Chương 2: The beginning

The first completely immersive virtual reality game ARCAN£ will be released tomorrow. is what they say true. Has Planetary Evolution Incorporations, the organisation behind ARCAN£ truly been able to make a full immersive VR? Well, we'll find out tomorrow when it will be released to the public.

A lot of people are really pumped up for this event and some have already started queuing at the official game stores to get the pods, as it is also common knowledge that you will be able to trade in game currency for real world money the exact exchange rate isn't out yet but a lot of people are already anticipating it, although according to .....

Sitting on a torn and worn out sofa and paying attention to the news was a black skinny young man, he looked unkempt and his clothes looked worn out but even those could not mask his handsome features, his face looked like it was sculptured by Michelangelo, Donatello and Auguste Rodin, and then brought to life by the Almighty Father, although he was scrawny and thin his lustrous ebony skin glittered with splendor.

His neck length black hair was just there as if to compliment his black eyes, that added a tinge of mysteriousness to his appearance, Right know he seemed to be deep in thought as worry lines appeared on on his face.

'Exhales' I take a deep breath as I make my decision I had to get the game pod it will cost me all the money my mum and dad hid but, No pain no gain. I think about my sister in the hospital and sigh her condition has only been worsening if I'm able to make enough money then I could take care of her very well but I'm in my current condition I pause as I look around the house almost everything is worn due to constant repairs .

My name is Michael after my mum and dad died in an accident when I was five I've been left to take care of myself and my sister since then it's been 12years since their deaths and we are barely surviving my sister has been in the hospital since the accident draining almost all the money our parents left for us yet her situation never got better she is almost completely unconscious all year round only waking up from her coma once in a blue moon, remembering my sister's state I clench my fist in anger although this only served to strengthen my conviction.

I must succeed with those words I stand up on turn off the TV and change my clothes I want to see my sister before I start my preparations for tomorrow. In a few minutes I'm out of the house, a take a bus to the terminal closet to the hospital and get down, unfortunately I had lost a coin so my payment was short I tried to plead with the driver but he was too difficult only after a thousand and one insults and curses did he finally take the money and leave, the currency used during this era to the year 2095 was Global Dollar, after the evolution of technology humanity was able to cycle waste easily and also found a way to tap into the energy of the sun, although the method was crude and couldn't even acquire less than 0.000000000000006 percent of the total sum energy it's was way more efficient and useful than the Solar of over fifty years ago.

After walking for a while I get to the hospital and enter it. It's a big white building, with the typical hospital appearance, although it was not the best it was the cheapest option that could also provide for my sister's needs.

I avoided been seen by any of the doctors or nurses who knew me because right now I didn't need anybody's sympathy. In a short time I get to my sister's room and after staying for about thirty minutes I leave to go and finalise my preparations for tomorrow.

After getting home I use almost all our remaining money to order an ARCAN£ game pod, then I make a some calls telling all my bosses that I will be absent from work for a while, out of the sixteen places I work four threatened to fire me if I was absent for even one day, ten agreed but said it would be deducted from my monthly paycheck, while two Gabe my permission to take a month off with my salary paid.

After finishing that I had nothing more to do so I just read more about ARCAN£ and the game pods. I was so immersed in my study I didn't notice when the sky darken I wouldn't have even notice if it wasn't for the ring on my wrist phone that brought me out of my trance. I opened the door to see a couple of delivery drones carrying a big rectangular box, this were New age delivery drones could listen to simple command s and Carry load of up to six hundred kilogramme, after instructing them were to place it and they had finished assembling it I confirmed the delivery then I did some eye scans and the drones left as quickly as they had come.

My blood boiled with excitement as I looked at the tool I wanted to use to change my life, which youth didn't dream of blood boiling battles or rescuing a princess from a dragon or having some forbidden love affair that would make you go against the whole world and eventually sacrifice your life for the sake of your lover, I Michael Okpara was only seventeen of cause I had all those dreams and now those dreams were seemingly about to come through, I couldn't wait but thanks to my ever cautious nature in times like this I was able to get a hold off myself and control my emotions.

I decided to go to bed so I can be well rested for tomorrow although the game pod helped to preserve the body and nourish it with nutrition fluids and gave more game time than the helmet for his mind to work well he needed to have a nap and that was just what he did, despite his excitement as soon as he layed on the bed he slept off.