Reyna- “What now?” He sounded irritated, but I ignored it. “I think you should change your name. Being known as an unknown player might raise a few red flags. If you want to keep your identity hidden, I think you should choose a player name.” He looked thoughtful for a moment before nodding. “You might be right.” As he pulled up his menu, I waited patiently for him to come up with a name. The name he ended up choosing, caused me to drop my jaw. Of all the names he could have chosen, why did he have to use his real name? “I thought you were trying to keep your identity a secret?” I asked. “I am. What better way to hide, than in plain sight? The person behind this won’t think that I would use my real name. If I am questioned, I can just say that I chose my name in honor of the guy who created the game.” “What about when your name is broadcasted after we defeat a boss? You are just going to be putting a target on your back.” “While I don’t want others to know the truth, I don’t m
Reyna- After waking up, showering, and eating, I logged into the game. Instead of returning to the same spot I logged out at, I headed back to the town. I was on an hour early, Since I didn’t want to disturb him if he was still asleep, I thought it best to get a head start on the game. I still wasn’t at his level yet. While we were grinding through the monsters, he kept pulling ahead, making it impossible for me to catch up. Being that I had an hour before I was meant to meet with him, I wanted to use that time to do a little leveling up on my own. Not wasting any time, I made my way out of the safe zone. My levels were much higher now, which meant I didn’t need to waste time on the lower-level ones. They didn’t offer many experience points and their materials weren’t as good. It didn’t take me long to reach the stronger monsters on this level. Quickly making work of building up, I didn’t keep track of time. Now that I was stronger, I was able to defeat them with ease. It helped th
Reyna-Standing outside a large gate, which was too tall to see over, surrounded by shrubs, I wondered if there were any game updates involving the bosses on each floor. As far as I knew, the first one was a Giant Goblin. The entrance to the boss on this level was still the same, which is why we didn’t have any issues finding it.“You should know that even though you fought against all the monsters during the beta testing, I made sure to have them updated before the official release. When we go inside, don’t assume you know anything about how to defeat them. There are a lot of things that even I don’t know everything.” Luka said from beside me.When I looked over at him, I saw he was staring at the iron gate, and he looked slightly pale. I was sure he was thinking that there was a chance he would die inside. No matter what I had to do, I was going to ensure that he didn’t.“Let me deal with it first, to get an idea of what we are facing. Don’t try to save me either.” Taking a step for
Reyna-As soon as Luka found a way to distract him, I made my move to get near the Giant Goblin’s chest once more. Each time I managed to stun it and it gave me a little time to attack it as quickly as I could, giving it everything I had. It helped that the Goblin would swing at me with its club.I managed to dodge it each time, which meant it would hit itself. That hit helped lower his health bar by more than the damage that I was dealing. As the fight dragged on though, I was losing stamina. If this continued much more, I would either need to get myself killed again or produce a new strategy.It didn’t help that my flying capacity was reaching its limit. Just as the thought occurred to me, my wings failed, and I dropped down. I was still on the Goblin’s radar, as I did, and I wasn’t fast enough to dodge his next attack. The force of its foot kicking me was worse than when it had slammed its arm against me.A sharp pain filled my chest as I was hurled across the field. I watched as m
Reyna-Frowning at the message, I was curious how this person knew I was helping Luka. As far as I knew, Luka didn’t have any contact with the outside world. I suppose it could be a hacker or someone who knew more than what I had been told.Looking at Luka, I wondered if I should tell him about the message I just received. Since it was a private message, even if Luka and I are married in the game, the message would be encrypted for anyone around, except for me. Since Luka seemed set on keeping me out of it, I decided that I wasn’t giving him the option.If I could get access to his body, I could keep him safe. Also, I believed that once I had possession of his body, he would have no choice but to let me help him. At least I hope that is the case.“I will be back in a few hours. We will discuss it when I get back. Something important came up.” I didn’t give a chance to argue with me as I opened the log-out menu.After taking off my headgear, I sat forward in my chair. Turning my head t
Reyna-“What do you mean you have my body?” Luka sounded pissed, far more than I expected him to.I had sat next to Luka’s body for nearly an hour before I decided to return to the game. It hadn’t taken me long to find Luka, as I was able to see his location now that we were married. I hadn’t expected him to be sitting on a bench, deep in thought.It looked as if he had been sitting there for a long time too, as he wasn’t far from where I had logged out of the game. When I saw him sitting on a bench, he had his elbows resting on his knees and his head hung low. When I alerted him to my presence, he seemed a little surprised.Instead of asking him what was going on with him, the first words out of my mouth had been that his body had been transferred to my house. I had already looked over the folder that the guy had given me, but there hadn’t been much information on what was going on. It mainly consisted of his medical profile.Overall, he was healthy, which didn’t explain why he was s
Reyna-Turning my head, I looked up at him while his focus was on the water in front of us and my fishing pole. With how close he was to me; I noticed a few specks of sapphire in his eyes. I thought it was strange that his brown eyes had blue in them.It wasn’t tinged with blue, as the specks didn’t blend in with the brown. I thought maybe it was just the way the game made his character, yet I wondered if they might have been like that in real life. Taking my attention off his eyes, I noticed that whenever he was focused like this, there was a small dimple by the corner of his mouth.“As I had wanted to make this game as real as possible, fishing is like the way it is in reality. It doesn’t take as long, but the concept is still the same.” Luka explained, but I was too focused on him to notice what he was doing.I barely registered that he guided my hands or that he was basically fishing for me. I was too wrapped up in the way it felt to be in his arms, with his hands over mine. The o
Reyna-Over the next few days, Luka and I focused on taking Hope on pet walks. Although I looked forward to seeing Luka every time I logged in, I was excited to be able to play with Hope. I noticed that she had bonded more with Luka.Considering they were with each other all day every day, it made sense. Still, our little pet always seemed happy to see me whenever I logged on. It was probably for the best that Luka and she developed a stronger bond anyways, that way she will protect him first rather than me.Other than just doing pet walks, we have been grinding hard on the second level. I noticed that the closer we got to being able to fight the boss, the less talking Luka did. It was as if he was pulling into himself, making it difficult to approach him.After logging out later the night we received our pet, I had been in a beautiful dream. We had acted like we were a real couple, even after the quest. When I returned, however, he seemed distant with me.It was becoming difficult to