if he met or talked to any of them.
There was another headache for 'Peter' when he remembered the E Meter in his interface, 48/1000.
This was something that he had no choice over, as someone who was only part of plan two, and not plan one, the creation of Eden's Floor. The creators thought that it was a good idea to initiate this bullshit function. Every hour, the E Meter lose one point. and once the E Meter goes down to 0, your consciousness disappears, and you are permanently dead. To refill your E Meter, you need to pay E coins, to which he had none.
The return home function makes him teleport directly to this place, which is not much of a home to begin with. A platform floating in space. He sighed in loneliness, but with a wave of his hands, he made the wardrobe disappear.
"E, how many worlds are there"
There are approximately 209 worlds
Would you like to see?
Yes/No?
"Yes"
At your command traveller, initiating world viewing sequences, beep beep beep, function activated!
In the endless dark space above him, giant worlds as big as the sun appeared before him. Some worlds were hundreds of times bigger then Earth. In the sky, all 209 worlds appeared in front of him.
He then focused his attention on one of them. A world dozens of times bigger than Earth, the land was brown and green with huge body covering almost three-third of the world. There was also a plot of black dark land, shrouded in black thunderous clouds.
Ocean Horizon Online
A world of piracy and adventure, join this world to find mystical treasures of the deep ocean, kill sea monsters, capture pirates, join the revolution or become a pirate. Anything is possible here.
He then turned towards a normal looking planet, one that replicates Earth.
Earth 2.0
Do you miss Earth? Now you can visit whenever you want, this is a 100% Real Earth Simulation where everything is completely realistic.
He didn't know why, but the planet beside Earth 2.0 was the most beautiful planet in his opinion. It was a planet filled with vast blue seas, green and brown land with innumerable amount of colossal like mountains. White soft clouds surround the mountains like a white creamy donut. But on the other side of the planet, was dark. Instead of mountains, there were volcanic and thunderous clouds, two halves of each world meet. Both the light element and the dark element clashed together like a civil war. He could see gods fighting in the sky between two factions. But this wasn't the beauty that he was thinking about, instead, his eyes stared at a huge muscular man holding onto the planet while kneeling on one leg in space. This muscular, naked titan was carrying the Earth above his shoulders as if he were carrying a burden for all eternity. This was the man from the Greek Mythology, Atlas.
Mt Olympus Online
Join in the fight between Greek Mythologist, between good and evil, heaven and hell. Choose a side and journey the seven seas. Fight with honour and glory, grow with power and strength as becoming the next God is not impossible.
Peter looked through all the planets and frowned because he realised he lost one points in his E Meter, he now only has 47 points left. Which meant he had 47 hours left to live. It is commonly known that when a citizen joins people first join the network, they are giving 1000 E Meter points. But people who had committed crimes are deducted points upon entry.
He could only imagine, what the original Peter did to be left with only 48 E Meter points. He needed to choose a world quickly and make money to refill the meter. But before he could decide, his wrist blinked repeatedly. This was the communication function which he just downloaded. The blinking light meant he got a message.
'Didn't I already delete everyone? Wait...' He tapped his wrist to open the holographic screen, then clicked on the new message he had received.
Urgent!
I couldn't protect your real body, somebody took a hold of it. What more is that they are going to use your body as a prize in a game as a joke.
If you want your old body, join the new world that’s about to be created and win it back. But please be safe.
Sorry, J.K
It was J.K again...
'New world? What new wor...'
Peter was dumbfounded as he saw a bright sun appeared out of thin air. He saw a planet being created out of nothing, the earth formed around the suns core, then water and plants, life, buildings, people. He then opened the news feed again and saw many reports saying the same thing.
The CEO of Benjamin Technology, a Game Master Key Holder. Brock Benjamin announced the creation of his new world, Dragonscape Online. He also announced that the person who defeats the final boss will be crowned winner, and will be rewarded a spare frozen ownerless body, that's to be used 300 years later when the Earth is habitable again.
Peter, stared at this news with anger because this man was once his friend, but now this friend was going to shamelessly give away his body as a prize of a game.
He stared up into the sky and eyes the newly created world. He was shocked to see a massive golden dragon appeared so suddenly, its wing span almost quadrupled the size of the planet. The dragons red eyes stare at him menacingly as if it was daring Peter to join his world.
"E, send me to Dragonscape Online"
At your command Peter Wes, initiating teleportation sequence, beep beep beep, world chosen 'Dragonscape Online'
Death inside Dragonscape Online will result in the loss of all E Coins and loots found.
Do you still wish to be sent here?
"Yes, E, I'm completely sure"
Initiating success! Teleporting to Dragonscape Online (Newbie Village)