7

The day passed in more of a blur. Exhaustion caused Aoi to feel light headed and dizzy for the majority of the day. His eyes started to burn as he focused on the class work before him after finally arriving home.

With much effort, he finally finished typing the last of his paper before emailing it to the 'head' member of the project team.

Saving his work for himself, Aoi closed the writing program, and began to launch Taoist Ascension.

When the game finished launching, Aoi glanced down at the icon that showed the missed messages.

Blinking a few times, Aoi moved to pull up the messaging system before glancing over the many different messages, most from players issuing 'challenges'. Ignoring them, he continued to read until he found the one that was not read yet. Clicking it, Aoi glanced over the simple message.

[[God_of_War]]: Is it alright to do a sparing match tonight? I wish to test something...

[[God_of_War]]: Maybe tonight is not a good night?

[[God_of_War]]: I'll ask again later, seems you are busy.

[[God_of_War]]: Making a party for a quest, did you want to join?

[[God_of_War]]: The Quest will start at --. If you are free, please join.

Unsure of how to feel, Aoi just looked at the messages before he saw the icon showing the other party was currently typing.

[[God_of_War]]: The party is about to start, Did you want to join?

Shifting slightly, Aoi hovered over the keys for a moment before he finally sent a response.

[[V1RUS]]: I'll join. I just finished what I needed to do today.

After sending, Aoi waited for the message giving the location of the meet up, before closing the messaging system. Opening the map, Aoi clicked the auto route action to allow his character to auto move to the location.

Blinking, Aoi shifted before grabbing his phone, skimming through the apps before he opened the take out app and ordered his dinner. Though he rarely ate outside of breakfast, he needed something to help give him energy. Thus the best option was take out.

After placing his order, he glanced up to find his character moving to the group of people gathering at the given location.

Noticing a few new names, Aoi stopped the auto path function before he moved over to where [[God_of_War]] was standing.

Shifting to the side, he shifted to the party function before accepting the new invite. After it was completed, he moved to the party chat, quickly ridding the wave of comments from global chat .

[[V1RUS]]: Is there still some time? I just ordered food...

[[God_of_War]]: Yes, there's another 20 minutes. We decided to meet up first to shift through the other members. It's a large Quest group this time, aside from the original 6 group, we'll have 10. We still need 4 more players.

[[V1RUS]]:....Okay.

[[Bringing_Peace]]: Hello [[V1RUS]]. Did you want a say in who we bring in?

[[Ming_Ming]]: Normally [[Clear_Wind]] Makes the party, but [[God_of_War]] took the leader spot today.

[[Clear_Wind]]: I don't always have to be the party leader you know...

The group made idle chat as they waited for the other players to settle down, Aoi made a few comments of being fine with whatever they chose, being as he wasn't truly a real member of their group. Like the others, he was only an invited player.