second reality

The next morning, Alex had gathered all the original gang members plus Emily in his suite.

"what do you want? I was playing with my new toys," Sid said with an annoyed tone.

Alex ignored him and waited for Max to come too. After he came, Alex started talking, "as I said before, from today till a month later, we can't leave the hotel. But that doesn't mean that there isn't another way to level up.

All of your levels may be higher than the norm, but for our plans to work, you need to level up much faster."

"what do you think we should do then? You said we can't leave the hotel." Said Leo.

Alex smiled at his question and said, "our bodies can't leave the hotel, but our minds can."

"what do you mean our minds can?" asked Kate.

"There is an option called reality switch; after activating reality switch and spending a hundred million, the system will make a realistic avatar of us in the outside world; we can give more money and choose the location, of course.

The second reality is something between augmented reality and virtual reality.

Our avatars can see and touch what others can see, but we can also see more.

Have you ever played MMORPG games?" asked Alex and looked around the room. All of them, except Emily, nodded, then Alex continued, "then you must be familiar with the concept of dungeons."

"Are you saying we can go dungeon hunting?" asked Ryan excitedly.

"yes, but it's not that simple. First, I need to explain some rules to you before going into any dungeon.

We can access dungeons both with our physical bodies and our avatar. But since the nanobots are still very scarce in the atmosphere, we can't go into dungeons using our real bodies at the moment.

There is also the risk of dying if we use our real bodies to enter a dungeon. If we use avatars instead, we can get extra lives in exchange for INBs, and until we have enough INBs, we are practically invincible. But that's not the case for dungeons outside the second reality.

The next thing that you need to know is that leveling up using avatars is three times harder than using our real bodies. Since we are risking a lot less, the EXP we gain is also a lot less."

"so you are saying that we can die even if we are avatars?" asked Parisa.

"yes, but don't worry, I will transfer five hundred million INBs to each of you; that is equivalent to five lives, so you don't need to worry about dying for now.

As for Sid and Reyhan, you both can level up by forging equipment and making potions, but you need blueprints, recipes, and materials, so I suggest you come with us because the chances of finding these things will increase if you are in the team. There is also a chance of finding a low-grade dual job book that will let you choose a second job. Are there any questions?"

"yes," Kate raised her hand and said, "how do you know all of this?"

"I come from ten years in the future," said Alex seriously.

"ha ha ha, funny, now tell me how you know all this." Kate didn't believe him and asked again.

When he saw that nobody believed him, Alex sighed and said, "After doing a special quest got an information book that told me about all of this stuff. Unfortunately, it was a one-use item, and after I finished reading it, it disappeared. Any other question?" after looking around the room and receiving no questions Alex said, "ok then, give me your hands, I will transfer the INBs to you."

Alex had already taken the ten billion reward they got for doing the fairy quest from Emily, so he had enough money to give them all five lives worth of INBs.

After transferring the INBs, Alex told them to sit in a comfortable position around the living room and then said, "now, ask the system to make an avatar of you."

As soon as they did that, a notification came into their view.

"It will cost 100,000,000 INBs to make a new avatar."

"do you wish to proceed?"

"yes/no."

All of them chose "yes," and immediately, an avatar of themselves formed in front of them.

"it will cost 10,000,000 to customize your avatar."

"do you wish to customize your avatar?"

"yes/no."

They all chose "yes," and started customizing their avatar to their liking.

"Now, close your eyes and tell the system to transfer your consciousness to the avatar." Said Alex after finishing his avatar customization.

All of them did as Alex said, and the next second, they were all standing in front of their bodies, looking at themselves.

It was a strange experience, like in the movies when a ghost looks at its own body from the outside.

"This is really amazing; I don't feel any change; it's like I'm the real one, and the one on the chair is the avatar." Said Max in astonishment.

"If you ever forget if you are in your body or the avatar, simply look at the information on the top right corner of your eye."

When they paid closer attention to that direction, they noticed a grin dot with an "online" sign next to it.

"Now, tell the system to teleport you to this location," said Alex and sent them all the coordinates to the place he wanted to go.

After entering the coordinates and spending a million INBs, all their avatars vanished from the room, and only the bodies were left.

When they opened their eyes again, they were standing in the middle of a desert with nothing but sand around.

Soon another system notification came into their view.

"starting the visualization,"

After that, the view in front of them changed, starting from under their feet and stretching all the way to the horizon.

Now, instead of a wasteland with nothing but sand, in front of them was a beautiful mountain area with a lot of greenery and different beasts roaming around.

All of them, except Alex of course, were astonished at the sight in front of them.

It was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen in their lives.

"it looks like a place out of fairy tales; it's so beautiful,"

"I can't believe my eyes; how can such a place exist?"

Alex looked at their astonished faces with a nostalgic smile and said, "it doesn't; this is all made by the system."