Chapter 2: Unknown Game

Have you ever felt lonely in this world? Like when every being we're against you. And being hated for no reason, while criticising you for doing good, or others will betray and steal what precious from you.

For me, it's easy for others to defame me with even a slight evidence of misdeeds or even a forge one but it's the hardest when I prove myself and decrease the notoriety that wasn't suppose to be mine in the first place. Even if I work hard and do my best to work out my social status, it wouldn't make any difference and hostility still bested them.

I was a talented person, a good-natured one. I understand if they envied what talent I had but it wasn't the cause of there hatred against me. I still feel down and secluded myself to the world and thoroughly become introverted because I feel I'm alone in this world.

I felt I was cursed.

I could see people's eyes have a slight fear and hostility towards me and only a few people look at me in a normal view just like my family.

I'm lumian ashire and I'm 19 years old, I'm a gamer who rarely goes out to touch some grass and immersed into playing virtual reality games but I quit playing because even in game. Those scornful eyes that I commonly seen outside my house also emerge in game. Not only that they keep calling me a jink which was what I hated to be called.

Monster in game also was very aggressive towards me and attack me like a beast in berserk. I felt like a tank who has an aggro who has been casted an aggro spell 24hr per day. Even slimes treated me like they're mortal enemy and bounce at me. That also the case for many npc I really make a perfect aggro in game.

I was born handsome yet people calls me ugly and unlucky bastard the moment they saw me for no reason. For many years I survived with this curse within me and was numb to those criticism but deep inside i feel lonely being secluded by the world.

Well, it only happen when they see my handsome face and eyes that they will bear hatred to me for unknown reason. In game, I only needed to cover my eyes so the curse on me won't activate, maybe. I only use my eyes when hunting since it was efficiently also it will always makes monster goes berserk. So i often wear a mask.

I lived in a small apartment, my parents left the world a few years ago and I have no siblings to take care of. I still have few friends who don't see me the same as others but currently, I couldn't get in touch with them.

I've been through a lot of dangers, disaster, and unlucky events but I've be able to survived all of them because of my luck, that's why my luck is special.

Something happened that very night which change my destiny in an unpredictable way. At that time, it was still daytime, I was playing era online.

A virtual reality game that have a considerable amount of freedom and the gameplay is incredibly superb. But it still the usual VR game since the era of gaming I'm in is the era of virtual reality.

I was subjugating a lvl 70 boss monster with my I thought to be trusted friends but unexpectedly, they turn there backs against me after the end of the raid and ended up losing everything I build for, whether it's fame or status.

I'm always bound to lose everything anyways but it's unforgivable when my in-game account got rebirth and brought back to being level one again. So i will have to start again.

Sitting in my chair, I clicked off the tv which was showing the news about an internet cafe suddenly collapse. I focused in my computer screen, I was depressed as I click the keyboards of my old and only computer, the one father bought for me. At that time, something pop up onto the screen.

It was just your usual game ads but strangely, something entices me to click it and the game also intrigue me when I saw the words in it for advertisement.

It was poorly made ad with a black page with only words written in it was , even the name of the game is missing.

For some reason I tried to cancel it by clicking X but it doesn't work. But I did reconsider it, it might look like a cool game and clicked the ad instead since I was curious about it and what I saw was a black window page with a few letters in it. It wasn't a browser page but a pop up window.

Under it was a company name , maybe this was the name of the gaming company that created such a game, but I haven't heard of such company before? or is this company ever existed... Maybe there are, a lot of gaming companies started to emerge as soon as the VR bloom.

There might no harm on clicking it... After clicking the a question pop up into my screen.

"Do I really have to answer this? Isn't this a waste of time only? Well, it worth a shot and it's not saddening to answer a thing or two"

As I look at the screen, the questions seems normal, it's just like a survey for gaming preference. There's two choices in most questions and 10 questions at most we're given.

"i guess name is more important in a survey"

And so the next question...

"hmm... What does the room in this game mean? Maybe white is better, i don't know what game is this but definitely it's white" and I clicked white button but I didn't expected the result.

"what I clearly clicked the white one?! Is this questionnaire broken?... Let's calm down, i should've change my mouse if i had a chance, it have gotten old, if only i had money... But maybe black is a good one, let's not make a fuss over a little mistake like last time" it doesn't really matter what I choose as they don't look any different from each other.

"there are a lot of interesting races available. There were also race who had much advantage in there's of race inborn skill, such as dwarf who is a natural blacksmiths and with strong physiques or the elves who is good at handling bows and a good forest ranger... But maybe I'll stay as a human. It's unconfortable using other race."

So in the end, I choose to remain as a human. So the game test continued with a lot of serious question, some are personal and some where in game, until I reach the final question.

For some reason the question become a weird one, there is even word that I couldn't understand.

"betting my life? kinda suspicious. What's this suppose to mean... Isn't it just a normal game? Sigh, let's just click no, I'm not a coward or anything it's just...?! Wait, why did It choose yes... It happened twice, I guess its kinda broken, nothing bad will happen right?"

But weirdly enough, It still clicked yes despite choosing no, in a few seconds before the tenth questionnaire dissapears. The strange letter suddenly reverted into a readable, I could clearly see the words means 'Clash of the Drifting Realm'.

I baffled a bit about it, as I don't know what that means, what I only could speculate about it was, it was the name of the game. After that the page suddenly shift into a message saying.

"great! Now it's done maybe I'll go grab some drinks in the fridge, i wonder what game will it turns out."

But as soon as I stand up from my seat, as if my ears has become sharper than lately and made a 360° turn as soon as I heard the notification rings.

"what? That's fast... Huh? 'thank you for your patience, you will now be redirected to the game I hope you had fun surviving with challenges that will befall you' is what it said.. Gahh.. What's happening... I feel dizzy... "

After reading the pop up message on the computer, I suddenly feel light-headed and my eyelids felt too heavy that I wanted to close it as I started to lose consciousness, the feeling of being cast a sleep spell by a mage and before I know. I gave up resisting and fall into a deep sleep on the floor.

"...Huh? Where am I? Where is this place.. This definitely not my house.. Who is that...woah?! "

I wake up and a strange place and saw a strong monster about as big as a titan with sharp talons on both of its hand with a grotesque feature under him was a tall person with wicked aura surrounds him, that man has dark eyes with a slight red with it and two black horn with him. He seems like your typical demon lord.

He was holding a peculiar spear pointing at an injured man with his only weapon broke. He seems fatally wounded and could barely support himself to stand. His feature is kind of identical to me but a much older version, I'm not certain. While I found myself floating in transparency.

I saw them talking but for some reason I could not hear them. I saw myself in this dream grinned and suddenly, the 'me's energy in this dream explode, waking me up from that vivid nightmare.

LUMIAN RECORD ENTRY 1 END.