Suddenly, the real world was gone; for a second, James saw darkness until nature generated, so he stood on ventral dirt in the game. His teacher is 5 inches away, holding a baseball.
Immediately, Ross tried to feel his body, touching it everywhere. His sensei, Piyusha, saw this and said,
"I did that when I entered here for the first time, so I'll wait for you to adjust to your surroundings before we start training. But the way doesn't take-?!"
'Good, I can still feel my body.'
When he was thinking, he didn't hear Piyusha and took a step—making him fall like a ragdoll style.
"Huh?! Why did I fall on the ground, and why did my head feel dizzy?
His sensei replied, "I told you, James, not to take a step because when a person enters this place, their brain gets dizzy and falls when you move.
Before Ross could tell her any questions, he suddenly fell asleep and woke up an hour later feeling better, but he saw the real world instead of a game. How did he tell what's real and what's not?
Ross sees Bob with him, so that's how he knew he was not in the in-game world. Anyway, He was on a bed next to the VR room.
"Huh? What happened?"
Bob stood up from a chair next to the bed and approached Ross.
"Mr. James. You felt dizzy and fell unconscious in the game, so when I saw your heart beating not normally, I brought you and Piyusha back to the real world."
Ross looked at his left hand and said, "Where is
Piyusha sensei, Bob?"
Bob replied, "She's in another bathroom taking a shower. He stopped and continued, "Almost forgot to tell you. Piyusha told me to ask you to drop formalities. Not teacher, sensei, master, and similar words, just her name. Got it, Mr. James?" After he told Ross everything, he left the room.
'Wow, I can't believe Bob's a robot. He looks more human than a robot.'
Ross stood from the bed, went to the VR room, and waited for Piyusha. After she was there, they went instantly back to the simulation.
Same place as last time. They were standing on digital dirt next to a pine tree forest. Piyusha had the same baseball in her hand.
Before she started his training, she asked, "James, can you show me how your steel arm works?" Without hesitation, Ross turned his right hand into steel and then replied.
"I can only turn one body part into an armor of my choosing to give me a power boost to hit stronger. But also, when my enemies try to attack me, these nanobots turn my skin armor where the enemy is about to hit my skin, sensei."
His teacher replied, "Didn't I tell Bob to tell you to drop formalities with me? You were like this as a teenager." She sighed and continued, "Never mind. James, can you make your whole body armor?"
Ross instantly replied, "No!" Then she said, "Then I'll train you to get stronger than you are right now and have you obtain a special move."
Ross asked his teacher how good that special move would be for the tournament, and she answered.
"..."
After she explained that to Ross, she yelled, "Speed of Light!" Piyusha threw the baseball at James Ross. After the ball was released from her hand, it turned into ash instantly. It was in the name of the move; it traveled at the speed of light.
Without Ross knowing, the ball went through his heart and left, leaving him dead! It all happened without nanobots activating. That's how fast it was.
When Ross dropped dead, she realized what she had done.
"Oh... No, no, no. What have I done?" She rushed to James' body and turned off the light energy, but it had already cracked the game map.
Later, this line was named the "Great Line of the World" when she sold this simulation to a famous gaming company for 53 trillion peto (Roughly 51 billion USD) in the future.
***
So anyway, before we see what happens next to James Ross, we are going to another side of the country where Excalibur and Marlin are in a town called Saint Nicolas, it is on top of Mt. Santa Claus, looking for a base for the White Clan.
Because someone linked it to the government of the Color Kingdom, one of the Primary Colors accepted it and gave these two a mission to find it. So, that's why they're here. But there was a big problem for these two besides White Clan members.
When Excalibur saw this to his teacher Marlin with his blue and green eyes, he said, "Hey, Marlin, you are the expert on Color Kingdom history, so tell me, why are these people looking at us like we killed their child?!"
Marlin replied, "Will, they hate our guts because the former king had r-" Before Marlin could finish his sentence, the chef's knife flew toward Marlin.
But he ducked the knife, and while ducking, his beautiful white hair floats down with him. If Marlin didn't dodge, he also had to put an eyepatch on his left.
After the knife flew toward other people, Excalibur rushed toward it and grabbed it before it could hit anyone, and he yelled, "Hey, lady! Don't do that! You could kill someone if I were not there to grab it!"
An old lady came out from a crowd of people still staring at them, and some were disgusted at seeing Rankers enter their beloved town. And this woman is one of them.
She stabbed her cane in the dirt and yelled, "Leave this place at once, you government dogs!" She was fuming that Excalibur and Marlin were in her hometown.
Before the two could calm her down, the townspeople came out of their homes with weapons, knives, guns, and whatever they could handle.
The people in the old crowd ran back to their homes to grab weapons while new people got added to the mob. The townspeople had no Flow, Core, or Flow weapons; they were all No ranks! People who don't have any special powers in any shape or form.
Every man, woman, child, and elder of the village was there surrounding these two men. This town has 175 people living in it. In addition, they all had different types of weapons.
Excalibur was fumbling with his long earring and said, "What will we do, Marlin? We can't just harm them?"
Marlin thought about something quickly, "Don't worry; I have an idea." He went forward and tried to talk to them. But the elder yelled, "Not a step closer, white hair, or we blow your brains off!"
Marlin replied, "Listen, young lady, are you this town's chief? Let us go; we wouldn't cause any trouble to you and this town." He slowly approaches the older woman.
When the townspeople heard him saying the elder, "young lady," they were shocked and whispered, "Wow, these rankers think they are better than us just because we don't have any Flow."
The whisperers grew louder until the old lady in the middle yelled, "You fools, STOP!!" When she said that, everyone in the crowd paused whatever they were doing.
"Put your hands up, white hair."
Marlin replied, "Okay, Okay," He slowly raised his hands.
Afterward, the lady continued, "Tell your friend to drop his weapon and do the same."
Marlin looked at Excalibur, and he knew what to do exactly, so without complaining, he did what the lady said. He puts his bow, King Arthur, on the ground and raises his hands.
(Excalibur changed the name from King Bow Arthur to this after a 9-hour show.)
Excalibur is silent, but in his mind, he uses telepathy to complain to his teacher about why Marlin didn't have another idea instead of getting captured by the townspeople.
But in the end, Marlin said this was the best option without unnecessary bloodshed to find anything about White Clan.
Anyway, the townspeople put special handcuffs on them called anti-flow cuffs. The name is self-explanatory. A user can't use their Flow abilities or can only recharge the Flow in any method once it is removed.
Excalibur and Marlin were sent to jail. Both got sent to separate cells, but they were near each other. Before they got sent to their jail cells, the cops in the town took out the handcuffs of the rankers and put them in jail later.
There were two other guards with guns pointing at them. When the Anti Flow Cuffs are out, they will fire if they misbehave.
They were almost dark, gloomy rooms with a single moon's light shining out of a window up the top of the cells to the middle of the room. Besides the moon, no other light source was there.
Suddenly, an elderly with a huge white mustache appears before Excalibur's cell.
"You got caught, huh? And here I thought you were here for a rematch with me?"
An old man said that, and Excalibur was confused about who this person was, so he asked, "Do I know you?"
This old man replied, "Oh, right. You won't know me in this look." After saying that, he took out a ring from his ring finger.
After taking the ring out, he transformed into a completely different person, and Exclauber yelled, "Steel!"