As soon as Diana had spoken the stars twinkling around her seemed to swirl rapidly and quickly brightened, as though each was a streak of light in the space around her, forcing her to close her eyes. When Diana opened them she found herself standing on top of a patch of bright blue grass and a quick scan of the area revealed that it was covered completely in blue grass and lush green trees.

Diana couldn’t help but gaze at the trees, they were clustered around a small glowing pound and seemed to somehow radiate both sadness and power at the same time. They were drooped over like hunchbacks and all around the area a small breeze brought droplets of water down onto the ground.

“I see you are admiring the willow trees my dear, you have good taste.”

She turned her body around and was surprised to see a pale, old lady with completely blue hair and nails. Although Diana could immediately tell that the lady was old, it wasn’t because of her pale skin, which seemed to radiate youth or her hair which swayed in the wind with its healthy blue colour.

It was because of her eyes. They seemed to emit an aura of both wisdom and strength, the kind that only one who has experienced years of living could give off.

Diana noted that the old woman was dressed in light blue robes mixed with symbols that seemed to be stitched on with an even lighter blue colour.

The lady saw her looking and chuckled, “My my, a Xana with Black hair and brown eyes has arrived among us? How strange. Can you hear me child? I’m afraid I’m quite old and my voice isn’t what it used to be, please come closer so that I can speak to you properly.”

Try walking towards Indrid.

Diana blanched as she tried to walk and her legs tripped over themselves and she fell onto the ground.

‘Moving was so much easier when I was young.’

Of course every game would be different and she hadn’t played a virtual reality game for at least five or six years. It took a while but eventually she was able to walk properly and she reached Indrid only to find that the old lady was laughing loudly.

“Haha, look at you stumbling like a newborn baby! I’ve never seen a Xana so uncoordinated.”

Try talking to Indrid.

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Diana brushed a lock of damp hair out of her eyes and it plastered to her cheek. Even though she would normally be incredibly annoyed at this, for some reason she didn’t seem to mind it. The water even made her feel invigorated.

“Is it always raining down here?”

Indrid raised a blue eyebrow at her question, “Why of course it is my dear, at Xanandra it never stops raining! We are water spirits after all, how would we be able to live without water? Do parents teach their younglings nothing these days?”

*Crash*

Before Diana could respond to Indrid’s questions a loud sound erupted behind her and she quickly turned around, hardly tripping since she was already used to the movements of the game. Indrid too had stopped chuckling and Diana could feel tension suddenly rise in the air.

“What is that?”

A few meters in front of them a patch of darkness had appeared and Diana shivered as a rush of fear tingled down her spine. All around it the water was being absorbed into the darkness and soon after something began to appear.

It was a pair of scaly, dark blue claws.

“That my dear,” Indrid’s somewhat nervous voice rung out from beside Diana, “Is an Ultivate, they are the mortal enemies of our kind.”

The darkness slowly crept into the creature that had appeared. It looked like a blue lizard that was only about half a meter in height. It was standing on two pudgy blue legs and it kept its balance with its scale encrusted tail that pressed against the grass behind it, its hands were in front of it much like a humans would be. Before she could move the monster suddenly jumped up to her and raised its hands in front of it to swipe at her face with its claws.

“Watch out!”

Diana cried out in pain and panic as she was pushed to the side. She quickly turned around and squeaked at the scene before her, Indrid’s shoulder had been pierced by the Ultivate’s scaly claws and she was lying on the ground and panting. The woman raised her head to face Diana and she could see pain in Indrid’s eyes.

“Hurry child! Strike the creature while it is distracted!”

Diana stood up quickly as a new message box appeared in front of her.

Defeat the Ultivate.