Team Meeting

It was around 10 in the morning when I walked out of the cabin. The last thing I remembered was going to bed in one of the rooms of the village hall. I reached to the clock while rubbing my eyes to see it was showing exactly 10:05 AM.

'Hmm...looks like I slept 4 hours extra after exiting from the game. Well, it makes sense as my mind was continuously working in the game.' I thought before heading to the bathroom to answer the call of the sweet mother nature. After doing what needed to be done and taking a shower, I opened my laptop to check the official website of RealSpace technologies for any new information. There was an update showing only one point.

[Protection of seven days will be granted to all the villages and on 8th day will be the start of the first ordeal.]

'Isn't it too soon to start an ordeal? Gotta start the preparations from tomorrow'. I thought before going on the official forum which was bustling with praises and excitements of fellow gamers.

"Man this game is way too real, does anyone has any idea how they managed to make it."

"Don't know, don't care. But becoming lord was really a wonderful family. Now I know why these high society people act so high and mighty."

"Yeah, even the girls were looking at me with those dreamy eyes. I Gotta say that feeling was really something else. Hell, tomorrow I am even planning to make a move on some of them....hehe."

"Upstairs, please share the experience with this brother."

"Damn leechers"

"You gotta problem buddy!!!"

And seeing the conversation going off the trail I closed the laptop and called Rahul for a team meeting this afternoon. The venue that was decided was his home.

It was around 1:00 PM when I exited from my apartment after wearing my mask. His home was a short distance away so I decided to take a walk. The lifeless road of concrete along with air full of smog was especially empty today. In the mad rush of development, humanity had forgotten to care about the cries of nature. Now that our own karma had come to bite in our a**, we started to take a more conservative approach. Well, what is done is done, nothing can change by whatever I think.

With this train of thought, just as I reached Rahul's home suddenly I felt a grip on my shoulder. Startled when I turned around I came face to face with Jia who was gasping for air with sweat trickling down her pretty face and certain twins rising and falling rapidly with each breath.

Seeing the direction of my gaze she gave me a sharp glare, "First...*gasp..*gasp...first you ignore me when I was shouting your name from the middle of the street, and now this. You got some nerves you damn pervert". She shouted before elbowing me in the stomach and stomping her way into the house.

'How can this be my fault', I inwardly grumbled but dared not to raise my voice before going in the house.

Seeing the weird atmosphere between us Rahul looked at us questionably before asking, "Lover's quarrel?".

"Shut up!!!", he immediately got rebuked by two voices.

'Damn smartass', I cursed inwardly before thinking of wiping the smug off his face. Just at this moment a hologram of 6 feet a tall handsome young man with dark brown hair appeared. This gentleman was Leo Harrison, son of an English tycoon and fourth member of our online gaming group named 'Devil-may-care'.

Looking at the strange atmosphere in the room and especially between me and Jiya he immediately concluded and asked with the same smug look, "Lover's quarrel?"

"For the love of God!!!," I cried before raising my fist to hit him but alas I was destined to fail as he was the accursed hologram. Seeing me fail miserably he started laughing loudly and even certain someone who was supposed to be angry with me was also trying to suppress her giggle.

After watching the scene unfolding before my eyes, I sighed inwardly before thinking how cruel the world is. After waiting for some time final member of our team came online. He was a 5'10 young man with an average build and black hair. His name was Harry Bing and we strongly suspect him to be the descendent of legendary Chandler Bing and only final confirmation was needed for us to prove that.

After greeting everyone he felt something was seeing my miserable situation he 'intelligently' decided not to comment. I bet he was storing this for some other occasion because he is definitely not the one to miss opportunities like this. With everything settled we moved to discuss our current situations.

"How did you guys do in the trial, because I got an A grade with around 12500 points?" I stated proudly before describing everything that had happened on the first day.

"You sure are lucky Neel, I thought I was lucky by getting 11000 points and an A grade", said Rahul with a dejected face.

"Well, I think I did well by getting 12000 points and an A grade, don't get why you are so deflated despite getting an A grade", said Harry before looking at Rahul.

"Ha noobs, bow down to your daddy because I got 15000 points with S rank along with Great general Edward I son of Henry III, he also has S grade talent".

"Yeah whatever", said Harry before started discussing his village with us. It was very clear that we all were very jealous. 'Looks like God is also with these rich a**holes', we all thought.

Seeing this Leo's eyebrows twitched but before he was able to open his mouth we all turned our gazes to the only member who hadn't spoken till now. Suddenly getting the attention of everyone she smiled embarrassingly before saying, "I only got a B grade with 9000 points and Tanhaji who is an advanced historical general in the game", in a meek voice.

"Well you don't have to get embarrassed, B grade is also good and besides you are better than us in the management field", said Rahul to console her.

"Yeah and Tanhaji, well he is pretty good at Guerilla warfare* so if you will use him well you can even defeat an army double the size of yours pretty easily," I added.

After that, we discussed our situations and the next steps we need to take. Since it was only one day before the game was released so there wasn't much to discuss. It was around 4:00 PM when we ended the meeting, after which I returned to my home in anticipation of another day of this phenomenal journey.