Wheel to Golems

Tim looked at the price of the dragon parts the shop gave for them. The bones and leather had a price of around 100 gold coins per kilogram, indicating that this was only for people of the higher standing. But before using the core he also looked at firstly the description, with indicated the possibility to strengthen a single soldier to an enormous amount or even be able to tame a dragon with a core that was lower in level than the core that was given to it. Second, the core could be sold for a hefty sum of 200 gold coins, having a worth of around 10000 Euros in real life. This was not the world for most people and was achievable for a family in savings but for the people in the middle age in which the game was set, it was a fortune only accessible for the richest of the rich.

As the key he got from the pirates could not be sold the only thing left to do was to unlock the new next world. So he put in the materials and the two missing ones turned green.

All was ready. He clicked on the button, to unlock the new world.

Tim was excited. The same excitement he had not felt since being a child. At this moment the world or map, he had was more about business but he hoped that in the future he could play more futuristic settings with laser weapons or something. He hoped to get powerful, even though he could not use it and nobody would know, it was just a forgotten dream of his he had long ago.

As the click was recognized by the app the phone screen turned black. It was so black no light was reflected. It was the darkest black he had seen in his life. Slowly the black from the screen began to move out of the phone, slowly flying towards him. During this time what was black at the beginning began to morph. First, it got slimmer, then longer. At last, it started to round. When it arrived in front of him it put itself in front of his eyes and curved to the side, perfectly around his head. It was floating in the air above his nose, not touching him at all.

Tim's mouth was agape, not being able to close it. This was fascinating and some part of technology he had hoped for.

As he was busy thinking about what just happened, the screen lit up in front of him. To him though it did not feel like a screen. It felt more like a room he was in and just something that could be seen in real life. The screen showed a 3D lottery wheel. It had a lot of different colors as pizza slices but all of them had question marks as text. He stood in front of the wheel and in him the urge to turn it began to make him move. He turned the wheel and it spun rapidly. It did not stop and the time it spun felt like ages. Slowly it began to slow down. The question marks it landed on began to move out of the wheel in front of his eyes. He kind of felt sorry for not being able to see the choices in advance. As the question marks stopped in front of him they turned in the letters that made sense.

Tim: "A world with Golems?"

What stood in front of him was " Golem World". Pretty simple and not very informative. Slowly it turned into a title and below it opened up a lot of information about the world to come.

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Golem World

World: Roursa;

Inhabitants: Summoners, Golems, Beasts;

Size: 2 times the surface of Earth;

Usable Surface: 2000km² (expandable);

Start: 5 Straw Golems, 50 Wood, 50 Stone;

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Tim looked at the world and was excited. A world with summoners that as it looked could summon Golems. Right now he did not know jet if the Beasts could be summoned as well. Also, he started with stones, indicating that he would not have to start so low and the starting progress would be faster.

He clicked on the confirm button on the light blue screen that was floating in front of him and showing him this information. After he felt a sucking feeling and he opened his eyes looking down at a new empty world. He was floating high in the air above the ground. The progress in comparison to the last map he still had to play like any other game was vast. He thought it was due to some test or confirmation that was needed to start the app for real. The ability to zoom in was still there and he could zoom as close to see a single strand of gras.

This map had no overlay showing the building menu or materials available. The only thing visible that did not fit in the world were two buttons in the top left corner. The first one had a map and a pencil on it and indicated the edit mode. The second one showed an icon of a person.

As he clicked on the edit button all the necessary information was available to him, just like a door was unlocked in his brain, behind which was all this information. When he clicked again, the door closed again and the information disappeared. It was a magical feeling and he tried it a few times. When he was ready he focused on what to build first. This time would not be as easy as he had not played this game before like the other one if this one could even be described as a game.