the pods open one by one as they start to wake up. after 5 minutes they all open their eyes as they look around. they look around as they stand up and get down the pods. they are a little bit dizzy since this the first time they experienced this. all of them went towards the bath to take a bath. then they went towards the dining room to eat since they are hungry. the pods maintains the nutrition of their body so that they wont die of hunger but they will still feel the hunger.
after an hour they finished eating so they went to the room before the pods. they found some seats and sat down on them.
"I just want to have a last talk about our plans to finalize it. so we will continue with our plan of finding a way to the middle continent as early as possible. but it will not be our main focus but our objective, the girls will form their guild as the three of us will try to progress with our jobs as high as possible while looking for any clues we can use?" Chris said while looking at the others.
"Yes that's the plan." they all nod their heads as they answer.
"good well let's talk to our parents to let them know and ask if they want to tell us something since we might need to adjust our plans" Paul suggested as he went up to make a call.
after a minute the call connects and they tell them about their plans, it was convenient since their parents happen to be together when they called so they just informed them about their plans.
"Well that's fine, if you want we will give you an item that will make a one time portal towards the middle continent this will be the last thing we can do as the original creators of the game." Lucas said after listening to them.
"Really. then please that would help us a lot." Chris said as the others nod their head.
"well then I'll send you code that you have to enter on your pods before you login after the update. you can also give this to others if you want them to go with you but this will only be useful before they login and the once they will get is an individual use item that will automatically teleport them to your location while yours will make a portal. so contact who you want to give it to and tell them how to use it." Lucas said
Chris nods his head and end the call with their parents then he looks at the others as they talk more about their plan. They spoke for half a day about who they want to invite and decided they will only call their close friends and family not including their parents only the younger generation. then they planned on using the item as soon as all of them are inside the game since not all of them might not be able to start from day 1 but they will not wait for more than a year game time. after they finished their discussion they separated with each other to do their own things, they called their own friends and family to let them know and invite them at the same time to give them the code they receive from their parents for the item. when it was night time around 10 in the evening they finally finished and went to bed. then they prepared everything they needed and said their farewells to others since once they start the game it will be a long while before they can meet again.
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Chris and friends all gathered together an hour before the update is finished. they gathered on the room where the pods are located. Chris looked at the others as they each stand in front of their personal pods then they look at each other one last time before they all got on the pods.
Chris lied down as the pod closed and his view became dark. he closed his eyes as he felt relaxed inside as he slowly fall asleep. after a minute Chris is now asleep as the machine started its work of putting him into deep sleep and maintaining his help at the same time it allowed him to access his virtual room.
In Chris virtual room, he looked around and see that there is no change at all except for all the other doors leading to the other games to be missing but a single door that is currently unavailable. he went towards the door and tried to open it but when he tried he was given a prompt.
[CURRENTLY UPDATING REMAINING TIME: 10:59]
Chris saw the prompt and waiter till the time is just 10s then he tried again and this time he was successful in opening it and as he entered it he was spawned inside a city in the south continent. he looked around and saw that he is currently inside a small village.
'Status' Chris though as his status appeared.
[name: Chris
class: traveling Crafts master
level:0
title: none
Hp: 100%
Mp: 100%
Sta: 100%
skills
...
racial skills
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class skills
...]
Chris was surprised by his status as its completely different from before. he tried to check his mail and saw a new mail inside. he opened it and read it content. after he finished reading it he found out that its info about the changes that was made during the update and now understood why his status is now different since the makers decided to remove the stats except for the health , mana and stamina but it will no longer be a numerical value but a percentage. this is because the government wanted the game to be as close to reality as possible. he even saw an option to change to human race but it was disabled for him since his character is already a human.
Chris skipped all other options till he reach the starting location part. he checked all available options and saw an option to enter a code. he remembered his fathers advice and entered the code, after entering the code a new option appeared on his list which is to be randomly spawned in the middle continent. he chose this option then his vision black out for about 5 seconds, the next thing he saw was a big land mass in front surrounded with water and another four land masses that are smaller compared to the one in the middle with lots of small island in between the land masses. he looked around and realized that he was freefalling from a very high location and started screaming since he didn't have anyway to slow down his fall. as he was about to hit the ground he suddenly stopped falling as if time was stopped then he fell to the ground safely, Chris stood up and looked around his surrounding and discovered he is in the middle of a ruined city, he started walking around looking for any other people but after going around for an hour he still hasn't found anyone.
"hmmmm.... I wonder where am I" he said while looking around.
"I guess I'll just go to the center of this place and see if there is anything interesting." Chris as he started walking around.