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Legend of Eterna
CHAPTER 1: The Devil Smile

CHAPTER 1: The Devil Smile

‘RING! RING! RING!’

The sound of an alarm clock rung through the room, letting all those who inhabit this room to wake up in annoyance.

‘ahhh is it morning already, sheesh shut up you alarm clock’

The man who has woken, threw the innocent alarm clock into the floor leaving it to be silent on the floor. Still with his eyes closed he then realizes something

‘shit im late!’

Running to his wardrobe, he quickly change his clothes into a simple casual collar t-shirt and a beige color slack pants. Getting into the bathroom, he prepares himself the minimal thing that he can do. Brushing his teeth and washing his face. He then rushes to the door exiting his way out of the room. The alarm clock lying on the floor was showing the time. It was now 8.30 in the morning.

The young man rush to the stairs, ignoring all his kind neighbors that always greeted him. The apartment building he was living in mostly host females. A 4 stories building it was equipped with the most basic necessities, the apartment was located in a nice suburban area. The crime rates here are at the lowest with only 0.01% of incidence. That is why most of the inhabitants here are females. Most of the females here are single or even divorced, appearance wise they have the most beautiful face and bodies ranging to the sweet town girl kind of type and the diva kind of type. Luckily for the young man they were all friendly to him after he starts moving in to his apartment.  

Taking his motorbike out, he then rush to the designated place. Riding a Honda cbr1000rr, he cruises to the highway speeding against all the vehicle that block his way. He then saw his destination, a man-made island at the coast of Tokyo Bay. From afar you could see the majestic building towering at the center of the cold calm water. The islands are well versed with a different spectrum of commodities. Restaurants, bookstore, clinincs, apartment building and the most importantly the tallest building of them all, a learning institute known as University of Asakura.

Establish itself as the most renown university in the whole of Asia, it began its majestic conquer of the education field by the year 2010. In 4 years it climbs up the ladder of being the best. Providing the best environment for its students and adequate necessities at the cost of only 100 yen per services or per item, it has help the unfortunate to be successful. Devoid of letting their students overthinking about unnecessary things, this in fact help the students to reach their maximum potential. Breakthrough through science and literature help raise the university reputation to the whole world.

Our young man on the other hand only managed to reach the gate at the island. Heavily guarded by big security guards and metal enforced gate. It was designed to keep out anything unrelated to the university from entering the sacred place of Asakura’s. The guards stop the man from entering, gesturing to the man of showing his ID. He then took out his ID card, letting the guard scan it, the details of the man was shown in a screen.

Name : Mera Ros

Gender : Male

Age : 23 years old

Course : Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree

‘ooo a doctor eh, it seems to be most toughest course in the campus, you can go through now’

‘thanks’

 After getting through the gate, he quickly drove off in an incredible speed. Reaching his destination, it was the training hospital of Asakura. Rushing to the hospital, he hastily wore his white coats while running through the crowd of patients. Spotting his group of classmates, he then joins the group.

‘huh~ it seems im not late’

‘Mera turn around’

‘Why?’

‘just do it’

As Mera turns around, an angry looking doctor was looking at him, ouh yeah it was his lecturer that was in charge of his group medical training. A smack was delivered to the head of Mera.

‘owww’

‘Mera you are late again, any more excuses?’

‘the milf next door invite me for breakfast’

‘hahahaha’

A break of laughter came out from his colleagues at the back after hearing Mera’s excuse. Mera nonchalantly tease the doctor a bit, and then another smack came again

‘owww that hurts doc’

‘don’t play with me young man, next time don’t be late again understood?!’

‘yes doc’

‘heh as punishment, you will be doing the medical checkup for the new students’

‘ehhh that’s-‘

‘no more excuse Mera, do it or I will give you a failing grade’

‘huh~ yeah yeah I will do it’

With a pat at the shoulder given by his classmates, they wish him the best of luck doing the most boring and tiresome medical checkup.

‘goodluck Mera hehe’

As he walks away from his groupmates, he then enters the clinic. Preparing the necessities before the checkup, he then ask the nurse for their help

‘hai nurse morikawa, can you help me with the medical checkup?’

‘ahh sorry Mera, Doctor Tanaba forbide us nurses from helping you’

‘ahh I see nevermind’

Mera’s monolog

Sheesh that old fart, im only late like just for a second or so and now he is punishing me like this. Huh~ nevermind better as well finish the checkup so I could get some free time

‘morikawa-san you can at least call their name right hehe’

He gave a wink while spoken those word to the nurse

‘don’t be so cheeky Mera, at least I can do that for you’

‘thanks morikawa-chan~’

‘Mera!’

‘hehe im just teasing you’

After the light bantering between Mera and nurse Morikawa. The new students then enter one by one. He did the most basic of basic test allowing him to cut the time for about half of the usual norm. He did the vital sign check of their blood pressure, temperature, respiratory rate, pulse rate and pain assessment. After finishing the basics he then refers them to the radiologist for a chest xray scan. After a while he started to get bored, most of the students who came in are mostly mediocre in nature. Facial appearance, clothing style and personality wise are all mediocre. One thing that he didn’t know about them was the course they are attending. Once a while a few ‘bijin’ like students came in, their personality were still cold at best or they have problem in talking with other person.

But then another ‘bijin’ female enter the room. her blacks glossy hair jumps through the air as she enters, with her small and elegant looking facial features lighting up the whole room and the juiciness of her body that defeat the most top world fitness model. Mera was stun for a moment, never in his life he has seen this kind of beauty.

‘ehmm doctor?’

Snapping back to reality he then proceed doing the test, looking at her profile her name was Anna Miyazaki. Mera wonders if she was from a mixed family. Looking at her up front her image really does depict the mixed characteristic. Not knowing on what this students came her to study for he then blatantly ask;

‘miss Anna-san, your test result came out good and im wondering if you could tell me the course you are taking in this university’

‘ooo as an introduction to sensei, I will politely introduce myself’

Mera was shocked, he didn’t know that this girl would reply to him in this kind of manner. Like a kid from elementary school she properly introduces herself while standing up.

‘hello i anna miyazaki, came from Tokyo, my date of birth is 13th July 1995, my body proportion is 38-24-36 and my height is 163cm. Im taking a course for virtual reality and my dream is to conquer the world of Legend of Eterna Online. Booing~’

Ending with sexy cute pose.

Again Mera was stunned and this time it was for a longer period, his hope for a normal bijin didn’t come only weird ones are coming out. His heart shudder into darkness like a willow dying by the river bed. It was wasteful that someone beautiful like her has a 5-D personality. If she was normal or at least 3-D in personality, he would have tried his luck on those sweet melons of hers. But sadly it was tiring if he needs to take care of a kid in a mature woman body. But then he realizes something did she said virtual reality. With his piquing interest about virtual reality he then proceeds to ask Anna.

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‘Anna-san you did say taking virtual reality course right’

‘yeah I do’

Striking another cute pose after answering. She starts to annoy Mera’

‘ok so what does the course teach about?’

‘hmm I don’t know the details about it but it is related with the first virtual reality game releases by micro*&^*, Legend of Eterna. Aren’t you excited after hearing about it ouh im gonna---‘

She then continue to babbles about unnecessary things about what she would do in the game, the things that interest Mera by the way was why the university was opening a new course about virtual reality. He then thought of something

‘ouh yeah about the pods and subscription fee are you paying it by yourself?’

‘nooo, the university if paying it full. Isn’t it fun hehe’

Now he starts to wonder the class was about 100 in total and plus all the requirement for the students it may as well be half a million in budgets just for the cost of pods only. He now wonders if there is any requirement for them to join.

‘Anna-san, how do you get in the virtual reality course?’

‘hmm they interview me after knowing I earn the no.1 spot of my favourite game’

‘game?’

‘yeah you know the online game DragonNest, I earn the no 1 spot for one whole year, great am I buuing~’

Mera’s monolog

Hmm so based on her description I can hardly make a hypothesis that most of them here are all the best of the best in their own respective online game. Wait a minute didn’t one of them was a guy I know. Hmmm I cant remember his name what is it Den.. what ahhh its Dendi!! Damn it didn’t know Dendi was here. I didn’t know dota players are converting into virtual reality these days. But I still cant figure out the purpose of doing a course on virtual reality. Hmm better as well ask that guy

Finishing his long tedious routine of medical checkup, he then went to refresh himself. Going to the hot dog stand outside the hospital, it was located just beside the walkway for pedestrian to use. The walkway was made for joggers to experience healthy running beside the wave of water. Yeah the perimeter of the island was made into a jogger’s heaven. Mera then sat on a chair beside the hot dog stand.

‘one hot dog Michael-san and the special one as always’

‘haha here you go Mera-kun’

‘that was fast’

‘yeah I knew you would order it by this time’

‘thanks’

‘enjoy yourself’

While he enjoy the hot warmth delicious hot dog, he then ask Michael;

‘mike-san, do you know anything about the virtual reality course?’

‘what is it you want to know about’

‘come on mike-san, you know already what I want to know’

‘haha you caught me, here’s another hot dog special on the house’

‘ehh aren’t you gonna tell me?’

‘eat it my friend because it’s a long explanation’

‘haha okay’

Riding on his bike, he then swiftly took over cars in the highway. While riding at high speed, his mind wanders after hearing from Michael. The summary was as such, the game wasn’t supposed to exist to begin with, but due to an important person dying after the long hard research of virtual reality. The company then undergoes a massive downfall in their revenues; one of it was from the research of virtual reality. It intended purpose was shrouded by mysteries as the creator was supposed to tell Bill G*&^# after the project was complete but his death let the purpose itself hover in the darkness. Even his most beloved student Anil Roshan wasn’t informed the major purpose of the project.

With the company in the verge of bankruptcy, Bill *^%$# take initiative to make the virtual reality that was made by Bernard into a game. At first he only coded a few things in the game, but after leaving it for just one night he was then shocked after looking at the numerous code that was coding by itself. He then notice the name Eterna. He presume Eterna as the artificial intelligence created by Prof Bernard and with the help of Eterna, the world of the game he created was now rapidly evolving. The works of 3 years was now shorten by only 3 days. After presuming the game was ready for its release, he then make his moves. Even until the current time, the game was still in development adding many feautres and extras. After connecting the A.I base module to the internet, the improvement was getting more rapid.

You may wonder how a measly hot dog stand owner know this but he was an ex-agent of CIA. So that itself prove his information to be valid. Now relating it with University of Asakura, Mike-san said that the Dean Prof. Terence Hanzo was a colleague of the deceased Prof Bernard Harrington. So that itself raise suspicion, did he know something that even Bill *&^%$ didn’t know. So the purpose of the course was even more shrouded in mystery, even the ex-CIA Mike-san didn’t know. Mera starts to wonder if he should play the game also.

Riding through the night, the scene changes to a room located at the top most of the building of University of Asakura. An old Japanese man was looking out of the glass window, and then a man enters the room bowing to the old man after arriving at close proximity.

‘Hanzo-sama, the students are now ready for their enrollment for virtual reality’

‘I see, you may go now’

‘as you wish Hanzo-sama’

Leaving the old man to himself, he only stared at the night sky;

‘Don’t worry my friend, I will unravel your treasure for the whole world to see, just you wait’

Arrived at his apartment, the sky was already dark. The lights on the windows of the residents were already turn off. Before coming back home, he stops by a Chinese restaurant ordering a takeout. The restaurant was famous for its chicken dumpling and God it taste like heaven. Walking through the stairs, his step was heavy. Today was a tiring day; walking along the silent corridor it seems the tenant was already long fallen asleep. It would really be a pleasure if he can see the gorgeous ladies of this apartment before he sleep. Perhaps another day it seems.

Unlocking his door he then enters the room, flicking on the light. His room was a studio apartment with a 25 to 45 to square meters in size. A single bed was on the corner of the room. His wardrobe was in a small closet. Opposite his bed was a flat screen tv with a console game located underneath it. At the center of the room was bamboo mat catering to his oriental favorites. After freshening himself up, he then lay on his bed.

His mind was occupied thinking on what he should do regarding the game. He was deliberately in a dilemma. Should he or should he not. The price of one those pods were like 5k in dollar currency while the subscription fee was also expensive to begin with. Micro%^%@ was surely raking in all the profit that they can get. They problem right now was how can he get that kind of money in a short time period. Selling his motorbike? No can do, his bike was a gift from a close friend of him while doing a part time job relating to doing as a stunt double. Wearing a costume while doing stunts was really uncomfortable. Glancing around the room he then saw his dumplings, he had just forgotten he had not have dinner yet. Better eat before brainstorming, getting off the bed he then eat his chicken dumpling. Showing a satisfaction face, he was really thankful that the dumpling was cheap. He can eat them all day without emptying his wallet.

Thinking up a solution, he then thought about something.

‘ah ha that person hehe’

A devilish smile was carved on Mera’s face.