Aurora expected her relationship with Zach to advance because they started living together, but nothing happened.
It has been ten days since Zach and Aurora ascended to the first realm and started living together, but they did nothing at that time.
Aurora would often go out to stroll around the town and shop for groceries, but Zach never got out of the house. Zach would only come out of his room to eat.
On the morning of the eleventh day, Aurora dashed into his room to see what he was doing, and much to her surprise, Zach wasn't there.
'Where did he go?' Aurra asked herself. 'I didn't see him leaving.'
She got out of Zach's room and searched the entire house to find him.
'Did he leave while I was bathing? But I didn't hear the sound of the door opening.' Aurora assumed Zach left the house to do something.
She was certain that Zach didn't leave her behind as his belongings, such as his sword and dagger, were still in his room.
"Well, I will go check the market. I also need to buy stuff for dinner…" Aurora walked to her room to get her weapon.
When she entered the room, she found Zach standing in her room.
"What are you doing here?!" Aurora yelled in surprise.
Zach turned around and looked at Aurora after saying, "I was waiting for you."
"Then you should have waited in the living room! How would I know you were in the room if I wasn't informed?" Aurora hissed. "And don't you know, you shouldn't enter a girl's room without permission."
"Is that so?"
"Your sister must have yelled at you or called you a pervert whenever you entered her room without knocking, right?" Aurora was still comparing her current situation with rom-com shows.
"My sister doesn't have a room. She is 10… or 11. I am not sure," Zach asserted.
"What about you then? You must also get angry when someone enters your room uninvited, right?"
"I don't have a room either. Actually, my house is…" Zach glanced around the corners of the room and said, "Yeah. It should be the same size as this room."
"..." Aurora knitted her brows and asked, "You are kidding, right?"
It was natural for Aurora to not believe Zach. In fact, no one would have believed it. After all, if one could play a VR game, it was hard to think of that person as a poor class.
"Yeah. I was kidding," Zach scoffed and said, "My house should be similar to this one, but we have two stories."
Aurora sighed in relief and uttered inwardly: 'I am glad I didn't touch a sensitive topic.'
"So, why are you here?" Aurora asked curiously.
Zach pointed his finger at the table where 50 MP potions were sitting on the table.
"What is… that?" Aurora asked with an oblivious look on her face.
"Try grabbing one," Zach advised.
Aurora grabbed one bottle in her hand and inspected it from all sides.
"Is this… some kind of weapon?" Aurora wondered.
Zach chuckled and asked, "What does it say when you grab it?"
"It says 'non-usable item,'" Aurora answered.
'Hmm. So they are unusable even when I give them to someone. It seems the only way to use them is to trade it through the magic shop.'
Zach grabbed another bottle from the table and smashed it near Aurora's feet.
Aurora jumped back in surprise and glared at Zach.
"Did something happen?" Zach asked curiously.
"Yes."
"Oh?" Zach raised his brows and asked, "What?"
Aurora frowned her face and smashed the bottle in her hand near Zach's feet, yelling, "This happened."
"..."
Zach's MP increased by 50.
[3250/ ∞]
'So it doesn't work like this either…' Zach let out a weary sigh and moved all the bottles into his inventory.
The broken pieces of the bottle automatically disappeared when they hit the floor.
"What are they?" Aurora asked again.
"Potions," Zach replied nonchalantly.
"But potions don't exist in this game…"
"Now they do."
"But why couldn't I use them?" Aurora believed everything Zach said because she had no reason to not believe him.
"You have to buy them from the magic shop in order to use them," Zach answered and glanced at Aurora with a grin on his face. "But don't worry. I will give you a discount."
Zach used nearly 8000 MP to create fifty 50 MP potions. About 5500 MP wasted.
'I am out of magic powder too…'
Zach wanted to increase the effectiveness of his crafting ability so he could craft without wasting many resources. He currently had limited stock of the potions. He planned to sell 30 potions to the magic shop and keep 20— now 18, for himself to use them in emergency cases.
After Kyle's announcement, the players started taking the game seriously. While there were still some, who played the game casually. The problematic ones were the players who began to take the game too seriously.
Zach was neither of them. He knew that trying too hard to beat the game wouldn't take him out of the gods; impact. His physique was already maxed, so all he had to worry about was to level up. But after Kyle's announcement, Zach had to prepare himself for the bigger battles; the battles with the angels and gods.
"So, you invaded my room to show me the potions?" Aurora asked with a confused yet calm look on her face.
"No, there is one more thing. We are going to go out today, so get ready," Zach asserted.
"Are we going to clear dungeons?" Aurora asked curiously.
"No." Zach shook his head and uttered in a solemn voice: "You must have realized that clearing dungeons and towers only give rewards and EXP to the players. It doesn't give physique points."
"Yeah…"
Zach left Aurora's room after saying, "We will be leaving after 10 minutes. No need for breakfast. We might as well eat it in the restaurant."
Aurora watched Zach leave and raised her brows in confusion, 'Why was he speaking in a monotonous tone?'
Aurora didn't realize something, which Zach realized some seconds ago.
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[Weekly Quest.]
«Week ended.»
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Author's Note - Extra chapter coming up in 30 minutes!
Question- What did Zach realize, and what's the reason he acted like that?
Zach entered his room and closed the door behind him. He moved all his items into his inventory even though there was no need to since he wouldn't be able to use his sword or dagger because he was already equipping the gloves as his weapon.
He let out a loud sigh and muttered, "I totally forgot about that." After talking with Aurora a while ago, Zach realized something.
He remembered how hard it was for him to leave Aurora behind, even though she could have ascended after a week once she had cultivated enough physique points.
Zach realized it wasn't a one-time experience. Unlike all the other players who needed to cultivate their physique and reach a certain level to ascend to the higher realms, Zach only needed to meet the level requirements as his physique was already maxed.
The gods made it easy to level up, but it was hard to cultivate physique. While Zach had a significant advantage in the game, others didn't, and that included Aurora too.
Zach would have to wait for Aurora to meet the requirements whenever he ascended. He had two options; one was to leave Aurora behind and let her ascend at her own pace, and the second was to ascend with her.
However, no matter what option he chose, he would have to worry about the same thing when he would ascend again.
"Sons of bitches…" Zach muttered in frustration.
Zach took a deep breath and calmed himself down, but that didn't work. So he imagined a pouting face of Aurora, and that helped him calm down.
He rubbed his hand on his face and muttered, "You can't fall in love with every girl you meet, Zach."
Zach had come to the realization that he might be in love with Aurora, but given his past relationships, he wasn't certain.
"It is obvious that Aurora loves me, but my words are still valid," Zach asserted. "I am the first boy she has talked to, so she might be mixing liking for loving. But if she is truly in love with me… then I have no other choice but to accept her feelings."
'How can I miss this chance? She is so cute and childish. Her reactions are so funny, and her personality is totally my type; wild and arrogant.' Zach let out a soft chuckle after remembering his ex-girlfriend.
"It's about time I should move on. We are probably never going to see each other again."
Zach was ready to move on, but he still had lingering feelings that made him a little scared of starting a new relationship. The main problem was that Aurora was a princess, and he was a commoner of a democratic country. There were so many barriers between them, and the main one was Gods' impact.
However, that barrier was the reason they met and got close to each other, maybe even a happy relationship in the future? But for how long?
"If she truly loves me, then I can't stop her from loving me. But If she wants to love me, then she has to love everything about me. She probably thinks I am a normal teenager who got stuck in the game. She doesn't know that I am a first-class S-hole who would do anything to get what he wants. She doesn't know that I can crush anything that stands in my way. If she truly wants to be with me, then she has to know what I am; she has to know my true face."
However, he was afraid of rejection. Just like how there was a status barrier between Aurora and Zach, there was also a race barrier. Zach wasn't a human, nor any of his family members were.
"But well…" Zach smirked and uttered, "this is a good chance to make her like me. If there are no barriers between us, we can be together."
'If someone opposes our relationship, let's say her King father, I can annihilate his entire kingdom. If there is no kingdom, there will be no king or royals, so Aurora wouldn't be a princess."
Zach left the room while muttering, 'I will make her my queen.'
He might be turning into an obsessive lover, even though they weren't in a relationship yet.
Zach was used to hiding his feelings and acting normal even in the hardest circumstances, which was his main strong point for his thrive to survive.
When he got out of his room, he found Aurora waiting for him in the living room.
"Are you ready?" he asked.
Aurora quietly nodded in reply.
They left the house and made their way to the restaurant to eat breakfast. Then, they talked with other players and gained as much information as possible about the first realm.
"What should we do now?" Aurora asked with a curious yet calm look on her face.
"There is nothing interesting in this town. We should move to the main capital. That's where we will make progress," Zach asserted.
"But what about our house? We can't teleport, you know?"
"Can't you exchange the houses again?"
Aurora shook her head and said, "There is a time limit before I can exchange again."
"How many days?"
"Fifteen."
Zach placed his hand on his chin and pondered for a while: 'We have already spent ten days doing nothing. I don't think we can waste more time.'
Zach nudged Aurora and said, "We will stay at the inn for three days. And besides, we have many towns to pass to reach the capital. We might as well level up while traveling."
Zach and Aurora decided to travel to the capital, which was 15 hours walk and 10 hours by carriage.
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Total players in the game 457631
0 new players logged in.
321 players died.
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[Weekly Quest.]
«Week ended.»
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Author's Note- I am working on a new status screen, which was updated with the game's system. Some new crazy twists and turns, as well as characters, will be introduced now.
Also, isn't it about the time he awakens his soul powers?
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