Chapter 30- The Secret Master Key 

Everybody left the training room including Richard/Gerald who was asking this question from Kronos. He soon got a quite mysterious answer from Kronos which was;

[All I can say for you is that both the citizens of The GATE and Earth have several times in the far past where the prominent Earth civilization's technology was millenniums more advanced than it is now. This resulted in the mixing of castes, colors, cultures, and religions mixing among them and this is also one of the reasons that the same quote is used on both planets.]

'I was shocked by the answer I received after a casual question that was raised in my mind, especially in the part where Kronos said that the civilization of the far past had a technology that was millenniums ahead of the current civilization's technology.'

The reply of Kronos created another doubt of the walking Richard/Gerald in his mind- "Should not technology develop with time and if it did not develop at least it will remain at the same level but here the technology has declined."

[The answer to that question is quite "complicated" to answer but all I can say is there was an accident/ a problem that destroyed the technology. It resulted in humanity starting from scratch to develop their technology by the leadership of a Science Genius who was born in that civilization's worst technologically developed colony.]

'This story seems to match with an old anime/animation cartoon that I had seen in the collection that was the only remains of my ancestors that was remaining but it did not mention anything about an ancient civilization.'

[That animation was created in tribute to that legendary monster that was able to advance the technology of Earth that would normally take several centuries/ several eras in his lifespan alone. You could say that he is the reason that you all have that small electronic device in your pockets that humans cannot live without.]

I thought 'although that anime only consisted of 2 seasons and did not show the things he had done before dying it can be identified that he was a genius to be the reason for the current high phones being in our pockets is something I thought was not possible since he could only make a phone for communication in that anime.' While I was having this thought, I banged my head on a room door while I was having that thought.

I was surprised to bang myself at a door only to release that I had come to my dorm room out of habit and had tried to go inside without opening it. I must say that I have developed a habit that only people who follow a regular lifestyle that does not change at all every day. I seemed to have developed the habit of banging myself at my room door if it was closed when in I was in deep thought.

I smiled and took the key to my dorm room and unlocked the door with the key but there was a secret of the key that Richard/Gerald did not know. The secret was that the key was an ancient relic similar to a master key and also a fingerprint scanner. The key would allow the person whose fingerprint is registered in the key to open any door in the school including all the doors of both the female and male Dorm.

This would result in a fight between the boys to go inside a girl's room and the girls who want to protect their privacy but even if Richard/Gerald knew about this he would just say "Is that so?" and continue with his day to day works as if nothing had happened. Some may wonder why there was such a powerful key since even The Principal or Board of Directors does not have access to some rooms and that this key could fall into the hands of anybody lucky to get Dorm Room 777.

There was a reason for there being such a key and that being that there are some rooms that should not be opened by even the Board of Directors and nobles. Only royalty was allowed to enter these rooms and all royals' fingerprints were recorded in this key and the NPC Richard's fingerprint too was recorded in it when he was a baby, this makes this key even more valuable. How valuable the key in Richard/Gerald's pocket can be told by these rooms being more valuable than Training Room 7.

{Attention all players all servers will close in another 2 minutes. All players are requested to log out immediately.}

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{Attention all players all servers will be closing now and all players will be forcefully logged out immediately.}

After Gerald logged out of the game he went for his morning jobs as he normally did every weekday since the virtual currency to real currency function would not be implemented till a few weeks passed.

*Later that day*

{Initiating Retina Scan}

{Retina Scan in progress-10%}

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{Retina Scan Completed}

{Welcome to The GATE "The legendary Ark"}

*Gerald's Pov as Richard*

I decided in my mind that 'I would eat all 4 cooked Minotaur Meat at once since it would arouse suspicion if my skin became fairer each day and although I was still slightly nervous that I might fall unconscious and not wake up, I believed in what Kronos said since he has always only helped me.' I then locked the door behind me and removed all my dresses before taking a towel, the cooked meat, and entering the bath.

After I entered the bath, I put all the meat in my mouth before keeping the towel aside in the bath. I started chewing the meat after quickly turning on the shower and immediately tasted the divine taste I had felt before but this time I was ready for the pain that would follow it. As I had anticipated I felt my head spin although not to the extent of becoming unconscious. I felt a warm heat spreading from my chest to all the parts of my body before smelling the same weird and smelly smell that signified the impurities leaving my body. I once again felt my bones turning and relaxing but this time it did not hurt as the 1st time.

After I was almost going to sleep I noticed then that the smell had disappeared and that I could no longer see the black goo/impurities. I felt that my body was very itchy and that I was very sleepy. I managed to drag myself to my bed after the shower.