Renjiro cleans up as quickly as possible and goes to grab something to eat, he heads back to his room after eating to his fill and climbs his bed to take a short nap considering the events that occurred during the early hours of the day he was mentally tired even though he had spent a considerable amount of his day sleeping.
He climbed onto his bed and fell asleep almost immediately, waking up after a few hours. He rubbed his eyes and staggered towards the window in his room.
''I overslept again'' he rubbed his face and walked towards the bathroom to wash his face, it was about ten hours till dawn and he had nothing planned out yet, so he decided to go check on caelia first and then spend the rest of his time in the simulation room.
He strolled casually towards caelia's room whistling to one of his favorite songs during his short life on earth and getting confused stares form the maids and guards scuttling through the corridor, for a moment he forgot to stay in character, noticing their stares he stopped whistling and walked briskly towards caelia's room. He wondered why they stared at him that way, caelia was getting better and Finnegan said the worst was over.
The guards that stood in front of the door bowed politely as he approached and opened the door for him to enter, this time he didn't see Finnegan but he could see elysandra and myoko also sat at the bedside tending to caelia, when she raised her head to see who it was that entered the room her face flushed a deep red but she had to suppress her feelings of embarrassment so elysandra wouldn't catch on.
''zephyrus!'' elysandra came over pulling him down and rubbing on his head. ''I see you are still concerned about your mother's condition but I assure you she's getting better. By the time you are back from the academy she would be as fit as a fiddle.
''I believe you, I would be back to check up on her before I leave for the academy. Where is Finnegan by the way'' renjiro asked, this was the first time since the incident that he hadn't seeing Finnegan hovering around caelia.
''I had to send him away before he collapsed from exhaustion, having one patient is enough'' she replied with a smile. ''now give us some space so we can focus on the patient'' she said pushing him towards the door.
Renjiro didn't mind being asked to leave, he had fulfilled his obligations as a caring son and now he could spend some time in the simulation room, he entered the simulation room and sat down on one of the chairs available before putting on the omni lens. The first time he came here, he was sure that the people of the kingdom of mech magus were unparalleled geniuses, the mind blowing thing about the game was that it seemed to happen inside his mindscape and also outside of it, he could interact with other people, have meaningful conversation and this particular omni lens had a large collection of games.
He swiped through the numerous games and selected his favorite game ''technomagus chronicles'' an RPG game in an advanced universe that blends both magic and technology, new players are given allowed to chose roles for their avatars, he had chosen the profile of a fire mage. He had managed to clear a few missions and had formed his own guild of five with other players.
He checked to see how many members of his guild were available but was disappointed, he was the only one online. He went into the council room, members of the council were all NPC's, they gave out missions. Since the members of his guild were unavailable he selected a single player mission and walked out of the council room.
The details of the mission was for him to go into the city of althenia and stop the ressurrection of the second demon prince olivus, completing this mission would give him extra 100XP which he could use to upgrade his stats and buy better potions, since at his current level he couldn't own weapons.
He walked towards a transportation portal that would take him to his location immediately, he was blinded by a bright light and he began hearing shrieks and screams even before he could see anything.
He got back his sight and saw that a small demon with short horns growing all over it's head was gnawing at his leg, he blasted it with a fireball, and another one leapt onto his back, he grabbed onto it and fried it, turning it to ashes.
He was glad that these demons were low tier and could be killed with ease, he saw that he was surrounded by hundreds of them and they kept spawning from the carcass of a dead dragon, renjiro figure that no matter the amount of demons he killed as long as he didn't deal with that carcass it would continue spawning demons and he would fail the mission since the mission had a time lapse, he blasted his way through the demons and came face to face with the carcass of the dragon and began attacking the dragon with flames, with every hit the life bar of the dragon reduced slightly, but it also spawned more demons.
He had to alternate between blasting away the demons and attacking the dragon, but even he couldn't manage to keep all the demons at bay by the time he managed to defeat the dragon he had 15% of his life left.
<+10 xp>
He drank a health potion taking his health back to 100%, his looked up and saw a temple sitting atop a hill.
''that must be where I need to go'' he began walking towards the hill blasting away whatever demons he came up against but no matter how far he walked he never came close to the temple, it looked like he was walking in the same spot without making any meaningful progress.