He tapped the purchase tab on the screen and a huge list of categories he could buy popped up. He saw housing and selected it. He looked at all the options and did a live tour without an agent. It was convenient. He tapped, zoomed, and scrolled around the house as he looked at their design and decided on a simple mid size studio apartment on the 110 level at the center of the city. He then logged out after purchasing other necessities that would be sent to his new home. He took a bus once again and then had to walk 30 mins to the place. The bus had area restrictions and for the protection of the population in this living area, they had to be somewhat rich to hire a personal driver. The roads here are made for smaller vehicles and buses are not allowed as it would crash into everything with one turn.
Lemon tapped his wristband to open the automatic doors to the building. He was glad to see no one in the lobby as he had not changed out of his old torn and over washed clothing. He had purchased a more expensive apartment which was also located on the top floor, level 110. This floor only had two apartments across from each other. The doors were listed as 110A and 110B. A had already been bought so he purchased B. He tapped the door scanner under the room numbers on the side of the door. The machine beeps and lit up green. The door was unlocked and so he walked in and saw that all his packages had been delivered. He unpacked and folded the boxes. He left them in a big bin that had a recycling symbol on the handle. This bin closes, the inside box with the item is sucked air tight and sent through the building to be placed in the recycling warehouse on the ground floor which would be hand picked by human workers to be reassembled to its chemical components and reused to create new materials and products. The box would then be sprayed by water and disinfected and blow dried. Then it goes back to the original space in the apartment, waiting to be used again.
Lemon finished organizing his clothes and other items were placed where they needed to be. Lemon showered and placed his old clothes into the disposal bin and it had its own set of operations like the recycling bin. He saw that it was almost dinner time and went to cook himself food.
"I guess I should visit the neighbor and introduce myself."
He finished cooking and packed a dinner box. He left his place and rang the doorbell. A sharp handsome man answered with his wrist band. Lemon saw the other pop up on the monitor.
"Hi! I just moved into the place across from you. I just wanted to share my food with you as a gift. Are you currently home?"
"…yes, I'll be right out to open the door."
Lemon nodded and the call ended. Lemon waited 2 minutes and the door soon opened and he gave the other a bright smile.
"Here! I'm very good at cooking so help yourself for more if you want an extra serving."
"…thank you."
"No problem. My name is Lemon. And yours is?"
"Kairus."
"Un, nice to meet you. I'll go now. See you around~"
Lemon turned and returned to his place. Kairus looked at Lemon's door for a bit before turning to go back into his home. His eyes dulled before returning to its usual brightness. He placed the hot food into plates and placed them onto the table. He sat down and ate the food with measured actions. Lemon ate and got ready for bed. He laid down and put on the thin black goggles and powered on the RV device with a tap on the side.
{Welcome to RE:STARLIGHT.
It seems this is your first time here, user#00002854.
To get started, please customize your account.
Name, class, race, and location. Or click the random generation button on any of the choices. }
"I'll use PeachBlossomImmortal as my name. Assassin for my class. Elf for race. And random for location."
{Voice commands received. Players are able to change their appearance by 10% beauty level. Would you like to raise or lower your appearance level by 10%?}
"That's fun. Let's lower it. I want to be low key."
{Affirmative. Teleporting player to random location within the Elf Kingdom. I hope you enjoy your stay in RE:STARLIGHT.}
Lemon blinked and his surroundings changed to the entrance of the beginner's village. He looked at the two guards and greeted them. The guards were shocked but warmly accepted Lemons' nice greeting. Players were known as outlanders who appeared one day on this world called EDITH. The original population hates most outlanders since the outlanders treat the original inhabitants very poorly and rudely. Lemon listened to the gossip and conversations all around him in the guild. This guild was tiny but big enough for a small audience of adventurers to come and go. He had just registered and was at the lowest level.
'Damn, it makes me remember the old days when I first entered the first world.'
'I know what you mean. You corrupted my innocent heart and mind by trying to see Kayden's meat sword. You found out Kayden wasn't an NPC. You almost got killed after getting lost and attacked by a beast.'
'Wait…what if…Kayden's not a human on my side but a bunch of data in this game?!'
'That is a possibility but how are you going to figure out which NPC is your husband?'
'…'
'This world is also so big. And who knows how many soul pieces are living each individual character in this game.'
'…'
Lemon had a headache and just continued to play the game without much stressful thoughts. He accepted small guild tasks and completed them with perfection. He realized that his synchronization bar was close to 90%. A mind's experiences help with smooth control over their game character. If a soldier played this game, he would be stronger than an average human player since the other plays using automatic skill but the soldier can evolve his skills and also use his own experience to defeat an opponent. He could even be a lower level than the average player but still be strong and do better than the average player.
One day, Lemon was playing the game like usual as his real life body rested. Then he got a game system ping.
{CONGRATULATIONS, PEACHBLOSSOMIMMORTAL!
You are the first player to reach 95% sync with the game body. You have unlocked the title, Hidden Dragon and each time you apply the title to your character, your stats will be boosted!
Wish you the best gaming experience!}
The message faded after and he continued to play. Tossing it to the back of his mind.
"Time to fight the Lvl.50 boss of this dungeon!"
Lemon entered and easily defeated the beast, demons, and foes all the way. He collected the drops and finally arrived at the big doors to the throne room. He taps the enter tab and is teleported inside. He looks around the dark room. The glass stained windows had moonlight which lit the space all around. He walked towards the throne and saw a resting man in a hooded cloak. The other seemed to be sleeping with their head tilted back to the throne chair but then they seemed to sense Lemon approaching and opened their eyes.
"…"
The devil didn't speak as he stared at Lemon. Lemon was confused. Why isn't this Boss NPC doing anything like battling or following the plotline speech? Lemon was curious on how close he could get before the other attacked him with a spell.