‘Finally my pod has arrived hehe’
‘I thank you to the benevolent soul who has given me this opportunity to laze around the virtual world haha’
As the men from micro*&^% sets up the pod, Mera was enthusiastic about the new game. At one point of his life he was an avid gamer playing online game and such but never really ahold the title of top player. But now he has once again dwell into online gaming with a new sense of twist an adventure that he had never thought of. The game was released 4 months ago, it would take a considerable amount of time to catch up to the leading ranks of high level player. But that wasn’t his goal, first thing that made him enamored by this game was the 1 hour to 5 hours ratio of game time. 1 hour in reality was like 5 hours game time, in that sense only he has found the purpose of relaxing to his utmost desired. The second objective was to unravel the mystery of the University of opening up a virtual reality course.
‘sir, the pod is ready for your usage’
‘oo thank you then’
‘your welcome, have a nice day sir and happy adventuring’
After a slight bow from both parties, the workers from micro$#%^ then take their leave. As he was alone with the pod, he stare at the slick white oval pod in front of him. Stripping himself naked without a thread hanging at his body, he then release a big sigh.
‘im ready fuh! Thanks by the way Dean Hanzo hehe’
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Rewinding time 4 days ago, Mera was standing in front of the main campus building. It was a sight to behold, towering to 90 floors it was in fact one of the tallest building in the whole world. With a devilish smile he gave a remark before entering the building;
‘time to collect a debt’
Entering the building he then casually stride through the lobby heading toward the elevator.
‘DING’
The elevator open its door and Mera step in the moveable metal room. Pressing the 90th level button, he then proceeds to wait. People around him were astounded by his action, never in their lives they have seen someone press the 90th level so carefree. Normally people would hesitate to press that button fearing their lives would be at stake or more profoundly their degrees to be exact. But Mera on the other hand shows an unnatural attitude while pressing it. People in the elevator were getting goose bumps seeing the man in front of them who look quite careless to face the undeniable monster of this university grounds, the Dean.
The 90th floor was an exquisite floor made to cater the needs of the Dean of University Asakura. He was an eccentric man with lots of peculiar habits. He also possesses a short fused temper, thesis or project would fly into the sky if it doesn’t prove to his liking. The entire floor was an office made for the sole and eternal Dean of University Asakura, Dean Terence Hanzo. Back in his younger days he was a child genius. Able to spoke in multiple language by the age of 9 years old, he then master various musical instruments by the age of 12 years old. After finishing his studies at Harvard University at the age of 18 years old, he then came back to his homeland of the rising sun, Japan. Making astounding performance and breakthrough in the field of technology, his intellectual mind was said to rival the genius Prof. Bernard Harrington. Against this monster, Mera casually step into the 90th floor. Alarm by the arrival of the elevator door opening, Dean Hanzo then set his eye to the elevator door.
‘who goes there!’
‘hye there Dean! Hehe’
Dean Hanzo face turns blue after seeing the man who was approaching him by the second. It seems like he was suffocating out of air with the man in front of him boldly moving towards him. His fearlessness was gone, his eccentric attitude has disappear and his pride as the most genius person in the world was buried deep into the ground at the face of Mera.
As both of them stared at each other eye to eye, Dean Hanzo muster up all of his courage to ask the purpose of Mera’s visit.
‘so what are you here for Me-me-Mera’
He stutters a bit while mentioning Mera’s name, hearing the loss of confidence of the dean. Mera then proceed on the objective of the visit.
‘Dean Hanzo, I’m here to collect the debt or more precisely a quarter of it’
‘what do you mean debt im not oblige to follow your commands!’
Dean Hanzo unintentionally raised his voiced after hearing the purpose of Mera. He then regretted after the uncontrollable yell toward Mera. Mera on the other hand was annoy at first but after seeing him cowering after the yell strengthen the fact that the Dean was undeniable was afraid of him. Ready to push the Dean to another level, he then took out a black notebook from his backside pocket. Waving it in the air he then said;
‘araa what might I have here, isn’t it the big black book of misdeed hehe’
Now the dean face was like in a horror film, he was terrified after seeing the black notebook held by Mera’s hand. It seems like his soul was already one step into the netherworld. Noticing the gradual increase of fear etched into the dean’s face, he can now proceed to collect his debt.
‘since you are having a new agenda regarding the virtual reality commotion, I wouldn’t like to pry on your business, but I do have a certain business regarding that commotion itself, so I would like a favor from you my precious Dean’
In the Dean’s mind right now was in a chaotic state, his mind was thinking if Mera has already caught on the purpose of the course. But to his much disarray state of mind, he could only agree to the will of Mera.
‘I want you to deliver me the new pod and paid me exclusively for a one year period of subscription, if you do not oblige, I wouldn’t want this black book to be missing somewhere like in the media station or newspaper station or—‘
‘yes I oblige!’
Before Mera could continue on, the dean already cut short of his words saying he agrees to his condition. A devilish smile was seen carved into Mera’s face.
‘ok then since you agree, I would expect the delivery to came by my house in this week time period and here’s my address. See you again Dean Hanzo I would like us to meet not in the near future but more of a longer period of time’
Turning his back on the Dean, he then takes his leave. At the back Dean Hanzo was still fearful of the man known as Mera. No one would have guess that the Dean of University Asakura would tremble in front of his own student. Even the ex-CIA didn’t know that Mera has this much capabilities to make the most renown man in technology to cower in fear. Only the Dean and Mera share this secret.
Returning back to the present time.
A naked Mera was facing the open up pod.
‘here we go then’
Lying on the cushion fill pod, he then close the pod. Staying awake the interface in front of his face start to flash itself. Reading the interface, a gas would be administered to induce a sleep like state to the user for a smoother brain wave connection. Please do not be alarm as the gas was approved by the ministry of health. Mera didn’t know that the induction step need a gas like substance but since it has started 4 months ago it doesn’t seem to posed a problem. With the gas start to feel the close tight pod, Mera was then starting to get drowsy. Closing his eye he then heard the pod emitting a voice
COMMENCING REALITY WARP
He then woke up in a white filled space. Scanning his surroundings, it was white literally all of it was white. Then he heard a female voice;
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‘Welcome dear user, you have now enter the boundary of virtual reality’
‘oo ok’
Mera timidly reply
‘since this is your first time, your biographic identity hasn’t been recorded. Please wait as we are commencing your registration of your biometrics.’
‘your registration has complete, you may now proceed to the game interface’
A blinding flash of light covers Mera’s vision, and then he arrived in front of a wooden door. Opening the door he was now inside an office room. In front of him sat a beautiful brunette woman wearing a tight hugging red dress, it certainly expose a portion of her mammary glands. Changing her sight to Mera, she then politely asks him to take a seat.
‘hello there user, would you take a seat please’
‘ouh yeah sure’
Walking toward the chair in front of him, he felt a little breezy at his lower counterpart. Looking below, he can now see his smaller brother dangling in the air without a thread covering him. One word came to his mind ‘DAMN!’ He hastily covers his private part while embarrassed being seen by the beautiful brunette. Noticing the weird reaction of Mera, the brunette then calmly said to him;
‘do not be alarm user, I am just an A.I task for the registration of new user so do not feel embarrassed, come and take seat’
Feeling stupid all by himself, he then sat on the chair.
Fiddling with some paperwork, the A.I then proceed on asking a few questions
‘so please select the name for your in-game avatar’
‘hmm lets keep it short and simple, R’
‘R? are you sure user?’
The A.I was showing a bewildered expression. Mera thought was she really an A.I or an administration worker in disguise. He wonders the possibilities if she really was a human, she would be the most pervert person ever seeing all of the people entering the room stark naked. Moving on to his character creation, he then agrees to his name.
‘yes im sure, my name is R’
‘Since the game has a strict policy, your gender will be male according to your reality based gender’
‘sure’
‘Legend of Eterna has fifty race, twenty are playable please select one of them as your designated race’
A catalog was open up in front of his eye, with a wave of his hand the race card move accordance to the movement of Mera. There were a lot of races, from the most common one of human, dwarves, elf, orc and etc. there were also the less common one or more precisely the rare one such are merman, oni, nephilim, Satyr and etc. There was too much for him to choose, he then pick human as his choice. Reading the description of each race would be troublesome for him.
‘human’
‘ok then since you are able to alter your appearance, you have four changes that you can make upon the character creation’
A model of Mera was then projected at the side of the desk, rotating itself. The model height was the same as him, 170cm in height with a weight of 60kg his muscles wasn’t that prominent to begin with, his tan light brownish color differ him from the others of his colleagues. He wasn’t really a native of the country of Japan. The model projects every inch of his body down to the size of his private part. That it self seems disturbing, should he change his dick size? Hmm he wonders if it was possible. Questioning regarding the 4 changes possible in this game he ask the A.I;
‘can I know why is it only possible with 4 changes only?’
‘its was in the policy of the game to avoid the user to drastically change their appearance so a maximum of 4 changes was permitted’
‘ouh then what about height or weight is that permitted to change?’
‘yes it is allow, but there is certain limitation. Height can only be change within the range of its original height +5cm or -5cm while weight can only be change within its original weight +10kg or -10kg’
‘ouh I see, at least that part of realism was true, anyway make my iris color change to crimson red and make my teeth looks good hehe’
‘are you satisfied with your appearance? You have used up two of your changes you have two left’
‘ yeah sure im satisfied you can proceed’
‘very well, now you need to choose your beginning town. Due to the influx of new user 10 new town have been made for new users along with the original 5 town, you may pick your choice’
A map was open up in front of Mera, the size of the map huge. He dare say that the map was closely identical to the real world except for a few modifications here and there. Looking around the map, he was only able to choose the yellow blinking town, most of it are located at the central continent of the map while a few was quite far from the major cities. But one town has caught his eye, located at the far side of the map, its location was in fact the same location for a well-known island in the real world, Hawaii but in the game it was called, Kolo Island. Excited of experiencing a sunny filled island filled with natives babes at the sandy beach he cant wait to spawn on that island.
‘Kolo island’
‘hmm ok user, you can now proceed with your adventuring, I wish you best of luck and before you begin a water canteen will be given along with a handful of rye bread. You can find this item just by opening your inventory. Good day user’
White light then emerges from the ground engulfing Mera. The last thing he saw was only the smile of the brunette A.I. his view then change into seeing the emerald color ocean, feeling his body he was now cloth with a pair of tunic shirt and pants. He release a sigh thankful for the A.I who has given him proper cloth rather than being stark naked.
Eyeing his surrounding, he could see wooden village that makes up the majority of the buildings here. Moving his upper limbs and lower limbs, he really does felt like he was really there. So the boasting of being 99.99% realism was really not exaggerating. After getting a feel of his new found virtual body, he then walks along the ground road. Sightseeing through town, he notices a few craftsmanship shops. There were tailoring, wood crafter, herb brewing, and cooking but the thing is there was no smithing shop in this town. It seems metallurgy wasn’t the favorites of this town then.
Continue on his sightseeing, he then came unto the port of the town. Not like the large port of a typical one, this port only house a few fishing boats that was roughly 2 to 3 meters in length. Beside the port was a boat manufacturing shop, it was particularly empty leaving only an unfinished boat frame.
He then walks along the sandy beach, the sand was soft and white as a pearl. This place was truly the place safe haven for people like R, a lazy bum. After finishing exploring the town he then proceeds to the most largest wooden building in the town, the adventurers guild.
Entering the guild house, silence took over the atmosphere. Looking around the guild house, he saw no one was even there, it was empty. Heading to the reception desk, R then saw a woman laying her head on the desk. Dust was accumulating on top of her head, it was proof itself that this woman hasn’t move from a long time. Nudging the woman on her shoulder, she was still unmovable. Looking at her side, her breast was being squished between the desk and her body. Thinking like it was just a game, R then try to poke those heavenly melons. As he pokes with his finger, a terrifying slap flew to his face. Receiving the sheer force of the slap his body then flew from the ground and drop after being thrown out by 4 meters.
You have lost 99 HP.
‘damn this game’