CHAPTER 11: THE MAIL
When Taylor opened his eyes on Nova pulling up his VR helmet, he saw his whole family standing in front of him with concern written on their faces. He had an impression that he would see them here,
'Just like I thought they are worried about me'
So Taylor thought he should say something to comfort them or else they will ban him from entering the Fantasy World. Since it is said to be another real living world, people couldn't understand the pros and cons now. If someone died there what would be their state here in this world, Nova is an unanswered question.
But what he heard after let him stunned,
"What gift did you get?",
Asked his mother, before he could even say anything.
Hearing that he announced with a sad look,
"I got a drink, but can only use that after I reach level 10"
He didn't tell about the clone, because that is not going to be a satisfactory answer they want. But this will make them have no other way than to let him enter the Fantasy World. After all, to get the gift, he got to level up. Since his family was always worried about his blocked meridians, that unknown elixir or potion will buy me time, until I find the way the voice talked about.
'So it will be a sure hit'
"Since it can't be helped until you reach level 10. You have to enter the Fantasy World. After that let's talk about it later"
declared his grandfather about his thoughts. Hearing that he made a victory pose inside his head.
' yeah... I am a genius'
Then his father spoke up,
"Give us the helmets you have bought for us. We also want to enter the Fantasy World ", hearing that he was amazed.
Looking at his surprised face, his grandfather smiled and pointed at the wall clock. When Taylor turned his amazement morphed into shock, the digital clock is showing 10:30 pm... He again looked at his grandfather for an explanation, because he spent about 2 hours in the Fantasy World but only 30 mins have passed over here.
"The world is going in utter chaos due to the revelation made by the ZEON. About 9:45 after you entered your game. I got a top-secret mail send by ZEON. Every big family in Alma received the mail. About the circumstances of what thought to be a game but became the other world. In that, they said, that the game is actually another world. That will go under war in 2 years with an unknown race that calls themselves demons. So before that happens everyone should level up so that we can participate in that war. It's said that at least one person in a house should enter the Fantasy World after the second update that will happen in 6 months, expect kids under 14 years old. This is not only about the survival of lives in the Fantasy world, it concerns our world too."
Hearing his grandfather's statement, Taylor was bewildered. Even though he knows things will be not like before, Still to want everyone to enter the game.
'It's too much like the real war.'
Why Taylor thought such that, even after entering the Fantasy world he still could not accept the facts of traveling to another world. Human is such they would be wanting a certain amount of time to accept these things, not just a reasonable fact. If reasonable truth was all it took to make humans believe a thing, we could have realized our negligences to nature is biting us in the back now.
"It's said that after the second update, things won't be the same. You can even open your inventory in the real world. You can transfer material in and out of the Fantasy World by creating portals. But that may cost a fortune even in the Fantasy World, so the economy will have to rely on the Fantasy World. So no other choice we have to enter the Fantasy World."
Taylor asked his grandfather, "Didn't they say anything about the Fantasy World. How is people's level? Demons level. Or the scale of war. "
George smiled hearing Taylor's question, 'If I didn't know he was my grandson, I would think him as some 60 years old man. He is not showing any fear or excitement like a 16 years old boy should be, the calmness he shows is actually making me restless.'
Regardless he explained, " It's written that the time difference is about 1:4, 1 hour here is equal to 4 hours in the Fantasy World. You can learn different skills from the Fantasy World but you have to do yourself. The game feature is only there because every updated world will have these leveling features. It is there only to accelerate the growth speed of people. One of the benefits of being a level 2 world. And there are three important elements to know about the Fantasy World,
1. It has become level 2 before 500 years and some of the high-level beings that the level 2 world can't hold ascended to level 3 worlds. But still, there are lots of powerhouses in Fantasy World.
2. The penalty of dying in Fantasy World is you can't log in for 2 days with an additional drop 2 levels down.
3. You can take any profession in Fantasy World, you can even rule lands in Fantasy World. Create an army. Conquer kingdom but should not desert the war."
Why would someone conquer a kingdom, worsening the already collapsing world? He reckoned but didn't ask.
After a few more interrogations like a cop, satisfied Taylor gave them the VR helmets that were stored in his locker and send them away.
Sending them of his room Taylor took out his laptop logged in his mail. He asked his grandfather to send him the secret mail. He had to read that. Rather than hearing from someone else, knowing for yourself is promising. Because things that are not important for others might be useful to you, as you may have different viewpoints.
Bing...
Taylor received the mail from his grandfather. And started reading it word by word. When he finished it, he chuckled because spending 2 hours for 10 pages is a joke on himself.
Phew... He lay down on his bed and analyzed the data that didn't correlate with what he already knew.
'The Fantasy World is ten times larger in size than Alma, it holds about 700 billion citizens in it. The citizens of Fantasy World are not only consisted of humans. There are fairies, elf, trolls, orcs, dwarfs, dragons... It is only the known one that is reported to Nova there are still a lot of beings not added in it. Man, they even have mermaids.'
'And the hard part is they are praying different god's in different regions of the Fantasy World. They pray either nature or heroes of history. The people of Nova are going to be scattered based on the region they are connected to. So they can group together and level up faster. As the demon has started affecting the planet. Lots of species are affected by demonic qi. There are lots of dungeons forming everywhere in the Fantasy World. How are the dungeons formed?.'
'Grandpa skipped out the dungeons because Mom was there.'
'Finally, the most important thing is I have God's blood with me. Since they are saying gods exist in Fantasy World, it has to be like somehow. It's magic after all.'
Then as he turned towards his VR helmet, he inferred things...
'Then the devil face in the mask is genuine good. Damn it. I even made fun of it. This is a damn real world. I would have gone -2 level... '
His heartbeat rose to unprecedented heights, getting to the new world and meeting a demon right then is not a cool thing to the person involved.
He after a duration of time subsiding his heart and questions emerged of the mechanical voice,
'So how did the mechanical voice in my mind knew about the Fantasy World? How is it connected to Fantasy World? How to merge white and black qi? Is the battlefield in my dream past or future? Is it Fantasy World or Nova'
Tring... Tring... Tring...
Click...
"Boss. I'm ready. Let's ENTER THE FANTASY WORLD."
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